> I don't complain about the presence of unrealistic space plot device in unrealistic space movie, but there it is. Normally neither do I, except if the movie'

> I don't complain about the presence of unrealistic space plot device in unrealistic space movie, but there it is. Normally neither do I, except if the movie's marketing made it an issue. I never actually researched realism claims about the movie (as I said, it came up during a discussion with friends, two of whom cited two different articles where astronauts had testified as to the accuracy of the movie's physics) until now. I have to say that claims of realism are in fact mostly confined to headline writers and journalists quoting astronauts out of context, for example when an astronaut referred to "stunning realism" of the special effects, that got mangled into "astronaut praises stunning realism of Gravity". Reading the actual reviews, I still believe that misleading claims were made, but apparently experts were mostly quoted creatively.