I did think it was odd that they go through such lengths to let Sandra fight, while they were so easy on George giving up.
He acted more cool about it because the statistics seemed to make sense to him, but yeah.. aside from the centrifugal forces, Sandra should have used her other foot to secure the cables and pull herself with George towards the station.
Point is, even if it was realistic, it didnt convince many, then adding the odd dialogue and sudden peace with giving up, it contrasted what the movie stood for a moment before this happened.
It felt out of place, just like the near death experience scene later on.
EDIT: like, why didnt they choose to show Sandra's daughter in the near death experience? It would make more sense to me than to have him talk about the birds and the bees, they could have used this chance to make an emotional climax, reunited with her daughter but having to move on etc.
I know that George Clooney supposedly wrote the scene for the movie after he overheard the director talking about the scene and having trouble with the dialogue or something.
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Arheos
9 years ago
Kowalski's lines before he was let go are utterly unconvincing/"unrealistic". One would expect that kind of attitude/coolness from Bishop in Aliens (he didn't have much of a sense of humor but if he did..) and he was an android.
Ryan's reactions, up to that point, were also borderline convincing. She was in a panic -understandable- and her total body reactions were uncoordinated, she was useless at grabbing anything to save herself, yet, after all is done with Kowalski, she holds on to the hatchet door and when that opens and she's thrusted forcefully away with the lid, she manages to hold on to the latch with one hand..
It would be more convincing to have the cord got torn because of the wear-tear from the incident or some random shrapnel going through it. Anything but that cool "sacrifice" without any hint of emotion.
Rest of the film was just alright. Nothing earthshattering (oh..a pun!) but not bad either..
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cyguration (3951)
4 years ago
You make a very salient point.
(sorry for the necro half a decade later)
The entire concept behind Bullock's character was that she shouldn't give up; fight to the end, even against all odds.
Yet for some bizarre reason we're supposed to understand Clooney's character giving up when all she had to do was give him one hard yank toward the station to set them back on course?
Everything he went through to rescue her and get them back to the Explorer made the movie far worse for me than what it should have been.
I would have been way more understanding if Clooney's character died in the satellite station fire trying to get to the escape ship with Bullock. Maybe the fire was raging and he told her to go ahead while he attempted to lock down the station to prevent the fire from burning up their only way off the station, only for him to get trapped in one of the corridors.
I still preferred his character over hers, but I would have been a little more accepting of his death had he actually gone out trying instead of the weak way they took him out.
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