One of the most talented actresses in Hollywood, Sandra Bullock is renowned for giving her all for the roles she is assigned. Depicting her characters in the best possible way, the Bird Box actress is widely applauded and appreciated for her brilliant works on-screen, facing little to no criticism for her movies.
However, this perfect image of Bullock seems to be torn to bits as NASA’s astronaut Chris Hadfield criticizes her $685M movie, Gravity, comparing it to the real life of astronauts and the laws of gravity.
Chris Hadfield Shred Sandra Bullock’s $685M Movie Gravity‘s Storyline To Pieces
Being one of the most accomplished astronauts from NASA, Chris Hadfield took out some time to review Alfonso Cuaron‘s Oscar-winning Gravity, comparing it with real-time situations faced by astronauts in space. However, his comparison seemingly crushed Sandra Bullock’s $685M movie’s storyline to pieces, as he claimed the film is ‘far from reality’.
Hadfield compared the film’s take on the laws of gravity, claiming it ‘made no sense’. Furthermore, he criticized the way astronauts are depicted in the movie, especially commenting on the scene where Sandra Bullock’s character detaches herself from the mechanical arm that breaks off from the space station, saying,
“When she releases her little strap, she flies away in a whole new direction as if there was some force on Sandra that wasn’t on the arm. How come she has a different gravity than the arm does? [And then] Everyone on the crew, the dialogue, they’re all yelling back to Houston as if Houston is going to help them right here. George Clooney is asking permission to go help Sandra Bullock. It’s not astronaut behavior. It’s not logical behavior. It’s so execrable from actual, practical realities of space flight.”
That being said, Chris Hadfield also mentioned how he found Sandra Bullock’s character in the movie ‘unforgivable’, claiming it sets ‘bad feminist ideals’.
Chris Hadfield Calls Sandra Bullock’s Character In Gravity Disappointing
Comparing real-time astronauts like him to Sandra Bullock’s astronaut character in Gravity, Dr. Ryan Stone, Hadfield called out the mistakes with the character, saying,
“The most experienced astronaut in American history is a woman, it’s Peggy Whitson. In this movie, Sandra Bullock has only been an astronaut for less than a year. When she’s faced with a problem, she’s panicking and has no idea what to do. George Clooney is driving around like some sort of space cowboy and he’s the only one who has any idea what’s going on. I think it set back a little girl’s vision of what a woman astronaut can be an entire generation.”
But while Hadfield felt the need to criticize the movie for its obnoxious display of real-life space situations with astronauts, he also admired Bullock for her outstanding portrayal of her character. He said,
“Sandra Bullock did a great job of portraying the character in the movie but the character that they wrote for her was disappointing. That’s what I would’ve changed. Get it to represent what astronauts are really like and then build the story around that. Don’t just make it the perils of [this woman] and she needs George Clooney to magically save the day and tell her what book to open to do the right thing.”
Although Sandra Bullock earned an Oscar nomination for her spectacular performance in the $685M film, turns out the movie is rather dangerous and unreal for girls who dream of going to space.
You can stream Gravity on Netflix.
Source: IndieWire
