Gravity: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about Gravity. Pick one to read it.

• Artistic License – Physicsin 1,407 titlesWhile it is a fairly accurate-to-physics movie, it is by no means completely true to them.Read →
• Artistic License – Spacein 490 titlesEven the most technically accurate stories have to bend the rules somewhere.Read →
• Conveniently Close Planetin 87 titlesThe space shuttle, the International Space Station, and the Chinese Tiangong are all within spitting distance of each other, despite really being in vastly differing orbits.Read →
• Explosive Decompressionin 139 titlesStone is startled to see Kowalski outside the Soyuz hatch, which he opens even though she's not wearing her helmet, sucking out all the air but leaving her unharmed once he closes the hatch and raise…Read →
• Cool Starshipin 322 titlesThe gutsy little Soyuz escape boat fits nicely into the "old, junky rustbucket" categorynoteBy reputation anyway.Read →
• Obfuscated Interfacein 76 titlesAll the areas in the film are real spacecraft and space stations. (Well, current and future space stations.)Read →