and only one of those things would have affected the plot.

And Cuarón fully admits the scientific inaccuracies. It's kind of glaring, and in the moment, I didn't think about it at all, but I think he earned a little sacrificing of scientific realism.

I think he was probably genuinely annoyed by what he sees are obvious mistakes in a movie being sung to the high heavens for it's scientific accuracy. And since when does 7 tweets count as "going ballistic"?? To paraphrase the comments, Chill out, Business Insider, it's just a guy who didn't like a movie!

well, I'm not sure even sure that he didn't like the movie. he wanted more realism, but he may have liked the movie too.

Okay, so it wasn't totally scientifically accurate. It still did a damn good job of it, better than most "science" fiction movies.

He's right about Matt drifting away from Stone, though. She should have been able to yank him to her with minimal effort. When I saw it, I assumed they were being flung outward by the rotation of whatever they were hooked to, but I may have been wrong.

Saw Gravity. Glad I saw it first in 2D, as I did have some problems with motion sickness. I may see it again in 3D IMAX, we'll see. J and I both really enjoyed it. Fantastically immersive and tense.

My flippant one sentence summary as posted on fb: Worst. Game. Of Crack the Whip. EVER.

My Tweets hardly ever convey opinion. Mostly perspectives on the world. But if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much.

So that settles that question.

yeah, I had a feeling he liked it.

So, I don't understand why Rush totally tanked. Is it that people who like car racing don't want to see movies about foreigners? Because a lot of people like car racing, and I would have thought a significant percentage of them would have wanted to see this movie. I wonder if being rated R hurt it?

This is a great non-spoilery quote from Cuaron about the process of separating scientific accuracy from artistic decisions:

The astronauts [who served as consultants] saw bits and pieces of what we were doing. They were exasperated [for instance] about why [Bullock and Clooney’s characters] are not bringing their solar shields down! [I said,] "Well, you won’t see their faces then, so I’m not going to do it." No, [the consultants said], they would go blind from the sun, they could not see, it is impossible. The funny thing is that you tell them something like, There’s a special polarizer on the shield, and they’re like, Oh my! In the [SPOILER OMITTED] , I added one window. Why? Because I wanted to see the Earth in space! One of the toughest things in the film was the cause and effect of microgravity and no resistance, and you ask them, How does a tether react, you pull one, how does it go? — and they would be like, “Yes, but that window is not there.” I know; we talked about it. What do you think about the tether? “Fine, but that window, I’ve been in three missions, that window—” I know, I know, I’m very aware that window is not there, it was a conscious decision! [laughs] But they just … On the other hand, we invited them to the set, and they were just so in awe of everything we’d re-created, and we were like, Well, we changed this, and they said, “Oh, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.” They were in awe. Those guys are amazing.

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The rest of the article is pretty spoilery.