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They are the best astronauts the world has to offer? Seriously?

posted 8 years ago by arterius2
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This movie is so lame I had to stop and close it mid-movie
Basically you are telling me these bunch of clowns are the best astronauts the WORLD has to offer? Seriously now?
The crew disobeyed pretty much every sound protocol there is, and what is the point of the captain?

"Your oxygen level is low" (No, I need more time.)
"Don't go out there" (goes out there)
"Come back to the ship" (goes further out)
"Don't do X" (does exactly X)
*about to crash* (takes off seat-belt)

I thought astronauts are supposed to be super disciplined, why are these clowns acting like its a circus and doing whatever stupid ideas that pops into mind?

Have they not had any training?
Why don't they tether themselves in a space walk?
It takes 10 minutes to pressurize, and James at 20 minutes of oxygen, so why can't they take turns to pressurize, and have James take off his suit and sends it out of the airlock during his pressurization? why does he have to be a hero and kills himself?
The most important mission of mankind and they send a bunch of highschool delinquents into space?
Why are they voting like its an anarchy? Don't they have a strict protocol they have to follow?
Don't they have redundancy systems? like a second probe if the first one is fried?
This is probably a multi billion dollar mission and they didn't pack a rover with them? Really? Oops?

why did they even make this stupid movie its blowing my mind!!!

[–] steve-thomas135 8 years ago

This is where quotas lead to.

[–] marineproductions1 8 years ago

That's exactly the problem with most scifi space movies. They want to create drama but by making astronauts stupid. In real life, astronauts always stay cool. You can have terrible things happening, but they still stay cool.

[–] Jonstoni 8 years ago

That is the lamest argument ever. They are on a mission which is pretty much all in, it's not like they travel to Europa just like that. Of course they are going to risk it, DUH. And you didn't even watch it till the end so seriously, wtf?

Yo momma

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[–] Pineapples101 8 years ago

I totall agree with everything you said in your original post and you summed up all the problems I had with this film.
This was the least convincing space mission I have ever seen.

[–] bornskeptic 8 years ago

I personally have never been in a space ship or explored space so i wouldn't know what is actually correct or not. So i guess i should defer to the real astronauts posting here.

[–] minhas4 8 years ago

You're mostly right about some of the decisions the "best in the world" made. But they spent 2 years in space for this mission and probably were a little crazy at that point anyways.

The captain William knew taking his seat belt off would kill him, but he did it to eject the water shield and save everyone else.

Anyhow, I don't want to defend this film because I agree with you. It was pretty ridiculous as a whole.

[–] preiszner-55623 8 years ago

I agree.
But again, all we know about astronauts is from other movies. Maybe they ARE like neurotic housewives after all. :)