Haven&#x27;t watched Interstellar. But Gravity is a (bad) joke of a movie, both from a scientific standpoint and as a movie in general. It&#x27;s just a bad space action movie with very cool CGI. You say &quot;there are some issues with&quot; - no, the whole thing is a mess. They&#x27;re using spacesuit rockets or a fire extinguisher to move between orbits that are extremely far apart, this is a physical impossibility that is central to the plot. But it managed to make me furious from the very first scene, with three people outside the spaceship during an EVA, and Clooney floating playfully around the spaceship, untethered. This is reducing the majesty and terribly unforgiving nature of space to a kindergarten playground.<p>Same feeling for &quot;The Martian&quot;. The Martian base and the spaceships look like youth hostels, the astronauts an unruly bunch, but more than everything, there is no feeling whatsoever that we&#x27;re looking at people dealing with something <i>alien</i>. It&#x27;s the usual ingenuous american guy playfully overcoming difficulties that end up looking more or less trivial, like traversing hundreds of kms of Martian desert,  growing potatoes (under artificial light!), surviving a Martian night while unconscious with no protection from the cold... Just have a look at the Martian landscape as depicted in the movie:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;martian-gallery2-gallery-image_0.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;martian-gall...</a><p>(hint: like a holiday destination in a hazy day) and at how it looks <i>for real</i>:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;jpeg&#x2F;PIA18614.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;jpeg&#x2F;PIA18614.jpg</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;03Q5l.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;03Q5l.jpg</a>