(Gravity spoiler alert: Movie plot-points revealed below)
On the Monday after the first Friday of a blockbuster space movie, the crazy talk starts. Always happens (The 2001 monolith is real! The Apollo 13 mission was faked!), always will. So too with Gravity, courtesy of this post on The Wrap, arguing that Sandra Bullock’s character …
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