I just finished this movie.
I just finished this movie. In my opinion, the best space horror since the first Alien film and quite possibly more so due to the realistic nature of the environment (even though the ISS is far larger in this movie than in real life).
#Life
https://youtu.be/cuA-xqBw4jE
#Life
https://youtu.be/cuA-xqBw4jE
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Really, from "catching an interplanetary probe with a robot arm attached to a space station" instead of letting that probe go into an Earth orbit until the screaming end, I think the film is a disaster...
Protip: all movies are filled with idiotic behavior and decisions. It's what moves the plot along within a two-hour time frame.
Catching the returning probe may have been far-fetched, but the loss of scientific data might have been worth the risk and it added an element of action to start the show and grab your attention.
In fact, the only decisions the crews that didn't make sense were opening the door to the lab when the alien escaped it's containment.
Sorry, but while I'm not a physicist I still had physics classes. ISS does not stand still in space, it races around Earth. So it was easier to hit a tiny moving object (ISS IS small) than simply hitting a much larger area around our planet from which the probe would have gone into orbit, which would have allowed a rendezvous with a ship (ISS as a station is rather stationary, meaning inflexible in terms of course change).
Besides: baseball with a robot arm. If the probe was slow enough to be caught by that arm, it would have gone into orbit if it hadn't been caught. But then it would also have taken a century for the probe to return to Earth, it would have been slower than a car in the city.
So, nah, this was a bad one...
But, for your sense of realism, you must have really hated The Martian, Gravity, Interstellar, Armageddon, Arrival and more. And you must have really hated all of the Alien movies for all the bad decisions they constantly make. You must have absolutely positively hated Firefly and the follow-up movie, Serenity, as well as most of the Star Treks and Star Wars.
In fact, by your standards, the only good sci-fi movies must have been 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
My point being, I think you're holding this movie, Life to an impossible standard.
I don't understand why you list Martian and Gravity in the same sentence as Armageddon. They are all supposed to play in our real world, but while the first two care about physics, Armageddon is just... Let's call it "Bruce Willis in space". Interstellar is also pretty good with physics, but they suffer from logic loopholes.
Alien too was largely consistent in their universe, but Life really comes in far after Armageddon. Not every film that plays in space is equal, not every one is done well...
The point being all sci-fi has it's inconceivable moments.That's what makes them fantasy and not reality.
It will also kill you: https://www.livescience.com/52438-the-martian-potatoes-health-effects.html