5 Movie Endings From 2013 With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

5. The Satellite Collision Probably Killed Hundreds More People On Earth - Gravity

Alfonso Cuaron's space-based action drama extravaganza tells the story of Dr. Ryan Stone, an astronaut who suddenly finds she's scrabbling for her life when a routine mission to fix the Hubble telescope goes wrong: when a Russian missile launch misfires, it leaves space debris heading her way, and the collision kills everyone but Stone and her partner, Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). For 90 nerve-jangling minutes, Stone must battle her way to safety, fighting for oxygen, and dodging large amounts of debris (which comes flying back around every 90 minutes or so). When the movie's all said and done, Stone has somehow made it back to Earth and is reunited with the precious gravity of the movie's title - she crash lands in a jungle somewhere, rises to her feet, and the soundtrack swells appropriately. The End. What Cuaron's movie fails to acknowledge, however, is that all that space debris (not to mention the debris caused by the initial collision) will eventually find its way back to Earth. Sure, some of it will burn up, but lots of the large stuff will cruise back through the atmosphere towards Earth, presumably killing hundreds!
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