Eh, depends on which comment.  Some of them are pretty nitpicky, but Clooney being pulled away by plot magic really bugged me.

Keanu.

I think that literally every time I hear or see anything about that movie, to this day.  I see that word, I think of that quote before I think of the movie, or the myth, or Frankenstein, or *anything*.

True, true.  I think the nitpicking might be more his SF geek side coming out than his scientist side.

Wait until next year.

@garfieldhatesmondays:disqus - That's a great thought.  The more I think about it the more certain I am that you're right, that it was a stylistic choice.

Forgot about that!  Dee Wallace knocking ET over with the refrigerator door was also unscripted.

hahaha, amazing

I think Ebert's point was that instead of being entertaining, it just comes across as grotesque and annoying.  Wait, why are we talking about Roger Ebert's review of Clifford again??

That would have bothered me less than it did if it wasn't such a major plot point.  [SPOILERISH:] It's like they felt compelled to include the scene we've seen a thousand times of somebody hanging onto someone who's hanging off the edge of a cliff or a ledge or whatever and the usual rigamarole of "Let go! Save…

It floats poetically toward the camera, of course.

They might not have specified it, I definitely remember being confused about it.  I was never quite clear what her day job was, but doctor, works in a hospital, and works 18-hour days or whatever the hell suggested medical doctor to me so hard that maybe I heard it when it wasn't explictly said.

[opening riff from "Solsbury Hill"]

Yeah, that's one of the ways I was trying to make it fit, too, like maybe she worked on MRI machines and software or something?  But that would still make her IT or engineering or something, not a doc. 

You never see this meme anymore.  Billy needs to say something stupid (publicly) again soon.

The fact that she was apparently a medical doctor who worked in a hospital but was up there to fix some software on the telescope bugged me the entire movie.  I kept trying to make it that I misheard and she was actually in IT, but no… medical doctor. I guess because the harried, haunted working single mom in movies…

"Can't you two see that you're in LOVE with each other??"

I think if *any* movie would stand up to being made more scientifically realistic, it's this one.  It's already set in a realistic earth-orbit scenario; more accurate science would fit right in.  I liked it a lot, like really a lot, but it could only benefit from the satellites not orbiting the wrong way.

It's still weird to me that people hate Nicolas Cage now.  In the 90s, early 2000s he was the man.  Basically anybody cool was down with Nic Cage. It's funny the affect doing dozens of shitty movies can have on your reputation.

As soon as I heard about this movie, that was the first thing I thought of.  It was pretty much the only thing I liked in the entire movie, but what a scene, damn.  It's about time somebody made a whole movie on that idea of floating detached and out of control in space.