Yeah, but that wouldn't be the movie. Obviously it could focus on them and have many, many narrow misses, but we all know it would still have the Hollywood ending.
Yeah. A movie like that might only get ten Academy Award nominations.
The girl made it home (despite being like the worst astronaut ever) so it still counts as a happy ending.
The article for me pointed out just how unlikely the entire movie is. I already knew there were a lot of impossibilities in Gravity (changing orbital planes etc) - but reading just how much work it takes to keep two orbiters aligned, and how much work it is to get into and out of a spacesuit. In the movie she gets out of one space suit and then into another, and then out of it again. That right there is impossible from the reading.