Have you seen the teaser trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, the science fiction thriller scheduled for release in October?

Good.

If you haven’t, take a gander at it above before you read the remainder of this post.

Here’s how it could have been done much better, more dramatically and with greater impact.

Remember, folks: Space is a vacuum. There is no sound.

So can you imagine the sheer terror of being on a spacewalk and witnessing the vehicle that carried you into orbit suddenly destroyed before your very eyes … and in deafening silence? And then, moments later and in the distance, the space station too?

Think about that very scenario as you rewatch the video with the voices of George Clooney and Sandra Bullock the only things you hear. Additionally, if there’s anyone on the shuttle (and there has to be … right?) imagine their horror at realizing something has gone terribly wrong and then … silence.

Maybe we get chatter from Mission Control as the two stunned, now panicking astronauts relay their dilemma back to Earth:

“Remain calm … stand by …” is the only thing a stunned Houston can tell them.

Wow.

That’s what would have really made an impact.

Discuss …