Sooooooo I guess I'm playing devil's advocate
I watched this film with a buddy (both of us are physicists) and the thing is: If I were to be very exquisite about physical laws, I'd be rendered unable to enjoy a lot of movies, specially those that take place in space. But hey, It's about being entertained, and the movie does that quite successfully.
So yeah, pretty much every single object in space is in an orbit that doesn't make much sense. And I can see how the writer had to overlook that in order to have a better plot than "Astronauts wander off in space until their oxygen reserves run out and die of hypoxia". I'm willing to overlook that as well because I watch movies so that someone else tells me a story, and most of the time in order to tell a fictional story you must deviate from facts, otherwise it would be a documentary.
Second, and I am contradicting Neil DeGrasse Tyson, which would make automatically wrong in most instances. At first I also thought it was wrong, but I watched the film a second time and saw what happened. In the part where they are connected with a hose and get entangled with some parachute's ropes. That bit where they aren't supposed to be experiencing acceleration, but somehow they are and Sandra Bullock has to cut the hose. I also criticized harshly that part, until I got to see the film a second time and saw a shot that showed them rotating. In that case, they would experience some acceleration (maybe a tiny bit) but enough for it to be reasonable that they were both in danger since it was just a bit of rope attached to her foot. In that case, a single tug, wouldn't have been enough for her to stop Clooney's motion since she would be exerting that force perpendicularly to the speed at that given time.
And the film itself wasn't bad. Visually it was astonishing, and for most of the time physics was ok enough. Even that bit when she throws the fire extinguisher, which is kind of counter intuitive, but it is accurate enough. Some POV shots were incredible and it was a movie I really enjoyed.
So stop being so bitter about the movie not being scientifically accurate, because most of the movies that use special effects aren't.