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Have you guys reacted to Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller yet? It's hysterical lol A couple of old classic comedies are: Stripes w/ Bill Murray Bowfinger w/ Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy Bachelor Party w/ Tom Hanks The Hangover You guys probably won't watch this but they are some favs The Marx Brothers in: Duck Soup A Day at the Races Night at the Opera Also, Peter Sellers in Pink Panther 1 and 2 There's so many others lolol Woody Allen in: Sleeper
“Is this NASA’s darkest moment?” “No, this is going to be our finest hour.” That real quote by Flight Director Gene Kranz still gives me goosebumps, and may have saved the entire space program.
I dont really like how sidelined Glynn Lunney was in the movie, though. I get why they did it, Kranz was a more commanding presence, but it was Lunney who ran the show that night, and it was Lunney who Ken Mattingly credited with having the most amazing leadership skills he ever saw. He said 'Glynn walked in, and just took over this mess, and brought a sense of calm to the situation. It was he, and he alone, who brought all those scared men together'.
Space flight has been described as days of sheer boredom punctuated by seconds of sheer terror. All the astronauts had nice cars and they were gifts from the local dealerships.
Aaron, I'm sorry that "Apollo 13" wasn't some lowbrow Marvel roller coaster, noise & light show. Lovell wasn't obsessed with out doing Neil Armstrong. That was just healthy competitive rivalry among men. Ironically, the part you liked, was the part which was made up through dramatic license. The astronauts never lost their cool or pointed fingers at each other. You're officially out of touch.
When you think about it, it's been longer between now and when this movie came out (27 years) than when Apollo 13 actually launched and the movie came out (25 years). Watching this in theaters back then was a thrill. I hadn't heard about the Apollo 13 near disaster before the movie. It was based on the book Jim Lovell wrote a decade after the situation happened, Lost Moon. He is on record that the personal situation on board was not nearly as contentious as the movie portrayed, but each of the challenges they faced really happened. He's still alive, in his 90s and will still give the occasional interview. I loved this movie and it still holds up extremely well 27 years later.
@@cerberus01 I heard it in a documentary from his own lips, not wikipedia, I've got it too don't worry. Still, saying a prayer would be perfectly fine, but a howl god damn mini-ceremony is absolutely ridiculous.
Jim’s line of “I’ve already seen it” is particularly sad because he was the commander of Apollo 8, which was the first mission to go to the Moon (without landing), so he really had seen it up close but hadn’t had a chance to land.
Just want to say the amazing thing is if you listen to how the actual Apollo 13 crew spoke they were actually extremely calm. They never really raised their voice and were extremely patient for people who were in there predicament. Truly shows how amazingly prepared they were and how amazing the feet of their survival was
Love this movie. I remember when being smart was considered a positive characteristic. Now we celebrate stupid. "The Right Stuff" is another award winning movie with an all-star cast. It focuses on the original astronaut program.
Aaron's take actually upset me. I can only assume his failure to connect with the characters is because he was talking over their lines and laughing at weird times. Like how Greg thought the nightmare was had by Jim Lovell when it was had by Marilyn. I just deleted a big rant because this bothered me so much, I'm very disappointed.
I'm very disappointed by Aaron's reaction too. This really happened. Everyone *should* know that going into watching the film. But he didn't know that. (He said "Was this real?") I think that might explain why he didn't connect. But I'm not sure.
I'm with you... Laughing and talking, while cracking jokes during the crisis made me almost turn off the video.. Then afterwards to hear the commentary made me sick. That is just my opinion..... I remember it when it actually happened... beautiful story, well told...
Yep. I agree. A lot of the worst reactors stomp all over great lines, wonderful moments and important dialogue and context with inane babble and an inability to sense when to talk and when to shut up. But then they'll complain when they're lost and that things don't make sense to them, or they don't connect to characters or find the whole thing dull. If you're not going to watch it, then don't watch it. Certainly don't deign to "react" to it. As to general assessments, everyone is of course entitled to their own opinion, but I genuinely think that there is something wrong with people who don't recognise that this movie is an absolute, almost flawless, rich masterpiece. It's not entirely this guys fault. It is clear that they are both ignorant of the Apollo 13 mission which is a pretty piss poor indictment of the U.S "education system". But the inability to engage emotionally with the story speaks to a level of sociopathy to me. The desire for more melodrama really belies their tragic ignorance of this amazing true event, as some level of realism had already been compromised in order to make the true story "more dramatic" with high tempers and overt emotional expressions which anyone actually involved with NASA and this event in particular say was less likely than alien involvement. Nobody needed a sappy freezeframe reunion with the wife.
Me too! It was driving me crazy that both of them kept calling them "characters" when these were/are actual people & this was a real event that really happened & could have completely ended the space program had it failed. It felt so disrespectful calling the action "slow" when this was 7 days of 100s of people trying to get 3 people home. It did not need a reunion with his family at the end. This isn't Interstellar. This isn't Gravity. This. Actually. Happened.
Late to the party but while I wasn't upset, I was disappointed. I understand where you are coming from. I think the ending comments make it pretty clear that Aaron wasn't really looking for a movie strongly based on an actual event. He wanted a Hollywood movie. He was there for a fun ride. That's fine but it is disappointing for those of us that love the movie because of how well it presented the actual events. For example. the tension and argument between the astronauts was engaging to Aaron and he wanted more scenes like that, but that was one of the few things that wasn't even really true. He didn't want facts, he wanted entertainment, which is fine but I agree that kind of reaction was disappointing to me as a viewer. I appreciate how closely they tried to stick to what actually happened. I feel a VERY strong emotional connection to this movie and deeply deeply appreciate that they DIDN'T make up a bunch of crap for entertainment purposes. So anyway, sending sympathy...
I was a little girl when this happened. My dad worked as a behind-the scenes, electrical and radar tech for NASA. Each space mission was important to me and my fellow classmates and teachers. This was ALL done BEFORE computers were invented as we understand them now. Many of the news stuff, was live footage. The whole world was ultimately engaged. We made deals with our enemies that the astronauts would have safe passage, if they landed Wherever. Churches were open 24/7 for people to pray. We, as children, attending a Catholic school, attended Mass daily for the Apollo crew's safety, along with so many others. I watched every launch and landing from Mercury to the Challengers. I visited Cape Canaveral, and you have NO IDEA how HUGE! that warehouse where they would work on the space craft was!!!! The 60's and 70's truly were, in the words of Charles Dickens, "the best of times and the worst of times". But we knew we living through History!
At 37:21, the officer on the left in white, whom Tom Hanks salutes and shakes his hand, is the actual guy he plays in the movie, Jim Lovell. This movie is based on his memoir of the mission, _Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13._
Ron Howard's mother is playing the grandmother (Lovell's mother) and the Tom Hanks salutes the real Jim Lovell at the end. The NASA OGs who were around when this incident happened were invited to set and said mission control was so close to exact they forgot it was a set at times.
One truly incredible thing is, Ken Mattingly (the astronaut who was removed from the mission in case he contracted the measles) was one of the few people who could have figured out the power up procedures that allowed the crew to successfully turn on their computers and make it home safely. Ironically, had he not been removed from the mission, they might have never made it home. He needed to be the one in that simulator running scenarios as his attention to detail was impeccable. One of those "events that transpire to get you home safely" as Jim Lovell would have said. ❤
Ken wasn't the only one working the simulators, there were several men working on them. He wasnt called in from his bed in the middle of the night either, that was Charlie Duke, who was sick with the measles. Glynn Lunney was also the main man in charge that night, and who Ken Mattingly gave credit to for having amazing leadership skills. The film took liberties for artistic license.
"He needed to be the one in that simulator running scenarios as his attention to detail was impeccable." -- I'm also going to dispute this. Mattingly *was* involved, but not as integral as portrayed here, maybe not even close. Lovell's book (& Jeffrey Kluger's) that this movie was based on, originally titled "Lost Moon" and later published under the name "Apollo 13", characterizes Mattingly's work as testing procedures developed by others, and gives primary credit for the actual development of those procedures to an engineer named Arnie Aldrich, with secondary credit going to John Aaron. John Aaron has a reasonably big part in the movie, but if Aldrich appears in the movie at all I don't know who is supposed to be him. I would be astonished if even that characterization isn't omitting contributions of oodles of other people. I don't want to undersell the technical knowledge and capabilities of the astronauts; all three on this crew had engineering BS degrees, and Mattingly had a BS in aeronautical engineering from Auburn. But the flip side is that I find the line in the movie like "the engineers have tried [to develop a powerup procedure], but she's your ship" to be... patently absurd. Overall, I consider this movie "only" about 75% true to life. It's still really quite good for a film not purporting to be a documentary, but it's not the 95% that you sometimes see people think it is. Ron Howard, William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert saw too much potential in leaning pretty hard into the Swigert-replacing-Mattingly arc to *really* keep it that close to life. As a result, the movie plays down Swigert's preparation and competency, plays up Mattingly's contributions (as another example, he was not CapCom at or anywhere near reentry), and wholly invents a couple things like the argument the crew has as the movie is heading into the CO2 segment. Unrelated, when doing some fact checking of this, I learned that Mattingly just died less than two months ago, at 87.
Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing. It's one of my favorite Ron Howard movies and a very important film to watch about the failed Apollo 13 mission.
13:40 the only complaint about this film is how Jack Swigert was portrayed as an inexperienced rookie astronaut. 13 was both Jack and Fred's first spaceflight, and far from being inexperienced, Jack had written the Emergency Procedures for the Command/Service Module. When the accident occurred, many of his fellow astronauts had remarked that there was no one better to have on board than Jack Swigert.
This review was so disappointing. First of all,, these are not characters. These were actually people who actually experienced this. Apollo 13 was a real event in American History and y'all are mad because Ed Helms didn't punch someone? His "character"Gene Kranz was the director of NASA. He was working with hundreds of people trying to get these 3 astronauts home. They did not punch people in Mission Control. This is not an episode of Westworld. Why do you need a reunion with his wife for your Hollywood ending? This was about getting the crew home so that's why it ended when they made it back to Earth. If you want manufactured conflict, go watch Interstellar or Gravity.
I agree. I was annoyed by inappropriate giggling and stupid jokes. You two sounded like Beavis and Butthead. This amazing depiction of real events, real people, deserved better. Not sure I'm coming back.
I love these kind of movies where there’s no villain but it’s just humanity working together to solve a DISASTROUS problem. The Martian, Thirteen Lives, and this one are the first that come to mind
It amazes me that people watching this movie nowadays have no clue about it being based on an actual true story. Meaning: that shit really happened, making it not 'just another space movie where the US saves the day' that would be "Independence Day" or "Your Mother Should Never Have Reproduced"
Indeed. And the weightless moments in the plane only lasted a minute or two. So they had to keep going up and down repeatedly to get the scenes shot. Must have taken forever.
Almost all of Apollo 13's effects were done practically, which makes them even more impressive if you ask me. Many of the zero-G scenes were filmed on board a "vomit comet" that flies in a parabola to simulate zero gravity for up to 20 seconds at a time. The bit where she comes to see him before the mission actually didn't start until the Space Shuttle missions, but it works for the film so they used it.
Fun Fact: if you look to the left of Marilyn during that scene you will notice a red-head in a yellow sweater. That is Bryce Dallas Howard in one of her first roles.
@@jeden75 Interesting! I know he likes to put family members in his movies and celebrity cameos. For example, the woman who plays Jim Lovell's mother is actually Ron Howard's mother* and the REAL Jim Lovell plays the ship commander who salutes him when they are rescued from the ocean at the end. His brother Clint is also in it, playing Sy from mission control, the one who suggests turning off the fuel cells to stop the leak. * I love the bit when Marylin introduces Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to her and she says, "Are you boys in the space program too?"
@@JustWasted3HoursHere The part with Neil & Buzz is one of my favorite scenes in the movie! I love that Ron Howard puts his family in his films. His wife is also in the same scene with Bryce. She's probably playing her mom 😊 Along with Jim Lovell, Marilyn is also in the movie, another person in the crowd at the launch site. I wonder who else we can find that had cameo? I'll have to keep looking when I watch it again for the 100th time!
@@jeden75 Yep, I'll bet there are tons that we have not discovered. I'll have to watch that scene again with Bryce and the real Mrs. Lovell (who are still happily married to this day which is NOT the case with so many of the other astronauts from back in the day because they spent SO many hours preparing for the moon launch that they had no time with their families. But somehow Jim made it work).
From Ron Howard I recommend you see Backdraft (Kurt Russell, Wlliam Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, etc), his movie before Apollo 13. You are going to see the best firefighters movie, with some real fire scenes, since it was filmed using real fire and practical effects, no CGI or very, very little . Music by Hans Zimmer
@@JeshuaSquirrel True.. Very True...My current favourite badass astronaut is Jonny Kim...I hope he gets selected to be part of one of the Artemis moon landing missions.
"That worry really gets to me". The entire world was worried and stopped to watch the outcome of this mission. The portrayal of events is very accurate. This was almost as big as when we landed on the moon in terms of coverage, the 1st space disaster for our country's moon missions.
Still amazes me that many Americans know so little about their own history..." was this real " says it all. I was not even born when this happened , yet i learnt about it in school in England.
Yeah, I'm not from the US and born way after, too, but I learned a little bit about that Apollo mission in school (just as a side note) and that got me interested. I'd guess that a good education in history doesn't work with the exceptionalistic view that a lot of Americans have. Horrible past and (near) failures don't fit with the 'we're the best and greatest at everything' - attitude that Americans are indoctrinated with from basically fresh out of the womb.
My Mother was 15 when this happened. When the movie came out, we watched it together, and then we talked about what she remembered. It happened a decade before I was born, and to me it feels like recent contemporary history. In fact most of the 20th century feels like recent history to me. I don't understand this new perception of those things as though they happened about 5 minutes after the sacking of Rome.
When James Horner died in 2015, this was the soundtrack I put on to remember him by. I loved the scene in particular when Bacon’s character had to line up his shot to extract the Lunar Module, the music is so calm and tense. Such a great film.
I saw this film in the theater in the Mall of America…and the thundering of the sound system when that rocket took off…well, it made you feel like you were IN there yourself. It was thrilling.
This is the most realistic space movie has ever made, in terms of astronauts behaviors and chains of commands and whatnot. Ron Howard actually spent time on NASA Johnson Space Center to observe their routine, which is crazy. That's why this movie is so legitimate by the scientific community.
@@Human-zx4rb Yes, for the sake of the story they've managed to picture it dramatically, but my father was a former Mission Control chief and when he watched this movie he said it happens every time during their job. Once again, not this dramatic, but they sometimes had issues with flight crew and technical difficulties which made 'em to completely cease the operation and only focus on finding the solution for that specific issue. And one more realistic thing is the way Astronauts talking to Houston, which is totally real. Your first word as an Astronaut (when you want to call on MC) is to clarify who you're talking to. Your first words should be Houston, or Moscow, or Tokyo, etc. As I said, Ron Howard spent time on NASA JSC gave him a clear idea of what they do on those type of situations.
realistic wise, The right stuff is no.1 . although this is based on real events, there was a lot of poetic license such as gary sinise characters actions and other things which is ron howards style to stick to the spirit than true events (a beautiful mind for eg. is completely off) i love the right stuff more in this regard.
There's a 12-part miniseries you should watch now. "From the Earth to the Moon" (1995) produced shortly after Apollo 13 by Tom Hanks and Ron Howard where Tom hosts each episode and stars in the last one. It's all about Apollo and covers each manned flight, and also includes the first Mercury mission and a couple of Gemini missions that preceded Apollo. It's an excellent series and is considered a companion piece to Apollo 13 and vice-versa. For another historical drama about the space program do "The Right Stuff" (1983) which is about the formation of NASA itself and the early Mercury missions. It's a good movie too, but there's controversy about how they portrayed Gus Grissom during his mission that made him look inept, which was not the case in real life. It's still worth watching and is very entertaining to see how it all came together in movie form. @ 22:30 Apollo 13 is a historical drama and was made as accurately as possible. Fred Haise would talk about about and praised it with the exception of the yelling match between the three that went on in the LEM. @ 37:22 The guy dressed in the white captain's uniform here shaking Tom Hanks hand is actually Jim Lovell doing a cameo. @ 49:47 What you're saying right there is another reason to watch the FtEttM series. In fact one episode (the Apollo 16 one) is centered on the wives of most of the astronauts and is a really good one. Do "The Right Stuff" soon and before doing the FtEttM series since events in Right Stuff precedes it. And consider doing react vids on the "From The Earth To The Moon" series as I don't think anyone else has done them so far. If not, just watch them for fun to see how all this went down in the 60s and 70s. And there's plenty of documentaries about the space program too. 🖖😎
I feel like there is something in Tom Hanks smile that is just contagious. It’s hard to explain but you just can’t help but love him. He’s just the best.
Most people recognize actor Bill Paxton, and fail to realize that at one time (right around the end of the 1990's) he had a bigger box office total than Tom Hanks AND Tom Cruise combined. He had been a co-star or played a minor role in so many super successful films that when added together, he topped that list. There is also the fact that Paxton is one of two actors to have their character killed by the "big three" sci-fi film franchise threats. He was one of the street punks killed by Arnold's Terminator in the 1984 classic, he was killed by a Xenomorph in the hit film Aliens, and he was killed by the Predator in that franchise's second film as well. (Lance Henriksen is the other.) He was a great character actor, talented, and well respected. A good man. RIP Bill Paxton, you legend.
Fun fact Chevy actually gives astronauts a special lease rate for Corvettes of 55% off the monthly payment. That's why astronauts are always shown with a Corvette. Brilliant marketing
I saw the launch in 1970, on the beach near the cape as part of a Boy Scout field trip from Atlanta. It ignited a lifelong interest in aviation and space exploration. Yes I know this was a movie but for so many of us who were actually there it brought back all of the memories , and the feelings of that day. It's something you never forget. Yeah Hollywood embellished some of this but at the end of the day what you need to remember when you watch this is this event actually happened. It puts what we will see when Artemis 1 is finally launched into proper perspective. They had to fly multiple parabolic arcs in a aircraft equipped with cameras in order to get the weightlessness scenes actually correct there was no CGI used for that ., and those arcs were only 60 seconds or less each time.
Since the movie is not a comedy, your incessant laughing/cackling must mean you find your own comments real knee-slappers. They weren’t. It was worse than showing it to a bunch of 3rd graders.
I saw this in the theater. I knew it was based on a true story but I didn’t know how it ended. I cheered when they cheered. This is one of my favorite movies.
I'm glad you articulated your issues with the film, because I was genuinely curious. I think the real issue is one of perspective. These events (and many others) have come to be seen like ancient history. I think the difference in my perspective, is that I know that big bunch of nerds they put together to work on these missions was a collection of some of the most impressive humans on the planet. Only surpassed (in my opinion) by the Manhattan Project. Those people did not repackage a 50 year old design, and call it innovation as is done today. They built it from the ground up, drawing on all of humanity's scientific understanding, and they did it to advance that understanding. An amazing feat that most people today couldn't care less about.
I was there. I moved to Houston in early 1969 at 5 years old. I watched it on TV with everyone else in the world. My high school was in NASA’s backyard. Most of my friends were sons and daughters of Astronauts and Engineers. In those days, you could drive right on to the NASA facilities. My sister was friends with Alan Shephard’s Daughter (first US Astronaut), I sang with Alan Bean’s daughter (Apollo 12 Lunar Module pilot). And the most relevant to this movie…I was at Kroger’s grocery store in the Customer Service line. In front of me was Fred Haise (played by Bill Paxton in Apollo 13). He was in a flight suit and cashing a check.
I still remember seeing this in the theater alone when I was 12. I didn't know the story (I only went because I was dropped at the movies and it was all my local theater had at the time), so I was on the edge of my seat the whole time because I genuinely didn't know if they all made it. Love this movie!
Oh wow, I was about to write the exact same comment. I was twelve too when I saw it in theatres, and I didn’t know the story either. I couldn’t breathe during re-entry at all :)
Seriously, this is Class A true story filmmaking to the T. Do we need more explosions to make it more appealing to you? Sorry to disappoint you. Said no one ever.
Saw the movie as a teen (yeah, I'm old) and loved it, keeps you tense although it is actually a slow movie without action, it is just well done. Shout out to you Greg, corageous of you to show your sensitivity not only in public, but in front of the whole world. Seen you emotional in several movie reactions, and every time I think you help us all by showing it is actually ok to show feelings. Thanks!
tom hanks produced a great companion piece to this movie From the Earth to the Moon a tv series similar to band of brothers it covers the entire Apollo program and is well worth a watch
My mom cried at this movie, and she lived through this event, lol. Maybe it's the Nasa nerd in me, but this is one of my top whatever movies whenever someone asks me to make a list of my favorite movies. I remember credits rolling in the theater and saying Ed Harris is definitely getting nominated for this, if not winning (he didn't win but I was half right). When I went to see the last shuttle launch in 2011, I had the launch track playing in my Ipod (I'm an old, lol) and I managed to sync it up perfectly! I play it whenever I watch a Nasa launch on tv, which is exactly what I'm gonna be doing when they launch Artemis in a few hours! Just an fyi, the reason it took 4 min instead of 3 for the signal to come back is that they were a little bit shallow on reentry.
This is as good as any sci fi space film. Not just because it HAPPENED, but because the acting and film making is so on point. I find myself watching until the end whenever I come across it randomly on USA or FX (cuz it’s on once a week since 1998 or whatever)
This movie is still one of the best historical accurate movies out there. Nearly everything really happened. His wife actually lost her wedding ring. What wasn´t correct was the banter and anger between the astronauts. There are recordings that tell us how calm and collected the crew worked together even as the incident occured. I love the music in the movie and the actors are amazing. Thanks for this great review.
Have you talked to a millennial? They know fuck all about anything. It blows my mind that the first generation to grow up with, what are essentially, encyclopedias in their pockets seems to be the least educated, at least in terms of general knowledge & overall historical awareness. It’s frustrating & pretty depressing.
It’s not something that was taught or talked about in school and with all the other events that happened since then, it just got pushed to the side. As someone who was born in 96, the first attack of the Towers, the DC Sniper, 9/11, Desert Storm and the subsequent war in Iraq and on Terror all drowned out previous events
What will totally blow your mind is the fact that you have more computer power in an iPhone 14 than in all of mission control at the time of the Apollo flights!
Oof, the review at the end just shows how detached from reality some people are. They only recognize tension and drama in the Hollywood stylized manner. Sad that real life events and people aren't "good enough" 🤦♂️
I don’t know if anyone else has said this, but in the DVD commentary with the real Jim Lovell and his wife Marilyn, she spoke about the scene where he imagines walking on the moon. She said when she and their kids saw that scene for the first time they cried, because he never got to go back. A dream so close, but never achieved. If you ever try this movie again the commentary by them is excellent!
“Was this real” my dude. Also, the astronauts of course kept their cool. They wouldn’t be there if they couldn’t lol, which might ruin your dream for the dramatic, but would ruin the accuracy.
I do love this movie, I have seen it several times over the years and every time I get nervous, teary eyed, and thrilled when they get back. It just pulls me in.
I got to meet Jim Lovell at a baseball game. I am also a big fan of the space program and got to work for it (networks) for 7 years with Air Force Space Command. I love anything to deal with this adventure... whether it is the Right Stuff or the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon.
Okay so listening to the young man's comments and thoughts about the movie and the fact that he says that he thought the movie was a little slow!! Granted yes it's not an action movie this is closer to a documentary than it would be anything else but just told in the form of a grand story with the score and everything else!! But what you really have to consider is what a monumental feat this was to bring these three men home alive!!! There is all kinds of information on the internet about this event so do a little bit of research and try to understand exactly what kind of a near miracle this was!! It needed to be told in a slower fashion to understand everything that needed to happen for these men to get home safe!! This was truly as Gene Krantz stated our finest hour because in my opinion this feat was even greater than Neil Armstrong landing and walking on the moon!!!
The real mind blowing thing about NASA at that time. Your cell phone has multiples more computing power than the entirety of the computers at NASA when they put a man on the moon.
Amazing movie and Ron Howard managed to make it stressful when you already know they made it home. The series from HBO “From the Earth to the Moon” followed the US space program and was excellent!
Two things that were changed for the film were who said “Huston we have a problem”, it was Swaggart, not Lovell, and there was no screaming match. That was added for dramatic effect.
One of my favorite monies! My dad made sure I learned about that time period. He saved all the news paper closings for all the missions from Meru, Gemini, and Apollo.
That's cool about the clippings. In an antique store I found the TV Guide from the week of the moon landing and it so cool go see how much science ed they published to get people ready for what they were going to see.
the balding coke bottle glasses flight controller is played by Clint Howard. ( Ron Howard’s brother) Jim Lovell’s mother is played by Jean Howard (Ron’s mother) the priest in the watch party scene at the end of the film is played by Rance Howard (Ron’s father )
CO2 is not poisonous, it causes asphyxiation. The Flight Director had in his Log that re-entry interface would be 6 1/2 minutes. Marylin did get her ring back.
The famous Houston we have a problem was changed to fit the film, the actual line was "Houston we had a problem", they also used live footage of a real launch to keep as accurate as possible.
APOLLO 13 "zero-gravity" They cast and crew filmed aboard the KC-135 airplane 612 parabolic maneuvers to create about 23 seconds "zero-gravity". Spent in total 3 hours 54 minutes in "zero-gravity" conditions.
Well, its bases on what actually happened so they couldn't make it with a lot of ridiculous garbage and super heroes. It was the story of inspiration to most, but if you like ridiculous garbage then that's what you like.
At 37:22 that's the REAL Jim Lovell as the ship commander saluting Tom Hanks. Ron Howard's mother played Jim Lovell's mother in the movie and Ron's brother Clint played Sy at mission control, the guy who suggested they shut down the fuel cells to try to stop the leak.
Wow..yeah no car crashes...excessive gun fights or tiring backstabbing in this movie, stick with the lame movies that repeat those same things again and again. A great movie showing an aspect of early space travel and the dangers of it...two space shuttles blew up, maybe if they make a movie of those they can throw in some sex scenes for you or something
Historical movies usually aren't my cup of tea either, but this movie had me on the edge of my seat & crying so many times. The fact that they had to do their own math to save their lives, make a square peg fit in a round hole, plus there were so many more situations where they could've died... the story is just SO amazing! The real life astronauts and everyone at mission control: amazing! All the actors who portrayed them: amazing! Director: amazing! Greg, I'm with you on this one. ❤️
Hate to diminish Greggs enjoyment of a line but Hanks saying he had seen Mount Marilyn was literal. He had seen the view they were looking at. He was the pilot on one of the earlier moon mission that orbited the moon but didn't land
Some trivia that not everyone who watches this movie would know: Buzz Aldrin, aside from his more famous flight alongside Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, flew with Jim Lovell aboard Gemini 12 in 1966. Lovell, Aldrin, and Armstrong were also the original backup crew for Apollo 9, before some reshuffling moved Lovell up onto Apollo 8 and bumped Armstrong and Aldrin together back to Apollo 11. Armstrong was apparently offered a chance to replace Aldrin with Lovell, because he would be a more experienced astronaut for the first moon landing. Armstrong declined because he though Lovell deserved his own command on a later mission. Well, he sure got one.
I was 9 when we walked on the moon - one of the most memorable and exciting nights of my young life. I was 10 when Apollo 13 happened. In our house, we watched EVERY space launch, and kept up with the Space Program diligently. When Apollo 13 came back home, every classroom at our school had a tv on to watch the re-entry. We all knew they could bounce off the atmosphere and go out into space and never get home. Our teachers had been lovely about answering our questions and giving us real information. Classes were cancelled and we just watched the broadcast all day. When they landed in the ocean water, you could hear the entire school cheering and clapping. It was glorious. People now take this stuff for granted, but every single astronaut, and all the people who work for NASA (past and present) are true heroes.
Not only do people take it for granted, too many people think it never happened or that Hollywood created it. We could achieve so much yet we fall so short.
1:40 - Thanks, Greg..... "Imagine what it must have been like to be around back then." *I WAS*!!! Thanks for making me feel older than dirt, man. Really 'precitate it. Okay, so I was only 2 years old, but that actually IS my first memory. My family was sitting around the television set watching Armstrong take those first steps on the moon, and my grandmother kept going on about how "Historic" of an event this was. Which is probably why I am able to remember it, despite being so young. I was always fascinated by space, and space travel (both real and fictional). I'm not sure if it was because I had borne witness to history as it happened, or if it was ingrained in my psyche from birth. Maybe I am middle aged (and crazy), but I have also witnessed many historical events in my lifetime. The moon landing, Vietnam, the Space Shuttle program (including the Challenger explosion, and the destruction of the Atlantis upon re-entry), the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union/end of the Cold War, 9/11.... and many, many more.
If you want another movie based on the Apollo moon missions (though much more lighthearted and much more loosely representative of true events) I’d highly recommend the movie The Dish (2000). It’s an Australian comedy drama that didn’t see a big worldwide release, but it’s an amazing hidden gem of a film as it’s one of my favorite movies of all time.
I point out this story to anyone denying the moon landings. They transmitted the visuals for the landings and that couldnt have happened if it was all done on some studio lot in an American desert.
I believe that if Mattingly had not been scrubbed for measles, they might not have made it back. He knew the systems so well, only he could have figured it all out. We are about to send our first unmanned test moon mission any day now, on the Artemis, which for us space nerds is amazing! Watch some of the cast interviews about Apollo 13, Hanks was especially moving!
I don't think they would've either. His knowledge and sheer tenacity was stunning. I was struck by how he wasn't in the simulator just to push buttons, see what happens and report back. He had a clear, engineer's grasp of the electrical systems, so he was an active participant in finding the sequence. I'm not sure if that was for dramatic effect or not, but if it wasn't, it made me wonder if any astronaut could do that today - understand the electrical and engineering aspects of their craft so well that they could do this. Meaning, because things were more "simple" tech-wise back then, they were able to master the engineering of the craft in ways astronauts today can't, purely because the tech is so much more complicated.
I am sure you are reading many comments like mine. This was America at it's finest. Many of the Astronauts were fly-boys in WW2. They weren't called the Greatest Generation for no reason. I remember watching this when I was 10 years old holding my breath like people all over the world were doing as well. It was something I will never forget.
At the end, when the voice-over is saying "those 7 days of Apollo 13 were my last in space," Tom Hanks is shaking hands with the real Jim Lovell. This is a GREAT movie.
24:26 - The Command Module and the Lunar Lander use two different kinds of filters to remove carbon dioxide from the air. They're jury-rigging a system that will let them use the filters from one section in the other. And it all hinges on a smelly sweat sock. 37:22 - The man shaking Tom Hanks' hand here is the REAL Jim Lovell.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time even though it's partially responsible for scaring 5 or 6-year-old me out of wanting to be an astronaut 🤣 It was such a huge part of my upbringing that it's one of those movies that whenever I revisit it, it's like visiting an old friend from my childhood, and to this day I still get very emotional over it. Ron Howard is a master at committing real-life stories like this on screen, where even if you know the ending, he still manages to draw out the tension and get you invested anyway. The late James Horner also deserves credit for composing what is in my opinion one of the most beautiful film scores ever written/recorded. The music (especially the main theme) almost never fails to bring me to tears every time. Anyway, back on the Ron Howard subject, if you liked this, definitely check out _Thirteen Lives_ , the film he just made about the Thai cave rescue back in 2018. He uses the same method of creating suspense and tension for a real-life story that he did with this movie and the result is yet another masterpiece imo
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Have you guys reacted to Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller yet? It's hysterical lol
A couple of old classic comedies are:
Stripes w/ Bill Murray
Bowfinger w/ Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy
Bachelor Party w/ Tom Hanks
The Hangover
You guys probably won't watch this but they are some favs
The Marx Brothers in:
Duck Soup
A Day at the Races
Night at the Opera
Also, Peter Sellers in
Pink Panther 1 and 2
There's so many others lolol
Woody Allen in:
Sleeper
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Well if youve watch the classic space movie apollo 13 now its time for the other classic space movie Armageddon.
“Is this NASA’s darkest moment?”
“No, this is going to be our finest hour.”
That real quote by Flight Director Gene Kranz still gives me goosebumps, and may have saved the entire space program.
Gene Kranz, whose memoirs of his time as flight director is “Failure is not an Option”.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
I dont really like how sidelined Glynn Lunney was in the movie, though. I get why they did it, Kranz was a more commanding presence, but it was Lunney who ran the show that night, and it was Lunney who Ken Mattingly credited with having the most amazing leadership skills he ever saw. He said 'Glynn walked in, and just took over this mess, and brought a sense of calm to the situation. It was he, and he alone, who brought all those scared men together'.
Space flight has been described as days of sheer boredom punctuated by seconds of sheer terror.
All the astronauts had nice cars and they were gifts from the local dealerships.
Aaron, I'm sorry that "Apollo 13" wasn't some lowbrow Marvel roller coaster, noise & light show. Lovell wasn't obsessed with out doing Neil Armstrong. That was just healthy competitive rivalry among men. Ironically, the part you liked, was the part which was made up through dramatic license. The astronauts never lost their cool or pointed fingers at each other. You're officially out of touch.
When you think about it, it's been longer between now and when this movie came out (27 years) than when Apollo 13 actually launched and the movie came out (25 years). Watching this in theaters back then was a thrill. I hadn't heard about the Apollo 13 near disaster before the movie. It was based on the book Jim Lovell wrote a decade after the situation happened, Lost Moon. He is on record that the personal situation on board was not nearly as contentious as the movie portrayed, but each of the challenges they faced really happened. He's still alive, in his 90s and will still give the occasional interview. I loved this movie and it still holds up extremely well 27 years later.
Still trying to find out why is T.Hank's character (atheist in real life) performing a religious ceremony on board of a scientific craft?
@@4Everlastlol, seriously?
@@MikeB12800 100% You don't find that weird? Well that's just a tiny tip of the shit iceberg with everything space-related for some reason.
@@4Everlast Jim Lovell is/was Presbyterian
@@cerberus01 I heard it in a documentary from his own lips, not wikipedia, I've got it too don't worry. Still, saying a prayer would be perfectly fine, but a howl god damn mini-ceremony is absolutely ridiculous.
Jim’s line of “I’ve already seen it” is particularly sad because he was the commander of Apollo 8, which was the first mission to go to the Moon (without landing), so he really had seen it up close but hadn’t had a chance to land.
Lovell was the Command Module Pilot of _Apollo 8;_ Frank Borman (his _Gemini 7_ Command Pilot) was the Commander.
Just want to say the amazing thing is if you listen to how the actual Apollo 13 crew spoke they were actually extremely calm. They never really raised their voice and were extremely patient for people who were in there predicament. Truly shows how amazingly prepared they were and how amazing the feet of their survival was
Love this movie.
I remember when being smart was considered a positive characteristic. Now we celebrate stupid.
"The Right Stuff" is another award winning movie with an all-star cast. It focuses on the original astronaut program.
The Right Stuff is one of my favorite Movies about this era of spaceflight that has been made in my opinion.
It was actually originally a two part miniseries.
Also starting Ed Harris.
Aaron's take actually upset me. I can only assume his failure to connect with the characters is because he was talking over their lines and laughing at weird times. Like how Greg thought the nightmare was had by Jim Lovell when it was had by Marilyn.
I just deleted a big rant because this bothered me so much, I'm very disappointed.
I'm very disappointed by Aaron's reaction too. This really happened. Everyone *should* know that going into watching the film. But he didn't know that. (He said "Was this real?") I think that might explain why he didn't connect. But I'm not sure.
I'm with you... Laughing and talking, while cracking jokes during the crisis made me almost turn off the video.. Then afterwards to hear the commentary made me sick. That is just my opinion..... I remember it when it actually happened... beautiful story, well told...
Yep. I agree. A lot of the worst reactors stomp all over great lines, wonderful moments and important dialogue and context with inane babble and an inability to sense when to talk and when to shut up. But then they'll complain when they're lost and that things don't make sense to them, or they don't connect to characters or find the whole thing dull. If you're not going to watch it, then don't watch it. Certainly don't deign to "react" to it.
As to general assessments, everyone is of course entitled to their own opinion, but I genuinely think that there is something wrong with people who don't recognise that this movie is an absolute, almost flawless, rich masterpiece.
It's not entirely this guys fault. It is clear that they are both ignorant of the Apollo 13 mission which is a pretty piss poor indictment of the U.S "education system". But the inability to engage emotionally with the story speaks to a level of sociopathy to me.
The desire for more melodrama really belies their tragic ignorance of this amazing true event, as some level of realism had already been compromised in order to make the true story "more dramatic" with high tempers and overt emotional expressions which anyone actually involved with NASA and this event in particular say was less likely than alien involvement.
Nobody needed a sappy freezeframe reunion with the wife.
Me too! It was driving me crazy that both of them kept calling them "characters" when these were/are actual people & this was a real event that really happened & could have completely ended the space program had it failed. It felt so disrespectful calling the action "slow" when this was 7 days of 100s of people trying to get 3 people home. It did not need a reunion with his family at the end. This isn't Interstellar. This isn't Gravity. This. Actually. Happened.
Late to the party but while I wasn't upset, I was disappointed. I understand where you are coming from. I think the ending comments make it pretty clear that Aaron wasn't really looking for a movie strongly based on an actual event. He wanted a Hollywood movie. He was there for a fun ride. That's fine but it is disappointing for those of us that love the movie because of how well it presented the actual events. For example. the tension and argument between the astronauts was engaging to Aaron and he wanted more scenes like that, but that was one of the few things that wasn't even really true. He didn't want facts, he wanted entertainment, which is fine but I agree that kind of reaction was disappointing to me as a viewer. I appreciate how closely they tried to stick to what actually happened. I feel a VERY strong emotional connection to this movie and deeply deeply appreciate that they DIDN'T make up a bunch of crap for entertainment purposes. So anyway, sending sympathy...
I was a little girl when this happened. My dad worked as a behind-the scenes, electrical and radar tech for NASA. Each space mission was important to me and my fellow classmates and teachers. This was ALL done BEFORE computers were invented as we understand them now. Many of the news stuff, was live footage. The whole world was ultimately engaged. We made deals with our enemies that the astronauts would have safe passage, if they landed Wherever. Churches were open 24/7 for people to pray. We, as children, attending a Catholic school, attended Mass daily for the Apollo crew's safety, along with so many others. I watched every launch and landing from Mercury to the Challengers. I visited Cape Canaveral, and you have NO IDEA how HUGE! that warehouse where they would work on the space craft was!!!! The 60's and 70's truly were, in the words of Charles Dickens, "the best of times and the worst of times". But we knew we living through History!
At 37:21, the officer on the left in white, whom Tom Hanks salutes and shakes his hand, is the actual guy he plays in the movie, Jim Lovell. This movie is based on his memoir of the mission, _Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13._
Ron Howard's mother is playing the grandmother (Lovell's mother) and the Tom Hanks salutes the real Jim Lovell at the end.
The NASA OGs who were around when this incident happened were invited to set and said mission control was so close to exact they forgot it was a set at times.
NASA used to use the launch footage as training footage it was so realistic.
Ron Howard’s father played the priest that sat with the family during reentry.
@@stephenkehl7158 I did not know that. Thanks!
One truly incredible thing is, Ken Mattingly (the astronaut who was removed from the mission in case he contracted the measles) was one of the few people who could have figured out the power up procedures that allowed the crew to successfully turn on their computers and make it home safely. Ironically, had he not been removed from the mission, they might have never made it home. He needed to be the one in that simulator running scenarios as his attention to detail was impeccable. One of those "events that transpire to get you home safely" as Jim Lovell would have said. ❤
Ken wasn't the only one working the simulators, there were several men working on them. He wasnt called in from his bed in the middle of the night either, that was Charlie Duke, who was sick with the measles. Glynn Lunney was also the main man in charge that night, and who Ken Mattingly gave credit to for having amazing leadership skills. The film took liberties for artistic license.
"He needed to be the one in that simulator running scenarios as his attention to detail was impeccable." -- I'm also going to dispute this. Mattingly *was* involved, but not as integral as portrayed here, maybe not even close. Lovell's book (& Jeffrey Kluger's) that this movie was based on, originally titled "Lost Moon" and later published under the name "Apollo 13", characterizes Mattingly's work as testing procedures developed by others, and gives primary credit for the actual development of those procedures to an engineer named Arnie Aldrich, with secondary credit going to John Aaron. John Aaron has a reasonably big part in the movie, but if Aldrich appears in the movie at all I don't know who is supposed to be him. I would be astonished if even that characterization isn't omitting contributions of oodles of other people.
I don't want to undersell the technical knowledge and capabilities of the astronauts; all three on this crew had engineering BS degrees, and Mattingly had a BS in aeronautical engineering from Auburn. But the flip side is that I find the line in the movie like "the engineers have tried [to develop a powerup procedure], but she's your ship" to be... patently absurd.
Overall, I consider this movie "only" about 75% true to life. It's still really quite good for a film not purporting to be a documentary, but it's not the 95% that you sometimes see people think it is. Ron Howard, William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert saw too much potential in leaning pretty hard into the Swigert-replacing-Mattingly arc to *really* keep it that close to life. As a result, the movie plays down Swigert's preparation and competency, plays up Mattingly's contributions (as another example, he was not CapCom at or anywhere near reentry), and wholly invents a couple things like the argument the crew has as the movie is heading into the CO2 segment.
Unrelated, when doing some fact checking of this, I learned that Mattingly just died less than two months ago, at 87.
Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Sound Editing
Best Film Editing.
It's one of my favorite Ron Howard movies and a very important film to watch about the failed Apollo 13 mission.
13:40 the only complaint about this film is how Jack Swigert was portrayed as an inexperienced rookie astronaut. 13 was both Jack and Fred's first spaceflight, and far from being inexperienced, Jack had written the Emergency Procedures for the Command/Service Module. When the accident occurred, many of his fellow astronauts had remarked that there was no one better to have on board than Jack Swigert.
True.. Very True
I can't believe people have to ask if this is true or not.
This was a major part of history and not that long ago.
This review was so disappointing. First of all,, these are not characters. These were actually people who actually experienced this. Apollo 13 was a real event in American History and y'all are mad because Ed Helms didn't punch someone? His "character"Gene Kranz was the director of NASA. He was working with hundreds of people trying to get these 3 astronauts home. They did not punch people in Mission Control. This is not an episode of Westworld. Why do you need a reunion with his wife for your Hollywood ending? This was about getting the crew home so that's why it ended when they made it back to Earth. If you want manufactured conflict, go watch Interstellar or Gravity.
Well said! I was very disappointed with their laughter and jokes watching such a historic event.
Frankly, if I could give Greg and Aaron more dislikes for this reaction I would.
Totally agreed! 😡
I agree. I was annoyed by inappropriate giggling and stupid jokes. You two sounded like Beavis and Butthead. This amazing depiction of real events, real people, deserved better. Not sure I'm coming back.
Saved me a lot of time. Thanks man. Won't be watching.
I love these kind of movies where there’s no villain but it’s just humanity working together to solve a DISASTROUS problem. The Martian, Thirteen Lives, and this one are the first that come to mind
Apollo 13 and The Martian are two of my favorite movies. I have to check out Thirteen Hours now!
What makes this one even better is that it actually happened. Inspiring!
The Martian, Thirteen Hours, Star Trek: IV The Voyage Home… 🖖😏
@@faerisoul I meant to say thirteen lives btw not thirteen hours…two totally different movies lmao
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It amazes me that people watching this movie nowadays have no clue about it being based on an actual true story. Meaning: that shit really happened, making it not 'just another space movie where the US saves the day' that would be "Independence Day" or "Your Mother Should Never Have Reproduced"
Love the fact that all the zero G sequences were real.
They filmed those scenes on the plane that does those zero G fights. Looks so cool.
Indeed. And the weightless moments in the plane only lasted a minute or two. So they had to keep going up and down repeatedly to get the scenes shot. Must have taken forever.
@@DocMicrowave the puke scene must have been real then lol
@@chanahasnomana lol Good Point.!
Bill: Sorry about the puke on the camera. Lost it on that last shoot.
Howard: Nah, real looks good. Keep and print!
@@chanahasnomana ot only was it real (kinda, pea soup) but Bill had to shoot it time and time again.
I believe it’s called The Vomit Comet 🙂
Almost all of Apollo 13's effects were done practically, which makes them even more impressive if you ask me. Many of the zero-G scenes were filmed on board a "vomit comet" that flies in a parabola to simulate zero gravity for up to 20 seconds at a time.
The bit where she comes to see him before the mission actually didn't start until the Space Shuttle missions, but it works for the film so they used it.
Fun Fact: if you look to the left of Marilyn during that scene you will notice a red-head in a yellow sweater. That is Bryce Dallas Howard in one of her first roles.
@@jeden75 Interesting! I know he likes to put family members in his movies and celebrity cameos. For example, the woman who plays Jim Lovell's mother is actually Ron Howard's mother* and the REAL Jim Lovell plays the ship commander who salutes him when they are rescued from the ocean at the end. His brother Clint is also in it, playing Sy from mission control, the one who suggests turning off the fuel cells to stop the leak.
* I love the bit when Marylin introduces Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to her and she says, "Are you boys in the space program too?"
@@JustWasted3HoursHere The part with Neil & Buzz is one of my favorite scenes in the movie! I love that Ron Howard puts his family in his films. His wife is also in the same scene with Bryce. She's probably playing her mom 😊 Along with Jim Lovell, Marilyn is also in the movie, another person in the crowd at the launch site. I wonder who else we can find that had cameo? I'll have to keep looking when I watch it again for the 100th time!
@@jeden75 Yep, I'll bet there are tons that we have not discovered. I'll have to watch that scene again with Bryce and the real Mrs. Lovell (who are still happily married to this day which is NOT the case with so many of the other astronauts from back in the day because they spent SO many hours preparing for the moon launch that they had no time with their families. But somehow Jim made it work).
From Ron Howard I recommend you see Backdraft (Kurt Russell, Wlliam Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, etc), his movie before Apollo 13. You are going to see the best firefighters movie, with some real fire scenes, since it was filmed using real fire and practical effects, no CGI or very, very little . Music by Hans Zimmer
The guy playing the navy captain who salutes Tom Hanks at the 37:20 mark is the real Jim Lovell.
If someone didn't mention this, I was going to. All the astronauts were and are card carrying badasses
@@JeshuaSquirrel True.. Very True...My current favourite badass astronaut is Jonny Kim...I hope he gets selected to be part of one of the Artemis moon landing missions.
the routine activation of a fan in one of the service module's oxygen tanks led to a short circuit and an explosion in that tank.
Y’all go into this movie having no idea Apollo 13 happened?????
"That worry really gets to me". The entire world was worried and stopped to watch the outcome of this mission. The portrayal of events is very accurate. This was almost as big as when we landed on the moon in terms of coverage, the 1st space disaster for our country's moon missions.
Still amazes me that many Americans know so little about their own history..." was this real " says it all.
I was not even born when this happened , yet i learnt about it in school in England.
Yeah, I'm not from the US and born way after, too, but I learned a little bit about that Apollo mission in school (just as a side note) and that got me interested.
I'd guess that a good education in history doesn't work with the exceptionalistic view that a lot of Americans have. Horrible past and (near) failures don't fit with the 'we're the best and greatest at everything' - attitude that Americans are indoctrinated with from basically fresh out of the womb.
I'm American and I learned about it when I was 12....watching this movie.
@@ichmeiner4531 sounds like someone has an inferiority complex.
My Mother was 15 when this happened. When the movie came out, we watched it together, and then we talked about what she remembered. It happened a decade before I was born, and to me it feels like recent contemporary history. In fact most of the 20th century feels like recent history to me. I don't understand this new perception of those things as though they happened about 5 minutes after the sacking of Rome.
I'm surprised they didn't learn about it in school. I saw this movie in the theater on a field trip, and both my kids watched it in sixth grade.
When James Horner died in 2015, this was the soundtrack I put on to remember him by. I loved the scene in particular when Bacon’s character had to line up his shot to extract the Lunar Module, the music is so calm and tense. Such a great film.
I saw this film in the theater in the Mall of America…and the thundering of the sound system when that rocket took off…well, it made you feel like you were IN there yourself. It was thrilling.
This is the most realistic space movie has ever made, in terms of astronauts behaviors and chains of commands and whatnot. Ron Howard actually spent time on NASA Johnson Space Center to observe their routine, which is crazy. That's why this movie is so legitimate by the scientific community.
they definetly dramatised it, but ye it is still the most realistic space movie
@@Human-zx4rb Yes, for the sake of the story they've managed to picture it dramatically, but my father was a former Mission Control chief and when he watched this movie he said it happens every time during their job. Once again, not this dramatic, but they sometimes had issues with flight crew and technical difficulties which made 'em to completely cease the operation and only focus on finding the solution for that specific issue. And one more realistic thing is the way Astronauts talking to Houston, which is totally real. Your first word as an Astronaut (when you want to call on MC) is to clarify who you're talking to. Your first words should be Houston, or Moscow, or Tokyo, etc. As I said, Ron Howard spent time on NASA JSC gave him a clear idea of what they do on those type of situations.
realistic wise, The right stuff is no.1 . although this is based on real events, there was a lot of poetic license such as gary sinise characters actions and other things which is ron howards style to stick to the spirit than true events (a beautiful mind for eg. is completely off)
i love the right stuff more in this regard.
@@graceonfilmsnstuff Yeah, so true. 👍🏻
What about”From Here to the Moon”?
I thought every American knew this was a true story. Shocked to hear you guys ask that 🤨
How in the hell would you need to look up on the internet if Apollo 13 was a true story are you kidding me that's ridiculous how do you not know that
There's a 12-part miniseries you should watch now. "From the Earth to the Moon" (1995) produced shortly after Apollo 13 by Tom Hanks and Ron Howard where Tom hosts each episode and stars in the last one. It's all about Apollo and covers each manned flight, and also includes the first Mercury mission and a couple of Gemini missions that preceded Apollo. It's an excellent series and is considered a companion piece to Apollo 13 and vice-versa.
For another historical drama about the space program do "The Right Stuff" (1983) which is about the formation of NASA itself and the early Mercury missions. It's a good movie too, but there's controversy about how they portrayed Gus Grissom during his mission that made him look inept, which was not the case in real life. It's still worth watching and is very entertaining to see how it all came together in movie form.
@ 22:30 Apollo 13 is a historical drama and was made as accurately as possible. Fred Haise would talk about about and praised it with the exception of the yelling match between the three that went on in the LEM.
@ 37:22 The guy dressed in the white captain's uniform here shaking Tom Hanks hand is actually Jim Lovell doing a cameo.
@ 49:47 What you're saying right there is another reason to watch the FtEttM series. In fact one episode (the Apollo 16 one) is centered on the wives of most of the astronauts and is a really good one.
Do "The Right Stuff" soon and before doing the FtEttM series since events in Right Stuff precedes it. And consider doing react vids on the "From The Earth To The Moon" series as I don't think anyone else has done them so far. If not, just watch them for fun to see how all this went down in the 60s and 70s. And there's plenty of documentaries about the space program too. 🖖😎
I would love FtEtTM reactions, we owned the series when I was growing up and we would watch it regularly, been too long since I last saw any of it
I feel like there is something in Tom Hanks smile that is just contagious. It’s hard to explain but you just can’t help but love him. He’s just the best.
Greg.. I think your co-pilot ruined your Apollo 13 experience. Friends do that sometimes
Most people recognize actor Bill Paxton, and fail to realize that at one time (right around the end of the 1990's) he had a bigger box office total than Tom Hanks AND Tom Cruise combined. He had been a co-star or played a minor role in so many super successful films that when added together, he topped that list. There is also the fact that Paxton is one of two actors to have their character killed by the "big three" sci-fi film franchise threats. He was one of the street punks killed by Arnold's Terminator in the 1984 classic, he was killed by a Xenomorph in the hit film Aliens, and he was killed by the Predator in that franchise's second film as well. (Lance Henriksen is the other.) He was a great character actor, talented, and well respected. A good man. RIP Bill Paxton, you legend.
Fun fact Chevy actually gives astronauts a special lease rate for Corvettes of 55% off the monthly payment. That's why astronauts are always shown with a Corvette.
Brilliant marketing
I saw the launch in 1970, on the beach near the cape as part of a Boy Scout field trip from Atlanta. It ignited a lifelong interest in aviation and space exploration. Yes I know this was a movie but for so many of us who were actually there it brought back all of the memories , and the feelings of that day. It's something you never forget. Yeah Hollywood embellished some of this but at the end of the day what you need to remember when you watch this is this event actually happened. It puts what we will see when Artemis 1 is finally launched into proper perspective. They had to fly multiple parabolic arcs in a aircraft equipped with cameras in order to get the weightlessness scenes actually correct there was no CGI used for that ., and those arcs were only 60 seconds or less each time.
Since the movie is not a comedy, your incessant laughing/cackling must mean you find your own comments real knee-slappers. They weren’t.
It was worse than showing it to a bunch of 3rd graders.
Felt like watching this reaction and the fact that both Aaron and Greg are cracking jokes ticked me off.
I saw this in the theater. I knew it was based on a true story but I didn’t know how it ended. I cheered when they cheered. This is one of my favorite movies.
Same. well, I knew they came home but I was on the edge of my seat.
The whole theater cheered.
I'm glad you articulated your issues with the film, because I was genuinely curious. I think the real issue is one of perspective. These events (and many others) have come to be seen like ancient history. I think the difference in my perspective, is that I know that big bunch of nerds they put together to work on these missions was a collection of some of the most impressive humans on the planet. Only surpassed (in my opinion) by the Manhattan Project. Those people did not repackage a 50 year old design, and call it innovation as is done today. They built it from the ground up, drawing on all of humanity's scientific understanding, and they did it to advance that understanding. An amazing feat that most people today couldn't care less about.
I was there. I moved to Houston in early 1969 at 5 years old. I watched it on TV with everyone else in the world. My high school was in NASA’s backyard. Most of my friends were sons and daughters of Astronauts and Engineers. In those days, you could drive right on to the NASA facilities. My sister was friends with Alan Shephard’s Daughter (first US Astronaut), I sang with Alan Bean’s daughter (Apollo 12 Lunar Module pilot). And the most relevant to this movie…I was at Kroger’s grocery store in the Customer Service line. In front of me was Fred Haise (played by Bill Paxton in Apollo 13). He was in a flight suit and cashing a check.
I still remember seeing this in the theater alone when I was 12. I didn't know the story (I only went because I was dropped at the movies and it was all my local theater had at the time), so I was on the edge of my seat the whole time because I genuinely didn't know if they all made it.
Love this movie!
Oh wow, I was about to write the exact same comment. I was twelve too when I saw it in theatres, and I didn’t know the story either. I couldn’t breathe during re-entry at all :)
Seriously, this is Class A true story filmmaking to the T. Do we need more explosions to make it more appealing to you? Sorry to disappoint you. Said no one ever.
Saw the movie as a teen (yeah, I'm old) and loved it, keeps you tense although it is actually a slow movie without action, it is just well done. Shout out to you Greg, corageous of you to show your sensitivity not only in public, but in front of the whole world. Seen you emotional in several movie reactions, and every time I think you help us all by showing it is actually ok to show feelings. Thanks!
tom hanks produced a great companion piece to this movie From the Earth to the Moon a tv series similar to band of brothers it covers the entire Apollo program and is well worth a watch
YES.
Strongly recommend When We Left Earth. Gary Sinise narrates and it's all on YT
True.. Very True
My mom cried at this movie, and she lived through this event, lol.
Maybe it's the Nasa nerd in me, but this is one of my top whatever movies whenever someone asks me to make a list of my favorite movies. I remember credits rolling in the theater and saying Ed Harris is definitely getting nominated for this, if not winning (he didn't win but I was half right). When I went to see the last shuttle launch in 2011, I had the launch track playing in my Ipod (I'm an old, lol) and I managed to sync it up perfectly! I play it whenever I watch a Nasa launch on tv, which is exactly what I'm gonna be doing when they launch Artemis in a few hours!
Just an fyi, the reason it took 4 min instead of 3 for the signal to come back is that they were a little bit shallow on reentry.
Well now I'm bummed for you that Artemis isn't launching today but good tip I'm gonna remember for later 😉👍
@@tsefcik I'm so bummed, lol. But the music is always ready to go, just gotta wait for a new launch window!
This is as good as any sci fi space film. Not just because it HAPPENED, but because the acting and film making is so on point. I find myself watching until the end whenever I come across it randomly on USA or FX (cuz it’s on once a week since 1998 or whatever)
This movie is still one of the best historical accurate movies out there. Nearly everything really happened. His wife actually lost her wedding ring. What wasn´t correct was the banter and anger between the astronauts. There are recordings that tell us how calm and collected the crew worked together even as the incident occured. I love the music in the movie and the actors are amazing.
Thanks for this great review.
Did you like..not know Apollo 13 was a real thing or? 😂😂
Update: WOW a couple of Americans really didn’t know anything about Apollo 13 huh 😆
Have you talked to a millennial? They know fuck all about anything. It blows my mind that the first generation to grow up with, what are essentially, encyclopedias in their pockets seems to be the least educated, at least in terms of general knowledge & overall historical awareness. It’s frustrating & pretty depressing.
It’s not something that was taught or talked about in school and with all the other events that happened since then, it just got pushed to the side. As someone who was born in 96, the first attack of the Towers, the DC Sniper, 9/11, Desert Storm and the subsequent war in Iraq and on Terror all drowned out previous events
What will totally blow your mind is the fact that you have more computer power in an iPhone 14 than in all of mission control at the time of the Apollo flights!
Oof, the review at the end just shows how detached from reality some people are. They only recognize tension and drama in the Hollywood stylized manner. Sad that real life events and people aren't "good enough" 🤦♂️
I don’t know if anyone else has said this, but in the DVD commentary with the real Jim Lovell and his wife Marilyn, she spoke about the scene where he imagines walking on the moon. She said when she and their kids saw that scene for the first time they cried, because he never got to go back. A dream so close, but never achieved.
If you ever try this movie again the commentary by them is excellent!
“Was this real” my dude.
Also, the astronauts of course kept their cool. They wouldn’t be there if they couldn’t lol, which might ruin your dream for the dramatic, but would ruin the accuracy.
I do love this movie, I have seen it several times over the years and every time I get nervous, teary eyed, and thrilled when they get back. It just pulls me in.
I got to meet Jim Lovell at a baseball game. I am also a big fan of the space program and got to work for it (networks) for 7 years with Air Force Space Command. I love anything to deal with this adventure... whether it is the Right Stuff or the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon.
This might be the reason Aaron doesn’t have any public social media
if you have a problem with this movie you have a problem with yourself.
Okay so listening to the young man's comments and thoughts about the movie and the fact that he says that he thought the movie was a little slow!! Granted yes it's not an action movie this is closer to a documentary than it would be anything else but just told in the form of a grand story with the score and everything else!! But what you really have to consider is what a monumental feat this was to bring these three men home alive!!! There is all kinds of information on the internet about this event so do a little bit of research and try to understand exactly what kind of a near miracle this was!! It needed to be told in a slower fashion to understand everything that needed to happen for these men to get home safe!! This was truly as Gene Krantz stated our finest hour because in my opinion this feat was even greater than Neil Armstrong landing and walking on the moon!!!
I was really surprised & disappointed in his reaction.
The real mind blowing thing about NASA at that time. Your cell phone has multiples more computing power than the entirety of the computers at NASA when they put a man on the moon.
I enjoyed the movie too, but I just didn’t understand how any of it was funny to anyone?! Or was that just for the reaction?!
Aw man! I've missed Beavis and Butthead so much... and here they are!!
It’s interesting how we are watching them react to a rocket ship Movie and Artemis 1 is launching today hopefully
I just left the livestream, 3 hours till launch as of rn, and this is the first vid I saw next lol
Godspeed Artemis. Step one of a long term lunar presence. May it reach its new home safely and serve its great purpose.
Artemis was scrubbed again today
@@thatdude5754 which is also rather fitting
@@thatdude5754 I hope they fix everything correctly and actually care about the rocket for it will launch Monday
Amazing movie and Ron Howard managed to make it stressful when you already know they made it home. The series from HBO “From the Earth to the Moon” followed the US space program and was excellent!
Two things that were changed for the film were who said “Huston we have a problem”, it was Swaggart, not Lovell, and there was no screaming match. That was added for dramatic effect.
An actual Apollo astronaut watched the launch sequence and asked where they found the footage, not realizing it was CGI.
I love this movie! Literally watched it 3 times, last week alone!
Backdraft another good one
37:22 that guy in white shaking Tom Hank's hand is THE REAL Jim Lovell 😍
One of my favorites, permanently on my DVR to watch at night to help me relax and restore my faith in humanity.
Favorite Line: "Failure is NOT an option!"
Everyone was glued to the TV. I was 15 and they kept TV's in every classroom. We learned nothing.
One of my favorite monies! My dad made sure I learned about that time period. He saved all the news paper closings for all the missions from Meru, Gemini, and Apollo.
That's cool about the clippings. In an antique store I found the TV Guide from the week of the moon landing and it so cool go see how much science ed they published to get people ready for what they were going to see.
the balding coke bottle glasses flight controller is played by Clint Howard. ( Ron Howard’s brother)
Jim Lovell’s mother is played by Jean Howard (Ron’s mother)
the priest in the watch party scene at the end of the film is played by Rance Howard (Ron’s father )
CO2 is not poisonous, it causes asphyxiation. The Flight Director had in his Log that re-entry interface would be 6 1/2 minutes. Marylin did get her ring back.
You guys are reacting to my all-time favorite movie? Can't wait to watch this reaction when I have enough time
The famous Houston we have a problem was changed to fit the film, the actual line was "Houston we had a problem", they also used live footage of a real launch to keep as accurate as possible.
APOLLO 13 "zero-gravity" They cast and crew filmed aboard the KC-135 airplane 612 parabolic maneuvers to create about 23 seconds "zero-gravity". Spent in total 3 hours 54 minutes in "zero-gravity" conditions.
Well, its bases on what actually happened so they couldn't make it with a lot of ridiculous garbage and super heroes. It was the story of inspiration to most, but if you like ridiculous garbage then that's what you like.
At 37:22 that's the REAL Jim Lovell as the ship commander saluting Tom Hanks. Ron Howard's mother played Jim Lovell's mother in the movie and Ron's brother Clint played Sy at mission control, the guy who suggested they shut down the fuel cells to try to stop the leak.
I saw this movie in an IMAX theater when it first came out, and I swear I could feel that liftoff sequence in my bones.
How have you never seen any of these movies till now? Mind blown
Wow..yeah no car crashes...excessive gun fights or tiring backstabbing in this movie, stick with the lame movies that repeat those same things again and again.
A great movie showing an aspect of early space travel and the dangers of it...two space shuttles blew up, maybe if they make a movie of those they can throw in some sex scenes for you or something
I wanted to see your reaction when Ed Harris kick the Garbage can
"GODDAMMIT! I DON'T WANT ANOTHER ESTIMATE, I WANT THE PROCEDURES, NOW!"
Love how you're watching 90s classics. Tom Hanks owned the 1990's.
1000% he did.
Historical movies usually aren't my cup of tea either, but this movie had me on the edge of my seat & crying so many times. The fact that they had to do their own math to save their lives, make a square peg fit in a round hole, plus there were so many more situations where they could've died... the story is just SO amazing! The real life astronauts and everyone at mission control: amazing! All the actors who portrayed them: amazing! Director: amazing! Greg, I'm with you on this one. ❤️
oh and the SCORE! the score is another modern piece of American history.
Hate to diminish Greggs enjoyment of a line but Hanks saying he had seen Mount Marilyn was literal. He had seen the view they were looking at. He was the pilot on one of the earlier moon mission that orbited the moon but didn't land
Some trivia that not everyone who watches this movie would know: Buzz Aldrin, aside from his more famous flight alongside Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, flew with Jim Lovell aboard Gemini 12 in 1966. Lovell, Aldrin, and Armstrong were also the original backup crew for Apollo 9, before some reshuffling moved Lovell up onto Apollo 8 and bumped Armstrong and Aldrin together back to Apollo 11.
Armstrong was apparently offered a chance to replace Aldrin with Lovell, because he would be a more experienced astronaut for the first moon landing. Armstrong declined because he though Lovell deserved his own command on a later mission. Well, he sure got one.
I was 9 when we walked on the moon - one of the most memorable and exciting nights of my young life. I was 10 when Apollo 13 happened. In our house, we watched EVERY space launch, and kept up with the Space Program diligently. When Apollo 13 came back home, every classroom at our school had a tv on to watch the re-entry. We all knew they could bounce off the atmosphere and go out into space and never get home. Our teachers had been lovely about answering our questions and giving us real information. Classes were cancelled and we just watched the broadcast all day. When they landed in the ocean water, you could hear the entire school cheering and clapping. It was glorious. People now take this stuff for granted, but every single astronaut, and all the people who work for NASA (past and present) are true heroes.
Not only do people take it for granted, too many people think it never happened or that Hollywood created it. We could achieve so much yet we fall so short.
What an incredible memory to have.
And a such a great age.
1:40 - Thanks, Greg..... "Imagine what it must have been like to be around back then." *I WAS*!!!
Thanks for making me feel older than dirt, man. Really 'precitate it.
Okay, so I was only 2 years old, but that actually IS my first memory. My family was sitting around the television set watching Armstrong take those first steps on the moon, and my grandmother kept going on about how "Historic" of an event this was. Which is probably why I am able to remember it, despite being so young.
I was always fascinated by space, and space travel (both real and fictional). I'm not sure if it was because I had borne witness to history as it happened, or if it was ingrained in my psyche from birth.
Maybe I am middle aged (and crazy), but I have also witnessed many historical events in my lifetime. The moon landing, Vietnam, the Space Shuttle program (including the Challenger explosion, and the destruction of the Atlantis upon re-entry), the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union/end of the Cold War, 9/11.... and many, many more.
I remember exactly where I was when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
If you want another movie based on the Apollo moon missions (though much more lighthearted and much more loosely representative of true events) I’d highly recommend the movie The Dish (2000). It’s an Australian comedy drama that didn’t see a big worldwide release, but it’s an amazing hidden gem of a film as it’s one of my favorite movies of all time.
I point out this story to anyone denying the moon landings. They transmitted the visuals for the landings and that couldnt have happened if it was all done on some studio lot in an American desert.
I believe that if Mattingly had not been scrubbed for measles, they might not have made it back. He knew the systems so well, only he could have figured it all out. We are about to send our first unmanned test moon mission any day now, on the Artemis, which for us space nerds is amazing! Watch some of the cast interviews about Apollo 13, Hanks was especially moving!
I don't think they would've either. His knowledge and sheer tenacity was stunning.
I was struck by how he wasn't in the simulator just to push buttons, see what happens and report back. He had a clear, engineer's grasp of the electrical systems, so he was an active participant in finding the sequence.
I'm not sure if that was for dramatic effect or not, but if it wasn't, it made me wonder if any astronaut could do that today - understand the electrical and engineering aspects of their craft so well that they could do this. Meaning, because things were more "simple" tech-wise back then, they were able to master the engineering of the craft in ways astronauts today can't, purely because the tech is so much more complicated.
Another great movie, saw it in the cinema when I was 14 and still remember it fondly 🚀
I am sure you are reading many comments like mine. This was America at it's finest. Many of the Astronauts were fly-boys in WW2. They weren't called the Greatest Generation for no reason. I remember watching this when I was 10 years old holding my breath like people all over the world were doing as well. It was something I will never forget.
Rest in peace Bill Paxton
At the end, when the voice-over is saying "those 7 days of Apollo 13 were my last in space," Tom Hanks is shaking hands with the real Jim Lovell. This is a GREAT movie.
I'm so happy I read a review of your react. Not wasting my time.
24:26 - The Command Module and the Lunar Lander use two different kinds of filters to remove carbon dioxide from the air. They're jury-rigging a system that will let them use the filters from one section in the other. And it all hinges on a smelly sweat sock.
37:22 - The man shaking Tom Hanks' hand here is the REAL Jim Lovell.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time even though it's partially responsible for scaring 5 or 6-year-old me out of wanting to be an astronaut 🤣 It was such a huge part of my upbringing that it's one of those movies that whenever I revisit it, it's like visiting an old friend from my childhood, and to this day I still get very emotional over it. Ron Howard is a master at committing real-life stories like this on screen, where even if you know the ending, he still manages to draw out the tension and get you invested anyway. The late James Horner also deserves credit for composing what is in my opinion one of the most beautiful film scores ever written/recorded. The music (especially the main theme) almost never fails to bring me to tears every time.
Anyway, back on the Ron Howard subject, if you liked this, definitely check out _Thirteen Lives_ , the film he just made about the Thai cave rescue back in 2018. He uses the same method of creating suspense and tension for a real-life story that he did with this movie and the result is yet another masterpiece imo