Apollo 13 (1995)

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"Season 2 Episode 4-Basic Rocket Science "

“Aplollo 13 is a disaster movie which no one would like to see themselfs in, the movie is a good take on events that happen on the mission which the movie is based, everything that could go wrong did go wrong on their spacecraft. The movie focas on the drama between the men, and what they felt and how they delt with the situation.” read more

Famous People vs. the Actors Who Played Them (115 movies items)

"Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell (a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control) Also Bill Paxton as Fred Haise (an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13, Haise was to be the sixth human to walk on "

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“A downfall to creating a film based off of well known true events is that the conclusion is spoiled, therefore, leaving little in the conclusion that ”

Review of Apollo 13

“A downfall to creating a film based off of well known true events is that the conclusion is spoiled, therefore, leaving little in the conclusion that is unexpected. Therefore, these kinds of films tend to rely more on the journey to provide the emotional umph, then the actual conclusion. When the film is made to be suspenseful, this doesn't always work so well. Films like Valkyrie shows us how this can fail. Films like Apollo 13 shows us how it can work.

Three astronauts, named Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, find themselves in a dangerous predicament when after blasting off into space, begin having extreme rocket malfunctions. Problem after problem occurs, and things are seeming really, really bleak. With just about everything going wrong, it's a frantic survival tale,” read more

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