This was a true story; it actually happened. Interstellar was a science fiction fantasy set in an imaginary future. Apollo 13 is actual history. You cannot compare the two. I always found Apollo 13 to be very emotional, but then, I'm old enough to remember the actual moon missions over 50 years ago. It's a magnificent film, and it's tied into the genuine history of space exploration and the way it changed the world forever.
The most heart-wrenching scene in the entire movie is where Marilyn has to tell her young son about the accident, and he asks her "Was it the door?", referring back to his dad's conversation about the fire in Apollo 1 earlier in the movie. What the poor kid is actually asking is "Is my daddy dead?". Gets me all churned up emotionally every time.
The line about several astronauts dying in an accident is a reference to one of the earliest space missions, where an electrical short sparked a huge fire, killing everyone on board.
Actually, my Dad worked behind the scenes on a lot of the electrical stuff of the Apollo missions, and he had complained about the problems of using pure Oxygen in the cabins as they were so volatile. His complaints were dismissed, and when the space capsule killed the men during the test flight, he actually cried and was so upset and angry and ...well...let's just say, he was Not easy to live with for a great while.
Honestly, they actually _added_ emotion to this movie that wasn't there in real life. Real life astronauts and NASA staff are _so_ calm and professional that the film makers were worried it would be dull and had to add some flares of emotion here and there--and even that rubbed some of the real people the wrong way because they were like, "He would never have raised his voice like that in reality."
I saw an interview with Jim Lovell that said that. No one ever doubted Swigert's competency, and no one ever implied it was his fault. Lovell said they were way too focused on what needed to be done to have any conflict between them anyway. Back then, only former test pilots were allowed to become astronauts specifically because they had faced incredibly dangerous situations and kept their cool many times before.
47:55 The real Jim Lovell wore his old Navy Captain’s uniform in the scene where he greets the astronauts aboard the USS Iwo Jima. When Ron Howard asked Lovell if he’d like to be in the film as the ship’s Admiral, Lovell agreed, but pointed out, “I retired as a Captain; a Captain I will be. When the real Jim Lovell saw the film, he found the CGI work so convincing that he firmly believed that the filmmakers had uncovered some hitherto unseen NASA footage.
This is one of the most accurate “based on a true story” movies ever made. When Marilyn Lovell loses her ring down the shower drain it almost seems too “Hollywood.” In fact it actually happened. Really the only thing they added for drama was the tension between Jim & Fred with Jack. Oh, and as a fun irony the Artemis I rocket lifts off tomorrow morning in the first step on sending people back to the moon since the Apollo program ended in the 70’s.
Fun Fact: Marilyn Lovell really did lose her ring down the drain, but she actually told the hotel she was staying at and they found it for her. I love this movie! Thanks for reacting to it so I can watch with you 😊
Yup! It’s one of those moments where most anyone would think “Oh common Hollywood…that’s a bit TOO on the nose.” Kathleen Quinlan sat down with the real Marilyn Lovell to more accurately portray her emotions. Fun fact the line, “When you were the far side [of the moon] on [Apollo] 8, I just vacuumed over and over…” was a direct quote from the actual Mrs. Lovell.
I still remember very vividly when this was going on. At the time, there was no doubt in my mind that those guys would be ok. But I was only 12 years old. A 12 year old never really believes anything will end badly until it actually does. It wasn`t until much later that I came to understand that those guys surviving was something of a minor miracle and just how close those guys came to dying.
This was a true story about triumph in the midst of adversity. It WAS emotional. If you mean that it wasn't SAD enough, it isn't supposed to be. It is inspirational. Should they have made stuff up just to make it sadder? It is about a bunch of people keeping their cool & working together to get those astronauts home. ❤
The stuff falling off the outside of the rocket at launch is ice. The liquid hydrogen/oxygen fuel is so cold (negative ~250F) that in the humid Florida air it created a crust of ice on the hull that shattered apart on takeoff.
@@k1productions87 I agree about your picks. Galileo Was Right would be my favorite followed by Spider and then All There Is... The order doesn't really matter. All the episodes are superb.
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. ❤
Just to answer a question you had during the movie there: when the rocket was lifting off, all that stuff falling off the outside of it was ice. The liquid oxygen used as part of the rocket fuel is extremely cold, so it causes condensation on the rocket, which then freezes into a layer of ice. Also, something they mentioned briefly in the movie: a previous mission, Apollo 8, had gone to the moon, but never landed. Its purpose was to test the technology and systems required for the later missions, and to map the far side of the moon. And to the movie's question of when are we going back? Artemis 1 is the first in the new series of moon missions. It was set to launch today, August 29, but it's now delayed until September 2. It will be unmanned, just an automated systems test that goes to the moon and comes back. Artemis 2 will be in 2024, and will be largely a repeat of Apollo 8. Artemis 3 in 2025 will land on the moon. And then... The plan after that is to build a space station in orbit of the moon, called Gateway. We can use that as a launching point for future missions going far beyond the moon, like to Mars, and even the outer planets.
I just want to talk about the entire "just turn around" stuff. They just shot themselves into space. To come to a standstill they need to shoot themselves back with the same force(-effects of gravity but still). In space you can't just turn around, "an object stays in motion until another force acts on it" as Newton sais. Going around the moon was the only option they had to change direction with the amount of fuel they still had left. Once on the way to the moon you no longer need a lot of fuel to get back at all. That fuel left is in no way enough to just "turn around".
That, and, as was pointed out in the movie, if the CM engine was damaged (which it was), it could have caused the whole spacecraft to blow up. So, just from a safety standpoint that option was a no-go.
The filming of this movie is an insane story. They did it in like 1-2 min scenes while I’m free fall in an airplane to create the weightlessness. By the end of it the actors and crew had logged more hours in 0 gravity than actual astronauts.
One of my favorite lines is this: "Well unfortunately we are not landing on the moon are we? I don't care what it's *supposed* to do. I care what it *can* do."
Loved your reaction! I think some of the lack of emotion might have been because the astronauts need nerves of steel. I was just hit by how primitive it seemed. Jim was doing calculations with pencil and paper. And the ones checking behind him were using slide rules. No calculators then!
Ron Howard, the director, just directed a movie about the Thai soccer players and their coach who were stuck in caves, called Thirteen Lives. Pretty good movie. He does a great job building excitement and suspense even though most of us know the outcome of both stories.
first time I watched this was in science class, great movie. Even better since it's a near 1:1 replica of what actually happened on the Apollo 13 mission.
Not only is this movie flawless and magnificent in my opinion but it also has probably the best soundtrack I’ve ever heard in a film. SO glad you watched this!
In reality, their reentry angle was so shallow from the weight discrepancy of not having moon rocks, that it didn't take four minutes for them to come out of blackout, it was more than six. That naturally was a very tense time at Mission Control.
I do appreciate that for the zero-gravity scenes, the production crew was able to borrow the jet that NASA uses for training, a KC-135 nicknamed the Vomit Comet, and build their filming set on it. The jet flies a parabolic course where they have a steep climb followed by a 40 degree freefall dive in which there is a 20-25 second period of simulated weightlessness. Really made the visuals feel authentic, but I imagine editing all those short cuts together was a chore. Also, I worked at Blockbuster when this hit VHS, and one day an older woman brought the tape back, telling us she'd shown it to her grandson. She then went on to relate that the grandson's reaction was "No wonder they had so much trouble, Forrest Gump was driving."
One of the coolest things about this film is that, in order to get the zero gravity scenes, they filmed on an aircraft (nicknamed "The Vomit Comet") that would fly up and then dive down, providing 23 seconds of weightlessness. So all the scenes of them floating around were filmed 23 seconds at a time.
I was 7ish when this movie came out and it's been one of my favorites ever since. Top 10 easily. It instilled a love of space and space exploration and the history of the space program that continues today. At this point in the 60s, the US space program was basically the greatest concentration of engineering and scientific achievement in history. Just incredible and inspiring.
I'm not sure how a movie could be more emotional than a true story where the lives of three men were in such jeopardy with so many people coming together to save them. I rarely get emotional with a ficticious story, but I was very emotional watching the story of real people with real lives, loves and dedication fighting towards a seemingly impossible goal. Maybe because as a six year old when it happened I remember the emotions of the people around me and their obvious anxiety and finally raw happiness as we watched them emerge.
When I first watched this with my parents, we were in the rv i believe. and during tbe blast off scene, the audio was so loud, and shook the speakers so much they fell off their shelves😂
When I was in the 8’th grade, my class was divided in half and we were put in separate rooms, we were given the same things they had on board the Apollo 13 and was told to figure out how to put the square peg into a round hole. Basically we were given that problem to see if any of us could figure it out. My team lost LOL!
When Buzz Aldren came back from the moon, he filed paperwork to be compensated for work-related travel: Houston -> Cape Kennedy -> Moon -> Pacific Ocean -> Hawaii -> Cape Kennedy.
Two really good movies to watch in conjunction with this one are The Right Stuff and also Hidden Figures. Someone else mentioned the mini series From Earth to the Moon - it's excellent.
@@brandonflorida1092 The movie plays off Yeager like he was some dude they found in a bar as other pilots were dying left and right in the dangerous X-1, when in real life Yeager was integral with the X-1 development program and flew it MULTIPLE times before the final breaking of the sound barrier. I believe three X-1's were built, and none of them crashed. They gloss over Cooper's "hot dog" attitude, constantly shirking authority and basically being "Maverick" from Top Gun (including buzzing the tower out of spite), acting like just calling him "hot dog" would have solved everything. Meanwhile, they give many real live quotes of John Glenn to Cooper, just to make him more likeable. Then the visual inaccuracies, showing an Atlas staging for Shepard's Redstone flight, and a Redstone abort staging for Glenn's Atlas flight ... speaking of flights... they give them almost no attention at all, making Glenn's feel like he was just sitting inside for a joyride the entire time, while Shepard did next to nothing at all during his. Speaking of ignoring things, Carpenter and Slayton were criminally underutilized, and Schirra was all but omitted entirely. I think Lance Henrickson had what... three or four lines in the entire film? And don't even get me started on the Australian Aboriginal "Fireflies" that somehow miraculously saved Glenn's life when his head shield came loose. And to top it all off... making Grissom appear like he blew the hatch on purpose and was just lying about it.
@@k1productions87 I don't think the movie says that the glowing sparks saved Glenn's life. It would be more accurate to say that it presents it as a strange coincidence which the viewer can read something mystical into if he chooses.
Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to navigate to the moon, orbit it and return, and had no Lunar Module. Apollo 9 flew with a Lunar Module, and tested it in Earth orbit, without going to the moon. Apollo 10 flew to the moon, and tested the Lunar Module in lunar orbit, without landing (landing wasn’t part of that mission, just testing). Then Apollo 11 did the first landing, so, they were the third crew to fly to the moon, but the first to attempt landing, and obviously they were successful lol
As someone who grew up just outside of Houston and was a fan of all things space, I love this movie. As a kid I went on a field trip to the Space Center in Houston and got to see a ton of awesome stuff, as well as seeing the control center that we see in this movie (or at least a full size replica of it). I don’t know if it was the actual control center that they moved into the Space Center, or if it was just a life-sized replica/recreation. Either way, as far as I remember, it looked exactly how it looks in this movie. I also got the see one of the actual shuttles, and I got to go inside of a full size replica of the shuttle and see real space suits and stuff. It was super neat and I still have a few vivid memories of the things I saw on that field trip even though it was over 25 years ago. I bet if I dug through my old family photo albums that I could find some of the pictures my mom took on that field trip. That said, one of my bucket-list items, and it has been since I was a kid, is to see a launch in person down in Florida some day. I just find this shit so fascinating and incredible.
3:28 "Did it end in like an accident or something?" No, there were multiple missions before the Moon landing, because there were multiple steps to take. Apollo 1 was the fire, seen in the beginning. Originally going to retain its internal designation AS-204 because it never flew, but kept the Apollo 1 name out of respect Apollo 2-3 were unmanned tests of the Command Module and Saturn 1B booster before Apollo 1, renamed as a compromise to allow Apollo 1 to keep its name. Apollo 4-6 were further unmanned tests of the Saturn V rocket, and a scale Lunar Module Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the Apollo Command Module in Earth Orbit Apollo 8 took the Command Module to Lunar orbit, proving it can be done and got close-up photography of potential landing sites. They had nothing to land with. Apollo 9 tested the Lunar Module in Earth Orbit Apollo 10 took the Command and Lunar Modules to the Moon, but did not land. They instead tested the approach and abort procedure, ensuring it would work, if needed Apollo 11 finally landed in the mission everyone remembers just because it was first Apollo 12 went one step further and proved that a precise touchdown was possible, aiming for an unmanned probe called Surveyor III (got within a few hundred yards) Apollo 13 was supposed to be the first geology focused Lunar expedition, but the explosion happened Apollo 14 took over 13's mission objectives and landing site at Fra Mauro, and was also the return to space of America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard. Apollo 15 was an upgraded LEM, designed for three days rather than two, and brought the Lunar Rover, allowing a far more extensive exploration Apollo 16 was another upgraded flight, to a mountainous region Apollo 17 was the final landing, and took along the first dedicated Geologist Astronaut. Apollo 18-20 were cancelled, but four more Apollo spacecraft flew. Three specifically to ferry astronauts to and from the "Skylab" orbital workshop. The final Apollo was a political goodwill mission, docking in orbit with Russian spacecraft Soyuz 19, in a mission called "Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" The true symbolic end to the space race, with a handshake between rivals.
16:20 The stuff falling off was just ice. Rockets use fuel that's super cooled so condensation is quick to freeze on the outside of the shuttle when it's on the platform.
They actually amped up the drama for the movie, in reality the crew and mission control were much calmer and didn't argue because they were professionals. You can listen to the recordings of the communication loops here on youtube.
In the end of this movie there is an older man dressed in uniform beside Tom Hanks and who he greets thatis actually the real captain Jim Lovell. This movie also is based in a book Lost Moon written by captain Jim Lovell.
The flight the prompted the infamous "Houston, we've had a problem" quote which became "Houston, we have a problem" that is in popular use. This is a fantastic movie covering the topic and despite basically knowing the ending beforehand if you know about apollo 13 it is still fascinating and gets you on the edge of your seat at times. I think this and Armageddon are my two favourite "current day nasa" space movies. If you've not seen it I'd highly recommend Armageddon as a fictional counterpart to this.
Being a astronaut must be a very hard and dangerous job to have. Because once you're up in to space who knows could happen. I bet everyone dreams about going up in to space and seeing the stars and moon. This movie is amazing great reaction Nick.
Many of the Apollo missions didn’t land on the moon etc. Lots of them were testing docking in space, orbiting around the moon, docking & undocking while in orbit around the moon. It wasn’t until Apollo 11 that they actually tried for the moon. And yes, they were celebrities. They were well known & popular. It was the first couple times that humans walked on the moon. Something that hadn’t been done in hundreds of thousands of years of human history. It was a big, big deal. That’s not even adding the pressure of beating the Russians there.
Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Film Editing Best Sound Mixing. This is one of my favorite Ron Howard movies. Based on the incredible true story of the failed Apollo 13 mission. Tonight I'll be watching My Fair Lady and Fail Safe.
@@shainewhite2781 Coooool. I didn’t know he directed this movie. I knew he directed the live action “How the Grinch stole Christmas”, and that’s about it. I also know that his daughter was in the third twilight movie and the Jurassic World trilogy movies.
Nick, This movie is expremely factual.Practically all the characters on screen are actors portraying real people. The events happened mostly as depicted. Getting to the moon was a three phase operation. Phase One: Mercury. Individual capsules. Put a man in space. Put a man in orbit. Test the prototype rockets needed to put Americans into space. Phase Two: Gemini (pronounced Jemeenee). Build a bigger capsule able to house two men. Practise earth rendez-vous. That is to say, have an unmanned rocket placed into orbit around the earth and have a manned capsule rendez-vous with it. Also test some of the technology required to get to the moon. Bigger rockets. More oxygen for longer lasting missions. Actually have one of the two astronauts don a space suit and leave the safety of the capsule to do a space 'walk'. Phase Three: Bigger rockets. Bigger capsule able to carry Three Astronauts as far as the moon. This was the Apollo missions. Do all of the maneuvering necessary to go to the moon and do a rendez-vous in lunar orbit. Practice all the communications protocols to go there and get back SAFELY. Eat the food and go to the bathroom in zero gravity. Apollo Eight actually went to the moon and did several circuits around the moon before returning back. They scouted the surface of the moon and took photographs on Christmas Eve 1968. Then the consequent two missions did the final tests of the LEM (Lunar Egress Module) that would carry Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the actual surface of the moon. Apollo 11 was the big one. All the dress rehearsals were done. It was time to actually walk on the surface. That's when the movie starts. All the astronauts gather with Jim Lovell to watch the actual landing. They're all envious of Armstrong's mission, but all are proud of their own work that made the achievement possible.
Not sure if this was planned or just crazy timing but in about 6 hours from when I type this (8:30am ET Aug 29) NASA is launching for the first time the most powerful rocket they’ve ever built and it’s supposed to be the one that will land men back on the moon and possibly Mars in the next few years. Artemis I. Most powerful rocket since the Saturn V that flew the Apollo missions. And back to the movie, the stuff falling off the rocket at launch was just frozen condensation that collected on the outside of the rocket because the fuel tanks are superchilled. Totally normal. Everything else about the mission was not normal lol.
Fitting that you uploaded this on the day before the Artemis program is scheduled to launch for the first time. I know it doesn't excite people in the same way that Apollo did, and that this launch has no crew aboard, but it is the meant to carry astronauts back to the moon eventually. If you are interested in watching one of the most interesting and profound series about the space program then you need to look for the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" hosted by Tom Hanks.
This is about as accurate a telling of a historical event as you can get. Director Ron Howard wanted the movie to be as close to what really happened as possible. Even the weightless scenes were re-created on the jets the real astronauts use to simulate weightlessness. To hell with CGI. Shame he didn't win an Oscar for this film. Any director who can take a story you know how it will end and still have you gripping your armchair tightly and cheering at the end is one highly talented filmmaker.
Hi Nick! Love these latest reactions:) would love to see you do Paulie, it's a kids movie from the 90s about a little girl with a speech impediment who becomes best friends with a talking parrot. It has the little girl from millennium man starring :)
Please react to Hidden Figures, another great space movie, true story, with Kevin Costner and Jim Parson, a true story about the first black women working at Nasa, awesome movie!
I so love Hidden Figures and at the same time, get angry the important role these three women played was literally hidden from the public. I tear up through most of it.
To answer your question about Apollo 8: no, it didn't land. At the time Apollo 8 happened, the Lunar Module was not considered space-worthy, but the mission changed from Earth Orbit to Lunar Orbit with just the Command/Service Module (CSM). Apollo 8 orbited the moon ten times during the mission then returned safely; Lovell holds the distinction of being the only man to go the moon twice and land on neither flight. The crew of Apollo 13, to date, holds the record of the farthest any crewed mission has traveled from Earth. Rule of Drama (Jack's relationship with the crew, the yelling during the LM's manual engine burn) and oversimplification (the cause of the explosion on Apollo 13 is considerably more complicated than "a damaged coil"), this film is _the_ gold standard when it comes to space realism in film making. Most of the lines used in the film during the mission proper were taken almost verbatim from the old mission transcripts. Looking back when I was a child, this was _the_ film that got me interested in space exploration. If you're interested in the finer details, there's a video here on TH-cam that dives further into things. It's called "Three Men Lost in Space - The Apollo 13 Disaster"; I recommend a watch if you're interested in aeronautics.
the balding coke bottle glasses flight controller (Sy Liebgott) was played by Ron Howard’s brother clint Jim Lovell’s mother was played by Ron Howard’s mother Jean The priest seen in the end of the film during the family’s watch party is played by Ron Howard’s father Rance
The idea of the astronauts not showing enough emotion; They are really trained not to get overly emotional when emergencies happen. The worst thing a person can do is get hysterical and panic in a life and death situation and being out in space is truly a life or death situation. If anything they show much more emotion in the movie then they did in real life as I've heard parts of the real conversations they were having with mission control when this happened and they were much cooler.
This is a very fitting movie to watch the day before the Artemis 1 launch! I recommend checking out the movie First Man, it looks at the Apollo 11 moon mission from Neil Armstrong's point of view.
I always like to point out that this movie did Jack Swigert a little bit dirty. Fred Haise himself said that there was no doubt about his abilities and no arguments about him "causing" the incident.
This is one I rewatch. The guys are low key up there, the blowup about stirring the tanks, was exaggerated for movie purposes. Yes they were mostly all military. Being folk who could also fix things, if not engineers, was also handy fot survival. On takeoff, there is a build-up of thick ice which falls away, it can cause damage at times. Nasa liked their scenes, they used existing footage where possible, nasa got the cgi from them, from where it was not physically possible to place a camera and have it remain undamaged. Ron Howard placed his Family members in roles. The grandma was his mum, the skinny old guy on the couch, his dad, one guy in the control room was his brother he said it's dying, and the extra kids were from the lot of the crew etc, the guy in whites on the ship, was the real Jim Lovell.
the dark side of the moon isn't "Pitch black" It goes through a light and dark phase every moon cycle. It's called the "Dark side" of the moon because the moon is tidally locked to earth so we only ever see one side of it from our vantage point.
Can you react to these movies - The Angry Birds Movie - Wish Dragon - Vivo - The Secret Life of Pets - Good Burger - Spies in Disguise - DC League of Super Pets
If you want another space movie from another perspective. The dish (a movie about what was happening in Australia during Apollo 11. Some liberties were taken with the truth )
This movie has, IMO, James Horner's best music, even better than Titanic. Unfortunately the soundtrack album was badly produced, including dialogue on top of the music. There is a bootleg copy of the music only soundtrack making its way around ebay, but it's expensive, and you have to be quick to catch it. I have the DVD, so I have watched the movie many times, and I still get so emotionally invested. The suspense keeps me excited, Lovell's young son asking "Was it the door?" chokes me up every time, and I still want to stand up and cheer when contact is regained on re-entry. I look forward to seeing it on the big screen again just for the launch sequence alone. As he does frequently, director Ron Howard uses his family as cast members: his brother, mother and father all had parts in the film, and his daughter was the girl in the yellow dress in the scene where Marilyn surprises Jim the night before the launch. A few years later she played Two-slice Hilly in The Help.
Lol, a bunch of stuff did fall off and continue to fall of to this day. Typical rocket fuels, Kerosene (RP-1) and Liquid Oxygen in this case. They require cryogenic temperatures to remain stable so during fueling and up until launch, a ton of frost will accumulate on the sides of rockets right where the liquid oxygen tanks are in the inside. Upon launch, most of that excess weight is shedded and any portruding apart of the rocket, below the ice is slightly reinforced to resist impact.
It's ok if you don't know alot about it, your younger so its just older history that not everyone knows. I;m 40 and only know about it because growing up I wanted to be part of NASA. So I was s space nerd. lol
Ron Howard later directed or produced a documentary called....'In the Shadow of the Moon'. Look up the trailer. It's pretty cool. I don't want to say too much about it, but I've watched it at least 6 times, not including the times it was playing in the theater. From 2007. NOT the terrible movie on Netflix that aired in 2017 or 2019. That has nothing to do with the moon. Netflix clearly stole the title.
Hey, may I suggest you react to the 2020 miniseries, "The Right Stuff"? Actually, there is the 1983 movie of the same name. Actually, I would recommend both the miniseries and the movie.
I really like Nick as a reactor for certain types of movies but man.... in movies like this and close encounters, that arent directly slapping you in the face with sadness and emotion and screaming at you THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD CARE, I do feel he has a hard time connecting to them, to movies told with restraint and subtlety. Im starting to get, irrationally, ever so slightly annoyed when he takes a great movie and says he cant connect to it just because the emotion and dramatic substance doesnt announce itself so dramatically.
If you want another really good “Based on a true story” movie, Nick, I’d really love to see you react to the film Argo. It’s only mildly historically accurate, but it’s an amazing film regardless.
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Is the surprise movie Ghostbusters 2, and/or Ghostbusters:Afterlife, or Selena, cause I would love to see you react to these movies!
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This was a true story; it actually happened. Interstellar was a science fiction fantasy set in an imaginary future. Apollo 13 is actual history. You cannot compare the two.
I always found Apollo 13 to be very emotional, but then, I'm old enough to remember the actual moon missions over 50 years ago. It's a magnificent film, and it's tied into the genuine history of space exploration and the way it changed the world forever.
The most heart-wrenching scene in the entire movie is where Marilyn has to tell her young son about the accident, and he asks her "Was it the door?", referring back to his dad's conversation about the fire in Apollo 1 earlier in the movie. What the poor kid is actually asking is "Is my daddy dead?". Gets me all churned up emotionally every time.
The line about several astronauts dying in an accident is a reference to one of the earliest space missions, where an electrical short sparked a huge fire, killing everyone on board.
Yep, they were just doing a routine test on the landing pad. It didn’t occur during launch or anything.
Actually, my Dad worked behind the scenes on a lot of the electrical stuff of the Apollo missions, and he had complained about the problems of using pure Oxygen in the cabins as they were so volatile. His complaints were dismissed, and when the space capsule killed the men during the test flight, he actually cried and was so upset and angry and ...well...let's just say, he was Not easy to live with for a great while.
Honestly, they actually _added_ emotion to this movie that wasn't there in real life. Real life astronauts and NASA staff are _so_ calm and professional that the film makers were worried it would be dull and had to add some flares of emotion here and there--and even that rubbed some of the real people the wrong way because they were like, "He would never have raised his voice like that in reality."
I saw an interview with Jim Lovell that said that. No one ever doubted Swigert's competency, and no one ever implied it was his fault. Lovell said they were way too focused on what needed to be done to have any conflict between them anyway. Back then, only former test pilots were allowed to become astronauts specifically because they had faced incredibly dangerous situations and kept their cool many times before.
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The real Jim Lovell wore his old Navy Captain’s uniform in the scene where he greets the astronauts aboard the USS Iwo Jima. When Ron Howard asked Lovell if he’d like to be in the film as the ship’s Admiral, Lovell agreed, but pointed out, “I retired as a Captain; a Captain I will be.
When the real Jim Lovell saw the film, he found the CGI work so convincing that he firmly believed that the filmmakers had uncovered some hitherto unseen NASA footage.
Also Marilyn Lovell is in stands at launch. She's the older gal in Navy blue and white.
This is one of the most accurate “based on a true story” movies ever made. When Marilyn Lovell loses her ring down the shower drain it almost seems too “Hollywood.” In fact it actually happened.
Really the only thing they added for drama was the tension between Jim & Fred with Jack.
Oh, and as a fun irony the Artemis I rocket lifts off tomorrow morning in the first step on sending people back to the moon since the Apollo program ended in the 70’s.
I'll be watching the entire livestream, tomorrow's launch will be an important moment of history!
@@reddimus11 me too!!!
A lot of the dialogue was word-for-word what was actually said too
@@reddimus11 I live near Orlando and was born in Titusville(the space coast) so I'll have the privilege to watch it live and in person 😀
@@kristagerry8505 I’m over in Pinellas county so if the weather is good I should be able to see it.
Fun Fact: Marilyn Lovell really did lose her ring down the drain, but she actually told the hotel she was staying at and they found it for her.
I love this movie! Thanks for reacting to it so I can watch with you 😊
Yup! It’s one of those moments where most anyone would think “Oh common Hollywood…that’s a bit TOO on the nose.”
Kathleen Quinlan sat down with the real Marilyn Lovell to more accurately portray her emotions. Fun fact the line, “When you were the far side [of the moon] on [Apollo] 8, I just vacuumed over and over…” was a direct quote from the actual Mrs. Lovell.
I still remember very vividly when this was going on. At the time, there was no doubt in my mind that those guys would be ok. But I was only 12 years old. A 12 year old never really believes anything will end badly until it actually does. It wasn`t until much later that I came to understand that those guys surviving was something of a minor miracle and just how close those guys came to dying.
This was a true story about triumph in the midst of adversity. It WAS emotional. If you mean that it wasn't SAD enough, it isn't supposed to be. It is inspirational. Should they have made stuff up just to make it sadder? It is about a bunch of people keeping their cool & working together to get those astronauts home. ❤
The stuff falling off the outside of the rocket at launch is ice. The liquid hydrogen/oxygen fuel is so cold (negative ~250F) that in the humid Florida air it created a crust of ice on the hull that shattered apart on takeoff.
Tom Hanks followed this up with a 12-part series called "From the Earth to the Moon", which is REALLY GOOD. I recommend.
It’s outstanding… I love getting the behind the scenes
The episodes "Spider", "All There Is", and "Galileo Was Right" are my favorites
@@k1productions87 I agree about your picks. Galileo Was Right would be my favorite followed by Spider and then All There Is... The order doesn't really matter. All the episodes are superb.
@@andreraymond6860 they are definitely the most fun
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. ❤
NickFlix: it's missing that emotional impact
Me every time watching this film: 😭😭😭😭😐😭😭😭😭
"Lost Moon" (aka "Apollo 13") by Jim Lovell and "Failure Is Not an Option" by Gene Kranz are both excellent books
Last visit to Kennedy Space Center got a really nice Apollo 13 "Failure Is Not An Option" Tee Shirt!
I'm 70 and I watched all of this .... It's True! It was Amazing!
Just to answer a question you had during the movie there: when the rocket was lifting off, all that stuff falling off the outside of it was ice. The liquid oxygen used as part of the rocket fuel is extremely cold, so it causes condensation on the rocket, which then freezes into a layer of ice.
Also, something they mentioned briefly in the movie: a previous mission, Apollo 8, had gone to the moon, but never landed. Its purpose was to test the technology and systems required for the later missions, and to map the far side of the moon.
And to the movie's question of when are we going back? Artemis 1 is the first in the new series of moon missions. It was set to launch today, August 29, but it's now delayed until September 2. It will be unmanned, just an automated systems test that goes to the moon and comes back. Artemis 2 will be in 2024, and will be largely a repeat of Apollo 8. Artemis 3 in 2025 will land on the moon.
And then... The plan after that is to build a space station in orbit of the moon, called Gateway. We can use that as a launching point for future missions going far beyond the moon, like to Mars, and even the outer planets.
I just want to talk about the entire "just turn around" stuff.
They just shot themselves into space.
To come to a standstill they need to shoot themselves back with the same force(-effects of gravity but still).
In space you can't just turn around, "an object stays in motion until another force acts on it" as Newton sais.
Going around the moon was the only option they had to change direction with the amount of fuel they still had left. Once on the way to the moon you no longer need a lot of fuel to get back at all. That fuel left is in no way enough to just "turn around".
That, and, as was pointed out in the movie, if the CM engine was damaged (which it was), it could have caused the whole spacecraft to blow up. So, just from a safety standpoint that option was a no-go.
The filming of this movie is an insane story. They did it in like 1-2 min scenes while I’m free fall in an airplane to create the weightlessness. By the end of it the actors and crew had logged more hours in 0 gravity than actual astronauts.
One of my favorite lines is this:
"Well unfortunately we are not landing on the moon are we? I don't care what it's *supposed* to do. I care what it *can* do."
Loved your reaction! I think some of the lack of emotion might have been because the astronauts need nerves of steel. I was just hit by how primitive it seemed. Jim was doing calculations with pencil and paper. And the ones checking behind him were using slide rules. No calculators then!
Ron Howard, the director, just directed a movie about the Thai soccer players and their coach who were stuck in caves, called Thirteen Lives. Pretty good movie. He does a great job building excitement and suspense even though most of us know the outcome of both stories.
first time I watched this was in science class, great movie. Even better since it's a near 1:1 replica of what actually happened on the Apollo 13 mission.
Not only is this movie flawless and magnificent in my opinion but it also has probably the best soundtrack I’ve ever heard in a film. SO glad you watched this!
Please watch STAR TREK! 🖖
In reality, their reentry angle was so shallow from the weight discrepancy of not having moon rocks, that it didn't take four minutes for them to come out of blackout, it was more than six. That naturally was a very tense time at Mission Control.
I do appreciate that for the zero-gravity scenes, the production crew was able to borrow the jet that NASA uses for training, a KC-135 nicknamed the Vomit Comet, and build their filming set on it. The jet flies a parabolic course where they have a steep climb followed by a 40 degree freefall dive in which there is a 20-25 second period of simulated weightlessness. Really made the visuals feel authentic, but I imagine editing all those short cuts together was a chore.
Also, I worked at Blockbuster when this hit VHS, and one day an older woman brought the tape back, telling us she'd shown it to her grandson. She then went on to relate that the grandson's reaction was "No wonder they had so much trouble, Forrest Gump was driving."
One of the coolest things about this film is that, in order to get the zero gravity scenes, they filmed on an aircraft (nicknamed "The Vomit Comet") that would fly up and then dive down, providing 23 seconds of weightlessness. So all the scenes of them floating around were filmed 23 seconds at a time.
God, that's almost like trying to film in stop motion
NASA is launching the Artemis 1 mission tomorrow morning august 29th, at about 7:33 am
when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, it was just a few days before my 5th birthday!
I was 7ish when this movie came out and it's been one of my favorites ever since. Top 10 easily. It instilled a love of space and space exploration and the history of the space program that continues today. At this point in the 60s, the US space program was basically the greatest concentration of engineering and scientific achievement in history. Just incredible and inspiring.
I'm not sure how a movie could be more emotional than a true story where the lives of three men were in such jeopardy with so many people coming together to save them. I rarely get emotional with a ficticious story, but I was very emotional watching the story of real people with real lives, loves and dedication fighting towards a seemingly impossible goal. Maybe because as a six year old when it happened I remember the emotions of the people around me and their obvious anxiety and finally raw happiness as we watched them emerge.
47:55 - The naval captain shaking Tom Hanks's hand is the real Jim Lovell.
When I first watched this with my parents, we were in the rv i believe. and during tbe blast off scene, the audio was so loud, and shook the speakers so much they fell off their shelves😂
When I was in the 8’th grade, my class was divided in half and we were put in separate rooms, we were given the same things they had on board the Apollo 13 and was told to figure out how to put the square peg into a round hole. Basically we were given that problem to see if any of us could figure it out. My team lost LOL!
If you'd like something to play on your emotions a bit more, there's the movie "Miracle". About the 1980 Winter Olympics Hockey match of USA vs USSR.
When Buzz Aldren came back from the moon, he filed paperwork to be compensated for work-related travel: Houston -> Cape Kennedy -> Moon -> Pacific Ocean -> Hawaii -> Cape Kennedy.
Two really good movies to watch in conjunction with this one are The Right Stuff and also Hidden Figures. Someone else mentioned the mini series From Earth to the Moon - it's excellent.
Somebody just reacted to "The Right Stuff" for the first time on TH-cam. 99% of the best movies ever made have never been reacted to.
My only problem with The Right Stuff is how loose they play with actual history,... and the unfair hatchet job they do to Gus Grissom
@@k1productions87 How had they been inacurate with the history?
@@brandonflorida1092 The movie plays off Yeager like he was some dude they found in a bar as other pilots were dying left and right in the dangerous X-1, when in real life Yeager was integral with the X-1 development program and flew it MULTIPLE times before the final breaking of the sound barrier. I believe three X-1's were built, and none of them crashed.
They gloss over Cooper's "hot dog" attitude, constantly shirking authority and basically being "Maverick" from Top Gun (including buzzing the tower out of spite), acting like just calling him "hot dog" would have solved everything.
Meanwhile, they give many real live quotes of John Glenn to Cooper, just to make him more likeable.
Then the visual inaccuracies, showing an Atlas staging for Shepard's Redstone flight, and a Redstone abort staging for Glenn's Atlas flight
... speaking of flights... they give them almost no attention at all, making Glenn's feel like he was just sitting inside for a joyride the entire time, while Shepard did next to nothing at all during his.
Speaking of ignoring things, Carpenter and Slayton were criminally underutilized, and Schirra was all but omitted entirely. I think Lance Henrickson had what... three or four lines in the entire film?
And don't even get me started on the Australian Aboriginal "Fireflies" that somehow miraculously saved Glenn's life when his head shield came loose.
And to top it all off... making Grissom appear like he blew the hatch on purpose and was just lying about it.
@@k1productions87 I don't think the movie says that the glowing sparks saved Glenn's life. It would be more accurate to say that it presents it as a strange coincidence which the viewer can read something mystical into if he chooses.
My mom’s parents watched the Apollo 13 launch on TV when they were in high school.
On a $52 million dollar budget, the film made $355 million dollars at the box office.
If you enjoy this you should watch The Dish, it's the story if the involvement of the Parkes Telescope in the Apollo 11 mission. Its got good music.
Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to navigate to the moon, orbit it and return, and had no Lunar Module. Apollo 9 flew with a Lunar Module, and tested it in Earth orbit, without going to the moon. Apollo 10 flew to the moon, and tested the Lunar Module in lunar orbit, without landing (landing wasn’t part of that mission, just testing). Then Apollo 11 did the first landing, so, they were the third crew to fly to the moon, but the first to attempt landing, and obviously they were successful lol
As someone who grew up just outside of Houston and was a fan of all things space, I love this movie. As a kid I went on a field trip to the Space Center in Houston and got to see a ton of awesome stuff, as well as seeing the control center that we see in this movie (or at least a full size replica of it). I don’t know if it was the actual control center that they moved into the Space Center, or if it was just a life-sized replica/recreation. Either way, as far as I remember, it looked exactly how it looks in this movie. I also got the see one of the actual shuttles, and I got to go inside of a full size replica of the shuttle and see real space suits and stuff. It was super neat and I still have a few vivid memories of the things I saw on that field trip even though it was over 25 years ago. I bet if I dug through my old family photo albums that I could find some of the pictures my mom took on that field trip.
That said, one of my bucket-list items, and it has been since I was a kid, is to see a launch in person down in Florida some day. I just find this shit so fascinating and incredible.
3:28 "Did it end in like an accident or something?"
No, there were multiple missions before the Moon landing, because there were multiple steps to take.
Apollo 1 was the fire, seen in the beginning. Originally going to retain its internal designation AS-204 because it never flew, but kept the Apollo 1 name out of respect
Apollo 2-3 were unmanned tests of the Command Module and Saturn 1B booster before Apollo 1, renamed as a compromise to allow Apollo 1 to keep its name.
Apollo 4-6 were further unmanned tests of the Saturn V rocket, and a scale Lunar Module
Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the Apollo Command Module in Earth Orbit
Apollo 8 took the Command Module to Lunar orbit, proving it can be done and got close-up photography of potential landing sites. They had nothing to land with.
Apollo 9 tested the Lunar Module in Earth Orbit
Apollo 10 took the Command and Lunar Modules to the Moon, but did not land. They instead tested the approach and abort procedure, ensuring it would work, if needed
Apollo 11 finally landed in the mission everyone remembers just because it was first
Apollo 12 went one step further and proved that a precise touchdown was possible, aiming for an unmanned probe called Surveyor III (got within a few hundred yards)
Apollo 13 was supposed to be the first geology focused Lunar expedition, but the explosion happened
Apollo 14 took over 13's mission objectives and landing site at Fra Mauro, and was also the return to space of America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard.
Apollo 15 was an upgraded LEM, designed for three days rather than two, and brought the Lunar Rover, allowing a far more extensive exploration
Apollo 16 was another upgraded flight, to a mountainous region
Apollo 17 was the final landing, and took along the first dedicated Geologist Astronaut.
Apollo 18-20 were cancelled, but four more Apollo spacecraft flew. Three specifically to ferry astronauts to and from the "Skylab" orbital workshop.
The final Apollo was a political goodwill mission, docking in orbit with Russian spacecraft Soyuz 19, in a mission called "Apollo-Soyuz Test Project"
The true symbolic end to the space race, with a handshake between rivals.
I really enjoyed your reaction. You have a kind heart and are a genuine person. 😊
16:20 The stuff falling off was just ice. Rockets use fuel that's super cooled so condensation is quick to freeze on the outside of the shuttle when it's on the platform.
They actually amped up the drama for the movie, in reality the crew and mission control were much calmer and didn't argue because they were professionals. You can listen to the recordings of the communication loops here on youtube.
In the end of this movie there is an older man dressed in uniform beside Tom Hanks and who he greets thatis actually the real captain Jim Lovell. This movie also is based in a book Lost Moon written by captain Jim Lovell.
james horner what an incredible musician
The flight the prompted the infamous "Houston, we've had a problem" quote which became "Houston, we have a problem" that is in popular use. This is a fantastic movie covering the topic and despite basically knowing the ending beforehand if you know about apollo 13 it is still fascinating and gets you on the edge of your seat at times.
I think this and Armageddon are my two favourite "current day nasa" space movies. If you've not seen it I'd highly recommend Armageddon as a fictional counterpart to this.
Being a astronaut must be a very hard and dangerous job to have. Because once you're up in to space who knows could happen. I bet everyone dreams about going up in to space and seeing the stars and moon. This movie is amazing great reaction Nick.
Many of the Apollo missions didn’t land on the moon etc. Lots of them were testing docking in space, orbiting around the moon, docking & undocking while in orbit around the moon. It wasn’t until Apollo 11 that they actually tried for the moon.
And yes, they were celebrities. They were well known & popular.
It was the first couple times that humans walked on the moon. Something that hadn’t been done in hundreds of thousands of years of human history. It was a big, big deal. That’s not even adding the pressure of beating the Russians there.
I'd love for you to watch Ford v Ferrari. It's a great film based on a true story and the actors are amazing together.
Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Mixing.
This is one of my favorite Ron Howard movies.
Based on the incredible true story of the failed Apollo 13 mission.
Tonight I'll be watching My Fair Lady and Fail Safe.
Ope Taylor directed this movie?!?!
@@morganspider-manmarvelfan6110 Yes he did.
@@shainewhite2781 Coooool. I didn’t know he directed this movie. I knew he directed the live action “How the Grinch stole Christmas”, and that’s about it. I also know that his daughter was in the third twilight movie and the Jurassic World trilogy movies.
This movie is based on the true story.
Nick, This movie is expremely factual.Practically all the characters on screen are actors portraying real people. The events happened mostly as depicted.
Getting to the moon was a three phase operation.
Phase One: Mercury. Individual capsules. Put a man in space. Put a man in orbit. Test the prototype rockets needed to put Americans into space.
Phase Two: Gemini (pronounced Jemeenee). Build a bigger capsule able to house two men. Practise earth rendez-vous. That is to say, have an unmanned rocket placed into orbit around the earth and have a manned capsule rendez-vous with it. Also test some of the technology required to get to the moon. Bigger rockets. More oxygen for longer lasting missions. Actually have one of the two astronauts don a space suit and leave the safety of the capsule to do a space 'walk'.
Phase Three: Bigger rockets. Bigger capsule able to carry Three Astronauts as far as the moon. This was the Apollo missions. Do all of the maneuvering necessary to go to the moon and do a rendez-vous in lunar orbit. Practice all the communications protocols to go there and get back SAFELY. Eat the food and go to the bathroom in zero gravity. Apollo Eight actually went to the moon and did several circuits around the moon before returning back. They scouted the surface of the moon and took photographs on Christmas Eve 1968. Then the consequent two missions did the final tests of the LEM (Lunar Egress Module) that would carry Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the actual surface of the moon.
Apollo 11 was the big one. All the dress rehearsals were done. It was time to actually walk on the surface. That's when the movie starts. All the astronauts gather with Jim Lovell to watch the actual landing. They're all envious of Armstrong's mission, but all are proud of their own work that made the achievement possible.
Not sure if this was planned or just crazy timing but in about 6 hours from when I type this (8:30am ET Aug 29) NASA is launching for the first time the most powerful rocket they’ve ever built and it’s supposed to be the one that will land men back on the moon and possibly Mars in the next few years. Artemis I. Most powerful rocket since the Saturn V that flew the Apollo missions.
And back to the movie, the stuff falling off the rocket at launch was just frozen condensation that collected on the outside of the rocket because the fuel tanks are superchilled. Totally normal. Everything else about the mission was not normal lol.
Had such a stellar cast for this movie
"Houston, we have a problem!"
Fitting that you uploaded this on the day before the Artemis program is scheduled to launch for the first time. I know it doesn't excite people in the same way that Apollo did, and that this launch has no crew aboard, but it is the meant to carry astronauts back to the moon eventually.
If you are interested in watching one of the most interesting and profound series about the space program then you need to look for the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" hosted by Tom Hanks.
The navy aircraft carrier captain (scene in the end of the film) is played by Jim Lovell
This is about as accurate a telling of a historical event as you can get. Director Ron Howard wanted the movie to be as close to what really happened as possible. Even the weightless scenes were re-created on the jets the real astronauts use to simulate weightlessness. To hell with CGI. Shame he didn't win an Oscar for this film. Any director who can take a story you know how it will end and still have you gripping your armchair tightly and cheering at the end is one highly talented filmmaker.
Hi Nick! Love these latest reactions:) would love to see you do Paulie, it's a kids movie from the 90s about a little girl with a speech impediment who becomes best friends with a talking parrot. It has the little girl from millennium man starring :)
Please react to Hidden Figures, another great space movie, true story, with Kevin Costner and Jim Parson, a true story about the first black women working at Nasa, awesome movie!
I so love Hidden Figures and at the same time, get angry the important role these three women played was literally hidden from the public. I tear up through most of it.
To answer your question about Apollo 8: no, it didn't land. At the time Apollo 8 happened, the Lunar Module was not considered space-worthy, but the mission changed from Earth Orbit to Lunar Orbit with just the Command/Service Module (CSM). Apollo 8 orbited the moon ten times during the mission then returned safely; Lovell holds the distinction of being the only man to go the moon twice and land on neither flight. The crew of Apollo 13, to date, holds the record of the farthest any crewed mission has traveled from Earth.
Rule of Drama (Jack's relationship with the crew, the yelling during the LM's manual engine burn) and oversimplification (the cause of the explosion on Apollo 13 is considerably more complicated than "a damaged coil"), this film is _the_ gold standard when it comes to space realism in film making. Most of the lines used in the film during the mission proper were taken almost verbatim from the old mission transcripts. Looking back when I was a child, this was _the_ film that got me interested in space exploration.
If you're interested in the finer details, there's a video here on TH-cam that dives further into things. It's called "Three Men Lost in Space - The Apollo 13 Disaster"; I recommend a watch if you're interested in aeronautics.
I love this movie!
It wouldn’t bring devastating to his family. To be honest I think they would be low key relieved that Jim isn’t going yet.
I was just thinking. If you’ve never seen October Sky, you would love that one!
the balding coke bottle glasses flight controller (Sy Liebgott) was played by Ron Howard’s brother clint
Jim Lovell’s mother was played by Ron Howard’s mother Jean
The priest seen in the end of the film during the family’s watch party is played by Ron Howard’s father Rance
The idea of the astronauts not showing enough emotion; They are really trained not to get overly emotional when emergencies happen. The worst thing a person can do is get hysterical and panic in a life and death situation and being out in space is truly a life or death situation. If anything they show much more emotion in the movie then they did in real life as I've heard parts of the real conversations they were having with mission control when this happened and they were much cooler.
The oxygen they lost was not the internal breathable oxygen, it was the liquid oxygen that they use for fuel to power the ship.
@Blob B No, they don't. They breathe the oxygen put out by the carbon dioxide scrubbers. Which is why the CO2 levels going up was such a crisis. LOL
Nick if u wanna see another really good tom hanks movie you should watch The Terminal
Yes, that movie is so wholesome
Oooh the movie Miracle too!! Another great one
This is a very fitting movie to watch the day before the Artemis 1 launch! I recommend checking out the movie First Man, it looks at the Apollo 11 moon mission from Neil Armstrong's point of view.
Both Jim and Marylin Lovell make cameo appearances in the movie.
I always like to point out that this movie did Jack Swigert a little bit dirty. Fred Haise himself said that there was no doubt about his abilities and no arguments about him "causing" the incident.
Tom, Bill, Kevin, Gary and Ed. All star!!!!
Apollo 1 actually had that accident and the astrounauts mentioned at the beginning actually died.
my official suggestion for what to watch next is Joseph:Coat of Dreams (another animated biblical story. basically the sequel to Prince of Egypt)
This is one I rewatch. The guys are low key up there, the blowup about stirring the tanks, was exaggerated for movie purposes. Yes they were mostly all military. Being folk who could also fix things, if not engineers, was also handy fot survival. On takeoff, there is a build-up of thick ice which falls away, it can cause damage at times. Nasa liked their scenes, they used existing footage where possible, nasa got the cgi from them, from where it was not physically possible to place a camera and have it remain undamaged. Ron Howard placed his Family members in roles. The grandma was his mum, the skinny old guy on the couch, his dad, one guy in the control room was his brother he said it's dying, and the extra kids were from the lot of the crew etc, the guy in whites on the ship, was the real Jim Lovell.
Can't wait to watch!! Keep up the awesome work 😊😊
the dark side of the moon isn't "Pitch black" It goes through a light and dark phase every moon cycle.
It's called the "Dark side" of the moon because the moon is tidally locked to earth so we only ever see one side of it from our vantage point.
Can you react to these movies
- The Angry Birds Movie
- Wish Dragon
- Vivo
- The Secret Life of Pets
- Good Burger
- Spies in Disguise
- DC League of Super Pets
They are all shit
If you want another space movie from another perspective. The dish (a movie about what was happening in Australia during Apollo 11. Some liberties were taken with the truth )
This movie has, IMO, James Horner's best music, even better than Titanic. Unfortunately the soundtrack album was badly produced, including dialogue on top of the music. There is a bootleg copy of the music only soundtrack making its way around ebay, but it's expensive, and you have to be quick to catch it.
I have the DVD, so I have watched the movie many times, and I still get so emotionally invested. The suspense keeps me excited, Lovell's young son asking "Was it the door?" chokes me up every time, and I still want to stand up and cheer when contact is regained on re-entry. I look forward to seeing it on the big screen again just for the launch sequence alone.
As he does frequently, director Ron Howard uses his family as cast members: his brother, mother and father all had parts in the film, and his daughter was the girl in the yellow dress in the scene where Marilyn surprises Jim the night before the launch. A few years later she played Two-slice Hilly in The Help.
Lol, a bunch of stuff did fall off and continue to fall of to this day. Typical rocket fuels, Kerosene (RP-1) and Liquid Oxygen in this case. They require cryogenic temperatures to remain stable so during fueling and up until launch, a ton of frost will accumulate on the sides of rockets right where the liquid oxygen tanks are in the inside. Upon launch, most of that excess weight is shedded and any portruding apart of the rocket, below the ice is slightly reinforced to resist impact.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
It’s only there for holding the shuttle in place.
You should watch hidden figures.
Yes everyone should watch Hidden Figures.
It's ok if you don't know alot about it, your younger so its just older history that not everyone knows. I;m 40 and only know about it because growing up I wanted to be part of NASA. So I was s space nerd. lol
Ron Howard later directed or produced a documentary called....'In the Shadow of the Moon'. Look up the trailer. It's pretty cool. I don't want to say too much about it, but I've watched it at least 6 times, not including the times it was playing in the theater. From 2007. NOT the terrible movie on Netflix that aired in 2017 or 2019. That has nothing to do with the moon. Netflix clearly stole the title.
Yes, the Apollo 1 astronauts did all die. The entire movie is based on true events.
Kevin Bacon.... Six degrees.... If u know, u know.
Bill Paxton.. RIP
Hey, may I suggest you react to the 2020 miniseries, "The Right Stuff"? Actually, there is the 1983 movie of the same name. Actually, I would recommend both the miniseries and the movie.
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Please react to the best animated movie ever made "Mary and Max". It's done with clay in stop motion. It's incredible ❤
I really like Nick as a reactor for certain types of movies but man.... in movies like this and close encounters, that arent directly slapping you in the face with sadness and emotion and screaming at you THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD CARE, I do feel he has a hard time connecting to them, to movies told with restraint and subtlety. Im starting to get, irrationally, ever so slightly annoyed when he takes a great movie and says he cant connect to it just because the emotion and dramatic substance doesnt announce itself so dramatically.
If you want another really good “Based on a true story” movie, Nick, I’d really love to see you react to the film Argo. It’s only mildly historically accurate, but it’s an amazing film regardless.
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