APOLLO 13 (1995) | MOVIE REACTION | MY FIRST TIME WATCHING | TOP TIER CAST | INCREDIBLE MOVIE 😱🚀 

I lived through this as a teenager. The movie is very accurate.

Kinda hard to get invested in a reaction about a true story and significant historical event when the reactor goes into it saying they don't believe it happened lmao

Ya know a movie is good, when even people like me, who knew the outcome, were still enthralled.

I was 14 when this happened. I remember all those newscasters talking about what was going on. I remember how the whole world (even our enemies) were praying for those astronauts….. the whole world was united for that moment. It was something else.

As Neil Armstrong's backup, Lovell was, in reality, at Mission Control rather than at home when Neil took his first step on the moon. Just so you’re aware, the movie plays up the “rookie” aspect of replacing Ken Mattingly with Jack Swigert. Swigert was part of the backup team that had also been running practices for this mission and he was also the expert in their disaster response scenarios, having literally written their manual for the procedures. In real life, they didn’t have the arguments hinting it was his fault. A few bits of trivia, most of which are courtesy of TV Tropes: In the movie, Hanks's portrayal of Lovell says that Alan Shepard's ear infection flared up again. In reality, it was just the opposite. Shepard got surgery for his Meniere's disease, and it was cured. He petitioned Deke Slayton for a moon mission and was assigned 13 along with Stu Roosa and Ed Mitchell. NASA rejected it, though, insisting that Lovell's crew take 13 and Shepard wait for 14 and get further training, due to Shepard having not even been in space since 1961. This account would be properly described in Hanks's later series, _From The Earth to the Moon._ Basically, Shepard had been out of the saddle long enough to where NASA was uncomfortable sending him up on Apollo 13. The Apollo 13 crew still holds the record for the furthest human beings have ever been from Earth, likely because they'd originally left the free-return trajectory earlier missions flew and their swing around the Moon was just to slingshot them home, not to land on it. Also, because the moon orbits in more of an oval pattern, rather than a perfect circle, it is further away at some points in its orbit rather than others - the Apollo 13 crew went around the moon when it was nearing its farthest point from the Earth. Although Fred Haise didn't fly in space again, he did fly the test space shuttle, _Enterprise,_ during approach and landing tests. He later narrowly escaped dying when a vintage plane he was flying crashed and he was badly burned.

You have to see how this film was shot, everything in space was shot in the “vomit comet plane” in 5-15 second chunks so they could actually experience zero gravity. Imagine this entire film broken down into small 5 second chunks, that is how they filmed everything in space. It is crazy.

Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

The only 2 inaccuracies are: 1) the verbal snippiness of the 3 guys in space. In reality, they were all extremely professional. And 2) Kevin Bacon's character, Jack Swigert, was fully qualified for the mission and was not as inexperienced as they made him out to be. Other than that, yes, this all really happened, pretty much exactly as shown. My stepmother's father worked for NASA in Mission Control for decades.

Well, not really sure what to do with "the moon landings were faked" being the basis for a reaction to this movie, but I guess it ain't my job to talk you out of it. However, given that this is pretty much a fully true story, I absolutely must ask...do you believe that the men went to the moon and back all those times but then just the landings were faked, or do you really believe that none of the trips to the moon and back were ever real and that all of the people depicted in this film were/are liars? With respect...how deep does your fake moon landings rabbit hole go?✌

At 37:10 of the video, the admiral that is shaking hands with Tom Hanks is the actual Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13

It was dramatized for the movie, but yes this was a true story

I've seen proly every Hanks movie, and loved his TV show, bossom buddies, but still my favorite movie was his first big flick, the totally ridiculous comedy, bachelor party!

An epic and stressful journey to the moon and back. And with the epic soundtrack of James Horner the story of Apollo 13 is a masterpiece.

The military person wearing the all white outfit shaking Tom Hanks hand at the very end was the real Jim Lovell.

I saw them launch. Watched them on TV, then stepped out our front door as they went up and out over the ocean. They went to the moon...

For somebody who did "a lot of research" about the Apollo missions, you sure seemed not to know much about the basics of how those flights were carried out.

This really happened. My uncle worked at NASA. It was a very tense few days.

The older man in the white uniform at the end is the real Jim Lovell making a cameo in the movie

A terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it definitely seems to be a real thing. Also...fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled.

DO YOU BELIVE IT

The actors who portrayed Neil and Buzz in the scene with the elderly Mom, were not the actual persons, because this film was made 26 years after the actual event, so they would look much older.

That scene of them using slide rules is a bit of artistic licence, because they were adding numbers, and slide rules are used for multiplication and division, not addition and subtraction.

I think I watch all history or biopic kinda films

U will love the movie the right stuff it deals with the Start of the space race in 1959 with the first ever mercury program

This really happened bro - look it up!

The cancelled Acapulco trip was for his Apollo 8 mission, not the Apollo 13 mission.

This is the only "Space" movie that is based on actual events.

Remember in Forrest Gump, Dan tells Forrest Gump if ur ever a shrimp boat captain I'll be an astronaut! Then Dan's legs were made of Space Shuttle material! And then they did this movie!😮😮😮. U can go to NASA, and out front is the last known Saturn 5 rocket! Yes its real. I've been to nasa, i was a contractor for certain computer gear. I got to go places and see things behind the scenes at NASA, most will never see! Bill Paxton was in 5 James Cameron movies, and the VERY first person Arnold kills in, Terminator!😮😮😮. The operator in the glasses is the director's brother! The preacher is their dad! The silver haired guy on the pickup boat is the real Jim! There was actually many more problems that happened they didnt film because of time, money, and too unbelievable for the public! More irony, the flight director a small part in top gun Maverick, and in the first movie about space, the right stuff! A mid eighties car had more computing power than the entire control room!😮😮😮. Tom also did a great documentary on space missions called, To the Moon and Back! The most amazing part of all the pre shuttle missions is the heat shield. Only a couple inches thick, its 15,000 degrees on one side, room temp on the other! In those days, the chemicals to make it had to be measured mixed and poured into honeycomb receptacles, by hand!😮😮😮Zero gravity is done by putting all the sets and equipment in usually a c5A starlifter plane, flying it extremely high, then flying downward at about a 30-45 degree angle. As it dives, everything and everyone inside"floats" downward, inside the plane! So obviously they did multiple takes and shots, with the cast and crew!!

"The Martian" fun movie - not based on a true story. "Hacksaw Ridge " great movie - based on a true story (downplayed what Desmond really did, because hard to believe what he really did).

Well, I hope that this movie helped you to challenge your beliefs and sparked the need and the excitement to learn something more about the the space race and the Moon landings. There are a whole lot of detailed informations, technical stuff and multimedia material available on the net for free. Apollo Program is in fact one of Humanity's best documented undertakings. Ignorance must be fought with knowledge, and I would glad If even just one negationist could be educated and helped to grow beyond his bigotry.

Check out 'First Man'.

Are you a flat earther too?

Hey Fireworks you are 100% right about the landing but you already know that. Stay in the path brother much of what we were taught was complete lies. Humanity will be humbled soon enough when it all comes out.

They don't take Hot Dogs into space. Think about it!

Don't feel bad. I don't believe in the moon landing either, nor do I believe that this actually happened and was actually all scripted. But it is still a fantastic movie. And these guys do a much better job selling this than the actual guys did. Hahaha.