*Apollo 13* had me Stressed Out! | Movie Reaction - First Time Watching!

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First time watching Apollo 13 without knowing the real-life event and outcome! What a great movie. The anxiety was off the roof! Such a beautiful and triumphant ending! and I'm glad I did. It is such a great film! Thanks for watching. Cheers! #apollo13reaction #firsttimewatchingapollo13 #apollo13firsttimewatching
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This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, the scheduled moon landing is called off. Subsequent tensions within the crew and numerous technical problems threaten both the astronauts' survival and their safe return to Earth.
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[@FrankFreezy_]

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[@robertsmith3883]

Fun Fact "Artimus 2" that is launching in 2025 will bring new Asttronaunts back to the moon

[@jmfong76]

There are people who think we didn’t go to the moon and there is also those who believe that the earth is flat. A great movie, if you haven’t seen it is The Rock.

[@isabelsilva62023]

I was 8 years old when this happened and the entire western world was "following" them, this movie is so brilliant that even when you know everything about the events it still keeps you on the edge of your seat. The images of Pope Paul VI and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem are real footage. The Navy officer who shakes Tom Hanks' hand at the end is the real Jim Lovell. I really enjoy your thoughtful reactions!

[@FrankFreezy_]

Wow. I could only imagine. Thanks so much for sharing the info. And thanks for watching

[@donsample1002]

And Marilyn Lovell was in front of Kathleen Quinlan in the stands during the launch sequence.

[@isabelsilva62023]

@@FrankFreezy_ You are indeed welcome!

[@isabelsilva62023]

@@donsample1002 TY, I did not know that.

[@Fairygrl_TW]

I too was 8 and after watching the moon landing I thought it would be great to see and hear about, but it was scary and emotional. Cheers with tears. I love space, but Im stayin' put, lol. Peace

[@bubblesculptor]

Have you noticed yet that Tom Hanks is literally the most dangerous human ever to travel with? Seems every trip with him ends up catastrophic lol.

[@donsample1002]

That’s nothing compared with how much money has been spent saving Matt Damon.

[@allauricia1985]

That’s funny

[@victoriawhalley3662]

😂

[@MarsJenkar]

I'd say he's probably the guy you want in charge when something _does_ go wrong.

[@ammaleslie509]

​@donsample1002 that is the best answer to that meme I have ever seen

[@ryanakers1372]

54:50 Cool behind the scenes note: the man Tom Hanks salutes and shakes hands with here is the real life Jim Lovell.

[@BedsitBob]

And Jim Lovell's wife, Marylin, had a Cameo role during the launch sequence.

[@jsmith1746]

@@BedsitBob - Director Ron Howard's family had roles in this as well. His brother Clint Howard is perhaps the best known as he has been in many movies and television shows, he played one of the mission controllers ("It's reading a quadruple failure, that can't happen..."). Ron Howard's mother played Jim Lovell's mother. His father was the priest who was sitting with the family during the re-entry. Even his daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, then just 13, had a small role. She was credited as "Girl in Yellow Dress".

[@pduidesign]

It’s not fake. It wasn’t possible to fake it. They had no CGI back then. Also, the people who think it’s fake haven’t seen ALL the footage…especially the footage of the lander detaching and going down to the moon. You would need a lightbulb the size of a football field and 100 feet off of the surface to mimic the light on the moon surface. It would be impossible to replicate the gravity and the powder sand interaction that we see. And people who think they used miniatures and movie sets don’t understand how cameras and focus and blurring work. Plus all the people who actually watched the launch. Some guy went to Gus Grisham when he was 70 and went to his face and said the landing was fake and they were liars and that 70 year punched the dude straight in the face.

[@livingandthriving]

That was Buzz Aldrin; Gus Grissom died in the Apollo 1 fire. But yeah, if someone came up to me saying that something I'd done (and that had been extremely well documented) was fake, I'd probably want to punch them too.

[@dneill8493]

You mean Buzz Aldrin. Gus Grissom died in the Apollo 1 fire.

[@pduidesign]

@@dneill8493 doh. Buzz. Sorry.

[@thesilversage1]

Fun fact: the first cgi in film was star trek 2 the wrath of kahn 1982. The scene where the genesis device instantly terraforms a planet and made by a founding member of pixar if i remember right. Not old enough to fake a moon landing but probably older than most people think.

[@lmsossi6501]

I appreciate your taking the movie so seriously. You don't make stupid jokes out of everything as some people doing reactions do constantly. Your respectful and heartfelt reactions are wonderful to watch!

[@BLUEsurf63]

@@lmsossi6501 A great reaction,nto a wonderful movie.

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

The funny looking little bald guy with glasses in the control center is the director Ron Howard’s brother.

[@mark37724]

Grandma is Ron's mother.

[@Serenity113]

And I'm pretty sure the priest sitting with the family at the end is Ron Howard's father.

[@mark37724]

@@Serenity113 Yeah? I didn't know that one.

[@BarbaraWaskelis-bl5ug]

He also won the last lifetime achievement award on the MTV movie awards.

[@dondumitru7093]

And the actress playing Jim Lovell's mom (Blanch Lovell) is Ron Howard's real life mother, Jean Speegle Howard. And the Reverend who ministers to the Lovell family is Ron Howard's real life father, Rance Howard.

[@The_Catnip]

The real footage is on KZbin, and man! Everyone is so calm, it is crazy! Everyone sound like they are just doing their boring job at a factory or something. I love it so much when movie-watchers can feel what will happen in the movie!

[@elliebell2317]

And a lot of the dialogue is word-for-word from the real footage! So cool. In the early days of the space program, they required all astronauts to be former test pilots, so they all had a lot of experience in highly stressful and dangerous situations. They were specifically chosen partially because of their ability to remain calm. I saw an interview with Jim Lovell, where he said one of the only things the movie got wrong was the scene where Fred and Jack are yelling at each other. He said no one ever thought it was anyone else's fault, and they were all very focused on solving the problem and nothing else.

[@FrankFreezy_]

I don't know if it's there training that instills that level of calmness in them. That's wild

[@dickbong3661]

@@FrankFreezy_It's a combination of training and just general NASA culture - the Mercury and Gemini astronauts were all pulled from the absolute best of the Air Force and Navy pilots, who had been flying really dangerous experimental aircrafts before they switched tracks to the space program. The test pilot's had extremely high fatality rates, and as a coping mechanism they developed a superstition of how all really good pilots just needed to have 'the right stuff' to succeed, which meant things like pushing limits to the point of suicidal recklessness, and being totally calm at all times. Whenever someone died in a crash, the other pilots would be immediately convincing themselves that the dead pilot actually kinda sucked at flying, and was an emotional wreck, so his death was his own fault, which meant that if they remained perfect they couldn't have a fatal crash. Which wasn't at all how it worked, most of them were killed by uncontrollable errors from flying prototypes, or from their own stupid shenanigans (which they felt they had to do, because if they didn't take dumb risks it meant they thought they weren't good enough to handle it, which meant they didn't have 'the right stuff'). Basically, a bunch of terrified pilots decided that being a Strong Stoic Man was the only way to ensure their survival, and they clung to that belief so hard it became a core philosophy at NASA. There's a really interesting book about that whole culture and how it transferred over to NASA, called The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, I absolutely recommend it if you're curious about the early space program.

[@The_Zharan_Colonel]

The idea that the US government somehow faked an operation that took at least 400 thousand people to pull off, and NO ONE has let it slip in the years since, is quite possibly the funniest conspiracy "theory" I've ever heard

[@redpillfreedom6692]

Well that and the government doesn't gain anything by lying about the moon landing. Compare this to the Kennedy assassination, which had multiple witnesses die untimely and/or suspicious deaths within a few years of the assassination. Namely, this only happened to witnesses whose testimonies contradicted the official story.

[@dondumitru7093]

Some liberties were definitely taken with playing up the conflicts between the astronauts. In truth, Jack Swigert was highly-trained and fully-capable of piloting the Command Module, and nobody would have had any doubts about him. And any raised voices between the astronauts simply never happened, that was all added to the movie to increase the drama.

[@FrankFreezy_]

That's awesome

[@donsample1002]

In his commentary for this movie Lovell says that even if Swigart couldn’t do it for some reason, he could have.

[@JumboSeventyNine]

Jack Swigert was one of the only Apollo Astronauts to request to be a command module specialist. He literally wrote the manual for some of the command module operations. Ken Mattingly did an incredible job on Apollo 13 but if you were in a command module in trouble you would probably ask for Jack Swigert every day of the week and twice on sundays...

[@walover165]

Apparently the real Fred Haise was not a fan of Swigert's depiction. (Understandably, since not only did it insult the memory of his friend, it made him look like a dick.)

[@andreabindolini7452]

​@@walover165 I disagree. They did an outstanding job with the character. His arc is well crafted. He is the only that actually has a story arc! And is not depicted as incompetent. He is a fine pilot, Lovell says. Even Mattingly did the same error in simulation. And he Is the only that understand that the trajectory Is off.

[@SliderFury1]

Lots of movies have been promoted as an "edge of your seat thriller" and most fall short. This actually is.

[@FrankFreezy_]

100% agree

[@livingandthriving]

Absolutely. I've seen this movie many, many times and I still find myself holding my breath during the reentry sequence.

[@MarsJenkar]

I knew the outcome of the mission before I saw the film for the first time, and I _still_ was riveted. The film is that good.

[@Dej24601]

Another beautiful film based on real events is “Hidden Figures” (2016). Altho it takes place a few years before the missions of the Apollo program, it shows the background and the work that went into it. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

[@FrankFreezy_]

I will watch it. It is on my list

[@FrankFreezy_]

Hidden figures was so great. it comes out on KZbin in an hour😊

[@NancyPollyCy]

Loved your reaction to Apollo 13. I'm old enough to have lived through these events, and I clearly remember how everything just ... stopped. We had tv's in our classrooms in school and watched the coverage instead of having lessons. You wondered about the news coverage; those were the real clips: Walter Cronkite on CBS, science advisor Jules Bergman on ABC, etc. It's easy to miss, but there's a brief cameo of the real James Lovell shaking Tom Hanks' hand on the aircraft carrier after the crew is retrieved. There are a number of really good documentaries about the event and the movie. One showed Gene Kranz, the flight director played by Ed Harris (the guy with the vest and the blond crewcut), talking about the moment when they successfully retrieved the crew. He struggles to retain his composure, drops his head, clears his throat, then says with his trademark restraint, "It was ... neat." Harris described how he was shown the clip and looked disbelievingly at director Ron Howard. "You want me to do THAT?" It was such a raw, real moment, and Harris was intimidated at the idea of playing the character. But he did and pulled it off beautifully. It's a great story and a great movie, and I'm so glad you covered it!

[@FrankFreezy_]

Well thank you so much for all this wonderful information about the film. I enjoyed reading this comments. Thank you so much for watching the video❤

[@ArtamStudio]

Yes, I've seen the documentary with the Kranz clip you mention, at least a couple of years before this movie was released, and have never forgotten his reaction. 🥲

[@stephenkehl7158]

As mentioned, some elements were added for dramatic effect- the astronauts arguing, Gene Kranz losing his temper at the lack of reentry procedures, the manual midcourse correction that made it look like they were going eighteen different directions (Lovell confirmed they were never off by more than a degree), the lack of faith in Swigert’s ability to dock the lunar module (he was, in fact, a specialist on the command module and was considered to be an expert on contingency procedures) were all invented or exaggerated to make it more interesting. It’s been said that it it were a faithful recreation of the flight, the film would have been too boring to be successful. 54:51 The captain of the ship on the left here is the real Jim Lovell. The weightless scenes were not CGI- director Ron Howard made use of the KC-135 aircraft NASA uses to give trainees brief moments of actual weightlessness by flying parabolic arcs, known as the Vomit Comet. The spacecraft interiors, cast, crew and equipment were flown on 612 separate maneuvers and shot 23 seconds at a time.

[@donsample1002]

And it wasn’t just Mattingley in the simulator figuring things out. They had full crews in all the simulators working out procedures.

[@dneill8493]

The mid course correction was also perpendicular to the course they were on back to Earth .

[@brianm6530]

There is another movie you should really watch in conjunction with this. Hidden Figures is a wonderful piece of history that was never explained and negated from the history books. This came to mind when you questioned how they perform re-entry. I hope more of your audience will pick up on this suggestion!

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

Yes! Hidden Figures is an EXCELLENT film. I had NO IDEA about those amazing women. 🙌🏽

[@notjamesearl]

love that film 👌

[@JUSSYSMA]

Yes, Hidden Figures, The Right Stuff, and the Series From the Earth to the Moon would make excellent viewing.

[@FrankFreezy_]

Hidden figures was so great. it comes out on KZbin in an hour😊

[@philipem1000]

I was a young US airman in tech school when Apollo 13 flew. I had watched Apollo 11 from the barracks the week I started my training and ten days after 13 landed I graduated from my program. We all were gathered in the dayrooms of our barracks to watch the events unfold on TV during the hours we weren't in school. I was amazed and astonished at the skill and expertise the entire NASA team exhibited to make this happen. Years later as an Engineering Tech I got to actually work with some of the salvaged electronics from the Apollo program. As you were reacting I was noting that the movie has the actual narration we heard on TV from Walter Cronkite, the anchor of CBS news and the "most trusted man in America" Many of the other clips you saw were actual clips from TV of the time. Jules Bergman was the science reporter and those were his actual clips. This movie is really quite amazing and brings back those memories in an amazing way. I have to say a lot of us were very proud of America when this happened. It is almost beyond belief they got back alive.

[@dondumitru7093]

Favorite moment: Ken Mattingly puts his tie and jacket back on when he is entering Mission Control.

[@d.j.starling3559]

Apollo 13 is one my favorite movies!! I was in HS when it took place, but even knowing the outcome couldn't dampen the suspense in the film. My favorite 'Tom Hanks' movie is BIG. So much fun! He's VERY young in that, even younger in his first film, Splash, which is another fun watch!! Just about everything since then has been great, too!!

[@TriarchVisgroup]

Since I was a kid this movie has been one of my favorites, because the story is real. These are real superheroes. The best of humanity workng together to achieve something great, and even great their unity and teamwork to get them home. My mother has told me stories of being a young girl and going to church, and praying for the astronauts. Mom and I used to watch a TV show called "The Wonder Years" which has an episode set around the time of the Apollo 13 events, and it shows what it was like for the average American family to have those events going on in the background of their lives. Near the end Kevin, the young boy we follow, finds his mother at the nearby church lighting candles and prayinf rot he astronauts. One of the very best historical dramas. - Much of the MC dialogue is taken straight from the actual flight logs. Which you can listen to online. - The argument in the LEM never happened. Jim Lovell says "We didn't have time to be scared. If we took the time to be scared we would have been dead." - Movie does Swigert a little dirty, and I have a suspicion that it is the result of him being dead IRL. The man was an expert on the CSM, and even wrote the procedures for the CM. He knew his stuff. The movie makes him out to be green, but he was no more green than Fred Haise. - The shot of Ed Harris slipping into his chair and letting out quiet tears of relief is about as close to a 1:1 of the real event as you can get. There's footage of the real Gene Kranz falling back into his chair and having a moment like that. Even decades later, when they produced a documentary go along with this, there was a segment where they interviewed Gene Kranz, and when he got to the moment of recalling these specific events he started to lose it. He literally says "Jesus......... It was neat." - In real life they had to perform several course corrective burns, and built several of the CO2 cannisters. The movie simplifies that for dramatic reasons. - Marylin really did lose her ring. One of those "stranger than fiction moments." - Another event that really happened, but which was cut, a car drove by the launch vehicle before the launch and spontaneously combusted. - As a result of this event, and to the dismay of Jim Lovell, NASA will never designate another spacecraft "13." - NASA openly mocked the concerns about the superstitious number, including an ad campaign involving breaking a mirror, having black cat walk under a ladder, etc... This is alluded to when Bill Paxton as Fred Haise references "Bringing a pig with us for good luck." - The CO2 scrubber procedure actually already existed prior to the disaster. For the sake of the movie they made it a procedural bit of drama, but it speaks to incredible pool of intelligence that NASA was in the 60s and 70s that they basically had a team dedicated to sitting around day in and out trying to figure out ways things could go wrong and then problem solve. The reason for the two craft having different scrubbers is that the CSM was built by one company(North American Aviation), and the LEM another (Grumman.) This is a great reaction, I'm loving your insight already. I've just subscribed and intend to look through your back catalogue.

[@zeph0shade]

I love that you bring up how they're all "human at the end of the day" despite how calm and collected they've been at times that would really shake an ordinary person, because in real life they actually never did lose their cool even at the point they did in the movie. It just goes to show that while movies need to make characters relatable, real astronauts are just legitimately superhuman.

[@benjohnson1633]

I remember when this actually happened, and I’ve watched this movie numerous times. And yet I STILL get caught up in the suspense, and I still get misty eyed at the end!

[@FrankFreezy_]

Yes!!! That is so real. The suspense and the emotion you feel at the end. Powerful.

[@carandol22]

I was nine at the time, in England. Me and my friend kept our fingers crossed all day at school. We left for school knowing that the Command Module might skip off the atmosphere, and didn't get to find out they were safe until we got home. Brilliant movie, and one of the first Hollywood space movies that took the time and trouble to get the science right. And the music is perfect too.

[@mamaalaska]

I was in high school when this happened, our teacher brought in a black-and-white television used for health class turned it on let us know what was happening and asked us all to please take a moment and pray. She’s an excuse the class to go home to their families, and tell the ones who did not have a television. They were welcome to come to the local church say their prayers and keep up on the news until they return safely. I will never forget it. It was as if the entire world stood still, holding its breath.

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

All the weightlessness scenes were filmed on a big airplane in intervals of 23 secs at a time that had a set built on it. The plane dove towards the earth at a certain angle and it simulates Zero-G. Said they took 500 or so takes on this aircraft while filming. People can actually sign up for a "Zero-G" ride with others as an experience today. The wife did lose her ring, but got it back later and the other astronauts did come and sit with the family on reentry. Another Tom Hanks movie is The Terminal which is based on a true situation and based off a real person.

[@NancyPollyCy]

They call the plane the "vomit comet".

[@andrewparker318]

Reentry happens because of the enormous speed they hit the atmosphere. At over 5 miles per second, the speed is so high that the compression and friction from the air causes it to heat up to thousands of degrees. The air molecules break a part to form a fiery plasma, which engulfs the object and vaporizes anything that isn’t protected. It’s the same thing that happens with a shooting star, which is just a small meteorite burning up in the atmosphere

[@mrjake7501]

I was a teenager when the movie came out. I thought it was boring. I watched it many years later as a father, and cried my eyes out. Seems like movies of the past have that effect on me from a newer perspective.

[@kevinshelley2803]

One of the few channels where I like the reaction before I've watched it. You're an insightful artist as well - great character and emotion in your portraits.

[@FrankFreezy_]

Wow, thank you! Appreciate that💜💜

[@Salguine]

My favorite thing about this movie is that for once, the situation isn't saved by the Rambos with the biggest muscles and the most guns -- it's saved by the science nerds and the math geeks. And the fact that it's a true story makes that even better.

[@craigm3353]

Saw this when it premiered in the theater. That scene where they were waiting for them to come back was intense, especially the music and when they heard Lovell's voice. Also seeing the launch on the big screen. I got a movie reaction suggestion for you it's one of my favorites, The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz.

[@TheOli4D]

The captain on the aircraft carrier at the end of the film was actually the real Jim Lovell!! And did you know that the "prima nocta" in Braveheart was not a real thing? And that Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toe when kicking that Uruk Hai helmet?? Sorry I thought thought I do them all at once 🤪

[@shannonbrown309]

I can't tell you how often I see that LotR fact on the subreddit for Tolkien and LotR. It is a running gag there.

[@renee7407]

My kids watched Lord of the Rings for the first time the other night and I couldn’t wait for the Viggo part so I could tell them about his toe, lol.

[@antonioramirez4763]

One of my favorite movies, this movie is so my favorite that I put this movie on to put me to sleep that’s how good this movie is, I’m not saying this movie is boring af, I’m saying I love this movie so much that this movie puts me at ease. Classic.

[@vasiliarkhipov2121]

I wish they made more movies like this. It feels to me like America needs to be reminded of who we are. We're constantly being reminded of all the bad America has done and all of it's imperfections, but we never sit down and acknowledge all of the good and remarkable things our country has accomplished. I agree no picture of America is accurate without the bad, but it is also true that no picture of America is accurate without the good.

[@AmericanMumReacts]

More Tom Hanks: The Money Pit, Sully, Philadelphia, Catch Me If You Can and my new favorite of his, A Man Called Otto 💜💚💜

[@chrisrodriguez5154]

"Tell me this isn't a government operation" is the funniest Iine in the movie.

[@rozequinn1519]

You should watch a very young Hanks in his movie BIG...so cute ❤️

[@FrankFreezy_]

Yeah I've seen the cover with that fluffy hair of his. So freaking cute

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

Good movie!

[@msj2677]

“Splash “is another movie I like that he was in when he was younger

[@tfpp1]

More good Tom Hanks films are: Sleepless In Seattle, and Catch Me If You Can.

[@ammaleslie509]

@@tfpp1 most of his movies are good!!!

[@samuelberz1476]

As you talk about the crew's professionalism around 38:20, the reality is they didn't actually argue like that, that exchange was made up to add drama to the film. In truth, Lovell, Haise and Swigert kept their cool the whole time. Absolutely exceptional men 👏

[@RyanRichardsToby]

Don't worry about calling him, "Lt. Dan". Most people do that. I had to just now to a search to find out that the actor's name is Gary Sinise. Everyone calls him Lt. Dan. He also does tons of humanitarian work.

[@vly9257]

He's also a musician. You'll love the name of his band 😁

[@katherinebosse5706]

Walter Cronkite is one of my heros. His voice carried us all through so many situations, stories and heartbreak. Will never forget him during the Bay of Pigs crises and then the assassination of JFK. He kept the world together.

[@Nocturnal85]

One of the most accurate space movies ever made and they did an amazing job of re-creating what happened on apollo 13. The only exception is the added drama for the sake of the movie. The real astronauts were cool, calm and collected the entire time in real life. Jim Lovell is one of my heros and is the Captain that shook Tom Hanks hand at the end of the movie.

[@tvdroid22]

The "new guy" was actually very experienced. The tension between the crew was for the movie. Even during the emergency they remained composed and cool. Otherwise, the movie is pretty much spot on. Turns out "Lt Dan" was exactly where he needed to be after all. They couldn't count on the re-entry head to thaw the parachutes since there's a dead zone at that end of the capsule within the fire cone. I always thought, man would t it suck to make it all the way back, then sink. The real Lovell was shaking hands with Hanks at the end of the film. He was the Navy officer.

[@davidkent5626]

I saw this in the theater and had a similar reaction as I didn't know the history. If you want to see a really young Tom Hanks he has some great comedies Big, The Money Pit, Dragnet, The Burbs, Turner and Hooch. If you want some more history of the space program check out From the Earth to the Moon. It is narrated by Tom Hanks. I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it, but Marilyn Lovell did get her ring back.

[@marcelopaolillo9848]

Terrific reaction ! Your comments add a significant human touch to everything ! There are two important cameos in this movie : Roger Corman and the real Commander James Lovell. And you're not wrong : it took a miracle to take these three men back alive. Just a hint : added to all the science involved, they got spiritual and E.T. help on this ! Peace !

[@sae1095hc]

Though I was 6, I remember Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 (the camera on the moon burned out and they used puppets to simulate the moon walk, but even at that age it looked really silly to me), but I have no memory of 13. After the movie came out, I mentioned that to my mother and she said that the news reports were so dire that they didn't let me see the news because they didn't want me watching when they died.

[@GaParanormal]

5:41 I'm an astrophysicist and as far as physics go I can't watch most space movies cuz it's just horrendous but they got everything absolutely perfect in this movie I mean everything about this movie is perfect even down to the dialogue because we have the actual transcripts...... they had a less than 1% chance of making it back and they did it.......

[@livingandthriving]

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's not exactly a comfort film, but it's generally my go-to when I need a good catharsis. And the soundtrack is phenomenal. If you get the chance, read Jim Lovell's book (Apollo 13, formerly titled Lost Moon). It goes into a little more detail about what happened, as well as Jim's previous missions and how he became an astronaut in the first place.

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

The grannie was Ron Howrd's mum. The guy who said ir was dying, was his bro, the old guy on the couch was his dad. They did weightless on the Vomit comet. One of the crew threw up, they kept it in. Have you seen Hidden Figures? It's a must see how the maths worked.

[@falcon215]

Every space mission back then was big deal. I remember watching the moon landing on television and my fourth grade teacher leading my class in a prayer for the astronauts on the crippled Apollo 13 mission. Ron Howard & Co. did an outstanding job bring the story back.

[@xxchaos315xx6]

I love tom hanks, bill paxton, kevin bacon and gary Sinise are awesome as well but ed harris killed it in this movie!

[@yanceynitzsche5115]

New sub for your presentation, your astute observations and your general positive vibe. YT needs more of that, so thanks! I am a total space nerd who derives plenty of enjoyment from the real-life, nuts n' bolts documentation of this failed mission - despite the actual audio recordings and eye-witness accounts being rather dry and "low energy" - but I'm not the least bit disappointed in the changes they made to heighten the drama and drive home the miracle of their safe return. I still get goosebumps at certain parts even after dozens of re-watches. Just a damn good cinematic experience.

[@larrybell726]

Apollo 13 flew about four weeks before I graduated from high school and it has been an interest of mine for a long time. I think the movie was great all the incidents they showed were actually from the flight, but the friction between the crew was a little bit Hollywood. The transcript of all communications with the crew is available on the Internet, and is impressive in how professional and focused it is. By the way, Gene Krantz was the one of the flight Directors for the Apollo 13 mission. There were 3 flight director shifts, color coded, and Gene had the white shift, So his wife made him the white vest that he wore while on duty.

[@daytonapeanut]

Don't worry, I think everyone still refers to Gary Sinise as Lt Dan, lol

[@mrwidget42]

One interesting about the method of re-entry is that it a little different now when you see the new Artemis/Orion missions being done now. Even both Orion and Apollo are similar in shape, the mission profile only has a single re-entry interface event for Apollo, while Orion has two or more. It will deliberately skim the edge of the atmosphere, bounce back out for a while, then finally drop back into atmo a final time, hopefully having lost enough energy to make it work. We have to do this for Orion because that ship is both larger and heavier than Apollo. You have to do something with the vastly larger bag of joules, or else.

[@FrankFreezy_]

Thanks for sharing

[@heyrobwest3908]

The movie Apollo 13 was Ron Howard who starred as the little boy in the Andy Griffith show Opie Taylor, he was also Richie Cunningham in the TV series happy days in the 70s. W his brother was one of the Michigan troll technicians in the movie road woman that was grandma she was Tom Hanks characters mother was either Ron Howard's mother or grandmother I don't remember which. Ron Howard always puts family members in a lot of his movies. This movie is partly based on a book written by Jim Lovell

[@smylerthedamned9549]

What is amazing is the fact that the fights that happened in the movie did not happen in real life. They were written in for drama. These guys were the definition of professional and realized Jack Swaggart had absolutely nothing to do with the mishap and never blamed him. The whole transcripts of the Apollo flights are available to the public to listen to/read

[@adamn7516]

You were asking if the news footage in the movie was same as real life. Actually virtually all the TV news footage you see in the film is the actual news footage. It was not recreated for the film. You actually see a very famous news anchorman in that footage, Walter Cronkite. Anyone born after WW2 all the way thru the 1970's new who Cronkite was. He is considered one of Americas most trusted news anchors of that period. He took us thru many major events of the mid 20th century.

[@ChefPatrickChase]

directed by Ron Howard Ron’s whole family was in this film. His father Rance played the priest in the watch party scene at the end of the film, his mother played the role of Blanche Lovell (Jim Lovell’s mother) husband brother played the role of Sy Liebgott (balding coke bottle glasses flight controller )

[@juice_box_jax]

I’m biased because this is my favorite movie of all time, but I think A13 is perfect. I can’t think of anything they could have done better. And that soundtrack!

[@futuregenerationz]

Beautiful artwork Frank!

[@FrankFreezy_]

Many thanks!

[@transitengineer]

When this happen, I was in 6th grade and the goal and prayers around the World were for the safety of the three (3) Astronauts. When people ask me why, I earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and started my career in the aerospace field, I say just watch the movie Apollo 13. I did not fight my way through engineering school for where things go well, but to be ready when things go wrong. Why? Because, on both manned and unmanned missions there are no second changes ... period (smile...smile).

[@ravensdark99]

What this movie shows best is great leadership...in space as well as on the ground: Never losing positivity..exact plan on what to do and exact orders how to execute it

[@philliptucker4788]

Nearly all the news footage in the movie is real from the actual event, primarily featuring Walter Cronkite, the most respected broadcaster on TV for decades. By the way, the film was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, winning two.

[@tacyak198]

If you’re ever in Florida visiting the Kennedy Space Center is well worth it. They have the Atlantis building when you arrive, and they’ll bus you out the Apollo center where they have the unused Apollo 18 rocket and a lot of equipment on display from other Apollo missions. If you’re lucky the Apollo center has bleachers for watching launches next to it. SpaceX now owns the pad right across the water and launches rockets pretty regularly so it’s a great view from a few miles away.

[@coot1925]

I was 7 when Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. I still remember watching it live here in England as if it was yesterday. For those who think the moon landings were fake it's common knowledge that 1) they didn't have the cinematic technology back then to fake it. 2) it would have cost more to fake it than actually go there. Ps. That version of the Corvette Stingray is my favourite ever car.

[@petergaynes9201]

The thought of the astronauts losing communication w/ Earth is one that had not occurred to me, even though I've seen this movie many times. Sent a chill down my spine thinking of what that would have been for them like had that happened.

[@theirishslyeyes]

I'm very early in this reaction, but, to your point re: Tom Hanks - there are tons of great actors out there, but Tom Hanks is head and shoulders above the rest. He always brings his A game and elevates everyone else, from comedy to drama, he's amazing.

[@FrankFreezy_]

I highly agree. And I think that's one of the reasons I really love him. I've not seen it bad performance from him yet

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

Ed Harris, who plays Gene Kranz (white vest) also plays Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, in the movie “The Right Stuff”. It’s VERY good but 3+ hours long. lol

[@FrankFreezy_]

Damn. 3 hours long? I'm good to know. Some of the best movies ever made her that long tho. The Green Mile, Lord of the Rings.. So I might check it out someday

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

@@FrankFreezy_ it’s full of huge movie stars and based on real events. I tried rewatching it the other night and fell asleep. 😴

[@nickcollins2413]

He plays John Glenn in that movie, not Neil Armstrong. You may be thinking of Ryan Gosling in "First Man", Neil is not a character the Right Stuff at all, it take place long before the moon landing.

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

@@nickcollins2413 I got confused. Thanks for the correction!

[@anXiaryMusic]

yay, I love this one. Tom's in it too, perfekr... lets not look back at Private Ryan and Schindler too soon, bro, nuff horrors beyond belief 😂 can't wait for the next ine :) much love as always from Hamburg in Germany

[@ejtappan1802]

The news broadcasts you are seeing in this movie are the actual historic footage that aired back then. I was 9 years old when this happened so I was aware of it but didn't really understand the life or death circumstances.

[@user-nt8lq4rp3z]

Great reaction, man!!

[@FrankFreezy_]

Thanks for watching

[@mycroft16]

If you want to watch a modern reentry, I recommend looking up a Dragon capsule reentry. You can watch the whole process in real-time from undocking from the space station all the way to splashdown and pickup by the return boat. And see them open the hatch and get the astronauts out. What we have now are high altitude drones with thermal cameras that can track the entering capture the whole way down. We do still have radio blackout. But we're really good at getting capsules down these days. And much more advanced heat shield materials.

[@JenBriSeth]

I saw this in the theater when it came out, and even though I knew the story, and knew how it all turned out, I had one of the worst tension headaches of my LIFE when I left the theater. LOL. Terrific movie, good reaction. Thanks.

[@cmbtking]

For whatever reason this is one of those movies that if I see it's on TV, idc how many times I've seen it I'll put it on to watch.

[@ammaleslie509]

Ditto

[@MGower4465]

The US brought the capsules down on ocean, with ships, usually an aircraft carrier, close by the planned location. The Soviet union brought their capsules flown over land. Several crews had to camp a day kr two befire as nybody reached them if they missed the area. Both sides tested their hardware to ensure it could come down on land or water. During this, the Soviets pledged all support as well, promising if the Apollo 13 mission landed on their territiry, the crew would be recovered with all speed and returned to the US immediately. They were a bit quieter about what would happen to the capsule.

[@ride4life32]

That dope/fire Corvette in gold was actually "given" to the pilots/members of the Apollo crew. I say given cause they leased them for $1.

[@georgeditzel3504]

Research for NASA and the military is what pushes technology forward.

[@sofajockeyUK]

Rolling news wasn't really a thing then (few channels) so people followed news broadcasts with presenters trying to explain the situation with models and the occasional photo (long before CGI). As a child I remember this unfolding.

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

Thanks for reacting to this great film. Someone else may have already commented on this - but I didn't see it in the top comments. ALL of the scenes of the astronauts being weightless were REAL. The actors, a very small crew and Ron Howard all flew in the "vomit comet" - a special air force plane that flies in a huge parabola - and on the way down (just about literally diving toward earth) - they get about 30 seconds of weightlessness. So Ron had 30 seconds to shoot parts of scenes. He was also constrained by the size of the plane - where they built the small sets - the interiors of the LEM and the capsule. Another aside - the band, OK Go shot a really brilliant music video on the vomit comet (affectionately named) as well. It took them MANY rounds on the plane to get just what they wanted. The song is "Upside Down & Inside Out" - here's a link to a behind the scenes (that I think is fascinating) that shows how they did it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp-3oo1sbct8bbM

[@ToABrighterFuture]

As long as you're on classic dramas, you may as well give "Casablanca" a go.

[@marciebulsaraorcutt]

The first time I saw this movie (with my husband) I was so STRESSED because I didn’t know the real background history🤯… (My husband already knew the events and there were no surprises for him.)😄

[@cinmarksx]

hi there, great reaction to one of my fav movies. Another good one from young tom hanks is Turner and Hooch. Suspenseful but funny as hell also.

[@DelightfulDisappointment]

If you want to watch more movies with Tom Hanks and haven't seen them yet, I'd recommend Saving Private Ryan and Captain Phillips.

[@TheFuersty]

I too lost my wedding ring in an Ocean on the first vacation with my wife. Keep up the great work, enjoy hearing your perspective.

[@FrankFreezy_]

hahaha look at us. Twins😂😂 Now I can only imagine how many married couples have built with this same scenario lol. Thank you very much for watching

[@reneerocha1796]

The other guy is Bill Paxton from Twister. Which is another phenomenal movie. 👍🏼

[@caveritt82489]

One of my favorite movies ever. The emotions and the music. 🥹Another Ron Howard biographical movie that has a similar feel is A Beautiful Mind. Thank you for the reaction!!

[@FrankFreezy_]

I can absolutely see why. It's just so good. A Beautiful Mind is a movie that picked my curiosity a while ago when he was recommended. I think I'll add it to my list. Thank you for watching

[@mcslashvideos]

A word about Columbus; Beyond being a brutal Colonialist, he did what the Vikings didn't, he told everyone, brought back gold and plants and Natives. Doing that, he reunited the two branches of the Human Race that had been separated for over 10,000 years, and had no knowledge of each other. A huge deal in Human history.

[@rg3388]

I had the privilege of seeing and photographing Ken 7/4/82 at Edwards Air Force Base after a space shuttle landing.

[@FrankFreezy_]

How's marvelous. Part of History

[@mattplus09]

You're a wonderful soul...Good journey :) Peace!

[@reneerocha1796]

Great reaction!! 😊

[@night_exec]

Glad to see that you are also a tom hanks fan, I'd watch just about any movie with no other information than that tom hanks is in it

[@FrankFreezy_]

Exactly! You know you can trust him

[@susanruan3663]

My mom was a college student and remembers, when this mission happened. The entire world was gripped by the plight of the astronauts and prayed for their safe return. She said it didn't matter what religion you followed, christian, buddhist, muslim, hindu, atheist, etc. Everyone prayed for their safe return to Earth. Mom and I watched this movie when it first came out in the theaters. Seeing the trailers before it came out, I saw the look on her face, and realized how serious that whole situation was.

[@victoriawhalley3662]

Movie fact the gentleman in the white officers uniform that Tom Hanks was shaking hands with at the very end is the real Jim Lovell

[@trix_42]

Should post a meaningful comment, but instead i am going to join the Gary Sinise appreciation society😂 I was born in 89 and this movie used to give me such anxiety back in the days. A classic

[@FrankFreezy_]

I don't know what it is man I just love this man. Welcome to the appreciation society🥳🥳... I can only Imagine., see how I was at the edge of my seat the whole reaction. Anxiety indeed

[@herbsmith5764]

Good review. First time watching your channel. I’ll check out some more. Like your artwork!

[@RoberinoSERE]

I was 8 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and we watched it on our 19” black tv as a family with my friends live. My Dad worked At Lockheed Missile and Space Division in Sunnyvale Ca. At the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay. A swamp that was filled in with dreggings and Garbage dump.

[@TT-Rex]

Fred Haise's actor (Bill Paxton) was also in Aliens, and it's crazy to see him act as comedic relief in Aliens, but a serious role in Apollo 13.

[@hennakettunen8755]

Was he in Terminator, too?

[@TT-Rex]

@@hennakettunen8755 yeah, he was in the first film for about a minute acting as a street punk.

[@allauricia1985]

A absolute icon of a movie So cool the Director Ron Howard had his family all through the movie His famous father Rance his mother Jean and his brother Clint They all had speaking roles in the film

[@ChristopherDemetrick]

All of the Apollo astronauts were given those vehicles as part of the program

[@blairhaffly1777]

That was a very nice reaction. Thank you.

[@FrankFreezy_]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Jessica_Roth]

As you like to see Tom Hanks being romantic, check out "Volunteers" where IRL he meets and falls in love with his co-star, Rita Wilson, who has been Mrs. Hanks ever since. It's a comedy, but you can still see the chemistry between them. For more Ed Harris (Gene Kranz, the head of Mission Control), check out "The Truman Show" and "Enemy at the Gates", among other films.

[@meghanmonroe]

We're scheduled to go back to the moon next year!

[@FrankFreezy_]

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