This was an incredible story! What are your thoughts on this film?

@iKvetch558

Жыл бұрын

That spot where Ken Mattingly stopped to watch the launch was probably just somewhere on US property at the Cape that was off limits to the public. Cape Canaveral is huge and includes lots of land that is not used by NASA but that is protected wildlife sanctuaries...the public is only allowed access to certain areas, but folks who work for NASA have much much greater access to the whole property.✌

@AlanCanon2222

Жыл бұрын

"If Stanley Kubrick had faked the moon landings, he'd have gotten the shadows right," lol.

@sianne79

Жыл бұрын

To add to the missions Series of Unfortunate Events, Fred Hayes opened the command module hatch too early, almost sending all three of them to the bottom of the ocean

@traceyb9443

Жыл бұрын

Apollo 13 is my favourite film of all time! Just love the interactions between the different characters. From Ed Harris's cool Flight Director to Gary Senise's interactions with the actor playing the young technician. It's all fantastic. Bill Paxton awesome too and much missed!

@AlanCanon2222

Жыл бұрын

@@traceyb9443 I've worked with actors like Bill Paxton, in community theater. They come across as really homespun and understated offstage, but as soon as they've got a "book" (script) in hand, it's so on.

The most incredible thing about this movie is you know how it ends because it’s based on a true story, but it still keeps you on the edge of your seat like it’s a suspense thriller. Great movie

@TheMarcHicks

Жыл бұрын

100% agree. The movie "Thirteen Days" is much the same in that regard. Have you seen it?

@jimtatro6550

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMarcHicks Yes! Great movie

@chadjenkins4876

Жыл бұрын

Also, it has been long enough now that many reactors don't know what happened

@turbulentlobster

Жыл бұрын

I once talked to a woman who was a young mathematician at NASA when this happened - one of the hundreds who worked around the clock to help get them home. She said this movie got her all tense and anxious to see if they made it, even though she'd literally been there.

The part where his mother says "If they could make a washing machine fly, my Jimmy could land it" always makes me cry.

@jillfromatlanta427

Жыл бұрын

That is Ron Howard's mom in that part...also love when she asks Neil Armstrong if he is in the space program too.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Her role was absolutely so well done!

@HermanVonPetri

Жыл бұрын

@@jillfromatlanta427 Ron Howard's brother and father are also in the movie. His father Rance played the priest, and his brother Clint played the bald flight controller who said they were showing a quadruple failure.

@DMWolFGurL

Жыл бұрын

I know that part always gets me, but it's the part where she looks and sounds so sad, where she said, "but they said he was." That part always makes me teary eyed because she reminds me so much of my own grandma.

The Captain who is shaking Tom Hanks hand on the deck of the aircraft carrier at the end of the film, is the real Jim Lovell. A good deal of the dialog in the film is taken directly from the flight audio tapes and are word for word. The tapes are available to listen to on youtube. It's amazing at the height of the emergency right after the explosion how calm they were in real life.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

That training really kicked in!

@wackyvorlon

Жыл бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions astronauts are also specifically selected for their ability to remain calm in a crisis. Adam Savage has hung out with them before, and he says they’re always really laid back.

@TreantmonksTemple

Жыл бұрын

One piece of dialogue that isn't word for word is "Houston, we have a problem.", though it is close (the real words were "Houston, we've had a problem.")

@AtomicAgePictures

Жыл бұрын

@@TreantmonksTemple this is true. And if you listen to the flight recording, it's actually said first by Jack Swaggart, then repeated by Jim Lovell.

@XeonAlpha

Жыл бұрын

Ron Howard was going to have him be an admiral but Lovell reportedly said “I retired a captain, and a captain I will be.”

"Steely-eyed missile man" was the greatest complement an astronaut could give to another. The fact that he was telling a non-astronaut flight engineer a "steely-eyed missile man" was *HUGE*.

@GrindHouseBlues83

Жыл бұрын

And thing is that engineer earned that title twice. His name is John Aaron, and he first earned that complement on Apollo 12. The Saturn V was struck by lighting twice during launch. The first hit killed the power cells, which disrupted the Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE), which sent back telemetry to Mission Control. the second took out the attitude indicator aboard Apollo 12. The astronauts had no clue what direction they were going and Mission Controls telemetry readings were completely garbled. Aaron was the only one in the room that recognized the garbled data patterns were from a disrupted SCE, and he knew that switching to the auxiliary mode of the SCE would fix the problem. He calmly got on the flight directors loop and gave the : “Flight, tell them to try SCE to AUX.”. He solved a fatal problem in about 15 seconds, and was the only dude in the room that knew how to fix it (the flight director literally responded “What the hell is SCE to AUX?”). He then went on to engineer the CM power-up solution as seen in Apollo 13. The man was an absolute unsung badass of NASA.

I saw this in the theater in 1995. It got so quiet during the re-entry sequence, you could have heard a snail blink. And of course, we all let out raucous cheers when we heard "good to see you again." This was old-school movie magic, even in 1995, the likes of which we may never see again.

@pokes404

Жыл бұрын

I've been to some opening-night screenings of Marvel, Star Wars, etc movies where the audience will erupt in cheers during certain points the film. If people are going to a midnight screening they're probably big fans who are already excited/invested in the movie, so it makes sense. However, I saw this movie during an afternoon matinee screening, about 2 weeks after the movie had come out, and still everyone erupted in cheers at that moment. It's the only time I've ever seen a reaction like that in a middle-of-the-day showing of a movie that had already been in theaters for a while. Really goes to show how masterfully this movie gets the audience invested in what is happening.

The newsman in the beginning was the the most respected and honorable Walter Cronkite! He’s become known as Uncle Walter and many of us who grew up watching him now say that Uncle Walter would be appalled if he could see what has happened to tv news today. Apollo 13 is a fantastic movie and I always look forward to your reactions!

@johnnehrich9601

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and the nation really felt his emotional shock when he announced the death of President Kennedy a few years earlier.

@cvanz

Жыл бұрын

“And that’s the way it is…” -Walter Cronkite

@johnnehrich9601

Жыл бұрын

@@cvanz WOW - that brings back memories.

@gippywhite

Жыл бұрын

That is true… But the reason why Marilyn Lovell, both in the movie and in real life watched the other guy, was because he was more real and factual. Marilyn always said that Walter Cronkite sugarcoated things too much. And when she needed to know what exactly was happening, that’s why she watched the other guy.

The tag line for Alien was 'In space no one can hear you scream.' For this movie it could be 'In space no one likes your pranks.'

@steriopticon2687

Жыл бұрын

Game over, man.

There is a series called From the Earth to the Moon that covers the moon program, and I highly recommend it for a reaction...almost nobody else has reacted to it. There was also a recent movie called First Man that is a somewhat accurate depiction of Neil Armstrong and his being the first man to step on the Moon. ✌

@dabe1971

Жыл бұрын

From the Earth to the Moon was made on the back of the success of Apollo 13. After the film took $300m+ over and above it's budget, he went to the money men and said "If the public liked the story of the failure so much, imagine how they'd love the success." They agreed and made him Executive Producer.

@minnesotajones261

Жыл бұрын

I agree as well. From the Earth to the Moon is an AMAZING series!

@kelly9876

Жыл бұрын

The Right Stuff is also amazing if you have not seen that it is "the" space movie

@iKvetch558

Жыл бұрын

@@kelly9876 That is also an excellent recommendation. Though it is a very long movie, and so not as popular with younger and less attentive audiences. ✌

@dwilborn1257

2 ай бұрын

I've just been rewatching that series, and it still brings tears to my eyes. It was so well made!!!

Just a nice historical fact. In the Apollo Flight Control Room in Mission Control there’s a plaque with a mirror on it that reads: “This mirror flown on Aquarius LM-7, to the moon April 11-17, 1970 returned by a grateful Apollo 13 crew to ‘reflect the image’ of the people in Mission Control who got us back!”

I was in elementary school when this event happened. They sent us home from school (a public school) to pray for the safe return of the astronauts. It was a very different time The woman who plays the mother of Jim Lovell is the real mother of Ron Howard

@richelliott9320

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think I was sent home but I remember a tv sent to the room to watch events

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed! I imagine something like Rich's experience would be what happens today if something like this were to happen. I love that Ron Howard's mom was in this, really cool!

"This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever experienced." "With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour." Fun Fact: Jim Lovell cameos as the captain greeting the astronauts when they come aboard (the USS New Orleans (LPH-11) was the one filmed since her sister ship was decommissioned and scrapped) the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2). He was a real US Navy captain and that's his actual uniform. American Education Fact: Ron Howard stated that, after the first test preview of the film, one of the comment cards had "total disdain" indicated. The audience member had written it was a "typical Hollywood" ending and that the crew would never have survived. Apparently, the person who wrote it did not know the film is based on a true story. Vomit Comet Fact: The cast and crew flew an estimated 612 parabolic arcs in NASA's KC-135 "Vomit Comet" airplane. Each arc produced 20 seconds of weightlessness. All of these flights were completed in 13 days. The actual KC-135 used (NASA serial number N930NA) was decommissioned in 1995 after 22 years of service and placed on display at Ellington Field.

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

@wackyvorlon

Жыл бұрын

IMO they were robbed. It deserved all nine.

Hey Chris: It's been awhile since I commented on one of your reactions. I grew up watching the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. I was captivated by them. And then when the launches became "routine," I was really sad. Apollo 13 didn't go as planned and that brought some interest back into the program. I think you'd enjoy a movie called "The Right Stuff." It's about how they selected the original 7 Mercury astronauts. I know you'd love it. Thanks for your hard work on these reactions. They're appreciated. All the best from Central Iowa, USA.

@joshridderhoff2050

Жыл бұрын

Second the recommendation for 'The Right Stuff'; great film based off the Tom Wolfe book of the same name. Would also highly recommend the HBO mini-series 'From the Earth to the Moon', also a Tom Hanks production that covers the NASA program from Mercury all the way through the end of Apollo. Fantastically well-written, great music by Michael Kamen... wish it got more attention from reactors like 'Band of Brothers' or 'Chernobyl' do.

@jillfromatlanta427

Жыл бұрын

Ditto The Right Stuff recommendation

Divorce rates in the astronaut corp were INCREDIBLY high, and it's not hard to see why- a VERY high stress job with long hours and lots of time away from family. Jim & Marilyn Lovell were one of the few couples to make it through, and they are still together.

@wackyvorlon

Жыл бұрын

And Mount Marilyn is a real feature on the moon, officially recognized by the IAU in 2017.

@TreantmonksTemple

Жыл бұрын

My favorite related story is how Gordon Cooper's marraige had already fallen apart when selected for the Mercury program, and he convinced his estranged wife to pretend they were still happily married because they were looking for astronauts that were family men. This is depicted in the movie The Right Stuff, but it wasn't made up for the movie.

@DonnaCPunk

Жыл бұрын

There were a lot of astronaut "groupies" back then too. The astronauts (and their families) were thrust onto a platform of fame not seen at the time. Infidelity likely caused quite a few of those break ups as well.

@kelly9876

Жыл бұрын

there is an interesting book "The Astronauts' Wives Club" which really dives into the family life. One of the most interesting stories is Gus Grissom's wife- her husband flew in WW2 and the Korean war, was a test pilot, one of the original 7 astronauts, and he died in the fire at the start of the movie. She said that she had been waiting for that call that her husband was dead for the last 20 years, and now that she finally got it, she could stop holding her breathe and live her own life.

The grandmother was played by Jean Howard, director Ron Howard's mother and the priest by his father Rance Howard.

Fun fact: the part about Mount Marilyn is absolutely true. It was informal until 2017, when it was officially recognized by the IAU.

Fun fact...it is perhaps not the best consolation prize, but because they did not go into orbit around the Moon, the crew of Apollo 13 still hold the record for the farthest any human beings have ever been away from Earth. It seems likely that the record may be in jeopardy now that Artemis is actually flying, but at least for now, it still belongs to Lovell, Haise, and Swigert. ✌💯

The score for this film is one of my favorites ever, and I am a fiend for film scores. It brings me back to my college years in Chicago when I would go walking with my headphones on, just being in the city and letting the music guide my walk and mood. Best time of my life.

Lovell’s Mom in the nursing home is Ron Howard’s mother. And his brother Clint Howard is the flight controller in Houston. And the priest at the Lovell house is his father.

No matter how many times I've seen this movie, I still end up holding my breath during the reentry scene.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Old enough to remember the 24 hour church vigils, prayers offered at sporting events, even prayers from the Pope at the Vatican. Very emotional time. The crew were not notified of all this to keep them focused.

@CPTDoom

Жыл бұрын

Our priest said special prayers for the astronauts during Mass, and I asked my mother what was going on (I was 3). When she explained the ship had been damaged in space, I said, with perfect kid logic, "just send another one up to get them."

The biggest difference between the movie and the actual events when you listen to the actual audio is how calm they remained. There was no arguing about blame, that was all dramatic licence, they just got on with the job. There's a great old video of the initial hour after the explosion here. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqSIzseEqdGZl8Y.html

This story was probably the closest the world has come to complete unity. The entire world was tuned into this and praying for these astronauts. The Soviet Union, who was enemies with the US at the time, promised every support measure they could, and actually sent 4 ships to the area the spacecraft was expected to splash down to help in any way they could. The world will never be as united as it was during the days of Apollo 13

The weightless scenes were achieved by building a set inside NASA's KC-135 "vomit comet" airplane. The plane would climb to a high altitude, and then dive, giving the effect of weightlessness for about 25 seconds inside the aircraft. To get the needed footage they made around 600 dives in the KC-135. Apparently Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Ron Howard and several of the crew hold records for more time in simulated weightlessness in the KC-135 than any NASA astronaut.

I read this book years ago. At one point while reading I realized I was reading about the accident on the anniversary of the accident at the same time of the day. I had to pause a bit to collect myself.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Wow! What a powerful moment.

It’s a good movie, the only annoying thing is that the fight in the spaceship never actually happened. The crew themselves were actually pretty annoyed about it when it came out because it implied they lost their cool with one another, which never actually happened at all. It was just put in there to add dramatic affect.

It is so funny to see Ronald Howard as an adult directing such stunning movies. As a kid, he was the lisping Winfred Paroo in the 1962 Music Man (another must-see in my book) and as Opie on the Andy Griffith tv show, then as teenage Richie Cunningham on the tv show, Happy Days.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

I've never heard of the first role, (something to look forward to) but definitely familiar with him in the latter 2 haha.

@johnnehrich9601

Жыл бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions Yes, in my book, the Music Man is one of those must-see movies - the 1962 version, not the more recent one with Robert Downing, Jr. which is as bad as the first one is good. You probably know a bunch of the songs: Seventy-six Trombones, Marian the Librarian, Trouble with a Capital T. Shirley Jones (Partridge Family) sings "When There Was You" which the Beatles picked up and made one of their songs. There is a great dance number, The Shipoopi, which Family Guy did as Peter Griffith at a football game, duplicating both the words, but also the dance moves.

@jasontoddman7265

Жыл бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions Oh, we got trouble! Right here in River City! 😁

If I were ever in such a sticky situation I'd want Ed Harris' Gene Kranz on my side. One of my all time favorite films. The most heartbreaking line "Was it the door?" The funniest line "Are you boys in the space program, too?"

The real Jim Lovell played the Captain that shook Tom Hank's hand at the end of the movie. Thanks for another great reaction. I always look forward to them!

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy them, John.

All the actors did a great job on this film, but my favorite by far was Ed Harris. This man can portray anyone!

@traceyb9443

Жыл бұрын

A barnstorming performance from Ed! Love him! 😁

Did anyone notice how Gene doesn't celebrate until they sign off and the mission is completely over. He stays with it right to the end

No matter how often I see this, no matter how well I know the events and results, it still hits all the feels. This is Opie’s finest film. 🚀🌘

I've seen this movie dozens of times, but I still have the same reaction you did when Jeffrey asks "Was it the door?" A cast note: As usual, Ron Howard puts his family in the movie. Everyone sees his brother Ken, his mom and his dad, but few people know that his daughter was the girl in the yellow dress the night before the launch. She would later play Two-slice Hilly in The Help.

@ronsavage6491

Жыл бұрын

Also, in my opinion, this is James Horner's best score.

@kathyastrom1315

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean Clint Howard? He is a great actor on his own, outside of his brother’s films, but I love seeing him pop up here as well.

@wackyvorlon

Жыл бұрын

@@kathyastrom1315 yup, Clint was in Mission Control. Also so people know who to look for, Ron Howard’s mom plays Jim Lovell’s mother.

@ronsavage6491

Жыл бұрын

Yes,yes,yes of course. Little brain fart there.

Such a great biopic. It's so cool that parts of this movie were actually shot on what's called the vomit comet, a plane that does huge parabolas which simulates weightlessness for about 30-40 seconds. Great reaction

Absolutely incredible movie!

I saw this movie 7 times in the theatre. It's even better on the big screen, even if I did know the ending going in. I've been a big fan of the space program since I was a kid, so I know about all of these missions and the astronauts. If you want to do a miniseries about the moon missions, Tom Hanks and HBO did From the Earth to the Moon. It's easily my favorite HBO miniseries. The episode that covers Apollo 13 is pretty clever because they don't try to remake the story. It's tackled from another perspective. My favorite story about the making of this movie is one the Lovell told. Dunno if you're into film commentaries but I am. So I was thrilled to see a commentary track with Jim and Marilyn Lovell for the movie. They were talking about how seriously Ron Howard and his crew were taking in staying as close to reality as possible. Jim said he and Marilyn walked onto the set for their living room and they were floored by how identical it was to their actual home. They said as much to Ron and the crew but (I think) Marilyn pointed to the rug in front of the couch and said, "only this rug wasn't this color". He said the looks of horror on all the crews faces made them laugh. Then they told the crew they were just kidding, the rug was correct. That's how seriously they took the job on this movie. Such a funny story. The ring story is also true. Marylin said she thought people would believe it was made up for the film, since it was so dramatic. Nope. She really did lose her ring in the shower drain. She did get it back tho! Also, Jim and Marilyn were like that in real life. High school sweethearts and were one of the few astronaut couples to survive the space program without getting divorced. (So many couples divorced during that time. There's a whole episode about the wives in From the Earth to the Moon).

Fun fact - Jim Lowell's mother is played by Ron Howard's real life mom and Lowell has a brief cameo as the officer at the end who is part of the rescue mission greeting Tom Hanks.

@stephenkehl7158

Жыл бұрын

Lovell, not Lowell, but close enough. Ron Howard’s father, Rance, is the minister that sits with the family during reentry, and Ron’s brother Clint plays Sy Liebergot, the tech that recommends shutting down the reactant valves to try to save the oxygen.

You should check out the HBO miniseries that Tom Hanks and Ron Howard produced after this film, called From the Earth to the Moon. It covers the Gemini program in the first episode, then the Apollo program in the rest of the series. There are some really terrific episodes, and the cast is amazing.

If you enjoyed this movie, you should try “The Right Stuff”. Those astronauts in the Mercury program were my heroes when I was a kid. Enjoy your reviews. Peace Brother. ✌️

@TreantmonksTemple

Жыл бұрын

Good movie if you skip the part where they suggest Gus Grissom blew the hatch himself.

@TTM9691

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic movie, and also a fantastic book.

@davidmarquardt9034

Жыл бұрын

Also in the "The Right Stuff" Ed Harris plays John Glenn, one of the Mercury 7. He was the first Marine in space.

I love this movie. And what's more, James Horner is again killing it with the score. The music is particularly amazing in the scenes around the launch. It's like a chorale which if I gave myself enough time I could probably play on the organ. Maybe. :) Great reaction!

At 22:20 Marc McClure, whom play the role of Jimmy Olsen in the 80s Superman movies was in the control room in this movie 😁👍

Another Apollo moon mission related movie I absolutely love is “The Dish”. It’s an Australian made film that I don’t think saw a big worldwide theater release so it’s not super well known but it’s one of my favorite films ever. It’s a bit more loosely based on history than this film though with the core story being about the zany fictional characters and humor as much as the historical events but I think it also does a good job of highlighting how the moon missions were an international effort. I’d love to see someone react to this movie. Don’t think anyone on KZread has yet.

@DonnaCPunk

Жыл бұрын

The Dish is great. Such a fun, sweet movie. Chris would love it!

Think what I love the most about this film is how Ron Howard portrays the human relationships that are going on. So much warmth despite the desperate situation that is going on. And humans working together to come up with a plan, listening to the young person in the room rather than ignoring them.

I was literally glued to my TV watching the events of Apollo 13 in 1970. I was 18 at the time. The ingenuity of NASA"S engineers to get the astronauts back safely was amazing!! Ron Howard did an amazing job making this movie accurate to the events of Apollo 13. High school students, even elementary school kids should watch this movie. I think it would inspire them to go into STEM classes.

This is probably the best space movie ever made. My one issue with it is how they show the crew arguing with each other to the point of yelling. I totally understand the movie needs to create drama, but in real life, astronauts are some of the most professional people ever. They would never resort to yelling even in this situation. You can actually listen to the recorded comms of the entire mission and not once do they show panic, despite the extremely dire situation they were in

I remember my fourth grade teacher leading us in a prayer for the astronauts. Every space mission then was an epic event but this one had everyone tuned in.

"No, I do not have the measles," while glaring at the shamefaced flight surgeon. LOL!

Ahhh I love this movie, I remember we'd watch it in social studies/history during days when the teacher didn't feel like teaching or the lesson plan wasn't ready. It always started at launch and class got out not long after they begin powering up the LEM. Amazing cinematography, amazing music too! (Ending theme music is the most beautiful piece I'd say) Trivia (From what I can remember): -The nightmare Mrs. Lovell had was inspired by a movie she and Jim had seen some weeks earlier. I forget the name of the movie but it's a fictionalized space disaster movie where one of the characters gets blown out the door and lost in space. Not sure why you'd bring your wife to see a space disaster movie when that's your job, but who knows. Maybe he talked to her later about how must safer space travel is compared to the dramatized fictional film. IDK -Mrs. Lovell did actually drop her wedding ring in the shower before the launch, first time in the years she'd been showering with it on that it ever fell off. But she did get it back from the drain so no worries. -When Jim took of his bio-monitor device, he said it was "to conserve power," but mostly, as he said, "so no one would see how scared I was." -The reason the LEM and CM didn't use the same CO2 scrubbers, was because they were built by two different companies who only made sure they could fit together. After Apollo 13, things like CO2 scrubbers were made to be cross compatable. -The CO2 scare didn't sneak up on the crew, and the folks at NASA were trying to figure out the work around much earlier in the flight as they all knew the CO2 scrubbers would be incompatable between CM and LEM

@davidmarquardt9034

Жыл бұрын

The movie your thinking about was "Marooned" from 1968.

Even after decades of the Space Shuttle, and now the Artemis I launch vehicle, I gotta say that the Saturn V rocket is still the most impressive looking launch vehicle ever devised!

Absolutely one of my favourite movies. I never get tired of it and never find it not a strain on my nerves in the cosiest of ways.

Can we just give it up for James Horner's magnificent soundtrack. Such an underrated film composer IMHO. Also did the Soundtrack for A Beautiful Mind.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏 Both films have tremendous music!

@itt23r

Жыл бұрын

Underrated!? I know of no one who knows movie scores who doesn't rate Horner as one of the greatest of all time. Thomas Newman is underrated, yes, but not Horner.

The scene where the guys figure out how to rig the filters inspired me to major in Engineering - "we've got to make this fit into the hole for this using nothing but that."

I love watching and rewatching the launch sequence, particularly compared to the science fiction movies before NASA starting having manned flights. I recall one in particular - can't remember the title, though - where it was half a dozen "spacemen" standing in large circular space with a few dials on the wall. And in reality, astronauts get crammed into tiny spaces, while the idea of basically throwing away the rocket stages and the LEM because lifting any weight is so prohibitive.

Born in 1951, I lived through this. You should watch The Right Stuff, Hidden Figures, and of course Apollo 13. I remember the fire and the shuttle disaster. Wow! My parents lived the horse and carriage to a man on the moon. Wow! I wonder what the next generation will see?

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

1952 for me .... I use to get "sick" for every Mercury and Gemini launch!

@TTM9691

Жыл бұрын

Love "The Right Stuff". "Hidden Figures" is also very good.

First Man starring Ryan Gosling was a good movie too. it is about Neil Armstrong's life leading up to his moon walk. lots of family dynamic in that movie as well.

@traceyb9443

Жыл бұрын

The gyroscope scene in First Man is phenomenal. Just don't watch that part whilst you are having your dinner! 😅

Ron Howard’s whole family acted in this film. His mother Jean plays the role of Jim Lovell’s mother His brother Clint plays the role of Sy Liepgott (balding coke-bottle glasses guy in flight control) His dad Rance plays the priest in the watch party scene at the end of the film .

The admiral shaming hands with Tom Hanks on the carrier at the end is the real Jim Lovell

The part where Mrs Lovell’s ring goes down the shower drain is true. In Jim’s book, Lost Moon, he tells of how close the owner of the hotel and bar was with all of the astronauts. He disassembled the plumbing and was able to get her ring back to her.

You ask at the end if they would have been able to solve the power issues if Ken had been on the spacecraft? This is one of the things the movie (which is pretty accurate) does take dramatic licence with. Ken wasn't actually involved in figuring out the power issues, and the simulator wasn't used. They figured for the movie Ken working the simulator better communicated with the audience the challenge of working through the problem. (Fun fact: they even ended up with extra amps). The blackout period on re-entry was even longer than depicted in the movie, and they really were concerned - apparently it was due to a shallow re-entry.

I'm a Central Florida native in my 60's. The place where Ken Matenly watch the liftoff was on the base, not near the public area. In the era of the shuttles you could apply for passes to get closer. But Apollo launches didn't allow that. The only medium that comes near to showing how powerful the Saturn V rockets were was at the opening prologue in The Hall of Presidents at Disney World. It took up three screens. It was simply too dangerous to let the public anywhere near it. I also wish I could convey how the whole united for those few days. Nothing else like it's ever happened.

Can never remember his name but the actor who starred in Gentle Ben when I was a kid! Love him in this too! ❤

@phillipray4380

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That would be Clint Howard, Ron’s little brother. He’s in most of Ron Howard’s films.

@traceyb9443

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@@phillipray4380 I'd never realised they were brothers before! You learn something new every day! 😁

@phillipray4380

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@@traceyb9443 more trivia: they were also on the Andy Griffith show together. Clint played Leon, the little kid with the cowboy hat. 🙃

So one other fun fact. Artemis I will be performing re-entry about 24 hours (12/11/2022 12:30PM ET) from now. Artemis I is the first (unmanned) flight of our new Orion spacecraft that’s going to take people back to the moon. Entry should be streaming live on NASA TV and YT tomorrow. Let’s hope it goes well.

@jamesalexander5623

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I got some pictures of Artemis on the launch pad on my last trip to Florida. I toured the Kennedy Space Center for the 7th time.

@CasualNerdReactions

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Awesome, I'll keep an eye out, thanks!

One of my favorite movies and this was a great reaction! Thank you!

This is great film making. I met the real Fred Haise about 10 years ago. He's a really cool dude. He likes the movie in general, but he said that it was a lot more dramatic than the reality. Ron Howard said to him that he has listened to all the audio recordings, and they were such cool customers that it almost sounded like the problem wasn't that big. I think Haise agreed that it did capture well how high the stakes were and was an effective way to present it to the public.

Yes!!! This is my favorite movie ever!!!

Another great Ron Howard movie based on a true story is "RUSH" (2013) about racing cars (Formula 1) in the 1970's. Very good. Very underrated. (Fun fact: Jeremy Clarkson asked Ron Howard if he is a "car-freak". Ron answered, "No not at all". Jeremy: "But how can you make a film about racing cars if you are not good with cars?" Ron: "Well, luckily I'm very good at making films.") PS. I think Ron Howard still drives an old VW Beetle.

The ship’s Admiral in the final scene was played by Jim Lovell

I'm glad you enjoyed this one. I love this movie! I was 12 when it came out and I remember the fanfare and accolades it received. I also remember Hardees restaurant releasing a plastic Apollo 13 shuttle as a give away for kids for the movie. They were white plastic cylinders ( which came with decals) that stacked and connected to form the space shuttle. Housed within were special Apollo 13 pogs ( yes, pogs!!!) along with metal Apollo 13 slammers. I had that shuttle for years. As always, I love your reactions and can't wait to see what you watch next.

The admiral that Tom Hanks was talking to there at the end was the real Jim Lovell.

This is one of those movies that I'll watch every time it comes on. I don't quite know why, but it's just great from start to finish. Thanks for reacting to it!

This is probably my favourite movie of all time. There are certainly others that I might like more at any given moment, but this one is _always_ right near the top and the emotional moments hit exactly the same every single time I watch it.

I’ve seen 13 about a hundred times. Stunning film and phenomenal film making. And a great and emotional reaction. Thank you.

An interesting fact a lot of people don’t realize is the loss of oxygen wasn’t really about not being able to breath. The majority of oxygen on the spacecraft was actually used to react with hydrogen to produce electricity in a hydrogen/oxygen fuel cell. During the Apollo missions solar panels weren’t efficient enough so all the power was generated by combining hydrogen and oxygen with a catalyst to generate electricity and as a byproduct water. This is also why they make a passing comment about not having enough water. They were able to survive using the oxygen from the LEM to make it back to earth, but with the command module being basically dead they had no chance of surviving atmospheric reentry except the batteries left in the CM.

You ight consider watching "The Right Stuff" which is also a true story. Amazing movie based on an amazing book about the first astronauts.

Hey Chris, just wanted to second the suggestions to do what is known as a companion piece to Apollo 13 (and vice-versa), "From the Earth to the Moon" (1995) 12-part series because it's produced by both Tom Hanks and Ron Howard where Tom hosts each episode and stars in the last one. It's mostly about the Apollo missions, but has a couple of Mercury and Gemini missions. I'm not suggesting you do react vids on them, but that would be a cool idea since I don't think anyone else has! But whether you make videos or not, watch the series someday to get a lot of backstory on the Apollo missions. For a drama that precedes FtEttM chronologically check out "The Right Stuff" (1983) that's about the formation of NASA itself and the Mercury missions. Not surprised you liked Apollo 13 and know that we were stressed out too back in 1970 when all this was going down. And I got stressed again watching this in the theater even though I knew the outcome! LOL! But I think you'll like FtEttM too such as the episode dedicated to the Apollo One fire, and its Apollo 13 episode done from a very different perspective than "Apollo 13" movie you just watched, as well as the rest. Anyway, a nice video you did here 🖖👽 BTW, I know it's mid December but if you want to or can squeeze in another old Christmas classic to add to your It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle On 34th Street classics do "A Christmas Carol" from 1938. Based on the Charles Dickens novella of the mid 1800s, one remade many times later. If it's too late for this year plan it for next. 😉👍

Most people aren't aware of this, but Apollo 13 is based on a true story.

@CasualNerdReactions

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Are you sure most people aren't aware of this? I think people know.

@sparksdrinker5650

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Nope, but then again I only hang out with flat-earthers.

Would love to see you react to "The Right Stuff" now!

Fun Fact: Tom Hanks played Jim Lovell and at 29:11 where he is shaking the Navy officers hand was the real Jim Lovell.

....I had the honor of getting to meet Gene Kranz after this movie came out. He did a speaking tour to the many many schools wherein all us kids were interested in space and wanted to be astronauts again after seeing the movie. This was nine years after all us kids had already been completely traumatized by crowding into the entryways of our schools to watch the Challenger blow up on live TV and no one wanted to be astronauts anymore....

Down at the launch zone at Cape Canaveral there are strict 'watch areas' where the public can view the launches from. The rest is strictly prohibited for safety reasons, so Mattingly watching by himself was due to him having access to an area that is off limits to the public.

Yay! What a pleasant surprise. Nostalgic movie for me that I used to love as a kid.

Although they are really not directly related, I think of Hidden Figures, Apollo 13, and the Martian as a sort of trilogy, showing the evolution of space flight.

@wackyvorlon

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They also show some of the amazing things humanity is capable of.

@CasualNerdReactions

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I wanted to watch Hidden Figures, one day!

@johnnehrich9601

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@@CasualNerdReactions It makes me so mad that this story was so well . . . hidden . . . all these years. Amazing. Not sure when you might get to it, but you ought to use Black History Month as a reason to move it to the front of the line for Feb.

the woman playing Lovells mom, is the mother of Ron Howard, the director!

I remember it well being a teen at the time, and the movie is as close as possible to the real event, we should be proud of every real astronaut and of Ron Howard for an incredible movie. And well done NASA in getting them home safely.

Great great movie.

I remember the daily bulletins on TV - I was around 12 years old.

Astronaut Ken Mattingly was not at the Cape for the launch. He was at Mission Control in Houston.

Yeah… I was stressed out and I knew the history, it was very well done in that respect. There’s a great joke about Kubrick faking the landing, which he of course did, but he insisted filming on location. The rather sad thing about the fire was that IIRC the Russians apparently knew about the problem, but didn’t warn the States because of the whole Cold War enemies deal. Though the US rather did the a similar thing decades earlier with not sharing helium tech with the Germans and so they used Hydrogen instead and we all know about another famous airship that caught on fire. The Hindenburg.

A movie I highly recommend to everyone is The Right Stuff. A movie consistently in my top 3 all time from the mid eighties til today. A brilliant, gorgeous movie.

i am still in absolute awe of how this flick caught the majesty and pure wonder of launching a ship to another world. This happened in the sixties/early seventies. it is a new century and we are in the future they dreamed of back then, and the world is not the world of scientific wonders the thought it would be. Instead we got people who wont take vaccines on the word of a third grade dropout and there are idiots who think the world is flat. The last generation left the next a dystopia to live in. Hope we're all proud of ourselves.

The stuff adding the idea there was a lot of superstition is there just to help build up the suspense. Marilyn Lovell didn't lose her wedding ring, etc., in real life. The fact that we are so concerned that they will be able to come home safely (when we already KNOW they did!) says a lot about how well this film was made. I got to see it at a TCM Film Festival not long ago with the real Jim Lovell in attendance. When he was introduced, he got a standing ovation to honor him, as a genuine American hero. A very moving moment!

@dr.burtgummerfan439

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She didn't lose it, but she DID have to call a plumber to retrieve it.

My eighth grade class was given a box of items and we had to figure out the solution. It was the same things they had in the Apollo 13 situation. We had to figure out how to put a square peg in a round whole. We were put in two groups to see who could figure it out first. My team lost. It was neat to find out later it was about the Apollo 13 situation. It gave us a glimpse of the major problems that had to be figured out.

@CasualNerdReactions

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That's a really cool assignment!

From the Earth to the Moon HBO mini series is well worth reacting to. It was produced by Tom Hanks who also introduces each episode. This movie kind of sits in the middle and they tackle it from the perspective of the news people.

Ron Howard already had a reputation in Hollywood as a good director. This film pushed him up the charts as a respected director, to be taken seriously.

@CasualNerdReactions

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Rightly so!

The little boy's worry get me every time. 😥

@CasualNerdReactions

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Same!

The reason "a ton of people" didn't watch launches from Ken's vantage point is that even if the vehicle didn't explode, viewers would be deafened. THIS version of Ken Mattingly is shown there because he is (in one sense) a fictional character with narrative duties to perform. This is what excuses other liberties taken by the film.

This was a good movie, Hanks and Sinise reunited again 👍👍

I have never made it through this entire movie without falling asleep. Even in the theaters when it first came out I fell asleep about 20 minutes and missed the rest of it. For some reason space travel is among the most uninteresting topics I can think of no matter how I try to make it exciting in my mind.

I knew they would too; I watched it live.