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Summary: A truly outstanding movie.
Review: It's an incredibly successful movie that can take a true story, to which we all already know the ending, and makes it edge-of-your-seat suspenseful. Ron Howard does just that with APOLLO 13, which I have long felt is one of the best movies out there. The entire cast is spot-on outstanding, from the smallest roles to the big names. The special effects are woven absolutely seamlessly into the flow of the story. And the musical score -- oh, the musical score! Watch the infamous "Houston we have a problem" scene to see how great acting, a great script, great special effects, great sound editing, a great score and especially great direction made for this great movie: Howard brings us on a upwardly-spiraling crescendo where the music grows ever more dramatic, the beeping and buzzing alarms and warnings of the spacecraft and mission control grow ever more worrisome, the astronauts and technicians grow ever more concerned ... the tension mounts and mounts, until Hanks/Lovell notices and reports the gassy stream of oxygen venting into space -- at which point, everything and everyone goes absolutely, completely silent. Nigh-on perfection.
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Summary: Fine movie making
Review: This movie is an excellent example of Ron Howard's talent. How this man has not won or been nominated for an Academy Award I will never know. Maybe people are still upset he wasted his time in front of the camera on Happy Days and Andy Griffith. Anyway, when I saw this in the theater I was impressed with the performances. I was impressed with the special effects. Most of all I was impressed with the story and the script making the situation as real as a docudrama can make this story be. I liked this movie so much that I own both the DTS DVD and the VHS version.
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Summary: Apollo 13
Review: I've seen this movie 21 times and I love it! This movie (a true story) is about an Apollo Space Crew that gets wrecked in space. The Movie tells the whole stroy. It's rated PG because of some minor cursing. I will tell you this: SEE THIS MOVIE! It's Da Bomb. Igive this movie 5 stars. I hope you enjoy it.
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Summary: amazing
Review: this movie is just great. it is realistic, it has great performances. it's drama with some nicely spaced comedic moments. it's just uplifting. it tels of how people can just automatically pull together, and it all actually happened. i just loved it
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Summary: Great Adventure
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. It's about three astronauts who adventure to the moon but... Buy it and you'll find out the rest. I reccomend it to anyone. My favorite part is when Fred throws up and the puke floats in the micro gravity. BUY THIS NOW! OR ELSE!
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Summary: tom hanks at his best
Review: none of us will ever know what jack swigert,jim lovell or fred haise went through,200,000 mi out in space that dredful night in 1970 , aboard apollo 13! this work of art starring tom hanks tells the story as good as jim lovell--cmdr, of apollo 13--i know, because jim lovell told me so in person and was the closest/biggest near disaster in nasa history, next to apollo 1 fire of 67! tells how america then in that ere set a goal, committed itself, and how many, mant people and companies pulled and worked together to turn a real life-threatning disaster; into a real success story! a must buy for all--keeps you on the edge entire time--as good as from the earth to the moon--a work like no otherabout apollo 13
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Summary: Amazingly breath-taking
Review: Now this is a good film. it describes perfectly the terror of a struggle for live millions of miles away from home. And in the same way it tells about the stress the Houston Mission Control has to go through while bringing back the lost astronauts. The book was bad, but this film is a really great purchase to do.
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Summary: Terrific film from start to finish
Review: Even if director Ron Howard directs nothing but dogs for the rest of his career, he made himself a place in history with this film. (He has also clearly made the jump from one side of the camera [The Music Man, Happy Days, Andy Griffith, ...] to the other -- no mean feat.) The cinematography is superb, the acting outstanding, and the story incredibly intense and moving. (The liftoff scene always chokes me up, for instance.) This film sends a visceral message of why the outreach into space must not be abandoned. And don't miss the alleged uncredited cameo appearance of Jim Lovell, the actual Apollo 13 mission commander, as the skipper of the recovery ship Iwo Jima. If you believe in the space programme, this can be a real uplifting tear-jerker; if you don't support the exploration of space, it does an excellent job of depicting the passion and commitment of those who do. A must-see.
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Summary: Apollo 13
Review: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan star in a heroic story based on the book "Lost Moon" by former astronaut Jim Lovell, the main character of this awesome film. The suspense starts on Friday the 13th, when Jim Lovell (Hanks), Jack Swigert (Bacon), and Fred Haise (Paxton) announce a flaw inside their space shuttle, "Apollo 13". After aborting their main mission, the new objective is to make it back to Earth... alive. A great film directed with maximum energy by Ron Howard (later directed Ransom starring Mel Gibson and Gary Sinise, an Apollo 13 cast member).
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Summary: Superb Effects, Great Acting, and Realistic
Review: This movie came out when I was a senior in high school and I saw it as soon as I could. Shortly thereafter, I had the priveledge of hearing a Shuttle astronaut speak, and someone asked her what the folks at NASA thought of the movie. Apparently, some people there had some time on their hands and went through it with a fine-toothed comb. They found a few minor flaws (in one scene, they showed the wrong NASA logo in the background, stuff like that) but overall they were impressed with the movie's accuracy.The launch scene is simply majestic, and the fact that the space scenes really were filmed in zero gravity (30 seconds at a time, in a NASA C-135) just blows me away. Finally, I was very impressed with the acting. Tom Hanks, in particular, did a superb job making his character more than just a 'Right Stuff' hotshot that you see in so many lesser films. All in all, a fantastic movie.
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