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FIRST TIME WATCHING: Apollo 13 (Patreon)

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2024-08-09 13:00:10
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Happy Feature Friday Folks!

Excited to get into this one with y'all. Even though I had heard about this event before, I really did not remember what happened. So I intentionally decided to go into this movie blind. I hope you enjoy watching this with me!

As always, thank you for your support here on Patreon. Until the next one, take care and stay golden :)

LINK: https://youtu.be/YE41j4JUhw0

Original Movie: Apollo 13

Comments

Darryl Low

Happy Feature Friday Nat. Not seen this movie for ages, so looking forward to watching it. Going to save it for tomorrow morning and watch it with you then. Thanks for your awesome streams last night. They were a lot of fun. Have a brilliant weekend Nat 💛

djKENTO

any excuse to bust out this 4k blu-ray! LET'S GOOOO!

Thomas Wetherell

This one is a classic, definitely one of my top five all time favorites. It tells an amazing story in addition to just being a really great and fun movie. Stories like this one make me wish that the Space Race and our astronauts in general got more mainstream attention than they do. Missions like this one, Apollo 1, STS-51-L (Challenger) and STS-107 (Columbia) show that just like military servicemen, policemen, firefighters etc, astronauts are putting themselves in harms way for a higher purpose and we should all be grateful for them too. If you’d like to explore space movies and shows further Natalie, I highly recommend the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and the movie First Man. From the Earth to the Moon is basically to Apollo 13 what Band of Brothers is to Saving Private Ryan and First Man stars Ryan Gosling and is about Neil Armstrong from when he was an X-15 test pilot through Apollo 11.

Dillon Sylvester

Please do Donnie Darko at some point! It hasn't been winning the polls because it is relatively unknown to most people and you have been putting it next to heavy hitters like this movie. I swear you will find it fascinating!

Erik Larson

Awesome movie! A couple of things (one fun fact and one question you asked about filming). The Navy officer Tom Hanks is shaking hands with at the end was the real Jim Lovell. Please look up, but if I remember correctly Ron Howard got the studio to pay for them to fill a lot of the scenes in space on one of the planes that are used for low gravity training (does the arcs to get weightlessness) and put the set pieces and filmed on those flights.

Chris Cooper
>>146072233

Donnie Darko "relatively unknown"? Come on... it's not winning because it's just not that popular, it really hasn't aged particularly well, and really does fit that genre of a "cult classic" in that it is pretty polarising about how people feel about it.

bytefyre

Fun fact: the elder Naval Officer you saw Tom Hanks shake hands with on the aircraft carrier was the real Jim Lovell. Glad you enjoyed this one so much!

Sam Kimpton

There's a romanticism about the space program that is captured beautifully by this film. One thing that comes really close is the Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at Kennedy Space Center. The film that shows before the actual shuttle is shown gives me goosebumps every time I see it.

Justin M York

I encourage you to go and listen to archival audio from the actual emergency as it unfolded. How they handled everything in such a controlling calm demeanor never ceases to amaze me.

Connor Ellis

CSM - Command and Service Module. The big end that stays orbiting the moon whilst the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) goes down and and lands and then eventually comes back up and redocks to the CSM.

Taff Lewis

Your choice to go in blind, was PERFECT!. [go with your gut, that's why we are here.] Though 3 in 1970, 1st viewed this in 1997ish VHS, it was significantly impactful; having watched the 1986 Challenger launch live in Civics Class. Rewatching this now with you, I would put (for me) as one of your Top 5 overall since rewatching A New Hope with you back during the lock-down. Can't say it enough, thank you for your work. Truly appreciated.

Mastervodo

First time watching this movie. And so happy to be watching it with our friend Natalie. Bill Paxton was Hudson in Aliens. Had the best lines in the movie. "Stop your grinnin and drop your linen" - "Game Over man, Game Over!" "What do you mean they cut the power? They're Animals!" "Why don't you put her in charge?!" Paxton has the singular distinction of being the only actor killed by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator. He is also one of the best parts of True Lies, which I hope Natalie will get to one day! (With Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold S.) I noticed in this movie at one point, someone in the command center solved a problem, and another patted him on the back and said, "You're a steely-eyed missile man". I first heard that term in "The Martian", which is another awesome movie in the same vein as this one. Space mission gone wrong and overcome with the power of figuring shit out. I looked up that reference, and it is credited to a guy named John Aaron. He was in mission control for Apollo 12 when it was struck by lightning 36 seconds after liftoff. The mission was going to be aborted because the lightning strike garbled the telemetry systems. Aaron was able to fix the problem because he was a freaking genius and had the flight director tell the astronauts to flip a particular switch on an obscure system, which fixed the problem. As I understand it, calling someone in this field a "steely-eyed missile man" is the highest compliment one can give. Read full story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aaron He was also in this movie as the person at the end who worked out the power-up sequence so they could re-enter safely. Great movie! Great reaction! Thank you Natalie! And thanks to anyone who got through all of that exposition.

Shen V

It's been many years since I last watched this movie. It still hits just right. I had seen that Apollo 11 documentary a few years back, edited together just from real footage and the comms recordings. Zero dramatization, but that too made me keenly aware of *humanity*, you know? Which in turn, together with playing some Kerbal Space Program, informs a whole kind of different appreciation for this. ... You should do a Kerbal Space Program stream. Let chat teach you to land on the Mun. It's not harder than beating Godrick.

Taff Lewis

Also... [my] Notable Paxton List of favorite Characters: Aliens, Predator 2, NEAR DARK, Trespass, TOMBSTONE, True Lies, A SIMPLE PLAN, Mighty Joe Young, Frailty, EDGE OF TOMORROW, Weird Science.

Christopher Gray

Hudson, 17 days we’re not gonna last 17 hours, Hudson.

Chris Gronau

Yes, the reentry radio blackout for Apollo 13 was quite a bit longer than predicted. Apollo 13 reentered the atmosphere at a slightly shallower angle than expected, which prolonged the blackout time. As a result, the blackout was about a minute and a half longer than predicted (depending on which set of records you look at). Also, the zero-gee scenes were filmed on NASA's "Vomit Comet", a plane NASA uses to simulate zero-gee by flying in parabolic arcs. Each arc produces about 20-30 seconds of (pretty close to) zero-gee. The movie sets were loaded onto the airplane and the zero-gee scenes were filmed during these short periods of zero-gee.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

I've heard the actual audio from the crew and it's crazy how calm they were. In the movie they did dramatize it some for the cinematic effect but in actuality, you gotta understand these guys were "steely eyed missle men" chosen from the best fighter pilots in the US military, they had nerves of steel. Chosen for their intelligence and ability to think and physically operate under pressure and physical duress, and supported by thousands of some of the smartest people you could find, including some German scientists who, well let's just say their past affiliations were questionable to say the least. You gotta see "The Right Stuff", it's a bit long but it's a very entertaining version of the story of how the astronaut program was created. I totally agree about the music, it's perfect, in fact I consider this a perfect movie, a movie I could not imagine being any better at what it is, Ron Howard has made a lot of amazing movies but even he says this is his masterpiece. Btw a lot of the little details are true, like Marilyn Lovell's ring going down the drain, the car stalling,etc.

Brian

Was that cassette player playing like 8 track tapes?

Ed Bartlett
>>146099063

And the real Marilyn Lovell was in the stands during the launch. :)

Darryl Low

Thanks for a really amazing reaction Nat. Loved that you went into this movie not knowing the full outcome of the story. It was like watching the movie for the first time through your eyes 😢😊 James Horner's score is so epic and emotional. He wrote music for quite a few of Ron Howard's movies. I always remember reading a great quote from him saying that film music isn't there to make you cry, but to allow you to cry. It certainly had that impact during the final scenes.

Thomas Wetherell

Natalie, you asked how they filmed the weightless scenes in the movie and interestingly enough NASA actually pulled some strings to help out with that. They use an airplane called the “vomit comet” to train astronauts in the effects of weightless, it flies up high and then dives really fast and it makes the passengers weightless during the dive. Ron Howard got permission from NASA to use the vomit comet for the film.

Jeremy

You should react to the From the Earth to the Moon miniseries at some point. Tom Hanks produced it and it covers a lot of NASA's history. Really good show!

John Locke

Natalie, also, not sure if anybody mentioned this, but my personal favorite fact about this whole incident: Jack Blacks mother while pregnant with Jack black in the hospital about to give berth played a pretty big role in helping the astronauts get home and save them. She worked on the Apollo guidance computer. She took her work to the hospital, printed out the problem, called her boss, and said she finished it before giving birth to Jack Black.

Michael Kemmet

re: Bill Paxton The Terminator - he was one of the punks Arnie assaulted at the Griffith Observatory. Aliens - "Game over, man. Game over!" Titanic - the expedition commander(or treasure hunter) of the framing story Twister - lead role Edge of Tomorrow - the master sergeant - "You're American?" "No, sir, I'm from Missouri."

LittleGalaxyBoy

My teacher showed us this in class. Watching it within the Science Lab gave the film a whole differant vibe oddly enough but one I adored. Still one of my favourite films to this day. After attending Comic Con this year and being able to see a small part of Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) I can tell right away that 60s Space Age lovers are in for a treat. They'll pulled heavily from the Apollo program so I'm excited for more 60s space age stuff moving forward.

Matt Smith
>>146220793

It is true that Judith Cohen was an engineer who worked one of hundreds of companies that did work for NASA, but her son Jack Black was born 8 months before the Apollo 13 mission, so I think someone is pulling your leg.

Matt Smith
>>146157428

I turned 9 years old in April of 1970 and watching this drama unfold over that rainy week in April was just indescribable. It's funny how you can't remember a ton of shit from when you were a kid, and then some things you remember all the details. It was all anyone talked about after the accident happened. Papers released "Extra" editions. The 3 TV channels we had back then all broke into regularly scheduled programing, which almost never happened unless it was a huge deal! Getting to see Nat react is an extra special treat.

Charles Herbig
>>146140105

No, that was regular cassette tape. You can’t see any spinning hubs in an 8-track.

Charles Herbig
>>146099063

Jim and Marilyn Lovell stayed married until her death in August, 2023, which is really touching. The astronaut program was kind of hard on marriages. In 2017, the IAU officially recognized her lunar mountain as Mount Marilyn.

Charles Herbig

The DVD has a number of extras, including a commentary track with Jim and Marilyn. The movie compressed some stuff, but Jim’s biggest callout was that Haise and Schwigert didn’t have a fight over the cryo stir. When Fed Haise saw the movie on its release, his only comment was that he did not chew gum. I watch this movie every year on April 11th. Anyone interested in really following the mission can listen to the whole mission at http://apolloinrealtime.org/13