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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 6

  in space no one can hear you pee

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 14

  Shoutout to Ron Howard for being the only filmmaker to make math look cool.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  "I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly."

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  Review by Blaze the Action Junkie ★★★★★ 1

  A giant film in cinematic history. This film might not have been the first historical drama, but its critical success cemented the genre as a big-budget money maker on the big screen, which documentaries had been seemingly trying to do since the inception of the film industry. There's really no telling how many more people have seen Niel Armstrong land on the moon in the introduction of this film than have actually pulled the events up on you-tube or elsewhere. Aside from the historic consideration of this film, the acting is fabulous and the story is brilliant, establishing a clear emotional connection to the main players before they even put on their flight-suits. Seeing this one as a kid even…

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  Review by adambolt ★★★

  my brother thought Houston was a person and now i just love the idea that there is one guy named Houston who lives at NASA

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★½ 1

  My favorite part of this inspiring true story of survival and the best of the human spirit is that Jack Swigert gave Fred Haise the clap by sharing a urine catheter with him. Funny that NASA scratched Ken Mattingly for potentially being exposed to measles but let Swigert onto a spaceship fully burning.

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  Review by George Clark ★★★★ 16

  Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive whilst stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft. Meanwhile, at NASA's Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time to bring them home alive and well.

  "Houston, we have a problem."

  Apollo 13 is a brilliant retelling of the real Apollo 13 drama that captured the attention of the world. Space has always been something that's fascinated me, the last manned mission to land on the moon occurred three decades…

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  Review by shannon ★★★ 5

  I cannot stop thinking about the bit where tom hanks peed into space, like, I have so many questions. where does the pee go? does is disappear? does it freeze? does it just float around? where does it end up? does is come back to earth? if so, what happens then? can it get through the atmosphere? is it still a liquid? what if when it rains we're all being showered in tom hanks' piss?

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  Review by TajLV ★★★★

  "It's like trying to drive a toaster through a car wash." ~ Jack Swigert

  At its roots, this fascinating re-creation of the actual 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon is a coming-home story that features true heroes, a real life-or-death dilemma, and incredible resourcefulness. It is told by director Ron Howard through the memories of Captain Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), who commanded the ill-fated flight, showing us in considerable detail how NASA had to overcome almost insurmountable technical issues to return the imperiled crew safely to Earth.

  Playing fellow astronauts Fred Haise and Jim Swigert are Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, with Gary Sinise as back-up pilot Ken Mattingly and Ed Harris as mission control flight chief Gene Kranz.…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 7

  Ron Howard has made a name for himself as a journeyman director. As a chameleon, he’s capable of tackling different genres, but by the end, as a chameleon, he doesn’t leave much of a footprint. If I had to actually come with a distinction in each and every of his movie is that his movies always feel “grounded” and in most cases, “Oscar-bait”.

  In the case of this reenactment of the Apollo 13 troubled attempt to land in the moon, the greatness of it all lies heavily on its subject matter, the writing and in some very subtle ways, its performances. And even then, the acting in this movie, while great, its all played very lowkey. Again, the word I…

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  Review by Chris Hormann ★★★½ 2

  He said the line, he said the line!

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★★ 7

  Tom Hanks-A-Thon: Film #22

  "There’s nothing routine about flying to the moon…I can vouch for that"

  Tom Hanks reunites with his Splash director Ron Howard for an authentic trip to the moon. It’s no secret how passionate Tom is about the Apollo program, and I’m sure he loved having the chance to make this realistic depiction of this fateful mission.

  I forgot how drawn out this movie actually is, but I really appreciated that it wasn’t dumbed down or over-dramatized in the hopes of appealing to a larger audience. Instead, what you get is a science based movie that sticks pretty close to the facts and thanks to a fantastic cast is still able to deliver a compelling story.

  Gentlemen…it’s been a privilege flying with you

  
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