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Apollo 13 (1995) - Full Reaction (Patreon)

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2026-03-25 23:20:45
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Dan M

Perfect timing for a reaction to this movie, Kate, with the upcoming launch of Artemis II by NASA. Another Tom Hanks gem, along with what seems like a preferred acting partner in Gary Sinise. Counting this movie, they paired up three times…Forrest Gump and The Green Mike being the other two times. I’ll be joining you right after I watch Opening Day with The Yankees out in San Francisco! 😁

Michael Keenan

The most terrifying quote IMO “ we are venting something into space”

pvmt9761

It's been way too long since I've watched this one start to finish. First scene that flashes through my mind is Ed Harris asking for the "go" commands. At a certain point all the talk and meetings and stuff is over. It's time to go. Looking forward to this watch!

EastPeak Slim

I just KNOW I'm gonna love this reaction!

ButtercupsTrueLove

Thank you, Kate, for your emotional and enthusiastic reaction to "Apollo 13". This is a well-crafted movie with excellent pacing. The visuals hold up very well even today. The casting of "Apollo 13" reunites director Ron Howard with his "American Graffiti" (1973) castmates, Kathleen Quinlan ("Joe College strikes out!") and Joe Spano ("Look, creep, you want a knuckle sandwich?"), both San Francisco Bay Area natives. Always fun spotting Ron's little brother, Clint, in movies and TV. I remember seeing him as a child actor in one episode of the original series, "Star Trek", where his voice was fixed in post-production with an adult dubbing all of the dialogue.

Rick Caruso

Kate, you hit this one right out of the park. One of my favorite movies. There are two events that people ask, “where wereY when President Kennedy was assassinated “ and where were you when Man first landed on the moon. For the first I was in second grade watching the Motorcade on a black and white tv our teacher rolled into the classroom so we could watch. ( That became an incredibly sad day. ) Forthe moon landing I was 15 years old. My family had a trailer in th)e Californian desert, where we went on some weekend. We all huddled around a small black and white tv, and watched the moon landing. It was an otherworldly experience. So much has happened and there have been a number of landmark dates one being the space shuttle Challenger that blew up on lift off just as the crew “throttled up”. Also, the Twin Tower Attacks of 9/11. You did such a wonderful job with your reaction and it makes it so much more enjoyable this film along with you. Take care Rick Caruso.

Bob McFadden

When Apollo 13 came out it was a dream come true for me. Growing up, my first heroes were astronauts, not sports figures. Having a pretty solid grasp of what went on in the space program, I reveled in the film’s commitment to detail. Filming in zero gravity blew me away. I was in high school during the Apollo 13 mission and vividly recall the worldwide concern for the crew. We watched the re-entry coverage on a TV in my world history class. Such a thrill to see the recovery! Kate, I highly recommend an HBO series titled From the Earth to the Moon. It is 10 episodes as I recall and covers the American space program from the beginning to the end of the lunar missions. I think you would really enjoy this if you want a good series to react to.

Dan M

You know the last 15-20 minutes of this movie are incredibly tense and packs an emotional punch when it made you tremble cry, which I don’t think I’ve seen you do in your past reactions. There were a few moments when it seemed liked you didn’t exhale for several seconds. Such a great watch along with you, Kate. You mentioned several times how impressed you were with the authenticity of this movie. And for good reason…Jim Lovell was one of the technical advisors for this movie and ensured its accuracy. He even made a cameo in the movie as the captain of the USS Iwo Jima, the ship that made the recovery at the end. One of the aspects of this movie that I love is that it didn’t shy away from highlighting the fact that, as incredibly intelligent the engineers at NASA are, they are also human, and like all humans, they make mistakes. And not catching the damage to the second oxygen tank before the launch of Apollo 13 was a HUGE oversight. Haha…when you said during your intro that you couldn’t wait to see who did the music for this movie, my face lit up! I thought you already knew that James Horner was the composer. I could not wait for the credits to roll so you could see his name! The Magic Maestro did it again…the music playing when Apollo 13 lifts off was amazing! A couple of other movies about NASA and space missions you might like: - Hidden Figures (2016) - a true story about female African American mathematicians at NASA during the 60’s - First Man (2018) - biographical movie about Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission - October Sky (1999) - true story about a coal miner’s son who dreams of building rocket ships - Deep Impact (1998) - sci fi action/ disaster movie about the US government’s and NASA’s plan to destroy a huge asteroid on a collision course with Earth

Bob McFadden

Kate, one thing I wanted to mention. Marilyn Lovell did lose a ring down her shower drain on the morning of the launch. However, it was not her wedding ring. It was her husband‘s class ring from the Naval Academy. Don’t worry, though, the hotel manager was able to retrieve it. 😁

Robert da Spruce

You asked about how they filmed the weightless portions of the movie Kate They filmed it on a plane that NASA uses to train its astronauts affectionately nicknamed the “Vomit Comet” Which flies in parabolic arcs in the sky. And at the top of each arc, you get a momentary sense of weightlessness Similar to the feeling you get on a roller coaster when you go over a peak Here’s a small YouTube video that explains it https://youtu.be/kD33pONKOXs?si=ese5DTmAR7KkVUR7

Chester Beals

I love this movie so much, they took so many pains to get so many things right. That being said... they really did Kevin Bacon's character Jack Swigert dirty by completely manufacturing tensions between him and the other two, and by putting the matter of his competency into question. None of that was real, it was added by Hollywood to increase drama. Like this story needed more drama. And they kept pronouncing his name as Swaggart, not correctly as Swigert. But still, fantatsic movie! [edit:] LOL, you commented "look at the Father" as they panned by the minister sitting on the couch... who was played by Ron Howard's actual father. :)

resinmonkey .

I too was a teenager when this event happened. I followed the space program closely. I think most moving for me was seeing the world-wide reaction to the fate of the astronauts, that was real, not staged for dramatic effect. Some of my favorite moments from the film was the launch, Houston we have a problem, all the scenes with the grandmother in the rest home ( I don't care if that was accurate to reality or added by the movie, she was great). All the nerds at mission control trying to figure out what to do when everything that could go wrong, DID go wrong. Of course the reentry sequence. Your reaction was top notch, lots of fun!

Matthew Maxon

Jim Lovell has a Veterans Administration Hospital named after him that's right outside of Great Lakes Naval Training Station about an hour north of Chicago. That's where everyone who joins the US Navy goes to Boot Camp.

pickupthepieces

Crazy to think after coming so close to disaster Jim and Marilyn would be together for another 53 years until Marilyn's death in 2023 at the age of 93. Jim would pass two years later at the age of 97.

Damon Bruce

This is one of my favorite movies ever made. Such a pleasure to join you for it. If I may "nerd out" and share some facts with you, (this is going to be a little lengthy) the rocket that was built for the Apollo program was the mighty Saturn V. It weighed 3,000 tons, 363 feet in height, engines produced 7.5 million lbs of initial thrust, ramping up to 9 million just after liftoff. For comparison, the most powerful jet engine we have today is mounted on the Boeing 777 airliner and makes 127,000 lbs thrust. A photographer was sent to capture images of the engine tests for Life Magazine. He was warned by the NASA press secretary of the intensity of what he was about to witness. Not one to frighten easily, he rebuffed the NASA rep with, "Son, I've covered fires, tornados, hurricanes, floods, even wars. I can handle this." When the engines ignited, the photographer dropped the camera on the ground, breaking it all to pieces and was running as fast as he could in the opposite direction, scared out of his wits. Not one shot of the test was taken. Two minutes after liftoff, the first stage with its five Rocketdyne F1 engines separated from the vehicle at which point it was 48 miles high and travelling 6,000 mph. The five main engines were drinking 5,500 gallons of liquid oxygen and kerosene every second. It took 250,000 horsepower just to spin the fuel pumps for those engines. The power of their sound bouncing off the clouds, broke windows, cracked house foundations and tore chandeliers from ceilings of houses up to 35 miles away up and down the coast from Cape Canaveral. It triggered a 2.5 earthquake on the Richter scale in upstate New York. News anchor Walter Cronkite and his crew in the CBS press building 4 miles away from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral felt the heat and the shockwave and Cronkite said the entire building was shaking severely and they were hanging on for dear life. The building was severely damaged previously during the liftoff of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to use the Saturn V. The Saturn V remains the largest and most powerful rocket mankind has ever built. Footnote: Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship has now surpassed the Saturn V as the world's largest and most powerful rocket. Starship has 2.5 times the power of the Saturn V and is 30 feet taller at 390 feet.