The Best and Most Accurate Movie of All-Time

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2000)

As a space buff the one thing I am most turned off by in space related movies is technical inaccuracy. Apollo 13 was completely accurate and the few things that were not were very minor. I have read numerous books by authors who were involved with this mission and I do not find many contradicting details of Ron Howard's extraordinary film with their recounts of the "successful failure." Apollo 13 is so accurate that the dialogues of certain scenes (i.e. Flight Director Gene Krantz in mission control) matches verbatim with NASA recordings. In addition to the accuracy, the acting is superb while the pictures and sound are astounding. Howard had full cooperation of NASA and to reconstruct weightlessness he used the method NASA trains its astronauts with-the KC-135. The scenes of mission control were shot at Johnson Space Center in the actual mission control and astronauts Jim Lovell and David Scott trained Hanks, Paxton, Bacon, Sinise, and Howard at Space Camp. Ron Howard should be commended for what I consider the greatest film ever and for not "selling out" to crowds that just want to see big, shiny exploding things, such as the Titanium Shuttle in Armageddon. This is a must see for anyone with an interest in the space program and an appreciation for an accurate documentary.