Even though we know how it ends, the film conveys a quintessential Randian theme: "striving for the best within us"

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2009)

Well, and I'm going out on a limb with this, I'll assert the movie is distinctly a "guy thing," an homage to Flash Gordon and the Space Pioneers where everyone else—ordinary men, women, and children—orbits in support of a central cluster of heroic men. It manifests a worldview that a lot of Boomer men had to wrestle with growing up... and to a large extent let go of through the consciousness-raising of the 1960s and 1970s.
Apollo 13 reminds us of the best qualities of that era that saw the rise and fall of the US government's adroitly romanticized space program...
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