Excellent film (even with goofs)

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2007)

"Houston, we have a problem"; the biggest misquote in cinematic history no less, but for all the right reasons. Apollo 13 has to be one of my favourite films of all time.
It is amazing how things always seem to be much longer you are young. I first saw the movie when I was about 6 or 7 and it seemed to go on for much longer than, but I was still gripped. The acting is very good, with Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon in the centre of it all, giving life to the situation that they are in. The visual effects were awesome, and even to this day they still look good, and the fact that for the zero gravity scenes, they really went up in a "vommit comet" (the same aircraft training scheme that the real astronauts used, and still use for the astronaut training program!) However, the film is brimming with factual errors and anachronisms, which most people find intolerable; TV programs that appear on screens throughout the movie that don't actually appear until after or before April 1970; Lunar errors (give me a viewing of E.T. any day!) and props that didn't appear until after the incident e.g. coffee mugs, beetles albums and other items. However, it is only a Ron Howard film, what can you do?
However, this is made up for with the good acting, brilliant visual effects and brilliant score (composed by James Horner, who I think, next to John Williams and the late Jerry Goldsmith, is the one of the best movie composers). A brilliant "historical" adaptation (in terms of drama and acting). 8/10