Timeless! Yes, you know how it end BUT OMG INTENSE!

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2016)

Keep falling asleep during 2 other highly rated, current released movies, flipping channels paused and I was caught. I have seen it several times and after 20 years - Still one of my favorite movies.
Loved this movie - loved the book. How often does that happen? I stood in line to get my copy signed by Lovell. During his talk someone asked why the movie didn't follow the book more - Lovell said that they thought audience would have trouble with all the crises in the movie to add the other things that happened, we did think the public would believe any of it. Rather than overplay it, they down played it. This is not a work of fiction. Timeless. True. He lived it. He did the interviews with others.Maybe that is what captures us?
I lived on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at the time and the astronauts used to drive behind our house and we would line the fence waving to them in their containment unit.
This movie is probably EVEN better, more relevant today than when it was written. You step into the those days that we waited. These were the days when the world stood still and waited, prayed as one. Rejoiced as one.
Hard to imagine today.