Apollo 13 | "Houston, We Have a Problem"
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- For the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 13 space mission, watch the iconic "Houston, We Have a Problem" scene from the film by Ron Howard!
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Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Hanks), Fred Haise (Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Bacon) fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly (Sinise), flight director Gene Kranz (Harris) and a heroic ground crew race against time - and the odds - to bring them home.
© 1995 Universal City Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Emily Ann Lloyd, Miko Hughes, Max Elliott Slade, Jean Speegle Howard, David Andrews, Chris Ellis
Produced By: Brian Grazer
Directed by: Ron Howard - Розваги
Never travel with Tom Hanks
@jeff lockaby Stuck in an Australian hospital.
What if you're just running behind him?
@jeff lockaby - don't forget Forrest Gump walks 3 times across America another bad movie
Look at me, I'm the Spaceship Captain now.
He got Covid 19 in real life too... lol...
If you think about it, what they accomplished was far more impressive than landing on the moon.
That's no lie.
13 is called succesful failure for a reason.
@@wankamkwan5858 ok so NASA faked 6 landings and one emergency that would definitely draw the attention to a con?
Yeap
@@wankamkwan5858 They were staged.
Since a Lunar SSTO was impossible, the Saturn V had 3 Stages, and the LEM had 2!
(haha sike you bad)
What I like about this film is that the crew, may have been on Apollo 13, but they were PHENOMENALLY lucky this happened near the start of the mission, when they had a maximum of power and supplies. If it happened at the moon or on the return trip, they never would have survived.
Could you imagine being out in space in nothing but a tin can and you're told "You got 15 minutes of life support".
@@ryandoeren6638 I've got this thing on DVD. There are times that I watch this thing over and over. Sometimes with commentary with Jim Lovell. He's impressed with how accurate everything is although he will point out whatever's been added or changed for the sake of drama. In this particular scene "Houston, we have a problem" was actually "Houston, we've had a problem." But as I understand it, the action stuff is all very faithfully presented here.
The Apollo 8 crew is also incredibly lucky that didn't happen to them, as they didn't even have a LM. And they knew this was a potential risk, but going by what the CIA said, they HAD to do it to beat those Rooskies.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 Oh yesssss, those Rooskiies. Like, why did it have to be a race, anyway? Well, okay, today we know what those guys are unfortunately capable of... but still.
@@Jayteaseepiirturi It was a Cold War rivalry without violence, but with public resources far more productively used than for a shooting war like in Vietnam.
Damnit. I've got to go to bed in fifteen minutes, but now I NEED to watch Apollo 13 for the hundredth time.
Well worth it! Work or the kids or the wife can wait!
🇺🇸👍🤓👍🇺🇸
I support this.
Good luck!
"Work the problem, don't make it worse by guessing". That should be hanging on the wall in every support desk office and workshop. Brilliant film, great acting and truly NASA's Finest Hour.
Not to mention Tough, and competent.
Like a lot of the dialogue, that WAS actually what Gene Krantz said. The audio from that part of the mission is actually on UA-cam...several hours of it.
not in this country... bitch about the problem and then cry some more is the 2021 america
I was thinking the same! No wonder Gene was the mission director: $#!+ blows up in your face and he was level-headed to remain focused on *solving* the problem, not that there *is* a problem (which you cannot affect).An amazing guy!
@@dennisanderson3895 Don't forget the other flight directors on the mission: Glynn Lunny, Milton Winder, and Gerry Griffin....Krantz was the lead director, but didn't do the entire mission by himself.
In point of fact, the O2 tank blew when Krantz and his team were about done with their shift...Glynn Lunny came on about an hour after the tank blew, and at that time they were still in the middle of the initial response.
I still can't get over how hopeless and terrifying that would be.
There is a recording of this moment here on youtube in which you can hear how the astronauts and mission control reacted and the tone of there voice, you would think they would be freaking out but they are so calm and professional in there voice and responses you can't even tell something was actually wrong. ua-cam.com/video/PpTleKyn3gc/v-deo.html
@@PurpleChipz
Because they were test pilots. Test pilots don't freak out.
@@jshepard152 Yep. Water is wet, the sun is bright, and test pilots keep their cool.
@@Dracule0117
But.... Where does the sun come up?!?
Have you ever played gta online and ran out of ammo in the middle? same thing
Apollo 13 was 1970.
This movie came out in 1995.
When the movie came out, they were closer to the actual Apollo 13, than we are now to that movie. Let that sink in!
thank you, I am feeling really old now.
I get that with a lot of movies. I just recently realized that "The Dark Knight" is already a 14 year old movie. Jurassic Park turns 30 next year.
@@Geographus666
Been 30 years. WOW!
The clencher is I remember BOTH.
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I need to buy my plot.
its about to change tho SLS is our new Moon Rocket!! its actually out on the pad on NASA right now
Hands down one of the finest movies ever made.
It’s in my top 10 for sure
And people still don't seem to get that astronauts can infact take off those chunky suits while they're in flight hahaha this film clearly demonstrates this lol.
Shit movie. Insulting to everyone who was involved
@@ronaldtartaglia4459 Lmfao you're spun. It's one of the best movies out there. Did you have your eyes closed while watching it? Tom Hanks' acting was top tier. Same with Paxton and Bacon. I also love the casting for ground control in houston. Those guys nailed it.
@Aniwayas Song Right? And people laugh this film off. Tom hanks/Paxton/Sinise are all legendary actors. Might put this on later tbh lol.
I am in complete awe. This cast. This whole film. The actual event. Props to everyone involved in this historic moment.
What pisses me off are all these religious nutjobs who say we can't get into outer space because they all think a dome is covering the earth. And they even think that the earth is flat. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing wrong with people who read the Bible and are Christians. But these fringe case fruitcakes who say we were never in outer space with rockets & satellites belong back in the 12th century where the Church (the RCC) controlled everyone's lives.
JohnBornAgain1984 ooooooookey 👍
@@Aquien1 you are a nut job fruitcake looney.
JohnBornAgain1984 wait, you don’t think we landed on the moon? 🤣
The US military had its own secret space program and was second to the moon in 1948 after the N@ zi 's went there in '45. When Apollo 11 landed, they were right next to a moon base with hundreds of military personnel, and the crew were pissed because they thought THEY were going to be the first. NASA is just a false front to slowly let civilians bring themselves up to speed on the tech the US military has had for 70 years. They could have rescued the boys of Apollo 13 within hours, but risked their lives so they could keep the lie presentable, and are responsible for the lives lost in the Apollo 1, Columbia, and Challenger disasters because they were using technology a century behind what the US military, and now other countries in collaboration actually have.
Fifty years ago today, NASA Mission Control heard the words: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
The instrument panel was right in their face. I've seen a replica of one Apollo capsule. It is sort of the mission space cockpit at Epcot. Everything is very tight. Don't know how they dealt with the tight space.
ryan1981 cool lots of training and lots of time in the simulators.
That’s because this never actually happened. Everyone knows that. No way computer, let alone the technology had ability to reach the moon in actuality. Your cell phone is many times more powerful and could not handle take you to the moon.
@@steveramirez2589 why? Flying to the moon doesn't require gigabytes of RAM and processor.
so sad i never watched this movie but probably the all died
I love this movie. The quote that sticks with me most is when Ken's in the simulator trying to figure out the problem on the ground and they ask if he needs a break. "If they don't get one I don't get one."
It's a powerful line, but I'm afraid that never happened in real life. Ken Mattingly did an interview where he said he was never in the simulator during the mission, only as part of the crew before he was replaced for being exposed to German Measles.
@@francishunt562 Ah dang lol so they actually replaced him irl cause of the damn measles eh lmao? I think they had him up in the sim cause it was his machine and he knew everything about it including how to squeeze those amps out. Guess they kept this scene in the movie to add to the drama/suspense eh?
Yes, he'll continue this vital task with low energy, impaired reasoning abilities and low response time, just to make a BS macho point. Stupid nonsensical scene.
@@HO-bndk the scene shows their team work. Even though ken was on the ground cause of the medical crew he insisted on continuing to help em cause he was the one who knew about the simulator the most. No macho act was shown in this scene. Ken then goes to mission control as soon as they find the problem and he helps his friends land safely.
Ken staying back helped their safe return. How ironic.
Gene's( Ed Harris) line "Let's look at this from a standpoint of status...what have we got on the spacecraft that's good?" Thats the voice of a guy in charge keeping calm during what was at the time the biggest catastrophe NASA faced. One of Ed Harris best performances
A lot of people don't get that oxygen was important because it was the fuel that powered the spacecraft (along with hydrogen in the fuel cells) - so losing the O2 tanks was critical because of power loss, not because of losing breathing oxygen. The LEM had enough spare oxygen tanks (meant for the moonwalking) to give them air to breathe for quite some time if they needed it, the issue was POWER.
Yeah, it's so enjoyable to watch how much they got right in the film after having grown up and done a ton of research on Apollo missions and their technology. They do their best to explain what's going on to a general audience with on the nose dialogue, but I could see why somebody with no background or prior knowledge on the subject could get lost or not really understand the gravity of the situation.
"Whoa, whoa, guys, power is everything. Power is EVERYTHING. Without it, they don't talk to us, they don't correct their trajectory, they don't turn the heatshield around,... we gotta turn everything off... NOW."
- John Aaron
@Bilal Khalid get a life Bilal , nobody listens to you
@Bilal Khalid of course NASA is real, what are you talking about?
@@hatman4818 They do a pretty good job though, with lines like "If this doesn't work we won't have enough power to get home" or "If Swigert can't dock then we don't have a mission." which sound like very unnecessary things to say for people who know what's going on, but necessary so the audience understands the situation and knows what to concentrate on.
This film teaches me
1.Never Panic
2. Never make a decision on an emotion
3.( point deleted because people are sensitive)
4. Don't fry your oxygen tank with excessive voltage.
5. Never travel with Tom Hanks
@@NameNik223 lmao
6. For every problem- big or minor- a NASA engineer probably has a solution.
7. Never masturbate with sandpaper
It's the little things all through this movie that do it for me. When Lovell says "Houston, we are venting something out into space" - the way Haise and Swigert shut up and immediately turn their heads to look that way makes it so much more real than actors reciting lines.
as someone that worked on a sub, i find their later reaction more realistic. when he says it has to be the oxygen they both immediately check those meters. something that i would have expected they do basically as soon as they heard that they were venting something. looking for what pressure was falling too quickly.
what i did find realistic in that line was how the immediately shut up when he said started talking. they're all in an emergency. But you still need clear lines of communication. And at least when i was in we were trained to assess the information you want to pass in terms of how important it is before saying it. the corollary being that other people did the same thing. so if you get interrupted while transmitting emergency information, you shut up because its assumed that the other person knows that their info is more important.
The unsung hero, most remarkable and unenviable staffer in ground control: the guy in the turtleneck that had to answer to and tell the astronauts whatever it was needed, without the least hint of worry in his voice. 👏👏👏
That was was Jack Lousma, he would go on to fly Skylab 3 and command STS-3
Prior to the building of the International Space Station, the person on that console (called CAPCOM, for Capsule Communicator) was always an astronaut. It was decided early on that the person talking to astronauts, should always be an astronaut.
Tom Hanks' delivery of Lovell's line, "We are venting something out into space," gives me chills every time. He reports it with professional calm but also an incredible gravity and it just drops on every other character like a hammer. You can see the realization wash over them that this is not a glitch but a real and extremely dangerous problem. And that one shot of the tumbling spacecraft "falling" towards the moon in silence...what a masterpiece of wordlessly conveying emotion.
I stumble upon this 2 months later and your comment reminds me of another scene that puts hanks in the running for GOAT. At the end of Captain Phillips. The nurse is an actual nurse not an actor. Hanks on set simply told her to do her job as if it were real life. He was able to mimic a person in shock so well that the nurse did not have to act.
Note the dolly zoom on Ed Harris when he reacts to it!
I suspect a few hearts stopped in Houston when Lovell reported that.
When it pans back to the guys at Houston, it went so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
amogus
Jim Lovell: "We just lost the moon."
That's such a heartbreaking line.
It may be a century until we return.
A bigger loss than people realise.
@@sammencia7945 that's why I wished the Russians landed first, like in For All Mankind.
Jim had been on a previous mission where they had orbited the moon.
@@MAnuscript421
It was their fault, really. Their incompetent medical programs as a result of the bad economy resulted in Korolev, chief designer of their Kerolox rockets to die from complications of surgery in Jan 1966. They pulled themselves together for orbital missions, but fell flat on promises to reach the moon with the N1.
@@stevendefiori5262 Orbiting the moon, yes, but that's very different from landing and walking on the moon, which was what they were expecting to do. What a terrible disappointment! But they were immediately distracted by the urgency of trying to survive and return to Earth.
5:18 "We're not gonna have much power...The ship's bleeding to death."---Those words have got to the most haunting words you can hear a pilot say in that situation. I remember seeing this when I was 6-years old and it has always stayed in my memory. It really is amazing how they came together as a team to survive what happened up there 240,000 miles away from earth. And you have no way of stopping it!!!
Just thank god that it happened early in the mission. After the moon landing, they get rid of the LM. If it happened on the return trip, they would have had no chance
Can someone explain to a non-scientific bloke why having no oxygen affects the power? I understand that with no oxygen, they can't breathe, but the ship would presumably still have power? I don't quite get the science...
Power is generated from Fuel Cells that combine Hydrogen and Oxygen to make electricity (and nicely enough, water for drinking and to cool their systems). This is also what the space shuttle used. Here is a cool video at 12:37 shows they fuel cell setup - ua-cam.com/video/cFBRawYov00/v-deo.html
The reason so much emphasis after that was on their batteries and shutting everything down to save power, is because their way of making it was basically destroyed, and they were left with only emergency backups.
@@stevenschiro1838 super interesting. Thanks for the information!
When we said we just lost the moon… that gave me chills
It could be that English is a foreign language to me... but that line, "We just lost the Moon", sounded to me as if it was trying to be horrifying or dramatic. No idea what Lovell actually said
Ironically, the Finnish subtitle - sinks in with much more finality for me (I'm Finnish, so...). Much drier, much more colloquial. Just more of 'fuck this shit', you know. I'd detranslate it as quipping "Not going to Moon, then".
At any rate. Imagine the moment when you've just been told that, your grand mission to do something larger than life, something you've been eagerly waiting for... has precisely gone bust.
@@Jayteaseepiirturi I can get that for a non-english speaker it can definately come off as that way. For context astronauts of the era trained pretty much every day and very few of them even got assignments in space, let alone a moon mission. No matter how dire the situation, having the mission you've trained years for only to have it replaced with a nightmarish scenario is not an easy thing to digest. That admission of "We just lost the moon" is an emotionally crushing thing to happen to the astronauts.
of course, this is a film and artistic license is taken, but I think it does convey that sense of loss from the apollo 13 crew
@@HeroGenix Well... I'll take your word for it. :)
@@Jayteaseepiirturi This is like training for the Olympics for years(maybe even your whole life), qualifying, getting to the venue, warming up, then as you start your event you break your leg and never get to compete again.
The amount of "oh shit"moments in this clip.
How long does it take to power up the LEM?
3 hours
You have 15 minutes
He understood the real question, hence the reply "3 hours by the checklist..."
“You have fifteen minutes, Mr. Scott!”
@@generalralph6291 "I just cannae do it C'tain, I don't have the power!""
@@EndellionQT I think there was a containment field breach, right?
Scotty can do it in 10.
*"Gene, the odyssey is dying, from my chair here, this is the last option!"*
You gotta be rather brave and confident and of course brilliant in your field to tell your commander to shut down the nation's space mission! And there better be strong mutual trust on both sides!
Clint Howard is a treasure.
Not as much as you'd think. Everyone in that room was the best, full stop. Sy was even better then that. When he says stop God himself would stop.
Well it's Clint Howard, he used to tell a Grizzly bear what to do
The movie doesn't show that everyone in that control room had a separate team of people working with them in other locations to work on the data and figure out what options they really had. Sy Liebergot was in constant communication with his team of 3 other specialists. He wasn't just looking at numbers on his screen and taking a guess.
Sy had agreed with his team that the best option was to isolate the surge tank, because they needed it for re-entry. Only when they had come to that agreement, did Sy inform Kranz of the recommendation. The recommendation was opposite of what Kranz expected, but it was well-informed.
@@henrikmikaelkristensen4784 Everything you say is absolutely true. But Sy was the one who had to weigh that analysis and decide to present the option to Gene Kranz. His role was still crucial, but for dramatic purposes focusing on him in the movie played better.
I met a beautiful woman in 1995, we saw this film together on our first date. Our first kiss at the end of the date was memorable and we were married within a year !
This movie truly captures something I think we forget about astronauts a lot. These people may be having fun being in space and talking to people about it, but these are the brightest minds NASA could find and they have been through so many simulations that if something goes wrong they know what to do, and if they don’t, they have hundreds of people back on the ground with the sole goal of helping them complete the mission
imagine your on a spaceship and you figure out your venting a gas into space it's time to shit your pants
RIP Bill Paxton, who sublimely embodied Fred Haise in this picture.
So many iconic roles...
He was a good guy.. He passed away after having heart surgery.. He was awesome in Twister.. ❤️
@Marlon Quintana-Nieto Alien's.. 👍
@@BAZZAROU812 Underrated movie. One of Philip Seymour Hoffman's best roles. And for Paxton, Twister was a more significant role than Titanic.
Sorry, now, I just know that info. Too bad. He is in my mind while I am watching it again. :(
Two things you never want to hear in space: 'The ship is on fire' and 'The ship is bleeding'.
What about "Uh-Oh" - STS-51L, or "AHHHHHHHHH" - Apollo 1
@@nicholasluigi that's dark but funny as fuck...lol
You never wanna hear
Your outta fuel, your on fire, and no air
@Robert Taylor what is that from
@@nicholasluigi A film called Event Horizon.
Don't watch it; it's crap. Or at least that's what I think.
Still one of my all-time favorite movies. Maybe even my absolute favorite.
Huston we have a problem outside window 1 I can see it now it's some kind of gas leaking out of the space craft it's got to be the oxygen we copy apollo 13 on your venting......
Just remember these actors made it look like the real guys lost their minds and freaked out like monkeys, while the real players played the whole thing as cool as cucumbers.
And it's based on a true story
This whole series was incredible. I'm 64 and been such a NASA fanatic.
I remember those that died on the pad. Grisholm, White and Chaffee. I was a kid. I remember moon landing at 0345. I remember when the Challenger blew up. Part of me went with it. In memory of Dr. Judy Resnick..
Shutting down the fuel cells did I hear you right imagine being stoked to go to the moon and hearing that one😢😭
"What do we have on the spacecraft that's good?" Three astronauts.
That was my first thought.
Excellent.
Apollo 11 & Apollo 13 will always be remembered as the two most important Apollo missions.
Apollo 8 was pretty important.
And don't forget Apollo 12 "Steely eyed missile man" Set SEC to AUX
Apollo 1 as well.
@@TheUrbanEMT Sadly however, the astronauts during that test died in a fire.
@@peterdemkiw3280 I was gonna say ... Apollo 11 doesn't happen without Apollo 8.
Those 3 men became the fastest astronauts ever. When they went around the moon, they were traveling at 24 Kilometers per second. That is 8,600 Kilometers an hour. When I look back to those days, I think they were the bravest people in the world.
*86,400 km/hr
That’s a extraordinary feat.
Not only that, but they also became the farthest astronauts from earth when they went around the moon aswell, 400 171 kilometers away from the planet on 00:21 April 15th UTC, a record that still awaits to be broken nowdays
This is incorrect afaik, escape velocity from the moon is fairly low, I want to say like 3km/s. In addition, re-entry occurred at just shy of 11km/s, so moving at 24km/s - over twice the Earth’s own escape velocity - seems incorrect
There's a lot of survival stories out there ranging from the Titanic to the destructive Kobe Earthquake.
But this. Tumbling out of control literally AWAY from our planet into the empty vacuum of space and yet somehow made it home with such few resources only outweighed by the sheer willpower of the three astronauts and the ground crew... There are no words.
God really helped the astronauts and the flight crew at Mission Control to bring them home safely.
@@andrewsstation6436 You can believe what you want, buddy, but what got those men up there in the first place, and back, alive and able to see their families, was science, human ingenuity and courage.
@@ryans756 And GOD.
@@michaelbee2165 The only trouble I have with that, Michael, is that if God got men up there then God also denied the men and women of the USS Challenger, which exploded live on television.
Well, not the "only" trouble I have with it but a good starting point and perhaps something for you to think about. There may or may not be a God, but if there is, does he or she REALLY interfere with human events? If it makes you happy to believe that, and with happiness being quite rare these days, I won't try to convince you otherwise.
@@andrewsstation6436 I absolutely agree. And God put Ken Mattingly in position to figure out the critical re-entry sequence in the simulator. Had Mattingly been on Apollo 13 and Swigert been on Earth, could Swigert have done as well in the simulator? We'll never know, but it seems doubtful. God made sure everyone was in the right place and time to save these astronauts.
I love all the comments of people being amazed by how calm they're all being, cause like. By NASA standards, they're all losing their shit and need to chill the fuck out immediately; the movie played up the response of the astronauts/mission control, cause their real reactions would just be boring to watch.
Seriously, the actual recordings of Swigert talking with Houston after the explosion are incredibly dull, I think at one point Swigert sounds mildly confused for half a second about what the problem is, and that's the most emotions anyone shows. When Lovell cuts in to report they're venting gas out into space (which they knew was a MASSIVE PROBLEM), he sounds like he's talking about the weather for all the concern in his voice. Astronauts have balls of solid fucking titanium.
During the space race NASA would often say about their astronauts having "the right stuff", how you said it is exactly what they're talking about, the ability to remain calm and work their way around ANY problem no matter how life threatening it is.
Is your username “dick bong”?
@@AidanSverre I'll have you know this name is in honour of an American pilot by the name of Richard Ira Bong, who preferred to go by Dick, and died near the end of WW2. Truly, a hero. The name "Dick Bong" should live on forever, god bless.
Literally they are far more panicked in the film than they appeared to have been in the recordings.
Another thing that impressed me was the entire Mission Control crew in shock for about ten seconds after Jim Lovell tells them Odyssey is venting gas, because they know how serious that is. As soon as Deke Slayton breaks the silence acknowledging that, they all leap into action. True professionalism.
That shared moment of silence after Lovell tells Houston the spacecraft is venting. That is everyone in the room knowing they may lose 3 men in space for the first time in American history, and they just might be powerless to help. Then immediately their engineering minds kick back in and they jump right into trying to figure out the problem and fix it and the silence is broken.
To stay cool under pressure like these men did was absolutely legendary that fateful day. ❤
I will never, ever get tired of this masterpiece of a film. The performances, the music, the effects, the editing, the pacing...everything is just spot on. It's a film I come back to again and again, and it always feels fresh and new.
I agree, i’ve seen it so many times.
Not to mention, the perfect casting, and then Ron Howard collaborated with Tom Hanks again to make the HBO mini-series 'From The Earth to The Moon'
Easily one of the best movies ever produced.
Agreed - especially for one who witnessed the drama play out r/t via network news coverage! (I used to watch Mercury launches on TV while my dad trimmed my hair!)
Me too.
RIP Jack Swigert (August 30, 1931 - December 27, 1982), aged 51
and
RIP Bill Paxton (May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017), aged 61
You both will be remembered as legends.
At least Bill Pullman is still with us.
@@excronoI'm here in Nov/23 after Mattingly was just announced to have died.
The real audio of this event was even more calm. These guys, from the ship crew to the team on the ground are my heroes
I can see why 3:10 is the most replayed part of this video. It still remains the most chilling moment of the entire film in my opinion. At that moment, the fear and confusion fall silent, the music kicks in, and everyone in the audience muttered a collected "oh shit...." You have to remember that in 1970, losing the oxygen meant, to most civilians that these guys were already dead.
"Houston, we have a problem" is often singled out for being an iconic line but whenever I think about this scene it always goes back to Lovell's line at 7:22 when he reads between the lines of Houston's advise and casually states they've "lost the moon." It's such a devastating line and the way Ron Howard holds on the cuts of everyone's realization of that moment is potent.
Although, the real Jim Lovell knew it as soon as the explosion occurred. It was, however, just one example of very acceptable artistic license.
@@lostnumbr damn didnt know that. but still its a brilliant piece of story telling and i bet the real folk involved here would probably approve.
In the real situation he said "Houston, We've Had a Problem" Because when information gets back to earth any issues have already happened.
Yeah, but ironically most people can only name 4 apollo astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins . . . and Lovell. Saving 13 made him more famous than being the 5th person on the moon would have.
@@jamesw9930 exactly. While I'm sure Lovell still would have preferred to have walked on the moon, he's gained an appreciation for the unique experience of surviving such a potentially deadly disaster.
"Work the problem. Don't make anything worse by guessing." Heard that line over 20 years ago and I still think about it when I have a problem...Krantz actually said it too...if you'd like to look it up and listen to the actual radio communications you can hear him say it...
Totally agree
I was in 2nd grade when this all went down. I didn't understand what was going on but I do remember my teacher asking all of us the pray for Apollo 13. That they were all up there in space trying to get home.
Now they'd fire the teacher for saying that...
@@joelburlingame5693 no they wouldn't, drama queen
@@joesimon2018 No need to call names. I was just posting my thoughts at that moment.
@@joelburlingame5693 Sounds like you have a conservative right wing prayer in school chip on your shoulder
@@joesimon2018 A little, yes. I assume you're young if you think calling people names is good for anything. Grow up.
Because of the corona virus news coverage, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 will probably be overlooked, or not given the honor it deserves.
And once again, we say "Houston, we have a problem." Having to improvise an on-the-spot solution, like them. Apollo 13 and COVID-19 both forced people to pull together and brainstorm solutions in the face of catastrophe. Hopefully we will succeed.
@@orlandopockets6372 i know. But I'm referring to the common quotation.
oh thats why a 1995 movie on my feed, i was wondering about it, thanks
1970-2020
@Hal 9000 not the Apollo 11 landing. The Apollo 13 emergency was 1970.
This movie once again shows how important music is. Music can make the editing flow more smoothly and help pull the whole film together (at least in the way that we experience the film). James Horner did an excellent job.
James Horner was 1 of the GREAT soundtrack composers. He's done so many brilliant ones, including Apollo 13.
@@rowanaforrest9792 RIP. Him and Ennio we've lost two of the absolute greats
DOOM Metal
The Apollo 13 soundtrack is by far among the best orchestral music, if not the best. I always listen to it on Highway Adventures.
What about No Country For Old Men?
One of the few perfect movies. There are tons of quotable scenes in this movie but for my money, the interaction between Sy (Clint Howard) and Gene (Ed Harris) where Sy says the have to close the reactant valves on the fuel cells epitomizes one of the major, maybe even the major themes of the movie. That is a team of very smart and capable people working together under extremely stressful circumstances to solve a crisis. Sy is the best at what he does and agonizes over what he knows he needs to recommend. He knows that closing the valves will end the mission but he is confident in his conclusion. Gene doesn't second guess him, doesn't ask anybody else to check Sy's numbers or go back and forth. He acknowledges the gravity of this decision and then moves forward. He trusts his team. Always gives me chills how epic that small moment is.
This is one of the greatest historical movies ever made. Oscar caliber performances across the board.amazing film
Howard wasn't even nominated for Best Director, and the film lost to Bravehard. Both were tragedies.
It's a testament to Ron Howard's directing that one catch watch this movie, knowing the outcome, and still be gripped with suspense during the atmospheric re-entry. A real masterpiece of movie making.
Exactly. Most Hollywood films think they have to add drama to make the movie good. The actual events were dramatic enough without having to invent something new to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
@@chrispile3878 I mean... this is one of the more dramatic events to have ever occurred.
@@lukepedersen2899 So you agree with me.
@@chrispile3878 Oh totally! Love how it plays out so realistically! I just don't know if most 'based on a true story' films can lean as heavily on true events as Apollo 13 does since most events aren't so organically dramatic. I probably misunderstood your original comment through the foggy lens of internet communication.
I can’t think of a bad Ron Howard movie
This is by far the greatest feat by humans to this day. The fact they were able to work without sleeping and get those men home is amazing. God bless these men.
"by far the greatest feat by humans to this day" ?? really?
@@paul81491 yeah i would maybe not say the GREATEST but up in the top10 list for sure
@@paul81491 He has delusions. He even believes in a sky daddy, "god bless these men".
@@power2084 Whilst I am an atheist myself, your comment really doesn't grasp the magnitude of religious impact on culture and it's historic importance for society. The christian believes also can not be simplified by "believing in a sky daddy". I do agree however it is indeed delusional to say this is the greatest achievement by humankind.
@@paul81491 it's a bad impact on culture and society. Religion poisons everything.
Apollo 13 is the pinnacle of telling a story that you already know almost everything about and still getting you to be on the edge of your seat as it unfolds.
Met Fred Haise a few months ago at a talk he was doing in Manhattan, it was great. He speaks so young-like. It's astonishing the intelectual capability of these men and how even today they speak so fluidly and well, recollecting events from their childhood. Wish I was able to ask him about his shuttle testing days, but was still a fun event.
Actual quote: "Houston, we've had a problem."
A chance to correctly write history and it's blown, sad.
Fred Haise: "We're not going have power much longer. Ships bleeding to death." Still gives me chills
These guys were SO professional! They knew they *might* be "dead men walking" but kept calm and cool and did what they could to up their odds in a professional manner! I'm reminded of something I read some while back: On his flight, Yuri Gagarin's at one point began tumbling out of control. (This was only revealed after the collapse of the USSR.) Per the audio tapes, Yuri remained completely calm, dealing with the situation rather than reacting TO it. With no politics, I do consider him a heroic human pioneer.
Man if I was up there in the command module started rattling and all warning lights came on, I'd be freaking out. There's no way I'd be able to be as calm and professional as the guys who really did it. You listen to the recordings during the most dangerous and critical moments and these guys sound like they're doing the most routine task. Astronauts are just a different breed of human.
There is a reason NASA recruited the vast majority of their astronauts from military test-pilots.
These guys were pretty much designed to be cool and collected, because freaking out would get you nowhere and will just make you do more mistakes. There are famous recordings of Chuck Yeager who came on radio almost sounding bored saying "I think I got an issue here!" while his experimental plane was already well in the progress of disintegrating around him.
Thing is…you never would have even had the chance to be in the command module. Nobody would have let you anywhere near it lol
Apollo 13 is a perfect movie. FLAWLESS.
This is a bloody brilliant film on so many levels. We already KNOW how it comes out, of course, and it STILL keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Sort of like every Bible movie ever made.
Yeah me too. Crazy fantastic movie that can do that huh?
I forgot how many amazing actors are in this movie.
It's one of those movies in which almost every single actor in the whole movie is giving it their all. Every one. When you have that kind of energy and enthusiasm on set, the entire movie is elevated to a whole other level of brilliance and relatability.
@@robertstaples3256 Agreed. Everyone is going for it. The only thing it's truly lacking, in my opinion, is a killer female performance, which I suppose is an unavoidable consequence of the context of the time and the decision to focus the story on Mission Control. I know Kathleen Quinlan got an Oscar nom as Marilyn Lovell, but I still feel like that's something that is missing.
Armstrong, Aldrin and the other Apollo astronauts are better actors
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No, they're not, because they're astronauts, not actors.
@@the18thdoctor3 No because they faked the lunar landings
The movie makes this event way more intense in terms of the dialogue.
To think that these guys were cool as a cucumber while their life boat sprung a leak is insane. In real life, Jim Lovell was calm and collected over the radio. Just badass.
Will never tire of this movie
Gene Kranz would tell God to calm down and go bring him options.
And God will reply, be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted in the Nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
And Gene will reply “That is not conducive to a solution.”
That’s why he was the best
The rock was the best movie for him from time to time this country must be cleansed by the blood of patriots u notice the word is built upon riot right?
Yes, because the American Revolution had zero riots
3:45 I LOVE this scene. NASA heads the news and despite it being worst case scenario, they only allow themselves a moment’s shock before they shift into trying to fix the problem. Such a great example of working under pressure.
And despite adequate technology, English speakers still continue to press "post" before proofreading.
@@jimthompson8947When I see “edited” on a comment, I respect them more as a poster.
I forgot what an outstanding film this is; this and Chernobyl are one of the greatest examples of mankind’s resilience in the face of chaos.
Fun fact: For those unknown Tom Hanks was 38 and a few years shy of Lovell's age when this movie was released. The movie also won 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Sound, and Editing.
Still an amazing movie and amazing men. I still remember hearing about this from dad and the two of seeing it a week after it came out. One of my favorites based on true story and it got me into loving Astronomy and Astrology. 😊
Thank you for the fun facts, i had fun and hope to have more fun later on in the day
NOMINATED for 9 Academy Awards (won for Sound and Film Eduting)
In real life, the explosion happened about 90 seconds after Swigert initiated the stir, not around the same time that he started it. Lovell also thought that Haise had been playing with the cabin repressurization valve until he saw that Haise was just as puzzled as he was. Haise also said that he and Swigert never butted heads like in the movie because nobody could’ve known that the stir was what caused the explosion.
In real life, the explosion happened about 90 seconds after Swigert initiated the stir, not around the same time that he started it. Lovell also thought that Haise had been playing with the cabin repressurization valve until he saw that Haise was just as puzzled as he was. Haise also said that he and Swigert never butted heads like in the movie because nobody could’ve known that the stir was what caused the explosion. IF that is true why is it in the movie one would think that would want an accurate movie
@@supersaiyaman11589 Because it is Hollywood and they are averse to historical accuracy.
@@u805 well they have to make a movie that's engaging
@@u805 Apollo 13 is more accurate than some documentaries. There's some things that you have to change and alter because you don't get a six day run time.
@@supersaiyaman11589because it’s Hollywood? Look at black Cleopatra 😂
I remember when this happened. The whole world witnessed it. The whole world stopped and hoped or prayed for these three men. NASA used slide rules and their heads, teamwork and prayer and we all held on to our seats while it played out in real time. It seemed to take forever before we knew if they would make it or not. I am sure for these three men, the loss of a moon landing was a loss they still mourn. But even they had to count the result both a miracle and a very happy answer to a lot of prayer and good wishes. Three brave men who toughed it out - the journey was incredible.
My grand dad told me about this and watched the moon landing too, He said the world really came to a stand still. I bet it was the most intense time for everyone, waiting to see if the three men would have made it back.
Imagine Bill Paxton just mentally collapsing at this point shouting "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER"
This was an AMAZING movie. I remember the mission and knew everything that was going to happen, and I *still* was on the edge of my seat!
That shot of Bill Paxton when they've been ordered to shutdown two fuel cells. Perfectly captures how Fred Haise said he felt at that time. Sick to his stomach with disappointment knowing the mission was now aborted.
I think by that time they knew weren't landing on moon and more worried if would ever get home?
Apollo 13 is one of the classics. Up there with Back To The Future!
If I could press the like button more than once, I would!
"Houston, We are the Problem" Fly, Forrest! Fly !!!!
This movie had such an amazing sense of time and place. Just masterful.
Ed Harris with a MasterClass in leadership.
Good enough that the real Gene Kranz approved of it. Said something along the lines of hiring him to do the job based on this performance.
Kranz was real person not an actor
Gene's tenacity and calmness is something I admire. A nearly impossible situation, and he's calm, which ultimately got them back home. Bravo Gene and bravo Ed Harris for playing his role flawlessly.
I bet the real-life astronauts in that situation were not as calmed but surely were not losing their minds to it as they knew the risks involved, they were prepared for the worst and trusted their ship and control room peers.
it just a movie
An accurate movie, or haven't you heard?@@lufasumafalu5069
Kranz is a hard man, and he was in the right place at the right time.
@@jotajmg If you're curious about the real event, you can check out the podcast "13 Minutes to the Moon" by BBC. They went into very deep details about the event. Very high production quality podcast and it even has a Hans Zimmer soundtrack.
Love the acting, Ed makes me feel safe.
Every time UA-cam throws this into my recommended I watch it. This scene is sooooo good. Fantastic acting all around. Such an amazing movie.
I don’t wait for UA-cam to recommend it, I come myself.
0:48 He did an amazing job at portraying the fear someone would have in that situation while simultaneously remaining laser focused. That one look always stood out to me. Great movie
Actually these guys reported what was happening in a very calm and matter-of-fact tone. I’m sure they were panicking on the inside, but what Houston heard said otherwise.
One of the best movies ever made in my opinion.
Without a doubt
This was proof that when we all work together and put all of our differences aside humans can get things done !
Love the message.. work the problem. Solutions! Hate finger pointers. This movie was all about finding solutions
These men had more balls than I will ever have in my life
Nerves of iron!
Wits of steel!
Steely Eyed Missle Men.
It was a film!
@@donpettitwedestroyedtheapo6488 It actually happened.
3:18
This shot isn't given enough credit. The Parallax effect, zoom in on the Director, looming orchestral chord, thementioning of the ominous source of all the problems over the Radio by Lovell.
In 2 seconds you can see the full horror of the situation sweep into that room.
This is one of the best uses of dolly zoom I can think of, off the top of my head. The effect is so often exaggerated, to the point of being comical. Here, it's subtle and works brilliantly. They say the best visual effect are the ones you don't notice - and it makes sense that that goes for in-camera effects too.
Yes it's beautifully executed, the dialogue, the direction, the score, absolutely chills me, it's haunting, Ron Howard and James Horner and everyone involved with this film really nailed it, it's so gripping.
Its called the reverse zoom. Also the Vertigo shot. Spielberg used it to probably the best effect on Roy Scheider in Jaws. Scorsese uses it very subtly in the diner in Goodfellas. Camera moves to the actor while the zoom lens gets pulled out. It makes the background zip away.
"ok copy you're venting..." I'm gonna use that thought whenever something really really bad happens in life.
You're in a small, albeit amazingly complex, construction of metal and plastic surrounded by LITERALLY NOTHING. Nerves and balls of steel. Absolutely incredible.
Clint Howard is probably the most under appreciated actors ever. He has been just about every movie made. He always has small roles but you know he’s there. He’s an amazing actor.
Saw the whole Howard family waiting to get into Oceans 11, they were all so nice and sweet.
It’s cause he’s ugly. Ugly people get no respect in Hollywood
The real quote is, “Houston we’ve had a problem”.
Well what do you expect? Universal's globe is spinning the wrong direction. Earth rotates or spins toward the east, and that's why the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars all rise in the east and make their way westward across the sky. But if you look at the globe fountain at USH it's going the opposite direction. it's Hollywood, not reality. But of course if it was spinning the right direction the words would be moving backward.
@@liquidbraino wtf
And Im pretty sure Jim Lovell actually didn’t say that. It was actually Jack Swigert.
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Yes and no. ua-cam.com/video/PpTleKyn3gc/v-deo.html
*Swigert:* "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
*Mission Control:* "This is Houston. Say again, please."
*Lovell:* "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a Main B Bus undervolt..."
@@EVAUnit4A Oh ok makes sense
Gene Krantz was calm, cool, and collected throughout this mission, as was EVERYONE else attached to it. You really have to give credit where it's due.
I took a tour of the old control room and was amazed at just how small it was. Not to mention the fact they smoked in that room. Thanks
You always end up in the ocean with Tom Hanks.
Or a river.
I can't even begin to start to think about the pressure and stress and straight anxiety these brave-as-hell astronauts went through. I am floored by this
Men in dangerous jobs deal with incredible tension every day but most of it's unacknowledged. 97% of the dirty and dangerous jobs are done by men. Women are not interested in crashing through that particular glass ceiling.
4:51 I love the fact that this guy is taking puffs off of his cigarette as he is talking to the crew about losing oxygen. I mean I know it was a different time - but the director of this movie knew what he was doing.
@Akin Khoo smoker logic lol
Some of smokers said smoking reduces stress.
I just watched the real Apollo 13 "Houston we have a problem" and now the movie is recommended to me. Thanks UA-cam
The 90's were the best decade in movie making. Titanic, Jurassic Park, Apollo 13, Shawshank, just to name a few.
Whenever young engineers have an issue that they don't think they can deal with...I always tell them the story of Apollo 13.
9:15 is a great example...basically 15 minutes to get it up and running or you're dead.
the martian while not a true story is also a good "Shut up work the problem" story.
Those guys could work faster with a slide rule than some people can today with a computer.
Matt Turner~ I think of this as The Apollo 13 Effect - if NASA could figure out how to cheat death in a short amount of time with only the things on the spacecraft.... As an operations professional I have referred to it many times.
Except that the "15 minutes or you're dead" is baloney. They can reinitialize the IMU if they have to, they'd just prefer not to. It is Hollywood sensationalism. From the time they made the "15 minutes of power left in the CM" call, it took them 36 minutes to get the LM IMU aligned from the CM IMU. Know why it wasn't a calamity? Because they tied the LM and CM power systems together until they finished. They didn't get the CM powered down until over an hour after the "15 minutes left" call.
Excellent idea, telling this to young engineers.
This movie is so underrated. This movie should have got best picture over bravehart. Best director for braveheart is okay but this movie as a wholes still better then that
it's not underrated - it was nominated for 9 academy awards!
Aaaah Braveheart awards were well deserved.
Are you English or Welsh by any chance? 😂
I think voters seeing Hanks and Sinise so soon after Forrest Gump breezed through awards, and the prospect of Hanks taking Best Actor for the 3rd year in a row enough they couldn't bring themselves to even nominate him, just mentally crossed off seriously considering any major awards for the movie altogether.....On its own merits the movie could have done better, the bigger travesty was Hanks again getting shortchanged along with Saving Private Ryan for Shakespeare In Love, and yet again the next year with American Beauty being the darling over The Green Mile.
@@KalOrtPorThanks for that info. Never knew that some brilliant movies were overlooked. American Beauty doesn't even register nowadays.
But what has happened to the movie business when at least five nominations were vying for the top movie of the year?
I remember when this happened back when I was young. Being a big fan of the Space program it was clear that this was life and death. Apollo 13 is an amazing story of bravery and innovation in the face of adversity. One of Ron Howard's greatest works.
A truly great film. Perfectly captures the impossible tension of a deadly situation. The fact it's a true story makes it all the more remarkable, and the fact they survived is almost inconceivable.
Bill Paxton is one of my favorite actors from the 90s... Such a great guy
15 minutes to transfer everything that usually takes 3 hours...the miracles these astronauts pulled off all while staying level headed and navigating through everything they needed to do will forever be extraordinary and heroic
The flight crew was 2 steps ahead of Mission Control and got a head start booting up the LEM, if they waited for instructions…
Also, transferring the information from the Apollo Guidance Computer in "Odyssey" to the corresponding AGC in "Aquarius" required careful arithmetic, which was double-checked not with computers or electronic calculators, but with slide rules.
@@excronothe possibility of having to use the LEM as a lifeboat was something NASA had planned for before this incident
@@jeffanon1772 That would account for Lovell having that option ready for action after the react value shut down failed to mitigate. The crew was likely already thinking that would may be needed by 5:20 before Lovell said it. How fast they got in gear was essential.
@@excrono the extent of NASA's preparation for those missions was amazing & minimized for drama by the movies....
In both First Man & the HBO miniseries From The Earth To The Moon the infamous 1201 alarm during Apollo 11's decent is shown to be a critical moment...but the truth is the ground control crews had already encountered it during the countless simulations that they ran just like the Astronauts did & they knew it wasn't necessary to abort the landing because of it...
In the videos of Ground Control during the landing you can even hear one of the guys say "Just like the sims" when the alarm went off...they knew exactly what caused it.
Same as Apollo 12 when lightning striking the ship during launch zapped their entire control boards...one Engineer in Ground Control had seen that & knew exactly how to fix it so they didn't have to abort.
The Astronauts get all the attention but without those incredible Ground Control specialists, we never would have gotten there.
Everyone's pointing out the urgency of, "we have a problem" and the realization of "we are venting something out into space" but hardly anyone is acknowledging the heartbreak with "We just lost the moon."
One of the best things about this movie is they highlighted all the people on the ground and how they made this miracle happen. It also showed how great leadership is key to success.
3:00 'Houston... we are venting something out into space'.
Instant goosebumps. One of those moments when time slows and shit gets real really fast.