Perfect example of CGI and practical effects being used together. These are the films that tend to age pretty well. Apollo 13 is 23 years old and still looks pretty darn good.
Apollo 13 is a movie I hope is never cursed by a remake. It was made at the perfect time with the right cast and just the right level of technology. Prime example of "Lightning in a bottle".
@@darthrevan2961 I see. It is something to think about though, although I highly doubt they would go that far. We don’t know though. We’ll only know if there ever is a remake.
Howard did a good job of capturing what I call the NASA Documentary films feel of it. Some of the 400 mm lens close ups of Ed Harris look almost identical to the PBS style early space program documentaries. I'll bet a very conscious choice because it is how the public know NASA.
Fun Fact: The CGI in this scene was so realistic, that when Neil Armstrong was shown the scene, he asked how did Ron Howard get a hold of the launch footage.
No matter how many times I’ve seen this it’s still one of those films I stop and watch Tom Hanks and ESPECIALLY Ed Harris were robbed of Oscars that year
I saw this in the theatre when it came out, I was 11 years old. I distinctly remember feeling a massive surge of patriotism and emotional love for 🇺🇸 AMERICA🇺🇸 during this scene. Which is weird because I’m Australian😆
Honestly, if it had been the other way around, I would've been feeling great admiration and pride for Australia at this moment (me being US). But even more than just that, whenever it comes to space exploration, I see it as a touching and staggering triumph of what HUMANS are capable of when they cooperate and dedicate themselves.
Love this movie...I grew up in Cocoa Beach from '57 thru '75 and my Dad was an Engineer at the cape...I still remember him telling my Mom the exact same clip as this movie when she questioned why they used the number 13; " it comes after 12 and is before 14".
The swell of the music, the camera following the ice condensation as if falls off the Saturn V to Earth and the visuals of this historic mission are all brought to a climax when Fred Haise's wife first sees the spectacle, takes in a shallow breath then weeps. Some how as a 66 year old man, I feel compelled to mimic Mary Haise and weep every time I see this scene.
You accurately described one of the greatest moments in cinema history. It is perfection… and that precise cutaway to the wives weeping with the swell of Horner’s sweeping score is the moment when any audience member is toppled with emotion.
I just want to say that they did phenominal job mixing the sound on this movie! You can really feel the rumble of the engines, but still hear the music, and voices crystal clear.
Even though the later scenes are amazing, this is an incredible scene, the way it combines multiple locations and perspectives and emotions - the crew's physical experience of this enormous rocket, the focus and nerves of the control room, the emotions of fear and awe felt by the wives, the slightly jealous appreciation of Ken, I think the way they all ramp up together with the imagery and Horner's score is incredibly effective.
The music in this scene is quite remarkable. Most of it is upbeat and heroic, though there are segments, specifically at 1:19, where it sounds quite ominous. It's obviously foreshadowing, but let's look at this differently. I actually think the changes in tone almost represent the thoughts of the astronauts and the ground control team as they prepare for liftoff. The music is nervous, to say the least. There's excitement in there, and that's for good reason. They're launching a rocket to the moon; it's a major event in human history. However, there's still that thought that everything could go wrong, and I think that's what the music is trying to convey. I don't know, I just find it very interesting.
I agree, the music is a perfect reflection of the scenario. If it's reflecting the people, it could be viewed as heroic; for a major event, or determined; they won't mess this up. At the ominous part, after the excitement of the opening moments and risks, besides the overshadowing everyone is having that thought, are they actually going to do this?
yup, and braveheart was a piece of anti english toilet paper, with blatantly twisted historical facts just to appease the irish actors on set. its taken me years to regain my respect for mel gibson after this movie and his drunken bigotry off set
Well, that's what happens when the Academy's Directors branch chooses to nominate Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, more of an acting showcase) and Michael Radford (Il Postino, probably out of sympathy for the lead star's untimely death, though more likely because of Harvey Weinstein's campaigning) instead of Howard and additional hopeful Ang Lee (Sense & Sensibility). Not getting nominated in Best Director killed this film's Best Picture chances, even though it would WIN the Directors, Producers, and Screen Actors guilds.
As a huge fan of the Apollo programme, for me 13 is up there with 11... simply because getting them back was every bit as difficult as getting the 11 guys on to the surface and back. Both are simply our greatest physical achievements ever.
We do tend to get pretty puffed-up about this achievement, but I think it’s very much a thing that Humanity accomplished, not just America. I’m more proud of the fact that Man went to the Moon than I am that he did it with my country’s flag on his shoulder.
Jim Lovell was part of the crew that were the first to launch on the new Saturn Five rocket during Apollo 8. He wrote that compared to the previous Gemini mission rockets, that were essentially repurposed ICBM, the Saturn was surprisingly comfortable to fly in. It was far more stable than previous rockets, since it was so humongous and pulled less G's with a slower, more controlled lift-off.
Yes happy 50th. I was 12 in 1969 and glued to the TV. I was into building models at that age and I built a Saturn Five. Back then glue was used and paint. I was proud of my models but the Saturn Five was my best model. I still had it when I began engineering studies several years later. America kicked the ball out of the field in those days. Very proud.
😂 I know half these guys if not all of them smoke. I just find it HILARIOUS that the flight surgeon is the one that’s blatantly smoking when the cameras on him and has just identified him as the doctor
This was 1970 tho bro. We know soooo much more now about the immediate and long term effects of smoking then we did back then. Mainly bc the tobacco companies simply didn't want it getting out that it was bad for you. Smoking 50 60 70 years ago was RIDICULOUSLY common. Sad to think of how it hurt people with alot of them knowing nothing about the tolls they were putting themselves through
Still hard to believe what human beings have been able to accomplish in the last 100 years. Building powerful and insanely complex machines to take us to and from space. Its a privilege to be alive at this moment of human history.
What I like about this movie is how it depicts the intense professionalism of the NASA flight engineers. Compared the much-ballyhooed "The Martian", where the main NASA character is depicted as a fratboy geek.
you mean ritch purnell who turns up in two scenes? or the two actual main characters in NASA the head and the crew director. both of whom are serious and well written character
dude, thats different movies, this one is an movie nearly to a dokumentary and TheMartian is a SiFi-Hollywoodmovie. i like both but this Scene is just very impressive to me.
If you look at the NASA employees now, they resemble very similarly to the ones in 'The Martian'. That's just how time is. This movie is set in 1970, the Martian is set a few years into the future, or more or less present time. Over a 40 year difference, obviously work ethics and appearances change.
@@brunoderkameramaa8005 "dokumentary" "thats" "TheMartian" "SiFi-Hollywoodmovie" In addition, why is "i" lowercase when "scene" is capitalized? Next time, please check your grammar. That, or retake preschool-level English.
Seeing this just always reminds me how absolutely clinically insane this method of space travel actually is. I mean yeah, I know the've gone over the calculations a thousand times, checked every nut and bolt a million times and so on and so forth.... But still..... Riding what is essentially a tiny tin can propelled by MASSIVE fuel tank burning away and pushing you up towards the stars..... Mad respect for all the people, past and present working in that field. (And yes I am very much aware that even the oldest spacegoing rockets were far more complex than what I painted them as here.)
I’m here after watching the movie The First Man. Both Apollo 13 and The First Man are great films. But here’s the difference between the two launch scenes and pretty much the tone of the two movies. Apollo 13 launch starts off filling you with joy and there is a sense of flawlessness about the mission but of a sudden disaster strikes and you’re on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens. The First Man is the opposite. The launch scene has you on the edge of your seat at first. You were worrying that they might die at any second. But at the end the mission was flawless and couldn’t have gone any better.
Sorry, nothing compares to a Saturn V, sorry. One F1 Engine on a Saturn V was equivalent to everything Space X. BTW, we landed on the moon OVER 50 YEARS AGO. and 60 YEARS AGO we put men in space. So glad to see that we have accomplished a lot since, NOT!!!!!!!!!
That was probably a little tweaky easter egg about smoking culture and how'd it'd changed by even the mid-90's (nevermind now) that Howard threw in there.
What a time the 60s where everything was Soo dam massive and violent connected bridges breaking off huge clouds of exhaust.... goosebumps the size of the rocket is incredible, nothing modern is as Goliath or as impressive as this once was. Less technology was inside that rocket than the phone inside your pocket.
My favorite movies with music composed by James Horner are Apollo 13, Titanic, A Beautiful Mind and Avatar. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, James Cameron and Jon Landau. ❤️
This was the first movie (not cartoon) which my dad took me to the cinema in Szolnok, Hungary to watch it. He thought this would might be interesting for me. He was damn so right! I was amaized by this movie and the events. Especially when dad told me: this happened in reality.
Well said. But apparently, Hollywood and the entirety of today's generation forgot about this. The enormous desire for instant gratification of people, which translates in the overuse of CGI (faster, cheaper and with questionable quality) results on movies that don't have enough magic and depth. Jurassic World comes to mind...
My man, couldn't said any better! That's EXACTLY what I think of movies today. How I miss the 1990s, a decade where people had a high standard of quality for their entertainment and the industry knew this. Today, the situation is just too sad to contemplate.
Strongly agree. Not just movies, but also music and TV had a high quality as well. I'm 24 now, so it means I was a child in the 90s; but I still remember how good entertainment was before people started to become imbecilized by these evil and uncompromising media executives (starting in my opinion in the mid to late 2000s, that's where I sensed the downward spiral). Still have very fond memories of that decade, like it was yesterday.
About Jurassic World, I just mentioned because it is one of the various blockbusters made specifically for dumb audiences down. Another great example in my opinion would be the current Star Wars trilogy: formulaic and unmoving at best! And many, many others.
@@jburma Right on Brother. Yes, the Apollo program was amazing and many people today, just don't get it. 7.5+ million pounds of thrust, 363 feet tall and only 13 feet return :-)
@@bobbycv64 Yeah, at 1:21, when they have the panning shot showing the entire rocket, you see just how small the Command Module was in comparison to the rest. I think even the Lunar Module was a little bigger (since it had two stages). I knew this, because I had the models when I was a kid, but definitely a reminder.
My father was a guidance control engineer at NASA during the APOLLO program. And to this day I say the the launching of a SATURN V ROCKET, is a symphony of American Engineering that starts of with a violent explosion. Then lands man on the moon as if the hand of God himself lay a baby down to sleep! A time in my life i will cherish forever.
Except the rower swing arms all disconnected and swung away at the same time AS the Sat V left the pad, not in a ripple with the engines at full power. It was for cinematic effect, of course, as were other things that did not happen in the real flight -- like the argument between thr crew or the loss of control on the manual burn. It's needed to keep the audience engaged. But really, those were the only few real innaccuracies....Howard and company did a masterful job keeping it as accurate as they could.
I quote this scene every time I'm on a plane "This is it; a few bumps and we're haulin' the mail"; being taxi'd to the runway "The clock is running......." the plane gaining speed on the runway "We have liftoff........" plane takes off and is airborne
Ever since I saw this movie, I have a habit of quoting this scene every time I go on a plane. When we go down the runway I say to myself “The clock is running”. And as soon as we’re airborne I say “We have liftoff. We have cleared the tower at 13:13”
Imagine being these people who grew up during the great depression, experienced WW2, and are now seeing the fruits of their generation's efforts as they continue to build the greatest nation on earth.
@@BombOnBoardProductions Starship would literally have to land humans on another planet in order to outclass the Saturn V, landing a drone won’t be good enough it had to land men on another planet, if it lands men on the moon then all it will be doing is accomplishing what the Saturn V has already done
Really enjoyed this movie...but as an Aerospace Engineer that grew up on the Space coast during space race years and saw all the Apollo moon shots, for the life of me I don't know why they used computer graphics for this launch in the movie...nothing is more breath taking than the actual footage of a Saturn V rocket launch with all 5 F-1 engines buring...and NASA has plenty of it in the can.
Yeah. While the actual launch footage was a truly breathtaking sight, I guess it would have looked odd in the movie with the drop in resolution and overall quality given the camera technology during the time this movie was made vs. the footage taken 30 years earlier with the actual launch. Or at least that's my theory. Btw, great profession. In college right now studying to be an aerospace engineer. ;)
The film quality of the stock footage is noticeably different, and we've all seen that footage a hundred times. I would have been very disappointed if they'd settled for stock footage.
Because it was all shot on 16mm film. And Howard wanted to show the launch idealized to how he wanted to see it. The FX in this film are well done but to me the engines still do not convey the RAGING power of the Saturn 5. They got close but that's about it. The engine nozzells look too much like "Fire" and not raging flat out THRUST. Just my beef.
it s going on 50 years pretty soon the mission of the apollo 13 April 1970 I remember that too I remember hearing that the astronauts were in trouble I also remember the name Jim Lovell at the time I too had prayed for them
Perfect example of CGI and practical effects being used together. These are the films that tend to age pretty well. Apollo 13 is 23 years old and still looks pretty darn good.
The best CGI is CGI you don't notice
And now we have cgi getting worse and worse with sonic the hedgehog as a prime example
FoxTorch therye not getting worse, the cg artists are just being given less time
The only thing that doesn’t age well is just the textures. But that’s the ONLY thing, that’s amazing for a movie 24 years old!
Exactly how all films should be made these days.
Apollo 13 is a movie I hope is never cursed by a remake. It was made at the perfect time with the right cast and just the right level of technology.
Prime example of "Lightning in a bottle".
@Libturds Suck And the Saturn V will be painted black, just you wait
@@darthrevan2961 They wouldn’t go that far.
@@thefreerepublicofadmiralpr2935 Jokin bruh
@@darthrevan2961 I see. It is something to think about though, although I highly doubt they would go that far. We don’t know though. We’ll only know if there ever is a remake.
@@thefreerepublicofadmiralpr2935 God I hope there isn’t
The famous Launch Status Check always gets my heart pumping.
Go fever
Yeah, I watched a launch this morning and I smiled when they did the status check!
Gotta love your checklists.
Howard did a good job of capturing what I call the NASA Documentary films feel of it. Some of the 400 mm lens close ups of Ed Harris look almost identical to the PBS style early space program documentaries. I'll bet a very conscious choice because it is how the public know NASA.
The clock is running.. Tom Hanks could only say it like that...
Fun Fact: The CGI in this scene was so realistic, that when Neil Armstrong was shown the scene, he asked how did Ron Howard get a hold of the launch footage.
@R2 B2 All I knew was one of the original Apollo 11 astronauts thought the visual effects was real footage.
yet somehow they completely goofed on the instrument ring.
It was Buzz Aldrin that asked about the footage.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 neil died in 2012. this film came out in the 90's
@@steveb9325 is correct. Asked Ron if they could use it.
No matter how many times I’ve seen this it’s still one of those films I stop and watch
Tom Hanks and ESPECIALLY Ed Harris were robbed of Oscars that year
Tom Hanks didn't deserve an Oscar for that POS Forest Gump but did deserve one for this.
1993 -> Philadelphia, 1994 -> Forrest Gumpy, 1995 -> Apollo 13? 3 straight years in a row?
yes this movie got robbed of a Oscar it really deserves one.
Anyone shedding a tear or two cause of the music and the great deal of anxiety of how bad it could go
For me, at least personally, the anxiety is because I know exactly what's coming.
I saw this in the theatre when it came out, I was 11 years old. I distinctly remember feeling a massive surge of patriotism and emotional love for 🇺🇸 AMERICA🇺🇸 during this scene. Which is weird because I’m Australian😆
@Libturds Suck Not while I draw breath.
I consider the Apollo missions world heritage. Everyone was proud of it. The vast majority of the world celebrated it as a whole.
@@davidwoznerable6750 Especially 13!
I AM American and proudly ran this film @ Cineplex Odeon theater in Houston, Texas. I still get goosebumps. JSC is down the street from me.
Honestly, if it had been the other way around, I would've been feeling great admiration and pride for Australia at this moment (me being US). But even more than just that, whenever it comes to space exploration, I see it as a touching and staggering triumph of what HUMANS are capable of when they cooperate and dedicate themselves.
Love this movie...I grew up in Cocoa Beach from '57 thru '75 and my Dad was an Engineer at the cape...I still remember him telling my Mom the exact same clip as this movie when she questioned why they used the number 13; " it comes after 12 and is before 14".
The movie was released 25 years after the Apollo 13 incident.
It has been 28 years since the movie was released.
Mindblowing.
and we haven't been to the moon in decades... Think about that.
Next year 2025 will be 30 years
The swell of the music, the camera following the ice condensation as if falls off the Saturn V to Earth and the visuals of this historic mission are all brought to a climax when Fred Haise's wife first sees the spectacle, takes in a shallow breath then weeps. Some how as a 66 year old man, I feel compelled to mimic Mary Haise and weep every time I see this scene.
You accurately described one of the greatest moments in cinema history. It is perfection… and that precise cutaway to the wives weeping with the swell of Horner’s sweeping score is the moment when any audience member is toppled with emotion.
I just want to say that they did phenominal job mixing the sound on this movie! You can really feel the rumble of the engines, but still hear the music, and voices crystal clear.
“In thrust we trust”
"Steely-eyed missle man"
In Elon we Musk
uhhhh...
"Houston, we have a problem"
Coomer
"the best step is no step"
The musical score of this movie is so great it should win an academy award for best musical score, if that even exists.
Even though the later scenes are amazing, this is an incredible scene, the way it combines multiple locations and perspectives and emotions - the crew's physical experience of this enormous rocket, the focus and nerves of the control room, the emotions of fear and awe felt by the wives, the slightly jealous appreciation of Ken, I think the way they all ramp up together with the imagery and Horner's score is incredibly effective.
What a rush and an absolute kick in the rear end riding the Saturn V must have been.
The music in this scene is quite remarkable. Most of it is upbeat and heroic, though there are segments, specifically at 1:19, where it sounds quite ominous. It's obviously foreshadowing, but let's look at this differently. I actually think the changes in tone almost represent the thoughts of the astronauts and the ground control team as they prepare for liftoff. The music is nervous, to say the least. There's excitement in there, and that's for good reason. They're launching a rocket to the moon; it's a major event in human history. However, there's still that thought that everything could go wrong, and I think that's what the music is trying to convey. I don't know, I just find it very interesting.
RIP James Horner
EpicMarioBros I mean, Saturn V was and still is the tallest rocket ever launched
No need to write an English essay
I agree, the music is a perfect reflection of the scenario. If it's reflecting the people, it could be viewed as heroic; for a major event, or determined; they won't mess this up. At the ominous part, after the excitement of the opening moments and risks, besides the overshadowing everyone is having that thought, are they actually going to do this?
well i assume he doesn't speak french, so it would have to be english!!
Still can't believe this movie lost to Braveheart for best film of the year.
yup, and braveheart was a piece of anti english toilet paper, with blatantly twisted historical facts just to appease the irish actors on set. its taken me years to regain my respect for mel gibson after this movie and his drunken bigotry off set
Well, that's what happens when the Academy's Directors branch chooses to nominate Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, more of an acting showcase) and Michael Radford (Il Postino, probably out of sympathy for the lead star's untimely death, though more likely because of Harvey Weinstein's campaigning) instead of Howard and additional hopeful Ang Lee (Sense & Sensibility). Not getting nominated in Best Director killed this film's Best Picture chances, even though it would WIN the Directors, Producers, and Screen Actors guilds.
If Apollo 13 had come out the same year as 9/11 or soon after, no doubt it would have won best picture. It WAS the best picture in 1995.
Douglas Schultz they showed tittys
What is brave heart?
As a huge fan of the Apollo programme, for me 13 is up there with 11... simply because getting them back was every bit as difficult as getting the 11 guys on to the surface and back. Both are simply our greatest physical achievements ever.
I am not American but I saw this movie on the big screen and I felt their pride.
We do tend to get pretty puffed-up about this achievement, but I think it’s very much a thing that Humanity accomplished, not just America. I’m more proud of the fact that Man went to the Moon than I am that he did it with my country’s flag on his shoulder.
This isn't a movie. It really happened. I was there. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton are legendary astronauts.
Jim Lovell was part of the crew that were the first to launch on the new Saturn Five rocket during Apollo 8. He wrote that compared to the previous Gemini mission rockets, that were essentially repurposed ICBM, the Saturn was surprisingly comfortable to fly in. It was far more stable than previous rockets, since it was so humongous and pulled less G's with a slower, more controlled lift-off.
Yes happy 50th. I was 12 in 1969 and glued to the TV. I was into building models at that age and I built a Saturn Five. Back then glue was used and paint. I was proud of my models but the Saturn Five was my best model. I still had it when I began engineering studies several years later. America kicked the ball out of the field in those days. Very proud.
Imagine how awkward it would be if someone actually said: "No go"
Better to say no go than to launch a faulty ship
Lol
Iwan Egerström I would have said... "what?"
Happens all the time.
lol
😂 I know half these guys if not all of them smoke. I just find it HILARIOUS that the flight surgeon is the one that’s blatantly smoking when the cameras on him and has just identified him as the doctor
This was 1970 tho bro. We know soooo much more now about the immediate and long term effects of smoking then we did back then. Mainly bc the tobacco companies simply didn't want it getting out that it was bad for you. Smoking 50 60 70 years ago was RIDICULOUSLY common. Sad to think of how it hurt people with alot of them knowing nothing about the tolls they were putting themselves through
I cannot watch this without getting emotional. Can't do it.
If you haven't been to Cape Canaveral/ NASA, I recommend you go. Take a tour of NASA and walk under a Saturn V rocket. Awesome!!
Like visiting a ghost town. Something that once was and will never be again.
I've done that, absolutely breathtaking. I hope one day I can go back and do it again, while also stopping by Atlantis
Been there, that thing is unbeliveable! Such a beauty!
@@jamescollinson2179 Project Artemis may change that.
I've been there in JSP in Houston, such a masterpiece!!
Just watched this movie again the other day. Still one of my favorite movies.
Came here after watching First Man. The difference between the two films in how essentially the same event was put on film is,, astonishing
@Zaher74 I said "essentially" the same, I know they're different missions
This scene gives me goosebumps everytime
One of the few movies, I watch again and again.
The music and the scene of the rocket was awesome!
@Libturds Suck ???
Still hard to believe what human beings have been able to accomplish in the last 100 years. Building powerful and insanely complex machines to take us to and from space. Its a privilege to be alive at this moment of human history.
MY FAVORITE SCENE!!! If scenes could win awards, this would sweep!
I can't believe they didn't win Picture of the Year!
How it feels like before I run the code post compilation..
LOL
How does Apollo spacecraft work in order for the lunar vehicle to land on the moon.
How does Apollo spacecraft work in order for the lunar vehicle to land on the moon.
Ravindra Singh ko
Thankfully only the program crashes in your case ;)
Agh! I just love the checklist go/no-go sequence!
I love it when Freddo's wife cries. Conveys everything felt all in one overwhelming flow of emotion.
Ron Howard is a fantastic director and this movie is one of my favorites - among many...
I don't know what it is, but whenever I hear the phrase "Go Flight" I get goosebumps.
I love the fact the Flight Surgeon is smoking like a factory chimney. 😄
0:45 awww this beautiful 1970 corvette what a beauty
Yes, that's what I saw, I have a friend with a 1969 Corvette T Top. To bad, the 1970 Superbird was not in the movie, was prettier :-)
@@bobbycv64 I like the Corvette more
my dad has one that's a '71 looks exactly the same as the one we see in that scene
Woody in a Buzz Lightyear suit makes a hell of an astronaut.
What I like about this movie is how it depicts the intense professionalism of the NASA flight engineers. Compared the much-ballyhooed "The Martian", where the main NASA character is depicted as a fratboy geek.
you mean ritch purnell who turns up in two scenes? or the two actual main characters in NASA the head and the crew director. both of whom are serious and well written character
dude, thats different movies, this one is an movie nearly to a dokumentary and TheMartian is a SiFi-Hollywoodmovie. i like both but this Scene is just very impressive to me.
"ballyhooed" i like that
If you look at the NASA employees now, they resemble very similarly to the ones in 'The Martian'. That's just how time is. This movie is set in 1970, the Martian is set a few years into the future, or more or less present time. Over a 40 year difference, obviously work ethics and appearances change.
@@brunoderkameramaa8005 "dokumentary" "thats" "TheMartian" "SiFi-Hollywoodmovie"
In addition, why is "i" lowercase when "scene" is capitalized?
Next time, please check your grammar. That, or retake preschool-level English.
I have been watching this movie since I was a kid and every time I see this scene I still get that swell of pride and awe!
I was four years old when Apollo 13 launched, I remember watching the launch on a black-and-white Motorola television
Seeing this just always reminds me how absolutely clinically insane this method of space travel actually is.
I mean yeah, I know the've gone over the calculations a thousand times, checked every nut and bolt a million times and so on and so forth....
But still.....
Riding what is essentially a tiny tin can propelled by MASSIVE fuel tank burning away and pushing you up towards the stars.....
Mad respect for all the people, past and present working in that field.
(And yes I am very much aware that even the oldest spacegoing rockets were far more complex than what I painted them as here.)
Saw this fine, fine movie 8 times because I loved this scene and the trumpet solo soundtrack.
Such a lovely scene, movie and score! James Horner outdid himself with All Systems Go and Return to Earth!
This film has a fantastic score…..
Damn it must have been awesome to see one of the Saturn V launches in person!
wow amazing just inspiring, I just checked and its exactly 50 years since Apollo 13, just wow
Watched this as a kid. I had no idea how realistic this was.
As a kid, this was my favorite movie
I’m here after watching the movie The First Man. Both Apollo 13 and The First Man are great films. But here’s the difference between the two launch scenes and pretty much the tone of the two movies. Apollo 13 launch starts off filling you with joy and there is a sense of flawlessness about the mission but of a sudden disaster strikes and you’re on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens. The First Man is the opposite. The launch scene has you on the edge of your seat at first. You were worrying that they might die at any second. But at the end the mission was flawless and couldn’t have gone any better.
So true
The launch scene from First Man was much better than the one from Apollo 13.
I get goosebumps every time I see this. Let's hope SpaceX's Starship gives me goosebumps, too!
Sorry, nothing compares to a Saturn V, sorry. One F1 Engine on a Saturn V was equivalent to everything Space X. BTW, we landed on the moon OVER 50 YEARS AGO. and 60 YEARS AGO we put men in space. So glad to see that we have accomplished a lot since, NOT!!!!!!!!!
@@bobbycv64
Hmmm... Somebody's salty...
the amount of salt is larger than when a 5 year old loses a CoD match.
Amount of salt is more than 10 kids who lost a fornite match combined.
Billionaire pet project. Makes me sick.
The best song of the whole soundtrack.
Just watching this clip at the US space and rocket center just before Artemis 1 launches. The goddamn onion ninjas are here
Imagine play the start sequence checklist in your car would make every trip with the car epic
Me: Driver is go. Wheels are go. Engine is go. Are we go for launch?
My girl: Shut up and just drive.
wait you aren't checking before you start your car?
Seats: go
Mirrors: go
Seatbelts: go
Brakes: no-go
Clutch: go
Engine: go
Ignition
This is a legendary part of history :)
Ever noticed that the flight surgeon is smoking?
He is the flight surgeon, not the flight oncologist
People thought that smoking was healthy for you back then
That was probably a little tweaky easter egg about smoking culture and how'd it'd changed by even the mid-90's (nevermind now) that Howard threw in there.
That's 1970 for you. lol
Do what doctor says not what doctor do!!
One of the most epic clips I ever saw!
It s so excellent~~~ The picture quality is so good~~~
Greatest movie ever. Will never be topped imo.
What a time the 60s where everything was Soo dam massive and violent connected bridges breaking off huge clouds of exhaust.... goosebumps the size of the rocket is incredible, nothing modern is as Goliath or as impressive as this once was. Less technology was inside that rocket than the phone inside your pocket.
@2:48 the music, the emotions ... Outstanding
Brings tears to my eyes. Yes Andrew Apollo 13 was America’s finest hour. With more to come.
My favorite movies with music composed by James Horner are Apollo 13, Titanic, A Beautiful Mind and Avatar. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, James Cameron and Jon Landau. ❤️
This was the first movie (not cartoon) which my dad took me to the cinema in Szolnok, Hungary to watch it. He thought this would might be interesting for me. He was damn so right! I was amaized by this movie and the events. Especially when dad told me: this happened in reality.
in 95 those cgi effects looked a lot better
A real irony. Today's CGIs are just pure crap!
Well said. But apparently, Hollywood and the entirety of today's generation forgot about this. The enormous desire for instant gratification of people, which translates in the overuse of CGI (faster, cheaper and with questionable quality) results on movies that don't have enough magic and depth. Jurassic World comes to mind...
My man, couldn't said any better! That's EXACTLY what I think of movies today. How I miss the 1990s, a decade where people had a high standard of quality for their entertainment and the industry knew this. Today, the situation is just too sad to contemplate.
Strongly agree. Not just movies, but also music and TV had a high quality as well. I'm 24 now, so it means I was a child in the 90s; but I still remember how good entertainment was before people started to become imbecilized by these evil and uncompromising media executives (starting in my opinion in the mid to late 2000s, that's where I sensed the downward spiral). Still have very fond memories of that decade, like it was yesterday.
About Jurassic World, I just mentioned because it is one of the various blockbusters made specifically for dumb audiences down. Another great example in my opinion would be the current Star Wars trilogy: formulaic and unmoving at best! And many, many others.
Being born after the Apollo program i didnt really appreciate how impressive it was till I saw this in the theater in 95
The clock is runninG, Jennay
"The clock is running!"
-Jim Lovell
this segment never gets old!!!! awesome!
CGI is still a million times better in '95 than it is 25 years later.
2:48 - gets me every time
This is the reason I looked for this clip
@jburma WOW!!! I thought I was the only one. THAT'S AMERICA PROUD.
@@bobbycv64 Amazing how I can watch just a few seconds of that and lose it every time. It's such a beautiful scene.
@@jburma Right on Brother. Yes, the Apollo program was amazing and many people today, just don't get it. 7.5+ million pounds of thrust, 363 feet tall and only 13 feet return :-)
@@bobbycv64 Yeah, at 1:21, when they have the panning shot showing the entire rocket, you see just how small the Command Module was in comparison to the rest. I think even the Lunar Module was a little bigger (since it had two stages). I knew this, because I had the models when I was a kid, but definitely a reminder.
One of the best film sequences ever!
Happy 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13!
Happy 50th.
Thanks.
My father was a guidance control engineer at NASA during the APOLLO program. And to this day I say the the launching of a SATURN V ROCKET, is a symphony of American Engineering that starts of with a violent explosion. Then lands man on the moon as if the hand of God himself lay a baby down to sleep! A time in my life i will cherish forever.
A really amazing reinacment of the launch. Well done Howard.
Except the rower swing arms all disconnected and swung away at the same time AS the Sat V left the pad, not in a ripple with the engines at full power.
It was for cinematic effect, of course, as were other things that did not happen in the real flight -- like the argument between thr crew or the loss of control on the manual burn. It's needed to keep the audience engaged.
But really, those were the only few real innaccuracies....Howard and company did a masterful job keeping it as accurate as they could.
The Strongest Rocket in the world saying "Let me go"
I quote this scene every time I'm on a plane
"This is it; a few bumps and we're haulin' the mail"; being taxi'd to the runway
"The clock is running......." the plane gaining speed on the runway
"We have liftoff........" plane takes off and is airborne
Ever since I saw this movie, I have a habit of quoting this scene every time I go on a plane. When we go down the runway I say to myself “The clock is running”. And as soon as we’re airborne I say “We have liftoff. We have cleared the tower at 13:13”
A few bumps and we're hauling the mail😄
My dads a pilot, maybe he should start saying that
Imagine being these people who grew up during the great depression, experienced WW2, and are now seeing the fruits of their generation's efforts as they continue to build the greatest nation on earth.
The Saturn V rocket remains the most powerful rocket ever built till this day
it is going to be outclassed by Starship in a few months tho
@@BombOnBoardProductions
So my comment is still accurate 🤷♂️ what was the point on that 🤨😂
@@AJxxxxxxxx idk man just conversation
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Starship would literally have to land humans on another planet in order to outclass the Saturn V, landing a drone won’t be good enough it had to land men on another planet, if it lands men on the moon then all it will be doing is accomplishing what the Saturn V has already done
It will be beat by Orion in November. Artemis 1.
Fun fact: the shot at 2:17 is played backwards at 2:24
You're welcome :)
notice the ice is still falling down in both shots. Your welcome
Really enjoyed this movie...but as an Aerospace Engineer that grew up on the Space coast during space race years and saw all the Apollo moon shots, for the life of me I don't know why they used computer graphics for this launch in the movie...nothing is more breath taking than the actual footage of a Saturn V rocket launch with all 5 F-1 engines buring...and NASA has plenty of it in the can.
Yeah. While the actual launch footage was a truly breathtaking sight, I guess it would have looked odd in the movie with the drop in resolution and overall quality given the camera technology during the time this movie was made vs. the footage taken 30 years earlier with the actual launch. Or at least that's my theory. Btw, great profession. In college right now studying to be an aerospace engineer. ;)
The film quality of the stock footage is noticeably different, and we've all seen that footage a hundred times. I would have been very disappointed if they'd settled for stock footage.
Tbh i didn't know it was computer graphics i thought they filmed it with scale models
I think it's both. If I recall, the launch tower is a model, and the rocket is CG.
Because it was all shot on 16mm film. And Howard wanted to show the launch idealized to how he wanted to see it. The FX in this film are well done but to me the engines still do not convey the RAGING power of the Saturn 5. They got close but that's about it. The engine nozzells look too much like "Fire" and not raging flat out THRUST. Just my beef.
The "Gary Sinise is sad" scene
it s going on 50 years pretty soon the mission of the apollo 13 April 1970 I remember that too I remember hearing that the astronauts were in trouble I also remember the name Jim Lovell at the time I too had prayed for them
The way how the service arms retract is just something I can’t explain but it’s is a weird sensation pls someone tell me I’m not crazy 😅
it's like unleasing the monster
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Gotta love those 1995 CG effects
0:45- Wow that's a nice car
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
The flight surgeon smoking a 🚬 is a great zeitgeist touch
Me fact checking my assignments before handing them in.
0:00 me running a checklist before I run to the store. Wallet..go, cellphone..go, keys..keys are go, bags..bags are go flight, mask..go..
Xd
You sir have now inspired me to start doing the same 😆🤜🤛
Love Mattingly’s ‘Vette,
I can’t believe how quickly Americans became jaded to The Apollo Missions. Hardly anybody I knew talked about Apollo 17 in 1972 !!!
well if apollo 11 was fake then all the apollo missions where also fake including apollo 13.
@@Νίκος-ψ2η ...But they weren't
watching apollo 13 next to me may result in permanent hearing loss from my scream
The best space movie ever made.
Ron Howard really made some fantastic movies back in the day.
It has been 25 years since 1995. I can't believe it.
I has been more since the release date than between the release date and the actual mission. That's how old we are.
"What I heard"
Amplifier On!
Bassbooster On!
Audio subject On!
Volume Max is On!
Mission Engage in.
3
2
1
"Engine Earrape.mp4" has engage.
Because you're dumbed down by electronic junk. Now you're a shear stupid, dumbass!
Chill dude!