i found it's 'dryness' compelling as opposed to OT Heroic's, off the cuff Innovation, this was made in the year of the moon landing's and obviously with a lot of NASA cooperation, might not be mainstream but fascinating film about the early days of space exploration.
It's interesting fiction,though not near as good as the real thing with Apollo 13.
shareNot even remotely close to the quality of Apollo 13
shareI didn't like it as much as Apollo 13. Despite the dryness, it's too Hollywood. A hurricane provides a convenient dramatic conflict. The Soviets just happen to show up to help. There just happens to be not enough air and there are hardly any backup systems or ways to improvise more. This results in one of the men conveniently committing suicide in a way that actually makes the situation worse. It's all pretty convenient.
What we've seen from actual space accidents is that the fatal ones came out of nowhere and killed people before they even had a chance to react. The rest of the time, they were usually able to improvise something, not least because they had backup systems built upon backup systems and ways to modify them in the middle of the mission.
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Funny, I see things from a polar-opposite perspective. While APOLLO 13 is far from being a bad or uninteresting movie, Ron Howard's directorial approach is always too sappy and pretentious for my tastes.
I thought John Sturges did a wonderful job, not sentimentalizing the material but focusing on the facts of the story. It owes quite a bit to Kubrick's 2001 in style, but that's okay - 2001 is one of the greatest films ever made. MAROONED, on the other hand, is a lot closer to home - this really could have happened in 1969. I'm impressed.
Don't feel bad. I like this movie more than "Apollo 13" too.
shareI can watch A-13. Over and over. Sensational.
The other one..silly, not believable. Not a Ron Howard.
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