This has to be the most unflattering wife portrayal in cinema history. I wanted to throw her out of the window before the first fifteen minutes were up. Does she do anything but bitch and moan for the entire movie? This is a puzzling portrayal, as the film is based on a book by Lovell. Does he hate his wife that much?
I've never seen this complaint about the movie. She was shown as loving and protective of her husband. Before the launch, what you see as complaining, I see as showing support to her husband (e.g. they shouldn't be having him do PR stuff when he had so much else to do). And she was worried about the bad luck of 13. She had a bad feeling. Once they had problems during the mission, she was staying strong for her family, even as she faced becoming a widow. Given the Lovells are still married after 60+ years, I'd say he loves his wife quite a lot.
You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi
Perhaps you might try thinking about you would react to all the situations she goes before, during, and after the mission. She has a teenage daughter, a son in boarding school, 2 younger children, she takes care of her MiL, has to look good for the public, manage a household, be the point woman for the press after things went bad, all without her husband being around very much...wowee zowee, can't imagine why she might want to bitch and moan from time to time. The astronaut program impacted the whole family, not just the men.
I'm thinking you are young and unmarried.
That would be okay, if she actually did anything but bitch and moan. But that's the only thing she does throughout the entire movie. If they had made her portrait more nuanced, if she had had more things to do in the plot. But as is, they have cut out exactly everything else, and left only a bitching moaning shrieke of a woman that has become perhaps the most unflattering wife in cinema history. As said, I wanted to throw her out of the window just because she was so unbearable. It's not her sitaution I have a problem with, her situation is very understandable. It's portraying her situation I have a problem with. What the hell were they thinking? Didn't anybody react? What did Lovell say after watching this film? "Yeah, she does that in real life too...." Or what?
BOTH Lovells gave commentary on one of the DVD editions and Marilyn Lovell said her portrayal was pretty much on target (although she claimed she never swore, never said 'NASA bull$#$#'), but the only thing wrong she saw was that Kathleen Quinlan was "way cuter than me."
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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
lol...it's true she always had something to complain about... but isnt that how many housewives are?
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Not even close. The smug wife in Searching for Bobby Fischer (played by Joan Allen) was way worse. Adrian in Rocky II and IV is worse too. There are probably countless examples, given that Marilyn Lovell wasn't even that bad.
She dropped her ring down the drain and sat by her bed with a stunned look on her face.
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