Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
by Ron Howard
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Actor: Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Tom HanksDirector: Ron Howard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Home Video
Movie Reviews of Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: "Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you"
Summary: 5 Stars
THE MOVIE: Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" is superb. It is also majestic, romantic, thrilling, adventurous, frightening, funny, dramatic, heartbreaking, heartwarming, heroic, and just plain wonderful.
Every single actor in the film delivers a phenomenal performance (although Chris Ellis as Deke Slayton isn't given much to work with by the script), and Howard's direction is the best it could possibly be. I need hardly rehash the information in other reviews about the absolutely authentic recreation of the historical visual elements of the movie, or the use of NASA's KC-135 "Vomit Comet" to film most of the scenes set in weightlessness.
Some may prefer "The Right Stuff" to "Apollo 13" as a movie because it's more imaginative, but "Apollo 13" is one of the most accurate and faithful docudramas ever made about space exploration.
THE DVD: "Apollo 13" has not one but two of the best DVD commentary tracks I have ever heard. Ron Howard's account of the making of the movie is full of fascinating anecdotes, but even better is the commentary by Jim and Marilyn Lovell, which is simply one of the coolest bonus features ever found on a Digital Video Disc.
The Lovells' commentary is the equivalent of hearing Scarlett and Rhett comment on "Gone With The Wind", or Frodo and Sam (as distinct from Wood and Astin) discuss Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings". Because the movie is so faithful to the historical record, Lovell is able to describe his own inner thoughts and feelings over big closeups of Tom Hanks (e.g., when he's watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon).
Among the other special features on the second disc is the condensed IMAX version of the movie, which is in a different aspect ratio (one which fills the whole screen of a widescreen TV, whereas the unedited movie fills the entire width of the screen but has black bars at the top and bottom). This version is mainly interesting as a demonstration of how an Academy Award-winning director goes about trimming one of his masterpieces. Some of the edits result in stronger scene transitions, but the shortening of the long take of Ken Mattingly's (Gary Sinise) reaction to learning he's been bumped from the mission is profoundly regrettable.
Summary of Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from a distance of 205,500 miles. Using state-of-the-art special effects and ingenious filmmaking techniques, Howard and his stellar cast and crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to the facts. The result is a fitting tribute to the Apollo 13 mission and one of the biggest box-office hits of 1995. --Jeff ShannonNominated for nine Academy Awards , including Best Picture, Apollo 13 is now available in an incredible 2 -Disc Anniversary Edition with never-before-seen bonus materials. Produced by Academy Award winner Brian Grazer and directed by Oscar winner Ron Howard, Apollo 13 stars Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris in the inspiring and riveting story of the real-life space flight that gripped a nation and changed the world.
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