Apollo 13 (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]

Apollo 13 (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
by Ron Howard

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Actor: Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks
Director: Ron Howard
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Running Time: 140 minutes
Release Date: 1995-11-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios

VHS Movie Reviews of Apollo 13 (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]

Movie Review: Excellent Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This one is one of the best movie ever, the only bad for me was a HD and I need it on blu ray.

Movie Review: History Comes To Life
Summary: 5 Stars

This two disc special edition of Apollo 13 is awesome one the best two disc movies you'll ever own. this movie is awesome. I recomend this movie :)

Movie Review: Apollo 13 widescreen dVD
Summary: 1 Stars

The DVD was received in quick time from the USA in good packaging. Unfortunately I have not been able to review it as it will not play on any of my DVD players - Perhaps the sellar can advise that certain DVD will not play on UK DVD's. That said I am not put off using the sellar again as delivery and response time was good.

Movie Review: Unable to load
Summary: 1 Stars

The DVD came in great condition. New in wrapper but we were unable to load on any of our DVD players.

Movie Review: Watch "From the Earth to the Moon" instead
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a long movie, and it certainly seems like it. Perhaps its Tom Hank's typically low-energy acting, or just that the movie doesn't recreate the suspense over 30 years after the incident, but I just find it heard to sit through this movie. At times, it starts to seem like the Tom Hanks show.

If there is any redeeming factor to the movie, it's the fact that it later led to Tom Hank's From the Earth to the Moon television series, which is excellent. That series focuses on the entire Apollo program and has a great set of actors [the series includes an episode on Apollo 13, but it also isn't very good]. I would actually give Apollo 13 an extra star just for leading to that series. On its own, the movie just isn't very satisfying.

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Summary of Apollo 13 (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]

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 Shannon

Relying primarily on actual footage shot by NASA and by news organizations, this video documents the drama of the aborted Apollo 13 mission, in which three astronauts came close to losing their lives in space. The actual recording of commander Jim Lovell telling Houston about the "problem" made famous in the Hollywood version of Apollo 13 is presented, and the scenes showing distressed engineers in the actual control room in Houston are in some ways much more dramatic than anything seen on the big screen. This is, after all, reality, with real people scrambling under intense pressure to save real lives. Besides the footage inside mission control, the video also showcases invaluable flight footage shot by the astronauts aboard the crippled spaceship. This video takes an essentially chronological approach, but the technique of using the crew's postflight news conference to serve as narration, while it is at first confusing, serves a useful purpose. This is a no-frills production, but the excitement as NASA engineers mobilize and the whole world watches the news about the stricken spaceship is so gripping that any flourishes would only seem to get in the way. --Robert J. McNamara

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