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I don't get that emotional when watching movies. I cried a little when the parachutes opened in Apollo 13. As a kid I had a book detailing hundreds of space mi
by ashton314 1y ago
I don't get that emotional when watching movies. I cried a little when the parachutes opened in Apollo 13.
As a kid I had a book detailing hundreds of space missions—mostly probes, obviously—but my favorite mission to read about was Apollo 13. Just incredible.
Maybe when Jim got to heaven, the first place the angels took him to was where he would have landed on the moon.
- Sharlin 1y ago> I cried a little when the parachutes opened in Apollo 13. Thanks in no small part to Horner's score, at least in my case.
- trothamel 1y agoThat, plus the way the scene is set, you cut to the family not knowing if the astronauts survived. And then the movie cuts out about 4 minutes of waiting between when Apollo 13 regains contact, and when the main chutes are deployed and unreefed - when things seem 100% safe, and everyone starts cheering. It's a really good decision in a movie that made a lot of them, as it made the relief hit all at once. And then you see Jim Lovell's cameo as the captain of the Iwo Jima, just to cap the movie off.
- mrexroad 1y agoI’m not crying, you’re crying!
- alex1138 1y agoFirst of all that remark is incredibly touching, thank you for that Apollo 14 (after they diagnosed the 13 issues and beefed up the spacecraft a bit with a few redundancies) actually did land where 13 was supposed to
- cushychicken 1y agoHomeboy deserved someone to weep for him at least a little bit. Not so much the fact that he was gone - the fact that he was here. Jim Lovell made us all better just for existing.