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Apollo 13 (1995)
Might Be A Gaffe
I loved Apollo 13. It was one of the best movies about space travel ever made. It is on Bravo so many times, but I never get tired of watching it. It's one of those rare movies that you know the ending and yet, are still enthralled, enchanted and pulls you in each time. Each viewing is great. I think there's a gaffe at the end of the movie where mission control is awaiting the splash down. I think there is a space shuttle patch on the wall behind them at one angle and if that's the case well... the shuttle was 10 plus years after Apollo 13. But that's minor. Tom Hanks is a perfect choice for Jim Lovell. The mix of real footage and the redone is seamless. It earned the praise. With the Right Stuff, and Apollo 13, the movie Marooned doesn't do much anymore.
Wrong Is Right (1982)
A great movie about television Second to NETWORK
WRONG IS RIGHT was not marketed right when it came out in 1982 and was due to fail. The movie ad tag lines called it "Dr. Strangelove for the 80's," which was a lame attempt to encapsulate a dark comedy by referring to another classic dark comedy, which also dealt with nuclear bombs. I think people were put off by that and because it was two years after the Iranian Hostage Crisis, people didn't want a dark comedy about the Middle East. I loved it in 1982, I love it even more today, because in large part, it was right, wrong is right was right.
HOWEVER, it predicted so much of what has happened in the world since, that it is so prophetic as to be scary. I won't say anything from the movie, but if you watch it and realize when it was made, it's incredible and shows the true genius of those who made it.
Sean Connery leads a cast which is superb.
You have to remember, this was before CNN became the go to news channel.
Enjoy.