Apollo

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Book Reports

 

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Richard W

 

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June 17, 2013

 

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University

 

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A

 

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3 / 596

 

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Yet the weight of that earlier scene — of a nation's indifference to space travel — hangs over the movie. Apollo 13 is an uncanny experience. It chronicles one of the most dramatic of all spaceflights, an American catastrophe that became an American victory, and it does this in a way that's so authentic, so brilliant in its technical details, that it succeeds in putting us on that ship...
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Visually, the film's re-creation of space travel is flat-out stunning. And the intercutting of actual news reports, principally from Walter Cronkite, adds to the eerie sense that we're seeing history in all its verisimilitude. For all the grandeur of its scale, though, the film is still a bit of a stunt...
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