I'm a huge fan of space, but this movie just bores me to death.
First off, the movie feels much longer than its 130 minute length. It just feels more like three or four hours instead.
The movie actually has no music score at all. It just has a electronic hum as credits music. Uh, why? 2001, Apollo 13, even Countdown have music scores.
Some people say that this movie is realistic, but in real life, NASA flight directors and normal mission control men can't talk to the spacecraft. Only CAPCOM, who is usually an active astronaut, not the head of the astronaut core, like Ted Doughterty (who is supposed like Deke Slayton [who was inactive because of an inner-ear infection]). Overacting is probably the biggest killer in this movie. Gene Hackman is so over-the-top that it's surprising that he actually got great parts afterwards. Peck is slow, Janssen is overboard, Crenna is wasted (why kill him, kill Hackman!) and Franciscus actually too low-key for the part.
First off, the movie feels much longer than its 130 minute length. It just feels more like three or four hours instead.
The movie actually has no music score at all. It just has a electronic hum as credits music. Uh, why? 2001, Apollo 13, even Countdown have music scores.
Some people say that this movie is realistic, but in real life, NASA flight directors and normal mission control men can't talk to the spacecraft. Only CAPCOM, who is usually an active astronaut, not the head of the astronaut core, like Ted Doughterty (who is supposed like Deke Slayton [who was inactive because of an inner-ear infection]). Overacting is probably the biggest killer in this movie. Gene Hackman is so over-the-top that it's surprising that he actually got great parts afterwards. Peck is slow, Janssen is overboard, Crenna is wasted (why kill him, kill Hackman!) and Franciscus actually too low-key for the part.