7.5?!!!!

Yep and the "If Swigert don't dock that thing we don't have a mission". In the documentary they said they weren't worried about it and the other 2 pilots were perfectly capable of docking if Swigert wasn't able to.

Yeah, there were a few.

They never really had heated arguments on the spacecraft. The astronauts actually objected to that being in the movie, but Ron Howard explained that for a film like this he needed to increase the tension by showing their emotions literally on screen.

Gene Kranz never lost his temper like Ed Harris who kicked something and yelled "I don't want another estimate!" He never said "failure is not an option", but liked the line so much he gave that title to his book about the mission.

The computer startup before reentry was just attempted. And it worked. Ken Mattingly's struggle to find the "right sequence" didn't really happen.

After "blackout", the period of radio silence during reentry, the CM still travels at high speed for a while (a couple hundred mph) before the parachutes are deployed. So when they could hear the astronauts' voices at Mission Control, they weren't out of the woods yet. The movie has it all happen at once for one big payoff.

Agreed. EVERY movie based on real events has to take some liberties (example: Argo). Good grief! The movie itself was awesome. For a movie to keep me on the edge of my seat when I knew the ending and lived through the event in the news is quite a feat. This rating is outrageous.

He would have found some way to Hippy/Social Justice Warrior-it up. Just like Avatar or the Abyss were all colored with his "America/Capitalism = BAD" BS.

Titanic was cheesy and sentimental. I suspect a Cameron version of this would have turned out very much like Howards.

Fantastic recreation of early 1970's technology, great cast and an awesome true story which Ron Howard excels in the telling there of

This movie was made with everyone knowing the outcome. Sure the ending is a giveaway, but there's more to a film than just the conclusion. Hanks was great and so were the rest of the actors, but I don't just look at historical accuracy when rating a film. This wasn't a favourite of mine, but to each their own opinion.

This movie was made with everyone knowing the outcome. Sure the ending is a giveaway, but there's more to a film than just the conclusion. I think you could make a strong case that people gave it such high ratings because it depicts a true event that many take personally. Hanks was great and so were the rest of the actors, but I don't just look at historical accuracy when rating a film. This wasn't a favourite of mine, but to each their own opinion.

The first black guy didn't even go up in space until ten years later, (1980), and he was a Cuban on a Soviet flight. Does the movie suck, because it isn't accurate, or suck because it is? Sure, they could have showed more people of color at the launch, but this was Florida in 1970 - they would have had their own area. Even having a black reporter in the movie was using artistic licence on Howard's part I imagine.

Some just don't realize how far we've come. Everyone should have a safe zone; a private spot in their closet that they keep to themselves.