"It's one bigger than 12"

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 I just got back into the Martian fandom for, uh, reasons (which may be a post of their own someday, maybe not). It's not on Netflix so I decided to watch Apollo 13 instead. I know I'd seen it before at some point, not when it came out (I was kind of little then), just...someday.

Anyway, it felt a lot bloatier than I remember? Like the run time is 2 hours, 20 minutes, and I feel a lot of that could have been cut because it was pointless Cut To Concerned Family/Man Really Into A Thing With Wife Who Doesn't Get It/Did You Know We Are In the Seventies shots. I did however like the "here is a guy whose wife always makes him a fancy vest for missions, and the rest of the mission control being like 'lol, vest guy has his vest, we can go now'."

(Edit: also they compared the apollo 11 guys to Christopher Columbus [twice!] And Charles Lindbergh. This would never get made today because Problematic.)

But it was worth it because there was a "steely-eyed missile man" namedrop! And I learned that didn't originate here but is actually an Apollo 12 allusion both this and The Martian took and ran with.