Post #1208635
2026-04-10 22:32 UTC
Seeing a lot of "most realistic space-travel movies" lists on the feeds in the past couple of weeks, for obvious reasons.
More than one has put Apollo 13 in the top spot (which I have some slight quibbles with, regarding stuff they changed for melodramatic effects).
More glaring, however, is that I haven't seen any of them mention The Right Stuff (at all), which just goes to show you that ... I suppose, GenZ listicle authors don't know anything. And/or the LLMs they use to do their work don't.
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@n8@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 22:37
(and yes, it's valid to note that The Right Stuff also altered things for drama. However, I'd point out that the real-world people who grumbled about The Right Stuff were the people complaining that it didn't paint them personally in the best possible light, which is suspect, particularly when they're astronauts ... that being the point and all. Whereas the stuff that Apollo 13 altered was always to make the astronauts come across better and the engineers come across worse. Not apples & apples.)