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Apollo 13 (film) was a Media and drama good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 8, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed
December 3, 2011	Good article nominee	Not listed
January 27, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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...neither is it Historical fiction

It is not an "historical drama film" either. That implies a completely fictional story set in a well-known period of history, usually with made-up major characters, which might possibly include real historical persons in cameo roles. Perfect example would be Gone With the Wind (film). This would only have been an historical film if Ron Howard had made up astronauts on a fictional Apollo mission. It is a docudrama, period. JustinTime55 (talk) 20:24, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rusted AutoParts, please discuss here if you disagree. I've no opinion at this time. Erik (talk | contribs) 20:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The movie is in fact very accurate, possible one could consider it as a reenacted documentary. But the long section "Technical and historical accuracy" can be portrayed as if the movie is not accurate. I suggest to start the "Technical and historical accuracy" section by stating that the story in the movie is very true to the actual Apollo 13 mission, even large portion of the dialog is taken directly from NASA transcripts. And that a discussion regarding some of the minor technical discrepancies found in the movie follows below... EV1TE (talk) 20:38, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not without reliable sources that have made those claims. DonIago (talk) 15:25, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The commander of Apollo 13, Jim Lovell himself and his wife Marilyn Lovell have stated that the movie is very true to the real event, especially in the audio commentary to the movie that they recorded together (I highly recommend listening to it on the Bluray/DVD if anyone is interested). Who would be a better source than the person who was actually there? EV1TE (talk) 11:31, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Simply because Lovell says something is accurate doesn't mean it is. Lovell (the primary source) could write this article but that wouldn't mean a priori that every thing he writes is accurate. What the primary source says can be cited as having been said by a primary source. But to be wiki acceptable as accurate it has to be supported by a secondary source. For instance Lovell writes in "Lost Moon" that he wished he had long underwear due to the cold on the spacecraft. You can say that's in the book but can't say that proves there were no long underwear on the spacecraft. In fact there were 9 pairs on board. They are called liquid cooled garments (LCG). In fact the plastic bag they were in (called an LCG bag) was used in the construction of the adaptation of the square co2 scrubber into the round hole. 98.164.64.58 (talk) 08:39, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Cast photos

I can’t remember if there was a specific consensus as to who would be in the cast images but if we’re just gonna throw in others aside from the main three I feel it defeats its purpose. And disrespect to Harris or Sinise but adding them in, we may as well just add in the entire cast.

The images are there for flourish, like I said years ago. And the selection of Hanks, Bacon and Paxton were because they were playing the astronauts central to the story/event. Rusted AutoParts 14:52, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with only including the three - it illustrates a particular and significant group of cast members, just to add some color to the article. The line for inclusion is simply editorial discretion, i.e. there's no rule one way or the other, but I feel that it's sufficient the way it is. --Fru1tbat (talk) 15:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Missing flight controller?

I'm holding this line from the cast list:

Arthur Senzy as SIM 2

This is problematic because Flight controller does not list a "SIM". I did a Google search and failed to find any reference to this position. Also, why is he called "SIM 2", when there is no SIM 1? Also, this is one of the actors not notable enough for a Wikipedia article. JustinTime55 (talk) 17:59, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]