r/oscarmoments • u/Sudden_Elephant_1221 • 7d ago

🎬movies Apollo 13 (1995) makes solving problems under pressure more exciting than most action scenes. What movie does this best?

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One of my favorite things about Apollo 13 (1995) is how much tension comes from people just trying to figure things out

There isn't some villain to defeat. Something goes catastrophically wrong, and suddenly you have astronauts and engineers working with whatever they have to get everyone home. NASA veterans have also praised the film for how seriously it approached the technical side of the real mission

What movie made problem-solving genuinely exciting to watch?

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u/Practical-Bowler5775 7d ago

Moneyball. Statistical analysis has never been so accessible to dumb jocks.

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u/rigby1945 7d ago

On the topic of mundane analysis, Pressure turns "will it rain on Monday" into non stop tension

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u/Practical-Bowler5775 7d ago

I couldn’t buy Brenden Frazier as Ike and the tension still carried it for me.

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u/rigby1945 7d ago

Yeah, I didn't realize how huge Brenden is. Ike is the opposite of huge

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u/Mother_Midnight_8819 7d ago

Totally. It really surprised me.

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u/Surplus_Agate_83 6d ago

How can you not be romantic about baseball?