Some of us can spot it. In the Apollo 13 movie, I could tell the real dialog (recorded in history) from the fake dialog.
The big failure was right after the explosion. There was a desire to show the level of stress at that time, so the script writers had the astronauts be antagonistic toward each other and generally unproductive. As I watched that, I instantly saw a bunch of wimpy unstable Hollywood types instead of carefully screened professional test pilots.
The intro dialog was also really forced, and the historical dialog contradicted the direction that rockets were fired when returning.
Makes sense. I didn't even think about how real test pilots might react after the explosion. Guess it would have been too cold for general viewing. The grandparent comment would have found it even more unbelievable I guess.
I don't dispute that the film fudged reality to get to a more relatable emotional truth - I actually like that kind of thing.
The big failure was right after the explosion. There was a desire to show the level of stress at that time, so the script writers had the astronauts be antagonistic toward each other and generally unproductive. As I watched that, I instantly saw a bunch of wimpy unstable Hollywood types instead of carefully screened professional test pilots.
The intro dialog was also really forced, and the historical dialog contradicted the direction that rockets were fired when returning.