Top SFX shots No.32: Apollo 13

Derek Meddings (#5) has launched more orbital payload vehicles than NASA, but his efforts (in such films as Moonraker and Doppelganger) were finally capped by Digital Domain's superb recreation of the launch of ill-fated Apollo 13. Footage of the Apollo launches is part of the planet's iconography, so the challenge to recreate that experience is immense, and ultimately it's only the curse of the 'roving 3D camera' that turns an astonishingly detailed recreation slightly 'plastic'.

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