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METEOR; the movie...oh wow

RobertScorpio

RobertScorpio

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This weekend on CINMAX they had the dreadful movie Meteor. I have never seen this movie, and I couldn't believe, with that cast, they made such a bad movie..it was bad...very bad.

Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda were all in this movie about a meteor heading to Earth. This movie was produced after Star Wars, Close Encounters and TMP, and the FX are so bad. Russia and USA fire nukes off into space to blow the thing up, and I swear it looks like they have a globe, standing in for earth, and some christman lights around it as the missles head for the meteor.

But the acting wasn't that good either. I am glad that CINMAX plays these old B movies, just for mindless fun. In two weeks I have seen Meteor, Airport 1977, Night of the Lepus (with Deforrest Kelly) and the Swarm. Whew!!! At this rate I wont see any of these movies again until I'm 85 or older..

Rob
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RobertScorpio said:
This weekend on CINMAX they had the dreadful movie Meteor. I have never seen this movie, and I couldn't believe, with that cast, they made such a bad movie..it was bad...very bad.

Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda were all in this movie about a meteor heading to Earth. This movie was produced after Star Wars, Close Encounters and TMP, and the FX are so bad. Russia and USA fire nukes off into space to blow the thing up, and I swear it looks like they have a globe, standing in for earth, and some christman lights around it as the missles head for the meteor.

But the acting wasn't that good either. I am glad that CINMAX plays these old B movies, just for mindless fun. In two weeks I have seen Meteor, Airport 1977, Night of the Lepus (with Deforrest Kelly) and the Swarm. Whew!!! At this rate I wont see any of these movies again until I'm 85 or older..

Rob
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For some reason, when I was a kid, I used to really like this movie. Saw it a couple of years ago, and it is bad.
 
Hey! I always liked Brian Keith. I remember hearing recently that he actually spoke Russian--so that accent wasn't too hard for him.
 
I liked it as a cheesy piece of rubbish.

I especially think the "deep space" mission vessel was very well designed - someone just used Skylab!
 
propita said:
Hey! I always liked Brian Keith. I remember hearing recently that he actually spoke Russian--so that accent wasn't too hard for him.
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Yeah..he got the role in Meteor, and some other film too, because he could speak...sad that he took his life not long after his DS9 episode...

Rob
Scorpio
 
RobertScorpio said:
propita said:
Hey! I always liked Brian Keith. I remember hearing recently that he actually spoke Russian--so that accent wasn't too hard for him.
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Yeah..he got the role in Meteor, and some other film too, because he could speak...sad that he took his life not long after his DS9 episode...

Rob
Scorpio
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I liked DS9, but didn't see it every week. What episode?

I had such a crush on him when I saw "The Parent Trap"--the original one. And he was just great as Teddy Roosevelt in "The Wind and the Lion"--an unusual but very good movie, with a fantastic score.

What a teddy bear he was.
 
I watched this movie on Five a few months ago. It was okay right up until the last fragment conveniently hits New York. Then I made use of the fact that I was watching it on a 15 minute delay and fast forwarded through the end.
 
I remember going to see it at the cinema. Even then I thought it was lousy! I seem to remember having some good popcorn, though. :guffaw:
 
I saw the US orbital nuke missile satellite at an art show about 25 years ago; it was a good, well detailed, miniature.
 
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