Sean Connery in "Meteor" (1979)

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  • An asteroid, Orpheus, is hit by a comet, and small fragments are sent on a collision course towards Earth, wreaking havoc on the planet, revealing the threat of the slower oncoming five-mile wide asteroid fragment that will cause an extinction-level event.
    The United States government has a secret orbiting nuclear missile platform satellite, Hercules, designed by Dr. Paul Bradley (Sean Connery), intended to defend Earth against a threat like Orpheus, but commandeered by the U.S. Armed Forces to become an orbiting weapon aimed at the Soviet Union. Bradley calculates that the fourteen nuclear missiles on board Hercules are not enough to stop the asteroid.
    The Soviet Union also has a similar weapons satellite in orbit, Peter the Great, with sixteen nuclear warheads pointed down at the United States.
    Needing additional firepower to stop Orpheus, the President goes on national television and engages in political maneuvering, revealing the existence of Hercules, but fabricating a story that it was created to meet the threat that the gigantic asteroid represents. He offers the Soviets a chance to also save face by announcing the U.S.S.R. has the same "asteroid defense" program and their own satellite weapon, and joining forces in order to destroy Orpheus.
    Meanwhile, more meteorite fragments strike Earth, inside Siberia, and the Soviets finally agree to join in the counter-effort between the two countries. Soviet scientist Dr. Alexei Dubov (Brian Keith), his interpreter Tatiana Donskaya (Natalie Wood), Bradley and Harry Sherwood (Karl Malden) of NASA meet at the control center for Hercules in Lower Manhattan. Major General Adlon (Martin Landau) is the commander of the facility.
    Struggling with Cold War politics, Dubov cannot admit the existence of the Soviet device, so they work on how a "theoretical" Soviet space platform's weapons would be coordinated with the American platform.
    Both satellites are coordinated, and turned towards the large incoming asteroid as smaller fragments continue to strike the planet, causing great damage, including a deadly avalanche in the Swiss Alps and a tsunami which devastates Hong Kong. With hours remaining, Peter the Great's missiles are launched, with Hercules's missiles set to be fired 40 minutes later.
    With seconds to spare, Hercules launches its missiles. The splinter impacts the city, destroying the top half of the World Trade Center twin towers, and creating a crater in Central Park. The control center is destroyed, and the survivors are forced to go through the New York subway system, and become a trapped, due to water from the East River flooding the tunnels.
    The two flights of missiles link up into three successively larger waves. The Hercules crew reaches a crowded subway station and waits while others dig them out.
    Eventually, the missiles reach the meteoroid. The first wave of missiles strikes the rock, causing a small explosion, the second wave follows with a larger blast, and the third wave creates an enormous explosion. When the dust clears, the asteroid appears obliterated. In New York City, the radios broadcast the good news: Orpheus is no longer a danger to Earth. Then the subway station occupants are rescued.
    Later, at an airport, Dubov, Tatiana, Bradley and others exchange goodbyes before Dubov and Tatiana depart on a plane for the Soviet Union.
    A 1979 American science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Sandy Howard, screenplay by Oscar winner Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann.The international cast includes four Oscar winners: Henry Fonda, Sir Sean Connery, Karl Malden, and Martin Landau; and three Oscar nominees: Natalie Wood, Trevor Howard, and Ronald Neame, and co-stars Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella, and Richard Dysart. Sybil Danning appears in a cameo as a girl skier. Natalie Wood wanted to be cast because she could speak fluent Russian, she was the daughter of Russian immigrants. She worked with George Rubinstein to perfect a Leningrad accent. Brian Keith was also fluent in Russian.
    Theodore R. Parvin got the idea for the story from a "Saturday Review" article by Isaac Asimov about a meteor hitting a major U.S. city. Parvin hired Edmund H. North to write the screenplay, who took further inspiration from the 1967 MIT report, "Project Icarus."
    The spaceship that the astronauts were in, was actually a model of N.A.S.A.'s first manned space station "Skylab". After special effects director Frank Van der Veer was fired, his was not usable, William Cruise and Margot Anderson were hired. They were also fired and replaced by Paul Kassler and Rob Balack just two months before the film's release.
    This was an American International Pictures co-production with the Shaw Brothers Studio in British Hong Kong, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound. One of the final movies from "American International Pictures." This movie's overall failure is considered to have attributed to their downfall.
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  • @thomasmagnum3588
    @thomasmagnum3588 10 месяцев назад +418

    Even the worst of the 70s disaster movies can be more entertaining than almost any big budget box office hit today.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +7

      Welcome. I post disaster movies here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBeG7xlENbRQZM-3Nte6-jzw

    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 9 месяцев назад +6

      Ok, grumpy

    • @chrismarsh1067
      @chrismarsh1067 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@onlyme219❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@chrismarsh1067 👍

    • @jasonmare33
      @jasonmare33 9 месяцев назад +6

      all crap 90% then and now

  • @AcapulKero
    @AcapulKero 4 месяца назад +32

    I was 14 years old when I saw this movie in the cinema. At that time this was the real deal. And even now I enjoyed this movie again. Thanks for uploading!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 месяца назад +2

      A nice walk down memory lane. Welcome.

    • @gilloera8912
      @gilloera8912 2 месяца назад +3

      I'm just watching this for 1st time , I'm 76 years old and just enjoying it right now 😂.

  • @Tealcorvette
    @Tealcorvette Год назад +154

    Love these old movies! Great writers, actors, film crews, lighting and sound experts, make-up and costume professionals, stunt people, and extras. They also need editors, technology experts, and a wide variety of other people. Everyone works together to make the film from beginning to end.

    • @freeborn204
      @freeborn204 Год назад +20

      Yes and the writers knew other words besides the F word. Today everything is F and that is LAZZZZZZY writing.

    • @powerdriller4124
      @powerdriller4124 Год назад +2

      The technology experts either were not really experts or more likely were not listened, because no way astronauts in Mars orbit can have a real time voice conversation with Houston, the signal would take between 2 and 16 minutes to travel. And a rock from the Asteroid Belt at 100,000 MPH will take months to reach Earth, not "six days". And no way 1978 technology could have send human astronauts to Mars without condemning to death. No even today is possible to send human flesh to space for a year without getting it deteriorated.

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Год назад +9

      i only watch old movies an TV. Good characters, great drama ..NO GARBAGE NO 'MESSAGE '
      The last movie i watched was 2014 - 'Star Wars Rogue One"
      The next movie, and the next movie, i turned off or walked out.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Год назад +7

      Thanks for the visit!

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Год назад +5

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG you guys rock

  • @MrChiefmike
    @MrChiefmike Год назад +242

    Magnificent, but I'm so terribly sorry the majority of these fantastic actors have passed - God bless them

  • @danmartens8855
    @danmartens8855 Год назад +234

    I am not a native Russian speaker but to hear veteran American actors Brian Keith and Natalie Wood delivering pitch perfect Russian is a great credit to their craft and to their linguistic tutors.

    • @dingorex
      @dingorex Год назад +52

      I think Natalie wood was from Russian extraction.

    • @ianrobertson2282
      @ianrobertson2282 Год назад +38

      @@dingorex You are correct. Natalie was born in USA but both her parents were Russian.

    • @georgemijatovic4060
      @georgemijatovic4060 Год назад +24

      Natalie was Russian....Natalia

    • @AlessandroFerraraPA
      @AlessandroFerraraPA Год назад +40

      The real name of Natalie Wood was Natal'ja Nikolaevna Zacharenko

    • @stevensica89
      @stevensica89 Год назад +11

      @@dingorex Yes, she was.

  • @FishFeelPain
    @FishFeelPain 5 месяцев назад +12

    My dad loved Sean Connery -- don't think he ever saw this one though -- he would've loved it! TY

  • @telemachus53
    @telemachus53 10 месяцев назад +57

    Such a glorious film, such great actors and all on You Tube for free for all to watch! Thanks for uploading.

  • @clarkunglued580
    @clarkunglued580 Год назад +53

    Watched this in 1981 on ABC. One of those underrated films that sticks with you all your life.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +2

      Fond memories. Thanks for the visit!

    • @movid
      @movid 7 месяцев назад +2

      😂oh, the famous 'underrated' comment!.. i don't know what to say 😊
      🌝 this is actually not a good movie, not very convincing, Nathalie Wood's talent as well as others were wasted here... It's nothing like Red October for example...

    • @jeanneratterman4174
      @jeanneratterman4174 5 месяцев назад +1

      A busman’s holiday film, where very good actors get to play together, have fun, and pay their bills. I enjoy them!

  • @sarlaccstapeworm990
    @sarlaccstapeworm990 6 месяцев назад +7

    This movie came out when I was just a baby, but I do remember my parents watching it while I was growing up. They just don't make things like this anymore. Even "Armageddon" which came out after I had gotten grown, with all of it's blockbuster special effects and expensive production design, didn't have the same quality of drama or same sense of seriousness as these 'old school' classics did! Thanks a million for this upload!! It really is an entertaining way to settle down with a hot cup of coffee and spend the end of a long day!
    What an imaginative escape for an "old fogie" like me!! 😁👍

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  5 месяцев назад +1

      It's nice to take a walk down memory lane. Welcome.

  • @borleyboo5613
    @borleyboo5613 8 месяцев назад +18

    One of my favourite films. Very underrated which is a shame. Great cast, great effects and I love the sound when we see the meteor whooshing through space.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  8 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks for watching! I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @Getouttahere78
    @Getouttahere78 9 месяцев назад +66

    Props to the cameramen hanging out in space to monitor the launch and progress of the rockets 😁

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  9 месяцев назад +4

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

    • @TheOtherBill
      @TheOtherBill 8 месяцев назад +6

      Four days in a capsule with a hand cranked 35mm camera breathing canned air, drinking water from plastic bags and eating food from toothpaste tubes. But the overtime pay was great, I got a new car!

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@TheOtherBillFour days? I was stuck in a capsule for four weeks. Oh well paid for the house when I finally got home.

    • @joshrogan9854
      @joshrogan9854 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@gorillaau That sounds like luxury... Sheer bloody luxury..! lol

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@joshrogan9854 There are only some may tubes of sweetened condensed milk you can suck on. I found a coffee flavoured tube at the button of storage bin. Kept me awake for about 60 hours. Not sure what's really in those things but I'd love to get some now.

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 Год назад +36

    What this movie needed was Leslie Nielsen as Sergeant Frank Dreben.

    • @UFOBobTV
      @UFOBobTV Год назад +4

      And don’t call him Shirly.

    • @sirdigbyminge1639
      @sirdigbyminge1639 Год назад +5

      And Peter Sellers.

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux Год назад +2

      Have you seen, 'The Creature Wasn't Nice' (1981) it has Leslie doing his best Dreben pre-Dreben. Space Dreben. ruclips.net/video/aV3IzLZlZg0/видео.html = enjoy.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

  • @vascoemyer
    @vascoemyer Год назад +61

    Great movie, brilliant ensemble of actors. Ah ... the old days 😃

  • @nephewbob7264
    @nephewbob7264 Год назад +212

    I remember when this happened. I was kinda scared, but as long as Henry Fonda was president, I knew we'd be OK.

    • @priceisright1580
      @priceisright1580 Год назад +16

      Lol

    • @cronobactersakazakii5133
      @cronobactersakazakii5133 Год назад +10

      🤣

    • @Fti193
      @Fti193 Год назад +11

      Ahahahah that’s too funny , I’m 65 yrs young I just woke up from a short nap I had a nightmare that I ate all my milk duds n I jumped up n tan to the cabinet n left out a Hugh breath of relief lol, my box was still closed,Amen😊

    • @elenavonpavel-pitts3442
      @elenavonpavel-pitts3442 Год назад +25

      Thank goodness Fonda was president...if it had been Binden, he'd be telling everybody that everything was fine and go back to licking his ice cream cone.

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp Год назад +1

      So long as he has the Secret Service to block Jane from entering the White House...

  • @Jestunes
    @Jestunes Год назад +29

    I thought I saw all of Sean Connery's movies. This one was great. Good to see him again and also Natalie Wood. I never knew she spoke Russian. Sad so many great actors now gone. thanks for sharing...

    • @dasboot5903
      @dasboot5903 Год назад +11

      *Natalie Zacharenko vel "Wood" ...... she was a child born in California, from Russian grandparents, the immigrants to Canada, then to USA !!!! Didn't you know that ??*

    • @ronaldrayner5049
      @ronaldrayner5049 Год назад +5

      Natalie was Russian

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +4

      Welcome.

  • @djsi38t
    @djsi38t Год назад +67

    I love this movie and The models are just stunning...wayyyy better than computer generated graphics.I dare someone to make a movie today without fake computer images!

    • @bodan1196
      @bodan1196 Год назад +3

      I agree that CGI is sometimes over used, and too often badly so, but using the word "fake", is like calling a printed book fake.
      As if stories and fables told by a book, are less fiction and more real, because it is an actual manuscript.
      CGI is a tool, and as with all tools, be it a quill, a pen, a printing press, or a computer, there is technology and foremost _skill_ involved.

    • @Scottishlandwarrior
      @Scottishlandwarrior Год назад +3

      I must admit i like older disaster movies much more than the newer ones such as Earthquake 1974 and The Great Los Angeles Earthquake 1990 and The Towering Inferno 1974 and this one as well.

    • @KesselRunner606
      @KesselRunner606 Год назад +11

      While you can appreciate older SFX, and especially model work, to call the SFX in this movie somehow superior to modern movies is laughable. Even by the standards of its time, the effect shots in this movie are terrible (in part because they blew their budget on even worse work before).
      The Models, especially the missiles, were built, lit and shot with no illusion of scale. They *look* like miniatures.
      Whether SFX are model work or CGI, it comes down to the artists and craftsmen who implement them. Good CGI is good CGI, and bad model work is bad model work. And this movie is bad model work.

    • @Scottishlandwarrior
      @Scottishlandwarrior Год назад +1

      @@KesselRunner606
      I can only think of two modern disaster movies that is actually good in terms of story(imo) and special effects that i watched way more than once and they were 2012 and San Andreas the rest like Geostorm and Greenland and maybe a few others were just ok.

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux Год назад +1

      NASA included? ...with the computer generated fakery I mean...they've never lied to us, right?

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 Год назад +61

    One of those 80's disaster films with an all star cast of
    great film and television actors Very Good and they don't
    make them like this anymore 😊❤❤📺

  • @johnbarrett4846
    @johnbarrett4846 Год назад +15

    I met Sean Connery at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland 1982 or 83 when he was taking part in a Pro/celebrity golf tournament. I chatted with him and got his autograph however there was no way i was going to ask him why he agreed to do this movie!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks for sharing your memory.

    • @don4476
      @don4476 8 месяцев назад +3

      Money.

    • @666mengel
      @666mengel 2 месяца назад

      Considering the trash we see today, this is a true masterpiece.

  • @jessiedoggie1
    @jessiedoggie1 5 месяцев назад +9

    I missed this when it first came out. Great movie. The disaster scenes were unbelievably good.
    So much better than today's computer generated ones. They really kept you entertained.

    • @drats1279
      @drats1279 4 месяца назад +1

      Disaster scenes were unbelievably good. really. They were worse than the acting.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 месяца назад

      Thanks for sharing your opinions.

  • @alexc8209
    @alexc8209 Год назад +105

    I remember watching this on tv when I was a kid. I was a bit too young and found it a little bit boring but for some reason I remembered the movie for a long time. The image of all those rockets flying through space was in my head for ages. I should point out that in those days (very early 80's) in England alot of kids just watched what was on tv even if it was boring.

    • @lilyd1010
      @lilyd1010 Год назад +9

      In USA also - lots of us hung out, ate, played games - but the tv was always on in the background. When it was a good part, we'd all hold still for a while n just watch. This was very cool in those days, a bit boring, but cool. Take care Alex!

    • @ericzerkle5214
      @ericzerkle5214 Год назад +5

      I remember seeing it on a Sunday afternoon on a local TV station around 1983 as a kid.

    • @paultapner2769
      @paultapner2769 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@ericzerkle5214 I remember seeing it at the cinema in December 1979. On a thursday. I was thirteen so must have been school holidays. I really liked it at the time. Tracked this down and watched it again last week. I'm now fifty six. I quite enjoyed it. I thought it stood up well. The Switzerland and Hong Kong scenes were quite harrowing. And it did keep the suspense going at the end. Could have done with a few character sub plots as there's really nothing much for Sean Connery to work with. Even him romancing Natalie Wood goes nowhere. And the battle of Stalingrad didn't take three years! But I'm glad I got to see it again. And to find my thirteen year old self wasn't wrong.

    • @mrmeerkat1096
      @mrmeerkat1096 10 месяцев назад +6

      Alex absolutely true! All we really had was the TV to entertain us and we only had four channels in 1982. Bank holiday Mondays = guaranteed Bond movie.

    • @alexc8209
      @alexc8209 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@mrmeerkat1096 did we have channel four as early as that? I remember the day it started coz I was at my grandparents house but I thought it was 84 or 85. ill google it now. thanks for giving me something to do. lol.

  • @debracarrabba1656
    @debracarrabba1656 Год назад +62

    What a good movie, even when it came out in 1979. This movie was very much enjoyable. Thank You for sharing it with us. 🙂

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Год назад +5

      You're welcome. Thank for the visit!

    • @bettyleeist
      @bettyleeist 10 месяцев назад +3

      I can’t believe that this film 🎥 was made in;1979!And,yes….a lot of these actors are gone,now!Brian Keith,Sean Connery,and Natalie Wood.Never the less,they ‘live on’in this film!

    • @bettyleeist
      @bettyleeist 10 месяцев назад +6

      Which remind’s me,Star Trek,the motion picture was made about this time,too!(in;1979).

  • @Benmelech
    @Benmelech Год назад +50

    Subway disaster scene was quite impressive. They definitely earned their money filming that.

  • @petegarnett7731
    @petegarnett7731 9 месяцев назад +12

    One of Connery's best ever lines-----I could sweep the carpet on the way out!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  9 месяцев назад +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

    • @andyb.1026
      @andyb.1026 9 месяцев назад +1

      a very old expression in Scotland ~ Connery realised he was dealing with people from a sheltered existence

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  9 месяцев назад +1

      @@andyb.1026 Welcome.

  • @gustavolascalea1525
    @gustavolascalea1525 7 месяцев назад +7

    In the cast, they chose Natalie as a russian interpreter and it was perfectly fine. Because she was born in San Francisco but her parents were BOTH immigrant russians. So she was the perfect girl for this character, probably one fine detail that few people noticed.

  • @thunderwarrior1759
    @thunderwarrior1759 Год назад +24

    Bought this on blu-ray a couple of years ago because of such fond memories of the 70’s disaster movies like this and The Towering Inferno

    • @keskin8512
      @keskin8512 Год назад +4

      Towering Inferno is my favourite, masterpiece of this class.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +1

      Welcome! I post Disaster movies here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBeG7xlENbRQZM-3Nte6-jzw and 1970s movies here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfb1LJ4-bSy88e9TcojNh3K

    • @thunderwarrior1759
      @thunderwarrior1759 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG happy to be here 🙌❤️

    • @Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber
      @Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber 4 месяца назад

      @@keskin8512and The Poseidon Adventure, The Swarm,

  • @noyoutakethatback
    @noyoutakethatback 10 месяцев назад +7

    Sean Connery made, Zardoz, two Highlanders , Outland and this, in the Sci-Fi Genre

  • @thatdonutboy4321
    @thatdonutboy4321 Год назад +58

    Brings me back to the days when you could just watch a movie with a bucket of popcorn without having to think much into it, compare, whine, complain or be agenda-bombed...just a nice, watchable adventure movie~😊

  • @EttaH-io7ur
    @EttaH-io7ur 5 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you very much for uploading and sharing this movie ( "Meteor" with Sean Connery ) on your channel. My family is enjoying it TOGETHER, which is actually a really good thing.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 месяца назад

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @milo13200
    @milo13200 Год назад +55

    A great cast for a great movie, thank you!

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215 4 месяца назад +6

    Great film! All star cast, great script, wonderful photography! I'll give this one 5 stars!!! ✨✨ ✨ ✨ ✨

    • @leewilson77
      @leewilson77 3 месяца назад +1

      ☺️

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  25 дней назад +1

      Glad you enjoyed it! I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @crruisercharliehaas8832
    @crruisercharliehaas8832 7 месяцев назад +10

    I don't think Sean Connery ever made a bad movie. Great actor.

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies 8 месяцев назад +9

    2:31 FYI - In the asteroid belt, the average distance between lumps of stuff is 1,000,000 kilometres, or 2.5 times the distance from the earth to the moon.
    So yeah, the asteroid belt looks exactly the same as empty space.

  • @lloydbotway5930
    @lloydbotway5930 Год назад +21

    And then suddenly an "Earth is going to be destroyed" disaster film turns into a "Poseidon Adventure / Towering Inferno" escape film. Very strange. I could almost hear "There's got to be a morning after" in the background...

  • @loneyhearts
    @loneyhearts 8 месяцев назад +4

    I like these movies.
    I was 23 when this came out. The action and adventure kept you on the edge of your seat. But most of the time it always turned out.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  8 месяцев назад

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @pennyparham4123
    @pennyparham4123 5 месяцев назад +2

    Kind of ironic that I'm watching this on the 30th of December. Take note of the date of the meteor impact

  • @rossiv62964
    @rossiv62964 5 месяцев назад +3

    I remember watching this in the theater.

  • @brooketaney2279
    @brooketaney2279 Год назад +22

    What a cast!!! Thanks!!!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Год назад

      You bet! FYI - There's a Watch Party for “The Demolitionist” (1995) this Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST:
      ruclips.net/video/1N4an8wBzPY/видео.html

  • @OddBr18g
    @OddBr18g 11 месяцев назад +3

    Seven years old in 79 ,so I missed it first time around . But on the other hand ,I will enjoy it more now .

  • @fionastevenson6019
    @fionastevenson6019 Год назад +20

    Got to love Sean. Never changes his Scottish accent for anyone...btilliant!

    • @keskin8512
      @keskin8512 Год назад +4

      He didn't change his accent even he acted the head of a Berber tribe in "The Wind and the Lion"

    • @alejandropalacios5370
      @alejandropalacios5370 Год назад +3

      Offf Courshhhh...

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +1

      Right?! Thanks for the visit!

  • @michaelripley4528
    @michaelripley4528 9 месяцев назад +5

    Thanks for the upload❤️💯
    Sean❤️‍🩹Connery!!!

  • @MrGsteele
    @MrGsteele 6 месяцев назад +5

    The computer center (at 36:00) was using an IBM 360 mainframe with "custom memory." In those days, the 360 normally had about 1 megabyte or less of memory, although it could address 8 megabytes. That's megabytes - not gigabytes. You can't really buy a computer today with less than a thousand times as much memory. It could execute 16.6 million instructions per second. A nominal number for a desktop Intel i7 today is 158 billion instructions per second - about 10,000 times faster; that is, it would take that 360 about 2 1/2 hours to calculate what a modern desktop could do in a second. Yet this was 10 years after we put a man on the moon with even less computer power.
    One of the benefits of watching these old movies is to highlight the amazing progress in technology we have all enjoyed over the last half century; this movie came out 44 years ago - and we put man on the moon 54 years ago, in 1969. For another perspective, when this movie was released, the first IBM PC, with an 8 bit processor and 5 1/4" floppy disk drives, was still 2 years away from being released, in 1981. And smartphones? Don't get me started . . .

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  5 месяцев назад

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

    • @user-te3su8zi9o
      @user-te3su8zi9o 4 месяца назад +1

      I was at Honeywell in Boston Till 82 , DIGITAL in N.H. Till 89 , came Back From a Head Injury in 85 , Memory Tripled , I was Running 50 VAX Skipjack & Nautilus in the ENG. Lab , Told Them I memorized The Hex Key Pad LOCATIONS of all Failures , I Do Not NEED HELP ...Worked at HOLOGIC Later with a DEC. Eng. where I tested 6 Bone Density systems at a Time , Plus Fluoroscan , and ULTRASOUND Boot , I remember EVERYTHING even at 70 Years old ...How Do You like Them Apples was from Me , a Line used in WWII ...EVERYTHING was Easy for Me ...

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 месяца назад

      @@user-te3su8zi9o Wow! Thanks for sharing.

  • @davidmoore570
    @davidmoore570 9 месяцев назад +3

    I was about 19 years old at the time, don't remember seeing this movie!
    Thanks for uploading.

  • @sheiladesoysa7112
    @sheiladesoysa7112 Год назад +31

    Good movie. Not much acting and thankfully no vulgar romancing either but the special effects were really well done. Enjoyed watching every bit of it.

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 2 года назад +18

    RIP Sir Sean Connery ( † 2020 )

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 года назад +5

      I'm sorry he's gone. He is so missed.

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 2 года назад +8

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG RIP Natalie Wood ( * 1938 - † 1981 )

    • @howlinwulf
      @howlinwulf Год назад +3

      ​@@aleksandarvil5718 another great loss.
      Possibly done on purpose?

    • @howlinwulf
      @howlinwulf Год назад +3

      Agreed one of the very finest!!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Год назад +3

      Very missed but, he lives-on by the means of the agency of emulsion-coated celluloid!

  • @tommyudo3195
    @tommyudo3195 Год назад +12

    This film has everything I like in a 1970s disaster film: great concept, bad special effects, lots and lots of yelling and A-list actors looking like they'd rather be anywhere else.

    • @albertseabra9226
      @albertseabra9226 11 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, naive and yet charming.
      Movies such as Meteor were made shortly after the Nuclear Treaties between the US and THE USSR.
      Conveying the Idea that the Super Powers were ready to colaborate -- Mankind was the main priority.

    • @Brian-yt8fu
      @Brian-yt8fu 11 месяцев назад +1

      Meteor was a bomb. A big boring bomb at that.

    • @Brian-yt8fu
      @Brian-yt8fu 11 месяцев назад +1

      Sean Connery is such as ass at the beginning. The world is about to end and he could care less.

    • @tommyudo3195
      @tommyudo3195 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@Brian-yt8fu Yes, the movie was horrible, but it still contained some decent parts: Natalie Wood and Brian Kieth were good playing Russians, the avalanche scene (footage from an entirely different movie) was pretty decent and a lot of money (not enough, apparently) went into the making of the film. The worst parts were the 5- and 7-minutes close-up shots of the obviously fake nuclear missiles and that ugly meteor.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад

      Welcome. I post disaster movies here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBeG7xlENbRQZM-3Nte6-jzw

  • @stelpa66
    @stelpa66 10 месяцев назад +4

    Well its good to know that one has not become so jaded as to not enjoy a movie from 79, that it can often time give you greater thrill than modern day movies of similar genre. Well done for it’s time and still vastly enjoyable in our time. Just wish I had popcorn along with it😉

  • @jmoser1030
    @jmoser1030 Год назад +5

    I like old movies. Then, again, I'm "old". ;-)

  • @hadisunaryoch2741
    @hadisunaryoch2741 Год назад +10

    I saw this movie in Arjuna theatre Surabaya when I was in kindergarten. This one made me amazed.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад

      Fond memories. Welcome.

    • @SPV66
      @SPV66 3 месяца назад

      @hadisunaryoch2741
      Hi, is Arjuna theatre Surabaya still there? If you have any website link for Arjuna theatre Surabaya , please send here. Thank you.

  • @gastrcat
    @gastrcat 5 месяцев назад +3

    Even after more than 40 years, this movie is great!!!

  • @DessieTots
    @DessieTots Год назад +12

    Bloody hell that mud and water scene was crazy. I’m guessing it was one take for all of those subway scenes. And Sean still knew when the missiles were going to impact.

  • @NaughtyNimitz
    @NaughtyNimitz 8 месяцев назад +1

    And everything in space looks squeaky clean!

  • @FairyWeatherMan
    @FairyWeatherMan 10 месяцев назад +19

    When this remarkable movie was filmed, in 1977, the extinction of dinosaurs wasn't yet linked to the asteroid hypothesis. Amazing!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +2

      Welcome.

    • @ActiveAussie2024
      @ActiveAussie2024 9 месяцев назад +2

      I think the crater for KT impact was not discovered till 1990.
      Some geologist working for a Mexican oil company discovered it

    • @FairyWeatherMan
      @FairyWeatherMan 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@ActiveAussie2024 correct. That happened in 1990 if I remember correctly.

    • @alexandergrimsmo
      @alexandergrimsmo 7 месяцев назад

      Solar micronova is more likely, and due soon.

    • @ChrisDefalcoblues
      @ChrisDefalcoblues 6 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @dingleysquare3029
    @dingleysquare3029 8 месяцев назад +4

    A great movie and from way back when..... Very enjoyable. Gold Stars for all the performers and creators. Movie making at it's best. 🌟

    • @erestube
      @erestube 8 месяцев назад +1

      Well, it really can be called a disaster. Flop!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  8 месяцев назад

      Thanks for watching!

  • @EM.1
    @EM.1 5 месяцев назад +1

    I wish more movies from the 60s and 70s had made it to the DVD or Blue Ray disc. Nowadays it’s hard to find movies from the 80s and 90s in DVD or Blue Ray format, I will settle for a VHS to get them but even in VHS find the most of them.

  • @mysticnomad3577
    @mysticnomad3577 7 месяцев назад +5

    I'll be sleeping soundly after this movie knowing that nothing's ever going to be coming from outer space to kill me.

  • @corbinmcnabb
    @corbinmcnabb Год назад +5

    Traveling from the Astroid Belt to Earth in six days is moving right along.

  • @blackterminal
    @blackterminal 11 месяцев назад +3

    A great old movie. Thank you.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @MrKen-wy5dk
    @MrKen-wy5dk 9 месяцев назад +2

    Living in Houston, TX, these exterierors look very familiar. No CGI here.

  • @vinnyheaphy1372
    @vinnyheaphy1372 5 месяцев назад +2

    Those computer consoles on the control room were the old Commodore 64's! Now I watch this movie holding a computer!! WOW, how things have changed!!!

  • @robertkilbourne323
    @robertkilbourne323 Год назад +3

    I still have an obscure piece of merchandising from this movie - not a t-shirt, not a soundtrack album, not an action figure... my kitchen garbage can. I wonder if Star Wars was ever immortalized in such a way.

  • @robertlewis7237
    @robertlewis7237 Год назад +6

    THANK YOU THE OLD MOVIE

  • @typower9
    @typower9 Год назад +13

    Only watched first few minutes so far but Neame is a great director and Marlden is an excellent actor, as of course Fonda and Trevor Howard are too, and Natalie Wood.

  • @jeanniegillis7490
    @jeanniegillis7490 10 месяцев назад +3

    Still a well-played movie! Thank you!

  • @sterlinglewis5700
    @sterlinglewis5700 Год назад +12

    Great cast and great fun. And the end though, all I could think was those poor waterlogged actors. Good heavens, what one has to do for one's Art!

  • @giano427
    @giano427 11 месяцев назад +4

    Then: The world is safe, movie is over! Now: The world is safe, then the mid-credits cut scene plays and see see Baby Orpheus leaving the asteroid belt. Now we gotta wait four years for the sequel, Meteor 2, The Revenge.

  • @randalldunkley1042
    @randalldunkley1042 8 месяцев назад +2

    The music score is over the top.

  • @adamtan3638
    @adamtan3638 7 месяцев назад +2

    It’s deadly and frightening like end-time

  • @williewyatt7343
    @williewyatt7343 Год назад +7

    I remember this movie at the Marlboro Twins drive in back in the days. And man what a scary action movie it was. All the actors did a great job in this movie! I would watch it every time I could when it was on TV, and I like action movies 👍👍's up ✌️💛💛🏆🏆✊ yes.

  • @dockaos924
    @dockaos924 2 года назад +9

    Not seen this for years thanks 👍😊

  • @b.b.finsclara3589
    @b.b.finsclara3589 5 месяцев назад +1

    I enjoyed this movie...Most of us think it is-was a brilliant portrayal of a possible horrible disaster. Thank God it never came to fruition. The POWERS that were.....had not allowed it....I love-d everyone of these talented actors......I dislike the morons that critize it as not a good film. Thanks for the upload!!!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 месяца назад

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @E.Snyman
    @E.Snyman 10 месяцев назад +2

    A very good film for those years...enjoyed it. Thanks for the upload.

  • @devildoll9929
    @devildoll9929 Год назад +24

    One of the few sci fi films with a better script than special effects.

  • @jmoser1030
    @jmoser1030 Год назад +7

    The Hong Kong tsunami, meteor explosion over Russia and Twin Towers brought back some memories. Is it all just life imitating art? Or is some idea of the future hidden way back in our psyches? And Sunday, December 7th is a bit of an ominous date.

  • @user-ns7dt5mo5l
    @user-ns7dt5mo5l 9 месяцев назад +1

    "I'm watching, eventhough the oldest movie but still it's nice"...❤❤

  • @tomwellard8234
    @tomwellard8234 10 месяцев назад +2

    Those were the days big collars on your shirts you were a low flying hang glider on windy days , platform shoes (ankle snappers) if you got it wrong, and the babes mini skirts and hot pants , don't know about meteors get me time travel,great days living my youth again, memories if only

  • @ZENmud
    @ZENmud 10 месяцев назад +3

    I enjoyed a half-hour chat with Martin Landau, back in the Eighties, at a bar (après-ski) in Vail, CO... talked about "Mission Impossible" production... (TV series).

  • @stefanmodigh6312
    @stefanmodigh6312 10 месяцев назад +3

    Good movie !
    Never heard of it before !
    Great actors !
    👍👍👍🇸🇪😎💕

  • @robertflegal1735
    @robertflegal1735 Месяц назад

    One of the best disaster movies I have seen in decades... Sean Connery and Natalie Wood gave best performances. There deaths were a great loss!!!

  • @mikepowell5313
    @mikepowell5313 11 месяцев назад +1

    Finally a great free movie …. All it took was Sean Connery.👍👍👍

    • @Brian-yt8fu
      @Brian-yt8fu 11 месяцев назад

      At least it's free I had to pay to see this boring film.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for the visit!

  • @borisaskoldt1410
    @borisaskoldt1410 Год назад +4

    Awesome Film Movie Masterpiece 🎬📽️🎞️🎥🎬📽️🎞️👍💯💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥☝️⭐🎭⭐🎭⭐🎭. Thanks for uploading this film movie 🍿🍿🍿🍿! Watching this film movie right now 1/04/2023

  • @michaelkeller5008
    @michaelkeller5008 8 месяцев назад +3

    thanks for uploading this classic :)

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  8 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for watching! I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

    • @michaelkeller5008
      @michaelkeller5008 8 месяцев назад +1

      thanks for the list! i see some nuggets there i defenetly have to watch :-) @@DonaldPBorchersOG

  • @jmcasas17
    @jmcasas17 5 месяцев назад +2

    Sean Connery is James Bond! RIP Sir Sean. You are the best!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for the visit!

    • @Perich29
      @Perich29 5 месяцев назад +1

      Blofeld is causing trouble with Meteor.

  • @karl-unoisaksson4000
    @karl-unoisaksson4000 25 дней назад

    I enjoyed the film a lot, thanx for sharing 🙏👍
    Love from Sweden 💖

  • @passerby1011
    @passerby1011 Год назад +7

    I liked this movie when I saw it as a teen 😊

  • @ParadigmBlaster
    @ParadigmBlaster Год назад +6

    Right around the same time as "Contagion"(!)... Another perfect example of the "Made for TV" movie!!!!

  • @desirreemarlenaclonch7593
    @desirreemarlenaclonch7593 11 месяцев назад +1

    My Sincerest heart felt praises to the stage props people and to the genius who created the rocket's and missiles and meteors and the space scenes, just awesome use of recycled trash and plastics .
    Saving this one for watching again, thnkxz guy's

  • @SpaceLord2025
    @SpaceLord2025 4 месяца назад +1

    one of my favorite movies!!!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  25 дней назад

      Glad you like it. Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB

  • @jessiedoggie1
    @jessiedoggie1 5 месяцев назад +3

    Martin Landau needs to take an anger management course.

  • @stephensavioli5930
    @stephensavioli5930 11 месяцев назад +3

    Well made and convincing, underlines the importance of finding a solution, in humility

  • @SteveBrant55
    @SteveBrant55 4 месяца назад +1

    Watching Hery Fonda play the President reminded me he also played the President in "Fail Safe"... another very tense movie but with a much smaller cast.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 месяца назад

      Welcome. Okay, I'll play, too. Another very intense movie but with a bigger cast is "Seven Days in May" (1964).

  • @martynm.449
    @martynm.449 Год назад +1

    Funny... I was only thinking about this yesterday. Now it's appeared in my feed.

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux 11 месяцев назад +2

      it's the google mind-link you got when you went to get your covid shot and dental implants.

    • @martynm.449
      @martynm.449 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@BingGeaux It's very handy, I must say.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

  • @ciaran5588
    @ciaran5588 Год назад +3

    I was 10 when I saw this when it came out in the cinema. I remember for weeks I kept looking at the night sky wondering

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux Год назад +2

      with me it was seeing Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees I haven't slept or taken a shower since then....

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for the visit!

  • @Kroggnagch
    @Kroggnagch Год назад +5

    Lol... the astronauts bending their knees and moving slowly to imitate being in zero gravity I guess is cheaper than using wires and editing, and oh my looks soooo real... lol

  • @markstarrett2740
    @markstarrett2740 4 дня назад

    Great cast..loved this one and never heard of it either.

  • @mikaelbiilmann6826
    @mikaelbiilmann6826 2 месяца назад

    Sean Connery in the time of his career where he was in a bit of a lull and his movies not the best. But I still loved his movie "Outland". Great movie too!

  • @pjamajones8304
    @pjamajones8304 Год назад +8

    Just love these 70s disaster movies....Now a good comedy at the same time.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 месяцев назад +1

      Ha! I post disaster movies here: ruclips.net/p/PLk3CReZFhoBeG7xlENbRQZM-3Nte6-jzw

  • @craigstaehr3251
    @craigstaehr3251 Год назад +11

    Thanks for this movie Free... what a lost gem of a quality cast and story. Cheers.

  • @OtchBotch
    @OtchBotch 3 месяца назад +1

    I watched this film days before my English 'O' Level in 1984 and wrote it as my essay in the exam and passed I did hope the examiners didn't watch too much sci-fi

  • @DmPmRr1959
    @DmPmRr1959 Месяц назад

    I saw this when it first hit the theaters. I thought it was a dud. Now, 45 years later, either today's films aren't as good or my tastes have changed because the film is better than I remembered.

  • @colvinator1611
    @colvinator1611 Год назад +3

    Thanks a lot for the video. Excellent movie.