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 11 місяців тому +428

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +7

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    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 10 місяців тому +7

      Ok, grumpy

    • @chrismarsh1067
      @chrismarsh1067 10 місяців тому +3

      @@onlyme219❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 10 місяців тому +3

      @@chrismarsh1067 👍

    • @jasonmare33
      @jasonmare33 10 місяців тому +6

      all crap 90% then and now

  • @AcapulKero
    @AcapulKero 5 місяців тому +34

    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  3 місяці тому +2

      A nice walk down memory lane. Welcome.

    • @gilloera8912
      @gilloera8912 3 місяці тому +3

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

  • @Tealcorvette
    @Tealcorvette Рік тому +155

    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 Рік тому +20

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

    • @powerdriller4124
      @powerdriller4124 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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  Рік тому +7

      Thanks for the visit!

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Рік тому +5

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG you guys rock

  • @MrChiefmike
    @MrChiefmike Рік тому +244

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

  • @FishFeelPain
    @FishFeelPain 6 місяців тому +14

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

  • @danmartens8855
    @danmartens8855 Рік тому +238

    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 Рік тому +52

      I think Natalie wood was from Russian extraction.

    • @ianrobertson2282
      @ianrobertson2282 Рік тому +38

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

    • @georgemijatovic4060
      @georgemijatovic4060 Рік тому +24

      Natalie was Russian....Natalia

    • @AlessandroFerraraPA
      @AlessandroFerraraPA Рік тому +40

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

    • @stevensica89
      @stevensica89 Рік тому +11

      @@dingorex Yes, she was.

  • @borleyboo5613
    @borleyboo5613 9 місяців тому +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  9 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for watching! I post Sandy Howard productions here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @johnbarrett4846
    @johnbarrett4846 Рік тому +16

    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  11 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for sharing your memory.

    • @don4476
      @don4476 10 місяців тому +3

      Money.

    • @666mengel
      @666mengel 3 місяці тому

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

  • @sarlaccstapeworm990
    @sarlaccstapeworm990 7 місяців тому +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  6 місяців тому +1

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

  • @clarkunglued580
    @clarkunglued580 Рік тому +53

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +2

      Fond memories. Thanks for the visit!

    • @movid
      @movid 8 місяців тому +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 6 місяців тому +1

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

  • @Getouttahere78
    @Getouttahere78 10 місяців тому +66

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 місяців тому +4

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

    • @TheOtherBill
      @TheOtherBill 9 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому +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 7 місяців тому +2

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

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 7 місяців тому +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.

  • @vascoemyer
    @vascoemyer Рік тому +61

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

  • @djsi38t
    @djsi38t Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +1

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

  • @petegarnett7731
    @petegarnett7731 11 місяців тому +13

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 місяців тому +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

    • @andyb.1026
      @andyb.1026 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  10 місяців тому +1

      @@andyb.1026 Welcome.

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 Рік тому +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 😊❤❤📺

  • @Jestunes
    @Jestunes Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +5

      Natalie was Russian

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +4

      Welcome.

  • @thunderwarrior1759
    @thunderwarrior1759 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +4

      Towering Inferno is my favourite, masterpiece of this class.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +1

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    • @thunderwarrior1759
      @thunderwarrior1759 11 місяців тому +1

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG happy to be here 🙌❤️

    • @Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber
      @Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber 5 місяців тому

      @@keskin8512and The Poseidon Adventure, The Swarm,

  • @alexc8209
    @alexc8209 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +5

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

    • @paultapner2769
      @paultapner2769 Рік тому +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 11 місяців тому +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 11 місяців тому +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 Рік тому +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  Рік тому +5

      You're welcome. Thank for the visit!

    • @bettyleeist
      @bettyleeist 11 місяців тому +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 11 місяців тому +6

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

  • @milo13200
    @milo13200 Рік тому +55

    A great cast for a great movie, thank you!

  • @telemachus53
    @telemachus53 11 місяців тому +58

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

  • @Benmelech
    @Benmelech Рік тому +50

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

  • @nephewbob7264
    @nephewbob7264 Рік тому +217

    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 Рік тому +17

      Lol

    • @cronobactersakazakii5133
      @cronobactersakazakii5133 Рік тому +11

      🤣

    • @Fti193
      @Fti193 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +26

      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 Рік тому +1

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

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215 5 місяців тому +6

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

    • @leewilson77
      @leewilson77 4 місяці тому +1

      ☺️

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Місяць тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it! I post Sandy Howard productions here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 Рік тому +37

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

    • @UFOBobTV
      @UFOBobTV Рік тому +4

      And don’t call him Shirly.

    • @sirdigbyminge1639
      @sirdigbyminge1639 Рік тому +5

      And Peter Sellers.

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux Рік тому +2

      Have you seen, 'The Creature Wasn't Nice' (1981) it has Leslie doing his best Dreben pre-Dreben. Space Dreben. ua-cam.com/video/aV3IzLZlZg0/v-deo.html = enjoy.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

  • @brooketaney2279
    @brooketaney2279 Рік тому +22

    What a cast!!! Thanks!!!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Рік тому

      You bet! FYI - There's a Watch Party for “The Demolitionist” (1995) this Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST:
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  • @jessiedoggie1
    @jessiedoggie1 6 місяців тому +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 5 місяців тому +1

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  3 місяці тому

      Thanks for sharing your opinions.

  • @thatdonutboy4321
    @thatdonutboy4321 Рік тому +59

    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~😊

  • @gustavolascalea1525
    @gustavolascalea1525 8 місяців тому +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.

  • @loneyhearts
    @loneyhearts 10 місяців тому +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  10 місяців тому

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @lloydbotway5930
    @lloydbotway5930 Рік тому +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...

  • @jessiedoggie1
    @jessiedoggie1 6 місяців тому +4

    Martin Landau needs to take an anger management course.

  • @DessieTots
    @DessieTots Рік тому +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.

  • @OddBr18g
    @OddBr18g Рік тому +3

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

  • @hadisunaryoch2741
    @hadisunaryoch2741 Рік тому +10

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому

      Fond memories. Welcome.

    • @SPV66
      @SPV66 4 місяці тому

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

  • @sheiladesoysa7112
    @sheiladesoysa7112 Рік тому +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.

  • @noyoutakethatback
    @noyoutakethatback Рік тому +7

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

  • @EttaH-io7ur
    @EttaH-io7ur 6 місяців тому +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  3 місяці тому

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @crruisercharliehaas8832
    @crruisercharliehaas8832 8 місяців тому +10

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

  • @michaelripley4528
    @michaelripley4528 10 місяців тому +5

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

  • @stelpa66
    @stelpa66 11 місяців тому +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😉

  • @fionastevenson6019
    @fionastevenson6019 Рік тому +20

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

    • @keskin8512
      @keskin8512 Рік тому +4

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

    • @alejandropalacios5370
      @alejandropalacios5370 Рік тому +3

      Offf Courshhhh...

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +1

      Right?! Thanks for the visit!

  • @davidmoore570
    @davidmoore570 10 місяців тому +3

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

  • @tommyudo3195
    @tommyudo3195 Рік тому +13

    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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +1

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

    • @Brian-yt8fu
      @Brian-yt8fu Рік тому +1

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

    • @tommyudo3195
      @tommyudo3195 Рік тому +3

      @@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  11 місяців тому

      Welcome. I post disaster movies here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBeG7xlENbRQZM-3Nte6-jzw.html

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies 9 місяців тому +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.

  • @gastrcat
    @gastrcat 6 місяців тому +3

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

  • @typower9
    @typower9 Рік тому +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.

  • @sterlinglewis5700
    @sterlinglewis5700 Рік тому +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!

  • @FairyWeatherMan
    @FairyWeatherMan 11 місяців тому +19

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +2

      Welcome.

    • @ActiveAussie2024
      @ActiveAussie2024 10 місяців тому +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 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @alexandergrimsmo
      @alexandergrimsmo 8 місяців тому

      Solar micronova is more likely, and due soon.

    • @ChrisDefalcoblues
      @ChrisDefalcoblues 7 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @dingleysquare3029
    @dingleysquare3029 9 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому +1

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @rossiv62964
    @rossiv62964 6 місяців тому +3

    I remember watching this in the theater.

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 2 роки тому +18

    RIP Sir Sean Connery ( † 2020 )

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  2 роки тому +5

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

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 2 роки тому +8

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

    • @howlinwulf
      @howlinwulf Рік тому +3

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

    • @howlinwulf
      @howlinwulf Рік тому +3

      Agreed one of the very finest!!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Рік тому +3

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

  • @mysticnomad3577
    @mysticnomad3577 8 місяців тому +5

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

  • @pennyparham4123
    @pennyparham4123 6 місяців тому +2

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

  • @robertkilbourne323
    @robertkilbourne323 Рік тому +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.

  • @MrGsteele
    @MrGsteele 7 місяців тому +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  6 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

    • @user-te3su8zi9o
      @user-te3su8zi9o 5 місяців тому +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  3 місяці тому

      @@user-te3su8zi9o Wow! Thanks for sharing.

  • @dockaos924
    @dockaos924 2 роки тому +9

    Not seen this for years thanks 👍😊

  • @williewyatt7343
    @williewyatt7343 Рік тому +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.

  • @jmoser1030
    @jmoser1030 Рік тому +5

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

  • @corbinmcnabb
    @corbinmcnabb Рік тому +5

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

  • @blackterminal
    @blackterminal Рік тому +3

    A great old movie. Thank you.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @vinnyheaphy1372
    @vinnyheaphy1372 7 місяців тому +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!!!

  • @michaelkeller5008
    @michaelkeller5008 9 місяців тому +3

    thanks for uploading this classic :)

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  9 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for watching! I post Sandy Howard productions here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

    • @michaelkeller5008
      @michaelkeller5008 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @jeanniegillis7490
    @jeanniegillis7490 11 місяців тому +3

    Still a well-played movie! Thank you!

  • @anthonyvaldez6892
    @anthonyvaldez6892 Рік тому +10

    I'm having a great time watching this movie, but it's so old that it makes me feel like going to Pizza Hut, and ordering a pitcher of beer in 1979 would have cost .50cen 😊😅👍

  • @gregwise3646
    @gregwise3646 2 дні тому

    Ok, the mud scenes look that were utter hell to film! I can't imagine Connery was excited about filming that; well, anyone really.

  • @E.Snyman
    @E.Snyman 11 місяців тому +2

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

  • @stephensavioli5930
    @stephensavioli5930 Рік тому +3

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

  • @ZENmud
    @ZENmud 11 місяців тому +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).

  • @user-ns7dt5mo5l
    @user-ns7dt5mo5l 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @karengoodman6103
    @karengoodman6103 4 місяці тому +2

    Sean Connery is the only man on the planet that can make a leisure suit look good.

  • @ParadigmBlaster
    @ParadigmBlaster Рік тому +6

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

  • @ciaran5588
    @ciaran5588 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +2

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому

      Thanks for the visit!

  • @desirreemarlenaclonch7593
    @desirreemarlenaclonch7593 Рік тому +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

  • @karl-unoisaksson4000
    @karl-unoisaksson4000 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @giano427
    @giano427 Рік тому +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.

  • @borisaskoldt1410
    @borisaskoldt1410 Рік тому +4

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

  • @OtchBotch
    @OtchBotch 4 місяці тому +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

  • @mikepowell5313
    @mikepowell5313 Рік тому +1

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

    • @Brian-yt8fu
      @Brian-yt8fu Рік тому

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому

      Thanks for the visit!

  • @stevensharp5135
    @stevensharp5135 Рік тому +6

    Decent film with a good cast. Special effects are woeful though absolutely shocking even for the time.

  • @stefanmodigh6312
    @stefanmodigh6312 11 місяців тому +3

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

  • @colvinator1611
    @colvinator1611 Рік тому +3

    Thanks a lot for the video. Excellent movie.

  • @cartoonperson42
    @cartoonperson42 4 місяці тому +2

    And in the spirit of smiting the common foe, 2 Soviet and 2 US missiles, flying in formation, finally destroyed the evil meteor....

  • @passerby1011
    @passerby1011 Рік тому +7

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

  • @jmoser1030
    @jmoser1030 Рік тому +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.

  • @juancutillas8948
    @juancutillas8948 5 місяців тому +2

    Such a beautiful cast!!!

  • @martynm.449
    @martynm.449 Рік тому +1

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

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux Рік тому +2

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

    • @martynm.449
      @martynm.449 Рік тому +1

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

  • @markieboy1983
    @markieboy1983 9 місяців тому +2

    Better than I remembered.

  • @NaughtyNimitz
    @NaughtyNimitz 9 місяців тому +3

    I ache back to the time when we had booze in the office and drinking on the job was a big problem, but ooh so much fun!

  • @carlosamerico6452
    @carlosamerico6452 10 місяців тому +3

    Puxa até que enfim vocês acharam este filme fantástico com Sean. Parabéns pelo trabalho.

  • @1ordof1o1
    @1ordof1o1 Рік тому +2

    tnx for this...much appriciated

  • @NaughtyNimitz
    @NaughtyNimitz 9 місяців тому +1

    And everything in space looks squeaky clean!

  • @Kroggnagch
    @Kroggnagch Рік тому +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

  • @pjamajones8304
    @pjamajones8304 Рік тому +8

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  11 місяців тому +1

      Ha! I post disaster movies here: ua-cam.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBeG7xlENbRQZM-3Nte6-jzw.html

  • @life107familyfitnessboxing8
    @life107familyfitnessboxing8 29 днів тому

    The best Meteor movie ever to date

  • @randalldunkley1042
    @randalldunkley1042 9 місяців тому +2

    The music score is over the top.

  • @MrKen-wy5dk
    @MrKen-wy5dk 10 місяців тому +3

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

  • @willowman7721
    @willowman7721 Рік тому +12

    Great film. Thanks for uploading.👍👍

  • @EM.1
    @EM.1 6 місяців тому +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.

  • @patriciawilliams1500
    @patriciawilliams1500 10 місяців тому +2

    ***Meteor's a nicely formed "disaster" film, but with the added layering of all the stars' characterizations each shows growth and finally te best of human qualities. Thanks for this balanced piece of basically good filmography.