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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!! Decades ahead of its time. And the Actors to to back it up! Let alone the executives that backed it up. I tip my hat 😎 👒
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.
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!! 😁👍
😂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...
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.
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...
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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.
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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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
@@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.
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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~😊
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😉
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😊
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.
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.
After Star Wars came out in 1977 science fiction got a much needed shot in the arm and a HUGE number of science fiction movies were released over the next several years. Some of them were pretty good, like this one. "Battle Beyond the Stars" is one of my favorites of that group.
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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.
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
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 . . .
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 ...
nowadays most of that computer might would be used to argue, deny and spread conspiracy misinformation about disaster to come (in case of same scenario in reality) thus our computing superiority left has not much preponderance over 1979
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 😊😅👍
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...
***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.
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).
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.
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My dad loved Sean Connery -- don't think he ever saw this one though -- he would've loved it! TY
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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!
A nice walk down memory lane. Welcome.
I'm just watching this for 1st time , I'm 76 years old and just enjoying it right now 😂.
@@gilloera8912 Classic film
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.
Welcome. Okay, I'll play, too. Another very intense movie but with a bigger cast is "Seven Days in May" (1964).
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.
Yes and the writers knew other words besides the F word. Today everything is F and that is LAZZZZZZY writing.
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.
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.
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Love Sean Connery. My son has Sean as his name and Connery was and still is..the best ever James Bond 😊😊❤❤❤
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Even the worst of the 70s disaster movies can be more entertaining than almost any big budget box office hit today.
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Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!! Decades ahead of its time. And the Actors to to back it up! Let alone the executives that backed it up. I tip my hat 😎 👒
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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.
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Such a glorious film, such great actors and all on You Tube for free for all to watch! Thanks for uploading.
Glad you enjoyed it
To watch some of these movies YT demands you download their app.
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!! 😁👍
It's nice to take a walk down memory lane. Welcome.
Magnificent, but I'm so terribly sorry the majority of these fantastic actors have passed - God bless them
All of them have passed.
Rip to all.
@@stevenjohnson7442 Sybil Danning is alive.
@@msouthern99 I'm referring to the main cast.
Sean R.I.P.
an amazing cast in a heap of junk.
Watched this in 1981 on ABC. One of those underrated films that sticks with you all your life.
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😂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...
A busman’s holiday film, where very good actors get to play together, have fun, and pay their bills. I enjoy them!
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.
I think Natalie wood was from Russian extraction.
@@dingorex You are correct. Natalie was born in USA but both her parents were Russian.
Natalie was Russian....Natalia
The real name of Natalie Wood was Natal'ja Nikolaevna Zacharenko
@@dingorex Yes, she was.
Great film! All star cast, great script, wonderful photography! I'll give this one 5 stars!!! ✨✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
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How About 5 Meteors!
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...
*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 ??*
Natalie was Russian
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What a good movie, even when it came out in 1979. This movie was very much enjoyable. Thank You for sharing it with us. 🙂
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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!
Which remind’s me,Star Trek,the motion picture was made about this time,too!(in;1979).
I have been a proponent for an asteroid/comet detection and deflection program since I saw this on HBO at age 8.
45 years later and we still need one.
Roger that. Thanks for watching.
We spend $1.3 trillion a year with a T every year. Banks still give multi million dollar loans for water front property though.
A great cast for a great movie, thank you!
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Great movie, brilliant ensemble of actors. Ah ... the old days 😃
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Disaster scenes were unbelievably good. really. They were worse than the acting.
Thanks for sharing your opinions.
CGI is used as a lazy substandard copout
Seven years old in 79 ,so I missed it first time around . But on the other hand ,I will enjoy it more now .
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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.
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!
I remember seeing it on a Sunday afternoon on a local TV station around 1983 as a kid.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
I don't think Sean Connery ever made a bad movie. Great actor.
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this was the one.
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disaster is my favourite genre of movie and the disasters of the 70s are the greatest. love this movie.
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Just gonna be over here rolling around in Nostalgia, would sit and watch these movies with gramps on Saturday afternoons. Happy memories😊
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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
Towering Inferno is my favourite, masterpiece of this class.
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@@keskin8512and The Poseidon Adventure, The Swarm,
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!
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Money.
Considering the trash we see today, this is a true masterpiece.
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 😊❤❤📺
Roger Temple.
The film was released in 1979, you halfwit.
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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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.
NASA included? ...with the computer generated fakery I mean...they've never lied to us, right?
Even after more than 40 years, this movie is great!!!
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Props to the cameramen hanging out in space to monitor the launch and progress of the rockets 😁
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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!
@@TheOtherBillFour days? I was stuck in a capsule for four weeks. Oh well paid for the house when I finally got home.
@@gorillaau That sounds like luxury... Sheer bloody luxury..! lol
@@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.
I was about 19 years old at the time, don't remember seeing this movie!
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What a cast!!! Thanks!!!
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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~😊
I agree.
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And without DEI actors playing the President or Prime Minister, or Chief Nuclear Scientist.
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😉
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A great movie and from way back when..... Very enjoyable. Gold Stars for all the performers and creators. Movie making at it's best. 🌟
Well, it really can be called a disaster. Flop!
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A great old movie. Thank you.
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One of Connery's best ever lines-----I could sweep the carpet on the way out!
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a very old expression in Scotland ~ Connery realised he was dealing with people from a sheltered existence
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I remember when this happened. I was kinda scared, but as long as Henry Fonda was president, I knew we'd be OK.
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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😊
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.
So long as he has the Secret Service to block Jane from entering the White House...
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.
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Subway disaster scene was quite impressive. They definitely earned their money filming that.
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I saw this movie in Arjuna theatre Surabaya when I was in kindergarten. This one made me amazed.
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Sean❤️🩹Connery!!!
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After Star Wars came out in 1977 science fiction got a much needed shot in the arm and a HUGE number of science fiction movies were released over the next several years. Some of them were pretty good, like this one. "Battle Beyond the Stars" is one of my favorites of that group.
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Thanks for this movie Free... what a lost gem of a quality cast and story. Cheers.
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Got to love Sean. Never changes his Scottish accent for anyone...btilliant!
He didn't change his accent even he acted the head of a Berber tribe in "The Wind and the Lion"
Offf Courshhhh...
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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.
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What this movie needed was Leslie Nielsen as Sergeant Frank Dreben.
And don’t call him Shirly.
And Peter Sellers.
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.
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"I'm watching, eventhough the oldest movie but still it's nice"...❤❤
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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.
has a good watch !
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A very good film for those years...enjoyed it. Thanks for the upload.
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Not seen this for years thanks 👍😊
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I absolutely love this film. And Brian Keith was fluent in Russian making his interaction with Natalie Wood all the more memorable. So much fun 😊🎉
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Sean Connery made, Zardoz, two Highlanders , Outland and this, in the Sci-Fi Genre
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Finally a great free movie …. All it took was Sean Connery.👍👍👍
At least it's free I had to pay to see this boring film.
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Good movie !
Never heard of it before !
Great actors !
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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
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Well made and convincing, underlines the importance of finding a solution, in humility
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I enjoyed the film a lot, thanx for sharing 🙏👍
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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 . . .
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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 ...
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nowadays most of that computer might would be used to argue, deny and spread conspiracy misinformation about disaster to come (in case of same scenario in reality)
thus our computing superiority left has not much preponderance over 1979
Still a well-played movie! Thank you!
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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.
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Thanks a lot for the video. Excellent movie.
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Awesome Film Movie Masterpiece 🎬📽️🎞️🎥🎬📽️🎞️👍💯💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥☝️⭐🎭⭐🎭⭐🎭. Thanks for uploading this film movie 🍿🍿🍿🍿! Watching this film movie right now 1/04/2023
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Very good movie, great cast, like me very much. Thanks. I enjoyed It a lot.
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Great film. Thanks for uploading.👍👍
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I like old movies. Then, again, I'm "old". ;-)
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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.
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You do good Job,thanks fo this film.....fan from Finland🇫🇮
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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.
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.
Meteor was a bomb. A big boring bomb at that.
Sean Connery is such as ass at the beginning. The world is about to end and he could care less.
@@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.
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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!!!
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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.
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Terrific film! Enjoyed every minute.
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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!
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Some of the best special effects I've ever scene. Just unbelievable. 😮
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When this remarkable movie was filmed, in 1977, the extinction of dinosaurs wasn't yet linked to the asteroid hypothesis. Amazing!
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I think the crater for KT impact was not discovered till 1990.
Some geologist working for a Mexican oil company discovered it
@@ActiveAussie2024 correct. That happened in 1990 if I remember correctly.
Solar micronova is more likely, and due soon.
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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 😊😅👍
I remember that .. .50 cent pitcher nights
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Traveling from the Astroid Belt to Earth in six days is moving right along.
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tnx for this...much appriciated
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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...
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Recently got The Towering Inferno on Blu-ray. It was an interesting blast from past.
I'll be sleeping soundly after this movie knowing that nothing's ever going to be coming from outer space to kill me.
Not before our own governments .
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Decent film with a good cast. Special effects are woeful though absolutely shocking even for the time.
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RIP Sir Sean Connery ( † 2020 )
I'm sorry he's gone. He is so missed.
@@DonaldPBorchersOG RIP Natalie Wood ( * 1938 - † 1981 )
@@aleksandarvil5718 another great loss.
Possibly done on purpose?
Agreed one of the very finest!!
Very missed but, he lives-on by the means of the agency of emulsion-coated celluloid!
One of the few sci fi films with a better script than special effects.
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And in the spirit of smiting the common foe, 2 Soviet and 2 US missiles, flying in formation, finally destroyed the evil meteor....
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***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.
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Martin Landau needs to take an anger management course.
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The same book gave us Space Cowboys. Another fabulous movie from the past.
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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).
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Just love these 70s disaster movies....Now a good comedy at the same time.
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I liked this movie when I saw it as a teen 😊
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Haven’t seen this since I was a kid. Thanks for the movie.
Connery and the ladies 😂
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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
with me it was seeing Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees I haven't slept or taken a shower since then....
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This is so bad it’s good! All these brilliant actors cranking up the melodrama!
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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.
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Sean Connery is the only man on the planet that can make a leisure suit look good.
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