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 Před rokem +430

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +7

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    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 Před 11 měsíci +7

      Ok, grumpy

    • @chrismarsh1067
      @chrismarsh1067 Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@onlyme219❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@chrismarsh1067 👍

    • @jasonmare33
      @jasonmare33 Před 10 měsíci +6

      all crap 90% then and now

  • @AcapulKero
    @AcapulKero Před 5 měsíci +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  Před 3 měsíci +2

      A nice walk down memory lane. Welcome.

    • @gilloera8912
      @gilloera8912 Před 3 měsíci +3

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

  • @Tealcorvette
    @Tealcorvette Před rokem +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 Před rokem +20

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

    • @powerdriller4124
      @powerdriller4124 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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  Před rokem +7

      Thanks for the visit!

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Před rokem +5

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG you guys rock

  • @FishFeelPain
    @FishFeelPain Před 6 měsíci +14

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

  • @MrChiefmike
    @MrChiefmike Před rokem +244

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

  • @borleyboo5613
    @borleyboo5613 Před 10 měsíci +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  Před 9 měsíci +2

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

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 Před rokem +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 😊❤❤📺

  • @danmartens8855
    @danmartens8855 Před rokem +239

    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 Před rokem +51

      I think Natalie wood was from Russian extraction.

    • @ianrobertson2282
      @ianrobertson2282 Před rokem +37

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

    • @georgemijatovic4060
      @georgemijatovic4060 Před rokem +23

      Natalie was Russian....Natalia

    • @AlessandroFerraraPA
      @AlessandroFerraraPA Před rokem +39

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

    • @stevensica89
      @stevensica89 Před rokem +11

      @@dingorex Yes, she was.

  • @sarlaccstapeworm990
    @sarlaccstapeworm990 Před 7 měsíci +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!! 😁👍

  • @johnbarrett4846
    @johnbarrett4846 Před rokem +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  Před 11 měsíci +2

      Thanks for sharing your memory.

    • @don4476
      @don4476 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Money.

    • @666mengel
      @666mengel Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @petegarnett7731
    @petegarnett7731 Před 11 měsíci +13

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

    • @andyb.1026
      @andyb.1026 Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@andyb.1026 Welcome.

  • @djsi38t
    @djsi38t Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @milo13200
    @milo13200 Před rokem +55

    A great cast for a great movie, thank you!

  • @vascoemyer
    @vascoemyer Před rokem +61

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

  • @clarkunglued580
    @clarkunglued580 Před rokem +53

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +2

      Fond memories. Thanks for the visit!

    • @movid
      @movid Před 8 měsíci +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 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @thunderwarrior1759
    @thunderwarrior1759 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +4

      Towering Inferno is my favourite, masterpiece of this class.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +1

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    • @thunderwarrior1759
      @thunderwarrior1759 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@DonaldPBorchersOG happy to be here 🙌❤️

    • @Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber
      @Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber Před 5 měsíci

      @@keskin8512and The Poseidon Adventure, The Swarm,

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215 Před 5 měsíci +6

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

    • @leewilson77
      @leewilson77 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ☺️

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @brooketaney2279
    @brooketaney2279 Před rokem +22

    What a cast!!! Thanks!!!

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před rokem

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  • @DmPmRr1959
    @DmPmRr1959 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @alexc8209
    @alexc8209 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +5

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

    • @paultapner2769
      @paultapner2769 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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.

  • @Getouttahere78
    @Getouttahere78 Před 10 měsíci +66

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 10 měsíci +4

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

    • @TheOtherBill
      @TheOtherBill Před 10 měsíci +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 Před 10 měsíci +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 Před 8 měsíci +2

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

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau Před 8 měsíci +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.

  • @Jestunes
    @Jestunes Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +5

      Natalie was Russian

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +4

      Welcome.

  • @debracarrabba1656
    @debracarrabba1656 Před rokem +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  Před rokem +5

      You're welcome. Thank for the visit!

    • @bettyleeist
      @bettyleeist Před rokem +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 Před rokem +6

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

  • @loneyhearts
    @loneyhearts Před 10 měsíci +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  Před 10 měsíci

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: czcams.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @telemachus53
    @telemachus53 Před 11 měsíci +58

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

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies Před 10 měsíci +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.

  • @gustavolascalea1525
    @gustavolascalea1525 Před 9 měsíci +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.

  • @hadisunaryoch2741
    @hadisunaryoch2741 Před rokem +10

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci

      Fond memories. Welcome.

    • @SPV66
      @SPV66 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @michaelripley4528
    @michaelripley4528 Před 10 měsíci +5

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

  • @stelpa66
    @stelpa66 Před rokem +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😉

  • @jessiedoggie1
    @jessiedoggie1 Před 6 měsíci +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 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 3 měsíci

      Thanks for sharing your opinions.

  • @noyoutakethatback
    @noyoutakethatback Před rokem +7

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

  • @thatdonutboy4321
    @thatdonutboy4321 Před rokem +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~😊

  • @nephewbob7264
    @nephewbob7264 Před rokem +218

    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 Před rokem +17

      Lol

    • @cronobactersakazakii5133
      @cronobactersakazakii5133 Před rokem +11

      🤣

    • @Fti193
      @Fti193 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @lloydbotway5930
    @lloydbotway5930 Před rokem +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...

  • @MrGsteele
    @MrGsteele Před 7 měsíci +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  Před 7 měsíci

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

    • @user-te3su8zi9o
      @user-te3su8zi9o Před 5 měsíci +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  Před 4 měsíci

      @@user-te3su8zi9o Wow! Thanks for sharing.

  • @OddBr18g
    @OddBr18g Před rokem +3

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

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 Před rokem +37

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

    • @UFOBobTV
      @UFOBobTV Před rokem +4

      And don’t call him Shirly.

    • @sirdigbyminge1639
      @sirdigbyminge1639 Před rokem +5

      And Peter Sellers.

    • @BingGeaux
      @BingGeaux Před rokem +2

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +1

      Ha! Thanks for the visit!

  • @dingleysquare3029
    @dingleysquare3029 Před 10 měsíci +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. 🌟

  • @typower9
    @typower9 Před rokem +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.

  • @EttaH-io7ur
    @EttaH-io7ur Před 6 měsíci +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  Před 3 měsíci

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: czcams.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @karl-unoisaksson4000
    @karl-unoisaksson4000 Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @davidmoore570
    @davidmoore570 Před 10 měsíci +3

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

  • @tommyudo3195
    @tommyudo3195 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

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

    • @Brian-yt8fu
      @Brian-yt8fu Před rokem +1

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

    • @tommyudo3195
      @tommyudo3195 Před rokem +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  Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @DessieTots
    @DessieTots Před rokem +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.

  • @sheiladesoysa7112
    @sheiladesoysa7112 Před rokem +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.

  • @Benmelech
    @Benmelech Před rokem +50

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

  • @williewyatt7343
    @williewyatt7343 Před rokem +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.

  • @gastrcat
    @gastrcat Před 7 měsíci +3

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

  • @jessiedoggie1
    @jessiedoggie1 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Martin Landau needs to take an anger management course.

  • @pennyparham4123
    @pennyparham4123 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @sterlinglewis5700
    @sterlinglewis5700 Před rokem +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!

  • @fionastevenson6019
    @fionastevenson6019 Před rokem +20

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

  • @gregwise3646
    @gregwise3646 Před 12 dny

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

  • @crruisercharliehaas8832
    @crruisercharliehaas8832 Před 9 měsíci +10

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

  • @blackterminal
    @blackterminal Před rokem +3

    A great old movie. Thank you.

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: czcams.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @robertkilbourne323
    @robertkilbourne323 Před rokem +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.

  • @robertflegal1735
    @robertflegal1735 Před 3 měsíci

    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!!!

  • @dockaos924
    @dockaos924 Před 2 lety +9

    Not seen this for years thanks 👍😊

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Před 2 lety +18

    RIP Sir Sean Connery ( † 2020 )

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 Před 2 lety +8

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

    • @howlinwulf
      @howlinwulf Před rokem +3

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

    • @howlinwulf
      @howlinwulf Před rokem +3

      Agreed one of the very finest!!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Před rokem +3

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

  • @FairyWeatherMan
    @FairyWeatherMan Před 11 měsíci +19

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +2

      Welcome.

    • @ActiveAussie2024
      @ActiveAussie2024 Před 10 měsíci +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 Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @alexandergrimsmo
      @alexandergrimsmo Před 8 měsíci

      Solar micronova is more likely, and due soon.

    • @ChrisDefalcoblues
      @ChrisDefalcoblues Před 8 měsíci

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @stefanmodigh6312
    @stefanmodigh6312 Před 11 měsíci +3

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

  • @stevensharp5135
    @stevensharp5135 Před rokem +6

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

  • @MrKen-wy5dk
    @MrKen-wy5dk Před 11 měsíci +3

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

  • @jmoser1030
    @jmoser1030 Před rokem +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.

  • @cartoonperson42
    @cartoonperson42 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @mikaelbiilmann6826
    @mikaelbiilmann6826 Před 3 měsíci

    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!

  • @rossiv62964
    @rossiv62964 Před 7 měsíci +3

    I remember watching this in the theater.

  • @jmoser1030
    @jmoser1030 Před rokem +5

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

  • @juancutillas8948
    @juancutillas8948 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Such a beautiful cast!!!

  • @life107familyfitnessboxing8

    The best Meteor movie ever to date

  • @OtchBotch
    @OtchBotch Před 4 měsíci +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

  • @mysticnomad3577
    @mysticnomad3577 Před 8 měsíci +5

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

  • @michaelkeller5008
    @michaelkeller5008 Před 10 měsíci +3

    thanks for uploading this classic :)

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 měsíci +1

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

    • @michaelkeller5008
      @michaelkeller5008 Před 9 měsíci +1

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

  • @ParadigmBlaster
    @ParadigmBlaster Před rokem +6

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

  • @vinnyheaphy1372
    @vinnyheaphy1372 Před 7 měsíci +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!!!

  • @corbinmcnabb
    @corbinmcnabb Před rokem +5

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

  • @StephenSmith-zp7pf
    @StephenSmith-zp7pf Před rokem +3

    No science was used in the making of this picture.

  • @user-ns7dt5mo5l
    @user-ns7dt5mo5l Před 10 měsíci +1

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

  • @b.b.finsclara3589
    @b.b.finsclara3589 Před 6 měsíci +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  Před 3 měsíci

      Welcome. I post Sandy Howard productions here: czcams.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfMHANcC3EEBp_EYRAgRrqB.html

  • @ZENmud
    @ZENmud Před rokem +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).

  • @anthonyvaldez6892
    @anthonyvaldez6892 Před rokem +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 😊😅👍

  • @mikepowell5313
    @mikepowell5313 Před rokem +1

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

  • @tomwellard8234
    @tomwellard8234 Před 11 měsíci +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

  • @stephensavioli5930
    @stephensavioli5930 Před rokem +3

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

  • @giano427
    @giano427 Před rokem +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.

  • @desirreemarlenaclonch7593

    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

  • @EM.1
    @EM.1 Před 7 měsíci +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.

  • @borisaskoldt1410
    @borisaskoldt1410 Před rokem +4

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

  • @jeanniegillis7490
    @jeanniegillis7490 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Still a well-played movie! Thank you!

  • @SteveBrant55
    @SteveBrant55 Před 6 měsíci +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  Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @patriciawilliams1500
    @patriciawilliams1500 Před 10 měsíci +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.

  • @NaughtyNimitz
    @NaughtyNimitz Před 10 měsíci +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!

  • @pjamajones8304
    @pjamajones8304 Před rokem +8

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

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @karengoodman6103
    @karengoodman6103 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @stevenrussell5340
    @stevenrussell5340 Před 2 měsíci

    This is a classic movie, just found it funny when all the rockets are launched, you could hear their motors. But in space, with no air, there is no sound. A glitch, but a great movie, this is the third time I have seen this.

  • @Kroggnagch
    @Kroggnagch Před rokem +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

  • @passerby1011
    @passerby1011 Před rokem +7

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

  • @blindnumber
    @blindnumber Před 17 dny

    You do good Job,thanks fo this film.....fan from Finland🇫🇮

  • @randalldunkley1042
    @randalldunkley1042 Před 10 měsíci +2

    The music score is over the top.