The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth. After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading toward Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but soon discovers that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree? Meteor was a BIG deal when released — tie-in toys, a pinball machine, a Marvel comic book — everything that a major 70s blockbuster needed. Some blame American-International Pictures name being on this as a reason for its failure, as people instantly expected cheese from AIP. Some blame the completely boring script. Others just think that everyone was sick of disaster films, as the 70s themselves were pretty much a disaster.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, Meteor is competently directed by Ronald Neame, who also helmed The Poseidon Adventure. But the characters never get much to do other than have a few minutes of development and then try and survive.<br/><br/>Read more at bandsaboutmovies.com/2017/06/30/meteor-1979/ A pastiche of disaster movies – previous and forthcoming. A giant meteor is on a course to impact earth. The US government has some illegal nuclear warheads planted in outer space. They can be aimed at the approaching meteor but are not, in themselves, powerful enough to destroy it. The USSR happens to have a similar (and similarly illegal) weapons system orbiting earth. By combining the two sets of nuclear missiles, perhaps the meteor can be safely blown apart. The Russians send over their scientists to cooperate with ours during a joint launch.<br/><br/>It doesn't work and everyone dies. (Just kidding.) The experienced viewer might feel a little ill, though, considering how familiar and careless and predictable everything is. The American government is represented by the practical Karl Malden and the idealistic Henry Fonda. Science is represented by the astrophysicist Sean Connery, whose only desire is to save the planet. The military obstructionist is Martin Landau. The Russian scientist is Brian Keith and his assistant is the pretty Natalie Wood.<br/><br/>You could have written this yourself. As in "When Worlds Collide" from twenty-five years earlier, some "splinters" arrive ahead of the main meteor body in order to provide the disasters that the audience is primed for. The calamities follow the usual trajectory, so to speak. First a handful of Chuckchee tribesmen in Siberia, whom no one in the audience has heard of or cares about. Then an avalanche at some upscale Swiss ski resort, at which an attractive young skier in a powder blue suit is buried – a shame. Hers was the only death I truly regretted. I wonder if she's still there. Then a splinter causes a tidal wave in Hong Kong. Then another splinter burns up half of New York. All this is strictly according to formula. You begin by offing the lesser characters, or, in this case, places. Then, with each succeeding set of deaths, you up the ante by bringing the pain closer to home. And by using meteor splinters, you can cause multiple catastrophes, all different from one another, at the price of just one source.<br/><br/>The special effects are primitive by today's CGI standards. They are primitive even by the standards of "When Worlds Collide." The acting is okay. In fact, it could be argued that this is one of Natalie Wood's two best performances, the other being "Inside Daisy Clover." And Brian Keith is very appealing as a Russian astrophysicist all hunched over, wearing an impish smile, and speaking Russian as if born to the language. He learned his lines phonetically but it's hard to tell for the untrained ear. And those phonemes are hard for an English speaker to wrap his tongue around. These are seasoned professionals. <br/><br/>But the dialog is out of some kind of Screenwriter's Manual, and the editing is choppy and ill considered. Out of fourteen Russian rockets, it appears that only four are launched. And when Sean Connery bursts into a wrecked room, he stares up, the camera zooms in on his eyeballs, and there is a cut to the giant meteor. The grammar of film leads us to believe that he's staring at the hurtling rock, but he's not. He's just looking at the rubble.<br/><br/>The science – well, this is not worth going on about. There's nothing here you haven't seen done elsewhere.
As the title implies, Meteor is a disaster movie about a meteor about to hit the Earth in seven days. The only way the American experts can think of to stop the meteor is by hitting it with their orbital nuclear missiles, dubbed Hercules, which are currently pointed at the USSR. The problem is that the combined power of the Hercules missiles is not powerful enough to stop the meteor, so the US wants to unite their Hercules missiles with the missiles from the USSR's secret Peter the Great project, which are currently pointed at the United States. An additional problem is that neither government wants the other government to know that they even have such missiles. Meteor is based on a screenplay by screenwriters Edmund H North and Stanley Mann. However, it was inspired by Project Icarus, a report written by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a hypothetical systems project. The report focused on the concept of using missiles to deflect an asteroid that might become threatening to Earth. The project was described in the June 1967 issue of Time magazine and published as a book, Project Icarus: an MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering, in 1968. The chain of events started when a never-seen-before comet appeared from the other side of the sun and passed through the asteroid belt, hitting a large asteroid known as Orpheus. Orpheus broke into chunks. Several of those chunks started on a trajectory course with the Earth. Most of the pieces were small, but one particular chunk was five miles wide and could do serious damage to the Earth if it hits. This chunk, now known as the Orpheus meteor is projected to hit the Earth in six days. The Russian missiles are launched. While waiting for the 20 minutes to pass until they can launch the American missiles, Dr Bradley (<a href="/name/nm0000125/">Sean Connery</a>) receives a message from Sir Michael Hughes (<a href="/name/nm0002145/">Trevor Howard</a>) in England informing him that another chunk of Orpheus has been spotted heading for New York. Moments after the American missiles are fired, the chunk hits New York, causing massive destruction and destroying the World Trade Center. Because the control center is located in an old subway shaft under the Bell System building, it is not completely destroyed, but the rubble traps the survivors underground. Bradley leads out the survivors through the subway tunnels, enduring muddy water from the East River and breaking through blocked tunnels. When they get almost to the top, they are able to listen to a news broadcast saying that the missiles were successful in breaking up the meteor, just as someone breaks through the last pile of rubble from the outside, freeing them all. In the final scene, Bradley and Harry Sherman (<a href="/name/nm0001500/">Karl Malden</a>) are at the airport, seeing off Tatiana (<a href="/name/nm0000081/">Natalie Wood</a>) and Dubov (<a href="/name/nm0001417/">Brian Keith</a>). Tatiana kisses Bradley. As she boards the plane, Dubov says to her in Russian, "I think you'll come back one day." Tatiana replies in Russian, "Perhaps." Yes. Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zahkarenko to Russian immigrant parents) spoke fluent Russian, as did Brian Keith. 646f9e108c Rollin' with the Nines telugu full movie downloadtamil movie RahXephon free downloadTry full movie in hindi free downloadCollision Course full movie in hindi free download mp4Burning Desires movie in hindi hd free downloadDuel 720p moviesAegis download torrentMarine Boy full movie in hindi free downloadthe Red Tomahawk hindi dubbed free downloadEpisode 1.125 full movie in hindi 720p download
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