Meteor [DVD]

I saw this film on free-to-air TV years ago and have been looking for it for ages.The Spanish release plays fine here in Australia and has the English soundtrack (you just have to switch audio tracks and turn off the subtitles). I was very glad to see it as the proper cinemascope aspect ratio, rather than the cut-down 4:3 version on the earlier DVD release. The transfer itself is pretty good, with the only visual artefacts I noticed on the credits. The audio itself is acceptable, although the closing credits sound a bit worse than the rest of the film (perhaps indicating that the original negatives are a little worse for wear at that point).The only criticism I have of the Spanish release is that it is on a BD-R (a RITEK-BR3-000), not a pressed disc. One of the other reviews says that this is "homemade", which I doubt, considering that the disc metadata indicates that it was authored by Rovi Scenarist BD (a professional Bluray authoring suite that isn't cheap). Personally I would guess that this was a commercial choice to reduce production costs for a limited production run. Regardless, I would recommend that owners make a backup copy of the disc if you can, as BD-Rs will have a shorter lifespan than a factory pressed disc.

Typical 70/80s disaster movie. But still worth a look.

Armageddon. PahDeep Impact. Phooey.Meteor. Hits the nail right on the head!Brief synopsis. Comet hits big rock. Big chunk of big rock sent on collision course with 3rd rock from sun. Sean connery pulled away from yaught race and puts on Tweed jacket. Sean goes to New York. Small piece of rock hits Earth causing film director to copy-paste snip of film 'Avalanche' onto his movie. Lots of skiers kick bucket. Sean meets Karl Marlden. Sean says 'Enough is Enough'. Sean decides to utilise US military orbiting ICBM station to destroy Big chunk of rock. Not on your nellie says US goverment. Another small chunk of rock hits Hong Kong. Everyone in Hong Kong spends rest of day swimming. US goverment wets pants. US goverment decides to launch at big chunk of rock. Alas! not enough ICBM's to finish big chunk off rock off! Call in the soviets, says Sean. Can we use YOUR orbiting ICBM platform to finish off big chunk of rock too? Soviets fanny about a bit. Decide 'what the vostock' and agree to let off their fireworks too. Rockets pointed at big chunck of rock. Launched. Small bit of rock hits New york. Sean and Karl get covered in chocolate milkshake in a subway station. Rockets hit big chunk of rock. Director over uses a starburst effect filter on the camera lens and runs out with 45 seconds of red flame effect screensaver. Everyone Happy. Rockets all gone. Big chunk of rock gone. Sean goes to airport. Plane takes off. Massive moral and ethical statement appears on screen. Credits roll. Tears finally stop running down your cheeks. But somehow you will still think to yourself.....'oOoooOohhh....what if it REALLY happened???'Fantastic.Buy it.

Love this film. OMG! There's a meteor headed for earth that will SEND US INTO A NEW ICE AGE! the only way to stop it is too blow it up with nuclear weapons that we've never admitted we (we=us of a) have....oh yeah and not that we've got them but if we did they're currently pointed at Russia....and not only do we need to divert those to blow up the meteor but we need the help of Russia's Nuclear weapons that they've never admitted they had too....so there you go....quite good fun watching all the politicians / army guys blustering and wittering before realising (thanks mainly to Shhhhhhhean of course) that they just have to get on with it and work together or the earth is kablooey! There are some good 'disaster' bits with smaller meteorites hitting earth as a warm-up to mumma meteor....avalanches, tidal waves etc - classic stuff! Meet a family, watch them die....Really enjoyable.

After Sean Connery left the Bond set up to Moore, life in the movie world was not kind to him until the late 80's when he scored a part in the excellent "Untouchables" next to a very young Kevin Costner, and a star was re-born.But until those halcyon day returned Connery was taking prety much any fiilm work he could find, and some were awful, some were incomprehensible and some were fun B movie efforts as this asteroid crash disaster movie.The plot is as follows. A bunch of astronauts are sent to study a vast asteroid in a near by belt. When a passing comet hits the asteroid it smashes a huge chunk, the astronauts are killed but manage to give an indication that the chunk is on the loose. Later investigations conclude that the chunk is on a collision course with Earth. Brought back after a falling out where he found his invention, the nuclear missile platform that was made to guard against this catastrophe, is being used instead again the Russians, Connery is bought back to head up a way of stopping the threat.Not wanting to spoil too much of the story i will stop there. I guess at the time it was a decent enough film, scripting and character development is good enough and acting is quite convincing from the leads. Special effects are a little wooden but hell, how old is this film?A good laugh, cheap enough to buy and watch when your bored!