Capricorn One [Blu-ray]

What would happen if the US Space Agency said it would put men on Mars? What would happen if the President told them they had one shot to get it right or loose funding? What would happen if something went wrong, so they didn’t send them to Mars.What would happen if no one told the American people what’s going on?These are the questions Capricorn One answers as it readies to send this mission into space...By all accounts Capricorn One is an all star cast: James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and OJ Simpson as astronauts who believe in their mission. Elliot Gould as the journalist figuring out things aren’t as they appear. And Hal Holbrook as the chief who can charm anyone into believing anything.Could it ever happen? Some out there believe the entire moon landing program was faked (I’ve often wondered over the years if those who believe that watched this movie). But in Capricorn One an entire mission is carries out... I’ve already said enough. The reality is, while this movie came out in 1978, it holds the test of time. The action is interesting, the premise brings you in, the acting top notch, and even the technology you can live with. So well done, it’s evergreen, presenting the viewer with the ever wondering... what if...In the end, I really like Capricorn One a lot. I had been watching for Amazon to have it on a good sale and when it did, I grabbed it for my streaming library - I like it that much. It’s a fun movie, a compelling idea, and it’s well executed. I’m happy to watch it - again and again...

1960's Space Genre,a trip back to 1977, where we ponder the question, was even the moon landing a fake? This film was sponsored by Sir Lew Grade, financier for the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation Series & Space 1999. They knew about science fiction and suspensefull films ,This film shows, they still maintain the standards for exceptional sci-fi suspense. While it kept the premise of space travel,launched on Saturn 5 Rockets and in 1979, even James Bond went to space on a shuttle craft,still the prospect of a trip to mars is way out there ,since no current propulsion systems can do so in a short period of time, it will seem impossible. The Zero-X, a wild concoction of a space craft took Marionette men to Mars in Captain Scarlet and it was more believeable. Aside all that, the cast held up well, even O.J. and the story line keeps your attention during a heated chase across 3 points of the compass ,across all places, a desert. When our three astronauts decide to escape, after thier families watch in horror of the failure of a heat shield, during re-entry and NASA writes them off, it's expected but not really known, that the plane they stole runs out of fuel during flight. This boosted careers for O.J. Simpson and even Law & Order's ADA, Sam Waterson cracking wise and telling sarcastic jokes during the film. Brolin was on his way with his career as well and eventually lives to tell the story of NASA, which stands for Need Another Space Agency, when they go from idolizing astronauts as explorers to killing them just to cover up a secret. Hal Holbrook portrayed his 70's style of a liar, authority type who lies to the astronauts about a life support system that would fail them but wants to cover it up so the program will stay, he was always good at this languished dead pan style of breaking news to others. Karen Black' s role as the sanctimonious, sufragette woman reporter, babbling idiotic, typed out lines, like a robot,when she is within arms length of Elliot Gould, what was she trying to prove? Her parts were short and basically worthless, she did better in Airport 1975 where she did something constructive, like fly a 747 and try to save 120 passengers. Even Telly Savalas got his worth in this movie because everyone who was trying to get him and the contents of his crop duster was dubbed "Perverts" by our 1970's NY Detective ,turned pilot. In the end, at the funeral the truth does come out, this film was good even to watch now a days, just for a trip back in time.

Still an entertaining movie after all these years.

This is a long-waited DVD if you ask me. Deffenitely. I think the audio and video qualities of this DVD are much better than previously released VHS videos or LDs. It is recorded and presented with a wide-screen or a letter-boxed, a high 16:9 aspect ratio picture, together with multiple audios and subtittles. This DVD packege also includes some newly produced supplimental-interviews with the writer/director Peter Hyams and other staff members and/or specialists who worked on the film. Above all, I'd like to point out the fact that it gives us one good audio commentary we can enjoy: that is, the director's audio commentaries. They say that it is very reare for the film's director Peter Hyams to review or make any kind of comments on the movie he produced/wrote/filmed/directed. He himself was saying he had never commented or recorded them on his picture after they were completed and released because there would have been anything for him to alter or change once they left him. So, watching and listening to his or others' commentaries themselves worth purchasing this DVD. Jerry Goldsmith'd famous opening theme music is one another highlight to make this movie even more dramatic and gorgeous. And its ending; WARNING: I might reveal an important or crucial scene of the movie as the following: Everytime I see that red Dutsun 280Z sports car, approaching silently form the far-background toward us in the middle of surpposed-to-be a very sad ocassion/situation in the final scene of the movie, I couldn' help myself shedding some tears from my eyes with a joy or rejoyce. Oh,one more thing to note: Yes, I deffinitely agree with the director's the point in which he believes this was probably the first mortion picture to feature two flying helicopters as human-like figures, pretending they were talking and nodding face to face each other. Those made my nerves chilled. I strongly recomemd to buy this DVD and re-experience the Capricorn incident happened in the late '70s again for yourself. Now, I'd like all of you who have read this review to show your enthusiasms by saying / declaring either 'GOs' or 'No-Gos.' All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now T-minus 60 seconds from the lanch, and counting.What you'd say to the mission, GO or No-Go?

I watched the Capricorn One film when it first came out in the late 1970s and have since acquired the DVD, the quality of which I was pleased with.I have now got the Blu Ray version and, contrary to some of the reviews, find that the picture and sound quality are excellent-better than the standard DVD.The colours are richer and the airborne sequences near the end of the film are brilliant for the eriod in which the film was made.I am delighted that I now have the Blu Ray, the standard DVD and the book of Capricorn One.Just in passing, I hope that there isn’t a remake of this film-let it be-it was a superb 1970s classic and Imwould not want it to go the way of many remakes that have degraded the memories of the originals.

A fairly agreeable 1977 family-friendly-action-thriller-conspiracy film, from Lew Grade's ITC stable. The reasonably charismatic cast includes OJ Simpson, Telly Savalas and Elliot Gould. (The latter two would pop up together with Roger Moore one of ITC's next movies, Escape to Athena). It's the sort of film they could syndicate on television re-runs without frightening the horses (that's certainly where I first saw it). A Mars-landing-hoax conspiracy provides a framework for various slightly-silly action set pieces like 'man survives runaway car brake failure highway mayhem by driving into river and swimming away' and 'man eats rattlesnake' and 'man hangs onto biplane wing flown by kojak whilst chased by helcopters' :-D Interspersed with this are mildly amusing epic bants with slimeball congressmen and Elliot Gould vs glamourous ladies and/or his erascible boss.Network's BluRay edition is a nice HD transfer of the original materials, with 'making of' special feature thrown in.

A nostalgia buy, I guess - saw it when I was quite young and liked it back then. Initially I liked it when seeing it afresh. Then it gets to about 45 minutes into the movie. Astronauts speak to their wives via the radio. Date says July 22nd. Way ahead of the planned landing at September 19th, meaning they are still quite far away from earth. (About a quarter of the way in my estimation.) But no delay in response. Which would have happened due to huge distance. In the movie it is said, it takes 20 minutes for light to reach Mars, hence 20 minute delay until message reaches astronauts and then another 20 minutes for the reply to arrive back on earth. They make this point explicitly, by stating the president's speech was pre-recorded and placed on board for that reason. On July 22nd they would have been still far enough away from Earth to have significant delays in the round trip of their broadcasts. Meaning there would have been a lengthy gap in the conversation. Come on movie, try a little harder. Yes, you cannot have several minutes where nothing happens in a movie. But if they placed the chat differently into the timeline, let's say 3 to 4 days before re-entry, plus adding a second or two of delay into the conversation - it would have been fixed. This simple fix would have made that part of the movie so much more believable. Sorry, this oversight took me right out of it. I mean, anyone in the command centre (the journalists) would have gotten this inconsistency and hence spotted the fake. Which puts an axe to the foundation of the plot. Which is believability at all cost. Keeping up the deception, even if it costs lives.

James Brolin,Sam Waterston,and OJ Simpson star in this excellent example of 1970s cinema. The story of three young US astronauts who become embroiled in a conspiracy to fake a supposed lunar landing,and,in the process, have to fight for their very lives,when the powers behind the plot decide that the trio must be killed,in order to silence them.At the time this film was released,in 1979,I didn't get round to seeing it in the cinema. Now,as a man of almost fifty-one years old,I'm so pleased to have finally seen it,as it was well worth the wait.

Exactly the same as what really happened with the alleged moon landings.NASA removed all the tapes of the Apollo missions from the National Archives and destroyed them. I wonder why?The Soviets knew that you could not go through the Van Allen radiation belts or they would have been the first on the moon.Americans will believe anything!