Capricorn One

Capricorn One is a movie I truly love. Not even OJ's subsequent fall from grace can make me love it any less.I saw the movie in a theater when it was first released. The audience really got into it -- gasping, applauding, booing, laughing, cheering, etc. This actually added to my enjoyment! I've watched the movie many times since then, and I've loved it each time.I take Capricorn One for what it is: an entertaining, well-made thriller with great performances all around. Even when I know what's going to happen, the movie immediately grabs hold of me and doesn't let go. Others have pointed out inconsistencies, technical errors, plot holes and so forth, but these things don't bother me. I want to go on a disbelief-suspended wild ride, not pick everything apart.As one of the astronauts, Sam Waterston is a hoot! He supplies some wonderful comic relief, as does Telly Savalas. And Jerry Goldsmith really outdoes himself with the score.As a matter of possible interest, when Caulfield loses control of his car the driving is done by Bill Hickman, who also did the chase scene in The French Connection and drove the Dodge Charger in the chase scene in Bullitt.I won't put down anyone who doesn't like Capricorn One. If we all felt the same way about everything, life could get pretty boring. For those who think anyone who enjoyed the movie is an idiot, then I'm happy to be an idiot.

Somewhere, in a galaxy far far away, are these great seventies conspiracy movies we watched with fake butter popcorn and soft drinks smaller than buckets in theaters seats multiple times, (No vhs rentals yet.) A sweet library of them lives on - brilliant, suspenseful, surprisingly fun and intelligent classics. Network, Three Days of the Condor, Logan's Run, West World, Soylant Green, Play Misty for Me, and the China Syndrome. I would put Capricorn One in with these treasured screen gems with great surprise endings (shhh...no spoilers). No matter how soft the picture, or anthemic the music, this shocking little conspiracy hidden in the beloved NASA space program is great entertainment. And it even launched a whole urban myth that we never really landed a man on the moon. But some wicked manipulators of all things patriotic created a fake moment of glory If you love this genre, you'll love this one. A great wisk back in time.

If you think Stanley Kubrick filmed a faked Apollo moon lading on a movie set in the middle of some desert then this is a must see. There is a hefty dose of bad acting but the plot moves it along and it’s pretty interesting with an ending that’s about as believable as Elliot Gould’s acting. For a 70’s movie it holds up well and the subject was pretty timely when it was released. We enjoyed it, it was free and that’s a real plus on Prime Video.

I enjoyed this. It brought back memories but I only remembered parts of it so it felt like I was watching for the first time.Two things I would have liked though -I would have liked to see Brubaker (Brolin) punch Kelloway (Holbrook) in the face in the end.I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have to keep turning the volume up and down because the music was so much louder then the talking. I am not really interested in blowing my hearing out.

It was definitely no Star Wars 1977 type of movies but it was very typical in acting, and of course unbelievable incidents throughout the movie, of a 1977 movie in the way it was made and looks today. Not the best but not the worst either. I was on a Dallas ham radio net earlier tonight that was talking about this movie. Having never seen it, I decided to watch it and stop listening to others opinions. I wanted to form my own opinion. Some movies stand the test of time but this is not one of them to me. People like and enjoy it and that is great. Had I seen it in 1977 I might feel the same way? But I've now seen it once and that's all I need. It was enjoyable to go back to an older movie and see/remember a time when things were done differently. The one good thing is there were not movies that were just CGI creations and they had plots even if a little silly in 1977...

It took me a while to get into this movie. I hadn't watched a combination conspiracy theory / science-fiction movie in some time, and I started to be disappointed, but after a bit the plot and the action picked up and I found this to be a pretty entertaining movie. For those who argue that the plot is unbelievable... well, I'd just like to point out that the American people have been deceived many times. And it only gets easier as time goes by, what with technology getting "better" and allowing unscrupulous people to do whatever they want. (I like to think they all get caught, eventually. It's hard not to leave a paper trail. Or electronic trail.) I don't know what I would have thought if I had been around at the time of the moon landing. Likely I would have been skeptical, but I probably would have just taken it at face value and assumed it was true. Today, half of what we see on screen is CGI, so would I believe a Mars landing today?There were problems with the movie, of course, like the reporter's car inexplicably speeding up to 100 mph just because his brakes went out. He really should have been able to steer into the grass somewhere and stop. But I guess that wouldn't have been nearly as exciting! *SPOILER ALERT* I enjoyed the end of the movie. A nice helicopter chase scene that would totally be overdone today. It was unbelievable that the astronaut would have been able to hold on to the outside of the plane through some of those fancy moves, but besides that it was great, because everything in a movie today would have been faked. The crop duster's way of defeating the armed helicopters was so simple, yet so fun. The helicopters crashing into the mountains was exciting, yet not a huge CGI fireball that lasted 25 seconds. In other words, realistic.Good movie. Makes a statement. I like that.

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.

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 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!