Lucky enough to have dinner with author Martin Caidin a few years before he died. Most interesting evening of my life. Had some great stories about he making of this movie.
I always love David Janssen's line at 4:33, " You just get me in the ballpark!" He has one earlier, "Take your pills, go to sleep, and leave the driving to us..."
This drama is about as intense as anything I've ever seen. I've seen people who profess no interest in sci-fi or the space program completely transfixed by this movie. Yeah, the space sequences near then end are bit lame, but I have never been able to turn off Marooned once I start watching. Thanks for posting!
@pacific707 41 years since I first saw this movie and I NEVER thought of WHo that man was!!!!! He had been a newspaper reporter in his career and he is used appropriately here!!!!!
@tuttt99 Totally underrated. Yeah, the special effects are a little cheesy, but it's a really good dramatic story. Notice there is virtually no music used in the soundtrack. Very effective.
@pacific707 Yeah, the VFX make me cringe (even though it won the Oscar for Visual Effects the year after 2001: A Space Odyssey), but all the scenes with Gregory Peck in Mission Control are awesome. And I've always loved how they made the comms audio sound totally realistic simply by recording the dialogue through the actual headsets, which neither "Apollo 13" or "From the Earth to the Moon" (or anybody else) did.
This movie deserved to be MSTied....
1daddy57 3 months ago
Lucky enough to have dinner with author Martin Caidin a few years before he died. Most interesting evening of my life. Had some great stories about he making of this movie.
I always love David Janssen's line at 4:33, " You just get me in the ballpark!" He has one earlier, "Take your pills, go to sleep, and leave the driving to us..."
hibob418 5 months ago
-Men will be killed in this effort just as they are killed in cars and airplanes and bars and in bed .
-Take a look at the numbers.
-What about them?
Amazing script
LockAndLoadp 5 months ago
this movie caused a nightmare to the Apollo 13 astronaut JIM LOVELL
Skybolter 6 months ago
@Skybolter This movie caused a nightmare to the Apollo 13 astronaut's Jim Lovell wife , Marilyn Lovell .
LockAndLoadp 5 months ago
This drama is about as intense as anything I've ever seen. I've seen people who profess no interest in sci-fi or the space program completely transfixed by this movie. Yeah, the space sequences near then end are bit lame, but I have never been able to turn off Marooned once I start watching. Thanks for posting!
arijsky 1 year ago
2:10 Martin Caiden - Author of Marooned
pacific707 1 year ago
@pacific707 41 years since I first saw this movie and I NEVER thought of WHo that man was!!!!! He had been a newspaper reporter in his career and he is used appropriately here!!!!!
AblePumper 1 year ago
@pacific707 A-Ha! I thought that was him, but I didn't see him listed even as an uncredited cameo on IMDb. Thanks for confirming!
cljohnston108 2 months ago
go, go, go with Goodyear... lol pretty good movie..
irish89055 1 year ago
@itallxit2 stop spamming
kargaroc386 1 year ago
They don't take off in storms...
Craigthepope 1 year ago
@Craigthepope They waited until the eye passed over Florida, then they launched.
pacific707 1 year ago
@pacific707 That is so badass.
Craigthepope 1 year ago
@Craigthepope Apollo 12 launched in a storm, and was struck by lightning which followed the exhaust trail.
cljohnston108 6 months ago
Very underrated movie!
tuttt99 1 year ago
@tuttt99 Totally underrated. Yeah, the special effects are a little cheesy, but it's a really good dramatic story. Notice there is virtually no music used in the soundtrack. Very effective.
pacific707 1 year ago
@pacific707 Yeah, the VFX make me cringe (even though it won the Oscar for Visual Effects the year after 2001: A Space Odyssey), but all the scenes with Gregory Peck in Mission Control are awesome. And I've always loved how they made the comms audio sound totally realistic simply by recording the dialogue through the actual headsets, which neither "Apollo 13" or "From the Earth to the Moon" (or anybody else) did.
cljohnston108 2 months ago