User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/Metor

Meteor is a 1979 science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, and starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. The film's premise, which follows a group of scientists struggling with Cold War politics after an asteroid is detected to be on a collision course with Earth, was inspired by a 1967 MIT report Project Icarus.

Plot
When the United States detects a gigantic meteor moving towards Earth, their only hope to save mankind is to use an illegal nuclear weapon satellite. However, they soon realize that they cannot do it alone.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The models of the satellites and missiles look more like toys, and it's obvious when you can actually see their screws.
 * 2) It was made to cash-in on the disaster film craze of the time as well as with the advent of Star Wars.
 * 3) The so-called "meteor" is described as being five-miles long so technically it's an asteroid, regardless of the film's title and what the characters refer to it as.
 * 4) It reuses a lot of stock footage which is blatantly obvious, including from the disaster film Avalanche which was released the year before.
 * 5) Tons of plot-holes, and factual errors everywhere.
 * 6) *The meteoroid is headed for Earth at about 35,000 miles an hour, and it will hit Earth in a week. At 35,000 miles an hour, an object would take at least six months to travel from the asteroid belt to Earth orbit.
 * 7) *The asteroid belt is shown as being crowded with asteroids. In fact, asteroids in the belt are so far apart that one can fly right through the area without even seeing an asteroid.
 * 8) *There's a plothole where the earlier an asteroid's path is changed, the less force that is needed to change its orbit. It is simply absurd that they wouldn't have launched as soon as possible.
 * 9) The acting is very poor, especially for Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, etc..

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The soundtrack that was composed by Laurence Rosenthal is decent.
 * 1) The soundtrack that was composed by Laurence Rosenthal is decent.

Reception
Despite a relatively large and aggressive advertising campaign, the film received negative reviews by critics and audiences alike, but was nonetheless nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound. The film currently holds a rating of only 5% on the online film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews.