# Oh my God. Capricorn One is the cheesiest movie ever! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617 "2005-06-16T22:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/21 "2005-06-17T15:50:55Z")
Sure, it’s cheesy, but it’s no **Collosus: The Forbin Project**! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/22 "2005-06-17T17:17:27Z")
> [@Leroy Brown](#): > > [In your heart, you know it’s flat!](http://webusers.physics.umn.edu/~duvernoi/flat.html)😃 Not only is it flat, [it’s square](http://www.rogermwilcox.name/square_earth.html)! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/23 "2005-06-17T18:12:27Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Not only is it flat, [it’s square](http://www.rogermwilcox.name/square_earth.html)! And I forgot to mention: That page mentions _Capricorn One_ explicitly in its FAQ section. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/24 "2005-06-17T18:36:51Z")
**Rodd Hill** , you are my new Favorite Doper[sup]TM[/sup]. I love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/25 "2005-06-17T19:45:21Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Man, back in the day when Elliot Gould could open a movie. > > Not only did I used to love this movie, I even had the novelisation. And read it. More than once. Written by Ron Goulart, one of the best non-science science fiction authors. Cheese drips off every page of his novels. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/26 "2005-06-18T01:27:26Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Finally, at the very end, heroic astronaut James Brolin shows up at his own funural to reveal the truth. They wanted a slow-mo of him running through the cemetary towards his non-widow. But they didn’t bother to overcrank the camera, no, they just played it back at half speed! OK, that’s not so bad when you’re doing 12 frames a second, but then on every subsequent cut, they slow it down more, until the last shot of the movie is James running towards the camera at a whopping four frames per second. > > Man, that was cheesy. According to the “bonus” (or should that be “bogus”) features on the DVD, it says that was done to emulate the look of astronauts walking on the Moon as a nod to the folks who actually believe that we didn’t go there. Mind you, if you watch [_For All Mankind_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780022319/104-0700088-7359140?v=glance) which uses the original masters of the Apollo footage (they took them out of nitrogen storage so they could be used for the film), you can **tell** that there’s no frickin’ way we could fake that. Show that movie on one TV and RotS on one right next to it, and the differences in the images are mind bogglingly obvious. Unless, of course, you think that Lucas is _deliberately_ “dumbing down” his FX as part of the conspiracy. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/27 "2005-06-18T02:40:55Z")
> [@](#): > > You forgot David “The bigger of the Lebowskis” Huddleston. And Brenda “Capricorn One” Vaccaro. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/28 "2005-06-18T04:14:03Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > And Brenda “Capricorn One” Vaccaro. I think you mean Brenda “Supergirl” Vaccaro. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/29 "2005-06-18T06:20:41Z")
I’ll say one thing, though, the— [spoiler]—Do I really need a spoiler space here? Well, just to be safe. Anyway, I thought the helicopter-biplane chase was just weird enough to be fun to watch. Change any part of it, and it probably would have just been annoyingly cheesy. I’m not saying it was _amazing_, as is, but it weren’t bad.[/spoiler] —And, apparently, NASA had planned to send three guys to Mars and back—a trip that would have taken…what, two years, at least?—in an off-the-shelf Apollo capsule. So, kind of like taking a two-year trip locked inside a Honda Civic, that never stopped. And you’re in there with two other guys. And you had to go to the bathroom by gluing a ziplock bag to your ass. And there’s no shower. (Maybe I’ll give the movie the benefit of the doubt and assume that there was supposed to be a larger “living quarters” section we never got to see. And that was never even used, I suppose.) —And…you don’t need a heat shield for landing on Mars. You just need an old Apollo lander. (Which didn’t even have singed foil on it’s base) And, even if the huge, expensive mission had gone perfectly, I guess it was only intended to bring back about 50 lbs. of samples back. —The head of NASA can have people “disappeared.” > [@friedo](#): > > Finally, at the very end, heroic astronaut James Brolin shows up at his own funural to reveal the truth. They wanted a slow-mo of him running through the cemetary towards his non-widow. But they didn’t bother to overcrank the camera, no, they just played it back at half speed! OK, that’s not so bad when you’re doing 12 frames a second, but then on every subsequent cut, they slow it down more, until the last shot of the movie is James running towards the camera at a whopping four frames per second. You know, usually I’d agree with you on that kind of “slow-mo,” but I actually thought it worked, here—with all the reporters at the funeral clicking away, it kind of suggests imagery of looking at the series of news photos that would have been taken at that event, if it had really happened. Or they just forgot to overcrank the camera. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/30 "2005-06-18T20:11:00Z")
I always wondered why MST did “Marooned” when this piece of dreck was just ripe for ridicule. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/31 "2005-06-18T20:24:48Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > I always wondered why MST did “Marooned” when this piece of dreck was just ripe for ridicule. 😕 It’s one thing to piss off Joe Don Baker and another to piss off OJ Simpson. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617/32 "2005-06-18T20:42:46Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > I always wondered why MST did “Marooned” when this piece of dreck was just ripe for ridicule. 😕 Actually, MST was a bit of a victim of their own success. When they started out, they could get tons of movies for next to nothing, but as the show became popular, people started charging more and more for the right to be humiliated by them. It may be that’s why they didn’t do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-capricorn-one-is-the-cheesiest-movie-ever/308617.md?page=1)