Sure, it’s cheesy, but it’s no Collosus: The Forbin Project!
Not only is it flat, it’s square!
And I forgot to mention: That page mentions Capricorn One explicitly in its FAQ section.
Rodd Hill, you are my new Favorite Doper[sup]TM[/sup]. I love that movie.
Written by Ron Goulart, one of the best non-science science fiction authors. Cheese drips off every page of his novels.
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 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:
And Brenda “Capricorn One” Vaccaro.
I think you mean Brenda “Supergirl” Vaccaro.
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.”
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:
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. 
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.