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Meteor Online Free-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/r4h5y -----------------------------------------The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading toward Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but soon discovers that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?Has a number of scenes that easily meet requirements to be spoofed by MST3K. Best example: Landau throws a child-like temper-tantrum in the control center, threatening not to come back until he has full control of the goings-on. Plus, a lot of the dialog is simplistic, cartoon-like, i.e. not very realistic at all. There are a number of fallacies and absurd situations: 1) Connery says the 5-mile meteor will have the power of 250,000,000 tons of TNT (or 250,000?); either way that would be an understatement. But okay; I'm nit-picking, 2) Less nit-pickingish is calling the potential impact (only!) ten times stronger than the strongest earthquake; it's more like a million times stronger, 3) It's impossible to redirect a meteor when it's only days away from impact (again, nit-picking, or maybe they didn't know that then - though I doubt that), 4) it isn't possible to destroy a meteor that big (and that fast) with a series of nuclear hits, 5) One of the space centers only discover a big one going towards NY when it's just minutes away from impact! What were they doing, sleeping? 6) And does it have to hit NY of all places? Why do these meteors and asteroids always aim for the well-known cities? 7) It should have been more devastating; they showed it's impact to be more like that of a huge earthquake than a meteor, 8) the absurdity that governments would actually think about politics when the future of the entire planet is at stake - and that they actually need convincing that warheads need to be used?! The film is also quite slow.The film is "yellowed" today, seen from 2005, definitely obsolete and naive, but, on the other hand, seen as part of the history of SF film, it is a kind of solid basic work in the "asteroid-collision" sub-genre.
Of course, we now know that the governments and astronomers of Europe and America are very seriously and really concerned about the danger of such collisions, and are doing something about that; but they were not, in 1979. This film, as a warning movie, did its job.
The tsunami warning (in the movie) maybe seemed funny to someone, then. We are not laughing now. So, THAT warning was right on the mark -- very true.
Neither is Russian-American friendly cooperation in trying to avert the asteroid so unlikely today, as it was in 1979, when communist dictatorship still stood in Moskva (Moscow).
Perhaps the most serious weakness of the entire sub-genre, the obviousness of the simple and clear imperative to launch nuclear missiles at the asteroid in the hope of diverting it, is clearly felt in this film: the characters have nothing else to do, except to travel by some path of their own to that basic conclusion. The sub-genre requires that the danger be seen, confronted, and done-something-about-if-possible. Hence, the plot line. Subsequent asteroid movies did not, could not, avoid this.
It is easy to ridicule "Meteor" as naïve. But, we must tell to all the environmentalists, social-problem-concerned people, etc, and tell them again and again, that if they want the flowers and birds and exotic fishes and good people and nice museums and ANYTHING to continue to exist on Earth, a strong and permanent, unblinking space defense against celestial-body collisions is urgently and very really needed, in our reality. Today. Or else, a very sudden and very hot crater the size of Europe might put a stop to us all.As the title implies, Meteor is a disaster movie about a meteor about to hit the Earth in seven days. The only way the American experts can think of to stop the meteor is by hitting it with their orbital nuclear missiles, dubbed Hercules, which are currently pointed at the USSR. The problem is that the combined power of the Hercules missiles is not powerful enough to stop the meteor, so the US wants to unite their Hercules missiles with the missiles from the USSR's secret Peter the Great project, which are currently pointed at the United States. An additional problem is that neither government wants the other government to know that they even have such missiles. Meteor is based on a screenplay by screenwriters Edmund H North and Stanley Mann. However, it was inspired by Project Icarus, a report written by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a hypothetical systems project. The report focused on the concept of using missiles to deflect an asteroid that might become threatening to Earth. The project was described in the June 1967 issue of Time magazine and published as a book, Project Icarus: an MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering, in 1968. The chain of events started when a never-seen-before comet appeared from the other side of the sun and passed through the asteroid belt, hitting a large asteroid known as Orpheus. Orpheus broke into chunks. Several of those chunks started on a trajectory course with the Earth. Most of the pieces were small, but one particular chunk was five miles wide and could do serious damage to the Earth if it hits. This chunk, now known as the Orpheus meteor is projected to hit the Earth in six days. The Russian missiles are launched. While waiting for the 20 minutes to pass until they can launch the American missiles, Dr Bradley (Sean Connery) receives a message from Sir Michael Hughes (Trevor Howard) in England informing him that another chunk of Orpheus has been spotted heading for New York. Moments after the American missiles are fired, the chunk hits New York, causing massive destruction and destroying the World Trade Center. Because the control center is located in an old subway shaft under the Bell System building, it is not completely destroyed, but the rubble traps the survivors underground. Bradley leads out the survivors through the subway tunnels, enduring muddy water from the East River and breaking through blocked tunnels. When they get almost to the top, they are able to listen to a news broadcast saying that the missiles were successful in breaking up the meteor, just as someone breaks through the last pile of rubble from the outside, freeing them all. In the final scene, Bradley and Harry Sherman (Karl Malden) are at the airport, seeing off Tatiana (Natalie Wood) and Dubov (Brian Keith). Tatiana kisses Bradley. As she boards the plane, Dubov says to her in Russian, "I think you'll come back one day." Tatiana replies in Russian, "Perhaps." Yes. Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zahkarenko to Russian immigrant parents) spoke fluent Russian, as did Brian Keith. 646f9e108c https://diigo.com/0d728k https://diigo.com/0d728j http://thecorner.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hindi-episode-1-74 http://citebuzz.com/m/feedback/view/Marakkar-Arabikadalinte-Simham-Download-Torrent https://hutobearse.ga/thur/Nazis-at-the-Center-of-the-Earth-full-movie-in-hindi-free-download-hd-1080p.html http://koyjafastver.guildwork.com/forum/threads/5ba2bb0d002aa82e0f4e4800-the-prey-full-movie-hd-1080p http://bogdequarti.rf.gd/the_Monsters_hindi_dubbed_free_download.pdf http://leeudutogme.blogsecreto.com/1537391362/ https://menonwalkbook.cf/thur/Daniel-and-Katerina-Will-Risk-a-Lot-Because-of-Their-Feelings-for-Each-Other-movie-in-hindi-free-download.html https://www.causes.com/posts/4974535
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