Marooned
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Movie Reviews of Marooned
Movie Review: Marooned-in my theater
Summary: 2 Stars
Marooned was a poor movie at best having a minimal story, weak acting and dialogue, poor special effects, and no musical score to speak of. Rocky Jones Space Ranger, the TV space opera of the 50's for kids, had far better special effects. The drawn out ending was actually painful to sit through and watching the three astronauts go bouncing off the walls was not an interesting or credible story.
It is amazing that this film received any awards for special effects as the screen effects in Marooned featured suspended plastic models against simple and often very out of scale backgrounds. The crude models were not even airbrushed and reflected light off their specular points in the very unrealistic lighting. How this effort warranted an academy award when compared to 2001 is criminal. In Hollywood anything is possible as great work can be totally ignored and mediocre work praised.
I first saw this film in 1969 with a close friend at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. I went to see it in high hopes of a good film experience with fresh memories of 2001 and knowledge of what can be done with good sci-fi film. This was not to be. I think we both agreed that this film was pretty bad.
Movie Review: when critics once wrote about science fiction as silliness, movies like this only fed them fodder
Summary: 2 Stars
a generation after "destination moon", and a year after "2001", this was the type of garbage that hollywood still was turning out and branding as "science fiction". obviously made to capitalize on that years moon landing (but before the next years eerily similar apollo 13 mission), this cannot be a bright spot on the resumes of actors like gregory peck or gene hackman or richard crenna (as for david janssen, hey, who cares?). rent some buster crabbe for a better plot and better effects.
Movie Review: Just how bad is it?
Summary: 1 Stars
Well, it's very slow. The movie actually has no real music. Just a electric hum. The special effects are very weak compared to 2001. Hard to believe both won Oscars for special effects. In widescreen, the special effects actually get worse. The story seems to take forever. And now lets start on the acting. Gregory Peck is featureless, Richard Crenna is dry and don't get me started on Gene Hackman. I love astronaut films like 2001, The Right Stuff and Apollo 13, but this movie left me bored. Are we sure that this was directed by John Sturges, director of the Great Escape, Magnificent Seven and Bad Day at Black Rock?Kudos to MST3K for lampooning this movie (shown as Space Travelers). Now I'll watch it that way.