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3 comments:
Sadly, the Best Space Movies list is... sad. Where
in the world are Outland and First Men in the Moon?
Spaceballs, Space Jam and SpaceCamp apparently made
the list only because they have the word 'Space' in
their titles.
I vote that from now on, all "xx Best xx of all time"
lists be completed by people whose minimum age is 50.
Of course then in this case we would had Barbarella,
Queen of Outer Space and Santa Clause Conquers the
Martians, but hey, I could live with that.
Spaceballs, Space Jam and SpaceCamp? Seriously?
I was looking for 1969's "Marooned", based on the 1964 Martin Caidin book of the same name. Although the book was originally written as fiction during the early, single-man 'Project Mercury' days of American space exploration, the film — which was released in December 1969, less than five months after the first successful lunar landing — had its plot updated to incorporate the current three-man 'Apollo' spacecraft. And even though it was originally a fictional film about three astronauts marooned in orbit as the result of a catastrophic failure of the spacecraft's engine, it proved to be eerily prophetic with regard to the actual events that occurred barely four months later in April 1970 on board the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
Oh, I recall that movie well! I even remember reading the marquee out loud as the family drove past (I was a kid) "Marooned with Gregory Peck" and my Dad says, "The old maid's dream!"
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