“Capricorn One” is streaming now, $3.99 on YouTube, Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play and Hulu. helicopters, best of all - asked me the other day: “What’s the middlest movie you’ve ever seen?” I now have my definitive, unshakable answer to his question, so weirdly in tune with the in-between state we find ourselves in now. My young “Capricorn One” viewing companion, who (like me) enjoyed the climactic aerial dogfight sequence - biplane vs. Also, he made a lot of movies that were a lot worse. Hyams made some diverting junk (“The Relic,” a gory-ass monster movie set in the Field Museum.) and some OK star-driven jalopies (“Running Scared,” “Outland”). It’s an event horizon of a monologue and by the time it’s over, you can’t believe the coronavirus hasn’t left yet.ĥ. Our movie database will be updated daily. Is it a long speech? Dear reader, “long” doesn’t quite measure it. 123chill is a free movie streaming website where you can watch movies and TV shows absolutely for free without sign up. Early in the movie, Hal Holbrook (as the paranoid NASA administrator who sets the fake-out in motion) unloads an expository speech on Brolin (as one of the astronauts the administrator needs to convince to go along with his insane ruse). Simpson and Sam Waterston play Brolin’s fellow astronauts, targeted by the Deep State henchmen once they cut and run, like in an O.J. Their contracts must’ve read: “You will be playing a screwball romantic comedy couple in an unidentified conspiracy thriller to be named later.” O.J. Elliott Gould and Karen Black are required to be in an entirely different movie than everybody else. Telly Savalas (then super-hot thanks to “Kojak,” here playing a Texas crop duster for hire) seems to be sampling every existing dialect in the history of world languages.ģ. James Brolin kills a snake and then cuts it open and eats it! This is pure Gordon Ramsay, only he doesn’t play the snake.Ģ. Our 10-year-old lockdown housemate and I saw “Capricorn One” (1977) the other night, because he’d learned a few things about Apollo 11 conspiracy theories, and he liked the “Capricorn One” trailer’s insistence on not holding anything back, plotwise. In high-school chorus, we even sang the love theme from “The Domino Principle,” a deathless little number called “Some Day Soon.” Medium-grade thrillers, or lower, were a major part of my teenage moviegoing. Here’s the third installment in the Tribune Coronavirus Overdue Film Festival.įor the lockdown life of me, I have no earthly excuse to have missed writer-director Peter Hyams’ medium-grade thriller about a fake NASA mission to Mars and James Brolin eating raw snake. But why not make room for some crud along with the classics? And what about the vast in-between list of titles, neither classics nor crud, exactly, but the stuff of so many hours of our collective moviegoing lives? Catching up with the ones you’ve managed to skip, by choice or by chance, shouldn’t only be a matter of scratching one received classic after another, though that’s a fine place to start.
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