it's like we watched two different movies. amateurish? what did you expect? lady macbeth? this is sci-fi pop corn movie, not broadway

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Bad is the image even the "dvd" have a quality poorer than my old VCR

I have to agree with all three posters on this thread. This is one bad result of a production when on paper it had everything going for it.

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I noticed just how old it looks. I actually went to see this when it came out but it looks like something made 15 years before.

Don't presume to speak for everyone. Sure, we didn't duck and cover, but there were still plenty of us who couldn't be sure if someone in the Soviet Union wouldn't get an itchy trigger finger one day. You may have been a cynic, but we knew the Cold War was still on at the time. Just because it might be "someone else's fault" wouldn't have made us any less dead, especially those of us in the biggest cities in the US, who knew we were the prime targets.

Dr_Esqueleto: "You think the Cold War was irrelevant? This was made before the Gorbachev thaw. Nuclear holocaust was something very possible, not that it isn't anymore. Yes, in 2013 the Cold War seems a dull plot point but it was a reality then and its legacy is still far from irrelevant."
Friend, when I watched Meteor for the first time in the early '80s, I didn't have an ever-lovin' clue how the cold war would be regarded over thirty years later.
When the movie came out wasn't the 1950s. We didn't hide under our desks from nuclear bomb threats. We were the cynical generation after the anti-establishment late '60s and '70s.
If a bomb was dropped on us, it was going to be someone else's fault.

You think the Cold War was irrelevant? This was made before the Gorbachev thaw. Nuclear holocaust was something very possible, not that it isn't anymore. Yes, in 2013 the Cold War seems a dull plot point but it was a reality then and its legacy is still far from irrelevant.
Hell on Frisco Bay!

If they cut even half of the slow moving shots of the missiles in space, they could've shaved like 15 mins off the film. Talk about dragging stuff out. LoL

The miniature effects didn't sink this. The misguided plot and over-emphasis on somethng irrelevant as the cold war lingering is what made it dull and uninteresting.
That saddled with some idea that the music and then the models would really intensify things just made all that bickering completely unnecessary.
And tossing in little things like the Siberian family, the Japanese family and the ski bunny as tho the viewers would now go OMG, then turn wide-eyed back to Landau, Malden and Keith arguing and Connery and Wood flirting and think what? Oh, how romantic!
Definitely one odd puppy.