Meteor (1979)

I just got done watching this movie and have to say that even though it is from the 1970s and I had heard that it wasn't very good I thought it was pretty decent. It has Sean Connery and Natalie Wood and of course there is a little bit of a romance between them. I think the special effects of the movie were good considering that there wasn't much to work with in the '70s (it sort of looked like "Star Wars" in some of the parts that dealt with space.)

As with most disaster movies New York City was destroyed. I am a big fan of disaster movies and just don't understand why they always seem to hit NYC or the East Coast of the United States. I guess these movies are American made and American audiences just wouldn't care if cities in the rest of the world were destroyed (on screen that is.)

I thought the relationship between the US and the USSR was shown just as it would have been in the late 1970s (it was the end of Detente - when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.) To have Natalie Wood play the role of a Soviet scientist/translator was pretty interesting considering that she was born Natalia Nikolaievna Zacharenko (Наталья Николаевна Захаренко in Russian) to two Russian parents. I could understand when she spoke Russian in the movie, but can not tell if she had an accent when she did or not.

This is the kind of movie that you can watch in two hours and not be completely bored while at the same time not be completely excited (over the special effects or script.) It is one of those movies you watch and not have to think much about - during or afterwards.