RE: Capricorn one
Michael > April 25th, 2024, 03:04 AM
I forgot OJ was in that movie but he didn't have a major role (it was basically James Brolin and Elliott Gould's movie). It got a huge build up in promotional advertising but I remember being disappointed when I watched it.
There was another movie around that time (within the space of a few years, I guess) where a man was recruited to play the role of an astronaut who had gone to Mars. He was added to the crew capsule after it splashed down. The real astronaut had died on Mars and NASA covered up the death.
For some reason, NASA was made out to be a villain in several of these movies during the 1970s. It kind of tarnished the organization's reputation and never made sense to me.