Talk:Capricorn One

message: ‘Capricorn One’ Relaunches Grounded Career of Gould, The Press-Courier, PC The Weekly Magazine of Ventura County [looks like Sunday supplement for Saturday paper], June 24, 1978, page 5.
 ‘Capricorn One’ a space-age thriller, The Miami News, Tuesday, June 6, 1978, 2C.
and a slew of other newspaper sources.
http://www.google.com/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&tbm=nws&gl=us&as_epq=Capricorn%20One&as_occt=any&as_drrb=b&as_mindate=07%2F01%2F1977&as_maxdate=12%2F31%2F1978&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A07%2F01%2F1977%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1978&authuser=0
:I guess just goes to show how easy it is to get the date wrong.  FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 19:47, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This film was released in Japan six months earlier than in the US, so there is no problem.49.97.107.93 (talk) 06:15, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Fun fact, the original story from 1954, 'Appointment in Tomorrow', is subtitled 'Poor Superman'. Cold war between East and West, the West created a secret agency tasked with professionally disinforming the voters in order to prove the technological superiority of the Western ideology.  The director is convinved that eventually the west will actually deliver what it could not achieve at the time the bureau has to deceive the voters in believing what the West could achieve. And, voila, 'Capricorn One' won the race against 'Superman'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0A:A548:D02E:0:1507:D61D:BB73:8709 (talk) 22:33, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  We have the date wrong.  Capricorn One opened May or June 1978 

message: while being pursued by black helicopters
The helicopters are green not black, and the link to the conspiracy theory article seems irrelevant. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 15:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I notice that this issue was also brought up previously in 2010, so I've gone ahead and changed the article's text to remove the "black" and the link. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 05:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helicopters aren't black 

message: I'd like to modify the plot section to remove some slightly tedious details. Is that OK? For example, I would make
At an unspecified time,[1] Capricorn One—the first manned mission to Mars—is on the launch pad. NASA authorities such as Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) realize, too late, that a faulty life-support system supplied by a lowest-bid NASA contractor will kill the astronauts during the flight. As the manned space program needs a success to continue, they find themselves forced to falsify the landing rather than cancel the mission.
into something like
Capricorn One—the first manned mission to Mars—is about to launch. NASA authorities realize, too late, that a faulty life-support system will kill the astronauts during the flight. As the manned space program needs a success to continue, they falsify the landing rather than cancel the mission.
I think that it's better to be concise and remove the details. If nobody replies, I'll proceed with the work. I'd also like to add information about the film's performance at the box office, etc. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 09:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and done this. Hope that's OK. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 02:11, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  OK to simplify the plot section? 

message: Is there a reason we cannot include the cover of Bart Sibrel's DVD cover? The Capricorn One Mars set is obviously featured on the cover and its appearance there is mentioned in the final section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.111.13.126 (talk) 00:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bart Sibrel's video