There’s a decent amount of detail, especially in brighter scenes, and colours come across well. The positives are that Capricorn One looks pretty fair in high definition. See the comments for more information on this. It seems to be a flaw confined only to my check disc, or rather "a small number of the initial shipment". I’ve since enquired with Network, and they couldn’t repeat the glitch. Fortunately, that was the only glitch that I saw in the movie. My heart sank a little at the waves of digital banding in the opening scene, as the sun rose behind a rocket on a launch gantry, but that was hardly as disappointing as the frame of excessive pixellation, a horrendous glitch at the 2:09 mark.
#CAPRICORN ONE REVIEWS 1080P#
It’s presented in 2.35:1 widescreen format at 1080p resolution on a single layer Blu-ray. This time out Capricorn One gets extra features and that brand-new transfer. Capricorn One previously had a barebones Blu-ray release from ITVDVD, which had something a mixed reception, although I haven’t seen it to compare. Picture I got a little excited when I read the blurb, promising a ‘brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements’. Now NASA has three astronauts that it doesn’t need anymore, and who would seriously compromise national security if they’re ever seen again. Except that at the last minute, after all the deception and the elaborate staging, the capsule burns up on re-entry. It will just be a simple matter of arranging a little course deviation in the unmanned capsule’s return, enough to get the astronauts inside before they can be picked up, and the world will be none the wiser.
So Kelloway plans to fake out the world with the aid of a television studio and a couple of props, and he’ll do whatever it takes to enlist the astronauts’ co-operation. But they can’t let this mission be seen to fail, they’re funding relies too much on a success that would potentially win the President another election. Only they cut one corner too many with the ship’s life support system, and got something that didn’t work. NASA has a financial imperative to live up to when it comes to funding, and that means cutting corners and going to the cheapest bidder. Dr James Kelloway, head of the mission eventually explains. Only at the last minute, they’re pulled out of the capsule, and whisked away quietly and discreetly in a private jet, the Capricorn One now on its way to Mars as an unmanned mission.
Charles Brubaker, Peter Willis and John Walker will be humanity’s first representatives to the red planet, and the intrepid astronauts have trained diligently for the moment that they will be launched on their four month voyage. Capricorn One is man’s first mission to Mars. And it’s not even about a mission to the moon. It’s a belief that grew out of the Watergate years, but in my mind, I don’t think the conspiracy theorists would have remained half as vocal, the theories half as long lived, were it not for this film, Capricorn One, which with great effectiveness showed just how and why such a hoax might be perpetrated. Some people still believe without a doubt that man has never walked on the moon, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Of all the hoaxes that the US government has been accused of, the moon landings have to be the most pervasive. It wasn’t long before mistrust was the natural state of affairs between the citizenry and their elected leaders, and everything was brought into question, not least those very same moon landings that were so celebrated a few years previously. The confidence and positivity that culminated with the Apollo moon-landings, when it was believed that the US could do no wrong, was shattered by Watergate, by Vietnam, and by those little cracks that started to appear in the facade of a perfect America. The hopeful and optimistic and forward looking United States of the 1950s and 60s had to undergo a protracted period of re-evaluation and consideration when it turned out that the actual President of those very same United States, was a liar, and in all likelihood, so was the administration. The real passion for government conspiracies began twenty years earlier, with the real life conspiracy that was Watergate. It’s hard to remember now that the X Files was late to the party, that in many ways it really just re-invigorated and re-invented what was then just a moribund genre. Introduction I’ve recently been working my way through the X Files, probably the first name that springs to mind when it comes to government conspiracies in entertainment.
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