Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Eric Stevenson I admit that reviewing this movie based solely on the short version that I saw on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" isn't being fair. The full version is over two hours long while this version was only 80 minutes long. I guess it makes sense to give a score of 5, right in the middle. It truly was interesting to see such a lesser known film that won an Oscar. It just didn't come off as that good to me. It's at least nice to see such talented actors like Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman. They're just okay.I guess everything is done in a pretty realistic way. In 2013, we saw an infinitely better Oscar winning movie about being stuck in space, "Gravity". This just had too many scenes of just talking and the atmosphere wasn't that interesting. Well, maybe it just hasn't aged well. I admit it was kind of lame when everyone survived at the end. Still, it's a lot better than most films of its kind. It just seemed mediocre to me, so I wouldn't recommend it. **

spiritof67 Gee, I'm really sorry this movie seemed "slow" to some viewers, who were probably holding a remote. This is NOT a "TV" movie; it is a theater movie, and a big screen theater at that. So all those who "commented" on it but only saw it on a TV in a pan-and-scan version, I have news for you - you didn't see the real movie. Sorry, dudes..As for MAROONED, it was a valiant and mostly factual attempt to tell the story about marooned astronauts back when they were world superstars and EVERYONE knew their names, unlike now. On top of that, there had not only been a successful moon landing just before the release of the film but after that there was an ACTUAL "Marooned" with Apollo 13 - and the studio rereleased the film to more acclaim. So not to beat up on anyone, but the second contextual point is "You had to be there." And a lot of you obviously weren't.The acting performances are uniformly excellent, from Gregory Peck giving a typically "I'm there" stint to the actresses who do more than just back up their husbands. There is even a glint of the kind of showboating we now take as normal during the event.Prescient, really. The striving for a solution to the problem is done first scientifically and then in the style of the Old America: we'll try the best way we can with the best person for the job, danger notwithstanding. And I would add that this is the very last movie I saw in a theater where when the solution to the problem was found, the audience (who had been dead silent for at least ten minutes) burst into spontaneous applause and cheering. Seen that lately in a theater or in your living room? Didn't think so.So, again, probably the finest fact-based movie on space faring in its time; unfortunately since then the notoriety of astronauts has disappeared, the romance and bravura of space travel as well, and as such a movie like this probably seems hokey to new viewers. Then again,some people think early Picassos are just scribbles..

Aaron1375 I watched this film on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and I must say it is one of the better films they have ever riffed on. In fact, the actual Marooned version of the film is probably even better as the version of the film I viewed was a repackage done by the same people who did "Cave Dwellers" and "Pod People", two other films that Mystery Science Theater riffed and two films much more deserving of being riffed I might add. Those two films literally featured two completely unrelated films during their credit sequences. Here at least they did not do that, but they definitely did not do a good job reediting the film or redesigning it. I wish they would list cut of the film as its own film as that way the actual academy award winning film does not have to take hits from this inferior reselling. Still, even with the riffs and with the inferior distributor some of the film still shines through. Granted, it is not really my type of film, I remember watching films such as these as a child and being bored, but there were times in the later portion of the film that I was on the edge of my seat and that happens rarely in a Mystery Science Theater episode! The story has three guys rocketed into space to stay at a space station for a number of months. Already, I was thinking to myself that something had to have been cut as the whole space thing seemed rushed. I would think there would be a bit more set up, but not here. The crew begins to have trouble so they abort their plan to stay even longer in the space station and they enter their rocket; however, their rocket has a malfunction so they end up Marooned! Oh wait, here they are space travelers...sorry. The ground crew tries to figure a way to get them down before they run out of oxygen and time is running out very quickly! This film made for an okay episode of the show. The film was a bit slow and at times boring, but it never gets as boring as the time MST riffed "Hamlet"! That still ranks as my least favorite episode of all time. The best jokes are not even really jokes, but rather Crow's (Trace) impersonation of Gregory Peck. Like I said, once they got to a certain point in the film where they were trying to decide the breathing situation the film actually turned pretty good! Then the film ends in such an anti-climatic fashion that I was left wondering if the bottom of this film had a bit more to it, just as I was left wondering if a lot of set up was taken out of the first portion of the film. This would not have been the gang of the Satellite of Love's doing, but rather the distributor.So this film had its moments and while some may feel it should not have been featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, I think it was fair considering I am guessing a lot of the problems of the film were not created by them, but rather the people who changed up the credit sequence and tried to resell the same film. How the movie company let a film that won an academy award get into the hands of the company that usually took foreign films and added strange elements into the credits get their hands on it is beyond me. Still, if you watch this film with the gang, the performances of the cast and elements of the story still shine through at times.

Theo Robertson A seventh month manned space mission by NASA is cut short by two months because the three astronauts show signs of losing their mental and physical faculties . On their return to Earth the astronauts retro rockets on the module fail meaning their trapped in space . The hierarchy of NASA have to find a way of returning their astronauts to Earth because not only the astronauts die but will probably mean the end of the American space program I was somewhat surprised this was broadcast on the TCM channel simply down to the fact that it wasn't a Western ! One wonders if it was shown to tie in with GRAVITY about to sweep all the technical awards at the Oscars on Sunday , if not pick up Oscar for Best Picture . Directed by John Sturges who gave us some classic American pictures of the 1960s and written by Martin Caidin who wrote the source novel that THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN was based upon , MAROONED was released 18 months after 2001 was released and you have to keep this in context when watching it in 2013 . The shot lengths are rather long and self congratulatory compared to what we would get nowadays the effects are impressive for the time and one wonders if the production team might considered making the film in 3-D if it was fashionable in 1969 ? From a dramatic point of view you can see it's obviously based upon scientific fact and not science fiction . MAROONED deserves great credit for this but again this might be a turn off for a modern day audience as mission control calmly talk to the astronauts in capsule about the dire situation who reply to mission control in equally calm tones . Anyone who wanted to travel in to space in the early years of the program was specially selected because of their psychological strength so this fact based but it does seem strange that what is being said is " Well chaps things are looking bad and if they don't work you'll slowly suffocate to death thousand of miles out in in space " to which the reply " Okay try and not let this happen mission control " as if the characters are discussing the menu in a restaurant . That said it is preferable than watching Ben Affleck and other Hollywood pretty boys throwing objects about screaming " Get me in to a damn space rocket " and other mock heroics MAROONED is a film from another era when humanity just achieved the greatest endeavor in human history by landing men on the Moon and safely returning them back to Earth . This achievement soon became quickly forgotten but this film is a time capsule of sorts celebrating the endeavor of space travel and the dangers involved and should be watched with this in mind