It should be better known. It is an obscure discarded dreg of a film but it presses so many cautionary buttons.
The script is indistinguishable from any mid-fifties Hollywood scifi B-movie written forty years before than the film's production. The dialog is embarrassing. Practically no scene passes without an obligatory Stars and Stripes and a USA logo on every visible surface. The plot is simply disgusting from start to finish, there is no attempt at realism, no passing nod to the laws of physics. I have absolutely no idea why an sane human would have wanted this movie made in the first place.
Directed by Brian De Palma who made Carrie, The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible, so it's mainstream. Produced for Disney.
Watch it and squirm from start to finish.
And did I mention how dire the wooden acting is?
Mission to Mars (movie, 2000)
Mission to Mars (movie, 2000)
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When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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Re: Mission to Mars (movie, 2000)
I liked Carrie. 
Re: Mission to Mars (movie, 2000)
Unsurprisingly I have seen none of the three named. They are unsavory.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
Re: Mission to Mars (movie, 2000)
Carrie was interesting. I preferred the book.
Untouchables was entertaining, if you like shoot 'em ups. The most memorable scene involved a baby carriage.
Mission: Impossible a bunch of stunts, loosely tied to a forgettable plot.
I'd watch the Mars thing, if I could do so without paying for it. Amazon wants 4 bucks. Meh.
Untouchables was entertaining, if you like shoot 'em ups. The most memorable scene involved a baby carriage.
Mission: Impossible a bunch of stunts, loosely tied to a forgettable plot.
I'd watch the Mars thing, if I could do so without paying for it. Amazon wants 4 bucks. Meh.
The home of the soul is the Open Road.
- DH Lawrence
- DH Lawrence