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Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 04:09:37 GMT
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Kevin Loch wrote:
In lugnet.space, Duane Hess writes:
This is somewhat off-topic for this group, but it is space related.

I went to see Mission to Mars last night and found it to be one of the worst

I saw it last night too, and from a "movie" perspective I have to agree
with you.

I haven't seen it yet, but it's on my list of movies to see...


The final straw for me was also an EVA rescue scene. One character had run his
pack out of fuel and managed to turn himself into a Martian Satellite. The
rescuing character, after expending half of her fuel trying to reach him, was
commanded to stop at about the midway point otherwise she wouldn't have enough
fuel to get back to the ship. This bothered me very much, because it would
have taken the same amount of fuel to reach the victim and turn around as it
would have to stop midway and turn around. The only difference being the
ammount of time that a person would have to wait.


That really bothered me too! And anyone else that passed high school
physics!

how many SF movies have you seen lately that DIDN'T fail high school
physics, as you say?  I'm at the point now that I don't expect them to
make sense in our universe laws - I just extend my "suspension of
disbelief" to the physics part as well.

:)

Dan



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(...) Yeah, I'd have to agree here. I usually suspend my disbelief in regards to physics when seeing SciFi movies. OTOH, I felt the movie was just a bit unbalanced. They spent so much time getting to Mars, and then it was just wrapped up in 20 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) I saw it last night too, and from a "movie" perspective I have to agree with you. (...) That really bothered me too! And anyone else that passed high school physics! The significant thing about this movie is that it is the first major (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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