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Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:51:26 GMT
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That would be a *huge* category, wouldn't it? Let's see; the 'Terminator'
movies, FreeJack... umm... Okay, I'm dry. Anyone else?

-Cheese

In lugnet.space, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.space, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
It wasn't worth seeing it on the big screen -- the graphics were definitely
sub-par when compared with recent movies.  :-(  Not to mention that the wet
cardboard characterizations lacked the depth normally seen in typical
blockbuster-wannabe sci-fi movies.  [...]

That reminds me... :)  A few years back, there was this really cheesy (IMHO)
sci-fi movie called _Time Runner_ -- starred Mark Hamill and Rae Dawn Chong.

Didn't catch it in the theatre, but the viddy box had this to say:

  "A cut above most time travel cyborg thrillers."

I knew I had to rent it when I couldn't stop laughing as I imagined a section
in some video rental store labeled "Time Travel Cyborg Thrillers."  Boy, what
a big genre that is!

--Todd



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  Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
 
(...) Well, The Matrix has people wired for computer interface travelling from a percieved past to an actual present, does that count? -Adam (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
 
(...) pumping a dry well, but: the original 'Millenium' was a time-travel movie with cyborgs everywhere in the future, does that count? (this movie was Chris Carter's debut, based on a John Varley short story, and elements of it surfaced in X-Files (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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