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Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
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Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:01:52 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Duane Hess writes:
> This is somewhat off-topic for this group, but it is space related.
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> I went to see Mission to Mars last night and found it to be one of the worst
> movies I've seen in a LONG time. The story line was generic and predictable.
> The dialogue was cheesy. Even more so than Starship Troopers. There were
> several EVA scenes where the characters weren't tethered to the ship, even
> though they were in orbit around Mars with no hope of a rescue should anything
> happen.
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> 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.
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> In short, save your money on this one. I sure wish I had my $8 back.
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> -Duane
Hmm... I kinda expected this exact outcome, from the very first preview. It
just gave off plain old bad vibe's. But what really got to me was NASA's role
in the movie. NASA, in my eye's, is a very sad sight indeed. NASA's plight to
propel mankind into the void of space is like a walrus trying to climb a
ladder, it's pretty well impossible. Considering fuel consumption and cost of
rocket launches alone, the billions of tax dollars being wasted on such a
hopeless...
Oh well, to much rambling... On a final thought, go to your local library
and pick up a copy of "The Millennial Project" by Marshall T. Savage. The ideas
outlined in this book make to much sense, and while your at it, check out
http://www.millennial.org/ It's interesting, but not as interesting as the
book. (Hmm... this is getting a little to off topic, why am I even posting it
at all?)
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| (...) ideas (...) Would that be "How to colonize the Universe in 7 easy steps"? At least I think it was 7 steps. I have it and have read it. I have a couple of issues with what he has to say, but overall I would have to agree with you. I wish NASA (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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| 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 movies I've seen in a LONG time. The story line was generic and predictable. The dialogue was cheesy. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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