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Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
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Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:12:20 GMT
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Was it as bad as "Armageddon" (or, "One Problem After Another", OR "Will
NOTHING Ever Go Right?")?
-Cheese
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
> 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.
>
> -Duane
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| (...) Hmm... I liked Armageddon, you knew that was fake, I think Mission to Mars (MTM?) just tried to combine reality with fiction too much, and it ended up being a really unenjoyable movie. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (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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