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Summary: Great cast, good story, but....
Review: I know that Hogland is happy to see a movie like this on a large screen and I think that the story was cleverly put toghether. It has great special effects, great cast, but.... Unfortunatelly the make up of male actors looks over the top and in certain scenes of the movie you hear this cheese music from a 50s sci-fi (I think it was from War of the Worlds). I think the director wanted to fuse many movies in one. But the blend didn't work as the music sometimes was irritating. Too much make up and cheese music ruins the whole experience. It's a pitty that I give 4 stars. It has lots of potential for 5 stars. I think the director is loosing the touch in making great movies. Overall, it's a great movie.
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Summary: This is really a fun movie
Review: The ratings and reviews are all over the scale. Therefore there must be something that someone is missing ether way. I think of this movie as a combination of:Contact (1997) ASIN: 0790736233 Only they kept on going. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ASIN: 0800198395 Martian style Rocketship X-M (1950) ASIN: 6304680694 with a message Sorry if you did not like this (snob) but it has good actors and I did not see any strings holding the spaceship up. The only thing that I found negative is the VHS version has 20 plus minutes of commercials on the front end. You forget what you put in by the time it starts (if you do not wander off) I will watch it again.
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Summary: A fine film, an okay buy
Review: I was pleasantly satisfied with this DVD. The cinemaphotograpy is good, the special effects captivating, and the music, wonderful. The writing is on the weak side, so the performances are not a strong as the actors are capable of delivering. Some have criticized this film and I'm not sure why. The crew(s) are not carrying flamethrowers or guns so there is no shoot-em-up scene, no stalking alien aboard ship, no mind-controlled sabateur ship member nor superior alien out to conquer humanity. There is also no gratuitous sex or nudity. In fact, what sexuality there is, is between very married couples. The characters make mistakes which cost them dearly...a reality in space exploration. When we finally encounter the Martian, the encounter is "virtual" and non-threatening. Esentially, Mission to Mars is real science fiction; a tale which evokes man's humanity within a scientific context. The DVD contains less than spectacular bonus materials (no matter what the box says) but it does have Spanish and French tracks which are essential in our household. Buy it and enjoy it.
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Summary: Watch it more than once
Review: I just watched it for the second time, and it was better than the first. The movie is very sterile for some reason the first time (maybe the clean high tech space station environment made everybody too 'robotic'). We all know that these people are very good at their craft, so watching again with an attitude of 'cut 'em some slack' made me appreciate it a little more. I also watched the 'making of' stuff included on the DVD. Seeing how much these people go through make your little 'critic' attitude kind of disappear...I would watch it again!
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Summary: The Best
Review: Mission To Mars is a great sci fi movie the special F.X are great but the music wasn't that great but was ok.
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Summary: The Film That Gets You Hyped Up For Nothing!
Review: This was the most disturbing movie I saw this year. The movie is about a crew that go's on a 2 year mission to Mars to study Mars and live there for awhile. While there something tradgic happens and all but one soul survives the incident. Soon another crew is asigned to save this pour soul from Mars. It takes about a year but the crew finaly land on Mars and find the man that was stranded there for a year (Am I the only one who see's something wrong with this picture?). While there they decide to find out what caused the incident, a chase that leads them too a giant head on Mars. Once inside the head they meet an alien that tells them that a couple billion years ago a meteor hit Mars and everyone left Mars and went to Earth to begin a new life. So then after hearing the story two of the members go home and one of them takes a ship to the black hole. This movie gets you hyped up about an ending that is so ridicules you can't bear to think you were acctualy getting into this movie! Being a big movie fan I must say this is one of the worste films I've seen! Although it kept me entertained for quite some time, it also got me hyped up in suspense for an ending was too embarrasing to be called an ending! I only recomend you see this just to say you saw it and that's it!
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Summary: Much better than expected
Review: I avoided this movie like the plague when it was in theatres because of the dismal reviews. I decided to rent it, and boy was I surprised. The movie is pretty good. Now I don't understand what the bad reviews are based on. Sure, this is the typical space movie where the focus is on a group of people who are heading out into unknown territory, and of course, something has to go wrong in space. But heck, that's what makes the movie interesting and suspenseful. But aside from not coming up with new unchartered territory, the story was actually good. You care about the people, and the special effects were good. As for the ending, I found that acceptable too. It basically set forth a theory that I've heard people propose ... and I think they were sane...or at least they think they are. Any way, after having rented it, I'm going to purchase the movie. It's one I'd like to watch again to see if I missed anything.
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Summary: Plan 9.
Review: Somebody please explain how they got fine actors like Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins to participate in this insipid bomb. The dialog is so dumb, corny and obvious it must be for young children. But the early scenes will frighten them. Sappy music, too. Its terrible when characters in a movie explain things that are obvious! Even when it ended, I sat on the couch, stunned at how lousy it was.
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Summary: As realistic as it gets
Review: With a full license from NASA to use both it's logo and it's Mars strategies, this movie is by far, the most realistic "lets go to Mars" film ever released. The technology is all scientifically feasible, the activities in space are based on current theoretical knowledge. Even landing and living on Mars is based on real knowledge. In fact, very little of this movie delves into the fantasy. Only the "big ending" really makes a leap from science to fiction (though, some theoriest would argue that the movies ending is also "possible"). In any case, I found this movie extremely entertaining and have added the DVD to my collection.
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Summary: Houston, We Have a Problem
Review: I've seen bad movies before, yes, and I've reviewed them on this web site, and most of the time my main criticism is the lack of good plotting. It's not that "Mission to Mars" is badly plotted, it's just that the plot doesn't become clear until ten minutes before the movie ends! And then we don't care, because we've already turned it off! Made thirty years too late, "Mission to Mars" is a poor man's "2001" just go sub Strauss for Van Halen. The actual idea for the film is quite good, but simply mangled in a difficult plot structure, bad script, and lack of purpose. We get character development at the places where we need storyline, and we get diatribe speeches and dragged out scenes where need editing. It's all in the wrong place, and the movie is a complete bust for all involved.
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