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Summary: Not Too Bad
Review: I thought the film was actually thought provoking at times, Gary Sinise and Don Cheadle give pretty good performances. Sure the dialogue was a little corny at times, but Costner had some real cheesy lines in the Untouchables, which was a great film, his "Lets do some good!" and when he shoots the thug and yells "Are you Deaf?" One cool aspect in this film is "The Face" which in reality, was seen from Voyager in 1976. So the writers made a nice tie-in with an actual phenomenon. Anyway I thought the film was ok, and if you watch the extras you'll see all the work that was put in for it.
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Summary: The movie that 40,000 feet couldn't help...
Review: I saw this movie on a trip to Japan. The batteries in my walkman died and my extra batteries were in my suitcase which was checked. The laptop batteries just died as well, so I had no other choice but to watch this movie. That being said, I would have rather poked my out with a hot poker than watch this movie.
It starts out with the astronaut cliches that were done much better on The Right Stuff and then there was the requisite accident and Tim Robbins waving and saying, "No, no please don't rescue me. I want out of this movie now.". Then there were the other scenes and a scene reminiscent of the scene from 2001, but not as good.
One would think that a movie with Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise couldn't be bad, but man.....
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Summary: The horror...the horror....
Review: Nothing good can be said about this movie....It is cliche, bland...I can go on and on telling you how bad it is but why waste your time and mine?
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: "Mission to Mars" sets the bar for science fiction movies to an all-time high! From the opening party sequence to the non lift-off sequence to Mars. Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) is in top form leading his squad of astronauts on a mission to find life on Mars. Even though the year is 2020, the movie feels like a 1950's B-movie. The movie is pure intellect! The squad (Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Tim Robbins and the MIA Don Cheadle). A strange face was formed in the sand and water was found on Mars! The explanation for the human species was dumbfounding! What an extravagant piece of filmmaking! Brian De Palma tries to pull a Stanley Kubrick and does better! The CGI is breathtaking, watch the aliens transform into dinosaurs and then people! What an impressive, captivating, enthralling motion picture! Everybody needs to experience this masterpiece!
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Summary: They don't get much worse than this!
Review: The title above says it all...this is just a terrible movie! I'm a sci-fi nut who will watch almost anything. This movie, however? Don't waste your time!
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: I sat there in the theater on opening day with my mouth open, thinking, over and over again, "They didn't just say that, did they?"This movie had practically EVERY SINGLE SF cliche in it. I like the part of the Editorial Review (here on the Amazon page for the movie) that says if the movie was meant for 10 year olds who've never seen an SF film, then it succeeded. This is true. The reason it is true is because NOTHING WAS ORIGINAL except the very very very end, and also one neat scene with the ship explosively igniting its own frozen fuel. But that was it. And the dialogue, oh, the dialogue!! I literally spoke (out loud in the theater, on opening night) the lines with the character when she said, "He wanted you to have this." Oh yikes. Also, and this really bugged me. They travel more than a YEAR to effect a rescue of their comrade, A YEAR!!, and the first thing they do when they land is erect a flag. A FLAG???!! They wandered around for minutes of screen time before even attempting to search for their friend. Ridiculous. Avoid this movie. Unless you're a 10 year old who's never seen a science fiction film before.
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Summary: Gaggingly awful
Review: Truly this must be a contender for one of the worst films of all time. I've seen it 3 times, and I still can't believe how unbelievably horrible it is. I won't dignify the film by attempting to summarize it again - others have done this well enough already. What astonishes me is how some people actually give this disaster 4 or 5 stars. I feel it my beholden duty to try and bring down the average. I would give it 0 stars if there was such a category but there isn't.
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Summary: Good thought film.
Review: Like Jurrassic Park, this film requires some thinking and background knowledge on the part of the viewer. I really like films that challenge my thinking. The slow moving plot and explainatary dialog are helpful in that process. Like Jurrasic Park, emotions are not ignored, giving it far more realism. My dad and I really enjoy this film. The only thing is, that the end never really is explained much.
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Summary: Mystery Science Theater Here We Come!
Review: I rented this DVD to watch with my son. We are both MST3000 fans and ended up watching this classic send-up of the Sci-fi genre in the same vein. Much funnier than AIRPLANE or AIRPLANE II. This film is a guaranteed howler. Who could forget the numerous parodic references to Kubrik, Spielberg, Lucas, etc.? Side-splitting line deliveries from Senise, Robbins, et. al. This movie makes SPACEBALLS look like a Greek tragedy. This movie cries out to be in the permanent collection of anyone who loves great satire. More bang for the buck by far than BATTLEFIELD EARTH. Just thinking about this movie makes it difficult to type, my sides are shaking so violently. A true classic, in every sense. Come to think of it, the crew of MST couldn't possibly top the lines as they are delivered. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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Summary: This movie was pretty good.
Review: I'd have to rate both Mission to Mars and Red Planet with four stars, although I did like Red Planet slightly better. I can recommend these two movies to anyone who likes things to do with astronomy and space, and has a vivid imagination about how things could be on another planet, as I do.
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