Mars, Man,...Mars

I just saw "Mission To Mars" and it was an awesome movie. If DooM3 takes place on Mars then I think they should make large outside marsian landscapes where there are mountans, hills and giant rocks. I would love to kill a few demons on the actual surface of Mars in an environment suit.

What? That movie sucked big time...

Damn straight, worst movie i ever seen. sucked complete ass

Last year was only the beginning, 2001 is probably gonna be the newbie year to end every single one , god help us all.

i saw mission to mars...i think a few months ago. i think it was mission to mars, it really sucked. was that where they go out to mars to inhabit it after they grew algae and made it habitable? i think i made a post about it. about how the knee deep in the dead sky looked like arth and that could be a reason. anywho. that movie did indeed suck. it was way too linear. give me star wars anyday...in fact thats what im watching now

MACVILEWHORE said:

Damn straight, worst movie i ever seen. sucked complete ass

Last year was only the beginning, 2001 is probably gonna be the newbie year to end every single one , god help us all.

Haven't seen it yet, was it really that bad?

Worse than Eraser?
Worse than End of Days?
Worse than Road Trip?
Worse than Scary Movie?

Jesus Christ, is it worse than Titanic?

Excuse me people, but you've all forgotten that Starwars Episode 1 is OFFICIALLY the worst film ever made that was intended to be good.

Plan 9 is the actual worst film, but then it was pretty much meant to be bad.

deadnail said:

Haven't seen it yet, was it really that bad?

Worse than Eraser?
Worse than End of Days?
Worse than Road Trip?
Worse than Scary Movie?

Jesus Christ, is it worse than Titanic?

Sweet Jebus YES! That movie was SHIT! Predictable, shallow and an overused-plot combined together to make a sickening melange of pure unadulterated crap!

Yes worse than Eraser
Yes worse than End of Days
Didn't see road trip (hey another Canadian eh deady)
Worse than Scary Movie

Titianic at least had its redeeming features: The guy hitting the propellor, Leonardo DiCraprio dying, everybody else dying, the guy shooting himself and saying "Sorry Cap!", various other humorous things and the pure pettyness-that-tried-to-be-serious of it all, at least made the movie funny! Mission to Mars was ASS!

S./

I agree with S to a certain extent - he's right in saying it was possibly one of the shittiest movies of the year, but End Of Days was good. Sure it's not Arnold blowing everything up, so what?? What's wrong having him play a real character? He's a fairly decent actor when he doesn't get stuck in ridiculous roles with cheesy dialogue, and this role is something like he's never done before, and he did a very good job with it. The movie's not all action; I think that's why it got bad reviews. That and the reviewers were probably die-hard Christians and this went against their beliefs and they blew it off picking at the story as an excuse. It was more like a mystery than anything else: you leave the the theatre feeling like you've woken up from a bad nightmare. The movie never slowed down from beginning to end; there was always something going on. I don't know how to describe it, it was just somehow entertaining. Lots of plot twists, good amount of death, humor, blood and gore, and some special effects for the finishing touch. Definately not like anything else I've seen. It had a feel to it. I like that.

Scary Movie... I can't even comment, it was so bad words can't describe it. But yeah, MTM is total shite. Like Scary Movie in space, but without the humor. MTM coulda been done in 15 minutes.

NiGHTMARE said:

Excuse me people, but you've all forgotten that Starwars Episode 1 is OFFICIALLY the worst film ever made that was intended to be good.

Plan 9 is the actual worst film, but then it was pretty much meant to be bad.

I'd put it at 2nd or 3rd worst. I don't think movies can get much worse than American Psycho. Or, on a different note, The Matrix. Episode 1 had an occasionally decent visual to enjoy, that set it apart from some of the other crap that was around. 'course, a lot of it's visuals were like high-res Sega Genesis games, but whatever. They put a tad of effort into it. I'd have to say Episode 1 comes 2nd to The Matrix in worst "intended-to-be-good" movies. American Psycho was crap, but a totally different genre so it's hard to say one is worse than the other.

I think the most ludicrous part of Mission to Mars was that it was supposed to be scientifically accurate (interviews with directors / stars / etc said that before it came out) but it ended up being less plausible than, say, Star Wars.

Normally I am not one to criticize science errors in movies since almost no sci-fi movie has not had a few, but the number and extent of the scientific impossibilities in M2M was just too much even for me.

A few of the really horrid errors:

* Jerry O'Connell manages to make a cute little double helix structure out of zero-g M&M's. This is all well and good, but the double-helix structure is slowly rotating, meaning that all the individual M&M's are somehow floating in a circular motion. Newton disproved this in the frigging 1600's and this movie still gets it wrong.

* When there's a leak in the fuel line, big icicles form and then break off. I will ignore the icicle formation error which is horribly wrong to begin with. Anyways, the icicles then float behind the ship and explode violently when the engines are ignited. Wait a minute... so you are telling me that these little icicles of floating frozen fuel are somehow so much more explosive than the contained, pressurized fuel mixture inside the rocket engines themself?

* The tent on the surface of the Mars was very obviously flapping in a strong breeze. The Martin atmosphere is like .1% the pressure of Earth's. If the tent's air was pressurized to anywhere the level of Earth's, it would be stretched tighter than a balloon, not lazily flopping around in the almost nonexistent Martian wind.

* When the astronauts are miraculously able to decode the message coming from the weird statue thing, they see maybe 6 or 7 base pairs of a double-helix DNA sequence on the computer screen. One of them shouts "that's human DNA!" OK, so by looking at something like 2 codons' worth of DNA you can immediately tell it's human? Even though our DNA is 99% the same as, say a chimp? And then in an even more horrific turn of events, one of them notices that a few base pairs "are missing" from the end of the DNA sequence. Oh, so obviously this was the last page of the DNA book and it was missing the very last few sequences. I mean, what the hell.

You've gotta be kidding me, one of them makes a spinning double helix out of fucking M&M's?! One of them spots a double helix and actually says, "Hey, that's HUMAN DNA?"

Oh Jesus, I'm so fucking glad I've never seen that movie and now I intend to keep it that way if it's that rediculous.

I don't know about you, but Lüt seems to dislike American Psycho. For some reason I liked it.

Hmm, nobody's mentioned Cube, Pi, Se7en, The Evil Dead Trilogy or LA Blue Girl. Whatta shame.

Lüt said:

I'd put it at 2nd or 3rd worst. I don't think movies can get much worse than American Psycho. Or, on a different note, The Matrix. Episode 1 had an occasionally decent visual to enjoy, that set it apart from some of the other crap that was around. 'course, a lot of it's visuals were like high-res Sega Genesis games, but whatever. They put a tad of effort into it. I'd have to say Episode 1 comes 2nd to The Matrix in worst "intended-to-be-good" movies. American Psycho was crap, but a totally different genre so it's hard to say one is worse than the other.

Whaddaya got against American Psycho? I actually enjoyed that. I was a bit drunk but I don't think that had much to do with it. End Of Days, however, was just the most clichéd and trite piece of shit I've seen in years.

Well, besides the Matrix. At least they were smart enough to realize that Keanu just doesn't know how to talk (Evidence? See all of his movies.) and kept his damn mouth shut with minimal lines.

Good job for Ahnold pronouncing milimeter too. Meelyamaleeter. Yeah, how many movies you shot guns in again? Just go with the faith, at least it doesn't give your face a synaptic seizure.

You fuckers are forgetting the South Park movie! How dare you! And Sixth Sense, and Stir of Echoes, and that rip-roaring adventure of boredom known as Star Whores Episode 1... oh wait, you didn't forget that one. Just answer the question then, bucko, what you got against American Psycho, aside that everyone shown in the movie I rooted to die before the end?

Hey man just rent M2M for laughs. You'll laugh your ass off!

Oh and Ling and others... check out this website that points out practically everything wrong with this movie:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/m2mreview.html

deadnail said:

Whaddaya got against American Psycho? I actually enjoyed that. I was a bit drunk but I don't think that had much to do with it. End Of Days, however, was just the most clichéd and trite piece of shit I've seen in years.

Well, besides the Matrix. At least they were smart enough to realize that Keanu just doesn't know how to talk (Evidence? See all of his movies.) and kept his damn mouth shut with minimal lines.

Good job for Ahnold pronouncing milimeter too. Meelyamaleeter. Yeah, how many movies you shot guns in again? Just go with the faith, at least it doesn't give your face a synaptic seizure.

You fuckers are forgetting the South Park movie! How dare you! And Sixth Sense, and Stir of Echoes, and that rip-roaring adventure of boredom known as Star Whores Episode 1... oh wait, you didn't forget that one. Just answer the question then, bucko, what you got against American Psycho, aside that everyone shown in the movie I rooted to die before the end?

American Psycho... call it the "The Matrix" of slashers. Primarily boring Wall Street drama with 5 minutes of slasher material thrown in to make up some type of a "plot". Basically, nothing happened in the movie. It didn't go anywhere, and hardly ended up anywhere. It had a few cool ideas, but like Trent and NIN, the director didn't know what to do with them or how to take them anywhere new/special. To me, it looked like somebody had seen a TV show about a serial killer and said "ME TOO! ME TOO!!" Except for that short scene in the end where he kills that woman and runs around and shoots another 6 or so people, it just plain sucked. You figure if it's called American Psycho, there's gonna be a little action happening. Lots of incomplete and irrelevant back-and-forth crap and loads of filler to span about one half-hour evening sitcom's-worth of material over 90 minutes. Watching the movie, you can practically hear the director thinking "Oh wait, I just realized, this phone conversation is boring. Hey, why don't I just throw a porn video on in the background, that'll make it exciting! YEAH!! NOW EVERYBODY WILL LOVE MY MOVIE!!" I blame part of this on mis-advertising - they pawn it off as a movie that would live up to it's title. If they had sold it as a Wall Street drama movie with a tinsy tiny twist, I might have thought different. It COULD have broken some grounds, but obviously the director had no clue what they were doing. Why can't somebody just make a damn movie that fully delves into the subject they are advertising?? Why tease us with slight hints of the subject matter, making us believe the good stuff is going to come, when it isn't?? If you're gonna portray a psycho, go deep! Don't just hit around the bushes! I'd recommend at least one person who's an expert in psychology or serial killers to read over the script and point out how it sucks. You ever see when somebody who's never had any experience in anything tries to do it? They might think they've done something original, but to anybody who's remotely experienced in that field, they'll be a frickin idiot (like a musician who's never heard rock music "invent" it - for example, imagine if Elvis released his first record this week: it could be a super-heavy breakthough to people who've never heard rock, but for the average forum-goer here, it would provide hours of laughter if he sold himself off as "The King Of Rock".) That's pretty much what AS is for me. Like most modern entertainment: coulda been something - wasn't.

I know there is a book. I'm not blaming anything the movie screwed up on the author, but after seeing the movie, I have no interest in the book.

All structures on Mars must be sphpere-like, monumental (probobly like in Q2...), really hard ones (its possible to made some of them in caves...) couse on the scape of planet there are dust hurricanes and tornados which are smashes everything (space marine gone in 60 seconds with a wind :) ...

Lüt said:

Not for what it was, but for what it could have been.

I think they *REALLY* undersold Fight Club too, seeing the ads I just thought it was a stupid Van Damme style fighting movie... boy was I wrong... and DAMN am I glad I watched it when it got rented over here! :)

deadnail said:

I think they *REALLY* undersold Fight Club too,

Damn right Dude. Fight Club rules big time.. Watch it, if you haven't seen it yet. Good story...