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Colin Wiseley
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 123
From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-22-2000 04:27 PM
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Originally posted by Chad Souder:
What I don't understand is why such established actors like Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise would participate in such a waste. I had such high respects for them after the likes of Shawshank, Forest G., etc. Its a disappointment to see their faces on such a pathetic work.
Here's a direct quote from Gary Sinise that was in Boxoffice magazine: "It was a kind of role that I haven't had the opportunity to do," Sinise tells BOXOFFICE from his production offices in Los Angeles. "It's a very courageous part. What Jim McConnell does in the movie is very strong, and a very positive thing happens to him in the film....This was a lead in a big studio film that I thought could be really great." My guess is there was also a pretty fat paycheck. ------------------
Colin Wiseley
Lyric Theatre
Blacksburg, VA
www.thelyric.com
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Dwayne Caldwell
Master Film Handler
Posts: 323
From: Rockwall, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-12-2000 10:49 PM
There is a connection between Wild Wild West and Mission to Mars, and its the writers Jim and John Thomas. Which is strange because these two were responsible for Executive Decision which was a kick ass film. Graham Yost was another contributing writer to the blunder known as Mission to Mars. And he was the scribe that brought us Speed and Broken Arrow. Ted Tally was credited as co-screenwriter in the trailer to Mission to Mars, but not the film. Whether or not he lent his talents to the project, he also has turned out a good script with his adaptation of Silence of the Lambs. With these writers assigned to this work of bad fiction one can't help but think either A: Too many cooks spoil the broth. (Ex. Wild Wild West with its six writers) B:The writers are all losing their touch. Or the more likely C: Brian DePalma. Why Hollywood gives this man more directing projects is completely baffling. It is directors like DePalma and Emmerich (Mel Gibson, what the hell are you thinking!?) that give young aspiring film directors hope in breaking into an impossible
field of work. DePalma takes a group of talented actors and turns them into a group of lame characters rescuing another group of worthless characters (of which only one is alive thank god) in a technological backdrop that is hardly utilized. Also not utilized is the characters' intelligences. Case in point, when was the self-preservation aspect of the characters going to kick in when the sand tunnel defense system started snaking around menacingly? Did it not occur to them to seek shelter first, THEN stare at the anomaly from afar? Another case in point, the attempted rescue of Tim Robbins (I cared so much for the characters, I forgot their names) by Connie Nielsen. When Nielsen attempts to reel Robbins in but runs out of steel cable Robbins tells her to abort because she won't have enough fuel to return them both to the command and service module. And even the instrumentation states: Point of no return. A must have message for any astronaut who can't figure out that anything below 50% is the point of no return. I may not have a degree in Celestial Mechanics, but I'm pretty sure that she could have gotten to him and then burned off what little left was in her tanks to get them headed for the module and let inertia take care of the rest as they are still out in space. And if I'm wrong and they were close enough to have to fight off Mars' gravitational field, well then I'm sorry. I just killed two more worthless characters. Gary Sinise is the crappist I've ever seen him on the screen. Was it just me, or did he have too much eye liner on? The plot was lame and the editing jumpy. And as for the special effects... well the alien was supposed to be holographic, so that's why she looked so cartoonish. Pathetic. All this wasted money with a bad score thrown in to make the joke complete. Ennio Morricone should stick to composing for Westerns 'cause he sucks at just about everything else. The only non-Western score he made that was even worth a damn (not to mention the only Ennio score I possess) was for John Carpenter's The Thing. And that's funny, because I really thought Carpenter composed that himself. He must have coached Ennio closely. But getting back to the review at hand, I think I'll end this diatribe by stating that Mission to Mars is by far the worst film of 2000 it has been my displeasure to see. And I can't believe I just wasted this much time and space on the website for this movie. I guess I'm just venting.------------------
The man with the magic hands.
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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-31-2001 01:37 AM
You know what would have been great?Its been aver a year since i saw this movie, so the detailsof this scene are pretty hazy, but im sure youll understand what im getting at. the scene when tim robbins gets stuck too far away from the ship above the martian atmosphere and his wife tries to go out and svae him and the only way he can stop her is by killing himself by taking of his spacemask? well, you can see things burning up in the martian atmosphere, so how about when she turns around, we see tim robbins burn up just like all the other space scrap. that would have been funny.
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that was SO cheezy. A team of semi-trained monkeys could have written a better script.
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