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He also did Robocop and Starship Troopers, and Hollow Man. All of them had nude women in them somewhere. Any other director can make a movie without nude women walking around.
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This might have been reported previously, but according to this report: http://www.testpattern.net/scoops/scoops.html the Sci-Fi Channel is developing Red Mars as a miniseries. They're also doing Battlestar Galactica and Joe Haldeman's "Forever War" (!)
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I liked both Robocop and Total Recall. They had a vivid spectrum of humanity and anti-corporate messge which I always really respond to. I didn't think the violence was too excessive. (puppet Quato on the other hand...)
Mission to Mars could have been a good movie if only they'd cut off that last bit there with the aliens and wrote a real ending.
Red Planet was utter shite except they part where they all think they are going to asphyxiate. The robot looked cool, but was totally preposterous. They get extra negative points by wasting both Terrence Stamp (unforgivable) and Carrie Anne Moss.
The Martian Chronicles are pretty amazing. It's been awhile, but I just remember feeling so alien watching them.
Ghosts of Mars I have not seen, but I'm definitely curious. I like NH a lot, and Ice Cube is often fun.
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I liked the idea of "Total Recall" (which was from a Phillip K. Dick story), but I thought it didn't need all the violence. It is supposed to be a science-fiction movie, not "Rambo Goes to Mars."
Mission to Mars was just bad, I'm sorry. Gary Sinise has to make a good movie soon that does not have Tom Hanks... And that ending...what was it about?
Ice Cube is about the only rapper that can act, and he was good in "Three Kings," but the "I ain't goin' back" line from the trailer and the idea of zombie Martians or whatever makes "Ghosts of Mars" look like a bad horror flick set on a far-out planet.
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I saw Red Planet a while after it came to video. I didn't think it was too bad. Could've been better. The homicidal psycho robot was cool. I wish I had a robot to kill people I don't like.
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I didn't care too much for Total Recall. I suppose that's just because I'm not a big Arnold fan. Yeah, there was a lot of violence, but I seem to recall that it was marketed more as an action film than a sci-fi film. Total Recall did have some interesting parts to it (like the generally-not-good conditions of living on Mars and the tax on air -- both elements were solid to me).
I saw Red Planet not too many weeks ago. I found it to be enjoyable, but there were some plot holes. The biggest one to me is that they spent all that time on the surface of Mars, yet their sophisticated instruments never picked up the breathable atmosphere. I'll say this, though: the effects were good. I really liked that aspect of the movie. The ending I didn't like at all, though. "So what happens to the overpopulation of Earth now?" is my final thought for the movie.
Also, I'd like to add that Paul Verhoeven does the occasional bit of male nudity. There was Casper Van Diem's rear end in Starship Troopers (IMDb says that he directed the shower scene in the nude to make the actors more comfortable ) and there was some shots of the little Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man.
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The two Mars movies I've always wanted to see are "The Princess of Mars" (or other ER Burroughs Mars stories) and War of the Worlds. IIRC Disney was thinking of making Princess of Mars back in the 1940s. Imagine if they hired Frazetta today and made that thing.
A full-out steampunk version of War of the Worlds set properly in Victorian London would also be very cool. A version was announced last year to be set in modern-day Seattle, but it got put off by 9/11. I think a modern day version would just be Independence Day again, so what's the point? If I could see a burning HMS Thunder Child ramming a Martian War Machine I might die happy.
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Masao: Your wish is Paramount's Command. I doubt the Mars Society will jizz itself over any advancement of the public's knowledge of Mars and its hardhitting explanation of a multistage interplanetary rocket and the delicate process of picking a landing site. But it could be quite fun.
Steaking of the whole steampunk thing, this, bar none, has the coolest potential of any comic-based film in development at the moment.
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Just watched Red Planet; quite good I thought, effect were good, ending was a bit unsatisfactory. Also, why was the ship not protected against radiation storms?
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