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Red Planet vs Ghosts of Mars

Red Planet
11 (84.6%)
Ghosts of mars
2 (15.4%)

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Voting closed: June 12, 2011, 02:00:53 am

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Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« on: June 05, 2011, 02:00:53 am »
Red Planet (2000)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753/

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Ghosts of mars (2001) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228333/


Here we have Val Kilmer against Ice T in the naughty mars mayhem films. Get it guys, 2000 and 2001 are the Naughtys?

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2011, 02:04:54 am »
Ghosts of Mars? Really?  :o
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2011, 02:44:52 am »
LOL, Really. I didn't studder, your ears must have Flapped. :D :D :D

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2011, 03:44:36 am »
I loved Ghosts of Mars.  It had enough plot holes to drive a (insert large vehicle) through, but it was fun.  Red Planet suffered from it being one of a spate of Mars movies on TV and in theatres at the same time.  Plus I think the plot has been done lots of times before.
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2011, 05:08:55 pm »
Red Planet reminded me some of the older Robinson Caruso on the moon. Ghost of mars was just fun for the most part.

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2011, 05:19:50 pm »
will probably catch the shows in the future, but haven't seen so can't vote.  :'(
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2011, 05:27:05 pm »
I've never seen either of them, but anything with Ice T in it is a quality film. ;)

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2011, 02:32:40 am »
He was a cool character, but the show was definitely not a quality film.  Liked the soundtrack though.

Unrelated, Pirates of the Carribean On Stranger Tides is the best movie in the series.
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2011, 02:44:06 am »
I never saw the second, and I didn't like Red Planet, so I abstain, courteously.
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Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go. (2nd try at it.)
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2011, 01:01:29 am »
I have no idea what happened to the original poll, so we can try it again. I apoligize for any comments lost.

Ghosts of Mars (2001)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228333/

vs.

Red Planet (2000)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753/

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2011, 01:56:22 am »
Found your thread Stephen.
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2011, 03:28:44 am »
Awesome man. Thanks.

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2011, 09:46:56 am »
I dug Red Planet enough to vote for it. I found the issues with the robot pretty interesting and very sci fi enjoyable.

I thought trinity did a pretty good job too in it.


I simply cannot sit through more than five minutes of Ghosts of Mars without changing the channel - it seems so booooooooring - am I missing something?

Doesn't help that I absolutely can't take Ice Cube in space seriously.

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2011, 11:22:30 am »
I'd rather watch either of these than "Mars Attacks".  Wonder if the thread took a detour home?
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2011, 04:01:26 pm »
I'd rather watch either of these than "Mars Attacks".  Wonder if the thread took a detour home?

Mars Attacks was a very good laugh.  I haven't met a girl who liked it and I haven't met a guy who didn't. Comedy / satire flick.
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2011, 05:56:44 pm »
I know several women who urved Mars Attacks, including my wife.

She found a doll of the Martian that went "Ack, ack ack ack, ack" when you pressed it and sent to another of these Martian-loving women, in Canada. When it got there, turns out customs was curious as to what that sound coming from the box was and had opened it. Gotta stop the invasion somehow, I guess

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2011, 09:59:07 pm »
Red Planet fan here realism matters to some.
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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2011, 07:29:40 pm »
Red Planet reminded me some of the older Robinson Caruso on the moon.

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2011, 08:55:22 pm »
That's the one Nemesis. I still catch it every so often on TCM or the other old fart TV channels.

Heh, I even saw The Green Slime a few weeks ago! A Japanese film, with American actors, and an Itallian bomb shell, with Jemi Hendrix clone music.

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Re: Sci FI Poll 16 Off to Mars we go.
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2011, 06:50:42 pm »
I haven't seen it since I was a kid.  Can't remember any details beyond him having a monkey.
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