screencap Friday: what the flick? #35
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment -- no fair hogging all the guesses.
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posted by MailmanClavin (Fri Sep 05 08, 2:36PM)
2001?
posted by Ryan (Fri Sep 05 08, 2:40PM)
Apollo 13?
posted by Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn (Fri Sep 05 08, 3:32PM)
Transformers
posted by Joanne (Fri Sep 05 08, 4:14PM)
The Soderbergh Solaris?
posted by Hdj (Fri Sep 05 08, 5:29PM)
Alien?
posted by Clayj (Fri Sep 05 08, 6:32PM)
I am pretty sure it's none of the above.
Is it Event Horizon?
posted by emag42380 (Fri Sep 05 08, 10:42PM)
Aliens?
posted by Pen Dragon (Sat Sep 06 08, 1:16AM)
Tron.
posted by Doa766 (Sat Sep 06 08, 3:00AM)
sphere?
posted by Anne-Kari (Sat Sep 06 08, 6:56PM)
Well I'm tempted to guess Ben Hur, because I swore I would do so every week until it happened to be that...
But what the hell. Serenity?
posted by MaryAnn (Sat Sep 06 08, 7:28PM)
No one's guessed it yet.
posted by Alex Knapp (Sat Sep 06 08, 7:32PM)
Air Force One?
posted by Hdj (Sat Sep 06 08, 7:37PM)
space camp?
posted by Ryan (Sat Sep 06 08, 8:01PM)
Gonna go way out on a limb and say Executive Decision.
posted by Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn (Sat Sep 06 08, 10:01PM)
Snakes on a Plane?
(This was, in fact, my first guess, but I discounted it. But, since no one else has guessed correctly (yet), I thought I would give it a try.)
posted by Clayj (Sat Sep 06 08, 11:06PM)
Could it possibly be Sunshine? I swear I have seen these lockers before, but I can't for the life of me remember exactly where.
posted by Doa766 (Sun Sep 07 08, 2:25AM)
deep impact/armageddon?
posted by Cate (Sun Sep 07 08, 11:45AM)
Space Camp?
posted by Tonio Kruger (Sun Sep 07 08, 2:26PM)
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's Star Wars: A New Hope.
posted by MaryAnn (Sun Sep 07 08, 6:45PM)
Still no winner.
posted by Eric (Sun Sep 07 08, 9:44PM)
Brazil?
posted by Clayj (Sun Sep 07 08, 10:48PM)
Please tell me this is not from Mission to Mars.
posted by Doa766 (Mon Sep 08 08, 3:11AM)
red planet/the hole?
posted by kusanagi (Mon Sep 08 08, 3:15AM)
Monster Inc. ?
posted by Jan Willem (Mon Sep 08 08, 6:35AM)
Flight Plan?
posted by Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn (Mon Sep 08 08, 1:21PM)
Live free or die hard
posted by Bill (Mon Sep 08 08, 1:30PM)
Pitch Black?
posted by MaryAnn (Mon Sep 08 08, 2:50PM)
Clayj got it (sorry): it's from *Mission to Mars.*
posted by Clayj (Mon Sep 08 08, 6:09PM)
Gah. I can't believe you own that piece of shit movie, MaryAnn.
I knew I'd seen it recently, on Starz or something. I went to see it when it first came out (that was the Mars year for Hollywood... we also got Red Planet that year). I knew it was going to be a trainwreck going in, but had to see how bad for myself. I didn't disappoint in its abysmalness. (Abysmalosity? Abysmaliciousness?) Occasionally I'll watch it, or parts of it, if it's on one of the premium movie channels just to remind myself of how talented people can just totally fuck up under the right (or wrong) circumstances.
So now I have won this contest twice, once for a really great movie (Children of Men) and once for an utter piece of drek. There is truly balance in the Force. :-)
posted by MaryAnn (Mon Sep 08 08, 6:14PM)
What can I say? I'm a Mars geek.
posted by kusanagi (Tue Sep 09 08, 3:37AM)
Then I suppose I´m a Mars geek too, ´cause I liked it too !
Red Planet, instead, was dreadful !!!
posted by Clayj (Tue Sep 09 08, 8:03AM)
Are you all watching the movie with the sound turned off or something? Because each time I hear that awful organ-music soundtrack and bad trying-to-sound-like-2001 dialogue, part of me just wants to run into the bathroom and throw up.
Red Planet wasn't spectacular, and in fact it has some bad science (Burchenal, a geneticist, says the wrong letters for nucleotides, and then proceeds to call something a nematode that clearly isn't -- not to mention, an atmosphere couldn't occur in the way the movie describes), but it was light-years better than Mission to Mars.
posted by doa766 (Wed Sep 10 08, 6:22PM)
mision to mars is oneof the worst movies of all time
when they get to the space station don cheadle's character attacks them with a bat because he think they're aliens (he does this having seen them already!)
posted by Clayj (Wed Sep 10 08, 9:56PM)
DOA, thanks. For a minute there I thought I was taking crazy pills or something. ;-)
posted by Ryan (Wed Sep 10 08, 10:38PM)
Mission to Mars was one of the most terrible movies ever made. It's really difficult to cast Don Cheadle, Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, and Connie Nielson and end up with JERRY O'CONNELL being the most likeable actor in the film.
But man, that ending with the alien and all the sci-fi psychobabble...ugh. Set science fiction back at least five years.
I do remember though, the car ride back after watching it was a lot of fun, because I went to see it with a friend, and another friend (who hadn't seen it) picked us up...and we had to describe it to her...and we could barely talk we were laughing so hard recounting the plot.
posted by Nathan (Thu Sep 11 08, 1:49AM)
I think Mission to Mars was the first movie at which I laughed out loud at the product placement... I think it was M&Ms floating around in zero-g or something.
posted by Hdj (Thu Sep 11 08, 7:30PM)
At Epcot center there's actually a ride based on the mission to mars movie where Gary Sinise narrates the mission. You can choose how intense you want your launch to be theirs green for an easy flight and yellow for really intense. I did yellow =)
posted by Clayj (Thu Sep 11 08, 8:30PM)
Trust Disney to pimp one of their own movies (it was from Touchstone Pictures) at EPCOT.
Now, if you want to talk some serious Mars, whatever happened to the Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars miniseries, based off Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy of novels, that was supposed to be coming to the SciFi Channel? They announced it something like 7 years ago. Those books have some real science and if done right, it would be epic.
posted by Ryan (Thu Sep 11 08, 10:11PM)
Red Mars was a great book, one of the best I have ever read, but I think you would need a Peter Jackson-esque effort to really do justice to the scope of that book. Think how much time and how many characters it spans...I think that would be a tall order.
I didn't like Blue/Green Mars as much (though they were both well written) but I think maybe they would be the starting point, and use the events of Red Mars as a sort of backdrop for the series.
posted by MaryAnn (Thu Sep 11 08, 10:52PM)
Ah, but there's the problem with Sci Fi Channel right there: they hardly ever do it right...