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.
2001?
Apollo 13?
Transformers
The Soderbergh Solaris?
Alien?
Aliens?
Tron.
sphere?
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?
No one’s guessed it yet.
Air Force One?
space camp?
Gonna go way out on a limb and say Executive Decision.
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.)
deep impact/armageddon?
Space Camp?
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess it’s Star Wars: A New Hope.
Still no winner.
Brazil?
red planet/the hole?
Monster Inc. ?
Flight Plan?
Live free or die hard
Pitch Black?
Clayj got it (sorry): it’s from *Mission to Mars.*
What can I say? I’m a Mars geek.
Then I suppose I´m a Mars geek too, ´cause I liked it too !
Red Planet, instead, was dreadful !!!
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!)
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.
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.
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 =)
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.