The ship got up out of commission at the worst time from a solar flare.
The concept of using hefty bags to softening their fall proved a bad one.
That wacky space robot was left in the attack mode.
The stuff sent up in advance was all damaged.
They also forgot to pack their American Express card. lol
shareI wonder if NASA just wanted to get rid of them.
shareDamn, you weren't paying attention at all during this movie, were you?
Solar flare damaged the ship. Hefy bags saved their lives. Robot was damaged during the landing and put into attack mode. Stuff sent up in advance was only damaged after the fact, due to the bugs.
Excuses, excuses! I thought they were supposed to prepare for contingencies like those anyway.
shareSolar flares take time to travel from sun to planets and they are always predicted before they happen. As soon as solar flare was detected from earth, the ground control would warn them and they would put their solar shields up. There is no way the flare would hit them without any warning.
That aside, the movie wasn't bad at all.. It is entertaining, and mostly accurate as far as science go. Although I did not understand why did it take 40 minutes for the communication to reach earth from mars orbiter. That too did not make any sense.
My job is to watch stupid movies and complain about them on IMDBshare
It's been awhile since I watched this. Was it 40 minutes one way or round trip?
The time it takes for radio waves to travel between orbiting bodies in a solar system depends on their locations in their personal orbits and, therefore, in relation to one another. For Mars-Earth communication the least amount of time for this is about 4 minutes and the most is about 24 minutes. That's why I asked if the 40 minute reference was round trip or not because round trip the actual delay times would be equal to about 40 minutes(give or take depending on the actual distance Mars is from Earth). Hell, even communication between Earth and the Moon has a several second delay and that's just a "stone's throw away" in terms of astronomical distances. lol
It'll be like Luke Duke and the other guy.
Really?
Yeah.
NO!
It seems almost every trip to Mars seems to be poorly organised!
Its that man again!!
12 billion people dependent on this mission and they send this group of morons?
For that matter, they send only one ship and one crew to "find out what happened"?
They don't have any probes orbiting and observing Mars?
They never bothered to check Mars with earthbound telescopes to detect the high concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere?
Why does AMEE insist on "guerrilla tactics" to kill the crew? Seems to me it should be a simple matter to just kill them outright.
I'll admit it's a slick looking film and the special effects are generally very good. I'm just disappointed with the juvenile writing on display in this, and many other big budget space films. I'm a firm believer that a movie can be intelligent while still being accessible to mass audiences.
Why on Earth send a robot with a military kill mode anyway? It's completely insane to send a robot that will turn and kill it's owners if they try to turn it off. Why would the military want such a robot?
shareWhy does the current military use drones to attack when they can be reprogrammed?
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A little off topic but did you hear the the Russians took control of one of our drones and landed it safely? That was around just s few months ago.
If true that would concern me even more than "The most poorly organized trip to Mars in movie history"
Scary, but reprogramming robots is less scary than reprogramming people.
shareI will not, by action or inaction, allow a human to come to harm.
This should be programmed into ANY robot, but particularly one sent on a peaceful exploration mission. As other posters have said, why the heck would AMEE have a "combat" mode at all?!
The ship got up out of commission at the worst time from a solar flare.
The concept of using hefty bags to softening their fall proved a bad one.
That wacky space robot was left in the attack mode.
The stuff sent up in advance was all damaged.