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This film made me so effing mad!

posted 10 years ago by tamtle
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I love a good sci-fi, and i'm willing to sit through most of them. but i got so mad sitting through this one. I got so mad because all the astronauts were freaking idiots. the screenwriters didn't do their research. you have to be the best of the best, the smartest of the smart, to be selected for a space mission. instead, all these astronauts were acting like pansies with an IQ of a negative! in today's world, with SARS, anthrax, legionella, ebola, heck, even the common cold, every scientist in every facility knows about containment and quarantine. don't bring any *beep* into my lab/into my building if you have disappeared for awhile, can't communicate, or look like a zombie. and if a crewmember shows up looking like death, then don't try to save it or talk sense to it, just contain it first, then run tests and ask questions. these astronauts were constantly saying, "What just happened?", "Why is it doing that?", "What's going on here?!". it just made me so effing mad that they could be that stupid. even the ship that came to take them home, it just opened the cargo door to let them in. nobody does that. i blame the director and writers. when you disregard the viewer's intelligence, you totally lose.

no wonder it didn't make any money and got such a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes. all the best acting can't save a stupid character. I feel a little better now.

[–] terryperring104 9 years ago

TOTALLY agree. The only excuse for this stupidity would be if somehow their brains were all affected. But this isn't the case. Its just non-scientific people making scientific movies.

For similar irritation: see 'Prometheus'

[–] mail-924 9 years ago

I know the main character even mentions it in the film... that he's supposed to be the best of the best and able to handle the situation! So stupid

Cardboard Box is the Future.

[–] bluefox01 8 years ago

same reaction here!

After 20 min of watching I already wanted to punch everyone in the face for stupidity. And they hadn't even discovered the microbes yet. Just for continuously ignoring the elephant in the room in every situation.

Guys, if you make a zombie movie, at least add some humor... That much you could have learned from the Evil Dead.

[–] bluefox01 8 years ago

having said that, I'd like to add the positive sides: The cast and the visuals. Vehicles, station, suits are very well designed. Overall the visuals are very believable. I just noticed the low budget compared to other recent Mars movies.
For that, they did great. And I like all the actors. Most of them were new to me, except Liev Schreiber, Olivia Williams and Elias Koteas.

[–] yankee1924-1 8 years ago

Annoyed me too, if it was just one or two cases of stupidity I could accept that but again and again and again, even when they clearly understood what was going on they still kept being amazingly stupid, bickering, and seemingly ignoring all common sense."Why are you tying him up, he's dead leave him alone" etc, they've seen several members of their damn crew rise from the dead and turn into highly dangerous killing machines, why the hell would anyone even begin to question the idea tying up another crew member who had died!

[–] rc-108 8 years ago

it had some decent parts..
Live Schreiber was ok.

but I agree with op.