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2 missing scenes might have improved this....(SPOILERS)

posted 7 years ago by moviethrush
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1. Maybe a warm, more reconciling scene between the boy and his mother's brother...especially just before the boys's return to Mars, with the brother sharing some memories of the kid's mom with him. Instead of having the guy merely used as a plot twist prop, then promptly forgotten about....

2. They spend the second half of the film yanking on your heartstrings over the romance .....then brush it off with perfunctory, rushed goodbye between the boy and girl...(the way it's staged, you'd think she was just someone who lent him bus money, instead of the love of his life...) They seem to imply at the end that she's in astronaut training.....so why not, for the sake of the audience whose tears these filmmakers strenuously begged for, throw in a 'One Year Later' scene and have a grand huggy-smoochy Martian reunion for the boy and girl? The way it's filmed now, the movie says the kid's return to Mars with his father is enough of an emotionally satisfying gesture. Sorry....but that didn't do it for me.....call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to see the kids back together, romping through the Martian dust, maybe racing each other in the dune buggies.....

[–] monstermayhem32 7 years ago

I do agree it would have been nice if garner and his uncle had some sort of reconciliation. I also wanted Tulsa and him back together even though the ending with nasa training implied they would get back together one day.

[–] sogniitaliani 7 years ago

I think another good scene they needed to add in was Oldman's character mentioning something about Gardner being his son. I'm sorry but the reveal at the end, which I saw coming, felt like it was thrown in at the last minute. In the beginning, I would have liked a line thrown out there with him belting "That is my son up there!" or something! Maybe instead of him running away from the program or giving up he was removed for complicating the mission as he was very much at fault for it too. I just felt there was no indication throughout the film about Oldman being the father.

I also would have liked if they had slowed down instead of rushing. I feel like we should have taken a moment and slowed down and experienced earth through Gardner's eyes. The scenes felt quite brief.

One last scene I would've loved is at the end, having the world realize he exists! This part was missed big time! He could've had a bunch of people communicating with him!! I feel like he is still very much isolated on Mars despite talking with Tulsa and Gugino.

[–] chilone (17266) 5 years ago

I honestly think all of your ideas are bad.

[–] lostschizophrenic 7 years ago

All of these things! All the things mentioned in the OP and comments thus far--I enjoyed this film, but yeah...

[–] creatorof2002 7 years ago

Oldman being the father was a pretty obvious twist that you can figure out just from the preview, in fact another poster here did.

The guy being his uncle seemed a tad odd, he must have had a very close relationship with his sister. The thing with the rings, they were not romantic, just friendship?

I think its strange that the rest of the world seemed to have little or no knowledge about the Mars mission. When he said he was from Mars she acted almost like NOBODY had been there. I do not think that was a top secret mission.

The ending made me so sad, that they can never be together, though her doing astronaut training implies she will at least visit him. It was such a bittersweet ending.

I wonder how she avoided a mountain of CRIMINAL CHARGES for all the cars and money etc she stole?

[–] lemner (190) 7 years ago

The ring may have been exchanged with his father rather than the brother.

As far as her not believing him, he was too young to be an astronaut, and he had already changed his story once.

[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 7 years ago

I agree that those scenes would help.

The uncle made little-to-no sense. The video hinted at romance, not family love. And why did he explode on the poor kid? Why couldn't he just say, "Hey, I'm not your father. Sarah was my sister. I didn't know you existed, but let's talk"?

It would definitely have been nice to show a brief scene a few years later with Tulsa coming to Mars.

[–] chilone (17266) 5 years ago

He exploded because he was completely blindsided. His sister died 16 years prior and he had no idea the she had a child. Too much for him to process.

[–] lemner (190) 7 years ago

Agree an uncle scene would have been nice. The movie could only be so long, however, and I feel the focus on his getting to experience Earth was the best.