I agree with you as well; I was trying to point out why, by-in-large, Mission to Mars FAILED, and The Matrix succeeded. In terms of acting, writing, and camerawork, Matrix had lower-calibre actors, two boys who had only written one movie previously, and the two boys' cameraman as the cinematographer; Mission had top-notch actors, some of whom have been nominated for major awards, what should have been a sure-fire writer, and I'm sure, one of the highest-paid cinematographers in the industry.
The difference is that Matrix had a mix that WORKED; Mission was like a formula that had been put into a magic Hollywood computer (which I'm SURE exists, or some of these directors should be put to death for creating such pieces of over-hyped DUNG,) and which spit out...ummm...THAT.
Just goes to show that chemistry is EVERYTHING, formula is NOTHING. (Ack! Kinda like Sprite!)
Hmm, funny you should mention Armageddon, because it was MUCH better than Mission to a Horrible 2 Hours-and I'd rather have knitting needles piercing my eyes than watch that flag-waving tear-jerking piece of crap again!!! Argh!!!
Ennio Morricone wrote the score to this, and this movie sucked so hard that even his fabulous talent couldn't stop the movie from sucking the life out of the music!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!
This movie traumatised me HORRIBLY-can you tell? ; )
This would be a bit different because the movie purports to have a stong basis in current reality (via several establishing scenes in the beginning showing daily life only 20 years in the future as being very similar to current living conditions, the numerous scenes where they are ascribing scientific explanations in terms of what SHOULD be physics, and the many industrial designs that LOOK like something that is a logical extension of what is available today, from Dr. Pepper cans to the front end of the Mars2.) This indicates that the director wanted us to identify closely with the characters in terms of them being 'not so different from us,' and the occurring events as being something that 'could happen in your lifetimes.' The director also wanted you to feel that this movie was made in a solid base of REAL science, alot of which is known to us now. They just forgot to listen to their scientific advisor. Or write the movie. Or direct the actors into making their characters anything resembling real people (or, at the very least, 3-dimensional characters in a movie people are going to pay hard-earned money and waste 2 hours watching.) The Matrix, by contrast, began by establishing itself as NOT being based in THIS reality (at least, as we could see it in the near future??) within the first scene-Trinity first is able to move within milliseconds whereas the cop appears to be frozen in place, and is kicked to the floor, then moments later she runs on the walls, leaps 20 feet to another building, and dives through another building's window, to end up disappearing in a pay phone booth. The scenes with 'Thomas Anderson' establish that there SHOULD be some relation between our reality, and his, yet the scenes still remain in odd green, blue, and yellow tones, and suddenly someone knows what he's thinking impossibly through his computer. Later, the movie of course establishes that it is set ABOUT 200 years in the future, and the artificial reality of the matrix is only SUPPOSED to SEEM like it is occurring currently. To boil it all down, from scene 1 of Mission to Mars, the director is asking us to think that this would be possible in 20 years (IF, of course, the whole polarity of pyhsics and just about any other science reversed polarity,) but the directors of The Matrix are DEMANDING that we suspend our disbelief within the first 2 minutes of the movie, and drives that beyond any doubt by the time anything resembling reality appears.
That hurt. I mean REALLY hurt. And it was a slow pain that snuck up on me after I left the theatre. The plot was blown out the same hole that was sucking air out of the cabin. Oh, if you think that was a spoiler, and STILL want to see this ball of heinous spoo, there's probably something wrong with you, and not in a good way. This movie was offensive to anyone who paid attention in elementary science class. Just say NO.
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I agree with you as well; I was trying to point out why, by-in-large, Mission to Mars FAILED, and The Matrix succeeded. In terms of acting, writing, and camerawork, Matrix had lower-calibre actors, two boys who had only written one movie previously, and the two boys' cameraman as the cinematographer; Mission had top-notch actors, some of whom have been nominated for major awards, what should have been a sure-fire writer, and I'm sure, one of the highest-paid cinematographers in the industry.
The difference is that Matrix had a mix that WORKED; Mission was like a formula that had been put into a magic Hollywood computer (which I'm SURE exists, or some of these directors should be put to death for creating such pieces of over-hyped DUNG,) and which spit out...ummm...THAT.
Just goes to show that chemistry is EVERYTHING, formula is NOTHING. (Ack! Kinda like Sprite!)
Mmm, and I'd give anything to exchange the time I wasted in Mission to Mars to see Pitch Black again!!!!
Hmm, funny you should mention Armageddon, because it was MUCH better than Mission to a Horrible 2 Hours-and I'd rather have knitting needles piercing my eyes than watch that flag-waving tear-jerking piece of crap again!!! Argh!!!
Ennio Morricone wrote the score to this, and this movie sucked so hard that even his fabulous talent couldn't stop the movie from sucking the life out of the music!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!
This movie traumatised me HORRIBLY-can you tell? ; )
This would be a bit different because the movie purports to have a stong basis in current reality (via several establishing scenes in the beginning showing daily life only 20 years in the future as being very similar to current living conditions, the numerous scenes where they are ascribing scientific explanations in terms of what SHOULD be physics, and the many industrial designs that LOOK like something that is a logical extension of what is available today, from Dr. Pepper cans to the front end of the Mars2.) This indicates that the director wanted us to identify closely with the characters in terms of them being 'not so different from us,' and the occurring events as being something that 'could happen in your lifetimes.' The director also wanted you to feel that this movie was made in a solid base of REAL science, alot of which is known to us now. They just forgot to listen to their scientific advisor. Or write the movie. Or direct the actors into making their characters anything resembling real people (or, at the very least, 3-dimensional characters in a movie people are going to pay hard-earned money and waste 2 hours watching.) The Matrix, by contrast, began by establishing itself as NOT being based in THIS reality (at least, as we could see it in the near future??) within the first scene-Trinity first is able to move within milliseconds whereas the cop appears to be frozen in place, and is kicked to the floor, then moments later she runs on the walls, leaps 20 feet to another building, and dives through another building's window, to end up disappearing in a pay phone booth. The scenes with 'Thomas Anderson' establish that there SHOULD be some relation between our reality, and his, yet the scenes still remain in odd green, blue, and yellow tones, and suddenly someone knows what he's thinking impossibly through his computer. Later, the movie of course establishes that it is set ABOUT 200 years in the future, and the artificial reality of the matrix is only SUPPOSED to SEEM like it is occurring currently. To boil it all down, from scene 1 of Mission to Mars, the director is asking us to think that this would be possible in 20 years (IF, of course, the whole polarity of pyhsics and just about any other science reversed polarity,) but the directors of The Matrix are DEMANDING that we suspend our disbelief within the first 2 minutes of the movie, and drives that beyond any doubt by the time anything resembling reality appears.
That hurt. I mean REALLY hurt. And it was a slow pain that snuck up on me after I left the theatre. The plot was blown out the same hole that was sucking air out of the cabin. Oh, if you think that was a spoiler, and STILL want to see this ball of heinous spoo, there's probably something wrong with you, and not in a good way. This movie was offensive to anyone who paid attention in elementary science class. Just say NO.