Red Planet Mars

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Rick M Mar 2 I am surprised that I have never seen or even heard of this film before. I was looking for "a good old movie for a Saturday night" and sort of stumbled across this. I thought it would be some off the wall sci-fi film, like so many produced in that time period are. But it is so down to earth, it was a VERY pleasant surprise. Consider the time it was made: 1952. Not long after World War II; not long after the H bomb. Not long after the rise of communism. The film incorporates these elements of history into,for the time, a remarkably interesting sci-fi movie. No one goes to Mars, no Martians come to earth. Just a simple series of signals with a profound message. I highly recommend this film. See more 08/26/2019 The core of this earth bound movie is its well designed script containing ideas placing it well above your average science fiction fare, then as well as now. Although it plays like an adapted theatrical play, Red Planet Mars delivers bang for the buck. See more 07/20/2018 This, frankly, is a hard movie to rate just as a movie. It asks questions most of us today prefer to remain usasked. It raises various prejudices to the surface. I first aw it on TV as a child. Less than ten years of age. I didn't understand it fully, but it none the less left a mark on me -- and a desire to see it again. Something I just recently did after some time searching for it by theme, not remembering the film's actual name. It is easy to write off this film as part of some early `50s paranoia. But the fears and concerns of those times were not *just* paranoia, as an honest look at history reveals. Nor is the film shallow and one-sided. No, its storyline asks us ask questions of ourselves and of our values -- just as the film characters have to ask questions of themselves, and see contradictions in their own points of view. Hollywood would never make this film today. The media would scream in anger, and some in the population would feel very threatened if some indi film maker did do so. I like to ask myself questions. Yes, even when I am less than satisfied with the answers such question put in my mind -- even as just "possibilities." So, again, this is a hard film to simply review. I wish more films fell into that category. Sometimes I'm simply sick and tired of all the 'easy answers' we are today expected to simply accept. Worth a view? Absolutely! See more 03/06/2016 Idiotic beyond words, illogical, zero special effects--Could not even believe how lame brained stupid this wretched garbage was. See more 01/09/2016 I've finally found Donald Trump's campaign outline :) See more don s 04/07/2013 For a sci-fi movie, this had an extremely noticeable lack of effects. In an era with television and telephone, the US is trying to speak to Mars using not images or voices, but Morse code. A whole lot of pseudo-scientific gobbledygook comes out of Peter Graves, making an already action-less movie even duller. This amounts to a bunch of talking heads with heavily religious overtones smacking you in the face so hard you'd think they used a sledgehammer. See more Read all reviews

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