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My Thoughts on "Mars Express"

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  (This is the poster for Mars Express .)    Well, that certainly was something. I've been interested in watching this movie for a couple of months now. I first mentioned it in the foreword of my post on Rick Worley, among other things, and I've mentioned a few of other times in a few other posts since then. BTW, that Rick Worley post is the most popular post on this blog currently because of the times that I went back edited it and added to the foreword up top. Blogger counts all of your views, even if you're the author. The last time I mentioned this movie was in my review of Red Planet , which was a repost from my DeviantART page, and you can go read if you want. But, I finally got my hands on Mars Express last week, and I finally watched it yesterday. What did I think of it? Well, I liked it until you know…it got to the end. Yes, that's right, this yet another movie where I was with it until the very end, where it just ended with a whimper. I oddly had sort of t...

My Thoughts on "Red Planet"

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Foreword:  This was originally written and posted on DeviantART on Monday November 22, 2021. Two review in one day, I am on a roll 😁! I figured that since I just bought Mars Express , I would repost my review for Red Planet , to you know, keep up with the theme of Mars-related movies, and to get you hyped for my review of Mars Express . For those that don't know, and I'm sure there are many of you who don't, Red Planet is a 2000 science fiction movie about a group of astronauts who travel to Mars for a manned mission.  The reason why is that Mars was in the early stages of being terraformed since the governments on Earth 🌎 decided to make Mars humanity's new home after ecological degradation left the Earth 🌎 nearly completely uninhabitable. So, they seeded Mars with algae deposits in order to create an atmosphere that humans could breathe in as well create topsoil suitable enough to grow crops 🌾 to feed people, and hopefully turn Mars into a more Earth-like planet ...