Approaching The Unknown

Tom Jacobs
Jul 29, 2017 · 2 min read
Even the protagonist is eyeing the movie with suspicion

I already hate this movie. The guy they sent to Mars invented a machine that converts dirt to water? That would have no massive ramifications for life on Earth at all.

He went to the desert with no water before he had worked out how to do it? Totally reasonable choice.

They sent one single person to Mars? Yep.

There’s no transmission delay to Earth? Yep.

Auto-answer Skype? Yep.

LUKE WILSON is ground control? Ok, at least now we’re starting to get believable. I’d believe him and his brother working at NASA. “You’re in space? Wooow.”

Why are the astronauts so rude? They couldn’t have found some nicer people?

Oh, they send two people to Mars. Well, that’s better. Not in the same ship?

Wait, he brought a big old heavy metal and wooden box for his tools? Yeah, it costs nothing to bring extra weight into space.

He momentarily loses signal to Earth, and FREAKS OUT. Good training.

Ha, the gyros are giant metal clockwork spinning things with teeth and gears?

He repaired the gyro with a random cable and instantly we can tell it worked?

The other person gets sent back to Earth, but they still send him?

WHY ARE THEIR SO MANY AUSTRALIANS APPLYING TO GO TO MARS?

The plants die, and no one one on Earth notices that anything is up.

Ok, this movie just got trippy.

OH SHIT

Summary: World’s worst planned space mission goes strangely awry.

Tom Jacobs

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