The success of Mars Pathfinder—100 million hits on the NASA
website—did not go unnoticed by Hollywood. Now, three years later, we have
Brian de Palma’s Mission to Mars. The makers did their homework on
Mars, but lost the plot with the, er, plot. NASA’s scientists, with $70
million to play with, would have created a lot more excitement.
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