Ideas For Posts Part II: Movies About Mars

"Skipper, I think we have an anomaly." "No shit! Can I still get a Mars McMuffin or is breakfast over?"

(Image manipulation Durknit Pentex)

 T  he Martian Conicals.

I've always wanted to use that in some regard, be it a band name or the title of an article, but whatever I do, I'm determined to examine the Copper Planet's role in the movies.

Movie Mars has stood in for all sorts of situations -- as a jungle environment with alien Amazon-type women to allegories about desert-living peoples (did I just use the word "allegories?" I don't know what it means in relation to this article! But it sounds great, don't you think? I'm going to be a film critic for the NX Times yet, just you wait! How can I fail by sprinkling film reviews with lofty words like "allegory" and "lofty"?)

(Another word I'll try to use a lot is "skewers," because it has great edginess and cinematic drama! In fact, I should write some movie-reviewing algorithm where you just plug in the movie name and push "random," and up pop sentences like "with an often too-broad a sweep of the cinematic brush" and "the component angst of Scott's premise" and fuckin' A, you have a meaningless movie review that looks GRRRREAT!)

But I digress.

What was I saying? Oh yeah, Movies about Mars.

Perhaps the most famous line concerning Mars in cinematic history must be Arnold Schwarznegger's unforgettable line in Total Recall: "Honey, LET'S DOO IT! Let's move to Mahsss!"

Coming right up! A few whips of the cat on Dane and I'm sure a great article will result.