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Blood Red Planet is a bloody awful movie
Blood Red Planet is a true stinker. Everything about this movie-plot, acting, special effects, music, etc.-is embarrassingly bad. Let's start with the story. A huge planetoid comes out of nowhere and begins orbiting Mars; before the Lunar Base can describe what they are seeing, all contact between the moon and Earth is lost. All kinds of nasty weather break out back on Earth while this is going on, killing millions (we learn this from a seemingly lifeless TV anchorman wearing a hideous yellow jacket eerily similar to that worn by Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football twenty years ago). A spaceship, Omega One, is dispatched to find out what happened on the moon and to investigate the mysterious new Martian satellite. The two-man crew sees a little blood and flees the Lunar Base, then destroys the base altogether despite the fact they didn't even stay around long enough to see if anyone had actually survived whatever happened there originally. They meet up with an alien spaceship on their way to the planetoid, and almost immediately Earth fires up Omega Two to find out what is going on up there in space. The earth may be facing extinction, the captain says, yet the crew chosen to avert catastrophe includes a captain with a habit of losing his entire crew, a cranky doctor who thinks aliens are the best thing since sliced bread regardless of how many people they kill, and a guy who apparently does nothing but drink liquor and fill the conversation with sexual innuendoes. The rag-tag bunch eventually lands on the planetoid itself in an effort to understand and then stop the alien forces from destroying the earth.

There are many problems with this movie. For example, the astronauts don't even wear spacesuits on their journey from Earth into space; when the Omega One crew reaches the moon, each man puts on a surgical mask in order to venture outside. On the planetoid itself, Omega Two's explorers do only slightly better, protecting themselves with surgical masks as well as high school science lab safety goggles; one guy doesn't even wear any gloves. And their oxygen tanks! The tanks they wear on their backs would look tiny on a two-year-old; why they even have these tanks is beyond me since they certainly aren't hooked up to their surgical masks. The acting, as I mentioned earlier, is awful. The dialogue is dry and stilted for the most part, but it is made even worse by the doctor's complete unfamiliarity with proper timing. Worst of all are the scenes requiring some feeling or emotions-it is laughable and sometimes even painful to see these actors try to sound mad, frightened, or angry. Ironically enough, the only decent speaker in the whole movie is the ship computer Kal (hmmm, sounds a little like Hal, doesn't it?)-at least until he somehow decides he has learned how to be human toward the end. Don't expect to be impressed by any aliens, either-they're not even worth description here. Finally, the space-age special effects were almost surely done on a laptop with some type of primitive video editing software-I assure you nothing at all looks real. I've seen better special effects on old Atari 2600 games.

You can get a few laughs from the gross ineptitude this movie displays in basically all facets of filmmaking, but that's the only reason I can see for anyone to watch even a clip of this terrible movie. The cast and crew tried-I'll give them that-but each one of them failed miserably.

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Sweet Jesus
I only watched a little bit before my brain tried to crawl out of my tear ducts.