'Favourite' early 2000's Mars movie?

They're all crap. I seem to vaguely recall disliking Mission to Mars the least. I distinctly recall despising Red Planet. Ghosts of Mars was just ho-hum, but sometimes good in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way. I'm with you on the characters though. Gary Sinise is probably the least charismatic actor in existence.

I remember liking mission to mars when i saw it, that said i dont remember much about it.

If it's wrong to like Ghosts of Mars and Escape from LA, I don't wanna be right.

Gary Sinise is maybe one of the weirdest actors in the world. It always seems like he's trying to do a deliberately bad Clint Eastwood impression in his films. Still, MtM got Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle, so it's not a contest. Also, it has wonderful cast descriptions like Pretty Girl #1, Pretty Girl #2, Pretty Girl #3, 2nd Capcom, 3rd Capcom, Sobbing Technician, and no less than four characters named NASA WIfe. Soo, I think we all can agree that it's the best.

Tom on Mars (2005)

I prefer 1999's My Favorite Martian to any of those three.

Also, which is the one that was presented like a fake documentary, at least at first, or was that some SyFy original movie I'm thinking of? It was definitely circa 2000 though.

I have a weird fondness for Ghosts of Mars, although I haven't seen it in years. It has such a cheap look to it, but it has a good cast and some decent action. It also has a real "video gamey" quality to it in the way that it plays out. It's a terrible movie, for sure, but it's not without some value.

I saw Red Planet once and I don't remember much about it except for the robot they bring with them going rogue and trying to kill them. I think it was an okay movie? Mission to Mars I always thought was kind of boring, but I do remember a death scene that was particularly disturbing for a PG movie.

@onekillwonder_: Tim Robbins freezes to death in space and some other dude got spun around till he splatted with full gore. So yea, that's kinda on the edge of PG.

@fezrock: Escape from Mars?

Say what you will about Red Planet as a movie, but that score was amazing.

I'm fairly sure we did a Screened feature on this at some point, at least concerning Mission to Mars and Red Planet. Mission To Mars thinks it's a better movie than it is (although it kind of works to that end, and Gary Sinise's little memory montage at the end is somewhat endearing), but Red Planet's complete disregard of science makes it amazingly laughable. I always liked hearing the stories about how much Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore hated each other on set, though.

@kingbonesaw: Pretty sure that was the Tim Robbins character?

The one where Tim Robbins is floating away and whichever actress it is can't save him, whichever one that is. Ooh, and the one where the face in mars is like a pyramid portal to some 2001: A Space Odyssey weirdness or something, whichever one that is.

I was actually thinking of the Tim Robbins scene. I just watched the twister scene and realized that I don't think I've actually seen the movie all the way through because I have no recollection of that part. But yeah, that's a pretty hardcore death with any rating, let alone PG.

mission to mars, which I just saw on tv a few weeks ago.

I have a terrible memory, but both those scenes stuck with me since I was a kid so I think it wins by default, although I haven't seen ghost of mars.

I think I saw one of these, but I don't remember which one. Ghost of Mars gets my vote simply for John Carpenter's name.

@rorie: It was indeed a Screened feature back in the day.

@isomeri: Good to see the science is backing me here.

I wouldn't recommend any of them, but if Ghosts of Mars is on TV I won't change the channel, I would with the others.