Stranded
2001 ‘Stranded - Náufragos’ Directed by María Lidón
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150 Million miles from hope
A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?
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MY CALL: Mars has a secret, but it may not be worth the suffering through this film to get to it. [C-/D] WHAT TO WATCH INSTEAD: Mission to Mars (2000), Red Planet (2000). IF YOU LIKE THIS, WATCH: Moon (2009), Sunshine (2007), Alien (1979), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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I watched this purely because it looked pulpy and stars Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, and Johnny Ramone, people who have earned a seemingly endless amount of good will with me for Buffalo '66, Pulp Fiction, and "Blitzkrieg Bop", respectively. I'd say let this be a lesson to those of you who pick their movie of the moment based on the on-screen talent if Stranded didn't wind up winning me over in the end through sheer pluck.
This does have a very pulpy premise - first manned mission to Mars goes horribly awry, stranding five astronauts on its surface. Hardly the first time this ground has been covered. And the first half is generally annoying as the crew rangles over…
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An outer space movie with Vincent Gallo and Johnny Ramone should be a lot more fun than STRANDED is. Instead, we get the sort of movie Joe Carnahan would do years later and so much better with THE GREY.
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God, have mercy! The biggest problem is that no-one should have said yes to the final draft of the script. What were they thinking?
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Some of the shittiest acting I've ever seen by recognizable stars. The plot is beyond preposterous and the script has some truly unbelievable exchanges. This is space porn. And by "porn" I mean terrible in every sense of craft imaginable.
Watch DePalma's "Mission to Mars" for the good version of this.
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MY CALL: Mars has a secret, but it may not be worth the suffering through this film to get to it. [C-/D] WHAT TO WATCH INSTEAD: Mission to Mars (2000), Red Planet (2000). IF YOU LIKE THIS, WATCH: Moon (2009), Sunshine (2007), Alien (1979), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
To see my review of the film please visit moviesfilmsandflix.com/2012/07/27/stranded-2001/
Then click the "John Leavengood" tab on the right to find more of my reviews. -
While it starts almost unbearably indy, with stilted dialogue and crumby acting, if you can make it through the first 20 minutes it becomes quite watchable and then quite awesome (in a low-key kind of way).
It's not scary, although I was scared. Stupid Sunshine ruined that for me. The characters aren't great, but you don't really get to know anyone. Except one guy, and he's a dick — he does have a point though, I mean, wouldn't you?
As a film that explores one simple story and does it honestly, straight-forwardly and calmly, it's worth 95 of your earth minutes.
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Watch this if you feel like being stranded with the dumbest group of scientists/engineers ever. The ending was pretty good.
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holy sweet jesus this show is very cool to say the least.