[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

This afternoon E and I watched Red Planet. At some point I decided that it would be a good idea to add this to my Netflix queue. I really don't see why I did.

E and I did have fun poking fun at the movie the whole way through. At one point I turned to him and said "this has all the trite sci-fi plot situations: mechanical failure, mutiny, death of (at least one) teammate, and we haven't seen aliens yet." A few mintues later, he says "we forgot BATSHIT CRAZY!" And the aliens did appear in the last 1/3 of the movie.

The movie was so bad, on so many levels. But it did make us giggle, as we made snarky comments about it. So I guess it wasn't all bad.