25 Years Later, Val Kilmer's Sci-Fi Flop Is Better Than You Remember

25 Years Later, Val Kilmer's Sci-Fi Flop Is Better Than You Remember

Jasin Boland/Mars Prods/Village Roadshow/Kobal/ShutterstockIn the year 2000, there were two major sci-fi movies about the planet Mars in theaters. Neither did well, and neither is well remembered today. The first was Brian De Palma’s Mission to Mars, a kind of sideways Disney project, loosely based on the 1975 Disney World ride of the same name. The second was Red Planet, a Warner Bros. effort that attempted to present itself as a hard science f…

25 Years Ago, Mars Was Responsible For Two Big Sci-Fi Box Office Bombs

The year 2000 saw an obsession with movies about other planets, and two of the biggest sci-fi bombs of the year were both about Mars.