how cool is mars?!?!?!?

[DKSuddeth]

This looks pretty awesome. I can't wait for the hi res photos to make it down.

 

[X.P. Alidocious]

Thanks for the picture
I'm looking forward to it too!

Strangely, it looks very similar to the planet in "The Forbidden Planet" (A 1953 sci-fi film.)

 

[wonderwench]

I love that movie - it's based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

I keep waiting to see a large bone thrown into the air or a black monolith.

 

[X.P. Alidocious]

I love it too I'm rather partial to The Tempest, as my parents named me after one of the characters in it.

 

[wonderwench]

That's pretty cool - so the play and the movie have some special meaning for you!

I generally prefer the 50s era SciFi with the hokey special effects to today's overdone films. The dialogue was much better.

 

[X.P. Alidocious]

I agree Though I prefer old movies to newer ones in general.
I could watch Frank Capra films all day.

 

[wonderwench]

I am totally hooked on those old Douglas Sirk films: Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Imitation of Life and others of the same genre. Total chick flicks, but very satisfying.

 

[X.P. Alidocious]

I haven't seen any of them, but will have to