When I was a teen, my sister and I would fight for TV time, the sad repercussion of this was that I had to watch a lot of crap TV. There once was a failed show called Models Inc (this was one of my sisters choices) and it was weekly viewing in our house, on this show there was a character I developed a little crush on named Carrie Spencer. At the end of the 1st (and only) season, she is shipped out to a whorehouse in Mexico, and we thought we would never find out what happened to her...
But as it turned out the wait was worth it. Some 5 years later this little known actress, in this little known failed TV show, would go on to star as the female lead in one of the greatest movie series of all time - a computer hacker in a battle to save the world from the machines...
Ladies and Gents I give you Trinity herself, the sci-fi goddess and one of my personal cinema crushes, Ms Carrie-Anne Moss.
I just can't get enough of Carrie-Anne Moss, got all the time in the world for her, dug her in Matrix (so thrilled when I realized that it was her, in tight leather, kicking ass and brandishing weapons) and she was fantastic in Memento, even on that dodgy Melrose Place-esque TV show Models Inc, we do loves some Carrie-Anne Moss.
Cut to Red Planet.
I am a science fiction fan (anyone who considers the Alien film franchise as their favorite movies would have to be), and even after a decade plus this film (and it's very important that its special effects too) have stood the test of time, and it is still some good entertainment (for us sci-fi loving fanboys), even with a bleach blonde Val Kilmer unnecessarily chewing up more screen time than I care for (but still actually bearable in this movie). It has everything, problem fraught space mission, Mars, unidentified alien species, psycho robot AMEE - gotta love it
So that's that, watched it again, loved it some more, Red Planet is still well worth a watch.
nuff said...
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