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"The Martian Chronicles" is an old favorite of mine. This production is artistic and thoughtful, but sacrifices plot and storyline for these goals. The first few episodes are pretty good, but the center episode, in which MINOR SPOILER a Martian involuntarily becomes whatever the Earth person wants him to be, is slow and depressing. The special effects in this piece are nothing much, but it is fine for all that. Rock Hudson probably was not the best choice for Colonel Wilder, but he does not do badly. The rest of the cast is actually better.
The beginning and ending of this miniseries are the best parts. The viewer who slogs through the slow center portion will be rewarded. RJB.
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The Martian Chronicles is one of my favorite books. This made-for-TV movie is one of the only film adaptations I'm aware of. Staring Rock Hudson, the film has a fairly good cast. Not heavy on special effects, the set design is outstanding in representing Martian design and architecture. You simply feel like the sets potrayed could have been the remains of a past civilization.
Despite the book being rather short, the screen play writers felt they had some better ideas to offer, which doesn't really hold true. The first chapter----The Explorations, holds pretty true to the book, but then drfts a bit. But the first hour or so do make this worth watching and the newly created scenes have some value in and of themselves.
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This is a wonderful trip to Mars from the imagination of Ray Bradbury. It's a collection of short stories that have been put together as a television mini series and given a new age treatment. This would make a good double feature with another new-age sci fi feature, Logan's Run.
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A quite good capturing of the fanciful view of possible life on Mars by the marvelous Ray Bradbury
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Pacing, slow... special effects, worthy of a Buck Rodgers serial (not that bad, but clearly dated) and one can't discount Bradbury saying they made it boring, one can easily feel that way if your looking for a space epic. The epic is in one man's journey, Rock Hudson's character goes through a spiritual journey. Either through scenes with him directly or through the corrolary characters around him. This story, and "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" are two of my favorite Martian adventures for the same reasons. They are great character studies of one man's odysee.
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