by maxpayne2409 on Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:22 am
just watched assault on precinct 13 (the good one not the new one) and ghosts of mars
assault on precinct 13 has an always will be a good film to me, so i will just forget the new one exists
ghosts of mars.... well i watched aop13 and then ghosts of mars back2back, and i noticed something, the story behind ghosts of mars is really quite similar to aop13 in many ways (could it be beacuse they are both john carpenter films??), in aop13 you have an old disused police station with a group of police workers, holding theyre own against a group of ruthless gang members who are intent on killing them all, then the main cop lets the prisoners out of theyre cells to fight alongside them, and they start to trust each other
now set that on mars, with a team of space cops, and replace the killer gang members with possessed crazed miners and you have ghosts of mars
even some of the lines were similar, most notably in aop13 when the cop asks the criminal "so why are you called Napoleon Wilson?" and wilson replies with "maybe ill tell you later", and in ghosts of mars natasha henstridges character asks ice cube "so why are you called Desolation williams" and he replies "maybe ill tell you later"
oh also on mars the baddies are running around with burning torches, theres massive explosions and fires burning everywhere.... erm how exactly?, its mars, theres no oxygen to burn hmmm
and in one part a woman is floating about in an old style weather balloon.... WTF was that all about?
the lead baddy looked like a marilyn manson/alice cooper crossbreed in a bad way