I have several problems with this movie.
1) The astronauts don't listen to orders from their superiors, and don't follow any procedure. They would have to have a strict command structure and procedures as they would NEED to work together for survival on Mars. It's constantly amazes me that astronauts and military personnel completely abandon all structure when faced with a crisis in movies. That is exactly what the command structure and procedures are for!
2) They fight with each other constantly, even though they would be rigorously screened so that conflict would be minimized when they would be so far from home. I could see more problems arising once a settlement has been planted on Mars. There would be many more people, especially civilians, on the planet, so that politics and personality conflicts would arise just as they have on earth.
I think that's what I didn't like the most about the movie, was the way the characters acted so irrationally and with total lack of discipline, even though they NEEDED to depend each other for survival.
3) The equipment is crazily unreliable. I know that mars would be a hostile environment for equipment, but there would have to be back ups for the back ups for the back ups, because help would be SO far away. (About 140 million miles, which would take about six months in the movie). There would have to be work-arounds for any possible problem that could arise, or they would be dead.
4) And then, as others have already noted ... there are zombies. Really?
1) The astronauts don't listen to orders from their superiors, and don't follow any procedure. They would have to have a strict command structure and procedures as they would NEED to work together for survival on Mars. It's constantly amazes me that astronauts and military personnel completely abandon all structure when faced with a crisis in movies. That is exactly what the command structure and procedures are for!
2) They fight with each other constantly, even though they would be rigorously screened so that conflict would be minimized when they would be so far from home. I could see more problems arising once a settlement has been planted on Mars. There would be many more people, especially civilians, on the planet, so that politics and personality conflicts would arise just as they have on earth.
I think that's what I didn't like the most about the movie, was the way the characters acted so irrationally and with total lack of discipline, even though they NEEDED to depend each other for survival.
3) The equipment is crazily unreliable. I know that mars would be a hostile environment for equipment, but there would have to be back ups for the back ups for the back ups, because help would be SO far away. (About 140 million miles, which would take about six months in the movie). There would have to be work-arounds for any possible problem that could arise, or they would be dead.
4) And then, as others have already noted ... there are zombies. Really?