Re: Mercury Movies?



OM wrote:

On 22 Aug 2005 14:49:29 -0700, cfleon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



I'm doing research for an article on (fictional) treatment of the
various planets in the mass media; and while I've found plenty of
movies or television shows dealing with Mars or Luna, some with Venus,
several with Jupiter (or its moons), a couple with Saturn, and even one
with Uranus (Journey to the Seventh Planet), I can't find any that do
anything more than just mention Mercury, Neptune, or Pluto (Pluto gets
MENTIONED a lot, but nothing more). Does anyone know any that actually
visit these planets? Animated shows would be alright. If anyone's
interested, I can post the lists of what I already have. 


...WRT Pluto, that BBC "sci-fi mocumentary" featuring a Grand Tour
mission that covered Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Saturn's Rings,
and Pluto, covered the majority of them. They deliberately skipped
Mercury, and at the time of such a mission later in this century,
Uranus and Neptune were way out of range. Pluto specifically gets
visited because they're setting up a telescope array there. One that
gets reprogrammed along the way to search for Earth-like planets
instead of just stars going >BWOOM< and the like.



At least one of the episodes of "Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles" is set on Pluto. It even has Charon visible in the sky. It's a peculiarly well-lit Pluto, and it's odd to see that the bugs can survive the vacuum and low temperatures despite the fact that they are wearing no suits: http://www.trooperpx.com/RSTC/DVD01a.gif
A bug rears up on Pluto, and is silhouetted against Charon: http://www.sf-fan.de/sf-film/tv/roughnecks/bug_howl.jpg
Our boys on Pluto, ready to kick some arachnid ass: http://www.sf-fan.de/sf-film/news/roughnecks.jpg
Then there's "The Uranus Experiment" about Russia and America racing to land a person on the planet (okay, so the idea may be slightly faulty unless your landing craft is a bathysphere) but its part of the "Uranus" porno trilogy, so who cares?:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310288/combined
BTW, this movie is supposed to have a zero-G sex scene filmed on "The Vomit Comet", but I can't see NASA letting them do that. Bouncing cats off the walls in zero-G is one thing, but pussies are another matter altogether.
Still, Silvia Saint's distinguished film career: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756655/
...may have impressed the NASA bigwigs into thinking that it was time to try out the scientific aspects of sex in a microgravity environment, especially if they could watch the video footage of the tests. :-)


Pat
.