The year 2000 saw an obsession with movies about other planets, and two of the biggest sci-fi bombs of the year were both about Mars.

Is the mars movie 'Red Planet' still worth your time? Here's why this one holds up better than you might think.

Mars is still out of reach for a manned mission, let alone actual colonization, but it’s loomed for years as a natural next step in imaginary space travel. Mission to Mars and especially Red Planet throw back to the 1950s,