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This is the worst movie I have seen in a long time, which is saying a lot.Four astronauts are going to Mars and the trip is very boring.They spew mumbo jumbo and look through periscopes and it's so poorly acted and slow moving that you can't even laugh at it.They crash land on Mars and then they just make up a bunch of stuff and decide roaming the planet blindly is the best thing to do.Some decent special effects could have helped but they went for the worst effects ever.They just use a weird red and yellow filter for everything on Mars.It looks so stupid that doing nothing at all would have looked better.Of course Mars is mostly tight shots and it always looks like the south west United States.They literally spend a third of the movie floating in rafts on what looks like the lazy river at your local water park.Never see this.

Classic "bad" sci-fi includes movies like "Queen of Outer Space", "Attack of the 50-Ft. Woman", and "The Brain from Planet Arous". These films have lots of action, actors who are at least moderately known to the public, and decent production values and direction. Sad to say, "The Wizard of Mars" has none of these and can't even qualify as campy. Simply put, it's a really poor movie that's not even good for laughs...and it also made me wonder how and why it was made in the first place, and why anyone would have gone to see it when it was released.The future year is 1975, and a band of brave astronauts is approaching Mars in what looks like a modified 1960s station wagon with a periscope. After a few "scary" encounters with apparent meteors, the craft crash-lands on Mars, and the astronauts are--gasp--stranded. The rest of the film consists of the marooned crew walking...and walking...and walking some more. They have a couple of lame encounters with alien life forms before they find pavement made of yellow bricks (see where we're headed here?).The yellow brick road, at least in this movie, leads our intrepid space travelers to an old castle-type building that is inhabited by extremely unconvincing alien creatures in plastic tubes, accompanied by the ghostly image of none other than John Carradine. Carradine has a really incomprehensible conversation with the spaceship crew, then instructs them to tinker with a giant brass timepiece. The ancient clock starts working, the building starts to crumble, and the crew members suddenly find themselves back on their ship, as though nothing ever happened.Most "Mars movies" have entertaining aliens, some interaction between crew members, and musings about other worlds. This movie just consists of the unknown cast wandering around for what seems like an eternity. The ending is so lame, and so illogical that, after the movie is over, the viewer just wants to ask, "what?".Most minor movies I can at least recommend as mindless time-fillers. This one is so boring that I can't even do THAT.

Four astronauts crash land on Mars and struggle to escape. Their antics are incomprehensible and boring. No one dies in this thriller, yet the female astronaut talks about all the dangers present. This movie tends to remind one of a documentary more so than a sci-fi adventure or action flick. The movie will put you asleep if you're not careful. There are many mistakes made in this movie. The astronauts talk about their oxygen running out, yet at times running around without their face shields on exposing themselves to the atmosphere. There is another scene where the female astronaut(Dorothy) says there is no life. She says this to a group after they pass by a tree. One of my favorite parts is the rifle with unlimited ammunition. This astronaut shoots at these poor helpless aliens floating in the water(cheap looking plastic segmented white worm props). He doesn't even hit one of them even after firing 15 to 20 rounds at a range of two feet. Another great part in this movie is the stage hands leg moving the time machine pendulum back and forth. He is up in the rafters in the ceiling. I can't believe they didn't edit that out. John Carradine climax's the movie with a 20 minute dissertation on history and life.When this movie is done, you wonder, "What's the point of this movie?" I can't believe I bought this movie. I purchased it as "Horrors of the Red Planet". The box it came in described this movie as an intergalactic war movie. Obviously they never watched it. This movie is awful and boring. I rank this up in my top 10 worst movies of all time.

It's certain my friends are sadistic and laughing their asses off every time I admit to watching one of these lame movies they so "thoughtfully" provide to me. Where do they find this crap anyway. Well, I've found a few on my own too so I won't dis em too bad. Anyhow, my coaster collection is growing.This movie takes boredom to new depths---the depths of Mars. At least there were some of the usual hokey effects to laugh at. Spaceships you can see stars through, Stupid looking lightning storms on Mars, Volcanos & lava that don't remotely resemble the real thing, Lame water snakes that pose no threat other than putting the viewer to sleep. The only decent effect was the Martian in the crystal tube---looked almost cool.This is a spoiler although there isn't much to spoil: What little story there is goes something like this: 4 total morons crash land on mars and go in search of their main stage (which they dumped earlier) so they can return to Earth. Along their incredibly boring and mostly silent trek they encounter such things as water snakes (really dumb), lightning storms (no rain involved), spelunking via inflatable life raft (somehow they never move but just seem to be sitting there in their little rafts gabbing about nothing), they encounter what is supposed to be volcanic action (not), sand dunes (at least these are real), and of course the ancient Martian city (this looks like something I might have made in the 2nd grade on the beach out of sand).When they do encounter the Martians, it is via the little gnome-like guy in the tube (this is the high point of the movie---if you can consider this movie as having such a thing as a high point). Then all the Martians' minds get together to form a floating head which lectures the 4 idiots for way way too long (man I thought I was back in English class or something it was so boring). Now supposedly these Martians have their city frozen in time and want to get time going again so they tell the dumb earthlings how to start it up again. They proceed to do this and the city crumbles as they flee for their lives. Of course they stand around the time chamber looking dumb (really easy for these actors) for several minutes while the city is crumbling before actually running.When they are at last back on the spaceship I guess heading back to Earth (how they got there is a mystery---one instant they were running from the destructing city, the next they're on board their ship), one of the crew says, "it's only been 2 minutes." Now that's exactly how long this movie should have lasted! Oh, yeah. There are 3 references to the Wizard of Oz: The girl's name is Dorothy, There is a yellow brick road (mostly covered in sand), and the disembodied head appears (much less effectively than the Wizard of Oz's). I'm wondering what the actors and producers of this idiotic piece of crap were smoking while working on this.It's sorta funny to note that these reject butt nuggets start off with full spacesuits, then offer a really lame excuse to use the Martian air, then when in the ancient city, lose the helmets completely. And at the end when they're fleeing the city, they don't even have their suits on. What total bunk.If you are in search of a painfully dumb plot, moronic actors, hokey effects---and a cure for insomnia, you found it.