This week on Alcohollywood, Ele Matelan of WildClaw Theatre joins us as we continue our March full of Mars movies with the companion piece to last week’s Red Planet, Brian De Palma’s Disney-produced Mission to Mars! Telling the same story of a group of astronauts taking off for the Red Planet (Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen, Tim Robbins and Jerry O’Connell) to investigate Don Cheadle’s doomed first mission, De Palma’s 2001-lite slog takes some hard left turns amongst its Disney-caliber safeness, and we’ll take you through them along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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THIS EPISODE’S DRINK: Stick Jockey
We decided to make a frozen julep-y cocktail both in honor of the film’s extended barbecue sequence at the start of the film, and Tim Robbins’ infamously inaccurate space-fate!
3 parts bourbon
3 parts orange juice
3-4 sour cherries, 1/2 part juice
small bunch, mint leaves
Throw it all in a blender with ice and blitz till combined. Pour into margarita class and garnish with orange wedge, sour cherry and Mars-chmallow!
DRINKING RULES FOR MISSION TO MARS:
- Whenever the characters engage in blatant, naked exposition (talking aloud to each other about things they already know, or are just being said for our benefit)
- Whenever you see product placement (e.g. Dr. Pepper, Toshiba)
- Any time characters remove some or all of their spacesuits or have them removed by force
FINISH YOUR DRINK WHEN:
Gary Sinise quips, “We’re millions of miles from Earth in a giant white face. What’s normal?”
Join us next week as we get a little more hardcore on Mars as we watch John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars!
