10 Movies Everyone Confuses With Other Movies

Both Mission to Mars and Red Planet, released eight months apart, focus on an ensemble cast of actors heading to Mars to complete a life-or-death mission.

The former was helmed by legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface), while the latter was the first and only feature from a thoroughly in-over-his-head Antony Hoffman.

While both films received scattered, measured praise for their visual effects and casts, both were also widely panned by critics and cratered at the box office, which with their $110 million and $80 million budgets respectively, forced the studios to take a big bath.

Despite all that money spent, there's desperately little to set these two films apart, which might be the most embarrassing thing of all, really.

Though it's far more of a lower-budget, action-schlock fest, you could also thrown in John Carpenter's risible Ghosts of Mars for the hat-trick, released the next year as it was.