Okay, lets get this out of the way first: I definitely appreciate "ideas" over "execution." If you're making me choose between a slap-dash, cheap movie that innovates or is interesting in some way, I'll pick it every time over some highly-polished, gleaming turd. I'm a Troma fan not a Chris Nolan fan.
Even so, the flaws in Ghosts of Mars are impossible to ignore, even though the setting is absolutely fascinating. It's only the 22nd century but Mars is now mostly terraformed and ruled by a homosexual matriarchy. The matriarchy answers to the Earth government though, which is presumably still a patriarchy. Why? How has it remained it place long enough for the idiom "The woman is keeping us down" to become common-place? John Carpenter's Mars is an interesting place.
The monsters are uninspired, the acting is atrocious, the soundtrack is puerile, and the editing makes zero sense. Imagine a scene where a character slowly shuts a door, except it consists of four shots all with Star Wars wipes between them. Of the character shutting the door. That is the Ghosts of Mars experience. Make no bones about it, this is not a good movie. The setting, however, makes it so that its a movie worth seeing and contemplating.
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