Still, there is much pleasure to be gleaned from watching his later, commercial fare, and Peggy Sue Got Married, the time -
travelling romantic fantasy, certainly falls into that category.
What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about
traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash,
romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.