The depressing thing about losing Mars as a locale forsex/dominance fantasies is the alternatives which are being offered. We don't have too much hard sf, and medieval or "post catastrophe" movies predominate - see the laser "swords" in Star Wars - Concomitantly, a medieveal ethos is being promoted: get ready for your future.

We have the "bad" robot movies, Terminator, etc; (most US citizens being ignorant that we no longer produce industrial robots); we have the "Mad Max" type movies; we have the "net" type movies...

It looks like the present has gotten glum enough that William Gibson is no longer writing about the future. "Pattern Recognition" is not only set in the present, it has the required quota of continuous action which movies require nowadays...

Coming down the pike:

Neuromancer:
http://www.monochrom.at/bagasch/archiv/0330.html

Rama:
http://www.rendezvouswithrama.com/

I, Robot
http://www.darkhorizons.com/index2.html

Red Mars, White Mars, Black and White Mars, Green Mars, and finally most hopefully Mars Mars - MER A and B
http://www.darkhorizons.com