Wow, that stuff was cut to like 1/6 of the book content and was really very brief and tight in the movie in my opinion.
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First Reviews for The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott; based on the book; Matt Damon)
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Wow, that stuff was cut to like 1/6 of the book content and was really very brief and tight in the movie in my opinion.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
3D is always forced on me. Can't see the effect so it's wasted on me. I usually wait a few weeks so that the non-3D version is shown on the bigger screens. Probably watching The Martian this weekend.
Does it look good in 3D, i.e. is there little to no change of focus during the film? If so, I might just like it, however... I don't have time to go to the English language screening b/c of other duties.
Ha, I'm in the same boat. I'm mostly blind in my right eye, so going to see a 3D movie is like paying a couple extra bucks for corrective lenses.
It is funny when people get a jump out of seeing something come at them in 3D and I'm entirely unphased by it.
I liked the movie ending better than the book, except for the absence of the "everyone pulling for that one guy in danger" monologue. The
space rescue of Watney
back on Earth
a secret-boss
Banned
after watching this. I want more Space movies
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It's only today (they rotate the designs at midnight every day).
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I agree with this post.
I like how they were very faithful to the book but honestly I thought Damon was horrible as the lead. A better actor would have made for a much better movie.
Anton Sugar
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Is it true that most of the broad/cringey humor (omg don't you hate disco music???) is straight from the book? I think Damon did a fine job but some of his humor/commentary felt really forced.
The movie is pretty much a straight copy of the book.
NealMcCauley
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FYI I just saw on Regal's Crown Club email this is being released in IMAX for a week tomorrow. Might just go see it again.
because of the clichee and the whole hey nerd speak english please thing
Not only is it filmed in native 3D, but you can tell that most scenes were framed with 3D in mind. The early shots of the martian landscape looked amazing. They added to the immersion in the ways most 3D movies don't. I would consider this one of the best showcases out there for what 3D can be.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Saw the movie last night. Freaking awesome. Gonna pick up the book now. Interstellar in 2014, The Martian in 2015. Fucking 2 great science movies in a row. I'm delighted. More please.
Ridley Scott washed out the bad taste Prometheus left in my mouth hole.
I just watched the trailers for this movie and holy shit I sure am glad I don't watch trailers for anything anymore. Those were spoilery as FUCK.
Ridley Scott washed out the bad taste Prometheus left in my mouth hole.
I just watched the trailers for this movie and holy shit I sure am glad I don't watch trailers for anything anymore. Those were spoilery as FUCK.
I just saw the movie and would like to say I was BLOWN AWAY, fantastic movie and finally Ridley Scott is back to form. I still think I like Interstellar better as it was more ambitious even though it sort of floundered in the execution but I'd rank The Martian much higher than Gravity. I basically consider the movie a fictional Apollo 13 but even more challenging and on Mars. It doesn't fuck around with dumb movie tropes, there are no evil humans, no romance plots, just a single large problem and a bunch of smart people trying to fix it. I will agree that some of the humor didn't really translate well on-screen, mostly the disco stuff and the Blonde-beard stuff but all in all I thought it was great all around.
I also like the optimistic nature of the film I liked that
I also like the optimistic nature of the film I liked that
everyone made it back alive and there was no need to kill off a crew member to ratchet up the tension or create further drama and the film ends with us going back the Mars. It's not one of those "oooooh space/nature is dangerous and bad" cautionary tale but a wonderful insight into the dangers and also great rewards involved in space exploration.
jellies_two
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Saw it last night and found it predictable and over rated and actually annoying.
Ok
This is supposed to be a really grounded scientific movie, right, but started so badly: The Martian atmosphere is 1% the pressure of earth, it's like a vacuum. So the storm, walking in a storm that can tip rockets over, and sealing tons of earth pressure in the Hab with plastic, that then flaps in the storm makes NO SENSE.
My 6 year old son said after the movie: how come sometimes he bounced like he was on the moon, and sometimes walked like it was normal earth gravity?
There was other stuff as well, from coms, to botany, and they kept piling up and taking me out of it.
Why sit in a freezing super computer centre with a laptop? because massive computer racks look cool on a big screen? Ok that's lame too.
I can gloss over some cracks of the type in (say) interstellar Or gravity but for a "science the shit out of it" movie these cracks were too big for me anyway.
Ok
This is supposed to be a really grounded scientific movie, right, but started so badly: The Martian atmosphere is 1% the pressure of earth, it's like a vacuum. So the storm, walking in a storm that can tip rockets over, and sealing tons of earth pressure in the Hab with plastic, that then flaps in the storm makes NO SENSE.
My 6 year old son said after the movie: how come sometimes he bounced like he was on the moon, and sometimes walked like it was normal earth gravity?
There was other stuff as well, from coms, to botany, and they kept piling up and taking me out of it.
Why sit in a freezing super computer centre with a laptop? because massive computer racks look cool on a big screen? Ok that's lame too.
I can gloss over some cracks of the type in (say) interstellar Or gravity but for a "science the shit out of it" movie these cracks were too big for me anyway.
Complete with the slapstick comedy?
There's a lot of comedy in the book.
IISANDERII
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I was a bit disappointed. I think it's because I read the book and felt there was so much missing or glossed over. I still think it was good but I felt a bit frustrated watching it.
Note that in the book, there's no flapping hab sheet. He seals that hole with Hab canvas, and there's no mention of it flapping in a Martian wind. In fact, the thin Martian atmosphere plays a critical role in a later problem that the movie completely skipped. That said, Andy Weir admits straight-up that the storm at the beginning would never happen due to the thin atmosphere. It was a concession to setup the premise in the book of man vs. nature. He did try to make the rest as accurate as possible, though.
That was a movie failing only. They just said that it was easier to ignore that or assume the weight of the extra gear counteracted it or something. Basically, too much effort for such a little payoff from the movie standpoint. It's handled properly in the book, I believe, though.
What scene? Don't recall it offhand.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
When Rich was checking his math for the Purnell Maneuver, he went directly to some supercomputer data center and plugged his laptop directly into it. It was only a shot that was a few seconds long that showed him waiting, and then seeing "calculations correct" or something like that pop up on his laptop.
The Artisan
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damon's highest grossing film since bourne, i think
viciouskillersquirrel
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Saw the movie the other night and I have to say it was wonderful. I did notice that they didn't bother making Damon behave as though he was in a low gravity atmosphere and that recent discoveries seem to indicate that in order to get water on Mars, all he would have had to do was take soil from outside and thaw it, but what a ride! I had a grin on my face every single time he figured something out and just about cheered when he said he needed to "science the shit out of this thing".
Also,the soundtrack is amazing.
Also,the soundtrack is amazing.
I might be mistaken, but I believe the recent evidence for water frozen in the soil of Mars is only for certain areas, and even then only in small amounts.
The Martian has now made more than Interstellar in the US Box Office it seems.
I watched this in IMAX 3D in an empty theatre the other week and it was a great experience. I didn't really know what the movie was about (other than man on Mars) but I really appreciated how they went right into it. There was no astronaut guy at his house talking to his wife and kids about the big upcoming space trip and the lead up to said space trip with everyone talking about how dangerous it will be or whatever and then the countdown, then the liftoff, then the floating in space for 10 minutes waiting for something to happen. They really got right into it like the movie didn't start after 40 minutes of shit, the movie started immediately and it was great.
Based on the things below, I think you were really looking for things to shit on, and making realy big issues of things that are not that important, and purposefully overlooking things that the movie did right.
This two things were made that way because it was really not worth the effort to fake low gravity in every scene, or shoot in a vacuum.
So what did you find annoying in those things? Because in the interviews with NASA people i've seen they say all of those things like growing plants on mars and communication devices were accurate from science standpoint.
Because that character wanted to see the data immediately and fast, that's why he plugged into that computer. He didn't want to leave that place until it was done, and he didn't really cared for anything else.
But if you'd really care you would figured that out, instead of wholehartedly looking for things to be outraged about.
There's a reason actual real NASA people were pimping this movie so hard, and not only because it could get them money for more projects.
SiegfriedFM
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I liked the movie, and I watched the panel with Andy, Adam Savage and Chris Hadfield. If Chris can excuse a few oversights and appreciate the overall attention to detail, who am I to argue?
It's funny to rewatch Interstellar and see Damon and Chastain in a similar setting but very different roles.
It's funny to rewatch Interstellar and see Damon and Chastain in a similar setting but very different roles.
Okay. In the book, he takes vacation time to do the calculations and uses supercomputer time to process it (necessary with ion drive). Don't think it ever has him physically go to the supercomputer room, though.
Warm Machine
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The suits were heavy enough to make it seem like he was more grounded.
Matt_
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Just got back from it and really enjoyed it
Only thing that neither I nor my family could remember/work out was why the chinese ship had to join up with the hermes
I understood that it could have either joined up or done its own supply mission but I must have misunderstood or just missed the explanation for what it did when it joined up
Only thing that neither I nor my family could remember/work out was why the chinese ship had to join up with the hermes
I understood that it could have either joined up or done its own supply mission but I must have misunderstood or just missed the explanation for what it did when it joined up
Lactose_Intolerant
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Was this in the book? Seems like the type of thing a movie does to appeal to the Chinese market. Like Transformers going to China. Did they have some kind of co-financing deal?
Rentahamster
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It gave the Hermes the supplies necessary to complete its mission extension.
ZackieChan
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What is with people needing every single detail to be scientifically accurate in movies these days? It's extremely annoying and nearly impossible to do. You really get "taken out of the movie" every time something that isn't perfectly scientific happens? I don't get all freaked out watching Suits or The Good Wife every time they use a legal word incorrectly.
Actually, in True Detective Season 2, Rachel McAdams mentioned that an LLC they were investigating had filed "Articles of Incorporation" with the state, rather than "Articles of Organization," as she should have said. That burned me a bit.
Fancy Clown
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Internal consistency within the bounds of the story and creative license in service of it are always far more important than strict adherence to natural laws of physics or science.
ZackieChan
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Agreed, and to a layman like myself, neither this nor Gravity broke that consistency.
John Kowalski
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Personally i really dislike it when it's clear that there was the people in charge didn't care enough about researching the topics of the movie, but if a movie makes a point of disregarding accuracy for the benefit of the story while displaying clear respect for what it is talking about, it doesn't bother me.
ZackieChan
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I certainly think that the latter is the case here.
Some Gaffers' heads would explode if they watched an episode of MacGyver.
Yes, it was in the book. If anything it was more glossed over in the film than I expected due to the current trend of 'put a scene in China'
viciouskillersquirrel
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Watching this movie inspired me to go out and finally purchase Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It's been on my list for over a year now, but the use of Starman pushed me over the edge.
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Saw the film this weekend. I liked it, but some the casting choices pissed me off (except for Matt Damon, that was pretty on the money). Anyway, they cut out some stuff from the book, mainly the
and then the ending was changed from the book
rover mishap
the book has him sitting a street corner and a kid walked up to him and asks if he's going back to Mars. His reply? "You've got to fucking kidding me!"
lunchtoast
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Just wanted to put this out there.
Aggelos
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The film is coming out in 4K Remastered Blu-Ray
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Martian-4K-Blu-ray/147430/
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Martian-4K-Blu-ray/147430/
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