The Martian

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Can't explain how excited I am for this movie. The crew and cast is stacked with talent, and the book is so good. Anybody else here read the book and stoked? Or just excited for a good movie if you haven't read the book?

 
U love that boom and recommend it to anyone who will listen, haha

The humor of it was my favorite and I hope the movie captures that
 
Saw this last night. It's probably the best movie I've seen so far in 2015. Serious at times, but awesome humour. Definitely, definitely recommend seeing it.
 
I went to it last night. Id say it deserves every good rating it gets. The sifi genera has really been stepping up their game lately on the scientific accuracy thing and and as a result some really solid movies are being produced. Obviously there was some pretty big errors in the name of keeping things interesting (most notably the fact that there is no F$;king sound in space, people!). Other than that though, the acting was superb, as were the visual effects, and storyline.

I hope more movies like this are made in the future. I wouldn't say its the best space related movie I have seen but it was pretty damn good!
 
I read the book on the airplane and liked it a lot... but this is by no means a deep, intricate or "work of literature". Its cheap entertainment, but very entertaining haha. Also, the ending sucks.

Seems like the book was written to be a hollywood script.
 
13511775:JustGoWithIt said:
Obviously there was some pretty big errors in the name of keeping things interesting (most notably the fact that there is no F$;king sound in space, people!).
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It is a movie. Why follow scientific rules if it doesn't make a movie entertaining?
 
13511838:DFJ said:
It is a movie. Why follow scientific rules if it doesn't make a movie entertaining?
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Because for many scientific accuracy represents realism and allows viewers to better connect to the storyline and subsequently be more impacted by the movie.
 
Fantastic movie. They cut out a ton from the book but generally got everything.

I'm really happy that hollywood has been pursuing space films on a regular basis now.
 
I was gifted the book a few months ago and have to finish it before the movie comes out. Looks awesome.
 
Mars has a vague atmosphere of sorts. I'm sure somebody's written a paper on the minimum pressure of an atmosphere of some composition to support audible sound.

I saw it last night. Called there being a Bowie song in it, and I was right on it being Starman of Life on Mars. Was thinking Life on Mars would be the credits song. I thought it was a decent, entertaining movie.
 
I'd say the movie was a solid 4.5 stars, but honestly the book was better. They just couldnt fit everything into the movie, but needless to say, both are excellent
 
13511775:JustGoWithIt said:
The sifi genera has really been stepping up their game lately on the scientific accuracy thing and and as a result some really solid movies are being produced. Obviously there was some pretty big errors in the name of keeping things interesting (most notably the fact that there is no F$;king sound in space, people!).
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this is partly why i enjoyed interstellar so much
 
It wasn't bad, but unfortunately as someone who comes from an aerospace family, man is there ever a lot that makes you roll your eyes.

Like, having a dude standing where the lunar ascending module is docking with the station waving it in like it's a car in a garage. And even having someone manually pilot the craft. The shit's been automated for like 30 years. No human can handle maneuvering docking movements with the precision of computers. Not to mention, did you see the size of their vessel? Girl is running in a gym? If you know anything about any space flight, ever, it's that you have no more room that you would in the cockpit of a fighter jet. It's not like a lounge where you have a gym the size of a rec center. That's horribly inefficient and would never happen, since you always go minimalist with as little that can go wrong. having extra air seals and compartments to allow people to have a rec center onboard is too farfetched.

Yes, I admit things are holiwoodized a little to make it a thrill for the audience, but sometimes they go a little far.
 
13512420:Anathema said:
It wasn't bad, but unfortunately as someone who comes from an aerospace family, man is there ever a lot that makes you roll your eyes.

Like, having a dude standing where the lunar ascending module is docking with the station waving it in like it's a car in a garage. And even having someone manually pilot the craft. The shit's been automated for like 30 years. No human can handle maneuvering docking movements with the precision of computers. Not to mention, did you see the size of their vessel? Girl is running in a gym? If you know anything about any space flight, ever, it's that you have no more room that you would in the cockpit of a fighter jet. It's not like a lounge where you have a gym the size of a rec center. That's horribly inefficient and would never happen, since you always go minimalist with as little that can go wrong. having extra air seals and compartments to allow people to have a rec center onboard is too farfetched.

Yes, I admit things are holiwoodized a little to make it a thrill for the audience, but sometimes they go a little far.
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1. This is semi futuristic (we also cant send people to mars yet)

2. They have some shit like that in the ISS.
 
13512420:Anathema said:
It wasn't bad, but unfortunately as someone who comes from an aerospace family, man is there ever a lot that makes you roll your eyes.

Like, having a dude standing where the lunar ascending module is docking with the station waving it in like it's a car in a garage. And even having someone manually pilot the craft. The shit's been automated for like 30 years. No human can handle maneuvering docking movements with the precision of computers. Not to mention, did you see the size of their vessel? Girl is running in a gym? If you know anything about any space flight, ever, it's that you have no more room that you would in the cockpit of a fighter jet. It's not like a lounge where you have a gym the size of a rec center. That's horribly inefficient and would never happen, since you always go minimalist with as little that can go wrong. having extra air seals and compartments to allow people to have a rec center onboard is too farfetched.

Yes, I admit things are holiwoodized a little to make it a thrill for the audience, but sometimes they go a little far.
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You sound like the guy that can't enjoy a superman movie because "people can't fly!"
 
Definitely entertaining. Quite a few science and logic things that really bothered me though. Crack in visor after airlock tears-Almost runs out of air in like 10 seconds. Cuts a hole in spacesuit-is fine for like a minute.
 
13514883:byubound said:
Definitely entertaining. Quite a few science and logic things that really bothered me though. Crack in visor after airlock tears-Almost runs out of air in like 10 seconds. Cuts a hole in spacesuit-is fine for like a minute.
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well your body doesnt need oxygen, it just needs to not freeze/burn.
 
13514961:Rosa_Park said:
well your body doesnt need oxygen, it just needs to not freeze/burn.
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Yeah, but it also needs to not rapidly depressurize. I dont really care if they aren't scientifically accurate, because its a scifi movie. Just don't make it out to be a life or death situation in one scene and totally chill in the other.
 
13515138:byubound said:
Yeah, but it also needs to not rapidly depressurize. I dont really care if they aren't scientifically accurate, because its a scifi movie. Just don't make it out to be a life or death situation in one scene and totally chill in the other.
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When does homeboy cut a hole in his spacesuit?
 
13515418:californiagrown said:
When does homeboy cut a hole in his spacesuit?
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i was thinking that. correct me if im wrong but that doesnt happen in the book? he talks about it but never actually does it
 
Saw it the other day. I thought it was really good. A few good reads on how the author of the book needed to adapt the story to make it work for the big screen.

One was about GoPro and how the book read that he narrated most of it, in a book that works, but in a movie its odd. So he added GoPro's for Watney to talk to. It ended up turning the GoPro into what Wilson was to Tom Hanks in Cast away.

Also the author wanted to keep it very scientific but knew decided to take the liberty of suspending science for the storm that blew away Watney. Because gravity is so different on Mars a storm that is 100 MPH would feel like barely anything. He wanted to do this because it sets the story to be Mars against Watney.
 
13515439:theBearJew said:
Saw it the other day. I thought it was really good. A few good reads on how the author of the book needed to adapt the story to make it work for the big screen.

One was about GoPro and how the book read that he narrated most of it, in a book that works, but in a movie its odd. So he added GoPro's for Watney to talk to. It ended up turning the GoPro into what Wilson was to Tom Hanks in Cast away.

Also the author wanted to keep it very scientific but knew decided to take the liberty of suspending science for the storm that blew away Watney. Because gravity is so different on Mars a storm that is 100 MPH would feel like barely anything. He wanted to do this because it sets the story to be Mars against Watney.
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One really small detail that i noticed is that whenever they showed the sunset the sky would start to get even more red. On mars, instead of the sky turning that orange red like it does on Earth, it starts to turn a bluish color.

I thought the movie was great. Would definitely go see again.
 
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