The Martian

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6:18p, 10/19/15
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Saw this over the weekend. Enjoyable movie. I had not read the book, so going in with blank slate was fun with no expectations of any kind. I do feel that the movie did a decent job at making a bit of a point in regards to Watney's struggle to overcome and survive.

Overall I think the cast was pretty good, and did a good job. Damon's reaction to him being told that NASA hadn't told the crew yet I thought was perfectly reasonable and understandable. The daily mission I had no idea that Sean Bean was in this film, and Ejiofor was great. I think Jeff Daniels reminded me a little bit of his character from The Newsroom, which I was perfectly fine with. I think that Watney's videos were probably the highlight of the movie though.
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In reply to Rudyjax • 7:53p, 10/19/15
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We put people on Mars and yes, people will be excited.


One maybe two missions perhaps. Then whatever dumbass reality tv show will recapture the majority of Americans attention.
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In reply to coupland boy • 8:15p, 10/19/15
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We put people on Mars and yes, people will be excited.


One maybe two missions perhaps. Then whatever dumbass reality tv show will recapture the majority of Americans attention.


Except if the mission to mars is a reality show.
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9:04p, 10/19/15
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Saw it Friday and loveddddd it!

*spoilers*



Maybe someone who read the book can help explain this. When the door blows open and kills all of his potatoes, he is able to reseal everything. Why didn't he grow potatoes again? Did he not have enough time?




*end spoilers*
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In reply to Hannah McKay • 9:14p, 10/19/15
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Saw it Friday and loveddddd it!

*spoilers*



Maybe someone who read the book can help explain this. When the door blows open and kills all of his potatoes, he is able to reseal everything. Why didn't he grow potatoes again? Did he not have enough time?




*end spoilers*
F spoiler alerts, were 10 pages in to a movie that came out weeks ago.

The issue was the Mars temp killed everything...bacteria, organic, etc. so there was nothing to grow the potatoes.
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9:19p, 10/19/15
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The potatoes were still edible but not alive anymore (to regrow).
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In reply to schmendeler • 9:24p, 10/19/15
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The potatoes were still edible but not alive anymore (to regrow).
This. He could use the Martian soil and repopulate the bacteria with his waste, but there were no more viable potatoes to regrow so he would still run out too early.
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In reply to Joan Wilder • 9:30p, 10/19/15
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We saw it tonight and I thought it was good not great. I never read the book, so this thread is actually filling in some gaps. I understand now the disco was in the book, but honestly that soundtrack completely took all the stakes and suspense out of the movie for me. I never really felt watney was in danger (except in rare instances) or he had any trouble finding solutions to problems, and much of that was due to the cheesy music playing over montages. In Apollo 13, despite knowing the outcome, there was a real sense of dread, danger, and sweat and tears while they worked the problems.

Ejiofor was excellent, and I also really liked the Asian engineer - his reactions every time they moved up deadlines were fantastic. The Mars-scapes were fantastic - I wish there had been more time spent on his trip to the crater. I thought Damon was very good
If you want more sense of dread, danger, sweat and tears working out the problems, more time spent on the trip to the crater... read the book. All of these things were extremely well done in the book but were somewhat sacrificed in the movie for the sake of time.
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In reply to TexasAggies06 • 7:56a, 10/20/15
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Thanks!
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9:15p, 10/20/15
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10:15p, 10/20/15
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t was entertaining to an extent, with lots of light moments set up for the audience,


Pretty sure that was the point. Maybe your expectations were off?
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In reply to Rudyjax • 10:22p, 10/20/15
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In reply to ballchain • 10:28p, 10/20/15
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Do you think Castaway did a better job of that situation (as an example)?
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In reply to ballchain • 10:38p, 10/20/15
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I suppose the intent of the movie was to maintain a more lighthearted approach.


I think this was the intention. The writer has definitely seen Moon and was most likely inspired somewhat by it. But the book and the movie are definitely meant to be consumed with a smile on your face, not a sense of angst... The writer definitely wanted the focus to be on the triumph of the human spirit, and that people are inherently good and helpful. This was more about one man's ingenuity to stay alive and the whole world coming together, pooling resources and doing everything possible, to save just one guy... It's a feel good story.

I understand your reasoning though, it's just not the way the author wanted to go with it.
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In reply to ballchain • 10:42p, 10/20/15
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Seems like your criticism is more about you than the movie. I learned a long time ago that you have to realize the intent and how well they achieve this.

Read the book and you would not have had those expectations.
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10:58p, 10/20/15
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Supposedly the book doesn't mention a crane on the rover, wonder how he loaded all of that stuff up to move.
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In reply to Ragoo • 11:00p, 10/20/15
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Supposedly the book doesn't mention a crane on the rover, wonder how he loaded all of that stuff up to move.


Low gravity on Mars plus ramps made of rocks.
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In reply to ballchain • 11:11p, 10/20/15
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True.

I enjoyed it for what it was. Couldve been better. Couldve been worse.
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11:33p, 10/20/15
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The protagonist wasn't a woe-is-me navel-gazer. That was the point. He faced the prospect that if he accepted his situation, he would die, alone on a planet by himself. He had within what it took to be an American astronaut: courage, and the ability to put everything that he couldn't control aside and overcome obstacles that navel-gazers would use as excuses.

He didn't wilt in the face of the totality of his solitude and the immenseness of space. He was a courageous, confident, optimistic, thinking, problem solving human being. He and the entire team back on Earth did not accept being beaten.

No wonder people expected something different. It is quite odd to see such a character depicted these days. Personally, I found it a breath of fresh air.
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12:15a, 10/21/15
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It's neither inhuman nor superhuman. It's intensely human. The postmodern vogue, pretty much for more than a century, is to associate "human" with flawed, insufficient, and weak.

The protagonist in this movie is not infallible. He is not without emotions. He possesses no superhero powers. What he possesses is something that is kin to the naval explorers in the Old World who set upon the vastness of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in their day. Pride at being the first. The courage to go where others do not dare to. He possesses an uncommon yet human will to live and not be beaten, an uncommon yet human ability to focus and innovate and solve and survive. I'm sorry (I guess) he didn't cry enough or have an awful childhood or cheat on his significant other or let the job that he volunteered to do with dangers that he understood going in overwhelm him and cause him to curl up in a self-pitying fetal position. But frankly, I've seen enough postmodern exploration of the "frailty of the human condition". I was just fine with this story and this guy. And the team of people who valued one teammate enough to risk all to bring him home.

He was a lot of things. But he was NOT inhuman.
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12:43a, 10/21/15
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I like this Adam guy.
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In reply to double aught • 9:50a, 10/21/15
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I like this Adam guy.


I too like this Adam guy.
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In reply to exp • 10:02a, 10/21/15
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I like this Adam guy.


I too like this Adam guy.
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11:41a, 10/21/15
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The book clearly showed Watney's sense of humor (gallows humor) was just as significant to his survival as his intellect. I thought it was evident in the movie, but maybe not for non book readers.
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In reply to scubasteve304 • 12:49a, 10/24/15
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Yeah i believe it was supposed to be Indian Sumlin from Jurassic World but they couldn't make it work.


Pics? I didn't see Jurassic World
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In reply to Chipotlemonger • 12:52a, 10/24/15
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Yeah i believe it was supposed to be Indian Sumlin from Jurassic World but they couldn't make it work.


Pics? I didn't see Jurassic World
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12:53a, 10/24/15
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In reply to gomerschlep • 8:54a, 10/24/15
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Photoshop a visor, sun glasses, and a headset and we're talking!!
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8:54a, 10/24/15
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Indian Sumlin
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1:51p, 10/24/15
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Indian Sumlin is such a badass. He even had a Swagcopter.
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In reply to Sex Panther • 2:26p, 10/24/15
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Indian Sumlin is such a badass. He even had a Swagcopter.


T&P for him and his swag.
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In reply to Murder Hornet • 3:33p, 10/24/15
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Photoshop a visor, sun glasses, and a headset and we're talking!!

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