I wonder if the same writer has another great near future space book in mind?
I'm thirsty and this film was a tall glass of water.
I'm thirsty and this film was a tall glass of water.
I wonder if the same writer has another great near future space book in mind?
I'm thirsty and this film was a tall glass of water.
Council of Elrond and they had Sean Bean present!
And he didn't die! Lol
Finally caught this and frankly thought it was way over-hyped. Some inexplicable spark was missing. Somehow it just had little of the (very poorly written) charm of the book. I dunno, it felt brisk and cold and sterile, if that makes sense? Kinda phoned in. There was no one thing WRONG with it (well, CG breath...) but the whole shebang struck my as obviously plodding from A to B in a very paint by numbers way. Perhaps if I hadn't read the book first...
Also, why was this nominated under best comedy? That's like the time Jethro Tull beat Metallica for best heavy metal performance.
I watched this the other day. I thought it was okay, but probably not something I will watch more than once. So forgive me, for I haven't read the book, but why did they have to totally abandon Mars just because a storm hit? Did I miss some piece of dialogue that explained it? Why didn't they just go in the building Whatney outlived storms in? They acted like the whole planet was about to explode and they had to high-tail it home fast.
They had to abort because if they didn't, the storm was going to damage the MAV which would mean they didn't have a way to leave when the actual end of the mission came.
I was putting this off for whatever reason, probably unfairly judging Matt Damon, but I sat down and watched it the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've really come to like these psuedo believable projections of the future of space travel/NASA. Everything in it felt like a natural progression of our world's tech.
I liked it, but the fact that the Martian atmosphere is that thin, that he would only need that thin sheet over the ship at the end of the film, is also the reason why wind would never blow over the ship at the start of the film.
The other unrealistic part for me was that the whole point of slingshotting around the earth was to build up speed, yet the resupply rocket has no problem docking with them.