Ridley Scott’s The Martian

Just got back from finally watching this, really enjoyed it. Running at over 2 hours had doubts that it'd have the usual slow boring middle bit but it didn't. Kept me hooked all the way through.

Is there more interaction with the crew in the book?
 
I think there are more interactions with crew and mission control overall yes.

Overall the intereractions were downplayed quite a lot. In the book there's bits about NASA making use of his time on Mars, more science-y bits and some more funny stuff. Most of which would have probably lost it's humour when censored or downplayed for the 12A certificate
 
Saw this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was poor. Maybe it's because the previous day two films I've seen at the cinema have been mavity and Interstellar...but I just felt that I'd seen it all before. I'm probably just a bit spaced out (excuse the pun). Ironically, the next film I'll probably go to see will be Star Wars!
 
To be frank, if this hadn't been my first 3D film, I would have been thoroughly bored.

The storyline was so obvious from the outset, watching it was just like going through the motions. The fact there wasn't any decent amount of time given to getting to know the characters at the start, left me feeling pretty much indifferent to everything that followed.

I immediately made the comparison to Appolo 13 like others, but the difference in that film was it was based on real events so the believable factor was a lot higher and the sense of suspense was a lot more real.

6/10, mostly for the depiction of Mars, and the space elements were impressive.
 
Funny, because I felt the space elements (the bits at the end mostly) were silly and overblown, and the scenery wasn't right, while the rest of the film was gripping and about as believable as a sci-fi cinema has ever been. Each to their own I guess.
 
It was pretty entertaining with its "hack" physics but my biggest issue is that despite being a space film everything here just felt very small scale and you just don't get the same sense of wonder that you would from something like Interstellar or same gripping cinematography of mavity. Never really felt the so called crushing isolation and loneliness that was suppose to be there either.

Also highly disappointed that:

Sean Bean was in this and didn't die somehow :p
 
neoboy said:
It was pretty entertaining with its "hack" physics but my biggest issue is that despite being a space film everything here just felt very small scale and you just don't get the same sense of wonder that you would from something like Interstellar or same gripping cinematography of mavity. Never really felt the so called crushing isolation and loneliness that was suppose to be there either.
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Yea, the pacing was a bit too quick to really drill home the sense of place and atmosphere of a man stranded alone on Mars.

That said, there was no real filler to the movie and it was already fairly long, so I dont know they could have really done much better unless they wanted to cut out some of the sections and insert more slow and quiet scenes in their place.

My impression afterwards was that the movie was a lot of fun, but yea, it was not an 'epic' movie or anything.
 
saw this yesterday. It missed a lot of the drama from the book and some key things were missing that brought major peril & challenge to Mark.

The missus and I enjoyed it though, may watch again at some point but wont rush to it.
 
yeah i thought it was good. Good humour like in the book but as you said the film misses quite a few events that were in the book. still a solid 8/10 for me.
 
I thought the film completely missed the politics on earth which i thought was a great aspect of the book.

6/10 not a bad film but just lacking in depth. Typical off Scott these-days.
 
^ Same.

If I hadn't read the book it would have been an 8/10 film for me.

But because I did read the book it turned out to be a 5/10.
 
Never read the book, I watched this at the cinema rated it about 7/10.

I thought it might be a bit boring, as whole film just a guy on mars. But the pace was fast and a lot happened. I got half price tickets through work so was not that bad.
 
Radec said:
Lot's of people going on about the book. I'd give it a read if I didn't have a backlog already.
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It's one of the books I found very easy to read in chapters over the course of a week, very easy to pickup and put back down and it is much much funnier than the film.
 
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