Ridley Scott’s The Martian

Raymond Lin · 25 Aug 2015 at 12:54

Vonhelmet said:
The trailer makes it look like Castaway on Mars. Is that about right?

I expect that is less an half the movie, after all, there is a whole other crew/cast that need screen time, so I expect, from the look of the trailer, there is a struggle on their end to debate whether to go get him, and also their mission to save him.

I expect a 50/50 divide in screen time.

Glaucus · 25 Aug 2015 at 12:58

I hope it's in a slightly mad talk to yourself. As you would anyway. People generally talking to themselfs after a few hours, let alone months/years of being totally alone.

And then as said that can be combined with video logs, which iirc he does in the book anyway

Steampunk · 25 Aug 2015 at 13:01

Raymond Lin said:
I expect that is less an half the movie, after all, there is a whole other crew/cast that need screen time, so I expect, from the look of the trailer, there is a struggle on their end to debate whether to go get him, and also their mission to save him.

I expect a 50/50 divide in screen time.

That would be woeful. There's just not a lot going on in the spaceship. In the book, I'd be surprised if they are even 15 percent of the story. I think there's more going on back at Earth than in the spaceship.

DAIR · 25 Aug 2015 at 18:32

Right.... So let me get this right.

1. Does this have anything to do with Interstellar? You know that movie staring Matt Damon. As the man who was stranded on a planet.

Steampunk · 25 Aug 2015 at 18:37

DAIR said:
Right.... So let me get this right.

1. Does this have anything to do with Interstellar? You know that movie staring Matt Damon. As the man who was stranded on a planet.

No, nothing at all.

DAIR · 25 Aug 2015 at 18:42

So this is the second movie Matt has appeared as a stranded man on a different planet....

Raymond Lin · 25 Aug 2015 at 21:16

Steampunk said:
That would be woeful. There's just not a lot going on in the spaceship. In the book, I'd be surprised if they are even 15 percent of the story. I think there's more going on back at Earth than in the spaceship.

Artistic licence...

I can't imagine actors like Jessica Chasten, Michael Pena, Kate Mara, Chiwetel Ejiofor signed up to share 15% of the screen time. That's barely a cameo.

p.s. I did say 50/50 between Matt Damon and the rest (the rest includes people on Earth)

Glaucus · 27 Aug 2015 at 21:52

Love it. Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the hype with his own trailer?

kiteloopy · 28 Aug 2015 at 10:22

finished the book a few days ago. Its great and even more amped for the film now.

SlyReaper · 28 Aug 2015 at 22:31

Who else will be watching for the pirate ninjas? And the commander's disco music?

TheOtherOption · 1 Sep 2015 at 19:08

Awesome promo video ^ Neil does it justice

Can't wait for this!

Steampunk · 1 Sep 2015 at 19:23

SlyReaper said:
Who else will be watching for the pirate ninjas? And the commander's disco music?

I don't think Ridley Scott has it in him to be that humorous. Can you imagine? A great majestic martian vista, a planet wide desolation, we zoom into the lone all-terrain crawler, and as the camera gets closer to its single occupant, all we can hear is Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland". Watney is concentrating on driving over the treacherous landscape, but he doesn't realise his lips are moving to the words of the song...

PlacidCasual · 1 Sep 2015 at 20:10

Just read the book loved it. It would be a crying shame if they didn't capture Watney's increasingly sarcastic and strange sense of humour

kiteloopy · 1 Sep 2015 at 21:21

He/It has to. The humour is a major part of the Watney's character and party the reason why he managed to stay sane. To miss it out would be a massive loss.

Steampunk · 1 Sep 2015 at 21:29

I think there's a difference between the humour of Watney's character (in a serious setting) and Scott making the film humorous in the way it's constructed. I think we'll see Watney lamenting his commander's taste in music, but I don't think we'll see that music integrated into the film itself (like for instance in "Guardians of the Galaxy").

lafemmefatale · 4 Sep 2015 at 01:01

Read this book in two sittings the other day, and really enjoyed it. At first I struggled with the style of the writing, at times it was like reading a damn tumblr blog. However I've also just finished reading Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn) and some of Dostoyevksy's earlier stuff so there's a bit of a glaring clash going from that to The Martian.

Will definitely be going to see the film.

macmodder · 4 Sep 2015 at 16:08

lafemmefatale said:
I've also just finished reading Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn)

A bit (a lot) off topic, but I've read a fair bit of Solzhenitsyn's work (The First Circle is one of my all-time favourite books). Is Cancer Ward any good? It's one of the few I haven't.

lafemmefatale · 4 Sep 2015 at 19:00

macmodder said:
A bit (a lot) off topic, but I've read a fair bit of Solzhenitsyn's work (The First Circle is one of my all-time favourite books). Is Cancer Ward any good? It's one of the few I haven't.

It's brilliant.

Glaucus · 8 Sep 2015 at 13:54

People who have gone to the pre screening have raved about it.
Making me feel better about it.

toshj · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:44

The first review I've read indicates that the film stays true to the humour (and disco) of the book. Very much looking forward to this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-martian/review/