Keep missing it! I'm a huge SF fan, as you know doubt have figured out by now, and I wish I hadn't seen it. It was that bad. I felt like the two hours that seemed like three amounted to time completely wasted. :-(-
Haven't read the book, but as Jurassic World is coming out in 2015 as well, I think I would have cast Pratt as the leading man too. Up-and-coming movie star whose been in 2 blockbuster films by the time The Martian would release? Sounds good.
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Kristin Wiig Looks so out of place in this. Was Melissa McCarthy not available? Anyway, I saw this movie when it was called Gravity and unfortunately again when it was called Interstellar.
No doubt. If you've read the (excellent) book, you know this is pretty much a stone cold lock. Unless they completely rewrite the plot, it's beyond screwing up. This is McGyver on Mars. Much more plot than big ideas (Interstellar) or special effects (Gravity).
I thought the book was way overrated but could see how it would make a good movie. Felt the book spent too much time with technical details too often, but I think I am in the minority with that sentiment.
The characters and locations look/feel completely different to what I imagined when I read the book. Kate Mara is an odd casting choice The only character that translates from my imagination is Michael Pena as Martinez. Kind of cool though; I get two totally different experiences from the same source material.
I initially disliked that aspect as well, but my appreciation grew the more familiar I got with that environment. It helped to fully understand and even play the game of trying to predict the different solutions Watney could try out, which was fun from an engineer's point of view
It's a legit take. The book is unapologetically nerdy -- the writer's more an engineer than a writer, as he'll admit -- and it took hyper-nerdiness to give the main character a chance to survive. Pretty freaking well-researched and even plausible. I think that's what amazed me, compared to so much science fiction.
I really liked the technical aspect. Shows like the Walking Dead use characters being stupid to move the story along but in this one you can see how much effort and intelligence is required to survive against a hostile environment.
One of the best books I've read and the casting and trailer make me even more excited to see the film.
I picked this up at an airport a couple months back. Didn't know anything about it. Fast read, really entertaining. Not the best book or story in the world, but just really nice, really solid entertainment. Loved the different spin on it with it being man vs. science in a sense... can't stand man vs. alien space crap unless it's really good. Strikes me as more Gravity than Interstellar in that way. Gravity and Interstellar I thought were both great, so happy to see this one turning into a movie. Not disappointed with the casting choices, but not amazed.
Loved the book, it was well researched and had lots of real science. Ridley still has the visual panache to match what I think is a great story. Trailer shows too much in my opinion.
