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re: What is the best movie that has also done its source book the most justice?

Posted on 3/8/24 at 6:55 pm to
Posted by elprez00
Hammond, LA
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 6:55 pm to
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The “iron man” ending was a joke in the book but they used it for the movie

The everyone’s happy when Mark gets aboard scene was also directly referenced in the book as a joke for when they made a movie about his story. And that’s exactly what happens in the movie.
The only problem I had with the movie is they ignore Mark being a mechanical engineer with his secondary specialty as botany. He does some pretty advanced stuff for a plant guy especially with the pathfinder programming. That’s nitpicking thought
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:01 pm to
I can forgive everything, even cutting out the tension of the dust storm during his trek across Mars, because they did this scene from the book:
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 7:03 pm
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