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re: The Martian Tomatometer Watch Thread - 94%
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:51 pm to Methuselah
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:51 pm to Methuselah
Gravity completely ignored orbital mechanics and physics in general. The entire movie was impossible.
Whereas in The Martian, making the orbital mechanics work is a huge part of the story and largely realistic. The book glosses over the science on a few things, but for the most part it's all possible with today's technology.
Whereas in The Martian, making the orbital mechanics work is a huge part of the story and largely realistic. The book glosses over the science on a few things, but for the most part it's all possible with today's technology.
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Posted on 10/2/15 at 3:33 am to BoostAddict
Saw it....not sure how to rate it.
Its not a bad film, but I am stuck comparing it to the book.
They missed big time on the humor element of the book IMO. Flashes of it was there, but they skipped a lot of it.
MILD SPOILERS
While I expected them not to be able to cover the science of what he was doing and the factors of his situation, they took it a step further and whitewashed pretty much ALL of his struggles. As far as I can tell, the only problem Mark had other than isolation was having to endure disco. No problems or issues other than that. Pretty much twiddling his thumbs waiting for time to pass.
No trial and error to figure out how to manufacture enough water. No cowering in the rover for days as he realized that he fricked up and turned the whole Hab atmosphere to hydrogen.
The trip to the MAV was the worst....no dust storm and no tumble of the rover. No loss of communication to NASA due to a momment of dumbassery. It was literally just a 5 minute montage across Mars. They spent more airtime to bring up the whole space pirate crap in multiple situations than to any problem. Even when they insinuate a problem with their earth bound testing, it never really materializes in any form in practice.
I've seen joy rides with more stress than what he suffered on his long trip to the crater. Hell, at least half of the 5 minute montage of the trip was showing him just chilling and sleeping.
Apparently that was his biggest problem on the trip: the boredom.
Even with the included Hab breach, they toned down the danger. He didn't pull a miracle out of his arse after recovering. Nah...just slap some ducttape on it, and he is good to take a leisurely stroll, checking out plants and stuff, before getting a new helmet and calmly walking back to the rover.
I know the run time was 2 hours and therefore things had to be cut.
But the whole story is that of survival on such a harsh and inhospitable world. Gimme SOME adversity. frick.
I'll give the movie this though: its ending is far superior to the book ending of "I reek to an absurdly shocking degree but hey, all of humanity worked together to bring me home so we are all okay"
Its not a bad film, but I am stuck comparing it to the book.
They missed big time on the humor element of the book IMO. Flashes of it was there, but they skipped a lot of it.
MILD SPOILERS
While I expected them not to be able to cover the science of what he was doing and the factors of his situation, they took it a step further and whitewashed pretty much ALL of his struggles. As far as I can tell, the only problem Mark had other than isolation was having to endure disco. No problems or issues other than that. Pretty much twiddling his thumbs waiting for time to pass.
No trial and error to figure out how to manufacture enough water. No cowering in the rover for days as he realized that he fricked up and turned the whole Hab atmosphere to hydrogen.
The trip to the MAV was the worst....no dust storm and no tumble of the rover. No loss of communication to NASA due to a momment of dumbassery. It was literally just a 5 minute montage across Mars. They spent more airtime to bring up the whole space pirate crap in multiple situations than to any problem. Even when they insinuate a problem with their earth bound testing, it never really materializes in any form in practice.
I've seen joy rides with more stress than what he suffered on his long trip to the crater. Hell, at least half of the 5 minute montage of the trip was showing him just chilling and sleeping.
Apparently that was his biggest problem on the trip: the boredom.
Even with the included Hab breach, they toned down the danger. He didn't pull a miracle out of his arse after recovering. Nah...just slap some ducttape on it, and he is good to take a leisurely stroll, checking out plants and stuff, before getting a new helmet and calmly walking back to the rover.
I know the run time was 2 hours and therefore things had to be cut.
But the whole story is that of survival on such a harsh and inhospitable world. Gimme SOME adversity. frick.
I'll give the movie this though: its ending is far superior to the book ending of "I reek to an absurdly shocking degree but hey, all of humanity worked together to bring me home so we are all okay"
This post was edited on 10/2/15 at 4:29 am
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