Went to see The Martian last night. I thought it was outstanding. I can't remember the last time I was so invested in a film and character. Go and see it.
Went to see The Martian last night. I thought it was outstanding. I can't remember the last time I was so invested in a film and character. Go and see it.
So, The Martian is alright. It's probably 20 minutes too long, and there are too many things that happen without adequate explanation. However, considering 98% of the film is just Damon talking to himself, it manages to keep moving forward.
Also, one of the final scenes is fucking stupid.
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I really enjoyed the martian. It relied pretty heavily on Damon mind, but it was an entirely good way to spend an evening.
Considering going to see The Martian on Monday night. First trailer in a long while that has grabbed me, despite Matt Damon.
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The Martian is good. SIR Ridley Scott's best since Black Hawk Down. Tense and surprisingly funny. Looks great as well, but his films generally tend to tbf.
The Martian is excellent.
The Martian is absolutely outstanding. It's probably jumped into my five favourite films of all time. Absolutely outstanding.
But that said, it's basically a movie version of every escapist daydream I had growing up as a nerdy kid, so it was always going to get a positive review from me.
Does the Martian have a happy ending? Spoiler if needed.
Fairly silly ending but The Martian was pretty good.
I'm going to see the Martian later.
The ending of The Martian stretched credibility a bit, but I enjoyed it.
The trailer was exceptional, as was The Martian which I watched today.
The Martian is really a great movie, it seemed like it just about perfected what Gravity and Interstellar had previously been going for. Matt Damon is terrific.
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I went to see The Martian tonight.
It was fantastic from start to finish and had me leaving the cinema with a big grin on my face. Just wonderful.
The Martian is a properly good film, 8/10 stuff as an absolute minimum, and, dare I say it, a potential classic.
Seriously impressed and the best thing I've seen in the cinema for a long time.
Angst.
It's well acted by the lead but there was no tension at all for me, I was starting to doze off towards the end and it's only 83 minutes long.
I didn't realise The Martian was still out and I'm off this week so I think I'll go tomorrow morning, haven't seen anything at the cinema since The Planet of The Apes.
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Did anyone else recognise Benedict Wong in The Martian from Sunshine and Prometheus? My God he's a fat fucker these days.
The Martian is properly good. Off the top of my head it's the best thing I've seen in the cinema for years.
The only problem (if it is a problem) I had was:
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Other than that, class.
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We're not Harvey Yevrah.
I think we're done, since Magic is getting snarky.
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I'm really good at this you guys.
I thought the whole film was brilliant. From the landscape shots on Mars, to the challenges facing Damon, to the way he approached them “I’m going to have to science the shit out of it”.
Remove the spoilers then you mook.
They'd been on the planet for a little bit at the point the movie happened though, right?
Like, a sense of wonder is fine, but presumably that's Day 1 - Day 3 of being on Mars, and then you get down to business. They're professionals with a job to do. I quite like that Mars was there and it was big and impressive, but the astronauts were technical people doing their jobs properly. Much more than that would have felt like "THIS IS A MOVIE LOOK AT THE MOVIE" rather than a story about a person marooned and trying to survive, and the people trying to get him back.
Reading the book after the film doesn't work quite as well. Nothing is really left to the imagination, especially when the film was so memorable. Still a great book, though.
I'd agree with this, but I thought that Ridley Scott just about made up for it with the number of genuinely stunning landscape shots of Mars that were sprinkled throughout the movie. It was almost like he was trying to directly impart the wonder onto the viewer, instead of channeling it through Matt Damon, and I think he succeeded pretty well.
Alright, put me aboard the bandwagon, that was proper good. The only gripes were the shite character of the wanker who came up with the idea of them coming back to get him and the whole poke the suit and propel myself that way, which was just ridiculous. Not enough to ruin the film or anything. of course. The theater I went to had some seats which would fit your average 300lbs American with ease and would recline too, which was nice. One more thing, I am still not sold on 3D. It makes some scenes look very nice, but for anything that is not a 'look at the awesome landscape' shot it just doesn't work. At least it is not the nausea-fest it used to be back in the day.
I saw it in 3D and it was a bit pointless, but I'd agree, at least people are using it in a better fashion now.
I agree with the Iron Man thing too, but I suppose it's testament to the quality of the rest of it that it didn't bother me that much.
A proper 5 star video quality Blu-Ray release please.
Indeed, by that point I was so pleased with the whole thing that I just let it slide. Still, had he just made it with the whole bomb planno one would have complained about lack of DRAMA. Sometimes directors need to stick their fingers out of their arses.
One more thing, when Starman started playing I almost lost it.
Yep, the soundtrack is great too.
It is. Then again, I love me some disco. Bowie just sealed the deal.
It's all very emotional when they turn around. Had it not been based on a book you would have figured the Chinese government had bankrolled it as well.
Incidentally, the biggest change from the books is in the final rescue sequence, where they reject the "blow a hole in the suit" idea as improbable.
Still, made for a decent climax. I was invested enough at that point that I'd have accepted anything.
How does he get to Chastain in the book then?
Yes, same price as the rundown shithole I usually go to. A shame that the new place only seem to show blockbusters.
As everybody else has said, this is seriously good. I assume it's on course to sweep up a lot of Oscars?
I don't get the complaints about it lacking a "sense of wonder". Were people upset that Tom Hanks didn't spend his time in awe of pretty palm trees in Cast Away? Watney seemed suitably awestruck by his plants growing and by traversing land no other human had ever touched. I feel like dwelling on it any more would have run contrary to his character, who obviously had to be obsessively focused on survival. They built that up by well by emphasising his routines throughout it all.