The Martian (2015)

After Rich Purnell (Donald Glover) explains the new trajectory, Sanders (Jeff Daniels) asks Vincent if the math checks out and the thread is just kind of left hanging. I just don't remember him rejecting the plan.

Saw this today in4Dand it was a pretty nifty experience. Having the seats move around as the rover bumped across the landscape or having air blow into your face whenever an airlock pressurized etc. made for a very entertaining experience. Certainly not the sort of thing I would do for every movie, but it worked for this show.

Great movie, 9/10. Ridley Scott does good work when he has good source material to work with.

I liked it a lot. It was about as faithful to the book as you could get with a movie, just with a bunch of stuff left out, obviously for time, which I understand. As has been said by a few others, there's only one issue I had with it.


Otherwise I thought it was very well done.

Somehow I'm not sure the dramatic effect of a scene like this would have done it:

Saw it yesterday, I read and enjoyed the book and enjoyed the film, wife enjoyed it also. Think they had a nice balance with taking stuff out and the pacing was great. The normaly 50% empty 3pm matinee was as near as damnit full, so anecdotally its doing fine in the uk too.

Loved the movie and the 3d was fantastic. Eveyone nailed their characters from the book. Reserved our seats friday night and only 4 seats had been reserved. When we got to the theater saturday afternoon it was full.

For what it's worth, this movie wasn't shot for traditional Imax screens. The best you could do was the local version of Imax. I went to a regal theater, so RPX was as good as it got. And I'm glad I saw it that way. Well worth it, in my opinion.

Movie was good. Would recommend to watch in the cinema for the visual spectacle. Thought the 3D added nothing though as usual.

Anyone else during the manual spaceship docking bit at the end was thinking, 'Hey, I saw this scene in another space film recently with Matt Damon and Jessica Chastian and they are going to seriously fuck this up and end in disaster!'

Reading though the book now. Good stuff.

Loved the movie but damn they changed a ton. Drill a bunch of holes in the roof of the rover but show no reason why. Zero explanation of why the Airlock went bad. No sandpit near the end. And the superhero bit at the end was cheesy. I did love the very end with the classroom part that was not in the book and the rest of the montage.

The drilling holes in the roof seemed logical. As a builder, I assumed that he didn't have a saw up there, so he used a drill to weaken a line by adding holes. Almost like the perforated paper tear line when you get a check from your company. As my assumption correct as far as scientific description goes?

In the book he did something with the space. In the movie they didn't show nor tell why he had to do it. And the plastic they used to show as canvas looked more like painters plastic, the entire rover portion of the movie was handwaved completely. Both with the testing trips and the big trip at the end. Great movie, but read the book if you like to know why some things happened.

It was well worth the $8.00 bucks though.

Saw it today - easily in my top 5 - I'll be watching this again for sure.

Finally got a chance to see it, easily one of the best sci-fi movies ever. Regarding the ending, I really wasn't bothered very much by it. I think the camera angles and cinematography made it look like this ridiculous action sequence that they should have toned down a bit in order to portray it as more-like-something-an-astronaut-would-actually-try.