Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’

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Good film. I feel this film is a homage to his brother. This movie has TONY SCOTT's directional vibe and tone written all over it.

As for it being better than Interstellar, I would have to disagree. It is definitely more entertaining than Interstellar due to its lightheartedness. But I believe Nolan's analytical observation of humanity's pessimism and desperation is more truthful than Ridley's message of humanity's optimism and resiliency, although it is indeed a positive message. I couldn't help comparing the glaring opposite positions of both Matt Damon's characters in both films, and how I lean toward's Dr. Mann's position of isolation and how it'll make one go insane.

Another critique, despite Matt Damon's character, Mark, is someone that truly carry's the movie is absolutely one dimensional. There's absolutely no depth in this character at all. You only seen one scene where he appeared frustrated in his situation, but the rest of the time he was literally TONY STARK IN SPACE, always wisecracking, always the know-it-all, and coming up with new scientific shyt.... even mention Ironman in the film.
 
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gluvnast said:
Good film. I feel this film is a homage to his brother. This movie has TONY SCOTT's directional vibe and tone written all over it.

As for it being better than Interstellar, I would have to disagree. It is definitely more entertaining than Interstellar due to its lightheartedness. But I believe Nolan's analytical observation of humanity's pessimism and desperation is more truthful than Ridley's message of humanity's optimism and resiliency, although it is indeed a positive message. I couldn't help comparing the glaring opposite positions of both Matt Damon's characters in both films, and how I lean toward's Dr. Mann's position of isolation and how it'll make one go insane.

Another critique, despite Matt Damon's character, Mark, is someone that truly carry's the movie is absolutely one dimensional. There's absolutely no depth in this character at all. You only seen one scene where he appeared frustrated in his situation, but the rest of the time he was literally TONY STARK IN SPACE, always wisecracking, always the know-it-all, and coming up with new scientific shyt.... even mention Ironman in the film.
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I gotta agree with you. This film did not feel like a Ridley Scott movie. For the most part, Ridley Scott films are dark in tone and there is an aura of "mystery" to some section of the movie. For me, I like cerebral mind-fukk scifi flicks. This film was much in the same vein as Cuaron's "Gravity" but in my opinion Cuaron's was far superior in what it accomplished.
 
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someone else mentioned this as well: this movie suffered from what many super hero movies suffer from to me. There was never a doubt in my mind that Mark would eventually get home and get off mars (just like in every super hero movie there is never doubt the heroes are going to win/beat the villain). We were basically just seeing how he was able to do it
 
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someone else mentioned this as well: this movie suffered from what many super hero movies suffer from to me. There was never a doubt in my mind that Mark would eventually get home and get off mars (just like in every super hero movie there is never doubt the heroes are going to win/beat the villain). We were basically just seeing how he was able to do it
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That wasn't much of an issue to me because the film made it a strong POINT that it's about resiliency, and reinforced it in the end with Damon's speech on resiliency.

So it was never a question of if rather than HOW.
 
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That wasn't much of an issue to me because the film made it a strong POINT that it's about resiliency, and reinforced it in the end with Damon's speech on resiliency.

So it was never a question of if rather than HOW.
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To his credit I did hear that complaint a lot on my podcasts yesterday regarding lack of suspense
 
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Goddammit, somehow they managed to fukk up the source material. Incredibly disappointed in this movie.

The tone was all wrong. Like a lot of you said, there was no sense of desperation for Mark Watney. They basically glossed over everything and made it seem like he was in an apartment on Mars. Never showed any of the fear and isolation he felt. His humor was supposed to be a coping mechanism for what he was going through.

They didn't explain a lot of the science he was doing and there were catastrophes in the book that didn't happen in the movie. The last 30-40 minutes... :snoop:

fukk Ridley Scott, fukk the screenwriter and fukk whoever approved the final script. :pacspit:
 
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I liked it a lot. Damon was very on point, I liked all of the supporting players and loved the optimism in it. It did drag a bit toward the 3rd act and had a lot of characters to interact with and show but for the most part, I feel like they accomplished what they set out to do. Without reading the book, I liked the tone of the movie as it was more of an adventure romp rather than an exercise in science and it managed to make the science entertaining. I love smart people on screen and stories of smart people being smart so this was right up my alley. Good humor, OKAY suspense because there was never any doubt that he was going to get home but it worked for me for the most part
 
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