The Martian
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- Beeswax0
Didn't read the book just watched the movie.
My criticisms;
- Why would NASA jeopardise shitload of money, years of investment, tons of scientific research and valuable crew members for a guy that's left behind because of nobody's fault?
- Why would China do the same thing?
- What is the main motivation/lesson of the story?
- Why did Mark Watney got pissed when he learned that they didn't let the other crew members know about his survival? (which created a whole unnecessary drama section)
- Lastly, two hostile/competing country cooperates to save the world or a person with all uber cool, smart, dedicated, strong-willed group of people and a happy and emotional ending. Have I seen this before million times in hollywood? Stale formula...
I think the scientific accuracy, innovation and curiosity is the main power of the story, which most of it is left in the book. Do you think the emotional additions in the movie made it better?
- NASA propagandautopian
- I can't ever enjoy a movie, it's never accurate as it should be, full of things that don't make sense, for a scienfiction flicks it should be more gooder??GeorgesIV
- NASA didn't. The crew decided to do it.monospaced
- Crew's decision.
China's equipment.
Solve one problem at a time.
Because crew feels at fault.
Yes.brandelec - I thought the choices R. Scott made were pretty reasonable. There's so much story telling done in the visuals to make up for the verbal exposition.jtb26
- The ending was weak sauce in the book too. I think some of that was studio nonsense.jtb26