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In the movie,Īll the nuts and bolts fit, cables match, torches have batteries. His life hangs in the balance, dependent on duct tape holding a thin membrane of PaknSave plastic bags. In the movie, Matt Damon just drives several thousand miles in a rover and arrives early to eat nuts, while NASA formulates a plan.
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The book is better, with all the detail of what Mark Watney does and how he survives, which is kinda glossed over a bit in the movie, especially his extended trial journeys out from the HAB, calculating water, weights, distances, etc.
Meanwhile back on earth… ISIS, Syria, Iraq, drugs, school shootings, etc. But it’s held up like so much of Hollywood, as humanity orgasms with technology while saving the planet, progressing the fictional evolution of mankind, and air punching for humanity. Several gazillion to rescue one man on Mars, meanwhile on earth, millions starve. If you add Gravity 2013 (Clooney and Bullock) this is the fifth recent movie of this genre, which is now getting quite worn. What about a sub plot on depression, or suicide? Wrestling with self and loneliness, some imaginary friends, like in A Beautiful Mind. Just a bit of a beard after 4 years on Mars. The book was great – “I’m gonna have to science the sh*t outta this.” But the movie is just another American “reaching goals” and “solving one problem after another.” And like Interstellar, the elephant in the room is no one goes crazy being completely alone, harassed by life threatening stress all day every day, for years on end living inside a fishbowl. The Mars scenery is fantastic, and I like Damon, who is doubled by a very thin actor (with towel over hard as Damon exits shower, etc) as he slowly starves on Mars. Most people would watch this today on Social Media. Kinda hokey but good entertainment, although the scenes of hopeful people in Times Square, Tiananmen Square, Trafalgar Square was a bit naff. Bit edgy on the science though, would’t Damon just implode in the vacuum of space? Calling all space Geeks. Why didn’t Tim Robbins do that, instead of just die? Sucky. Adam meets Eve in space surrounded by technology. But bouquet for the non-book scene where he cuts his suit and uses the escaping oxygen as a jet, controlled by his fist, to jet himself the last 100m to his adoring guilty ex-commander, or spin-off in to eternity as a floating corpse in a space suit.