Ridley Scott's The Martian
Eddie Badger
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Just hope the film lives up to the book, at least with Scott directing it'll look great.
http://www.people.com/article/matt-damon-martian-ridley-scott-first-look
http://www.people.com/article/matt-damon-martian-ridley-scott-first-look
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Yes, it's about an astronaut who is left for dead when a sandstorm disrupts a Mars mission and his struggle to survive until he is rescued using his scientific and engineering skills. It's very technically accurate and also very funny, I just hope Scott can pull it off.
It sounds like a remake of Mission To Mars.
It's more like Apollo 13.
If he was stuck in the module and just orbited the planet maybe.
This isn't a teaser or a trailer, it's simply a NASA promo introducing you to the Ares 3 crew. A great introduction for the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CumZP6_9sHU
Stars Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Sebastian Stan and Aksel Hennie plus Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig and Donald Glover.
For the amount of stick Ridley Scott gets - and some of it is deserved - i really hope he knocks this one out of the park. I honestly can't wait!
Looks good though - I did like the line in the trailer "I'm going to have to science the shit out of this"
The last few movies set on Mars have not been successful at all (Mission to Mars, Red Planet, Last Days on Mars), and this also seems very reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe On Mars.
Add to this Damon's role seems very reminiscent of his part in Interstellar, and Scott has not really been on form for a while.
Not feeling this one at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue4PCI0NamI
My first comment was based on the teaser trailer and viral video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjGVlxiWvLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzIe1aMAzzU
At first I thought it was looking a little better, until the awful dialogue kicked in and then they basically give away the whole movie.
Seen it all before and if I hadn't a 3minute 17second trailer WTF?
The "in your face, Neil Armstrong" seems a bit silly to put in the trailer without any context as to why he said it. Many of the lines in the book are corny anyway, but they work because Mark Watney comes across as a corny nerd. My initial impressions are that they may have made the wrong choice with Matt Damon.
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Mark
Andy Weir's book was an excellent read and I hope that the film's a reasonable adaptation. I'm certainly going to see the film when it's out.
Incidentally, Jordan's Wadi Rum region has been used as the setting for Mars in a number of films and The Martian is no exception. You can see why because it really does look like a piece of the Red Planet: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wadi+rum+mars&biw=1024&bih=659&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCoQsARqFQoTCPylkMy8gcgCFc4p2wod-zUBQw
Scott is a great director but Prometheus showed us that he's also a director who can fall victim to "the emperor's new clothes".
The success of the book was largely due to the depth and accuracy of the science involved (Andy Weir has said he wanted to rewrite a segment of the book when he discovered that some of Watney's chemistry would have generated a large exothermic reaction and he'd recently devised a method where Watney could have solved this problem by filling the HAB with rocks and then replacing them when they got hot) and if the film is to satisfy fans of the book he will have to make sure that he finds a way to reflect that depth without boring regular film-goers to sleep.
Definitely my "must-see" film of the year though.