Movie: The Martian w/ Matt Damon, Sean Bean & Ridley Scott

[Phoenix86]

Well color me very interested.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I've got that book sitting on my audible account right now. Maybe I should get to it next.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Looks like a space drama. Where are the Aliens?

 

[smackababy]

Eh, a movie with Zoe from House of Cards? Nope, am going to avoid it. I dislike her that much.

Also, just because you're on Mars, doesn't make you a Martian. If I go to Africa and get stranded, I'm not suddenly an African.

 

[sdifox]

That might work for the movies but I can tell you I've never had a workstation blow up on me.

However they did find an alligator recently in one of the ponds near the MCC, (mission control center). :hmm:

That is no alligator, that is an alien infiltrator!

 

[chowderhead]

read the book that the movie will be based on. I hope they dramatically change the way the main character talks and interacts with people. I don't think anyone over 10 years old talks the way he does. It's like he has a pHD in attention deficit disorder. The dialogue was ridiculous at times.

 

[Paratus]

I've got that book sitting on my audible account right now. Maybe I should get to it next.

Do it. The book is awesome.

Looks like a space drama. Where are the Aliens?

No Aliens just a hard sci-fi

Eh, a movie with Zoe from House of Cards? Nope, am going to avoid it. I dislike her that much.

Also, just because you're on Mars, doesn't make you a Martian. If I go to Africa and get stranded, I'm not suddenly an African.

They cover this in the book.

Spoiler

Once you've lived somewhere uninhabited and planted crops you are considered to have settled the area.

 

[Paratus]

read the book that the movie will be based on. I hope they dramatically change the way the main character talks and interacts with people. I don't think anyone over 10 years old talks the way he does. It's like he has a pHD in attention deficit disorder. The dialogue was ridiculous at times.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there.
His humor was one of the best things in the book.

 

[Paratus]

I forgot to mention that Andy Weir came to my work about a month ago:

He read the first chapter of the Martian. (He warned everyone there was some four letter words If you've read the book you know how it starts )

He also went into how he wrote the book.

He tried writing back in the 90's for a few years. Didn't really go anywhere. No agent would pick him up so he went back to work in comp sci.

When blogging got big he started a website so he could write for an audience. In 09 he started writing the Martian and folks on his website would critique the chapters.

Eventually they said, "Hey this is great story. I hate reading it on your website can you publish it as an e-book.

So he put it put out on his site for free.

Then people said, "Hey I hate your site but like your work and I don't know how to load an e-book. Can you just put the book on Amazon?"

He put it on Amazon for the minimum ¢99. More people bought the book then downloaded it for free. Surprisingly once it hit number 1 in sci-fi on Amazon a literary agent called him.

He ended up closing on the book deal within a few days of closing on the movie deal.

He said being at work was surreal.

He'd fix a bug. Get a call and go work on his book deal.
Fix another bug. Get another call and go work on his movie deal.

Anyway he's a funny guy with a touch of Watney in him. You could really tell he was a big space geek who was enjoying the ride of his life.

 

[UglyCasanova]

From the trailer, why is there gravity on the ship?

 

[UglyCasanova]

From the trailer, why is there gravity on the ship?

Nm, I just watched the trailer. Apparently what I saw before was the pretrailer trailer where he is doing a meet the crew vid. I see the spinning thing. In the other vid though the cockpit has gravity too though.

The science in his movie is going to be picked to pieces by geeks everywhere. If they screw up anything they'll hear about it.

 

[RossMAN]

Dang, I'm sportin a semi after watchin that trailer. Looks good!

you also?

I can't wait, IMAX here I come.

 

[Paratus]

Nm, I just watched the trailer. Apparently what I saw before was the pretrailer trailer where he is doing a meet the crew vid. I see the spinning thing. In the other vid though the cockpit has gravity too though.

The science in his movie is going to be picked to pieces by geeks everywhere. If they screw up anything they'll hear about it.

Want me to ruin it?

Spoiler

You sure?

 

[bbhaag]

The internet nerd rage is strong in this thread. It's brimming but not quit boiling.
Looks like an interesting movie. I'll give it a watch. Even sci-fi drama is better than no sci-fi.

 

[mcveigh]

Am I the only who thinks they changed the plot a lot?
It looks like his crew memebers are staging a mutiny to return and get him???? and he sets up cameras to let NASA know he's alive? I like the book, where a nasa scientist saw things were moved at the habitat and only a person could have done it.

I'm hoping it's good though

 

[Paratus]

Am I the only who thinks they changed the plot a lot?
It looks like his crew memebers are staging a mutiny to return and get him???? and he sets up cameras to let NASA know he's alive? I like the book, where a nasa scientist saw things were moved at the habitat and only a person could have done it.

I'm hoping it's good though

I think that's how they edited the trailer to intentionally make it seem that way. But every scene in the trailer was in the book near as I can tell.

 

[smackababy]

]They cover this in the book.

Spoiler

Once you've lived somewhere uninhabited and planted crops you are considered to have settled the area.

That is incredibly stupid.

 

[Paratus]

That is incredibly stupid.

Spoiler

Well that's how the Europeans did it. It was a comment in the book from Watneys Alana mater if I remember correctly. While that was the technical reason you were right as to the actual reason he's called the Martian.

 

[smackababy]

Spoiler

Well that's how the Europeans did it. It was a comment in the book from Watneys Alana mater if I remember correctly. While that was the technical reason you were right as to the actual reason he's called the Martian.

Spoiler

He didn't settle Mars though. He was on what amounts to an extended camping trip. He didn't take up permanent residence. He was not a settler.

 

[Paratus]

Spoiler

He didn't settle Mars though. He was on what amounts to an extended camping trip. He didn't take up permanent residence. He was not a settler.

Spoiler

True. But at the time it wasn't clear he was ever coming home. Alive at any rate.

 

[DigDog]

that looks so good i stopped the trailer halfway to avoid any spoilers

 

[gophertron]

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there.
His humor was one of the best things in the book.

Yeah same here, I really liked the humor of the book. The trailer gave the movie a pretty serious tone, I hope they keep it somewhat lighthearted at least from Mark Watney's POV.

 

[blankslate]

How is Sean Bean supposed to die in Mission Control?

His head explodes when Matt Damon's character explains how he gerry-rigged a carbon-dioxide to oxygen converter with a pencil, towel, book and burner cell phone that he oddly enough found lying around on mars.....


....

 

[puyo]

I watched the trailer and I think this will be an interesting movie...

 

[Arcadio]

I love the book. Can't wait to watch it in the theater.