THE MARTIAN | Oct 2, 2015 | Will compete as a comedy at the Golden Globes

[DeeCee]

Less then an hour to go.

[The Stingray]

Probably highballing, but whatever.

 

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[Deep Wang]

That wa pretty good!

I have a few quibbles with some things, but overall it's quite enjoyable.

[DeeCee]

This seems to be a pretty good size crowd here.

[Jessie]

Eh, not really. Filmmaking is a much bigger process than the script, and I say that as a huge fan of this book. Plenty of good books have been turned into shitty, shitty movies.

But they copied this book literally word for word throughout. He's not added anything new and people are praising him like the story was his idea. Ah well I know I'm right

[Hatebox]

But they copied this book literally word for word throughout. He's not added anything new and people are praising him like the story was his idea. Ah well I know I'm right

 

Sometimes a good book adaptation is simply knowing what to leave out. Harder than it sounds.

[Goffe]

Sometimes a good book adaptation is simply knowing what to leave out. Harder than it sounds.

yes, it is. Especially in this today's mindset that everything in the book should also be in the movie, ignoring crucial differences of both mediums.

Edited October 1, 2015 by Goffe

[dashrendar44]

But they copied this book literally word for word throughout. He's not added anything new and people are praising him like the story was his idea. Ah well I know I'm right

 

We're talking about the guy who made the most boring Robin Hood movie. How do you screw up Robin Hood? By making poor directing choices. The story no matter how good it is doesn't show you how to direct it. That's what storyboard is about. I didn't see this movie yet but the praise for Scott seems that he managed to translate cinematically what transpired on the page in the most engaging way.

Edited October 1, 2015 by MADash Rendar

[kaijukurt]

On topic, my friends with casual movie tastes wanna see this so I've got a good feeling about this as well.

Off topic, Jaws is another great example of knowing what to add and what to leave out when adapting source material.

[DeeCee]

That was fantastic.

Spoiler alert.

Sean Bean Lives!

Edited October 1, 2015 by DeeCee

[Jessie]

We're talking about the guy who made the most boring Robin Hood movie. How do you screw up Robin Hood? By making poor directing choices. The story no matter how good it is doesn't show you how to direct it. That's what storyboard is about. I didn't see this movie yet but the praise for Scott seems that he managed to translate cinematically what transpired on the page in the most engaging way.

 

It just seems like he's getting a lot of praise for not fucking this up, it would have been very hard to make a bad movie out of this, as I said, any semi decent director could have made this a good film.

 

Robin Hood is completely different, it was remade and with remakes you have to put your own stamp on it, try something different. The Martian book was very easy to translate to the big screen, so easy that Ridley didn't seem to change a thing

 

except allow Watney to use his iron man skills to reach Hermes, which was probably the worst part of the film, but yeah, well done Ridley.

Edited October 1, 2015 by jessie

[Mojoguy]

People complaining about a movie being TOO faithful to the novel. I think this might be a first!

[langer]

People complaining about a movie being TOO faithful to the novel. I think this might be a first!

 

Reminds me of Watchmen.  The movie is 95%  faithful to the novel (including the visual aspects) and people were still bitching about the remaining 5%. 

[zackzack]

That was fantastic.

Spoiler alert.

Sean Bean Lives!

 

At long last, lol

[zackzack]

Of course he still needs to make up for the rest of this last decade

 

A Good Year, Counselor, Prometheus - 3rd Act

[zackzack]

I want him to cum in me, and then, I wanna wash my mouth with his cum as if it were Listerine.

 

 

Wrong movie

[Ezen Baklattan]

Lol, good point. Never really realized that until now.

Just wait until the eventual casting of Chris O'Donnell in a Marvel movie. It'll blow your mind.

Chris Christie needs to be Captain Marvel, IMO.

[Mojoguy]

I want him to...

Gross. Keep your disgusting comments to yourself. No one here needs to read that shit.

[Nutterbutter]

About to buy my ticket on Fandango for tomorrow night. For those who've seen it, is there any reason at all to see this in 3D?

[Wrath]

 

Probably highballing, but whatever.

 

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I think this sounds just about right.