Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’

[el_oh_el]

i think the world prefers actual characters experiencing emotions written by a guy who understands that a movie should be inhabited with real fresh and blood people, not just things that resemble characters in something that looks pretty. Ya know, a guy who understands how to use dialogue to explain and make it sound like actual conversation between people and human relations, not just a guy who says "yeah, people talk like this, right?" and has every character say every damn thing they're thinking and makes everything on the nose. Shyyyyyt, Dr. Watney had me engaged. Dr. whatever Matty Ice's name was had me ready to go to sleep.

Still a gorgeous movie though with an awesome score, too bad he forgot to put people in it

Cool paragraph. But it's still interstellar >>>> The Martian. Not even close. The Martian was cool though. (not in a rush to watch it again)

 

[MartyMcFly]

Cool paragraph. But it's still interstellar >>>> The Martian. Not even close. The Martian was cool though. (not in a rush to watch it again)

Disagree entirely but i aint mad at y'all. The Martian hits me in my sweet spot. Interstellar left me cold:whoknows: And it starts with the writing. I prefer Drew Goddard to the Nolan bros

 

[Monoblock]

Cool paragraph. But it's still interstellar >>>> The Martian. Not even close. The Martian was cool though. (not in a rush to watch it again)

I agree. The Martian was just ok to me. I enjoyed Interstellar much more. Smug a$$hole Matt Damon never had me engaged. He had a convenient solution/plan for every problem he came up against on some McGuyver shyt. You could even tell when a problem would occur right on cue. I don't know I just couldn't really get into this. No sense of real danger at all.

 

[FlyRy]

Oh they weren't veiled at all to paraphrase my man P on I Shot Ya "the truth hurts just face it"

The docking scene in interstellar>the martian

Not to mention the other two planets.

The scope, the score

 

[MartyMcFly]

The docking scene in interstellar>the martian

Not to mention the other two planets.

The scope, the score

Yeah I hear you breh but i didn't care because i didn't care about the characters because they weren't actual characters. It just comes down to what speaks to us in a film. For me, I need characters and dialogue. That's not always Nolan's thing. He's more clinical than that and sometimes that works for me, sometimes it doesn't. This was a time where it really didn't. Spectacle is cool, scope is cool, score is cool, but if I don't give a shyt about anyone involved, then its a waste of space

 

[daemonova]

Goddard is on #TeamWhedon but Nolan won this one, we always have Serenity which is better than both of them and Force awakens

 

[el_oh_el]

I agree. The Martian was just ok to me. I enjoyed Interstellar much more. Smug a$$hole Matt Damon never had me engaged. He had a convenient solution/plan for every problem he came up against on some McGuyver shyt. You could even tell when a problem would occur right on cue. I don't know I just couldn't really get into this. No sense of real danger at all.

I agree. I told my girl that I felt the peril in interstellar much much more..

 

[Big Blue]

Finished it a while back

Great movie, better than Interstellar? idk

I feel like more people here like this because the concept is more realistic and was executed in a more understandable way. Interstellar kind of seemed normal, but then took it to another level that almost seemed like a "Inception" level turn of things. For me, I really liked that added dimension and the almost divine concept they ran with, plus that ending when he finally came back hit me a bit harder than Mark finally getting back on the Hermes.

I never seen that jawn with Sandra (I know it was one of the most hyped movies I've ever seen) but I'm sure this is better than that

They're both better than Gravity, which is pretty overrated in hindsight.

 

[MartyMcFly]

They're both better than Gravity, which is pretty overrated in hindsight.

Said it when it came out. Great to look at but meh everything else

 

[FlyRy]

Yeah I hear you breh but i didn't care because i didn't care about the characters because they weren't actual characters. It just comes down to what speaks to us in a film. For me, I need characters and dialogue. That's not always Nolan's thing. He's more clinical than that and sometimes that works for me, sometimes it doesn't. This was a time where it really didn't. Spectacle is cool, scope is cool, score is cool, but if I don't give a shyt about anyone involved, then its a waste of space

I enjoy your dislike of Interstellar breh. I mean it's not like anyone is having any spirited debates over Inherent Vice

 

[MartyMcFly]

I enjoy your dislike of Interstellar breh. I mean it's not like anyone is having any spirited debates over Inherent Vice

Yeah that's a flick I forgot about. Don't know where PTA went wrong on that one

 

[$$$HotBoyRonald$$$]

Not bad at all and reminded me of when I saw Apollo 13

 

[Clark Wayne]

Disagree entirely but i aint mad at y'all. The Martian hits me in my sweet spot. Interstellar left me cold:whoknows: And it starts with the writing. I prefer Drew Goddard to the Nolan bros

Agree with you fam. I enjoyed the hell out of the Martian. Didn't really care for Interstellar, just thought it was ok and the writing definitely had a lot to do with that.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

i thought there would be more struggle and less success

 

[BlackBall]

film was 5/10 I was hoping damon never got off that shyt planet. Hollywood refuses to make good sci fi these days