The Martian!

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The Martian | Teaser Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX - YouTube
Thought that l should beat Claude on this one!

Great movie, well worth it!



And no blue sky shots were seen in the movie, (like above) probably because Fox Corporation needed NASA's help.

But after it was done,.....!

They did show clouds with lighting, and took a pot shot at NASA for making some dumb decisions.

So there is that!

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  • What? No fluffy bunnies? How can it be taken seriously?
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    • Yes, you know NASA, Photoshopped all the fluffy bunnies out!

      But they missed one or two, nibbling on his first crop. A crop without rabbits,...impossible.

      Besides he adopts recycling practices for his crops that would put China to shame, (enough said).



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  • Whooooooooooooooo Hooooooooooooo!

    Tellya, they gotta start fixin' up cinemas with mosh pits.

    Or a ban on mascara.

    No one should haveta look like someone wrung a frickin' squid out on their face.

    *For the record, I did NOT bawl my eyes out.*

    Stoopid thing is, I figured dancin' had futureproofed my posture and balance real good, but it's all I can do right now not to fall over on my ass 'cos my legs are behavin' independently of one another — and also the rules governin' the material cosmos generally.

    So, thanks, Matty Boy.

    You got me good this time, fired a real humdinger smack on my dreamocampus.

    Any more movies like this and I'm gonna need quarantinin'.

    *sigh*

    K, gonna pass out now.

    I been srsly Damoned.

    Boots, I can figure in the morning.

    Least I got my kick reflex back tryin' to flip the f*ckers off the end of my spazzo feet.

    Boots, yeah — then mebbe breakfast.
  • Banned





    Claude has a methane cloud following him around.
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    • Yes, l can understand the robots one, you need at least one sexy female computer voice somewhere) But the Mars hab, part does have that!

      And it does have some 70's music, so!

      But l suppose Fox was trying to keep it as realistic as possible, and from what l saw they did a pretty good job.

      Can't keep it realistic with some stupid computer animated, robot running about.

      A bit like Castaway, Mission to Mars, (but without the cliche killing spree, or dodgy bugs) and Gravity, (but without the well,...stupid bits).

      Also keep your eyes out in the landscape shots, there are the occasional twisters here and there.

      But technically there is very little to fault, and you do get a good sense of being there.


      Could we have that in English?

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  • From Jason Hirsch

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  • Matt Damon is good, but Ray Walston is my favorite Martian.
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    • No, he didn't find any ruins on Mars, but the cylinder type thing doesn't look natural?



      Another reflective rock, showing Curiosity, (left arrow) and what look like high, white clouds, or rain clouds, definitely didn't have any of those in the movie.

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  • Ok, just got back from seeing it. Not bad at all. You should definitely take duct tape to Mars.
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    • Just saw it. Thought it was a great movie. Matt Damon did a fantastic job. Lots of gallows humor. "We left you there because we don't like you" was funny.
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  • I was not impressed with The Martian especially since Ridley Scott directed it. Matt Damon was excellent but I was not impressed with the rest of the cast. Jeff Daniels seemed like he walked off the set of The Newsroom and stayed in his Will McAvoy character. Jessica Chastain as the captain of the ship was beyond belief as well as Kate Mara as one of the crew members. Kirsten Wiig was also very distracting and ill cast. When making serious decisions, they were too busy smiling and joking around. No way anyone on a 500 day journey would act like this. I guess I was expecting a darker, more foreboding tone to the movie. I never felt that there was any real suspense that a signature Scott movie is known for. I gave it 6 out of 10 stars to be nice. I wouldn't watch it again.
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    • Well, l am not so sure about that?

      If the Apollo astranauts got back and there was another rocket on standby l am sure most or all wouldn't hesitate to go to the moon again.

      Or in this case, see Mars.

      Unique environments or experiences don't come around that often, especially with dodgy NASA funding, although in this movie NASA seemed to have deep pockets?

      And the Apollo astranauts did joke around on the way to the moon, and while walking about on the moon, eventhough they were a hairs breath away from certain death.

      Well, if the main engine on the Apollo module failed, then they would be dead within a few days, (there was no way to save them in time).

      About all they could do back then is fire a rocket at their location with oxygen tanks, etc and hope to survives the impact or doesn't hit the lunar module?

      So l agree that the commander was a little wooden, but stiff upper lip and all of that?

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