The book is one of my favorite reading experiences in recent years, so yes.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Polter-Cow - Sep 22, 2015 7:48:34 pm PDT #29397 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Rayne - Sep 22, 2015 9:28:02 pm PDT #29398 of 30000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
The book was pretty amazing. It gets very, very science-y in some parts, which I found interesting at first, but later I started skimming those sections.
I honestly didn't think I would like the book because my mind just couldn't figure out how you could realistically have an entire book about a man trapped on Mars. But it really works.
I also read it before I knew Matt Damon was cast as the lead, so I didn't exactly picture him in the role, but as soon as I saw the first trailer, I was like "Oh, of course he's Mark Watney!" Perfect casting!
Jessica - Sep 23, 2015 6:17:07 am PDT #29399 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The casting is all-around fantastic. And yes, read the book! The book is so great!
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2015 6:31:49 am PDT #29400 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Good to know! "Read the book after the movie" is my usual MO, but usually it's because the book is better, not because it's essentially a different take on the same story.
SuziQ - Sep 23, 2015 6:38:00 am PDT #29401 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
We recently watch Mazerunner: The Scorch Trials and Insurgent. I had resisted seeing Insurgent because the trailers made it look like it went completely away from the book while the trailers for Mazerunner: The Scorch Trials didn't ping in that direction.
Boy was I wrong. Mazerunner: The Scorch Trails had K-Bug and I looking at eachother in WTF-ness at just about every scene. I'd be curious of the opinion of someone who hadn't read the Mazerunner series. The changes in Insurgent were much easier for me to handwave away as artistic license while still following the basic story.
All that to say, maybe I shouldn't try to a book before a movie comes out. Without those expectations, maybe I'd like the movies more and then appreciate the detail in the book separately.
Una - Sep 23, 2015 7:12:13 am PDT #29402 of 30000
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
So glad to hear that about the casting, because I read the book right after the first trailer came out, and so Matt Damon was my mental image while reading.
The white fonted decisions for the movie make a lot of sense.
OMG I NEED THIS MOVIE IN MY VISUAL CORTEX.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2015 10:11:12 am PDT #29403 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
OK, so Roland Emmerlich had asked audiences not to pre-judge Stonewall as whitewashing the events based on the trailer. Now reports from critics seem to indicate the trailer showed the film in a better light than viewing the whole thing, which might has well have been titled Cute White Savior.
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2015 11:35:44 am PDT #29404 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, fuck Roland Emmerlich with a stranger's diseased genitals.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2015 2:32:34 pm PDT #29405 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But hey, at least Emmerich does let a black character hand Jeremy Irvine's ahistorical twink protagonist a brick so the latter can be the one to spark the riots. I know when I'm boiling over with outrage at an injustice happening before my eyes my first impulse is to look around for the nearest handsome teenage boy so I can pat him on the back and say "go get 'em, Tiger!"
Gris - Sep 23, 2015 4:25:41 pm PDT #29406 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I listened to The Martian on audiobook for at least 50% of it and the reader sounds nothing like Damon, so even though I knew he was in it I escaped the image. The book is really amazing, and the audiobook made the sciency parts a bit easier to follow I felt (though I am a math and science teacher and an engineering major so my perspective is not everybody's.) Definitely a worthwhile read. And it was my first experience with buying a kindle book that had the cheapish Audio narration addition that auto magically syncs with your reading spot, which is my new favorite thing.