I did miss a lot of the scenes that they cut from the book, but a lot of those scenes were also the reason I was thinking, "I don't see how they can make a movie out of this," so it makes sense. They made the movie with the scenes that made good movie.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Hil R. - Oct 04, 2015 3:22:35 pm PDT #29410 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
DCJensen - Oct 04, 2015 11:11:02 pm PDT #29411 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I saw The Martian today. I have not read the book.
I was amazed that I only had small nitpicks.
The gravity on Mars is shown as Earth normal. Nuh-uh. should be about 40% of Earth.
The second one is really minor, and came from the gardener in me. f you are trying to stretch what you have, you only need one potato eye per mound, not a whole small potato.
All said, one only has to scrape residue off the lid of Handwavium to watch.
As usual, I give sound in near-vacuum a pass. I don't need Handwavium to understand the usefulness of it.
Plus? Troy from Community!
Now, we need to get Community back to have a referential, "Troy and Abed watch The Martian!"
Hil R. - Oct 05, 2015 1:48:51 am PDT #29412 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The second one is really minor, and came from the gardener in me. f you are trying to stretch what you have, you only need one potato eye per mound, not a whole small potato.
That surprised me, too, because he did it the right way in the book, with explanation for why.
Jessica - Oct 05, 2015 12:00:53 pm PDT #29413 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Troy-and-Abed-in-a-Rover!
Scrappy - Oct 05, 2015 2:55:11 pm PDT #29414 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I loved the movie. Smart people being smart is one of my favorite things to watch, so it hit my sweet spot (same reason I love the Buffistas, come to think of it). Also Matt Damon was hella charming without being smarmy.
Steph L. - Oct 05, 2015 3:43:17 pm PDT #29415 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Probably my favorite role of Matt Damon's after Good Will Hunting. (And I say that as a HUGE fan of Dogma.)
Tom Scola - Oct 12, 2015 2:49:00 am PDT #29416 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
DavidS - Oct 12, 2015 5:21:03 am PDT #29417 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yay! Wes Anderson is making another stop-motion animated film.
Excellent!
tommyrot - Oct 15, 2015 6:32:41 am PDT #29418 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Last night Anne and I watched Testament, an '83 movie about the aftermath of a nuclear war. It was good but very grim, as you can imagine. Reminded us a lot of On the Beach with the people in a small California town that wasn't nuked gradually dying of radiation poisoning.
A movie far superior to The Day After. I'd rank it above Fail Safe too. Also, it was a TV version so it looked like they edited out some of the gross effect of radiation poisoning. It's the kind of movie that sticks in your mind....
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 15, 2015 11:17:21 am PDT #29419 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
Is Testament the one with the radiation-poisoned kid and the sink?