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Originally posted by radioman:
The Martian was better SiFi OMHO.

I really liked the Martian too. Usually I dislike sci-fi when they have some unreasonable things that happen like dropping into a black hole and living through it. Everything tells us you would be crushed by gravity long before you get well into it. Similar to the Ironman move in The Martian. If the movie is good enough otherwise, I can get over the "impossible" things that happen.

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Originally posted by PASig:....I seem to recall the daughter telling the father to go.

Sure, dad is out of her life for pretty much her whole life and spends all of 5 min with her?

And, I do remember it was something about us/them/whatever. Still, whoever is was figures out this whole time travel matrix but gives not how to just walk up and say, "Hey, here is how you solve the problem."

Which is also the failure, obviously, future us, figures it out, so why go back to help them? We did it once, obviously, without future people help! When I saw the movie, I immediately thought of Bowerick Wowbagger, as the Future People.

(My nephew loved the movie, I always give him shit about it....just having fun!)

Saw it in a theater... Had no idea it was that long until it was over

I sat through this many times on deployment and would sit through it again.

Also, before the score for this, I never thought I would enjoy organ music.

I can't flip past it when channel surfing. It's one of those movies for me.

Even for anyone that doesn't like it...you must at least like that it's the one movie where Matt Damon doesn't get saved.

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Originally posted by cruiser68:

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Originally posted by radioman:
The Martian was better SiFi OMHO.

I really liked the Martian too. Usually I dislike sci-fi when they have some unreasonable things that happen like dropping into a black hole and living through it. Everything tells us you would be crushed by gravity long before you get well into it. Similar to the Ironman move in The Martian. If the movie is good enough otherwise, I can get over the "impossible" things that happen.

Yeah it's too bad they did the Ironman thing - because in the book he talks about it but doesn't. He just gets rescued by the Dr, not the Commander.

^ Yes. The book was much better in that they kinda stayed with understandable protocol and didn't go Hollyweird with it. Plausibility was a big deal with the book. As I understand it he originally wrote it online with NASA folks chiming in and giving him notes on what would work and what wouldn't.

Good movie but too long.

I just watched this last night and enjoyed it. It was pretty long, but I think it had to be.