Sunday, July 17, 2016

The Martian - did you see it? - OMG, I know it's a year old, but you gotta see it!

First off, we added it to our DVR because DirecTV gave us a free HBO/Cinemax weekend, and Stephen hadn't seen it, and even though I thought I had, we added it to the queue anyway, because reasons. Secondly, having watched it together tonight, we know without a doubt that we will own this fucker on Blu-Ray, because it is Damn Good. C: I had not yet seen this film; there was not a familiar frame about it; I was confused because Interstellar (from the previous year) also starred Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. 4: There is no 4.

So let's get to The Martian, shall we?

Three Good Things:

  1. If you only know Matt Damon from the Jason Bourne movies, or Any/All of his work with Ben Affleck, then you are seriously missing out. The man is a genius. He can do Boston; he can do action; he can do drama (see The Informant!); he can do science-based-sci-fi-that-is-also-incredibly-funny (i.e. "comedy")
  2. If you don't typically bother with sci-fi because it's too "fi" and not enough "sci", you should definitely see The Martian. Lots of sci. Loads of sci. Scads of sci. And not ever in a "wait, I have a liberal arts degree so all this science is too technical for me to get" way. Always good.
  3. Do you like your actors floating through the scenes? This movie has it. Do you like your actors to cuss, but not too much? Matt only actually says "Fuck" ONCE, and not when I was expecting it, so they were able to keep their PG-13 rating. Do you like to laugh at impossible situations that, if you couldn't laugh, you'd be sobbing over? DONE.
See this movie, kids. I'm not even joking. It was awesome. It was funny. It was sciency. It was clever. It had cool camera angles. I never felt like I was ready to barf from the handheld work (honestly, if it was ever handheld, it was subtly done, which is how handheld camera work should be). It was as NASA as I needed to be, and in the watching of it, I had an out-loud thought of my trumpet-playing band-leader friend who also happens to be a rocket scientist. If a movie "loses" you to the real world for a sec, who better to think of than your trumpet-playing band-leader friend who also happens to be a rocket scientist?

Have you already seen this movie and you Neglected To Remind Me To See It? Or have you NOW added it to your playlist/queuey thingy of sorts? You need to tell me YOUR opinion, because CLEARLY, if you are a real human being (not a robot), you OBVIOUSLY love it as much as we did tonight! Tell me!



10 comments:

  1. The Martian was a really good movie.

    Matt Damon's role in Interstellar was fairly small though. Wasn't a big fan of that movie. Almost a bit forgettable to me. I also liked Jessica Chastain in the Martian more then Interstellar. I'm not a huge Chris Nolan fan though. I find his movies hit or miss for me.

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    1. I don't have a problem with Chris Nolan, in general. I absolutely preferred The Martian to Interstellar. I WANTED to like Interstellar more than I did.

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    2. Yeah, same. I wanted to really like Interstellar. But The Martian was definitely the better movie to me.

      It's weird, I'm not a huge Matt Damon fan, but I don't think there is that many movies I don't like him in.

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    3. I haven't seen a bad Matt Damon performance. I'm sure he's got a stinker or two out there, what actor doesn't? And Interstellar was just, overall, not that great.

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  2. The movie was great. The book was even better! I read it a couple of years before the movie came out and kept rereading it. Other than LOTR it's probably the book I have reread the most.

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    1. Welcome! Thanks for visiting me, and for commenting.

      As you read through my archives, you will discover that I'm not a reader, per se. I read quite a few blogs ==>
      but not so much books. So I "review" movies and television. I'll NEVER do a side-by-side visual/written review of ANYTHING, because that's too much work, both in watching AND reading a thing, and then comparing where one excelled and the other fell short. My blog is for my own fun, and that wouldn't be fun (for me).

      I'm trying to comment on your blog, and I can't tell if I did it right. If you keep blogging, I'll probably keep reading, and add you to my list ==>

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    2. Grrrrr, I can't even comment right. Let's try this again...

      Totally understandable on the book reading thing. They actually did a great job adapting it for the movie. There was just too much in the book to put it all in.

      Thanks for checking out my blog. Still learning all the ins and outs.

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    3. I found, pretty early on, that I did not need to moderate on my blog. Google (a.k.a. blogspot) does a pretty good job of keeping spam off. I dunno about WordPress. Just have fun with it! :)

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  3. I loved "The Martian". I have the book, but haven't read it yet - apparently the book is better than the movie (I guess that's usually the case though, when the book appears first).

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    1. As I said to Arionis, I haven't and won't read the book. I'm not a reader of books. I love movies, though. And I really loved The Martian.

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