I saw this a week or two ago. Great film, it's science fiction, obviously, but it feels like an updated Apollo 13 rather than a film like Interstellar, which had nonsense like the power of love transcending time and space.
I was totally into this film right up until the ending sequence*, which kind of broke my immersion. Supposedly that scene wasn't part of the book, which made me feel a little better about it.
The film did a good job making me get emotionally invested; I got excited a couple of times. The science was believable enough.
This was one of the three films I was planning on seeing this year and I think I'm happy about it taking that slot.
Yeah the production design was great and stuff, it was fun to just look at Mars. Damon and Jeff Daniels were really good.
Things I was not so hyped about:
The parts involving China were also a little cheesy, and coincidentally made me think of Iron Man 3, where at the end they just have him do the shrapnel removing operation in China so we can get Chinese money. Acknowledging their progress in spaceflight is cool and all, but they seemed like a weird deus ex machina.
Some things were also kind of choppy, like the entrance blowing up and the whole Donald Glover character suddenly coming up with a plan by himself somewhere.
There was also a tension between it being the story about this one guy, but also having a ton of other characters at NASA and on the ship that they couldn't afford time to develop.
There was also a tension between it being the story about this one guy, but also having a ton of other characters at NASA and on the ship that they couldn't afford time to develop.
I think that was the point. It isn't a story about one guy. It's a story about how science and engineering actually work: cooperatively, with everyone doing their job, and everyone's work building on everyone else's.
Even the China subplot plays into this theme.
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I was totally into this film right up until the ending sequence*, which kind of broke my immersion. Supposedly that scene wasn't part of the book, which made me feel a little better about it.
The film did a good job making me get emotionally invested; I got excited a couple of times. The science was believable enough.
This was one of the three films I was planning on seeing this year and I think I'm happy about it taking that slot.
Things I was not so hyped about:
Some things were also kind of choppy, like the entrance blowing up and the whole Donald Glover character suddenly coming up with a plan by himself somewhere.
There was also a tension between it being the story about this one guy, but also having a ton of other characters at NASA and on the ship that they couldn't afford time to develop.
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.