Good Read: "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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Slippyblade:
Sometimes she enjoys it. It's a pretty cool thing when you see the light come on and the person suddenly "gets" it. Other times it drives her mad cause the person she is dealing with has the intellect of a garden rock.

pbj:
The movie is pretty good, we both enjoyed it. I did not care for the ending.

:cheers:

brihyn:

--- Quote from: pbj on September 30, 2015, 04:25:27 pm ---Anyway, going on a tour of Johnson Space Center these days is a real eye opener. Looks like it hasn't been touched in 30 years. Stuff I used to climb on as a kid is now roped off with security watching you carefully. We were in for ~$100 just for two of us to wander around.

The NASA employees I interact with (well, they're all contractors I suppose) have certainly failed to impress. I'm not real sure what the hell any of them actually do.

--- End quote ---

Finally got to see Johnson earlier this year. While it does indeed look like stuff hasn't been touched in years, man, what a great tour. If you're looking for a "wow" factor type tour, go to Kennedy. If you want to see a working facility, this place is great. Didn't get in to one of the VIP tours...definitely giving me reason to go back.

And I can now say that I've finally seen all 3 remaining Saturn Vs

Ginsu Victim:
Never read the book, but really enjoyed the movie. My friend actually read it, and after the movie, he claimed they did a great job and barely changed anything (nothing important). His only gripe was the way Donald Glover played that character. He said it was a bit over the top compared to the book.

BadMouth:
I enjoyed the movie, but I'd have enjoyed it more if I hadn't listened to the audiobook first.

They did squeeze a lot in (which the author has insisted in interviews).

For the most part they didn't so much leave things out as just simplify them.
In the book, he needs to make more area to grow enough potatoes. In the movie he just plants the main room. The process of getting water is abbreviated.
In the book, he can only receive replies from the communication equipment in the rover and still must rely on sending his side of the conversation via the camera.
In the movie, they can just type back and forth from the rover.

They start to cut things out during the trek to the Ares 4 site, which is where I was getting tired of the roadblocks anyway.
He ends up frying pathfinder so he can't communicate any longer. It doesn't really affect what he needs to do.
The rover flips on the way to the Ares 4 site. It wasn't like there was anything all that clever or interesting to digging it out and getting it flipped.

Overall I think they did an excellent job and the author should be very happy with the treatment it got.

In the trailer they made it look like Watney had a wife a kid.
I was relieved to hear the author say in an interview that it was just clever editing of the trailer.
It wasn't so much that I cared if Watney was single or had a family, it just made me afraid that the whole story had gotten the Hollywood cookie cutter movie treatment.

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