The Martian was a bad movie

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KrunkMcGrunk: Jul 2, 2007; Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.

The Martian was a bad book.

for exactly the same reasons OP says the martian was a bad movie

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KrunkMcGrunk: Jul 2, 2007; Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

The pacing of the book was really (forgive the technical term) hosed up. Like it definitely had a movie sort of layout but the author also had this compulsion to just do the: present new set piece -> introduce problem -> protagonists cleverly finds a solution.
Normally you do that a few times and then have the character have a sort of arc within that threshold but he skipped the character arc. It was more like a really flat kind of videogame and the movie very wisely started to chop those instances out towards the last third of the film to let character moments start to occur rather than "oh no now my space car is stuck on some rocks, I am sure dead this time" (add 15 page explanation of how he cleverly gets out of that trouble.)

Like I don't want to knock it for being badly written because I think the writing was fine but the structuring read like he didn't have a broad outline for it and no one asked him to rework it for pacing/repetition in the end for fear of having to publish a sub-300 page novel.

i mean yeah, you're right, but also the writing was flat and boring. it was like a 300 page math story problem where the author showed his work.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 16:07

KrunkMcGrunk: Jul 2, 2007; Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.

FogHelmut posted:

The book was okay but the Matt Damon guy was all purplemonkeydishwasher humor the whole time and I'll just go read Deadpool comics if I want that poo poo.

lol all that poo poo was ripped from the book

in fact, the movie cut out junk like "Pirate ninjas" or whatever it was from the book.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 21:05

KrunkMcGrunk: Jul 2, 2007; Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.

ps

the original Solaris is a good space movie

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