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Topic: The Martian (2015)
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Marcel Birgelen
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From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 10-20-2015 03:30 PM
This one turned out better than expected. Not everybody seems to like Matt Damon, for whatever reason, but I do think he is a fine actor and managed to portray a believable "Mark Watney".
quote: Mike Blakesley
One thing that sort of irritated me was the phony-looking zero-gravity scenes, in which the astronauts flew around like Superman, taking off and changing directions at will and being able to walk around on the ground when they needed to. I don't know why that stood out for me among the (probably) dozens of incorrect scientific details but it did. And the depiction of gravity on Mars, too, was pretty variable, considering it has a gravitational pull just one-third of Earth's.
As far as I remember, they only sit and walk in space in the centrifugal sections of the space ship. On such a long mission, having a section with simulated gravity would make a lot of sense.
The depiction of gravity on Mars itself is indeed a bit sloppy in general. I guess it was just to expensive to get this right.
Besides some nitpicking on some minor factual errors, there were a few problems which did bother me:
- I doubt there could ever be a storm on Mars, so strong it would be able to move debris of the size depicted, let alone pushing over an entire space craft. The atmosphere is far to thin, it might be capable of moving dust, but that's about it.
- Using duct tape (even if it's the type of super-strong tape they use for temporary aircraft repairs) and some plastic sheets to fix a giant hole in your habitat just doesn't cut it. It didn't even budge after re-pressurization.
The movie did have an Atmos sound track. But, unfortunately, it didn't really put the system to good use. Compared to Gravity, this mix was an amateur job.
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Buck Wilson
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From: St. Joseph MO, USA
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 10-31-2015 09:13 PM
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- I doubt there could ever be a storm on Mars, so strong it would be able to move debris of the size depicted, let alone pushing over an entire space craft. The atmosphere is far to thin, it might be capable of moving dust, but that's about it.
- Using duct tape (even if it's the type of super-strong tape they use for temporary aircraft repairs) and some plastic sheets to fix a giant hole in your habitat just doesn't cut it. It didn't even budge after re-pressurization.
The movie did have an Atmos sound track. But, unfortunately, it didn't really put the system to good use. Compared to Gravity, this mix was an amateur job.
These were my exact complaints as well.
The plastic sheeting... That about ruined the movie for me. No way in hell that pressure that could apparently blow off the entire front of the building could be contained by a hastily hung glorified trash bag.
The Atmos mix disappointed me also.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie. As a huge green thumb, all the botany aspects of the movie excited me.
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