Apollo 13 Pros And Cons

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The Martian is Apollo 13 in deep space. This is not the moon. This is Mars, so no messing around. I’ve seen this type of movie before. It’s excellently acted, and pulled off though so that doesn’t matter. The Martian based off of the book by Andy Weir is brought to you by Ridley Scott (if you don’t know who this is then open Google), and Drew Goddard (same). It’s about Mark Watney an astronaut who is accidentally left on the surface of Mars. He and the NASA crew must figure out how to survive on a planet that has no food, or water. That’s a great premise really, but what keeps the film interesting is it keeps a breakneck pace, and the fact that there’s a interesting things resting under the surface. Andy Weir’s book (or what I read of it) is based mainly on the science of how things might work up on…show more content…
To be honest it probably would have been enough to see just Mark surviving, and you slowly see him start to break. It’s helpful that Matt Damon plays Watney at the most sarcastic, and darkly humored person on the planet he’s stuck on. Drew Goddard, who wrote the script really exploits the hilarious use of punch lines that the book used. There’s one scene in the film that focuses on the what Watney might be thinking, and it pays off just as well in the film. It’s helpful that Damon is good enough of an actor to pull off the one man show that he is running...well until about a good 30 minutes in. After that the NASA group of people come in, and need to save him. The NASA group is impeccably cast, and half the actors come with their backstories already there just by showing up. For example Jeff Daniels. He’s been so good in so many talky movies like this for so long that it doesn’t matter that he’s not a fleshed out character. He get’s clever things to say, and sells it so interestingly that it’s
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