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Just watched it.  Anyone else seen it?  Basically it's a cross between Apollo 13 and Gravity about a bloke growing potatoes on Mars.  They have to cheat and have him recording a video diary to explain what the heck is happening.  I also watched another Sci-Fi classic, the 1958 It; the Terror from Beyond Space which was also about Mars and was most notable because of the dreadful sexism of 1950s Hollywood.  The two female astronauts served the meals and coffee and did the washing up for the guys who sat around smoking.  Great stuff.



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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Thought I was on the OT forum.  Please change it over.  Apologies.



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The book is the best I've read / listened to in a very very very long time, if all time.

We're going to see it next week, I hope it does it justice. I listened on Audible and I couldn't put it down, it delves and explains into more tech so you fully see the extent of the situation he's in, but its understandable even for my tiny mind. The author gave him a brilliant personality, I believe in the movie he's just a highly qualified botanist, but in the book he's also an engineer, if he wasn't both he'd have been dead in 30 days. In the book he uses the video and audio as mission logs but his personality is laugh out loud in the book, you'd have to be half loony to survive on your own that long!

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Exetermiller wrote:

The book is the best I've read / listened to in a very very very long time, if all time.

We're going to see it next week, I hope it does it justice. I listened on Audible and I couldn't put it down, it delves and explains into more tech so you fully see the extent of the situation he's in, but its understandable even for my tiny mind. The author gave him a brilliant personality, I believe in the movie he's just a highly qualified botanist, but in the book he's also an engineer, if he wasn't both he'd have been dead in 30 days.

 Well, I should have read the book.  I shall do so and revisit the film.



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The reviews do say you'll be better for it if you've read the book first, I'd more than highly recommend it

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The cast is astonishing by the way.  I was racking my brains to think where I'd seen the black chief scientist at NASA before.  It came to me in bed: he was the master assassin with the sword in the film Serenity based on the TV series Firefly.



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Forgot to say that for anyone who can't afford to watch the movie our very own Andy Monium is doing a one-man version all this week at the Trades.

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ridgeway kid wrote:

Just watched it.  Anyone else seen it?  Basically it's a cross between Apollo 13 and Gravity about a bloke growing potatoes on Mars.  They have to cheat and have him recording a video diary to explain what the heck is happening.  I also watched another Sci-Fi classic, the 1958 It; the Terror from Beyond Space which was also about Mars and was most notable because of the dreadful sexism of 1950s Hollywood.  The two female astronauts served the meals and coffee and did the washing up for the guys who sat around smoking.  Great stuff.

 I haven't seen either never mind Martian.  Do you recommend it sir? 



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Just watched it.  Anyone else seen it?  Basically it's a cross between Apollo 13 and Gravity about a bloke growing potatoes on Mars.  They have to cheat and have him recording a video diary to explain what the heck is happening.  I also watched another Sci-Fi classic, the 1958 It; the Terror from Beyond Space which was also about Mars and was most notable because of the dreadful sexism of 1950s Hollywood.  The two female astronauts served the meals and coffee and did the washing up for the guys who sat around smoking.  Great stuff.

 I haven't seen either never mind Martian.  Do you recommend it sir? 

 Well the other two are more straightforward - apart from George Clooney's "ghost" in Gravity.  I think Exeter's advice is sound that reading the book would help.  But that said, Yes I did enjoy it - although I'm still trying to get my head around Sean Bean as an astrophysicist!



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