movie thoughts: The Martian (2015)
Mar. 14th, 2016 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulWe just watched 'The Martian' tonight. I really liked it. I snagged a beat up copy of the paperback from the library donations area awhile ago and I think I might start reading it tonight (yes I have a pile of books checked out from the library and now I'm going to read a book with no due date...this is how I roll). I've heard the book is VERY technical, so I'm thinking that having seen the movie will help me skim over and jargony scenes because it all boils down to this one gif:
ANYWAY, I thought the movie was very well done and I think a huge part of that was the stellar casting. EVERYONE in that movie was good. Obviously, Damon was great and he carried the movie but I spotted so many character actors that you see all the time filling in minor roles and it just made it all fantastic.
Also, did anyone else find it extra hilarious when they made the Lord of the Rings joke and Sean Bean was sitting right there? And then the Iron Man joke and the guy who plays Bucky is there and it felt like this weird meta humor.
And then, of course, Donald Glover playing a strange blend of Troy and Abed. Like, he was literally the child of Troy and Abed LOL.
I give this movie 5 might-be-another-for-my-movie-is-as-good-as-the-book-list out of 5 stars.
Next up we have 'The Experimenter' and then 'Bridge of Spies' (all my library holds came in this week...)
ANYWAY, I thought the movie was very well done and I think a huge part of that was the stellar casting. EVERYONE in that movie was good. Obviously, Damon was great and he carried the movie but I spotted so many character actors that you see all the time filling in minor roles and it just made it all fantastic.
Also, did anyone else find it extra hilarious when they made the Lord of the Rings joke and Sean Bean was sitting right there? And then the Iron Man joke and the guy who plays Bucky is there and it felt like this weird meta humor.
And then, of course, Donald Glover playing a strange blend of Troy and Abed. Like, he was literally the child of Troy and Abed LOL.
I give this movie 5 might-be-another-for-my-movie-is-as-good-as-the-book-list out of 5 stars.
Next up we have 'The Experimenter' and then 'Bridge of Spies' (all my library holds came in this week...)