Dilbert_X
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We are not discussing The Martian - Scott substituted a mechanical engineer for a fucking botanist.
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Dilbert_X wrote:

We are not discussing The Martian - Scott substituted a mechanical engineer for a fucking botanist.
as a piece of film-making it is far better than fucking napoleon. talk about historical abuse. nobody cares the dull mechanical engineer got swapped out.
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If you'd actually, you know, read the book you'd know that the main character being an engineer was central to the story.

The Martian was as dumb as a Jesus film would have been if Mary had been changed to a man.

I think the problem with the latest round of Ridley Scott films is they have a gaping hole where the story-telling should have been.
A bit unfortunate to blow half a billion dollars in total and forget that.
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i'm too busy reading actual books to pay attention to silly virgin cuck fantasies about rugged STEM survivalists on mars or whatever.

i meant as a piece of film making it was at least well put together. as for 'read the book'ism, the napoleon and gladiator movies aren't exactly by the book as far as their historical content is concerned, either.
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The point is there are no rugged botanist survivalists, it made the whole thing ridiculous.

They were all well put together, with a gaping hole in the middle.
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the original book relies on plenty of ridiculous scientific premises to set up its drama and plot points. story-telling is a different beast to hard science, dilbert. a physics textbook is 'well put together' but it doesn't make for great narrative.
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uziq wrote:

the original book relies on plenty of ridiculous scientific premises to set up its drama and plot points.
Wait a minute, I thought you hadn't read it?
"Andy Weir, the son of a particle physicist and electrical engineer, has a background in computer science. He began writing the book in 2009, researching related material so that it would be as realistic as possible and based on existing technology."

"The Martian was published in print by Crown on February 11, 2014. There are significant textual changes between Weir's original self-published version and the Crown edition: profanity was reduced, spelling and grammatical errors were fixed, there were many minor stylistic changes, scientific errors were corrected, and a 263-word epilogue removed."

From what I remember he got NASA to check some of it.

Ridley Scott is 87, he's lost his way a bit, why is this a big deal?
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