They did not decelerate at Mars because they had to use Mars's gravity to again propel them in the correct direction. (This was actually the worst part of the movie imo because Matt Damon pierced his space suit or something along those lines to propel him to the ship which was incredibly stupid and not in the book.)

From there the spaceship decelerated again when it needed to to capture Earth.




I'm not saying it's likely or even possible, I'm saying that the movie explained these things: in this universe the stars aligned (literally) to allow them to make these maneuvers.

I for one can’t just ignore 150 years of food science. If you could and found this enjoyable more power to you I guess.

In other words lighten up people. Jesus Christ it’s a movie

The Martian was a great movie, it's mistakes with space flight physics notwithstanding.

Abigail was quite a fun and bloody take on the "bad guys mistakingly kidnap a little vampire girl" genre. The actress who played Abigail was awesome.

Huh? It clearly was not intended as a documentary Just a really funny movie with tons of pop culture references and great cameos.

It was a blast and she was amazing! My only critique really was…

I thought Unfrosted was awful. It was like the style of humour you would find on the Disney channel, mixed with references only boomers would undertand. I struggled to get through it.

I quit Unfrosted halfway through, after a completely unnecessary and inexplicable joke referencing Gus Grissom burning up.

I meant, why? If you're going to be offensive, at least be funny.

People hated Lamb? I loved it; it was one of maybe two or three movies I saw in the theater that year.

He was better than human.

It's no surprise Unfrosted wasn't any good. Maybe a hot take, but Jerry Seinfield is one of the most overrated comics.

This is a lot of films tbh.

28 Days Later featured several absurdly impossible routes across London that had natives laughing when they watched the film.

I feel like you either didn't watch or didn't understand what happened. They literally made a point of saying they can't just pull a u-turn in outer space.

The whole maneuver was based on approaching a planet and using gravity as a slingshot which is something that has been done not even in the movies, but in real life. It depends on the existence of an ion engine but if we accept mars level space travel and the current state of technology, this isn't a magical idea.

Just google "is the rich purnell maneuver realistic" and what you'll find is general agreement that while a bit of a stretch from current technology, it's grounded in real science.

Everything in every science fiction movie has had things in it that are impossible with current technology.

We can't get people to Mars right now so if they followed the feasibility rule, no movie slot going to Mars would have made any sense.

Don't watch Superman whatever you do.

Recent 2024 watches:

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - 7/10
Challengers - 8.5/10
Civil War - 8/10
Monkey Man - 8/10
Immaculate - 2/10
Love Lies Bleeding - 6.5/10

First Time Watches:

The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) - 6/10
About Time (2013) - 7/10
Big Fan (2009) - 6.5/10
Knock Knock (2015) - 2.5/10
Red Eye (2005) - 6/10
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - 7.5/10
Adventureland (2009) - 7/10

Are there any "good" movies that embrace the cellphone/smartphone generation? Sure there are plenty of recent romcoms that show a lot of text message exchanges. I hate that aspect, too much like the dreaded subtitle

But it seems to me most "good" movies are either period pieces of sci fi/fantasy that don't have a smartphone universe. I'm sure someone will come up with a good one at some point but it seems to me that the smartphone world we live in doesn't translate well to movies. At least not just yet.

a bunch of Chinese romcoms have texting scenes - it's usually done in a pretty interesting way as they overlay the texts like subtitles but in a very interactive and engaging way

also not a smartphone film by any means but it's called cell phone as the plot revolves around one - this was the film that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Phone_(film)

it's done by one of the most famous directors who's career sort of came to a halt after he did a film as a coming of age drama set during the cultural revolution - specifically under the backdrop of the brief war they had with vietnam - called Youth - which is an excellent film - it was not enough to get censored/banned but you make a film like that and suddenly find yourself having difficulty raising money for new projects

cell phone also stars one of China's biggest actors who is a bald guy and launched the career of fan bingbing, who was arguably the most famous Chinese actress in recent time



I think i mentioned Youth here before as a really good film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_(2017_film)



since most Chinese production companies don't bother with copyright strikes, you can often find multiple copies of most Chinese films uploaded by random people on youtube - often without subtitles though

ie here's cell phone but probably not much use since this copy has no subtitles

I'll always love his show, but he's definitely out of touch with modern audiences, and he comes across as a pretentious ahole in pretty much every interview I've seen of him. Also the way he treats comedians as some noble profession, and nobody outside of the industry has a right to judge what's funny, or even the ability to tell a joke, is absurd.

Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars.
Let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.


But! There's no life on Jupiter and Mars! No Spring!

I love these sorts of discussions/arguments because it shows how invested we are in films. Some filmgoers only discourse about movies amounts to either liking or hating a movie.

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I liked Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and I liked his early standup when he was breaking in.

I think a lot of comedians who haven't made their nut have been hurt by the loss of income from not being able to perform on campuses, and I sympathize with them.

fantastic movie and every time someone mentions it I feel compelled to recommend the other movie written and directed by nicole holofcener: enough said.

as for the martian I feel like when the book came out one major reason for it's huge popularity was that the author was incredibly scientifically accurate and he basically didn't have anything happen that wasn't grounded in real science.

now I know absolutely nothing about advanced physics so I can't weigh in on if that was true in the book or not but I remember the scientific community making a huge deal about that.

my main point being it would be evem more hilarious if hollywood took that book and then just made up a whole bunch of nonsense that completely broke all the rules of physics.

it's also starring JLD alongside what I believe was his final film role james gandolfini who is amazing as always.

Yeh I liked Enough Said as well. Makes sense they’re the same director as there’s a symmetry between them. Looks like Gandolfini’s second last role (The Drop released later anyways) - glad we got to see him play a completely different role.

oh man I LOVE the drop have seen it so many times
I know some ppl are turned off by the slow burn but I loved it and the ending was A++++

entire cast was fantastic but man hardy just made for that role.