Very Disappointed

Rating: 2/10 (14 October 2015)

The Martian is directed by Ridley Scott and is based on the novel by Andy Weir featuring Matt Damon as our main charter Mark Watney. The movie is about a group of scientist who needed to abort Mars due to a severe storm, during the process Mark Whiney was hit by a debris and considered dead. He has to find a way to survive and contact Nasa and inform them that he is Alive. I have read the book and I loved it. This movie was on my top list this year, and guess what, I hated it. I have to say I was bored out of my mind while watching this film, every second of it I just wanted it to end. In the book Mark Watney was in constant danger, I was rooting for him the whole ride and I was looking forward to do the same in the film. But in this movie, I was so bored I almost forgot about him since the movie is filmed on earth half the time. In the book, the story mainly focus's on Mark Whitney survival, but in this movie, more then half of the movie was filmed on earth, this ruins the feeling of loneliness on Mars, it lost the grip of dangerousness since we are are constantly surrounded on earth with human beings. This gives the feeling that Mark Whitney is going to survive since we see that half the movie people are trying to save him instead of seeing Mark Watney struggle to survive on Mars alone. This really ruins the movie, it took all the tension away.
There were some scenes that could have defiantly been made a lot better. Ridley Scott could have done a way better job if he could show what caused the disasters to happen in the movie. In the book when something bad is about to happen, Andy Weir describes it and shows the reader that Mark Whitney is in danger and he has no clue about it, this makes me root for him and want him to survive. It gives me a sense of danger he is in and how helpless he is with out any clue how much trouble he is going to be in. The way Andy Weir writes it also helps foreshadow that something really bad is going to happen and you don't know when. In the movie Ridley Scott didn't explain anything which doesn't help build up the danger Marl Watney is in. The soundtrack also didn't go well in the film, it made me feel like sometimes Mark Watney was having more fun in space then in danger. I have to say Ridley Scott did a really bad job in turning such a great novel in a movie. Although I was bored out of my mind I have to say there were some beautiful shots of Mars and space in the is movie and Matt Damon did a really job in his role. I am going to give this movie a 2/10.