It's disappointing how much they cut out of his personal journey and replaced it with long sections of goofy gags. Those were ok, but not at the expense of character development. It did still feel indulgent in how long some scenes went.

Overall a good movie though. Just not as awesome an adaptation as The Martian was

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Stratt had almost all of her character stripped away too. Without the Antarctica or Sahara bits she just felt like a project manager rather than the ruthless person she was in the novel.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

Stratt: I believe in God.

Me: What?

Stratt: Evangelical karaoke

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I wanted so badly to talk about how they gutted what she did to keep humanity around til the Beatles (which were never named as Beatles so it was weird to see that they were still named after all 4 of em) arrived... but I went with two others who never read the book.