Rocky IS Daredevil.
My issue with Artemis is that it reads like it was 100% intended to be adapted for the screen, down to including big action set-pieces at regular intervals - so I imagine it will work pretty well as a movie.
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I love a good long film but this one was the right length. I don’t feel like we missed anything necessary, just more scientific explanations that are better suited for the book. The only thing I missed was more time on Erid.
One thing I realized today. Are the flashbacks supposed to be Ryland slowly remembering his old life and piecing it together--or are they just...flashbacks?
In the novel they are his memories gradually coming back to him. Admittedly the movie didn't really make this clear and indeed, they don't make the fact he has amnesia as much as a plot point as it was in the novel. IE, in the novel he couldn't even leave the room where he was sleeping until he remembered his name and said it to his computer, which takes a chapter or two. While in the movie he travels all throughout the ship within the first ten minutes without needing to tell the computer his name.
Actually, it does make it clear a couple of times that he doesn't remember everything right away and it can be insinuated from there that the flashbacks correlate with him recalling those moments. It's true it doesn't do this for the nitty-gritty details (again, better suited for the book) but it does do this for the bigger points.
When I was watching I did take it to be his remembering gradually. For example, he seems to remember his mission after the flashbacks that let us know what's going on. And he seems to remember that he wants to go home only after we see how he actually got there.
^There's also the vignetting combined with fringing at the start of his memories, which sort of imply a brain fog that eventually clears up. Plus, there's that one part where he's clutching his head after a memory the first time he starts remembering.
I'll definitely be watching this again and will probably pick up more the second time.
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The ones that briefly disappeared during one of the meetings around a conference table (I think it’s the one where he learns about his role in “Plan B”)?
I wonder if the movie version of Blip-A was influenced by the craft here:
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Don't know if the book should be made into a film because anytime that happens the film always gets the book wrong, many of my favourite books that have been made into films have suffered as a result.
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Saw it yesterday.
A lot of science stuff was removed from the film. It was more about the relationship. The writers basically took a hard science fiction novel and made it less hard.
Otherwise, I did enjoy the ride.
I do recommend folks listen to the audible or read the book.
I do hope we get an extended version with more of the science put back into the film.
A lot of science stuff was removed from the film. It was more about the relationship. The writers basically took a hard science fiction novel and made it less hard.
Otherwise, I did enjoy the ride.
I do recommend folks listen to the audible or read the book.
I do hope we get an extended version with more of the science put back into the film.
There's plenty of hard science in the film, as much as one can do in a film without dragging it down. As I said in my review, this film's adaptation emulates The Martian's adaptation by maintaining the spirit of the novel while balancing the science fact and science fiction just right.
The one thing that I missed from the book that ironically would have strengthened their friendship and understanding of having achieved alien contact was when it dawns on Grace that their base numbering is completely different to ours. The visual aspect via sonar was a nice touch, but that was only one aspect of the differences that was touched upon. The only hint of the numbering was via his clock, but without comment from Grace as to why the clock is so different looking. And that was such a key moment in the book. Sort of an Eureka moment as to what Grace was dealing with.
Same scriptwrter as The Martian too. Drew Goddard did a great job with both, honouring the spirit and intent of the books without letting the movies get bogged down. Lord & Miller along with Goddard understood the assignment.
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