Hi I Just got back from seeing the Martian at the cinemas haha Yes I Chucked a sickie. Went to the first opening session to see it on the big screen. None of that 3d rubbish by the way, are no good old-fashioned 2d. Yes it is as good as you have heard and as you are hoping it is I think it certainly deserves it.

So what? 95% rotten rotten tomato Raiding all the critics you know absolutely love this thing. And yes it is as good as I was hoping and it's a sort of like just my thoughts after watching the thing. Now if you've been living on Mars and you haven't heard of the Martian shame on you because it's you know in the science engineering nerd geek community it's all the talk. It's all the rage because it's based on arm Andy Weir's novel.

Its supposedly a sci-fi novel about how an astronaut Mark Watney gets stranded on Mars he's um, he was part of the Ares 3 crew that lands on Mars is supposed to spend like a month there and then go. but as sand storm comes along and look they have to abort, they think he's dead so they leave him there, bugger off back home and we'll He's alive and he has to survive. and to use his words science the out of it to actually survive on Mars for hundreds and hundreds of days or souls as in on on Mars And it's basically if you've seen the movie Apollo 13 that scene where they've got to put the what is that the round a filter into the square hole or whatever and all the engineers are gathered around the table. They've got all these parts and they paraphrasing, but you know are right.

We've been given this task to make this fit into this using only these parts here. Let's do it. You know that sort of, you know. MacGyver ISM Engineering type our mentality.

Listen up people upstairs. Candidus this one and we got to come through. We got to find a way to make this fit into the hole. for this.

Using nothing but that. let's get it ordered. Okay, okay, let's build a filter, get some coffee going through, and that's basically pretty much most of the movie. And Andy Where's Book is pretty much a day-by-day account of surviving on Mars Actually doing the engineer and doing the science and making it all work and actually surviving.

And that's basically what most of the movie is. Pretty much a movie for geeks, but the general audience will certainly love it and appreciate it as well now. Stunning visuals of Mars I Just love it I Don't know how you know all computer-generated and all that sort of stuff, but fantastic. It's just what your picture.

now. there were a few parts in the movie where I thought they could have used the Nerds a bit better. You know, because the books all about the Merton Nerds back at JPL and NASA and anyone trying to solve problems and do stuff like that and Mindy Park, for example, one character in there I thought they'd really use her and she doesn't really do a huge amount in the movie I Thought they could have done that a bit better, but really nitpicking stuff like that. but it's definitely a movie that nerds will appreciate.

It really doesn't leave you wanting. although the book is so rich. I've read the book as well is so rich in detail in terms of the engineering and the science because even though it's supposed to be a science fiction novel, Andy we're actually went to all the trouble to actually, you know, make it like real science. There's only a couple of things which aren't which they take a few liberties with.

the Sand Storm for example, which is the whole premise of the movie. Why they have to, you know, bought Mars Of course you know a sandstorm on Mars based on Mars very thin atmosphere. It just be like a gentle breeze here. you know you so.

But yeah, but most of it is really based on real science, real engineering, solving problems and things like that. It still doesn't leave you one in, but it's amazing how much detail is actually in the book and then that they have to chop it while they chose to chop out of the movie. I'm going to show how long it was. actually it's seemed to fly by.

but yeah, there was like a lot of stuff that I was, you know, sort of expecting to see in the movie and wasn't there. Not that that's a bad thing. It's still a fantastic movie, but there's tons and tons of detail. I Guess with hindsight, it's really obvious when you've got a book with so much technical detail of all these technical things happening day by a day over, you know, like a hundred days or whatever, then you know you can't include all of it in the movie.

In fact, there's one scene I won't spoil it for you where it's basically a nod to people who have read the book and you'll you know. So I heard people in the audience laughs but they didn't know what the line was because they sort of leave it out. and if you've read the book, you know what what it is and what they're talking about. But yeah, so that was that.

Really quite neat. And I thought the ending was absolutely perfect because the book is actually quite quite an abrupt end in so to speak, but the movie they are Ridley Scott or whoever wrote the script or whatever, whoever was involved in that yet they did the end in really well and highlighted you know the science and engineering and as I'm talking about the young people actually getting into it. so I thought absolutely brilliant ending for this thing. But overall the biggest thing about this movie is that it is basically one big advertisement for Science for Engineering for getting kids.

you can see imagine kids actually watching this thing and going. you know? wow I You know really want to get into science, engineering botany Mark Watney's a botanist and mechanical engineer and that's how he survives on Mars using his our botany skills to grow, stuff his mechanical engineering skills to do things and you can just pitch your kids watching this movie and just you know wanting to get into various are formed in various areas of the sciences. Be an engineer and if it botany for example can see you know people go oh wow Botany thing sounds alright and it's fantastic I Don't know of another movie and please leave it in the comments if you think there is a better movie that's an advertisement for science and engineering I Off the top of my head I can't think of one so if you do have one yet, leave it in the comments down below. So that's it.

the Martian I've got to go back and watch it again. it was so good! Ah fantastic movie. Two thumbs up and a big Fonz a You'll get that once you see the movie Anyway, there was one line in the movie that I didn't like that I thought they shouldn't include and I'll leave that up to you to figure it out Anyway, go see it the Martian Beauty Catch you next time.