Review of The Martian (2015) by Scott W — 17 Dec 2017

I feel like this is a movie that could have been really good, but instead was just ok. The opening sequence is great, and I liked all of the maneuvering trying to figure out how to get Mark home. My main problem was with the tone.

There were too many times where it tried to be funny, and that just came off like it was from a different movie. Some of the music choices were distracting (Waterloo?). There's one scene where Jeff Daniels says something like "I hope nothing bad happens" and the camera lingers on him then the next second something bad happens.

That bothered me. I think if this was told as a straight dramatic tale of survival it would have worked a lot better.