Waaaaait The Movie Is THAT Bad??? Guess I Won't Be Watching It Anytime Soon. BRING SOL 6 BACK IT IS THE

waaaaait the movie is THAT bad??? guess i won't be watching it anytime soon. BRING SOL 6 BACK IT IS THE PIVOTING POINT FOR MARK'S FOOD PLAN

The Martian is one of my favorite books of all time, but I just can't enjoy the movie because they REALLY dumbed it down.

In the book, Mark Watney says that if the Hab pops, he'll "just sort of explode," which is funny hyperbole. In the movie, they change the line to "just sort of implode," which is the same joke but wrong now. Like, yeah, you wouldn't really explode in a vacuum, but the science works out that the pressure inside your body is greater than the pressure outside, so the common understanding is that you'd explode. It doesn't make sense to say you're gonna implode on Mars. I don't know why they changed that.

When he burns hydrogen, there's an explosion, but his explanation of forgetting to account for the oxygen he exhaled doesn't make sense in the movie. In the book, he vents all the oxygen out of the Hab and burns off the hydrogen with small bursts of oxygen from a tank; instead of wearing a spacesuit he wears a surgical mask that isn't airtight, so every exhale released a little bit of extra oxygen into the pure hydrogen environment until it built up enough to explode. Makes sense. In the movie, he's burning hydrogen in a normal oxygen environment, so it wouldn't matter how much he exhales because there's air all around the flame. They reversed the stoichiometry (there's your ten dollar word of the day)

The first message he sends to NASA in the book is "if you are receiving me, point the camera here," but in the movie they changed it to "point here for yes, point here for no." Why would he include the no option? He's a scientist, the moviemakers added this because audiences are stupid.

They never explain why he cuts a hole in the rover and adds a balloon to it, or why the Hab airlock explodes, or how he was able to survive being impaled by an antenna.

Most egregiously, at the end of the book Mark says "if this were a movie, I would be met in the airlock by all my friends and we'd hug and high five and cry, but this is real life and it's cramped in there and they all have jobs to do manning the ship and I need to go straight to the infirmary," and they do exactly that in the movie. Also, Mark endangers himself and Commander Lewis by poking a hole in his glove to fly like Iron Man, and idea she vetoed in the book because Mark was delerious after passing out from the g-forces of the launch. Also also, in the book it's the EVA specialist Beck who rescues Mark; it doesn't make sense for the commander to risk her life for drama, "it's my fault he's stuck here, I gotta be the one to bring him back!"

There are a million tiny things that all add up, and I can't get over it.