It's WOW as in I told my wife after seeing it that it has given me renewed hope w/r/t movies. I was ready to throw in the towel on the film industry, but this movie was phenomenal. My only criticism is that some of the dialogue was hard to follow in a couple of spots. Leo deserves some recognition of course, but I thought Tom Hardy's performance ranks up there with some of the best I've seen in a movie. Highly, highly recommended (although, I never rely on the recommendations/reviews of others).
I hate to be that guy, but... You fly a lot. Get the Martian on audiobook, it's pretty short, like 15 hours. 1000x better than the movie. The movie was good because I read the book. There was too much glossed over or completely skipped that it made the movie seemed rushed to me.
I don't read much fiction, but I also fly a lot and may just take you up on your suggestion. The movie was too "Hollywood" for me (all seemed to go just right), but perhaps the additional narrative and my imagination will solve that.
I enjoy reading A Brief History of Time, and books of the like, so it sounds like I may enjoy the math/thought process aspect. I may give it a shot.
The book is really well done and the reader of the audiobook does a great job. The author walks through the physics/chemistry of his decisions, in a non-boring way, which is an incredible feat in and of itself. The real brilliance is that the author leaves tiny believable oversights in, that later lead to consequences that drive the plot. Like others said, the book is better than the movie, but reading the book also makes the movie much more enjoyable.
