Academy Conversations: The Martian

The Martian discussion with producer-director Ridley Scott, screenwriter Drew Goddard and composer Harry Gregson-Williams on October 3, 2015 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

[TheAmazingBLYATman]

Best Ridley Scott film since Gladiator!

[spottercorp]

The Martian best film of 2015 so far. And Academy pls giv Matt Damon & Ridley Scott their Oscars they deserve much!

[FreakieFan]

Possible Nominations:

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score

But.... Mad Max is probably going to win all of the technical Acadamy Awards over The Martian
But i hope The Martian wins for Director, Picture, Actor and Screenplay

[MikeMJPMUNCH]

Till I saw The Martian I had almost lost hope that Ridley Scott still had a great film left in him.

[FreakieFan]

The Martian was good!
Easily the best film of the year for me! (So far)

[mattmontada]

Possible Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Best Visual Effects

[Adamdow]

Ridley Scott should've been nominated for Best Director, but it's good he got the Best Picture nod.

[dealerovski]

I was missing the emotions, the human touch. The main character never displays any signs of loneliness, despair or fear. He is more like "oh, looks like I'm stuck on Mars,  let's grow potatoes" nowhere in the movie is it made clear what his main drive is to want to return to Earth. Nothing else to make me identify or sympathize with him. To be honest, I couldn't have cared less if he had not survived. The main problem that there is nothing novel about this movie. There have been better movies for every aspect of the film.

[PaulGLarsson]

Just my opinion, feel free to comment back because I want a discussion. I found it shallow. I thought Damon's character was taking this way too light and they took the jokes too far (not as Guardians of Galaxy far) but still too far, there's a joke for every serious situation. I was looking forward to see Mark really struggle on Mars with being lonely and Damon could've displayed some of his great acting ability but the material doesn't let him. I also don't get the start. They send a crew to Mars, one sandstorm comes on and they have to escape? It took such a long time to take people to mars and they don't get equipment which can handle some storms? This isn't a big problem though, not too into the technical stuff of the movie, but I wanted some more drama to be honest. Anyone feel the same way?