The Martian . . .

[Benito]

Oh yay, a Matt Damon movie.
Pass.

Even aside from his assclown political views, his smug voice alone is enough to keep me from seeing this.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Oh yay, a Matt Damon movie.
Pass.

Even aside from his assclown political views, his smug voice alone is enough to keep me from seeing this.

We get it, you dont like movies unless it stars the cast of Fox and Friends.

[thei3ug]

Whenever I see him in a movie I am always briefly pulled out of the experience, first hearing him blather on about how he's not a conspiracy theorist, but can you prove the government DIDN'T engineer the falling of the towers to fast track global warming in order to threaten Delta Smelt so that the corporations could profit off of them somehow? Can you prove to me they DiDN'T??? Can you?????? Then I just hear "Maatttt Daaammmmoooonnn" in the Team America voice at the end of every line.

Talented, not talented, politically opposed or no, his public positions become distracting. I can't help but wonder when he's in a role, how much of it was an artistic decision and how much was proselytizing. I don't want to be preoccupied with those thoughts when I watch a film. I want to be engaged and entertained. He's done things I appreciated, but it's a consideration now when I choose what to watch. And as said before he has a distinct delivery style that seems to be very much at odds with the original character. Maybe he just really wants to be abandoned on a one way trip in space, can't get any government to sign off on strapping him to a rocket and is settling for any role he can grab where he slowly uses up all his oxygen raving about how his life choices may or may not have been subject to the machinations of some secret government cabal. He can't prove they weren't.

[jpmuscle]

We get it, you dont like movies unless it stars the cast of Fox and Friends.

Mmm Elizabeth Hasslebeck.

[Alex V]

Audio book is available on YouTube. Listening now

[caporider]

Read the book when it was a self-published $0.99 ebook on Amazon... Fantastic read with a solid grasp of actual science.

I hope the movie captures half of how clever the main character is in the book.

[Moose-Knuckle]

I saw the trailer last night and was planning on specifically sending you a PM about this movie Moose. I know Matt Damon has political views I disagree with and I having been voting with my dollars as of late but I just might have to go see this one anyways.

Hah, great minds and all that . . .







If I never listened to music or watched movies/TV due to the musician/actor's view I'd never listen to or watch anything. Matt Damon is a pretty good actor and writer. Good Will Hunting is still an awesome story/film and he nailed the Bourne trilogy. YMMV.

[Benito]

We get it, you dont like movies unless it stars the cast of Fox and Friends.

That's odd. I seem to like plenty of movies, yet I don't recall Fox and Friends having ever been cast in any film.

Whenever I see him in a movie I am always briefly pulled out of the experience, first hearing him blather on about how he's not a conspiracy theorist, but can you prove the government DIDN'T engineer the falling of the towers to fast track global warming in order to threaten Delta Smelt so that the corporations could profit off of them somehow? Can you prove to me they DiDN'T??? Can you?????? Then I just hear "Maatttt Daaammmmoooonnn" in the Team America voice at the end of every line.

Talented, not talented, politically opposed or no, his public positions become distracting. I can't help but wonder when he's in a role, how much of it was an artistic decision and how much was proselytizing. I don't want to be preoccupied with those thoughts when I watch a film. I want to be engaged and entertained. He's done things I appreciated, but it's a consideration now when I choose what to watch. And as said before he has a distinct delivery style that seems to be very much at odds with the original character. Maybe he just really wants to be abandoned on a one way trip in space, can't get any government to sign off on strapping him to a rocket and is settling for any role he can grab where he slowly uses up all his oxygen raving about how his life choices may or may not have been subject to the machinations of some secret government cabal. He can't prove they weren't.

Agreed. It is distracting, but even more importantly, the man is not talented. He simply cannot assume and pull off a role other than Matt Damon playing a ____ (insert character description here).

Hah, great minds and all that . . .

If I never listened to music or watched movies/TV due to the musician/actor's view I'd never listen to or watch anything. Matt Damon is a pretty good actor and writer. Good Will Hunting is still an awesome story/film and he nailed the Bourne trilogy. YMMV.

I disagree on all counts. I guess that at this point, we are entering the territory of virtually pure subjectivity, and we cannot prove opinions on art.
I'll keep my money out of the pockets of spoiled Hollywood millionaire socialist elitists pumping out slick Progressive propaganda. There's plenty of better uses of my time and money, even just for entertainment's sake.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

I disagree on all counts. I guess that at this point, we are entering the territory of virtually pure subjectivity, and we cannot prove opinions on art.
I'll keep my money out of the pockets of spoiled Hollywood millionaire socialist elitists pumping out slick Progressive propaganda. There's plenty of better uses of my time and money, even just for entertainment's sake.

Tell me then, what movies are NOT financed, produced, directed, edited, written, acted in, etc by Hollywood progressives?

[MountainRaven]

I'm actually listening to the audio book right now, I highly recommend it.

One thing that runs through my mind when listening to it though... NASA spends probably half a billion dollars, if not more, to save the life of this one guy.

Imagine how many lives that money could save in other uses?

"Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out.
"Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price."