From: pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu   
      
   Paul S Person  writes:   
      
   > I finally rented this from Amazon and saw it last night.   
   >   
   > It is a well-done film and would be worth four stars except for one   
   > small problem: it is as dull as dishwater. Three stars, then.   
   >   
   > This may not be apparent unless you view it, as I did, as being in the   
   > same "realistic space movie" category as /Apollo 13/. Comparing the   
   > two shows the difference between a really good movie and one that is   
   > well-done but ... dispensible.   
   >   
   > IMHO, of course.   
      
   And not a HO I share in the slightest.  I had the same sense of constant   
   tension in the Martian as I did in Apollo 13.   
      
   I'll say having any tension at all in Apollo 13 is a *real* tribute to   
   everyone involved in the film, since we all know how it came out decades   
   before the movie was made.   
      
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