Ridley Scott explained how studios didn’t realize ‘The Martian’ was a comedy.

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    3 hours ago

    It is a very big change because of the reason he only uses his own poop and not the poop of the other astronauts. They broke away from the hard science in order to insert a joke.

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      10 minutes ago

      I have to agree with both of your points. The poop thing and the iron man thing were my only two real issues with the movie though.

      Obviously a ton of the book’s content is removed to make it fit in a single movie, but I think they did a great job, especially when compared to other adaptations.

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        2 minutes ago

        I like the movie, and I am agreeing with Ridley Scott. It was clearly a comedy. The book had humor in it, but it was science first. I saw it as a thought experiment on what it would take for someone to survive in Mars. The movie’s tone was more of adventure comedy, and there is nothing wrong with that.

        Donald Glover was fantastic.