Saw the movie version of The Martian and it made me mad about a potato farming scene

I watched The Martian movie last week after reading the book back in 2015. The book spent like 50 pages on Mark Watney growing potatoes on Mars with all this technical soil drama. In the movie they glossed over it in maybe 5 minutes with a quick montage. I was sitting there yelling at my TV because the whole point was how hard it was to make dirt not kill him. My buddy who never read the book thought I was crazy for getting so worked up. But honestly the book wins for me because you feel the struggle way more. Has anyone else had a book adaptation cut out a key detail that made you mad?

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gavin_knight3911d ago

My buddy ranted about the Harry Potter movies cutting Peeves for ten minutes straight.

abby_chen11d ago

Tell your buddy Peeves was so annoying even the movies ghosted him.