I read it earlier this year and thought it was great. Imagine my delight when I found out there was a movie coming out in July!

99% of the time when a book I enjoy gets a major studio movie treatment the result is garbage, though. So I imagine the opposite of delight.

When I first learned of the movie, I thought it would be a small/indi film that I'd have to dig up from my local library archives. Then I learned it was going to be a "blockbuster" and had mixed feelings - still pretty excited! I'm sure there will be about a dozen "that's not how it was in the book" moments but whatever, can't be worse than the last movie I saw at the theater (Dial of Destiny)

The Martian is an excellent movie based on one of the best scifi books. Gives me a lot of hope for the Project Hail Mary movie.

To my understanding the Martian was originally written as web serial, right?

I haven’t seen the movie. Not personally my type of film although I’ve heard good things.

I finished The Martian and then immediately discovered there was a movie coming out in two weeks. That was pretty cool.

No movie was ever going to do the book any justice. The journal-like structure of the book turned every chapter into an adventure, whereas the movie was just a space movie.

It was a very good space movie, though.

It doesn't replace the book, of course, but I thought it stood fine on its own.

There is also an opera about Oppenheimer called Doctor Atomic by John Adams that came out that year. (I have seen it mentioned surprisingly little.)

The finale to Act I has what is probably the most famous aria in the opera, "Batter My Heart": https://youtu.be/uYiokai3FW4

It's quite an experience to see this at the Santa Fe Opera, at sunset, outdoors, right down the road from Los Alamos.

American Prometheus is the first real book I read as a 5th grader doing a book report on a scientist. It inspired me to become a scientist myself.