I unspoilered the above in my quote as it's all over the trailers for the film :)MoRmEnGiL wrote:While the actual science of the film is grounded in reality, you cannot take the facts seriously because of the way they are presented. It does have one or two inaccuracies or liberties, but that is not the problem. It has a completely inappropriate tone for the subject matter. Maybe the book is this way too, I haven't read it, but I was utterly disappointed and couldn't enjoy the movie at all.
The moment
The phrase "I'm gonna have to science the shit out of it" hit us
Hmmm...ok, now I'm completely confused. The main character's rampant swearing is present in the book as well, and I didn't find it the least bit off-putting. The first sentence in the book (which I somehow doubt they kept for the film) is "I'm pretty much fucked", and really, those bits only made me smile as I found them highly relatable.
The scientists and engineers I've been friends with over the course of my life (and I'd say most of my close friends have been one or the other) have been some of the most hysterically vulgar party-animals I've ever met, and I found the voice of the main character in the book reflected that kind of personality extremely well. Now granted, that's likely a subset, and maybe even a small one, of the scientific community that I have a particular affinity towards due to my own personality (I have a thing for smart and eccentric people), but it does seem quite normal to me.
By contrast, I tend to have a real dislike for what I view to be the pompous nigh-religious fanaticism that I find tends to come across from scientists that I think take themselves too seriously, so I found the tone of the book to be rather refreshing.
So, guess I'm just going to have to see it and form my own opinions on it ;)