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During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring "the Martian" home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible, rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney's safe return. Written by
20th Century Fox
In the novel, Mark Watney has two Masters degrees, one in botany and one in mechanical engineering. In the film, however, he has a PhD in botany and no engineering background is mentioned, although he is shown to have a knowledge of engineering and maintenance of the mission equipment. See more »
Goofs
When setting up initial communications with NASA, Watney describes needing 27 distinct angles for each letter of the English alphabet and a question mark. When he remembers hexadecimals and ASCII, he mistakenly includes the question mark even though the hexadecimal numbering system does not use one (only 0-9 A-F, making 16 unique symbols, hence the name). 17 signs are used in the movie, and NASA sends messages concluding with a literal question mark instead of using the ASCII encoding for a question mark (0x3F) or another appropriate control code to denote the end of a message. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Melissa Lewis:
All right team, stay in sight of each other. Let's make NASA proud today.
Rick Martinez:
How's it looking over there, Watney?
Mark Watney:
Well, you will be happy to hear that in Grid Section 14-28, the particles were predominately coarse but in 29, they're much finer and they should be ideal for chem analysis.
Rick Martinez:
Oh, wow. Did everybody hear that? Mark just discovered dirt.
[laughs]
Rick Martinez:
Should we alert the media?
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Crazy Credits
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ROCK THE BOAT
Written by Wally Holmes (as Waldo T. Holmes)
Performed by The Hues Corporation
Courtesy of RCA Records
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The Martian is a science-fiction film about an astronaut on a mission with his team on Mars who due to an unfortunate storm gets left on the planet alone while struggling to survive and get home.
I had a great time watching this film. Usually movies in this genre can be quite clichéd but The Martian was a very fresh take. It was at times both bleak and intense, and yet somehow still managed to find comedic relief. The acting was superb and a lot of the shots of the sparse terrain of Mars really helped give off that feeling of being alone. Mark Watney (played brilliantly by Matt Damon) is an interesting character and even though he faces some very dire circumstances followed by doubt, he never stops fighting to make it off Mars alive. It was great watching him science his way out of all of his problems, even if most of the science was probably not realistic or accurate (I'm not a scientist of any field so I wouldn't know).
I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone, even if you aren't a fan of the science-fiction genre. I was thoroughly entertained throughout the entire run time and if you haven't seen this movie as yet, do yourself a favour and see it the next chance you get!
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The Martian is a science-fiction film about an astronaut on a mission with his team on Mars who due to an unfortunate storm gets left on the planet alone while struggling to survive and get home.
I had a great time watching this film. Usually movies in this genre can be quite clichéd but The Martian was a very fresh take. It was at times both bleak and intense, and yet somehow still managed to find comedic relief. The acting was superb and a lot of the shots of the sparse terrain of Mars really helped give off that feeling of being alone. Mark Watney (played brilliantly by Matt Damon) is an interesting character and even though he faces some very dire circumstances followed by doubt, he never stops fighting to make it off Mars alive. It was great watching him science his way out of all of his problems, even if most of the science was probably not realistic or accurate (I'm not a scientist of any field so I wouldn't know).
I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone, even if you aren't a fan of the science-fiction genre. I was thoroughly entertained throughout the entire run time and if you haven't seen this movie as yet, do yourself a favour and see it the next chance you get!