The Martian is a science fiction space movie starring Matt Damon. He plays Mark Watney, a botanist on a NASA crew, exploring and studying Mars and when the crew has to leave suddenly because of a bad storm that threatens the space ship that has to take them to Mars. Visibility is poor and things turn south really quick and the leader of the crew has good reason to think that Watney is dead so they leave without him. Well guess what? He didn’t die and his efforts and determination to stay alive is what propels this movie forward.
He has to figure out how to let the folks at home know that he is alive, how to grow his own food supply and a whole bunch of other things plus deal with unexpected disasters in the meantime. I’m not going to give you a summary of the movie, you can find that at IMDB and you can check out the movie web site for more info. Check out the “goofs” section of the IMDB data. I always love those.
I will tell you that this is a great movie and I give it two thumbs up. There is some blood and gore at first, but hey I’m a seasoned Breaking Bad viewer so it didn’t bother me in the least. We have the gratuitous naked butt view of Matt Damon which didn’t do a thing for me. Other than that everybody keeps their clothes on. You know, Jessica Chastain is in the movie, why couldn’t we see her butt instead?
I’ll tell what is really amusing is reading the moans, groans, bitches, and complaints of experts who question the science of the movie. What a bunch of overeducated morons. It is a movie folks, not a science documentary! Get real.
I always love your reviews of the movies you see and I do SO agree with you about the moans and groans and bitches of the “experts”!! Thanks for the giggles to start my day!! Hope you have a great day!!
I’ve heard from the girls at work it’s meant to be a good movie so I think we may watch it tonight 🙂
Agreed – it was an awesome film!