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The Martian (2015)

PG-13   |    |  Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

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An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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Awards

Nominated for 7 Oscars.

Another 38 wins & 192 nominations.

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22 December 2015 | Siebert_Tenseven
10
| I Am The Only One Who Was Not Disappointed
Having read the book, and being very impressed, I was looking forward to the movie interpretation. I was not the least bit disappointed. I was hoping this movie would not be an overacted, overproduced and sappy version of the original, and I was pleasantly surprised that the story played out without the overblown extraneous embellishment that Hollywood seems to depend on so often.

It was great to see how the screenplay added extra material that was not in the book, and it enhanced the story to make it even better. The characters were interpreted with full respect to the intention of the author, Andy Weir, and nothing was overdone. The pacing and editing of this movie was some of the best I've seen, in fact, some of the one-liners from the book are done so quickly it pushed the story forward relentlessly.

One thing that struck me is that everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, and I think that could be a testament to the originality and uniqueness of the book. I believe anyone who reads the book is captivated and involved with the story from beginning to end, and it's possible this comes across in all phases of the production; the acting, the sets, sound, everything. They all knew they had some great material to work with and ran with it.

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Watney likens cutting a hole in his suit glove to create a reaction control thruster to Iron Man (2008). Several of the actors in this film have starred in or are set to star in various Marvel adaptations: Sebastian Stan portrayed Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) at the time and later Captain America: Civil War (2016), Kate Mara portrayed Sue Storm/Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four (2015) and a deputy U.S. Marshal in Iron Man 2 (2010), Michael Peña portrayed Luis in Ant-Man (2015) and the follow up Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). Donald Glover is the voice of Miles Morales/Spider-Man on the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) and later appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), both Chiwetel Ejiofor and Benedict Wong later appeared in Doctor Strange (2016), and Matt Damon appeared as Loki Actor in Thor: Ragnarok (2017). Jessica Chastain portrayed the villain Vuk in the X-Men based film, "Dark Phoenix."

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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 ...

Goofs

Vincent's e-mail is presented to Mindy on Sol 54 with a time-stamp of 00:35:16 (no date), but the bottom of the screen shows SOL 462 19:28:30, which would be the day after the pirate scene when Watney leaves the Hab much later in the film.

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"For more of the Ares III story, visit AresLive.com"

Alternate Versions

In June of 2016, an extended cut was released on Blu-Ray and Ultra HD 4K Blu-Ray that adds 10 additional minutes of footage.

Soundtracks

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Written by Pete Bellotte, Keith Forsey and Harold Faltermeyer (as Harold Faltermeier)
Performed by Donna Summer
Courtesy of Island Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

Storyline

Plot Summary

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Genres

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Details

Release Date:

2 October 2015

Language

English, Mandarin

Country of Origin

UK, USA, Hungary, Jordan

Filming Locations

Hungary

Box Office

Budget:

$108,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$54,308,575 4 October 2015

Gross USA:

$228,433,663

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$630,162,448

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