Damon's excellent performance is another very important factor because we need an actor who we're not only going to believe in the part of a brilliant astronaut but we also must be entertained by him and care for him. On a technical level the film contains some wonderful cinematography, a great and rousing score and of course brilliant sound effects and set designs. By Scott creating a real environment you have no problem believing that you're seeing a man trapped on a planet with his closest help millions of miles away. If the viewer thought they were just looking at a set or just some fake CGI then it would pretty much kill the story. A lot of credit certainly goes to Scott who handles the material extremely well and most importantly is the fact that he makes you believe that this man is actually trapped on Mars. The film has a very good story to draw you in but I'm not going to lie and say I didn't have any problems with the movie but more on that in a bit.
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The idea of a man being trapped on a different planet and having to decide whether he wants to live or die is such a simple idea and there's no question that Scott knows how to handle drama and tension in space. Ridley Scott's THE MARTIAN is an extremely entertaining movie and it's easy to see why it became such a box office hit. Now Watney must find a way to try and survive on the planet with a lack of food and water. The commander in charge (Jessica Chastain) decide to leave the planet and NASA must announce that Watney has been killed but soon they all discover that he survived. The Martian (2015) *** 1/2 (out of 4) On a mission to Mars a crew of astronauts get caught in a brutal storm when one member, Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is hit with an object and apparently killed. It should take home deserved statues this year.
Besides Matt Damon, The Martian is also up for Best Picture and for a flock of awards in the technical categories. I would give mention to Jessica Chastain and her fine performance as a tough and yet humane leader of her team. Besides the realistic depiction of Mars, his performance is the other pillar on which this fine film rests.
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Although The Martian splits time evenly with Damon's plight and the efforts to rescue him, Matt's time alone on the screen with the full range of emotions displayed is what got him his Best Actor nomination.
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But that goes against the code of a decent civilization which while we're not at Star Trek level yet, we look to be heading that way. Just leaving him there is actually an option discussed. To say that there's a public relations problem is putting it mildly. The future also brings us better communication and NASA learns that Matt's still there. Captain Jessica Chastain takes when she thinks Damon was killed. What happens in The Martian is that Damon is part of an astronaut team and gets left behind when a Martian sand storm erupts and the crew flees on the space ship. Roberts from tedium to apathy and always boredom. And that's part of the story, the everlasting boredom trying to keep your mind fresh and busy with tasks for your survival. But if that's all I heard for months on end, I'd grow to hate Der Bingle. Personally I'd prefer a selection of 30s and 40s music with Bing Crosby at the top of my list. It's all he heard for the months he was on Mars.
His captain's taste in music was 70s disco and that really became a running joke. So you can't have Matt Damon's character listening to current music. Of course you can also never predict what popular trends will be there. Just this past year we saw 2015 come and go and it wasn't really anything like the 2015 that Marty McFly experienced. The film in that sense avoids a trap like so many others fall into. They never really say just exactly what year The Martian is set in. Compared to what Matt Damon has to go through, Robinson Crusoe was on that tropical isle for a picnic. It's a desert planet with water and no life as we know it. One of the film's best strengths is that it is based on what we know about the landscape and atmosphere of Mars right at this point in time. Although The Martian is set in an indeterminate future I have questions about labeling it science fiction.