But 'The Martian' smartly avoids any familiar Hollywood tropes here, allowing Sanders to be an extremely well-rounded and even sympathetic character that the audience can relate to, even if they don't always agree with the decisions he's making.ДЄbout the only thing that does seem 'Hollywood' about 'The Martian' is the scene in which Watney's rescue is performed (I hope it's not a spoiler.but did you really think they weren't going to rescue him?). In any other movie by any other team of filmmakers, it would have been very easy to turn Daniels' character into a bad guy.giving the audience someone to root against. Even more though, Sanders is forced to juggle the desire to rescue Watney with the very real limitations of both the scientific logistics of rescuing him and the budgetary abilities of NASA to do so. One of the first decisions is not to tell the returning crew from Mars about him, as it would only prove to distract them on their return back home. Back on Earth, a NASA team led by Director Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) must decide what вЂ“ if anything вЂ“ to do about Watney. His intelligence is only matched by his sense of humor, and Damon is delightful in the role вЂ“ a performance that won him the Golden Globe and got him nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.Д«ut Watney's dilemma makes up for only half the drama here. While most writers would have delved into the horrors of such a predicament, both Weir's book and Goodard's screenplay present Watney as a man of extreme exuberance. Left behind, Watney must use his scientific knowledge to figure out a way to survive on Mars until a rescue mission can be mounted back at NASA.

The movie stars Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney, who gets stranded on the red planet when the remainder of the crew вЂ“ believing he is dead вЂ“ launches their rocket back towards Earth during a brutal Martian storm. I don't know if this is Ridley's best movie ever, but it's got a strong argument for being his most crowd-pleasing. Scott should get a lot of credit as well. Yes, a lot of that no doubt is due to Weir's novel (and the screenplay by Drew Goddard), but Mr. Not only is 'The Martian' a tremendous achievement for Ridley Scott and all involved, but there's a sense of lightheartedness and fun here (among dire circumstances to be sure) that I don't think has been present in any of Ridley's prior movies. I mean you're talking to a guy who still doesn't understand all the fuss about Gladiator, which I still think is pretty mediocre. Scott's technical abilities as a filmmaker, I've been less than satisfied by most of the movies he's directed over the past 20 or so years. While I had not read the Andy Weir novel upon which the movie is based (and still haven't), I was pretty wary about the fact that Ridley Scott had been picked to helm the picture. 'The Martian' turned out to be one of my favorite films of last year, but I certainly didn't expect it to be so going into my first viewing.

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