Average family sit-on-the-sofa-with-popcorns movie

Rating: 3/10 (22 October 2015)

Well, I saw The Martian yesterday and in some ways reminded me of Interbo..ocks ( "Interstellar"). So far nothing can surprise me in the world of sci fi overtaking Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey​ (1968) , Blade Runner​ (1982,Ridley Scott, again), Alien (1979, yes Ridley Scott, I know) ,Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991,James Cameron) and Moon (2009, Duncan Jones). Half of the movie filling is a lot of American djaba-da-ba-dooo which I don't mind in The Flintstones family saga but not in a serious epic like the this one and Mr. Ridley Scott had bend over her majesty Hollywood to make a soap opera which everybody wanted. Yes, he did not make this movie for himself as he did with Blade Runner and The Alien but for everyone else.I am forgiving him only because the disco choice of music as a soundtrack. Such a choice can make sense only in a family soap opera to soften the edges of the harsh space but will you have the forever remaining epic with a Kubrick's class? I doubt it.
Matt Damon did his job, cut his rare beard, took a metal steel off his tummy to put us on the edge of our seats at the beginning,cried few times over the plants he seeded in martian soil and did not lose his nerves for 982 days! Or it was 1052?! What a hero! What a discipline and what a palavva.The photography was a good advert for NASA and ow yeah, so many facts that you have never heard about the Cosmos that even a documentary like Carl Sagan's Cosmos would sound like a fairy tale. Well, this one is nicely packaged. You can remember it among other "classics" such as Armageddon and Space Cowboys. Well, you got it guys. You have your popcorn and your movie. Enjoy!It's a good sale!