Not even close to the expectations

Rating: 3/10 (14 March 2016)

After watching Apollo 13, I decided to watch The Martian and I was expecting a lot from this movie. But unfortunately, it was nowhere near to what I was expecting or in fact, "reality".
Apart from the red planet surface of mars and perhaps the mars rover, nothing in this movie seems realistic. The gravity of mars is about 1/3rd of the earth but Matt Damon seems to walk exactly like on earth. Even after being left alone on an uninhabitable planet, no feeling of being alone or even being scared to die seemed to emerge.
Above all, disco music in the background made the matter worse. It seemed like being alone on mars is like a weekend party?!
And why everything seemed to be so "High Tech". So many things looked unrealistic. Even the main control room of NASA was too dark to even work at? What was that about? It was very well depicted in Apollo 13.
And out of nowhere, Chinese people decide to help NASA by revealing their secret space mission? It is even hard to think of China working along with USA, let alone revealing a secret mission.
Then the whole team of astronauts just decide to go for the rescue mission right away even after knowing all the risks and time it will take? Seriously, it takes me more time to decide which burger I wanna eat at a restaurant.
In the end, after 561 SOL, eating only potatoes and a piece of bread, Matt doesn't seem to lose as much weight as he should have..
And the whole mission was being telecast on big screens like it was an Olympic game or something. Really? Since when NASA is so open about their missions -.-'
Overall experience, I just liked the Visual effects/CGI used to create the surface of mars, ships, and other things. But otherwise, very disappointed by the movie. I still haven't watched Gravity yet, I hope that will help me recover from my headache given by "The Martian".