Did not like it much

Rating: 5/10 (7 March 2016)

I did not like it. The message of the movie that you can just go around the Universe and solve one problem after another using the current science and survive is a serious hit bellow the belt. The problem for me is that I do not like diluting science to this degree. It is not only this movie that suffers from this problem, but this is the one that has had 7 nominations. Special effects are wonderful and all that, but this is where it all stops.
For example, Sunshine (2007) is a movie that does not abuse the science to this degree because it starts with the premise that we have found the way of reigniting the Sun. That is quite advanced from what we have at the moment. Even when it refuses to explain some scientifically strange elements, it is turning into something else, it simply envelopes that part of the movie with elements from another genre, like adding horror elements. In the Martian, there is nothing even close to that, the science is more or less what we have today, and the story is told word for word, action taken word for word, and this is not sufficient and it is very painful for me to accept.
A movie works on the childish level and constantly fails. Only if I forget all that and watch the movie as if it is an episode of Star Trek then it is watchable. But the science is way to close to what we have today for this to be a Star Trek. This movie looks like a campaign for Mars exploration. A naive, childish attempt to persuade general public that it is worth it. We are far from doing any of that which is depicted in the movie. I would expect more some sort of poetic elements, but the movie is just brutal, yet not even nearly brutal as it is on the Mars. You cannot survive on the Mars in any form if you have the situation that is displayed in the movie. Period. From that point, a documentary attempt is a total miss. It remains fake and there is nothing added. Not a thing. No personal introspection, no questions, no confusions. If there is pain, it is mostly physical apart from few moments by the end of the movie that are detached from the rest of the movie. It is kind of Indiana Jones in space, but there is no hint of adventure, it is all so serious all along.
The scenery from the Mars is beautiful. Special effects, beautiful. Anything else is artificial and bad.
I have no idea why this has 7 nominations and is so highly praised. I truly wish people were not getting used to the movies made like this.