Many if not most of the world's population alive today . . .

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2015)

. . . believe that the Apollo "Moon Landings" were shot on a Hollywood film stage. I would like to argue that the REAL hoax is the claim that THE MARTIAN is just a movie--NOT a documentary largely shot on Mars. There are dozens of dead-giveaways to prove my contention. I have space to list these few. First, all of Matt Damon's public appearances for at least the several years of the Ares III Mission were performed by photo doubles. I personally saw one of these next to the Visitor's (Yankee's) dugout in Detroit during a 2006 American League Division Series Game, and it wasn't very convincing. Second, releasing this space exploration documentary in the guise of a fictional feature flick spares NASA the embarrassment of owning up to a Real Life crew mutiny. Third, the backgrounds amid which Astronaut Damon maneuvers are NOT fake-looking (like STAR WARS and STAR TREK); they're clearly REAL--just not anywhere on Earth. Finally, Americans have been dying to know why we haven't nuked China already, given its shenanigans in Tibet, Africa, and on International Waters. THE MARTIAN shows WHY we've given China such wide latitude to assault the World: it's simply our way of saying "Thank you," since they played such a huge role in rescuing Astronaut Damon.