My new favorite Sci-fi movie!

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2016)

I first watched The Martian soon after it came out in theaters in October 2015 with some friends after classes were over for the day. I thought, "Oh hey, it's another sci-fi movie, this will be great," but I had no idea what was in store. Mark Watney is stranded alone on Mars after a mission gone wrong. His methods of survival will leave viewers feeling inspired and also laughing a bit, too. From the minute the film began, it had me hooked. I felt like I was really there with the other astronauts. There were times during the movie when data about little detailed things like the oxygen level and alerts would come up inside the astronauts' helmets. It made the experience very real. I was impressed by the way this movie juxtaposed many things: from feeling big because of achievements to feeling small in the grand scheme of things, feeling like you've conquered to feeling like you've been conquered by a foreign planet, feeling like you've been left behind to feeling unbridled joy. If I could choose my career all over again, I would want to become an astronaut because of this movie. It is very powerful, amazingly designed, and reminds you that with some quick thinking, anything is possible.