The Martian (2015)

 ●  English ● 2 hrs 21 mins

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When astronauts blast off from the planet Mars, they leave behind Mark Watney, presumed dead after a fierce storm. With only a meager amount of supplies, the stranded visitor must utilize his wits and spirit to find a way to survive on the hostile planet. Meanwhile, back on Earth, members of NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring him home, while his crew mates hatch their own plan for a daring rescue mission.
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Cast: Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Matt Damon

Crew: Ridley Scott (Director), Dariusz Wolski (Director of Photography), Harry Gregson-Williams (Music Director)

Rating: U/A (India)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Release Dates: 02 Oct 2015 (India)

Tagline: Bring Him Home

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Based on 13 ratings
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This movie is great.

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A near perfect film from a director back in his element!
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Look, there’s no two ways to say this. The Martian is fantastic. It’s easily one of my favorite films of the year and it’s only October! The movie stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut who gets left behind on Mars and has to survive with limited resources available until help arrives. Damon’s portrayal of the character is stellar! His comic timing and his acting is spot on. The way his character keeps himself positive even during overwhelming odds in which the average Joe would probably lose all hope of survival (on a planet where nothing grows, which Watney himself admits) is extremely enamoring. There is a genuine concern that you feel for the character’s plight. And whenever he achieves something like, being able to establish contact with Earth or grow food, you want to rejoice with him.

The screenplay is brilliant. Usually in these types of movies, people pay money to see the stranded guy on the alien planet. And whenever it shifts focus, people tend to turn off and lose interest in whatever is happening. That was NOT the case here. The efforts made by NASA on Earth to help their stranded Astronaut is as interesting to watch as Watney’s exploits on Mars. And all that comes down to a genuinely well written screenplay by Drew Goddard. The dialogues were pretty damn funny and had me in stiches. The material was kept very light without complicating matters a lot but still managed to keep me on edge.

This is a welcome return to form for Ridley Scott. Now I can’t comment on The Counselor or Exodus as I haven’t watched them yet but it is widely known that since American Gangster, he had failed to make a truly great film. This is that great film! An evenly paced, uncomplicated and utterly fun film which proves what Scott is capable of when he’s in his element. The cinematography is beautiful and the CGI is inch perfect. The background score truly is a BACKGROUND score. It doesn’t jarringly blare out and you tell you to go “OMG OMG OMG” but complements the visuals perfectly. The 3D aspect of it is brilliant. Not since Gravity has a film used 3D this well.

This is a near perfect film. The texts which pop up on screen describing a character or a place were kind of bothersome and unnecessary. The Chinese CNSA cooperating with NASA seemed a bit too convenient and felt like a fantasy on the writers part (maybe he was going for the “Greatness of Human nature during insurmountable odds” but I didn’t really buy it) but that’s just me nitpicking. Go for it. This is a fantastic piece of work. Scott is back. Damon looks to be the man of the moment right now and we may very well have an early contender for Best Actor as well as Best Adapted Screenplay.

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*SPOILER*  Awe evoking but not a masterpiece as you would expect it to be
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"The Martian", a space adventure movie with enough drama to keep your attention intact is a passable effort.Technically superb with excellent camera work and graphics, the film's best moments come only during the NASA office interactions and when the estranged protagonist Matt Damon communicates with his crew members who leave him behind at Mars when their space expedition is hit by a storm of sorts.The film chronicles the life of Matt Damon as his tale of survival and communication to his home planet and how his perseverance and never say die attitude(and adding to that his knowledge in Botany) keep him going even as he is playing the not so likable disco music tracks of his boss and surviving on potatoes and even having to help himself medically by stapling his gaping wound after removing a foreign body impacted in his abdomen.
The film is slow and the biggest problem in spite of its technical brilliance and adequate to neat performances from the supporting cast(Jessica Chastain in particular), is that the Matt does not connect with his audience on an emotional level like how gruesome tales of survival from earlier Hollywood movies did.You stare in awe at the lovely orange sands,the violet hues of space and even the scenes when the crew float from chamber to another in the space ship..but this story needed more emoting(at least from viewpoint).Director Ridley Scott's film scores in its concluding scenes when the crew mates and the behind the scenes NASA team work deftly in their rescue mission.
A film that leaves you in awe but could have been much better.Yet 2 thumbs up for this scintillating tale of survival which is best enjoyed on the 3-D in the cinemas.

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as JPL Pathfinder Team Member 1
as Timer Controller
as Robert Lewis
as Zhu Tao
as Venkat Kapoor
as Comms
as Police Woman
as Rich Purnell
as Guo Ming
as Mike Watkins
as CNN Reporter
as U.S. President
as Capcom
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as Pathfinder developer
as Teddy Sanders
as Brendan Hatch
as Marissa Martinez
as Reporter 2
as Annie Montrose
as Reporter 3
as Mindy Park
as Guidance
as Satcon
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as Launcher Interface
as Ryoko
as JPL Clean Room Worker 1
as Tim Grimes
as Reporter 1
as Vogel's Wife
as Telemetry
as NASA Break Room Worker
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Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Camera:
Red Scarlet, Red Epic Dragon
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Stereoscopy:
No
Archival Source:
QubeVault
Taglines:
Bring Him Home
Help is only 140 million miles away
Movie Connection(s):
Dubbed into: The Martian (Hindi)
Dubbed into: The Martian (Telugu)
Dubbed into: The Martian (Tamil)
Trivia:
The author of The Martian, Andy Weir, personally created a software to calculate the ship's arrival times (on Earth and on Mars) down to the exact minute in his novel.

Matt Damon was concerned that the film would be similar to his previous film 'Interstellar' and was reassured by Ridley Scott that the two movies were completely different.

This is the second time Michael Pena and Kate Mara have worked together, earlier they had starred in Shooter.

Irrfan Khan was chosen to play Venkat Kapoor, but a Bollywood contract of his had an unexpected snag and he wasn't able to make the schedule needed for The Martian.

The length of a Martian day is 24 hours 37 minutes. The length of a Martian year is significantly longer at 687 days.

The gravity on Mars' surface is 62% lower than it is here on Earth. At just 0.38 of the Earth standard, a person who weighs 100 kg on Earth would essentially weigh only 38 kg on Mars.

Multiple cameras were used during the filming, including GoPros.

When designing the space suits in the movie, the costume designer looked at many of NASA's actual Mars suits were based on images of actual suits but aimed for a more practical approach.

'Martian' marks the second time Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon have worked together on a space related film

Filming took around 70 days.

About 20 sets were constructed over the filming of The Martian, which isn't many in comparison to other films, but they were much more "technical"

The film was shot in Wadi Rum, Jordan, which has a red colored desert.

The landscape and environment of Mars was created through a combination of location filming and CGI.

One of the more dangerous parts of filming involved the storms on Mars.

The film was at one point planned to be filmed in Australia, but due to disagreements with the Australian government those plans had to be abandoned.

They have a real potato farm on the studio lot with potatoes in all stages of growth so they can be used for filming.