Rewatching The Martian
3 min readMar 30, 2024
We just rewatched The Martian (2013), the extended edition, and I wanted to share some thoughts.
(In the unlikely event you haven’t seen it, the movie is based on Andy Weir’s 2011 science fiction novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars. Read the Wikipedia page if you want more information.)
To begin with, this movie is unabashedly hard science fiction. The film happily leaps into science and…