He does get fired though.

@@MarkGoding I think his character would take being fired over his usual fate in movies.

@@dragonmac1234 Tru.

But he ends up taking the hit, accepts retirement, and starts playing golf.

Surreal, but a welcome surreality to be sure.

@@mikewood4987 Agreed. Saw that in the cinema as a kid when it came out.

I actually do believe that everyone would band together (possibly not the Chinese abandoning their own launch to save him, but maybe they would do it for the political kudos). Even the Director, who does occasionally have to be the asshole, isn't acting unreasonably. Nice to have a movie where the only villain is Mother Nature (or is that Father Nature on Mars?)!

Last of the great method actors.

Ares III? Are you there? MEHK WEHTNEY! This is NASA. How's it going over there? MEHK WEHTNEY!!!

He is the shit.

...And made the Iron Man joke an actual thing heh

Angry Red Planet is an even better contrast. :)

I’m assuming it’s a reference to the tv show from the 60’s “my favourite Martian “ with Bill Bixby. Could be wrong though maybe he loves one of the Martians from war of the worlds!

Aww, I'm too dumb and ignorant to have got it - or even picked up on it.

Also, where is Elon Musk supposed to be? Why didn't they ask SpaceX to help? Totally unrealistic.

@BugRib if they asked spaceX to help, they'd still be planning to go to the moon.

Sean Bean's character survived. Sean Bean's character's career died.

One does not simply make a hole in one… ⛳️🏌️‍♀️

Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) from the TV series "My Favorite Martian"

Oh god - is Marvin Disney's property now? Ughh. Sorry, I meant "Mmm, isn't that lovely?"

​@@AndrewGivensI was wrong..Marvin is still owned by Warner Bros...thank god...sorry to scare...😂

I would give it a chance if I were you, if you're a fan of Sci Fi. It's one of the most watchable movies. impossible to turn off once it's started. With regards to the realism, I think that's a bad take (especially if you accept Gravity, which has WAY worse realism problems. I love Gravity too btw). As it's set in the future, you can accept some level of sci fi technology; the film only really has one thing that doesnt exist today (radiation shielding, we currently have no way to protect humans from that level of radiation for the journey and on mars.) This isnt even a plot point, its not even mentioned. It's just assumed its a problem thats been solved. The only unreleastic part of the movie is the storm at the start, the atmosphere on mars lacks the pressure to tip a rocket over so the inciting incident could never happen. (The author himself has stated this, citing you need one "gimme" to get the movie started. Again, its far more acceptable in my opinion than the ridiculous physics that kill Clooney in Gravity) But everything after that was meticulously researched. And the story was originally written in a blog format, so it was being read by a lot of actual NASA scientists who praised it's accuracy and corrected bits that were a bit off as the story went along. The potatoes are explained in the movie (and book) as a special one time treat for the crew as they were going to be on Mars during thanksgiving, they thought the effort of bringing one portion of spuds was worth it for crew morale who would be living on mars for months. In other words; give it a shot, the movie (and book) are excellent and I think you would enjoy it if you like the other movies you listed

@@Sonicspin NASA signed off on as being realistic? The originators of dehydrated food for space travel said water heavy potatoes are ok for space travel over potato flakes? "Because moral" Because author BS. The whole thing reeks of "Robinson Crusoe" where the guy strips nude and then fills his pockets with everything the author thinks the guy needs while the ship sinks. The Martian is the type of story where all I can see is the author behind it patting himself on the back, "what a smart boy I am!" You want to impress me? Have the guy GROW EDIBLE MOSS rather than potatoes you contrived. If you hate the idea of orbital debris traveling at the speed of orbital objects like in Gravity, stay away from the excellent anime Planetes where its premise is about the people picking up such pieces so that such Gravity accidents don't happen.

I appreciate Gravity on a technical level but I struggled to suspend my disbelief on multiple levels. I didn't really like Interstellar at all but it's grown on my steadily over time so now I really like it.

Potatoes and poop

@@Scimarad I appreciated Interstellar for being what I twigged it as in the second act - a haunted house movie. A clever one. For me, Gravity is enormously enjoyable, because partway through it I decided that it's not a 'real' setting, but is in fact just an analogy for Stone's personal mental health crisis - and the whole thing is happening in her mind, not in space. If you re-watch it as a dream / mental crisis play-out, it's even better.