The Martian sees Matt Damon's Mark Watney stranded on Mars, making some poignant statements about the nature of humanity ...

The Martian is a movie that shouldn’t have ... but it’s probably as close as Hollywood will ever get to a Mars mission explainer in movie form. Scott’s guiding hand, however, is still ...

The movie "The Martian," is based on Andy ... the way the actual conditions on Mars, and the fundamental problems they would cause, acted as a base for his storytelling and dictated the course ...

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"The Martian" is hitting cinemas ... they've been using the movie as a marketing campaign for their own, actual manned missions to Mars in the 2030s. Based on the book of the same name by Andy ...

NASA hasn't landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet's surface ...

The first in a pair of Y2K movies ... Martian civilization is a far cry from the moody running back on the football team of a small Texas high school. Better to be as far away from Mars as possible.

A picture from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA’s Mars ... in the movie in response to requests from Andy Weir, who wrote the book on which “The Martian” is based.

There are bound to be changes when you turn a 370-page book into a 140-minute movie, but overall the film of “The Martian” stays ... on his fifth day alone on Mars, “I wonder how the Cubs ...

It'd be easy for the movie to get bogged down, say, when Watney explains the finer details of his plans to grow Martian potatoes by planting the crew's Thanksgiving rations in a field of Mars dirt ...

it’s some form of Martian life that drives humans away. The tradition of Mars movies as Westerns can be traced back to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom series—landmark sci-fi literature from ...

The most gripping aspect of The Martian ... the movie trailer, then you know Matt Damon plays a fictional character named Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut and botanist on a 30-day mission to Mars ...