The Martian

The Martian2015

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 144 minutes

The Martian is a 2015 film about Astronaut Mark Watney, who is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind on Mars by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he … more »



Mark Watney:
[after hearing he has to take the top off of the Mars Ascent Vehicle] I know what they're doing. I know exactly what they're doing. They just keep repeating "go faster than any man in the history of space travel", like that's a good thing. Like it'll distract me from how insane their plan is. Yeah, I get to go faster than any man in the history of space travel, because you're launching me in a convertible. Actually it's worse than that, because I won't even be able to control the thing. And by the way, physicists, when describing things like acceleration do not use the word "fast". So they're only doing that in the hopes that I won't raise any objections to this lunacy, because I like the way "fastest man in the history of space travel" sounds. I do like the way it sounds... I mean, I like it a lot. [pauses] I'm not gonna tell them that.

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