The Martian

There were three movies opening in Finland yesterday. Unfriended, a movie thats been out elsewhere for 6 months, Pan, a movie thats the namesake af a cooking appliance, and this one. The choise was obvious; Go to the space movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring the man who's costantly being saved from places after being sent to that place by the U.S., exept this time he isnt a total dick about it. Yes this is another Matt Damon movie. And he rocks it, surviving on Mars like a real Botnist should. 

The movie was a great expirence and all the different aspects worked together, seeing such a well-made movie about space. The setting is this: a research group is researching Mars when a Martian storm hits and they need to evacuate, Matt Damons character Mark Watney however gets knocked out and left behind. But he lived! wouldve been a short movie if he didnt. If you know anything about space, you know that its pretty deadly, so, Mark needs to survive until he can be retrieved. And thats how the movie plays out. Matt Damon on mars, making Vlogs and poop-jokes, while the people on earth try to come up with a plan to save him. It's a pretty good plot. The characters are realistic, have good chemistry and are well-acted. 

This being Ridley "I made the best horror-movie ever" Scott, space is of course, beautiful. Clearly a lot of sets, props and real locations were used to make Mars and the base believable places. The weightlessness looks extremly convincing and the make-up department clearly worked really hard on this one, you'll see when you watch the movie yourself. There was aparently a Nasa-space advisor on set and it shows, everything makes sence, everythings scientifically accuarte and the slightest details are all real space-things, like the way one would use the bathroom on Mars. And while I think the movie maybe would have been better as a Moon or Alien sort of film in wich the isolation really shows, it was darn good anyway.

All in all I'd say that this is the best movie of this year in wich Kate Mara leaves someone behind on a strange planet. And judging by Ridley Scotts movies, its certainly better than Prometheus.

And its allways nice to see Jeff Daniel do something good for a change.

Sean Bean didnt die though. And they chose Starman instead of Space Oddity. (if you dont understand, you are too young for this blog)