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posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @02:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the Waiting-for-"The-Saturnalian" dept.

[Ed note: Caution - spoilers!]

The teaser takes the form of an in-universe "video diary" showing Watney and the rest of the crew of the fictional Ares 3 mission preparing to leave for their trip to Mars on the spacecraft Hermes. Somewhat presciently, it starts out with Watney briefly struggling to set up a video camera—something he’ll likely be doing with great regularity once he finds himself marooned on Mars.

After a brief introduction, Watney introduces the other members of the Ares 3 mission, including mission commander Lewis (played by Jessica Chastain, who along with Damon recently starred in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar). The video is overlaid with pop-up factoids and Twitter-like interjections and trending topics from the public, some of which contain nods to other works of science fiction (when German astronaut Vogel first appears, played by Norwegian Aksel Hennie, one tweet asks "Vogel has to be the #synthetic right"—a reference to Ridley Scott’s Alien).

We've been fortunate to have a couple of decent Sci-Fi movies like Gravity and Interstellar the last couple years. Let's hope this follows in those footsteps.


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  • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:29AM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:29AM (#195970) Journal

    Who is Matt Damon?

    Who, indeed.

    https://youtu.be/BUa5oHgYV2k [youtu.be]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:34AM (#195974)

    I don't get it. Why did you link to a video of Winston Churchill?

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:33AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:33AM (#196009)

    Isn't he the little guy that sorts hot molecules from cold ones?

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 14 2015, @11:59AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday June 14 2015, @11:59AM (#196096) Journal

      Wait, he's taking my job? ;-)

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