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[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.
Original Submission
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:41AM
Just like Gravity and Interstellar. Feminist or Boycott! Men do not belong in Space. Men belong in Prison.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:46AM
Don't you usually sign your comments with "-- gewg_"?
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Sunday June 14 2015, @09:21AM
Obviously you never saw the films.
The only way you could consider Gravity to be even remotely "feminist" is if you looked past the stereotyped "emotionally crippled & hysterical woman needs to be talked through life by the calm, attractive, funny guy who nobly sacrifices himself for the greater good" plot and judge it entirely on having a female protagonist employed as a (crappy) scientist/astronaut (traditionally "male" career).
As for Interstellar: the protagonist is a self-sacrificing (if profoundly self-centered) man, and the only women present for more than a scene or two are his wife, his emotionally damaged daughter, and two obviously red-shirted astronauts/explorers, one of which is near-suicidally driven to reunite with her boyfriend. Again, the only way that's "feminist" is if you count only that his daughter becomes a scientist for a scene near the end and that two other women are scientist/astronauts.
Seriously, trolls, can't you at least TRY to sound reasonably intelligent or like you aren't pulling random crap out of your asses?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:18PM
The only way you could consider Gravity to be even remotely "feminist" is if you looked past the stereotype
So, from what I can tell, feminism is an ideology that claims women are victims and seeks more funds and advantages for women. Isn't this isn't just stereotypical Traditionalism with another feel-good name?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @06:54PM
That says a lot about who's been defining feminism for you, and very little about how actual feminists operate in the actual world.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 14 2015, @11:53AM
Space is the hardest to escape prison of all!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday June 15 2015, @04:49AM
Riddick: I'm sure God has his tricks, but getting out places no one else can, that's one of is mine