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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: 3, Insightful) by K_benzoate on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:24AM
The Martian is the hot new sci-fi novel that we are all reading or have read recently--at least those of us who care about such things. Since this is a "nerd" news site it's a safe bet most of us here are sci-fi fans and would be interested in seeing this movie and the trailer. It doesn't look like an ad to me.
I don't have any hope that it'll be as good as the novel, and I don't like the casting, but I'll probably still see it. Do read the book if you like that sort of thing, it's great.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:31AM
It also pertains to all the "Colonize Mars Now!" hype, and the "How You're Going To Die On Mars" article.
And space potatoes.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek