Review of The Martian (2015)
Seen in 2024.
The GUI design is awful throughout, the dramaturgy converges on convention, and it’s a self-contradiction within a deliberate factual error to have the Ares IV MAV in place years in advance while knowing that a storm can tip a MAV, which is the unrealistic part. Still, it is wonderfully refreshing to see a Hollywood movie with so much respect for a novel as science-based as Weir’s.
References here: Alien: Covenant (2017), Story of Science Fiction (2018).