Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

Source: Amazon.com
Director: Ridley Scott

This is the movie based on the book, if you see the amazon links though, they don’t even have a preorder page up for the movie, which is hella weird and the first time I’ve run into this. That weirdness aside, the movie was very well done and absolutely gorgeous, but the story felt rushed and condensed too much for my tastes, which makes me think I might have had a different opinion on both the movie and the book if I consumed them in a different order. There was a fair bit of the story untold, but none of it was really important to the story. I’m going to wait with rapt attention for the blueray to get some of those glorious screenshots, it was that pretty of a movie.