What’s Aged the Best?
The title, potatoes, disco motif, move away from 3D, self-surgery, mission-control celebration, Sean Bean, and resignation trope were praised.
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- The simple title “The Martian” was praised.
- Watney’s potato garden using Martian soil, crew waste, rocket-fuel water, and unused potatoes was praised.
- Commander Lewis’s love of 1970s disco was praised as a comic wrinkle that could easily have failed.
- The film was treated as evidence that audiences preferred conventional 2D releases over the 3D push.
- Watney’s self-surgery was called the film’s tensest and most effective sequence.
- The mission-control celebration after contact with Watney was praised as an effective recurring movie device.
- Sean Bean’s character was praised for risking his career to back the Hermes crew.
- The movie convention where a principled official resigns after insubordination was praised.