I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Drew Goddard (screenplay), Andy Weir (book) Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor & more… Ridley Scott has delivered yet another great space adventure – and what a masterpiece it is!!! The story begins with the crew of six doing an exploration/science mission to Mars, and this is the first manned mission. Suddenly a sand storm hits the camp – and it’s a big one – and the crew quickly has to abort and initiate take-off procedure in order to survive. As the sand storm hits the crew, an antenna is blown off by the storm and hits Mark Watney (Matt Damon) and he’s blown away. Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain) tries to find Watney but the storm is too bad and they have to take off… The crew make it but Watney is presumed dead. When the sand storm settles Watney wakes up – with a piece of the antenna lodged in his abdomen – right through his space suit. He makes it into one of the ground modules and begins to patch up himself. At this time he realises that he’s left on Mars all alone and it slowly sinks in that he’s shit out of luck. They were meant to stay on Mars for longer than they did so he’s not completly out of food and resources because now there’s only one instead of six, but the next mission to Mars is four years away and he can possibly stretch his resources for maximum one year. He has no way of communicating with neither his crew mates nor NASA at Earth, but he realises that if he’s going to survive he’s going to have to “science the shit out of this”! Being a botanist he sets about to grow some potatoes, and with the help of some dead martian soil – and the addition of human compost (poo in other terms) – he begins to get things growing. Making water for the plants is no small feat, and a dangerous one, but he does find a way. Watney soon decides that he must find a way to communicate with NASA in order to let them know that a) he’s...