What I didn’t: For being a story about solving technical problems with science and engineering, these people did very little math. Not that I want to watch them do math but I do feel like something like calculating orbital angles and velocities should probably be done ahead of time and probably with a calculator. I was totally on board with the solutions until about the last 30 min of the movie where they kept getting increasingly absurd. Blowing up your own spaceship is never the correct solution, especially if your response to a damage report is “we’ll worry about that later.” Nope, you probably should have worried about it before you decided to do it. Most of the characters had potential but were sort of blah; I think Damon was a little hobbled by needing to explain everything to his starlog. He was much better than when he was trapped on a deserted planet in Interstellar (still not sure why NASA let him keep going into space after that) but he wasn’t as good as Hanks trapped on a deserted island, or Hanks trapped in space for that matter. I appreciate that running simulations is an important part of solving a problem but I feel like usually the way to do that is not to plug in your laptop to the bank of the supercomputer with a curly usb cable. When the rescue mission is going to take over a year, why would you need to scrub two days of tests? I mean he’s already hungry two days is not going to be that big a deal. Two months? sure, you should probably do some expediting. But 2 days? for a 5% disaster probability? Bad plan. Is there any movie anyone can think of in which the PR people are good guys?
Who should watch this? It was a well made space movie. I think just about everyone would appreciate it.
Would I watch it again? yep, while eating french fries.
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