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Today's movie was a Ridley Scott production.

So you know it was a over the top. Nothing goes half-way with Ridley. And when Jeff Daniels is the head of NASA, well, snore.

The Martian (2015)

I would like to say that I really enjoyed this film but I did not.

As an avowed contrarian I am swimming upstream.

The first part was good. I was into it.

Then long back and forth with NASA and a stream of nerd minutiae buried me.

I have to admit that I skipped ahead.

Perhaps I was marooned because it was on my little screen and not on a movie size.

But this was not a problem with ten thousand steers in yesterdays western.

The cast is good, But there is an awful lot of gasping for air.

That is another thing. I am not a big fan of Matt Damon. He has bulked up here. Workmanlike. But plodding.

Skipping ahead on FF earns it a 2 out of Netflix5.

Maybe I was raised too long on Captain Video one of the first space serials.

I have seen this stuff all my life.

I also am not a big fan of space exploration actually. It seems a bit too much penis waving for me. The biggest, the latest, the hoo-haw thing. Jock science.

And don't tell me it adds to the economy. I worked with NASA for years on the possibilities in technology transfer. Not as big a deal as everyone would like to think it is.

Killjoy.

Sorry.

But why should I have to apologize for going against the stream? A life long contrarian.

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