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Matt Damon's acclaimed 2015 hit sci-fi movie The Martian is back on the Prime Video streaming charts. According to data from FlixPatrol, The Martianhas climbed onto the chart of the top 10 movies streaming on Amazon's streaming service.
The surge in streaming interest for The Martian comes as Damon's latest star turn as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is dominating the box office. Perhaps fans coming home after the new take on the ancient epic are looking for more Matt Damon in their lives.
The Martian Is a Streaming Hit
In The Martian, during a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney survives and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit, and scientific knowledge to subsist, find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive, and stay alive until help can arrive.
The Martian earned praise from both critics and audiences. The sci-fi survival story has a 91% "Certified Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the same score from users. Critics praised the movie as "smart, thrilling, and surprisingly funny."
The Martian earned $630.6 million, making it a box office hit. The sci-fi epic also earned seven Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.
Ridley Scott directed The Martian from a screenplay by Drew Goddard, based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir. Damon stars as Watney, with Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, and Mackenzie Davis.
The Martian is a Favorite Of Scientists
Along with audiences and critics, space experts have also praised The Martian for its depiction of certain scientific principles. Among those who have praised the movie are astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, who reviewed The Martian in a video.
"His mannerisms of physicists and engineers explaining stuff to other people is dead-on," Sutter said of Donald Glover's performance as astrodynamicist Rich Purnell in The Martian. "We like to grab random stuff and just say, 'Okay, imagine this is the particle, and then it's going over here,' and it's like exactly what we do."
He also praised The Martian's use of realistic physics principles to push the plot. "The problem here that they were trying to face was that getting to Mars takes a really, really long time," Sutter explains. "It's really far, far away, and it's on its own orbit, and the idea here used in the movie, which is all mathematically sound, it's all solid orbital mechanics, was that if you are able to slingshot off the Earth, you get a speed boost, and you can return back to Mars faster than you would have initially thought as if you had launched it from the surface of the Earth."
Sutter concluded by giving The Martian his highest possible praise. "I would rate these clips a full 10, 100%," Sutter said. "I love this, and it's just such a wonderful movie, and it's all about science and science saving the day."
The Martian is streaming now on Prime Video.
