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I watched the movie The Martian, which, of course, I subconsciously want to compare to Interstellar. Which one is better? Definitely not the latter, God forbid. In the end, even though I liked Interstellar, it's a typical Nolan film; it's not really about space, it's about the music, the pathos, the cool (and not-so-cool) phrases, some tense moments even if the action is weak, and so on. The Martian, on the other hand, starts much more engagingly and from the very beginning aims to tell a story about space – yes, when I look at Matt Damon's character, I believe that this is exactly how professional astronauts behave and think. Of course, watching Matt grow potatoes for two and a half hours wouldn't be very interesting, so we also see the situation on Earth and on the spaceship Hercules, which prevents the viewer from getting bored by watching only one actor. The narrative is interesting, everything in the film is in its place, and it has quite a lot of humor for what seems like a serious work, which makes it extremely enjoyable to watch. And if we compare it to Interstellar again, I much preferred the attempt at beautiful and colorful special effects compared to the imitation of 2001, where everything exudes some kind of, I don't know, artificiality? You just watch it and see the set where all these toys were filmed with a 20x magnification to make them look real. There is none of that in The Martian. A wonderful film, in a word.