My friends and I went to the Cinerama movie theater here in downtown Seattle on Saturday to go check out The Martian, the movie of Andy Weir’s self-published book about a marooned astronaut (portrayed by Matt Damon) on Mars, written in 2011. I am told the movie could not nearly capture all the technical and scientific details from the book .. which is probably understandable because of time and mass-appeal constraints in the movie! Nonetheless, we liked the movie a lot. I will now have to go read the book even though I know how it all ends.
