Movie Review: The Martian
Ah, the Attack of the Nadir. Every kid back in school; Hollywood waiting for all the summer production schedules to wind down. When they do? The voting academy, aka Oscar, will have a bit more living room time to pop in their DVDs the promo videos and start looking for the next Best Picture. Whcih means what for us? It's the Attack of the Nadir. A Cusp of orphaned films. "Bob? What do we do with this picture?" They release it in October. Truly, these are the movies that are very hit-or-miss and do well as counterprogramming against the Hollywood slasher types that come out at this time of year. And I think I found a hit. Yes, it stars Matt Damon. Matt's one of those actors who really had made good on his career and tries really hard to use his star vehicles to his advantage. He was Bourne. Jason Bourne. And he's a good actor, to boot. Good looking, ability to match, he's something of the old school Hollywood types, who keeps cranking out m...