{"id":11355,"date":"2015-09-12T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2015-09-12T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T20:01:41","slug":"videos-the-martian-movie-getting-great-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11355","title":{"rendered":"Videos: &#8220;The Martian&#8221; movie getting great reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmovies.com\/movies\/the-martian\" target=\"_d\">&#8220;The Martian&#8221; &#8211; the movie<\/a>\u00a0will open nationwide on October 2nd but it had a preview at the Toronto International Film Festival this past week. The initial reviews are very positive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/09\/11\/the-martian-movie-review\/#ZskEJ6gBaqk_\" target=\"_d\">&#8216;The Martian&#8217; review: Matt Damon, and the movie, are stellar &#8211; Mashable.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/09\/12\/the-martian-reviews-matt-damon-ridley-scott-tiff-2015\" target=\"_d\">The Martian reviews: Matt Damon, Ridley Scott film premieres at TIFF 2015 &#8211;\u00a0EW.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_martian\/\" target=\"_d\">The Martian\u00a0(2015) &#8211; Rotten Tomatoes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(See <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?s=the+martian\" target=\"_blank\">the posts<\/a> here about the book and the movie.)<\/p>\n<p>Some photos from the premiere: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasahqphoto\/sets\/72157658085641760\/?linkId=16996428\" target=\"_d\">&#8220;The Martian&#8221; Premiere &#8211;\u00a0Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0a NASA video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXY-rvHxcd0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11236\" target=\"_blank\">latest trailer<\/a> was posted here. Below are three promotional videos that emulate NASA broadcasts before the Mars mission in the movie:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-fdKyszL1Zo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5WvVytqHFc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CumZP6_9sHU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0804139024&amp;asins=0804139024&amp;linkId=QW3TNSDSW6AOUZHC&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Martian&#8221; &#8211; the movie\u00a0will open nationwide on October 2nd but it had a preview at the Toronto International Film Festival this past week. The initial reviews are very positive: &#8216;The Martian&#8217; review: Matt Damon, and the movie, are stellar &#8211; Mashable.com The Martian reviews: Matt Damon, Ridley Scott film premieres at TIFF 2015 &#8211;\u00a0EW.com &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: &#8220;The Martian&#8221; movie getting great reviews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2X9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10640,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10640","url_meta":{"origin":11355,"position":0},"title":"Images from the making of &#8220;The Martian&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The making of Andrew Weir's best-seller, The Martian into a movie by the director Ridley Scott is well underway. 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I agree, though, with this op-ed:\u00a0The Martian: Please Don't Bring Him Home - Greg Autry\/Huffington\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ej3ioOneTy8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10559,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10559","url_meta":{"origin":11355,"position":4},"title":"H2M videos: Interview with Andrew Weir (&#8220;The Martian&#8221;) + A sci-fi writers panel","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The organization\u00a0Explore Mars hosted the annual Humans to Mars (H2M) Summit symposium\u00a0this past week in Washington D.C. Videos of the presentations and panels are available online:\u00a0ExploreMars 2015 on Livestream. 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See also his entertaining speech at the recent NewSpace 2015 conference. \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ej3ioOneTy8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11358,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions\/11358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}