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MONTAGNE: And Ridley Scott is the director - master of science fiction movies - or dystopian movies more like it - 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien.' What about this one, though? And you're really on his side all the way. The character has to project self-confidence and a good sense of humor, and Matt Damon does that beautifully. You know, this is really Matt Damon at his best. He's a man presented with a series of problems he has to solve. No, well, this is kind of 'Robinson Crusoe' on Mars. MONTAGNE: Well, he sounds a lot more pumped than I would be under the circumstances.

So I got to figure out a way to grow three years' worth of food here on a planet where nothing grows. So for just me, that's going to last 300 souls, which I figure I can stretch to 400 if I ration. For redundancy, they sent 68 souls worth of food. Our service mission here was supposed to last 31 souls. MATT DAMON: (As Mark Watney) Let's do the math. And this is him talking to his video diary kind of talking about his plans. But he has to stay alive for years until the next manned expedition gets there. The expedition is supposed to last 31 souls, which are Martian days, which are marginally longer than Earth days.

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And he has to figure out how to stay alive. He's inadvertently left behind on Mars, 50 million miles away from Earth, all by himself. And he plays an American astronaut named Mark Watney. MONTAGNE: OK, let's start with - I mean, let's guess - Matt Damon, he's the Martian? MORNING EDITION and Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has seen it and is here to tell us what he thought. It stars Matt Damon and is based on a best-selling novel hailed for being both imaginative and scientifically accurate. A new movie called 'The Martian' lands on Earth today.