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I saw it in 2D over the weekend and, of course, it's a wonderful move, if a bit heavy on the pro-NASA-budget propaganda.
For all of the hype about its scientific accuracy and quality, I'm not so sure. There's a brief mention that after exposure to the low-oxygen Martian atmosphere and freezing temperatures, the viability of any seeds would be destroyed. But when I pick up a stray back issue of Backwoods Home Magazine with an article on home seed preservation, it suggests lengthening the viability of seeds by freezing them and the danger that oxygen presents by shortening the lifespan of seeds: Oxidation eventually destroys seed viability. Seeds were expressly mentioned along with potato spuds. So a freezing, low-oxygen environment should preserve them, no? One would imagine that, because seeds are present in so many foods, that the fecal debris that he used for fertilizer would have contained plant seeds, too. One also gets the sense of a deus-ex-machina, last minute plot salvation when they pull the supply ship out of their sleeve like a stage magician producing a bunny rabbit late into the movie. One gets the sense that if they'd put the existence of that ship on the plate earlier (pun), all of the suspense about starvation would have gone down the drain.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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