Mark Watney is still alive

Maybe it's because I read the book and can fill in the gaps, but that trailer seemed like it gave away the entire plot of the movie. Astronaut gets left behind on Mars and while he's coming up with ingenious ways to survive, someone comes up with a plan to rescue him that might result in his entire crew dying. I think the trailer should've left out that last part about the rescue operation because we all know their plan is going to work.

I enjoyed the book: nice pacing, easy to read on a couple of flights and some snappy dialogue.

I'm not convinced as to how well Watney's diary-style entries to the computer will fare when spoken aloud by Matt Damon (or anyone, for that matter). Even in the trailer they felt a little too contrived.

New trailer for The Martian.

It was a compulsively readable book, and I'm looking forward to the movie.