The Chinese come to the rescue of NASA and the movie literally concludes with one of the American heroes fist-bumping a Chinese astronaut on a joint mission back to Mars. It's a sad reminder of how bad the new cold war has become in just a few years.
2015: :wholesome: We can explore space together! :solidarity:
2022: President Xi is going to invade Taiwan at any moment LAUNCH THE NUKES NOW! :guts-rage:
:sadness:
I still enjoyed it. Much more on this viewing than my first one in the theaters. I actually do love science (I am a scientist), and I appreciate how accurate the sci-fi in the film was.
What I meant was that the protagonist was kind of annoyingly redditor at times, for example I'm pretty sure at one piont he literally says "I'm gonna science the fuck out of this."
I was nerding tf out when they were on the orbital maneuver subplot because I've been binge playing Kerbal Space Program for the past month.