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Our Oscars theme may be over, but we do have another Best Picture nominated film up for our Wednesday archive drop.

It's The Martian from Ridley Scott.

This is an adaptation of the Andy Weir novel, and yes, it is inspired by this weekend's big release project

Hail Mary. I don't know if you remember this review. If you heard it originally here on

film spotting when the film came out in October 2015, the premise of my setup is basically

that this movie is just incredibly satisfying. And I can't

imagine anybody not liking the film. You don't have to love it. You don't have to think it's a

masterpiece. You don't have to think it deserved to be a best picture nominee. But it's

hard for me to imagine anybody watching it and being deeply dissatisfied with it.

And I look at Letterboxed and I gave it four stars.

Josh Larson gave it four stars.

Sam Van Halgren rated it twice and gave it four stars.

Why can't there be more movies that deliver this particular kind of pleasure so satisfying?

There's that word satisfying.

Other friends here on Letterbox.

Well, Matt Singer, let me down a little bit.

McGiver on Mars, three and a half stars.

David Sims, I really enjoy it when Ridley Scott has fun four stars.

Even Mike DeAngelo, who seems a little bit hard to please sometimes, gave it four out of five stars on letterboxed

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