Space Opera and the New Frontier Response

I remember when Martian came out in 2011 and being so excited to read it, because I love space books and movies. Finally, when the movie came out it in 2015 was such a visually pleasing movie to watch. Not only because I already loved the book, but because in this day and age graphic effects and technology has increased so much in quality, they were able to portray the movies so well visually.

Now I think this book and movie show a lot of peoples deepest fear. Which is being stuck in space on Mars, having no contact with anyone and not knowing what to do. Now of course Mark Watney knows what he's doing because if he didn't he wouldn't be working at NASA. I think this movie shows the world what could happen in the future, which is where this movie is taken place in (year 2035). It gave us some type of fantasy as do many movies do, but I always think that these movies alway appeal to everyone in some time of way. We alway want to explore more, we have always wanted to explore more of the world and universe we live in. It's something we've been fascinated with since the beginning, always looking to the future. Now as freaky as The Martian is to us, it still shows us "what could be and happen", which is at the same time cool and scary and the same time.