Grasping at Grace (and Growth)

while a totally admirable group of science heroes back on earth do their damnedest to help him out (not always successfully.)

One of the things I liked was that their first attempt actually did fail, because they were taking all those shortcuts; that was a good dose of reality which other films wouldn't have been brave enough to do.

The look and feel of it was gorgeous; I felt like we were looking at Mars, even as I knew that we weren't.

It was magnificent.