The Greatest Scenes of All Time on Instagram: "The Martian was released on this day in 2015 🚀 The Martian is one of those movies that makes science feel downright badass. Directed by Ridley Scott, it’s about astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) getting stranded on Mars and using nothing but brains, grit, and a lot of potatoes to survive until rescue. Damon absolutely carries the film—funny, human, and vulnerable all at once. You really buy into his “science the hell out of this” attitude, and it’