Everything Hollywood is ticked in this movie, big budget, famous cast, American heroes, sadness, heroics, survival against all odds...

and that's it...

I completely get that these common attributes that appear movies (more so around the time of year this was released, for some strange reason...) are loved so much, much I've just grown to find boring, and if you mix a bit of castaway (also released same season this was..) and you ad a bit of big buck sic-fi, and you get the martian, we all know what happens, and how it's going to plan out and blah blah blah.

bottom line, you like Oscar hunting films, you like this.