Has The Martian finally broken the Mars movie curse? In case you’ve never heard of it, for the longest time, movies about Mars were box office poison. Mission to Mars, Red Planet, John Carter – all flops. While you ponder that, here’s an Honest Trailer for The Martian, which talks a lot about how we’re always saving Matt Damon. Man, we do spend a lot of money saving him. What’s with that?