The Martian (USA - UK, 2015)

“I admit it’s fatally dangerous, but I’d get to fly around like Iron Man.”

“In the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option, I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this.”

The Martian (2015)

Yeah, I blew myself up.

At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you and you’re going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem and you solve the next one, and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home.

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This is Mark Watney… and I’m still alive. (Obviously.) I have no way to contact NASA or my crewmates, but even if I could, it would take four years for another manned mission to reach me. And I’m in a hab designed to last thirty-one days. So in the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option.

The Council of Elrond. It’s from Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.