Keep it together. Work the problem.
While I wasn't as down on Prometheus as some people, one thing that did bother me about it was how dumb some of the scientists in it had to act in order to keep the plot moving. Happily, this is not an issue with Ridley Scott's latest, The Martian, in which stranded botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) thinks his way out of his predicament and all the engineers at NASA put their heads together to figure out how to rescue him before his food supply runs out. As Mark says early on, "Mars will come to fear my botany powers," but he turns out to be equally resourceful in other areas, eventually figuring out how to communicate with NASA (even if some of his communications with them have to be censored in order to preserve the film's PG-13 rating).
Boasting a screenplay by Drew Goddard, who was also in line to direct his adaptation of Andy Weir's novel before stepping aside, The Martian attracted an impressive supporting cast, including Jessica Chastain as the Mars mission commander, Jeff Daniels as the head of NASA, Sean Bean and Chiwetel Ejiofor as NASA mission directors, Kristen Wiig as the agency's spokesperson, and Donald Glover as the astrodynamicist who does the math that makes Mark's rescue possible. It's to Scott's credit, though, that the film is as suspenseful as is it, because intuitively we know there's no way Mark is going to die before the rescue attempt. And after spending two hours with him, we know there's no way he's going to due during said attempt. That wouldn't be smart screenwriting.