Astronauts in space got a special treat from home recently with a special screening of the upcoming film "The Martian."

Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, both aboard the International Space Station, took to Twitter to express their excitement at being able to catch an advanced screening of the highly anticipated movie in a setting that's unlike any other. The group of spacemen looked like a picture out of a movie themselves in the photo the pair posted on their personal social media accounts.

"Movie night! What a treat to watch #TheMartian while in space and see reflections of our own #JourneyToMars!" Lindgren tweeted.

His fellow astronaut Kelly, along with Mikhail Kornienko, is currently spending a year in space as part of a NASA program that's meant to study the effects of such a mission on the human body, according to Space.com.

Perhaps no one is able to relate more completely than him to Matt Damon's character in "The Martian," whose unusual plight has him stuck in Mars in a station that's not meant to support him for over a month.

"Watched @MartianMovie on @Space_Station last night!" Kelly wrote on his social media account. "Today working towards our #JourneyToMars during my #YearInSpace!"

Ridley Scott's "The Martian," based on Andy Weir's best-selling novel, has received support from the scientific community as they were doing the press rounds over the summer, according to Latin Post.

A report from Los Angeles Times said that NASA director of planetary science Jim Green believed Scott's latest project "was true to the science, technology and human cooperation necessary 'to overcome major challenges' in space."

Ed Finn, Arizona State University's director of the Center for Science and the Imagination, praised the film saying, "What this story does really well is imagine a near-future scenario that doesn't push too far of where we are today technically."

However, "The Martian" is not without criticisms from the experts. In particular, George Washington University former director of the Space Policy Institute John Logsdon was vocal about some inaccuracies in the movie, according to the Guardian.

One of the mistakes Logsdon pointed out was the characters' ability to walk regularly on the Red Planet, telling Sunday Times, "They would not be walking normally - maybe more like hopping, as they did on the moon."

"The sand storm is inaccurate too," he added, referencing the storm that stranded Damon's character. "The atmosphere is too thin for such a force. You would not feel winds no matter how fast they were."

"The Martian" when it debuts in theaters in Australia and the U.K. on Sept. 30, followed by the U.S. on Oct. 2.