THE MARTIAN (2015) - First time watching! - movie reaction!

[@MovieswithMary]

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[@maximillianosaben]

You should watch the space disaster film, Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney from 2013. That one will have you so on the edge of your seat you'll practically be on the floor.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

21st century Robin crusoe 🙃

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Wesley *Robinson Crusoe

[@JB-nc7yk]

This movie was a Marvel/MCU reunion on steroids. Matt Damon (Thor Ragnarok, Deadpool 2), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), Sebastian Stan (Captain America, Avengers), Michael Peña (Ant-Man), Jessica Chastain (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Donald Glover (Spider-man: Homecoming), Kate Mara (Ironman 2, Fantastic 4)

[@adamskeans2515]

@@JB-nc7yk also Matt Damon, Deadpool 2

[@bujin1977]

A rare acting job for Sean Bean where he makes it through the entire thing alive.

[@ghyslainabel]

Yeah, but his career died.

[@pimoen]

Haha. True!

[@pudgebl67]

@@ghyslainabel Haha... Thinking the same thing

[@Rhodair]

Director's Cut: When this is over, I'll expect your resignation... from life!

[@spacecadet35]

Sean Bean may have survived, but he had the worst outcome of any of the characters.

[@JackDespero]

Sean Bean, the actor whose character told the crew and then had to resign, was on the real council of Elrond in the Lord of the Rings as Boromir. So he would know about what Mission Elrond meant.

[@StarkRG]

His character didn't die in this movie, but the character's career did.

[@elzar760]

As soon as I heard he was playing Mitch (I read the book many times), I couldn’t stop laughing thinking about that moment in the movie when they’d be talking about the Council of Elrond with him sitting there.

[@donsample1002]

I'd always kinda hoped there'd be an outtake from that scene with Mitch saying "One doesn't simply walk into Schiaparelli Crater."

[@Cifer77]

and he DIDN'T DIE!

[@donsample1002]

Hiraghm Well, she is just in Public Relations

[@paratus04]

Fun story about the author of the book the movie is based on. He would post his writings to his website where is nerdy readership would comment and make suggestions. After he got the story done they asked if he could publish the story as an ebook. He did and made it free to download on his site. Later they asked if he could publish on Amazon to make it easier to get it on to Kindles. He did for the minimum $0.99. The book shot to the top of the sci-fi section of Amazon, which got him noticed by a publisher and a movie studio. He ended up signing with the publisher and the movie deal the same week while still working his software job. Not bad!

[@kathyastrom1315]

Adam Savage from the Mythbusters has an excellent interview with Andy Weir on his Tested YT channel.

[@BlairPeron]

@@kathyastrom1315 will be going straight to check that out

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Interesting! And the style of the book is interesting, basically Mark Watney's journal entries.

[@Serenity113]

He has also written two more books as well.

[@bradleymay5350]

@AB Yeah, ditto! Project Hail Mary was an absolute treat

[@jeanpaulmedellin]

One of the things that I love from this movie is that everybody comes together to bring him back. There are no villains here, just people giving reasonable explanations for their actions, and all of them doing their best to overcome an impossible rescue.

[@chivalryalive]

The human race showing our uprighteousness.... Sad we don't see that often enough. Do we? 🙂

[@augustinasvegys1548]

Mars/space/environment is the villain. Maybe not evil, but ruthless non the less.

[@Arthaius]

. . . . . okay, so what you are saying, is that it's a fictional story.

[@joshuabruce9599]

@@danieljohnson2005 You're being a bit too harsh. Unlike Western nations, they're investing a lot of money in upgrading African infrastructure in exchange for good trade deals. I think they'd welcome the chance of helping NASA if it meant boosting the publicity of their own Space Agency. Also, you're saying that China can't be altruistic but when is any nation. Most 'altruistic' acts on a national level have selfish motivations. The post-war Marshall plan was aimed at discouraging the influence of Communism and ensuring that Germany or other European nations didn't develop into hostile authoritarian powers.

[@baguettegott3409]

@@danieljohnson2005 You could at least try to phrase it in a way that doesn't sound racist. Like at least say "the Chinese Government" instead of just saying the Chinese, all of them, could never be altruistic.

[@KaizerHiwatari]

One thing I really love about this movie is that everyone means well. Teddy is the closest there is to a villain, but even he has good intentions to get the probe made faster and then to save the remaining crew members. They aren't popular decisions, but they aren't mean-spirited either. Just pragmatic. It proves that you can have conflict and stakes in a movie without having people constantly being evil to one another, and I think that's really nice. :)

[@themiIes]

My favorite in the "Saving Matt Damon" Trilogy: Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar and the Martian :D

[@kenlangston3451]

The prequel is technically Good Will Hunting because he was “saved” by Robin Williams. Lol

[@ieyke]

America has wasted an unholy amount of time and money on saving Matt Damon's ass.

[@kenlangston3451]

@@ieyke plus all the resources spent on training Jason Bourne. 😄

[@StreetHierarchy]

@@ieyke hold your tongue, Matt Damon is an American treasure!

[@IH8YH]

@@StreetHierarchy MAAAAATT DAMOOOON!

[@roubador]

Watney: "This is the worst possible music I could have to listen to." Mary: "OMG this is amazing. At least he has great tunes to listen to." LOL.

[@olatron]

The whole 'stuck with shit music' thing kind of spoiled the film for me... cos as an audience member i also had to endure the shit music. It puts me off re-watching, and that's a shame because this is an awesome film in so many ways.

[@ronalddobis6782]

I think if that was all I had to listen to I would just kill myself and be done with it.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

As a lover of all things seventies, that made me grin like a loon. Lol

[@taqresu5865]

@@olatron You could read the book. It has more science, tension, and humor (even the Disco music joke), but you're not required in any way to listen to the music Mark suffered through lol

[@ieyke]

A "Sol" is a timekeeping unit. The Martian version of a day. It's slightly longer than Earth's 24 hour "Day".

[@Cbcw76]

Yes, in space, it will be whatever planet/moon they're on - a "Sol" will be the length of that body's "day" as the body spins.

[@ieyke]

@@Cbcw76 A Sol is SPECIFICALLY a Mars day. Not any other planet.

[@Cbcw76]

@@ieyke Doubtful. When we're on Jupiter, I think they'll be called Sols, too. And why not? A planetary rotation seems fairly constant. I'm not too sure what sunrise and sunset will be called on Mercury, though. haha

[@theradgegadgie6352]

Twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes, to be fairly precise.

[@HiddenWindshield]

@@Cbcw76 As of right now, a "Sol" is specifically a Martian day. Of course, we can't possibly know how language will evolve, so that definition may or may not change in the future. I don't really think Jupiter is a good example, though; as a gas giant, different parts of it rotate at different rates, so it doesn't actually have a defined "rotation period" or "day".

[@TrollGodOfKill]

From what I've read the science is mostly accurate, with a bit of dramatic license. The main exception is the premise of the movie, while there are frequent storms on mars, the atmosphere is so thin it actually couldn't cause the damage that is shown. But other than that the rest of it is pretty much real.

[@DavetheAvatar]

The movie takes a couple more liberties than the book does. The Iron Man glove was suggested and specifically not done in the book because it's a ridiculously bad idea. Adds a little more visual drama for the final act though.

[@MaxWelton]

Also you can’t grow potatoes on Mars because Martian soil is kinda toxic

[@footofjuniper8212]

@@MaxWelton I thought he grew them in human poop.

[@MaxWelton]

@@footofjuniper8212 never mind. The perchlorates (a type of salt hazardous to humans) in Martian soil would either make it hard for plants to grow or make the plants toxic. However, the perchlorates can simply be rinsed out in water. So I was wrong: you CAN grow potatoes on Mars!

[@footofjuniper8212]

@@MaxWelton good to know, thanks! ;)

[@AlexanderShackles]

I'm glad I'm not the only one around here who still grooves the fuck out the moment that any disco song comes on.

[@MravacKid]

I just love the line "I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this" :) Both the movie and the book are among the best SF works of their kind.

[@Cbcw76]

It's hard for me to accept this as part of the Science Fiction genre. It is, I know. There's some science. It's all fiction. But there's something so compelling because, well, this is envisioned probability. "EnviProb" just doesn't have the same catchiness, eh? I think this is such a different tale than traditional SciFi... and that's why it's hard to 'fit' within those limits.

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

@@Cbcw76 It’s called “hard science fiction”. Most of the sci fi you’ve seen is “soft science fiction” or what I call “future fantasy”. Hard sci fi is grounded in science. Soft sci fi is uses things that are theoretical at best (warp drive) but more often just uses magic dressed up as technology, thus why I call it “future fantasy”. Note I’m not saying that as if it’s bad, I love sci fi and fantasy. But it leads to people not knowing there’s harder science fiction out there if you look for it.

[@lordmortarius538]

@@ErzengelDesLichtes But.... this doesn't have a lot of real science in this. It ignores a LOT of facts for drama purposes :/

[@stefanforrer2573]

@@lordmortarius538 thank you... i hate it when people describe movies like this one and interstellar as hard science fiction when it actually is sentimental nonsense

[@gabrielherman8930]

@@lordmortarius538 actually there is a lot of real science in the story. It’s all explained in the book but simplified (or in some cases just left out) in the movie bc it’s a fucking movie. Yes there’s a few glaring moments where the author took significant creative license but that doesn’t make it not hard science fiction

[@embriggs1]

I LOVE how much you were into the music. It was a comical juxtaposition because of its cheeziness but it was SPOT on for Mari. So fun.

[@crash406]

Each of the astronauts had a 1 terabyte thumb drive (it's in the book). Commander Lewis (the character who brought up how serious mutiny was; she was pulled from the Navy to be an astronaut) had just about the entire history of disco, and a couple of TV series from then, saved on her thumb drive. I'm pretty sure that's why the movie had all that disco in it.

[@fakecubed]

Lots of Navy pilots in NASA. Neal Armstrong being the most famous. The military makes up a substantial portion of the astronaut corps, and they usually (always?) are commanding the missions as well. You see spot the military folks in the final classroom scene if you look close.

[@Brashnir]

Mary nerding out on disco is the best part of this reaction, hands-down.

[@beansfriend7033]

_Hidden Figures_ is a good film about some of the people involved in the Space Race - not the astronauts, but civilians. Also some good music, and it honors some of the Black women who were working for NASA at the time; they had been largely overlooked by history for a long time. Some good, somewhat overlooked films just in general: _Moonstruck_ _Dave_ (with Kevin Kline) _Sneakers_ _Dirty Dancing_ _Fried Green Tomatoes_ _When Harry Met Sally_ I'd really love it if you did some older films like _Arsenic and Old Lace_ or _Some Like It Hot_ or _His Girl Friday,_ but I don't think you've ventured quite that far back yet. Still, I hope you try it out eventually. Thanks for the fun reaction!

[@willracer1jz]

Hidden Figures is an awesome movie.

[@tracyfrazier7440]

Moonstruck is awesome.

[@AlanCanon2222]

23:36 "Which launch was that?" It was Space Shuttle Challenger, on flight STS-51L 78 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts were killed. The problem was that poorly designed rubber seals in one of the solid rocket boosters failed, because of extremely cold temperatures at launch.

[@maingun07]

One of the great things about this movie is that all of the science is accurate with the sole exception of the Martian Dust storm at the very beginning. The Martian atmosphere is too thin to have that much wind force. Otherwise, everything that Mark and NASA does is fairly scientifically accurate. Now, go read the book. They had to leave so much out of the movie. Every single chapter in the book ends in a cliffhanger with Mars doing her damned best to kill Whatney and leaves you saying, "How the hell is he going to get out of this one?!?!" I guarantee you won't be able to put it down.

[@summeronio9751]

The RC Bray audiobook is amazing

[@fraelikkriil830]

@@summeronio9751 except for the ridiculous accents he does. Makes it nearly unlisten-to-able.

[@summeronio9751]

@@fraelikkriil830 thats fair. Doesnt bother me personally

[@mcanta2898]

technically, the sun should look blue too. the color of the sun as seen on the surface of a planet depends on the atmosphere, and on mars it looks blue, if I remember right.

[@taqresu5865]

For this story in particular, I let the inaccuracies about the Dust Storm slide because it was a dramatic plot device the story needed for the premise to work. How else would set up a scenario where one astronaut is presumed dead, with the rest of the crew making an emergency launch, and the inconvenience of having the communication array being irreparably damaged? And on a dry planet with much less atmosphere, gravity, and geological and meteorological activity, no less. The dust storms are far more problematic for rovers because the dust cover their solar arrays, and then they can't clean it off themselves.

[@JackDespero]

As far as I know, Sol is used for local days. If you said 4th day of a mission, people my calculate 24x4 hours, but days in Mars are longer. Sol 4 means 4th Martian day. I thought that it was used for all missions, but according to the Wikipedia, it is specifically about Mars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_(day_on_Mars)

[@graememacleod4651]

Yeah it was made specifically for Mars as Mars is the only planet (aside from earth of course XD ) where extended missions have taken place on the surface.

[@djhart25]

@@graememacleod4651 was about to say the same thing, pretty sure if/when we ever go to Venus, Titan or some other planet/moon I doubt we'll come up with individual names for each of their 'days' unless we develop actual colonies.

[@BlairPeron]

Pretty sure it stands for "survival on land"

[@coffeeveins]

@@BlairPeron The name of our star, the sun, is “Sol”. That’s why light/radiation/etc from it is referred to as being Solar(solar radiation is radiation from Sol).

[@Helyx525]

Sol is the term they came up with for the period of time it takes for Mars to rotate on its axis (24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds). We dont call it a Day because that could easily be confused with Earth day length (24 hours) and they never stay in sync. Nasa mars rover teams switch to sleep/wake in sols so they have every opportunity to communicate with the rover and sent it work.

[@davidatkinson47]

The space pirate thing makes a little bit more sense in the book because by that point he'd (accidentally) blew up the Pathfinder communications array, so he was running blind, again, by then as well. He'd received the plan, but not explicit permission (or even full instructions on how to get everything he needed into the rovers). As it stands in the movie he was just doing as told, so he would not in any case be a pirate. Definitely read the book. Everything is so much worse. Mars even tries to kill him twice on the surface while he's heading toward Schiaparelli, and the movie just has a montage. Mark Watney is one tough unit of a man.

[@zarquondam]

29:41 - Most of the external scenes were filled in Wadi Rum in Jordan, a popular filming location (also used for e.g. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, a couple of STAR WARS movies, and the new DUNE movie).

[@RedKytten]

So watching an interview with Weir (the author). In the book, one of the things the character needed to calculate was power use per sol, and calculate it a lot. So instead of always referring to it in the full form, he had the character invent a unit of measurement for it and called it a "Pirate-ninja". Later he was talking to some people at JPL, and apparently that unit of measurement was used in calculations and referenced in meetings.

[@willot4237]

People tend to forget Professional Astronauts are like superheroes. They are massively fit and have the mental discipline of a house brick with the education of University professors.

[@realburglazofficial2613]

Athletes are in peak physical fitness. Shaolin Monks are at peak mental discipline. Geniuses are at peak intelligence. Astronauts are all of these _combined!_

[@AlanCanon2222]

22:34 "What a weird song to play for a left guy on a planet." This is part of why I love reactions in English by non-native speakers.

[@StarkRG]

They cut a lot out of the book (of course, that's part of adaptation) and, unfortunately, they lost some of the things that made the story make sense (he wasn't able to get permission to take over the Ares 4 MAV because his radio was broken, they removed the part where his radio breaks, but kept the space pirate thing). It was Andy Weir's first published novel and was self-published as an e-book (the publication rights have since been bought by a traditional publisher), I highly recommend it. It is _mostly_ scientifically plausible, though slightly less so than the book. Weir went to great lengths to make sure the things he was saying were possible. He calculated how much food someone would need for the allotted time, he calculated orbits and intersect trajectories such as the Rich Purnell Maneuver. The main part that wasn't scientifically accurate was the strength of the storm that got Watney stranded there with no communication in the first place. No matter how strong the wind, the pressure on Mars is just too low to move anything heavier than a sheet of paper, let alone rip an antenna from the roof of the hab, let alone fling it hard enough to penetrate his suit and his body and back out through the suit, let alone knock him far enough away that the crew couldn't find him quickly. Weir has said he felt ok making that choice because he needed a way to get the story started. I say fair enough.

[@taqresu5865]

Yeah, the storm was the biggest creative leap the story took. Martian dust storms are mostly notorious for covering up solar panels in fine dust, which wouldn't be an issue for a manned mission to Mars. But the plot needed a dramatic event that would set up the premise.

[@paulfeist]

I'm sad that you missed the best inside joke in the history of movies.... Sean Bean was in Lord of the Rings, and his character was AT the Council of Elrond. About the science of the movie and book "The Martian"... it gets an "A-". It starts out with an impossibility... the winds on Mars could not carry someone off. The atmosphere is too thin. Almost everything else (with a few exceptions) is pretty darn close to what a reality would be. I can highly recommend reading the book!

[@paulfeist]

@@Hiraghm 1/3 gravity, but 1/100 air pressure... More educated people than me (and there are MANY of those, LOL) have said that was impossible.... Well, maybe with a parachute... a big one.

[@fakecubed]

What's really incredible about the thin atmosphere on Mars is that we've now managed to fly a little drone helicopter on it now.

[@paulfeist]

@@fakecubed Right?!? And it's performed much better than expected so far!

[@fakecubed]

@@paulfeist Well, they always overengineer these things to last beyond the expected lifetime. I’m not at all surprised it’s made 30 (and counting) flights instead the the mere 5 it was supposed to. They are very conservative with their estimates, and they are always very determined to squeeze as much out of each mission as they can.

[@sample.text.]

For the record.. A "Sol" is a "Day" on Mars Roughly 24hr40mn. So just slightly longer than Earth's day. Also, Matt Damon is a phenomenal actor and writer. I'd highly recommend "Good Will Hunting" Makes a great reaction video as well.

[@SalvableRuin]

A 'Sol' (where we get the word "solar") is a DAY on an alien world.

[@boanerv]

Andy Weir wrote the book this movie is about and his new book 'Hail Mary' is even better i hope they will make it into a movie as well.

[@boanerv]

@Gerald H Nice!

[@steriopticon2687]

For Hail Mary, it's like someone told Andy Weir, "Nobody could put a protagonist in a more lonely, forlorn and dangerous situation than Mark Watney was," and Andy said, "Hold my beer."

[@jodonnell64]

@Gerald H Yes. Ryan Gosling is playing the main character, and is producing.

[@selkie76]

Several years ago I was in London, checking the train timetables in King's Cross station. I didn't pay any heed to the man in shades and a baseball cap standing next to me until two other girls ran up and asked for his autograph. It was Matt Damon, who quickly signed something and then fled the area before anybody else troubled him. I have only the very best "celebrity encounter" anecdotes. ^_~

[@n0tk0sher]

23:40 Challenger. Saw it in a classroom, our teacher had to leave for the day. She couldn't deal.

[@Fonny222]

What this movie made me realize is that Sean Bean not only dies in a lot of his roles but he also is a betrayer in a lot of them. Sometimes he’s both betrayer and dies. This movie he was good guy betrayer but didn’t die vs National Treasure where he was bad guy betrayer and didn’t die.

[@mandalore1089]

I'd highly suggest reading the book as well. It goes way more into Watney's scientific/mathematical nature.

[@LordBloodraven]

I highly recommend the audiobook, if only because it was narrated by Wil Wheaton (aka Wesley Crusher).

[@Themaxleydog]

why did i think it was adorable that you didnt know the word martian. i was like awwwwwwwww

[@BillTheScribe]

Sol= a day on Mars. 1 "Day" on Mars is a little over 25 hours long. On Jupiter, it's about 10 hours, and on Venus it's 255 days. They need different terms to avoid confusion. Of all the stuff in this movie, the least plausible is the storm at the beginning. Mars does have huge dust storms, but the atmosphere is very thin. So thin that it's almost a vacuum. The air there just doesn't have the mass to exert much force when the wind blows. The dust storms are due to the fact that soil is very dry and fine, and there's only about 38% of the gravity that we have on earth. it doesn't take much wind to blow the dust around, and it lingers in the air for much longer.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

_The Martian_ is a movie that anyone can enjoy, even if they are not particularly science fiction fans. Think of it as a "shipwreck" movie based in science. Even my elderly parents enjoyed it. They took some creative license in some areas, such as the storms on Mars: Mars' atmosphere is about 1% as dense as the Earth's so storms would never be as severe as it is depicted here, but overall they did a fantastic job. Great movie.

[@fakecubed]

For people who like Mars stuff that's more on the accurate side of things, there's a wonderful series called Mars put out by National Geographic. Two seasons. It's part present-day documentary, part dramatic near-future colonization story.

[@maximillianosaben]

This is such a pleasant and surprisingly feel good movie, especially from director Ridley Scott.

[@ravensdark99]

The Elrond council joke is by far the funniest thing in the movie because of the person who delivers it

[@dantedja]

fun fact, the author of the novels, Andy Weir, made sure to be as scientifically accurate as possible while writing the story, and only allowed for a few glaring inaccuracies among which are: 1. The storm in the beginning would not have had the force to throw a man 30 meters away. Since the atmosphere is so thin on mars, winds can't get the kinds of speed needed to create an accident like what happened to Mark. 2. The amount of radiation Mark (and the crew) would have been exposed to should have given him so much "cancer his cancer would have cancer" (to quote Andy Weir), since we basically haven't found a material that could protect from cosmic radiation while being light enough to put on a spaceship. Weir basically made the assumption that that problem would be solved by the time the story takes place. there are a few other inaccuracies, but many of those are mostly because of new discoveries or technologies, like the fact that getting water would have been much easier, since there is enough water in the soil on mars, that he could have just heated the soil up to get to it.

[@fakecubed]

We will probably build the first habitats on Mars inside empty lava tubes, or otherwise pile up martian soil and rock on top of habitats, to serve as radiation shielding for colonists. Eventually, presumably, humans living there will just adapt genetically to be more resistant to radiation and have lower cancer risk.

[@vianneyb.8776]

The creators of this movie made a KZbin channel and posted a few extras. One of them was an in-movie interview of all the crew when they were still being tested for their spot on the Hermes. They just spent a long time in total isolation from the world and were asked to say what they thought of other members. Everybody liked Mark, the glue that helped them not long each other through his humor. But I liked Johannsen's comment on the commander : "Lewis is a badass."

[@crash406]

They snuck in a line from the book (from when he was stuck on Mars); "How can Aquaman talk to whales ?"

[@Ncyphen]

FYI, Potatoes are a root, not a fruit or vegetable. When a potato is pulled out of the ground, it has sections of roots growing out called "eyes." Cutting up the potato into section with on eye each will allow the potato to essentially become the seeds for more potatoes. Fun fact, the potatoes we eat are the exact same genetics for the past century or so, since potatoes are not grown from seeds. The potato plant does sprout fruit, but it is poisonous. We don't replant the potato seed out of fear of mutating the root into an inedible state.

[@RoxxSerm]

Sitting in my lab at work on a low late-shift, not much to do sadly so this comes at the perfect time :) wishing a great Sunday evening to you all !

[@dragonstryk7280]

So as an interesting note, NASA has in fact stated that this is the most accurate sci-fi book/movie to be produced. Pretty much everything was as close to real as you could make it.

[@3DJapan]

It was filmed in Jordan for the Mars locations, the indoor sets were in Budapest and Hungary.

[@ldkinbote]

When the director said that they'd skip the inspections and if it gets out, it's on him, he wasn't talking about rescuing Mark, he was talking about the launch mission to send him more supplies, because he was trying to get it launched as soon as possible so it'd get there before he ran out of food. If they did inspections, they wouldn't be able to launch in time if they found problems. They'd have to stop everything, fix whatever issue there was, inspect again, if there were more problems, stop again, etc. That would be extra months. So, he wasn't being glib with Mark's life. Just thought I'd clear that up.

[@user-op6kt8pg9y]

I remember going to the cinema with my dad to watch this and we couldn't decide between this and the second maze runner and im glad he convinced me to watch this as it was perfect for me

[@natehaux7575]

Farmers or anyone can cut a potato into quarters. as a potato ages, it grows an "eye" or a little sprout. if each quarter has an eye, you can plant it and the eye will grow above ground, sprouting leaves and stalks, while more potatoes grow under ground. after a few weeks, you can harvest the new potatoes and repeat the process.

[@ieyke]

The Martian is ALMOST entirely scientifically accurate. The only MAJOR inaccuracy is that the same thin Martian atmosphere that mean Mark Watney was able to take off without the nose cone to his ship, and just use a tarp instead, ALSO means that there's simply no atmosphere to create the massive wind storm that set off the events of the whole movie. Mars DOES have storms and high winds, but the thin atmosphere means they're weak and feeble. Think of how it feels to get blasted by a massive blast of water from a hose, or to get hit by a wave. And then compare that to the equivalent blast of air from a fan or a storm. The mass and density of the water hits SOOOOOO much harder than the air. The same is true for a wind storm on Earth vs a wind storm on Mars. Earth has a thick and dense atmosphere with a lot of matter (air molecules) to smash into you and blow you around. Mars has a thin atmosphere with very sparse air molecules that don't amount to much more than a light breeze even in the most powerful Martian storms.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

Also an inaccuracy of fairly large proportions, is that they don't even attempt to show Martian gravity. Everyone and everything is quite clearly in 1g in the film, while on Mars. And even bigger inaccuracy though, is the fact that NASA is funded so well and all important decisions involving it are made by people with good education.

[@ieyke]

@@theradgegadgie6352 True.... 😕 You can tell the book and movie came out before the world went to hell, and we were still optimistic about the future.

[@gabrielherman8930]

Also the iron man thing but that wasn’t in the book

[@kenfreeman8888]

I love what you said about space being magical. It brings peoples and nations together. "From the Earth to the Moon" wtih Tom Hanks is a great series about the Apollo missions, including the story behind the first actual photograph of the whole planet earth from space that brought a moment of peace in a turbulent time. We're all trying to live together on that blue marble.

[@theanyktos]

A 'sol' is what they call a martian day in this movie. it's about a half hour longer than an earth day (which, incidentally, is why a lot of people who work on mars missions, for example the Perseverence Rover, end up with work schedules that shift by a half hour every day).

[@jdb4163]

Sol is the term used to define the length of a day on mars. Mars rotates slighty slower than earth resulting in a day that's around 34 minutes longer than a day on earth. That's not something explcitly explained in the movie. To translate that more effectively that means 48 sols would be approximately equivalent to 49 days on earth. One of the things I always love about this movie is when they're breaking down the mav modifications to Vincent and his expression is just this ever increasing mask of incredulity.

[@gabe2349]

If you were curious, this movie is almost entirely scientifically accurate, up to and including Mark leaving the atmosphere of Mars. The two main inaccuracies are: 1. The storm in the beginning isn’t realistic for Mars, as it doesn’t have a dense enough atmosphere 2. The artificial gravity on the Hermes is also unrealistic as it would take too much energy to spin the outer ring at the required speed.

[@KaizerHiwatari]

7:07 "What does that do?" That's an anesthetic, to numb the area so it doesn't hurt as much when he pulls the debris out of his wound. 15:40 - "What is a sol?" You are very close! "Sol" is a shortening of the NASA term "Solar Day," and it refers to the time it takes for a Mars to revolve once around its own axis. It is about 24 hours and 40 minutes long, which is roughly 3% longer than a day on Earth. 29:39 - "Where was this filmed?" It was actually filmed in Wadi Rum, Jordan. This is a valley cut into sandstone and granite rock, and it is also known as the Valley of the Moon. Other movies which have used this location for filming include Lawrence of Arabia, Prometheus, Rogue One, the live-action Aladdin, and Dune! 39:46 - "I wonder how much of it is possible?" You've probably already heard this by now, but the only thing in this movie that is technically impossible is the initial windstorm. Something about the atmosphere (too thin?) won't let winds get that bad on Mars. Almost all of the rest is scientifically sound. Fun fact: The author never intended to sell this story. He wrote it as a free serial for his website, one thing led to another, and then he sold the rights for "low-to-mid" 6 figures (something like $300,000?) @_@

[@mrshadow4007]

Hollywood has spent so much goddamn money rescuing Matt Damon.

[@markharris1125]

"Our parents watched the Moon landing on TV" - yes, they did. With me sitting there with them. Oh, I feel old! 👴 Anyone with me on 'Gravity' being on Mary's list? Lots of spinning around in that one! It's also a survival movie, Mary, with awesome special effects, and it's quite short and to-the-point, about the length of a Luna nap.

[@GrouchyMarx]

Yes. "Gravity" is another good one. And I too was there at age 14 on the evening of July 20th 1969.

[@markharris1125]

@@GrouchyMarx I was ten. I was so certain '2001' would become reality, that I'd be on holiday to the Moon by the time I was 43 . . . Speaking of which, shall we add '2001' to the list?

[@GrouchyMarx]

@@markharris1125 Oh yes. Definitely "2001: A Space Odyssey" if you're reading this Mary!

[@timfenton7469]

I watched the moon landing when I 15 years old and at that time I was sure we’d be to Mars long before now. Damn bean counters.

[@fakecubed]

@@markharris1125 I'd like to see her react to every space movie, and every Kubrick movie, including any overlaps thereof.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

The author of the novel, Andy Weir only took one creative license. He needed an excuse to strand the astronaut on Mars. But in real life, a strong wind on Mars is a very soft wind on Earth because the atmosphere is very thin, and for all practical purposes it could even be considered as vacuum, except for descending to the surface. It is thin enough to make aerobrake impractical or to use control surfaces like a plane, but dense enough to not allow ships to turn backwards to conduct retrobraking burns. Mars is a nightmare for vehicle designers. Aside of that Weir did proper research on all the problems that are handled in a realistic way.

[@RichardinNC1]

Sol is a term used for a Mars day, which is slightly more than the Earth 24 hours day. Therefore its the number of day/night cycles. Fun fact: JPL scientists monitoring a Mars mission live on the Mars day time cycle and eventually work odd shifts compared to others.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

In the book, Mark doesn't cut a hole in his suit and Dr. Beck reaches into the capsule where Mark is and pulls him out instead of being caught by Commander Lewis. Overall the book and movie are similar but with some differences (the book is much more detailed of course). Great book AND movie!

[@steriopticon2687]

I must say the Iron Man thing was the worst change made for the movie. I sort of understand why they thought they had to do it, but geeze...

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@steriopticon2687 It was a bit silly, yeah, and most likely would have resulted in him being forever shot off into an area of space that they would not be able to reach in time. Also, when they get entangled in the cabling and start spinning around each other, with no friction to stop them that spinning would have become extremely fast almost immediately and they probably would have slammed helmets into each other at the end hard enough to crack them fatally. _But_ this is a movie.... (Overall an excellent one too)

[@jacket5456]

I don't think there were astronauts in the first supply rocket. I'm pretty sure it was unmanned. I mean, every rocket we've ever sent to mars, at this point, has been unmanned. So it wouldn't be hard, we're pretty good at it.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Yeah, it just contained food & any other supplies they thought were feasible to get him through, until they could reach him with a ship that could also bring him back..

[@taqresu5865]

If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend reading the book. Everything is described in a lot more detail, and has a lot more humor as well. If you questions about some of the science involved, the book is a good resource as well. There is a lot of interesting hurdles Watney had to work around that the film just couldn't show. For example, the Hab (the base stationed on Mars) had failsafes galore to ensure the best environment possible, like an automatic humidity regulator that Mark Watney had to shut off because he needed an incredible amount of water for his potatoes. Also the reason they even had potatoes (and the ketchup most likely) is because Lewis' team were going to spend Thanksgiving on Mars so NASA allowed that one exception to their diet.

[@michaelevidente6300]

Hi Mary! Yes, Matt Damon is a great actor, but he won his Oscar award not for acting but for Best Screenplay for the movie "Good Will Hunting", together with his old friend Ben Affleck. Both of them also starred in the film, which also had Robin Williams and Williams took home the Best Supporting Actor for the role. You usually see him as Jason Bourne in the Bourne Series of movies, in the Oceans series of movies (Oceans 11, 12, and 13), Saving Private Ryan (as Pvt. James Ryan), The Departed, The Green Zone, Courage Under Fire, True Grit, and even cameos in Thor:Ragnarok, and the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. He is considered one of the best actors of this generation

[@bronzduck1122]

Mars is quite an interesting and horrible place to live at, we haven't figured out how we gonna grow anything on the poisonous soil of mars, the atmosphere is 99 times thinner than earth, there's no radiation shielding like we have on earth as there is no active magnetic core which creates a magnetic filed shielding from charged particles of sun, discharged in a solar storm, which actually happens a lot. Sand storms are often, nights are -100 degrees colder. Gravity is only 1/3 that of earth, means the longer you stay your bones would lose its mass and, so every crew members like space must do weight training, but in long run it won't be enough

[@PowerCookie1]

The irony of hot stuff while transporting an object emitting radiation. I lol when i first saw that.

[@ammaleslie509]

It wasn't until I saw this reaction that I paid attention to the connections between the songs and what was happening in the movie! The only connection I made the first time was the use of I Will Survive at the end of the movie, but now I see all the other connections as well D'OH!

[@sirjohnmara]

Fun Fact (not...): The crash you mentioned (23:37) was probably the Space Shuttle Challanger 1986, it was the first time a regular civilian, Christa McAuliffe, would go to space. She was a school teacher and the most horrible thing is that her class of kids (11-13 years old) were actually there at NASA Kennedy Space Center, watching live as it all went very wrong... Thanks for your great reactions!

[@eileensquirrely9880]

Excellent reaction to this one. I really enjoyed the movie as well. I looked up where it was filmed - The vast red land that depicted the surface of the Red Planet, Mars, in The Martian, was actually the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan. Wadi Rum is also known as the 'Valley of the Moon'.

[@texasrattlesnake31637]

Hi Mari! Just came from Twitch, glad that your reacting to this one - quite inspiring to watch -

[@Londronable]

Just something that might not have been explained yet. Patatoes, similar to many types of willow(the tree thing) basically grow if you stick one in the ground. Like, you can cut of a branch of a willow tree, stick it in the ground and you'll get a new one. It's also the most energy(calorie) dense thing you can plant and it holds a wide VARRIETY of nutrients. It does lack vitamines though hence why as you see his naked back you see a lot of blood everywhere, he suffers from scurvy, similar to what pirates had problems with. Lack of vitamines.

[@CamCygi]

Reaction suggestions: - The Terminator (1984) - Terminator 2: Judgment Day Special Edition (1991) - True Lies (1994)

[@keithowen3523]

Matt Damon and Ben Aflac won best screen play academy awards for Good Will Hunting in 1997. You might want to review it some time. Actually it won two academy awards, golden globes and a slew of other awards

[@azorazul007]

Hey Mary! Matt Damon has been as main character in a lot of movies! I would recommend "The Bourne Identity", it's actually a trilogy! 😀

[@fakecubed]

Good films. There's actually a couple more of them but I prefer to just think of them as the first three since the others aren't as good. Also based on a book series. Quite a good one, but rather different.

[@grizzlygamer8891]

This is absolutely my favorite movie of all time. It's very sympathetic to the novel and only really cuts a couple of corners, primarily to keep the runtime down. I'd have been fine with it being three and a half hours to be honest.

[@J.Leistikow]

I guess we found our disco queen here.

[@DavetheAvatar]

Things are expanded a lot more in the book, with several more things going wrong along the way, particularly with communications and on the journey across Mars. One of my favourite books of recent years. I love the movie but I'd recommend anyone who enjoyed the movie to give it a read.

[@kathyastrom1315]

The first audiobook (not the one read by Matt Damon, but the first version read by one man doing all of the voices) is really great!

[@LordBloodraven]

A Martian day is 24 hours and 39 minutes (and some odd seconds). The issue they run into with with communicating with Watney is that his sleep cycle is going to gradually be offset from the sleep cycle of everyone on Earth with each progressive day. After 37 sols on Mars, 1 extra day will have passed on Earth.

[@Scav3nger53]

Great reactions to a great movie, exactly the same feelings I went through even knowing the gist of the story from the book (which I couldn't put down while reading). Matt Damon was the perfect actor for the role of Watney and the rest of the cast worked well together and were adapted quite well considering they didn't appear in the book all that much (being that it was heavily focused on Watney's logs from a first person perspective). Spoilers ahead if anyone hasn't read the book and is planning on it (highly recommended). The ups and downs here just a few compared to in the book. The hydrogen explosion was much more violent in the book, to the point where Watney is knocked out and is surprised when he comes to that, not only is he still alive, the Hab and all of its systems are still perfectly fine. While preparing the rover for the journey to ARES IV a drill electrically shorts out Pathfinder and Watney loses communication from NASA (he's able to communicate to them in Morse code using rocks but they can't respond). He has to complete the journey without them only regaining communication when he boards ARES IV (this makes the boarding a ship without permission line make more sense in the book as he couldn't get permission like he could in the movie). During the journey to ARES IV, he almost runs out of power by narrowly avoiding a dust storm and only finds a way around it by laying out solar panels kilometres apart to measure power gain/loss to find a way around the storm without overly affecting his timeline. And while entering the Schiaparelli crater where the ARES IV's MAV is located the rover tips on its side and he has to jerry rig a way to flip it (and the trailer) back onto its wheels to complete the journey. Combined with the things that made it into the movie, the guy went through some shit.

[@steriopticon2687]

It was brilliant how they adapted the book: just eliminate half the emergencies, so they could concentrate on showing the ones that were left in some detail. IMHO.

[@Scav3nger53]

@@steriopticon2687 I agree, including all of them in a 2 and half hour movie would have been a stretch too far, maybe include them all if it was an 6-8 episode series but not a movie, the one's they kept made a lot of sense from a pacing perspective.

[@realisticphish]

We need a full-on "Disco Dance Party with Mary"

[@mightyrobot42]

If you haven't seen any movies with Matt Damon as a main character then you really need to add Good Will Hunting to your list.

[@erictaylor5462]

9:00 They made him a botanist, ET the Extra Terrestrial was a botanist. Movie reference? A botanist left behind on an alien planet, who must find a way to contact his friends? This movie is the same story as ET but without the kids.

[@SirSpitsAlotable]

Just so you know, in the scene where Donald Glovers character wakes up in that mess and falls over. The fall wasn’t scripted. He actually slipped and played it off and the director liked it.

[@marianne5055]

Theres so many people in this movie that were in superhero movies. Matt Damon was in Thor Ragnarok, Sebastian Stan is Bucky in the MCU, you have Benedict Wong who plays Wong in the MCU, Chiwetel Ejifor from Doctor Strange, Jessica Chastain was in Dark Phoenix, Donald Glover in Spiderman Homecoming, Michael Pena who plaus Luis in the antman movies, Kristen Wiig did Wonder Woman 1984, kate Mara did Fant4stic....am I missing anyone? lol

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

You should really watch Contact with Jodie Foster, you'd probably love it.

[@stiimuli]

like Interstellar this movie (and the book it came from) was heavily researched to be as scientifically accurate as possible. One thing that was wrong (but kind of had to be) was the big dust storm at the beginning. With Mars' atmosphere being so thin the wind forces likely would not have been strong enough to blow equipment around, send Mark flying or blow the ship over.

[@jodonnell64]

In an interview, Andy Weir stated that after he had realized his "mistake" about the storm, he was trying to figure out a different way he could have had Mark be abandoned. It wasn't until a couple years later that real science discovered that Martian storms also produce lightning, and Andy said he could have worked with that.

[@eTraxx]

On a potato (aardappel) there are called an eye in English. You cut a potato up with each piece having an eye or bud. The plant grows from these. The potato with each eye is the nutrient for the baby plant. You plant it, fertilize it, water it .. and you get a potato .. hopefully

[@nunnie768]

It's crazy how many ways we english speakers say someone is from somewhere: AmericANS from america. MarTIAN from mars, earthLINGS from earth. ChinESE from china. British from UK. There's so many and it doesn't seem to follow any rules

[@crackers562]

The author of the book was a NASA/space nerd and made it so realistic that you can imagine it actually happened - except the final "iron man" part of course... that was Hollywood :-)

[@Phireo]

About not leaving anyone behind (usually dead). Currently, the US spends $112 million a year to give the DPAA the funds to find and return the remains of soldiers who died or went missing in World War 2, Korea and Vietnam. Although not common, there's been numerous incidents where the US military sent forces to recover soldiers who were in danger, missing or behind enemy lines. Most well known episodes are those where the cost of lives or equipment was enormous, due to tragedies making the news while smooth sailing missions generally don't.

[@Marcosaur03]

Sol is the name of our star (the Sun). A day is ~24 hours. Mars rotates differently from Earth, so the equivalent of a day is a sol.

[@ImNotOld_ImVintage]

I love this movie. And the book was even more amazing. The book even reads like Matt Damon is the main protagonist. I read it before seeing the moving, and it's like the book was written for him.

[@laurelg9586]

I saw this movie when it first came out and didn't care for it AND I had never been a big fan of Matt Damon but after watching it a second time, I had new appreciation for both the movie and Matt Damon. I was totally engaged from beginning to end!

[@actuallytheguy8395]

Mars scenes were filmed in Jordan

[@-zerxvil-5208]

22:36 He did said that all the music is disco music belongs to his commander or something.

[@augustoraugust7493]

I just thought that the fact Mari didn't know what "Martian" means was adorable hahaha I mean.... It was cute, IDK

[@FreyaofCerberus]

The Martian shots were filmed in the Waddi Rum in Jordan, i've had the privilege of visiting and it's hauntingly beautiful. Exactly like the surface of Mars.

[@blackeyeole]

The non realistic things are : the suits that one person can put on his own (but it is not far away to accomplish that) , the big spacecraft that is like the space station (the technology is there but the cost is to great) , and the wind at first (mars has very thin atmosphere so it is impossible to be dangerous for the ship. ). The orbits , times , math , communications , the water making , the planting using human waste (bacteria) are all real.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Have you watched "The Girl W/The Dragon Tattoo"? I highly recommend. The original is great, but has subtitles for English. The remake w/Daniel Craig is pretty good too though.

[@prototypep4]

It's hilarious the scene when he says he'll cancel the safety examinations when the apollo program had virtually none. Those ships were the dodgiest shit ever put together :'D

[@kermitcook8498]

I find you adorable. Have found that the more I watch, the better it gets. Was first interested in your accent. It's been great seeing you learn a new craft. You are part of my"what happened next Grandpa" group. I can only imagine what being Robinson Crusoe with the added pressure of you can't survive without the protection of your artificial environment. Great story. Great cast. Great job by you. Maybe expand your choice of music.

[@dennismason3740]

Yes, absolutely. Sol is the time it takes for the planet to make one complete revolution, thus exposing all aspects of Mars to Sol (sun).

[@erictaylor5462]

The word "Martian" means "of Mars." For something that is of Venus is "Venusian" However this violates the convection applied to the other planets because the word that means "of Venus" was already in use for something rather unpleasant. A class of diseases that come from love. Venus is the Goddess of love, so these diseases are considered to be of Venus, Venereal diseases.