THE MARTIAN Movie Reaction! FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@Thurrak]

Unlike what scifi movies and shows have told us, its actually literally impossible for a spaceship to "turn around" without expending a metric fuckton of fuel. Real spaceships use the gravity of celestial bodies to turn around by slingshotting themselves.

[@rsrt6910]

Yeah but if we keep doing THAT we'll slow all the planets down!

[@Fishmorph]

Exactly. Ships have a delta-V rating - essentially, the total amount of change (delta) of velocity (V) they can do. If you spend fuel to accelerate to 5 meters per second, you have to spend an equal amount of fuel to stop, and a further amount of fuel to go 5 meters per second in the other direction. In the book, you can see how the main ship, the Hermes, is basically on a complicated cycle, going between Earth and Mars and back again, over and over. It uses minor amounts of fuel for course correction, but it never actually turns around.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

Didn't they slingshot around Earth to go back to Mars in the movie?

[@joepegel]

As someone who grew up reading old school sci-fi, when Rich had his a-ha moment, I immediately knew he was thinking about a slingshot. The only unrealistic thing about it was that someone would have thought of it earlier.

[@lawrencewestby9229]

Correct, once they left Mars they put themselves in an orbit around the sun that happens to intersect the Earth's orbit at a time when the Earth is at that point in its orbit.

[@dlweiss]

One of my favorite things about this movie is the way it uses humor: the jokes don't simply add entertainment or offer relief from the tension, they also deepen your emotional connection and actually make the whole story feel that much more human and touching. A really impressive balance of tone! :)

[@noahsaberon1554]

As a 17 year old high school student pursuing engineering. This is one of my favorite movies because it shows teamwork and problem solving at it’s absolute finest, it also shows how engineers think. When faced with a problem, if you’re an engineer, you can likely solve the problem.

[@jrepka01]

You mentioned it being a "feel-good" movie. If you think about it, it's a major Hollywood science fiction blockbuster in which no one dies. Andy Weir said that a major theme of the book from his perspective was to show that the people of the world would come together behind the rescue of one person.

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

The book is a great read, and adds a lot more material to the story.

[@ruthhuang9308]

This is literally one of my favourite movies ever, and yeah the fact that they managed to get all these incredible actors in this movie blows my mind every time

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

The prestige of being in a Ridley Scott film really worked wonders!

[@reecegilman4314]

This movie is in my top 5, i dont know why but some of my favorite movies are the alone movies, life of pi is in my top 5 aswell.

[@sleeper-cassie]

8:30 - A “Sol” is used to represent a Martian day, rather than an Earth day (Martian days are about 10 minutes longer). The term is used to indicate a sort of “local day length”, since there’s no official Martian calendar, and it can’t be meaningfully synchronized to Earth’s calendar. (Sol is the official name of our sun, hence the word “solar”.)

[@alexkramerblogs]

Love seeing people discover this movie! The book is also absolutely wild, too!

[@fiImedeterror]

as a big fan of the novel i think they really nailed it with the movie. less maths but the overall feel of everyone on earth coming together with minimal politics to save another human being while mark watney offers us great comedy

[@NeilPower]

I would suggest you read the book. They left out and change a few parts for the movie. For example, Mark cooked his potatoes in the microwave before placing them in a container outside. The cold and the lack of oxygen was better than any fridge.

[@LeBeloy]

Interesting to know... but... You cant compare a 50 hours book (at least) with a 2hours movie

[@NeilPower]

@@LeBeloy I know but I wish they included a few more things into the movie. Like Mark reacting more emotionally when NASA fully switched on Pathfinder. Just knowing that NASA knew he was alive was a massive relief for him. Thinking about it, they could have made this into a miniseries.

[@kerrissedai6857]

The book is funnier!

[@IgnisKhan]

A highpoint of the book for me was the plutonium-powered hot tub to help him relax after he pulled a muscle in his back.

[@jasonskeans3327]

that is a very tiny detail

[@the_nikster1]

watching you talk about appreciating the engineers and scientists behind the missions made me think: have you seen Hidden Figures? if not, I highly recommend it. I think you'd really enjoy it and it falls into that same kind of vein. anyway, love this movie and loved your reaction! ❤

[@johnnehrich9601]

I think of Hidden Figures, Apollo 13, and the Martian as a sort of 3-part look at space flight. And Hidden Figures stunned me, as someone who had followed the space program from when John F. Kennedy said we would land a man on the moon before the end of that decade (1960's). How could this story have been so well . . . hidden (of course, it is obvious in retrospect).

[@70briareos]

"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this." Best. Line. EVER.

[@jodonnell64]

In an interview Andy Weir was asked if he came up with that line for the film. He said he hadn't, but wished he had. He loved that addition.

[@JackOiswatching]

This movie is a full court press of talent, everything just works!

[@Com1xguy]

If you want some other Jeff Daniels content, check out The Newsroom. Incredible show imo

[@crypton48]

Definitely read the book, or at least listen to the audiobook! The movie only has some of the possible ways Mars wants to kill Watney. The science in the book is sound (only one major miscalculation which would have killed Mark). The book was written by Andy Weir and released in chapters. He asked the community if anything was wrong and they answered. Very good podcasts with Andy Weir are out there.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

There were some issues, the scenes don't really give you a feel of only 31% earth gravity, he doesn't really do anything to cleanse the martian soil of perchlorates, and the wind is significantly stronger than reality.

[@jasonskeans3327]

@@trygswyrmwoodside3229 then again, the movie doesn't show every single minute of every day for him

[@Garryck-1]

@@trygswyrmwoodside3229 - At the time the story was written, we still had no idea that perchlorates were even an issue on Mars. So it can't be faulted for that.

[@GreatSpaceToaster]

This is such a cool, feel-good movie. Just people coming together, using their ingenuity to overcome seemingly impossible odds. I can totally see an inferior version of this movie in which they made Jeff Daniels' character a villain who tries to sabotage the rescue because of money or something, but this movie understood it didn't need to force Hollywood conflict like that, the tension of the mission is more than enough to carry the story. And the cast is absolutely stacked.

[@v1ct0r32679]

Another great reaction. There are many rovers and landers and probes on Mars. It happens to be the only known planet populated entirely by robots. Take that, Cybertron.

[@Photohog4]

Glad you did a reaction to this. It’s a great story. I could watch this film several times and be incredibly captivated each and every time. In fact…I have done that. It’s that good. The cast is stacked with talent.

[@surlycanadian]

I think that was a local anesthetic that he was stabbing himself with prior to removing tHe little piece of debris to help numb the area. The only reason I can think he knew that it was there is he knew that the end of the piece he was impaled with looked like and could see that a piece was missing and must be still inside him.

[@MysteriousMag3]

The piece he pulled out was actually part of his space suit. Specifically the biomonitor chip, hence why the crew thought he was dead. That chip being disconnected made the suit report to the ship "no life signs detected", which you can see during the storm scene. I'm pretty sure he mentions it off hand during the first video log, but I know for sure it's explained in the book.

[@apatternedhorizon]

This won best comedy that year and people that had never watched it were so confused.

[@pyrofan80]

24:37 - funnily enough, having Sean Bean in this bit wasn’t done deliberately and the director wanted to change it when he found out but was persuaded to leave it in

[@hawkins347]

It's genuinely fucking hilarious to have Sean Bean explain what the Elrond thing is about, though 😂

[@sarahmattingly6971]

I dunno… that line is in the book exactly. You cast that guy- he’s going to say that line. Seems intentional to me! 😂 And I love it. 😁

[@pyrofan80]

@@sarahmattingly6971 I like to think that, if it had been intentional, they’d have had Sean say something like, “One does not simply call a secret meeting without giving it a codename.”

[@Lenny-ue8hk]

"duct tape is magical and should be worshipped" - Mark Watney (in the book)

[@AlanCanon2222]

16:45 Thank you for including the little hillock of sand that Pathfinder/Sojourner are buried under. Lots of reactors skip that shot, and so it makes it jarring when he's digging (apparently straight down from a level surface, when seen from above), then the next moment he's got Pathfinder free of sand on the surface, apparently without having lifted it. That brief earlier shot helps set up the fact that it's slightly easier to dig up than the later shots suggest. I have a full copy of The Martian, but hadn't studied that scene for a while. P. S. Pathfinder, and its suitcase sized Sojourner rover, were darlings of the public when they landed in 1997. Everyone especially went crazy for the cute rover, and it's a nice touch that Mark gets it going as his own robot pet, even though it's not integral to the plot.

[@DylanSterling]

It's not a 2 or 4 year trip. 4 years is the next time the Earth and Mars are going to be in a position where they can take the trip within a reasonable time. I think it's 7 months.

[@cindylou3205]

The Apollo 13 astronauts, engineers, and mathematicians will have all my respect forever, exactly for what this movie shows. Ingenuity.

[@MythicalPhoebe]

This movie was definitely way better than anyone expected it to be. I haven't seen this movie in a while and I honestly forgot how amazing the cast was. Some of these people I didn't know as well the first time I watched it.

[@SorchaSublime]

the book for this is absolutely incredible. If book reactions on youtube were in any way possible i would beg you to do one for it. Probably the single most impressive debut sci fi novel since metro 2033

[@cookie_of_nine]

Sean Bean may not have died, but his character did have to "fall on his sword" to get the job done. He lost his job at NASA, either by resigning, or being fired since it was assumed by his boss that he leaked the plans to the crew that they used to go back for Mike.

[@FullMetalB]

This film was great and the book was even better...BUT Project Hail Mary is a whole other level! I can't wait for the movie adaptation and I hope it's phenomenal. I recommend the book (and even more so the audiobook) to anyone that hasn't read it yet!

[@AddSerious]

I have no idea how they are going to make PHM into a film, so much will have to be left out, but fingers crossed.

[@jodonnell64]

@@AddSerious Yeah... last I heard, Ryan Gosling has already signed on as Ryland.

[@crairdin]

Agreed. The Martian is great and the book is better. But Project Hail Mary is an order of magnitude better and will be a couple orders of magnitude harder to adapt for the screen. But having read the book and listened to the audio book multiple times, I'd love to see it on the screen.

[@betwixttales]

The book this movie is based on, is one of my favorites. The first time I read it, I started it over as soon as I was finish. It's so good, and so funny. And it has one of the best opening lines!

[@mitchthe3518]

I lent it to a friend and he ended up passing it around his family, I just bought another copy. God I love this so much

[@alexkramerblogs]

Anthony Weir took some liberties while writing, but almost everything has a scientific basis in the book. The only real things that are kind of handwaved are the martian storms being Way more powerful than in real life, and the kind of thrusters the ship has for the rest of the crew that gets them to/from Mars so quickly. Weir wrote his own scripts to calculate out the travel times and dates for the whole book, and although he doesn't outright state it in the book, some fans have been able to take details and accurately calculate what the dates are -- later confirmed by Weir.

[@alexkramerblogs]

@B.L. Alley oh, absolutely! If I remember correctly, at the time Weir was writing the book as an online serial, there hadn't been conclusive evidence of how strong the Martian sandstorms were. I think it was like a year after the full published version of the novel that there was that data published about how forceful they could be.

[@paratus04]

Actually the thrusters on the Hermes according to the book were Variable Specific Impulse Magneto Plasma Rockets (VASIMR). Those are a real thing. Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz former astronaut and fusion researcher realized during fusion experiments if you let your plasma out one end you’ve got a rocket. The basic design injects a neutral gas that gets heated via radio waves jiggling the electrons in the gas until it forms a low temperature plasma. A magnetic field directs the plasma to the rear of the engine where another radio antenna can heat the plasma to millions of degrees. A magnetic nozzle directs the hot plasma out of the engine providing thrust. The whole thing is sort of like a transmission in your car. By putting more power to the first radio antenna you get more thrust at worse impulse (Isp - think mileage) like starting off your car in low gear. Put more power to the second and you get less thrust but at much higher Isp - just like going into high gear on the highway. Supposedly with enough electrical power he could get a ship to Mars in less than 3 months. He started a company, Ad Astra, to commercialize the design. Last I heard they had a contract from NASA to demonstrate a version that could run for up to 100 hours in ground testing, but that was a few years ago.

[@alexkramerblogs]

@@paratus04 that's really awesome, thank you for the breakdown!

[@gamergod9182]

the trip to Mars is "only" a couple of months. the problem Mark has is two-fold: 1. everybody things he's dead, so there won't be a rescue mission anyway. the next mission is planned to arrive in 4 years time, assuming they don't cancel it outright. 2. there is a limited transfer window to send something to Mars due to the relative speed and distance to Earth that only comes every two years. if you are outside that window, the trip will take longer than the combined time of waiting and traveling under the right conditions.

[@Br0nto5aurus]

The story is mostly scientifically accurate, except for Mars' atmosphere being too thin to produce a storm like that in real life, and the idea that NASA is ever properly staffed and funded for something like this.

[@vianneyb.8776]

If you haven't had enough of the movie, you might like to hear that they released a couple short films on KZbin with the actors and in the same universe. One of them is a bunch of interviews of the crew after isolation training (Ares 3 - The Right Stuff) The other is a vlog by Mark Watney just before Ares 3 left Earth (Ares 3 Farewell).

[@athens_1psvr31]

The Ironman reference in a movie with 6 actors that were featured in Marvel movies always tickles me.

[@MsStBoom]

That and Sean Bean explaining the Council of Elrond.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Regarding the supporting cast, novelist Andy Weir used Kate Mara's height in one scene to measure the diameter of the Hermes' artificial gravity centrifuge. (He figured the radius was 8 Kate Maras). I looked up her height, and the speed of light is something like 193 million Kate Maras per second, which I'd never object to in a million years.

[@johnbowersox738]

This is how you cast a movie. I was not prepared for how insanely funny this movie was. The fact that this story was written by a NASA program specialist just adds to how real it feels.

[@dragonstryk7280]

As to the timeline of manned missions: It's a six month trip one way from Earth to Mars. Before that can happen, however, you need to train up your crew for the mission, which includes psychological compatibility testing, launching supplies from Earth to Mars, confirming arrival of supplies on Mars, confirming things like weather, launch windows, and getting the funding FOR the missions from Congress. And all of that stuff is quadruple-checked to have less than a 2% margin of error, so it takes a lot of time to get a manned mission together.

[@billlupin8345]

They explain things a little more in the books. He already knows when the next Mars mission is planned to arrive, in 4 years. They can get to Mars faster, bur he was assuming they wouldn't know He's alive, his original plan was just to live till the next mission gets there and show up on their doorstep.

[@MapManLK]

A GREAT book and a terrific Ridley Scott gem!

[@Lenny-ue8hk]

Highly recommend the book. It's where most of the humour in the movie comes from, and it goes into a lot more detail about the science, etc without being too difficult to understand.

[@Lenny-ue8hk]

There's a part of the book that follows the perspective of a screw as it's manufactured and how it being slightly faulty caused a whole rocket to fail

[@dressmup1]

the use of Bowie's Starman was genius, gave me chills

[@Keitek]

The movie was a really well done adaptation of the book but my main complaint is they made his trip to the other landing site smooth where in the books it was not smooth, not smooth at all.

[@alexkramerblogs]

True. Those were great "aw shit" moments in the book, but if they had [SPOILERS] done the whole losing telecoms, encroaching sandstorm, and flipping rover, it would have slowed the pace down of the movie Dramatically.

[@ausmac5287]

I love the Martian, its one of my feel good films that I rewatch sometimes at night with a cuppa and popcorn.

[@andrewgrant6516]

He could have replanted the potatoes and they would have germinated again, but the problem is the temperature drop killed the soil instantly, and he hasn't got enough poop to make it again.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

There is only a Mars launch window every two years, so he's probably assuming they won't be able to launch the first window in two years if they even find out he's alive, so they can only launch on the 2nd window 4 years from now before he dies.

[@calebmorrow96]

First time I saw this movie I was like "That's it, that's the best Lord of the Rings reference ever. Right freaking there!"

[@user-op6kt8pg9y]

I have a really good memory of this movie, when this came out I was around 12 or 13 and the second maze runner movie had just come out the same time as this in the UK so I really wanted to watch that but my dad and brother wanted to watch this but I didn't thinking it would be a generic animated movie and left this movie thinking it was one of the best I had ever seen

[@kathyastrom1315]

For an excellent dramatic acting turn by Jeff Daniels, I highly recommend “The Crossing,” the tv movie about the Battle of Trenton in which Daniels plays George Washington. He is probably my favorite on-screen Washington!

[@HelloThere.GeneralKenobi]

I think it was the fact that Interstellar and this came out relatively close to each other I was torn on which I wanted to see. I chose neither eventually. Last year I watched Interstellar and this year I watched The Martian. I missed out on the theater experiences for both. My own fault. After seeing his success in growing POH-TAY-TOES, sorry, I had to. I was happy for him. My biggest fear for him came from remembering an astronaut related episode of The Twilight Zone. "Where Is Everybody?" During his training, an Astronaut faces the worst situation, being completely alone. His and our own need for companionship! Lucky for Watney, he was able to communicate with others to help him. I'm in the same boat as you, I was so greatly impressed and loved the cast of the movie!! I'm happy this was watched and reacted to! Looking forward to whatever comes down the road!! Take care brother!!

[@puppetmaster8551]

Interstellar gets the edge for me and was the best theater experience I’ve ever had seeing it in imax but the Martian was a great movie that was a lot of fun to watch as well

[@julieharden2433]

The Martian, Spotlight, and The Big Short were my favorite movies of 2015. Good year for movies.

[@LarsonCross]

The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels , You would really be surprised

[@mcslashvideos]

A Sol is one 24 hour and 39 minute Martian Day.

[@gabrielpds93]

The Martian is 100% a comedy movie, and nothing can change my mind!

[@ivyvandeshire]

Derrick Comedy! Comedy Gold! "Hey! Me and Todd are *cool* now!"

[@obersmith]

5:40 that were some local anesthetic to numb the area.

[@AL-fl4jk]

Great surprise! This movie is amazing

[@johnnehrich9601]

I grew up in the 1950's when space-travel science fiction was on the forefront. Boy, the depictions Hollywood produced look so far unlike what we know now. Back then there was still a vestige of the Percial Lowell idea of Martian canals and evidence of an ancient dying/dead civilization. Even skeptics thought we might find some sort of straight line natural formations that Lowell might have misinterpreted. Nope, it was all in his head and imagination.

[@n0body550]

You do know spaceships can’t just turn around 😂

[@bexjignasu2604]

Great movie but the book is utterly fantastic!

[@michaelmartinez3893]

This is one of my favorite movies, and like you I wasn't exactly sure what to expect when I first went to the theater.

[@nealcaffrey541]

Fun fact, hollywood has spent more money bringing matt damon back from space, than nasa, ever

[@johncarpenter3751]

This fact wasn’t fun

[@alexkramerblogs]

As my college roommate says: "Congress couldn't find NASA *less* if they wanted to" He tried to calculate out how many more probe and manned missions we could have done without wasting Billions into war, and he ended up tearing up the paper.

[@MythicalPhoebe]

I loved your reaction! I have seen this movie before but I honestly forgot how good it is. Your laugh is so contagious I was laughing right along with you.

[@airforcerules747]

You too can visit Mars! Just book a nice stay in Wadi Rum, Jordan. This is where they shot these scenes and Rogue One Jeddah, and yes it does look exactly like this!

[@dogpooo8397]

What a great surprise. LOVE this movie. Great sci if movie with humour used perfectly. Probably my favourite Matt Damon movie, even over Bourne.

[@levi2000a]

As to what he said after hearing that the crew hadn't been informed that he was still alive. I caught some clips from the extended version of the movie and support team people on earth were wondering what the word "felcher" meant.

[@kathyastrom1315]

I discovered your channel through your Ted Lasso reaction. Of course, there is the connection of The Martian to Ted Lasso through Nick Mohammed, who plays Tim, the JPL guy who is making snarky comments about the lag time in communication between Earth and Mars-“This isn’t going to be an Algonquian Table of snappy repartee.”

[@planthungry]

Love the movie but I still get a chuckle when someone asks 'was this a true story?' LOL

[@AddSerious]

the novel is AWESOME! I love the movie but the book will blow you away how good it is

[@karenj3611]

Such a great flick! Matt Damon is a true gem

[@IndomitableAde]

I laughed in Martian when you wondered whether the movie would give you much to react to. I watched the movie during a blizzard a few years ago. It was the perfect companion for winter isolation.

[@jaroslavsvaha6065]

Turning around in space is not really something that we can do now. Not for many many years. As stated in the movie, their ship was going to take a month just to slow down enough to safely enter Earths atmosphere. If they wanted to turn around, they would have to come to a complete halt, and then accelerate for at least a month in the other direction. No way they would have enough fuel for that, not to even mention they still have to get back afterwards. In the far future, once we have waaay more efficient engines, or if we ever find a way to manipulate space around the ship, then ship's could turn around.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

Such a great cast! Movie is surprisingly funny. BTW - there are lotsa memes of the billions of dollars spent rescuing Matt Damon in various films 😀 You should check out The Newsroom, sometime, Jeff Daniels is great in that too

[@jcs1025]

A sol is one Martian day, which is slightly longer than an Earth day.

[@seanhoutx]

16:08 scavenge + salvage = "scalvage" lol!

[@maximillianosaben]

This is a surprisingly feel-good movie, particularly from Ridley Scott.

[@jackson857]

21:17 If you want more Jeff Daniels, watch the Newsroom. Incredible show.

[@amebecca4484]

Great movie, thanks for watching.

[@billlupin8345]

Rich Purnell is a steely eyed missile man

[@radicaladz]

The highest compliment you can get from a member of NASA. There's a long history of engineers having to come up with solutions on the fly there - Apollo 13 being probably the most famous instance - and getting that nickname is basically calling you the equivalent of a BAMF.

[@puppetmaster8551]

Interstellar is a must watch space movie as well if you haven’t seen it before. The Martian was a lot of fun tho

[@Fearinator]

So re-watchable as well! Loved the reaction

[@alanz9419]

Please, please watch The Newsroom, best perfomance of Jeff Daniels, the man can break your heart with a look, and the script is from the writer of The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin

[@the_nikster1]

YES! The Newsroom is fucking brilliant!

[@jillfromatlanta427]

Daniels in The Looming Tower is also terrific.

[@PamJernigan]

You should read the book, it's even more of a ride... also has some really funny parts... and explains the science a little better. Interesting that you picked up on the theme of everyone coming together in a joint effort - that's kind of what the author was going for (it's pretty obvious in the book) but the movie seemed to want it to be more about persistence and "keep solving problems". Neither of which are bad messages, it's just interesting to me that they shifted the focus. I mean, if Mark hadn't been so determined and resourceful, then the whole world couldn't have done a dang thing, so really both the individual and the group were needed. Also, sometimes I really like having a movie without any bad guys, because there weren't any. Disagreements, yes. Malice, no. Anyway, I enjoyed watching you watch this movie, and I'll have to check out your channel :)

[@jillfromatlanta427]

Glad you kept the ketchup line....

[@myphone4590]

The Hermes is the only ship that can take humans to/from mars. It holds enough fuel for one round trip, and has just spent that fuel accelerating towards Earth, leaving only enough to decelerate when it arrives. It doesn't have the fuel to turn around and come back to mars, let alone get back to Earth if it did.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

Sol is one Mars day, 24.5 hours-ish.

[@sharonjoan1970]

This has now become my FAVORITE Reaction to this movie❤️ Your laugh is infectious and I love that you knew so many of the actors & not just the well known ones, it was definitely a Stacked Cast...Also you should watch Speed Jeff Daniels Keanu Reeves Sandra Bullock...

[@martinsleight321]

Just one of those brilliant feel-good films.

[@TriXJester]

This is by far my favorite space movie, solely for the fact no one dies horribly and it's respect for the actual science behind what all the space agencies are doing. You should give the original book a read because it goes into such more detail and insight into Mark's mental state than the movie does, it's a great read or listen if you like audiobooks.

[@caggles]

It's funny, every single reactor I've seen asks whether they're going to turn the ship around, or why they aren't turning the ship around. It's because you effectively CAN'T turn a ship around in the middle of space travel like that. If they burned literally all of the fuel in that ship trying to turn around, it's unlikely they'd even make it to a full stop, never mind accelerating back toward Mars. And that would leave them with nothing to come back to Earth again. We just don't have anything close to the technology that would be required to send a ship into space with enough fuel to come to a complete stop and then accelerate in the opposite direction like that. The amount of fuel required would be mind-boggling. That's why, whenever this sort of thing happens in movies (or at least ones based on real and current tech), they always slingshot around planets or moons - that's the only way to change direction, because you can use the gravity well of the planet to "swing" around without really needing much of your own fuel for acceleration changes.

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

Even as a long time fan of Ridley Scott, I think The Martian may be his best work to date. There's not a single mis-step or wrong note in the entire film.

[@laurakali6522]

Unexpected soundtrack that just fits.

[@sirjohnmara]

Great reaction. Thank you from Sweden. I've subscribed.

[@vamble363]

this movie was rather scientifically accurate as well, one of my favorite movies to date

[@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh]

The lesson at the end should be a great philosophy. Have a problem, do the math, solve the problem then the next one and the next one.

[@kateflanagan9355]

As he says in the book duct tape is Magic

[@stevethezooguy7526]

Scalvage - a newly coined and awesome word! I'll be adopting it, please do the same, we should make this part of the language!

[@johnnehrich9601]

When the movie came out, it seemed a stunning depiction of the surface of Mars (using appropriate but exotic landscapes on earth). It may just be me but since then, the latest views from the different rovers NASA has on Mars seems to show a more varied surface, various eroded rock formations. (Probably other areas do look just like in the movie.)

[@egamer22]

the book actually has some crazy moments they cut for time in the movie

[@steffurness]

"Eventually, if you solve enough problems, you get to come home." Some words to live by lol. Also, if you like this side of Jeff Daniels, you should definitely take a look at The Newsroom on HBO sometime. The opening scene, at the very least, I've seen making its rounds amongst some reactors w a political/comedy focus. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHrTfJmtZpxgr7s

[@RockwellSocratese]

Awsome thing, the same writer of Martian is making a new movie called project hail mary.