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*THE MARTIAN* Had Us on the Edge of Our Seats
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
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Another "Science note". The Radioactive Thermo-Electric generator module that Watney digs back up again for heating? PERFECTLY SAFE. As long as he doesn't face-roll the controls of the Rover and bust it open. The Plutonium inside the thing is not a critical mass. It's not a bomb. It's very well shielded. It is not "radioactive" to the outside EXCEPT for the heat it's generating. Now – it's too bad they didn't leave the REST of the equipment that the Ascent Vehicle was using to generate POWER from that heat back on Mars. But… it's another case of "how was anyone supposed to know this was going to happen?"
Note also (this is easier for folks who "think in Celsius" to spot. But note the temperature listed in the display of the video log when he's freezing – and note the same temp display after he gets the RTG aboard the Rover later. THAT IS HOT STUFF INDEED!!! In fact – in the book – he winds up REMOVING a lot of the internal Insulation material of the Rover just so that the excess heat will radiate away and not COOK him too much!
Amusing note in regards to another reaction maker out there named "Dasha". You might be familiar with her. She's originally from Russia (still has the accent – cute as hell) and if I recall correctly made the joke during her watching of the movie that surviving on potatoes is the most Russian method of space survival she'd ever heard of. 🤣🤣🤣
The reason why – after the decompression of the Hab – Watney can't start up the farm again is covered in the book more thoroughly. The soil needed the fertilizer – the fertilizer plus the human feces produced BACTERIA. Bacteria is what turns DIRT – in ARABLE SOIL. That provides the nutrients the plants need. It isn't just that the potato plants got killed by the decompression and the freezing – the SOIL got killed too! And he's got nothing left for that anymore. His reaction in the rover afterwards – totally justified and you really FEEL it. Monumental frustration at losing everything he built up to that point. He just hit the "Despair event horizon".
Did Matt Damon really lose all that weight for the Martian?
' I was going to lose a bunch of weight in the third act of the movie, then put the weight back on. But with the way the schedule worked out, we went to Budapest, and then we went to Jordan to shoot exteriors. And we had to shoot exteriors for the beginning, middle and end of the movie. So we used a body double.
You can off potato's solely. He was skinny because his crop died and had to ration.
You should check out "The Expanse"
They actually talk about the potato diet in the book a little bit, the upshot is that he had enough vitamins and whatnot that he wasn't going to die of a deficiency, but its basically pure starch and nothing else, so it wasn't something you'd want to do in any other situation.
I’d go to space in hart beat.
First Mars' atmosphere is approx 1% the density of Earths' so your average Fart has more pressure than any Martian wind. Anyway, I had the book about a year before the movie came out. There is way more humor and smartass quips and other things left out of the movie or it would have been about 4hrs long. Spoiler Alert! Mark did not do the Iron Man thing in the book. Martinez went and got Mark out of the MAV and brought him back. Best Mark quote "Duct Tape works anywhere, it is Magic and should be Worshipped!". When the guys at NASA were telling where the quote about Elrond came from Lord of the Rings, that woman said "None of you ever got Laid in School! " The book had all kinds of stuff like that.
i agree one of the best space movie to date.. i would recommend THE ACCOUNTANT if you haven't watched it yet.. not a space movie for sure but one of the best under rated action movie.. cool movie cool reaction guys.. 😊😊👍
Elon Musk just captured a heavy booster landing. Did you see it? He’s gonna take us to Mars.
I sometimes wonder how you kids make it through life.
23:35 I agree, some sort of "Space Dementia" is probably a real thing. Which reminds me, I never comment on videos but you guys should really watch "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis because of this comment. I 100% promise you wont' be disappointed
Are you supposed to believe they calculated for the resupply capsule to arrive at that exact location at that exact time? Yes actually. That's one of the more believable parts. How you think we dock to the Internation Space Station that's traveling around 17,500 mph? Math.
Please watch “Bad Times at the El Royale” and “Searching” both super underrated!
Finally someone react on this movie.
Cast Away 2.0.
Congrats on completing the "Let's save Matt Damon" trilogy
No villain, no bad guy, just a simple "man vs nature" story. Excellent movie. it shows the nature of man so well. Our creativity and inventiveness. Our need for communication and being a social creature. This and "Castaway" are in a category all of their own.
Funny how this is the second movie where Matt Damon ended up alone at a planet in a movie with Jessica Chastain 😂
Sorry if someone already said this, but the book explains it so much better. The ship that the crew left in, had the antenna needed to transmit messages to relay satellites and back to Earth. Once that ship was gone, there was no technology in his housing unit that would allow him to send messages back
Interesting how you said on earth, you can just breathe, on Mars, you can’t because of the atmosphere. The concept of breathing. Well if you are on the planet earth and go swimming underwater, you can’t breathe. When you made that comment, I was like damn he’s right. And then it dawned on me about scuba, divers and surfurs and Olympic swimmers. The inarguable necessity of oxygen for humans just boggles the mind. To even try to go somewhere like Mars and inhabit it, Is somewhat unfathomable to me
Martian days are longer
I love Mark's response in the book when being told to watch his language in the chat. “WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! -> (.Y.) ” 🤣🤣 Also, in the book, Mark explains the duct tape thing. “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.” 🤣
I just love how humorous this film is. Also enjoy these kind of one man survival films like Castaway
It was a real downer when I realized this movie wasn't about Marvin.
It's called speed tape! It's like NASA's suped up version
So the same author who wrote this also wrote another book called Project Hail Mary. It's my favorite book of all time and they greenlit a movie about it starring Ryan Gosling that's set to come out in 2026.
I expect a reaction!
Maybe someone already commented on this, but Matt Damon didn't lose the weight for this. They used a body double. I guess he volunteered to do it, but they said no. He had some health problems from losing weight for Courage Under Fire.
One of the greatest movies of the last 10 years.
He couldn't contact anybody because the communication satellite is the thing that struck and impaled him.
The fear of space travel is called Astrophobia.
The one thing he wouldn't be doing, is handling the harvested potatoes with his bare hands. Also, the potatoes would need some serious cleaning and cooking before consumption. There's a reason why anything grown in "untreated" human waste is not meant for human consumption. There is a significant health risk due to its pathogen content.
Just so yall know, the message Mark typed that wasn't shown and made everyone go "Oh my god…", according to the original novel, was this:
"Look, a pair of boobs! –> (. )( .)"
Can’t stand this flick .. most of the characters and writing is so cringe
I've said this elsewhere and I'll say it here:
As far as page to screen adaptations go, there are few better than this one. The changes made sense for the purpose of making a movie.
Having said that, this author's latest book, Project Hail Mary, is like this story in reverse and on steroids. If it's adaptation is half as good, the movie will be twice as good. That's how good that story is.
*It's hard to not get excited for the potential of that one when it finally arrives in 2026.
"plants die with out love" god help us.
Good choice of film you two. 🙂
Most of the science in this movie is possible or plausible but the storm in the beginning is impossible because there is 5% atmosphere compared to earth in Mars. There are storms in Mars but they are like a breeze.
I got to meet the writer of the Martian, Andy Weir, a few times. He did a lot of research and tried to make the book as accurate as possible to what could be achieved.