Imagine at the end of the film, before Mark takes off, he suddenly turns around, and disengages the fuel line and says with an evil smirk "Mars is mine"
So my favourate thing about the movie/book, wasn't even in the movie/book. In an interview, Weir talks about speaking with people from JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs... part of NASA basically). So, one of the calculations that Weir had to make constantly while writing the book is power usage. His character was having to do it a lot as well, so he invented a unit of measurement to make it easier. Instead of "One kilowatt hour per sol" he uses "1 pirate-ninja". As it turns out, the people at JPL need to make that calculation all the time as well, and both the engineers, and managers started to use it as well. "Pirate-Ninja" is a term being used in actual science and design now. I love that. (yea, I know... I was rambly, sorry)
This film adaptation isn't something we get very often. A well made, well written, and well acted science fiction movie with hard science, zero deaths, and an overall light-hearted tone. Glad you liked it.
I've never thought of this as a 'light hearted' film. Drama with occasional and much needed stress-relief moments. But how can I deny the feel-good ending? "A good balance" of life-n-death drama paired with stress-relieving "light-heartedness"? Hmmm
@@callnight1441 okay... So when mark Wotney swears and they remind him the conversation is being broadcast live... A round trip communication with mars would take an hour and a half So...they live broadcast them typing message and wait an hour and a half of dead air time for a response?!
The book by Andy Weir has all the humor and charm of the movie, with extra science (and stronger language). It's a really great read. This is one of those rare cases where both the movie and book are good.
I had heard multiple times about the book being great so I got the audiobook to listen to on long hikes. While I agree the book itself is good I found it a little too dry and the extra science is a bit wordy. I really think the movie did an amazing job at translating the book to a different medium and is one of the rare occasions the movie is better than the book.
The moment when Matt Damon hears their voices for the first time, the script said he should break down. He and the director took it out because they weren't feeling it. But in the moment, after spending so much of filming isolated, he realized how Mark would feel hearing the voices of his friends (or ANY voices) for the first time in two years, knowing what they sacrificed to come save him, and he actually broke down. His tears in that moment are real.
@@Hiraghm funny thing is, that was mostly real emotion. By that point, the other actors and actresses had already wrapped up their portions of of on screen time. The voices Matt Damon hears then is just pre-recorded lines. The emotions kinda got to Matt in that moment as he put himself in Mark's shoes.
One of my favorite parts of the movie. If they didn’t have that it would be fake to me. Everything he’d been through, hearing their voices, being so close to getting rescued…. It makes perfect sense that he would get emotional.
I have a soft spot for movies/shows like this that can be dramatic without a villain. I think it takes some extra skill to craft a story like that, and this movie (and the book it's based on) does so wonderfully.
"Apollo 13" is another major example, albeit based on a true story. In fact, many action-adventure films based on true stories don't have villains (e.g., "The Finest Hours"), but "Apollo 13" is one of the best.
An astronaut met the writer and told him he didn't like aspects of the book. The writer was an engineer and he asked if the book seemed too implausible. The astronaut told him something along the lines of 'no it was too much like work. I found myself double checking your calculations and it wasn't an escape that I sought'
A fact that often gets forgotten is that because of how far away Mars is from Earth, it takes radio signals up 20 minutes to go from one place to the other (depending on how close the two are in their orbits). So every time Mark (or Mission Control) said something, it would take up to 40 minutes to get the response.
I've watched this movie so many times! I've read the book at least three times too. I think one reason it resonates so strongly with me, and with many people at this moment in history, is that it's about many highly competent people of goodwill working together for a compassionate goal, at the same time a single, highly competent person of good humor and iron resolution, is working to outwit fate. It stands for the proposition that we are smart, we are good, we care about each other and will do what we have to to protect each other. We badly want it to be true.
100%. This is what I love about both The Martian and The Mars Trilogy (by Kim Stanley Robinson) - both very different (despite sharing a setting), but both beautiful uplifting hopeful stories about what humanity can accomplish by working together.
17:03 Haha. Fun to see Addie get a reference that she maybe wouldn't have, before starting the channel. The "giddy" sound is priceless. Please watch "The Right Stuff" (1983).
I don't care what anyone says. The Sean Bean/Project Elrond joke is hands down the greatest in-film nerd joke there will ever be in the history of cinema. No matter how many times I watch this movie, it makes me crack up every time. I'm so glad Addie picked up on it.
@racernatorde5318 I nominate Nathan Fillion in "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters", who described "Hercules Busts Heads" as "The BEST TV show, EVER! So, of course... canceled!"
12:34 That's... actually a really good point! If the entire crew would have stayed on Mars to wait out the storm, their ship could have been damaged beyond repair and the crew would not have been able to survive on the planet for months waiting to be rescued! Mark was only able to survive because he was using all the equipment that was meant for an entire team of people all by himself.
The MAV would have tipped over and they'd have died there. Remember that was how Martinez was introduced, that his whole thing was reporting that the MAV was still upright.
She got it! The first reactor I've seen that GOT THE LORD OF THE RINGS joke! 🤣 Best "in-joke" in a movie, maybe ever! Brilliant movie... A very worthy adaptation of the very excellent book. I highly recommend reading the book. It flows very nicely and is an easy read that also explains everything as it goes along...
If I’m not mistaken, there’s also a thing like that right when the Iron Man idea is mentioned where the camera then immediately cuts to Sebastian Stan who obviously played Bucky in the Marvel movies.
Andy Weir, the author of the book the film is based on, was doing a regular web comic strip, called "Casey and Andy". It's still online. He abandoned the project, telling the audience that he has taken on writing a novel. And everything else is history.
When the message comes from the Ares crew saying “Rich Parnell is a steely-eyed missile man,” that’s a real (very high) compliment they use at NASA. Although I’ve been told it didn’t originate with him, the story I first heard it associated with was John Aaron saving the Apollo 12 mission when the craft was struck by lightning just after launch. (He was also involved with the Apollo 13 mission, and is portrayed in the “Apollo 13” movie with Tom Hanks).
Definitely one of my favorite, feel-good movies over the last few years. One of the best things I love about it is that there are no villains. Well, Mars is the "villain" but there's no antagonist. There's no nefarious evil-doer looking to make a profit off an astronaut's death or looking to screw the mission for his own gain. Its just a pure, grounded movie showing humanity at its best, coming together to solve a problem and save a life. Showing that we can work together for a common good.
5:05 "Crap. I really thought the computer would be able to send a message to NASA." Absolutely. They use communication equipment in the habitat, cameras, microphones, keyboards, computers, etc. Their message is transmitted up to a satellite in stationary orbit above Mars which relays the signal to Earth. They talk to Earth all the time. Easy. Except that they use a large satellite antenna (dish) to send and receive signals. That dish blew away in the giant wind storm, but not before it slammed into Mark and knocked him down and punctured his suit. Without that antenna, there is no communication at all.
It is one of the best movies ever put on film. The sheer motivation you feel when you watch ‘Mark’ survive by using his brains is inspiring by itself. And then all the other characters doing everything to rescue this man is truly profound.
Showing Martinez in the next Aries mission was really significant, because there was a high chance of him getting court marshaled and never going to space again.
Sadly, I think it also implies that his marriage has ended (in the book, his wife seemed unhappy about the Hermes crew going back for Mark). Note that Martinez is, of course, the commander of Ares V due to the seniority he now has, and that a Chinese astronaut is also aboard pursuant to the earlier agreement with CNSA.
Gen X space nerds got goosebumps when they dug up Pathfinder Matt Damon is so funny and charming in this but the best scenes are when he lets out the emotion a little, like when he gets to read the first text message from NASA or when he thanks the crew for coming back for him
To answer your concern that the nose cone of the module that Watney was lifting must be really heavy, don't forget that the pull of gravity on Mars is only 38% as strong as on Earth, so everything on Mars weighs about 60% less than it would on Earth!
Love Addie's reaction to Watney's breakdown in the rover after the decompression incident 14:00. She actually empathizes with Watney and rubs the heel of her hand as if it hurts.
Mark Watneys little "i colonised Mars. In your face Neil Armstrong" is actually very meaningful because the book begins with Mark self deprecating himself as basically the least important member of the third mars mission. Not a figure of any significance or accomplishment, no one remembers the 9th person to step on the moon. But in managing to survive on Mars the way he did he earned a position of actual prominence in the history of space travel.
The reason why Mark was not able to initially send some type of a message to NASA was because the object that hit him during the storm was the communications antenna for the hab. That’s why they ended up having to use other means to get communication going.
I think the great thing about this movie is that it's about an actual smart guy doing smart things to solve the issues nature put up against him, unlike most movies where it's all about people causing issues by being stupid and then having to solve the problems they caused.
That end scene is the essence of the entire manned space program. You solve one problem at a time. You solve enough, you come home. That's spaceflight. And this movie does an excellent job of showing how that works. It also shows why astronauts cross train in so many things. You gotta know a lot of things because, as Watney says, you may have to science the shit out of things. There's a lot of "hacking" and DIY involved sometimes.
It's interesting how things have changed since 2015. These days, the Falcon 9 rocket, an incredibly reliable workhorse and still the only reusable rocket in the world, launches about once a week (a record), hasn't had an accident in years, and SpaceX always has several reusable cores available for extra launches in a pinch. Three cores can be assembled into the massive Falcon Heavy, which can get payloads to Mars in a hurry, and for a relatively low price (not that price matters much in a life or death situation). Back in 2015, though, the Falcon 9 was still new and unproven, and the Falcon Heavy was still several years away. Nowadays, getting things into space has finally almost become routine.
I love how the opening scene is a nod to Alien when Dallas, Lambert, and Kane go outside on LV-426. Plus the part where he's rocking out to Donna Summer despite hating disco cracks me up.
Another great reaction, Addie. You're absolutely right, it's got everything in it, minus the scary Xenomorph from Alien. It's another well done space movie from Ridley Scott. And Mars has some beautiful scenery, thanks to the cinematography of Dariusz Wolski, ASC. BTW, nice shacket.
Speaking of Jessica Chastain, please react to The Help (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Interstellar (2014), Crimson Peak (2015), Molly's Game (2017), Ava (2020), & The 355 (2022).
What I really liked about this movie is, that it has no villain. Well, I guess you could see the NASA director as one, but even he wanted to get Mark back. Everyone was trying to rescue him without questions. And that's very wholesome.
Nah, not really...Mars is just there. Everything they go through is just a consequence of exploration and taking risks. Sometimes things go wrong and it's how to react to it that decides your fate. I love this book and movie so much.
The most weird thing about this movie is that Sean Bean didn't die in it. I think his last character to not die was Sharpe, from the 90s or something (no IMDB look because bah).
Sharpe, of course, was the main character of his own series. (Ever notice what Boromir says when he cuts his finger on the hilt-shard of Narsil? A great example of an in-joke done right without taking viewers out of the story.)
Yeah, except I'd read Andy Weir's book before seeing the movie, so I knew that moment was coming. (I was just hoping they wouldn't decide to drop the reference to avoid the metafictional humor created by Sean Bean's casting, but fortunately they leaned into it instead.)
I am so happy you love the little references in this movie! The iron man one feels pretty special knowing you are still going through then marvel movies c:
Such an excellent movie. Matt Damon is one of the greats, and the cast in general is brilliant in this one. Awesome reaction, especially the "Council of Elrond" moment. 😃🤣 Welcome to Winter. 🙂🌨❄
hahahahaha ... Thank you for the scream warning, of course, you need to show what scared you! In 2014 then 2015 we got Interstellar and The Martian. I did not go see either. Matt Damon had a smaller role in Interstellar and then this lead. Part of me thought that these would be linked, I was obviously wrong. I have seen both since then. 17:06 ... I could not wait for the LOTR reference scene to come and see how you would react. You did not disappoint! (you never do) You were so excited that you knew what it was about!! You're too precious! (see what I did there?) Along with this movie, you have a list of movies you haven't seen before. I did not see a lot of movies when they came out for one reason or another. Addie, you and other reactors have had an impact. You have had a few videos of movies I haven't seen. So to enjoy your reaction video, yup, I watched the movie for the first time myself. That seems to be a major reason why reaction videos are a hit, I want to enjoy that movie for the first time like you did. And I enjoy re-watching other movies while you watch for the first time. I don't know when I officially started following but I look forward to a notification from you every chance! Take care, Addie!
17:07 I always wondered what Sean Bean's reaction was when he read about "Project Elrond" in the script. It goes to his acting talent that he was able to do the scene with a straight face
there's two major factors of reality that bust this movie. one factor was aknown thing before the movie was made , the other was a factor discovered after the movie was made. The known factor , is that Mars , with an atmospheric pressure of only 2% that of earth's would never have a storm so bad that it could blow people away. the martian air would have to be traveling several 1000's of miles per hour to carry that much force ...that's many times faster than wind speeds on jupiter even which usually see's windspeeds between 500-800 miles per hour. so not possible to get a storm on mars that could blow some one away. as for the factor discovered after the movie : Mars' soil has high alkaline content , it would be toxic as hell to plant life , so couldn't grow potatoes in martian soil unless you had some means to leech off the alkalines.
In the book Watney have way more troubles, the poor guy. And the final scenes, when he's back on Earth, were created for the movie. I remember people recommending this book to me, and when I started reading it I just cracked up laughing in the very first sentence. Nice reaction as always, Addie.
I've seen a fair few reactions to this movie and I have to say that your selection of scenes was the best. Your emotional responses were wonderful to see. Bravo!
I would highly recommend reading the book. I saw this movie and loved it, so I read the book afterward, and it’s now one of my favorite books of all time. The book has a lot more problem-solving in it. Mark explains all the problems and his solutions to them at every step, and it’s fascinating.
05:07: They gloss over it in the film (as you have to do for an adaptation), but what hit Mark and made everyone think he was dead was pieces of the antenna array. The main dish blew off its supports, hit the antennas, one of the antennas hit him. All the backups were on the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle), the MAV was designed so that if it wasn't completely obliterated it would be able to talk to Earth. NASA just never contemplated that there would be people on Mars without an MAV. This does kind of fall down in the book when there's mention that the presupply probes that bring the equipment a Mars mission needs well before the astronauts arrive have radios that can report successful landings to Earth, so the area around the Hab should have been littered with Earth-talking radios, pretty much literally.
While they didn't physically kill off the Sean Bean character, they did kill the character's career as he was forced to resign, symbolized by him playing golf at the end during the launch
8:22 "I wish they were landing a little bit closer." Mars has a lot of land. It's roughly equal to the land area of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia added together. Humans send ships to explore mars. The Rover that Mark has is only capable of driving from one side of Los Angeles most of the way to the other side, assuming no traffic, but not quite the whole way. Los Angeles is a tiny dot on the giant map of Earth. There would be no point sending exploration ships and rovers that close to each other - they would be sampling the same soil, same climate, same everything. I mean, if you could only send 1 ship every 4 years, would you want them as close as Pasadena and Anaheim? ' Or maybe more like Los Angeles today and Seattle in 4 years?
Glad you enjoyed it. Such a good cast. I've yet to see Lord of the Rings (I know. It's on my list if I ever start a react channel myself), but even I got the fact that Sean Bean is the one to explain in this movie what "Elrond" means, when his character in Lord of the Rings was on the council.
@@susah135 The "Council of Elrond" joke is also in Andy Weir's novel, so it became even funnier once Sean Bean was cast. Note that this film continues the trope of Sean Bean's characters dying in its own way: although no one dies in the film, Mitch Henderson commits career suicide to save Mark (he's working as a golf pro in the epilogue). Also, the Council of Elrond scene in the film gives rise to one of my favorite trick movie trivia questions: "What was the first movie in which Glorfindel was mentioned by name?" It's the 21st-century equivalent of that old classic, "What was the first movie in which Boba Fett was mentioned by name?"
Great reaction. Another movie that involves space with a similar feel to it is Apolo 13 with Tom Hanks. Actually Apolo 13 is based on a true story. If you haven't seen it. I would definitely recommend.
@@sirjohnmara I liked the Disney+ "Right Stuff" series, but it wasn't very popular. It's somewhat unsatisfying because it was canceled after only one season, and, because it was taking a "slow burn" approach to its storytelling similar to that of "The Rings of Power", it ends at a much earlier point in the story than the book or the 1983 movie. I would have loved to see it go on indefinitely and tell the entire story of the U.S. space program with the same actors in the same roles throughout, something that's never really been done.
@@anthonybernacchi2732 Yes. I agree. I have not seen, Rings of Power. The movie "The Right Stuff" follows Tom Wolfes book almost to the letter. The only thing I miss in the movie is: In the book it's explained that they had NO clue of what to test the becoming Astronauts for, that's why they made up every conceivable test at the Lovelace Clinic.
This movie is really really good. The book is on another level because of its capability to have more details of course . I would recommend reading it even if you already saw the movie. I loved that movie ,one of the best adaptations of a book i think.
Hi there I just found your channel. I’m thoroughly enjoying all of your reactions. I’m binge watching all of them. Thank you because I was feeling a lot of severe depression. Anyway thank you for all that you do.❤🎉
This is one of my favourite movies as well! It is so well made and the build up towards the end highlights the stakes so well that even on second watch I cheered when they caught Mark!
If you want more of Mark Watney, the movie creators made really cool extra scenes, like for example interviews of the astronauts after they spent months in isolation to test them. Look up The Martian - The Right Stuff, for example. Or the scene "Farewell", the last social media vlog posted by the astronauts before they left Earth.
This is my favourite movie (and second-favourite book)! The soundtrack is also amazing, the disco music is always fun and Harry Gregson-Williams' score is perfect to listen to while studying/working. Thank you for sharing your first experience of it with us!
For "stuff that goes wrong in space" movies, you've seen this and Apollo 13. Next (if you haven't already seen) you should watch Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey (also has Matt Damon), and then Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock. :)
I'm so glad she saw that it played I Will Survive on the end credits. SUCH an inspired choice. And it's really a movie where you walk away from it just energized and full of hope.
I love that so many people get the LOTR reference with Sean Bean in the room, but they also reference Iron Man with Sebastian Stan and Michael Pena there too.
Vandenberg AFB, just north of Santa Barbara, CA is used to test rocket launches. Every few months, they do another test launch at an island in the Pacific. They also launch satellites. And Space-X did their early launches from there, too. Once I saw 1/4 of the country’s annual intelligence budget blow up in the air.
5:00 - *“Oh, there is no way to contact NASA.”* Unfortunately, the radio dish that the computer used to communicate with the orbiting satellites (and thus with NASA) was the very thing that ripped loose in the storm and almost killed Mark, when this all started. Even if Mark could find it again, and it was relatively undamaged, he would have no way to replace the fine-control motor that keeps the dish aligned with the orbiting satellites. 6:05 - *“This whole process is really inspiring.”* You just summed up this movie in six words. 😁
Addie, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, July 21st 1969. If you love The Martian, I would highly recommend Ron Howard’s Apollo 13, a true story.
I think she was joking when she said, "Neil Armstrong who?" BTW, the line "In your face, Neil Armstrong" comes directly from the book, which was published online in 2011 and in print in 2014, two years after Armstrong's death. I was pleased that the line was retained in the film, released in 2015, and that it wasn't considered to be "too soon" -- since the book and film take place in 2035 (a date which, alas, already seems too optimistic), it's not "too soon" for Mark.
One of my favorite novels turned into one of my favorite movies. The novel has a fascinating story as to how it was written, originally it was a serial posted on Andy Weir’s website. Once he was done people wanted an ebook version so he published one to Amazon and that caught the interest of a book publisher and the film industry. While it’s very well researched and scientifically accurate, there are some major exceptions to that rule, and the author admits these are necessary for plot reasons. Firstly, the windstorm couldn’t do what it shows in either the novel or the movie. Mars atmosphere is very thin, less than 1% as dense as Earth’s. The speed is accurate, the force is not, it couldn’t lift a dish or tip a rocket, it would be like a light breeze even at a couple hundred kph. Another issue would be radiation. Mars doesn’t have a strong magnetic field to deflect cosmic and solar radiation. You could shield against it, but you’d need a couple centimeters of lead, 50 cm of water or a full meter or rock to do it. Without such shielding, as he puts it in the book, you’d have so much cancer, your cancer would have cancer. All that being said, I love the story, I love the book, I love this movie, so glad you dug it as much as you did. The audiobook is one of my favorites I’ve ever listened to, and another of Weir’s fantastic books called Project Hail Mary is currently in the works to be a movie too, with Ryan Gosling planned to be the lead.
Indeed, this is one of the most realistic science fiction movies in a very long time. Yes, that beginning with the massive wind storm is not possible. The other part that always bugged me is how did they keep the crew of the spaceship from hearing about Mark's survival when the entire Earth was talking about it for two months? That spaceship can't hear radio/TV signals? Other than those two items it mostly clicks for me.
@@testfire3000 I think the hand wavy explanation in the novel is that NASA controls everything that goes to Hermes… which I suppose makes sense. I’m sure the crew would have more important things to do than scrub through, or try to filter out, broadcasting from the entire planet who might be trying to talk to them. Probably some encryption to prevent malicious code from getting on the several billion dollar space ship as well.
@@houdin654jeff Ok, I accept that its a very hand wavy reason. I can't help but notice it, but it doesn't ruin my experience of the movie either. It is still a kickass move with human wits against a hostile universe. How to say this: They don't have to throw aliens or asteroids at the cast throughout the movie, Mars itself is trying to kill him just by existing. I love his line that now I have to science the shit out of this. Perfect movie line!
I'd never seen this movie but will watch it now! It has SCIENCE! And I love a movie where the problems are solved by really smart people! Another movie in this vein is Apolo 13.
This is such a good film adaptation. Obviously not everything is exactly the same as the book, but they really didn't change a lot, and the screenwriters and actors did such a good job of conveying the tone of the book. I also love that this movie is so full of tension and suspense even though there really isn't an antagonist at all: everyone wants to get him back safely, the only difference is how much people are or aren't willing to risk to do it. It's very rare for a movie without any antagonists to work well. Man vs. nature movies are just about the only ones where that's possible, and I guess that's what this movie is, but most of them just don't end up working nearly as well as The Martian.
I also adore this movie and recently bought the 4K UHD extended cut which honestly makes the film even better and I highly recommend this cut off the film.
The book is incredible. A lot of it is in the film. Although they did leave out about a 3rd but it is totally understandable. Andy Weir is a great author. I've read most of his books after reading The Martian. Yes I really did read it before the film, which is pretty close. As has been commented below, this is based on a book that would be described as HARD science fiction. Glad to see your great reaction / review. Y'all be safe.
The fact that Sean Bean explains that "Elrond" means it is a secret meeting is perfect, seeing as he was AT that meeting. lol
Sean Bean still metaphorically fell on his sword though. He got fired. Even when he lives, he dies.
Imagine at the end of the film, before Mark takes off, he suddenly turns around, and disengages the fuel line and says with an evil smirk "Mars is mine"
@@dinhnguyen2110 his career died, lol
@@dinhnguyen2110still not as bad as Ronin.
Once does not simply walk into Arcadia Planitia.
So my favourate thing about the movie/book, wasn't even in the movie/book. In an interview, Weir talks about speaking with people from JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs... part of NASA basically). So, one of the calculations that Weir had to make constantly while writing the book is power usage. His character was having to do it a lot as well, so he invented a unit of measurement to make it easier. Instead of "One kilowatt hour per sol" he uses "1 pirate-ninja". As it turns out, the people at JPL need to make that calculation all the time as well, and both the engineers, and managers started to use it as well. "Pirate-Ninja" is a term being used in actual science and design now. I love that. (yea, I know... I was rambly, sorry)
That's f***ing awesome
No shot, that’s crazy!
This film adaptation isn't something we get very often. A well made, well written, and well acted science fiction movie with hard science, zero deaths, and an overall light-hearted tone. Glad you liked it.
I've never thought of this as a 'light hearted' film. Drama with occasional and much needed stress-relief moments. But how can I deny the feel-good ending? "A good balance" of life-n-death drama paired with stress-relieving "light-heartedness"? Hmmm
Not really hard science. The atmosphere in mars is too thin for such powerful storms
Ridiculous science.... An asthmatic hamster could blow harder! There's No Wind on Mars strong enough to move anything except dust!
@@jgreen2015 but thats like the only unscientific part. the film is other than that filled with hard science
@@callnight1441 okay...
So when mark Wotney swears and they remind him the conversation is being broadcast live...
A round trip communication with mars would take an hour and a half
So...they live broadcast them typing message and wait an hour and a half of dead air time for a response?!
The book by Andy Weir has all the humor and charm of the movie, with extra science (and stronger language). It's a really great read. This is one of those rare cases where both the movie and book are good.
The audiobook of “Project Hail Mary” by Weir is great too!
@@scottalynch I'm seconding both of these suggestions. The audiobooks are fantastic.
@@scottalynch currently reading the book, seems good so far
I had heard multiple times about the book being great so I got the audiobook to listen to on long hikes. While I agree the book itself is good I found it a little too dry and the extra science is a bit wordy. I really think the movie did an amazing job at translating the book to a different medium and is one of the rare occasions the movie is better than the book.
@@ParagonMage I polished off the book in less than a day. Didn't mind the dry science bit cos that's my jam anyway.
The moment when Matt Damon hears their voices for the first time, the script said he should break down. He and the director took it out because they weren't feeling it. But in the moment, after spending so much of filming isolated, he realized how Mark would feel hearing the voices of his friends (or ANY voices) for the first time in two years, knowing what they sacrificed to come save him, and he actually broke down. His tears in that moment are real.
As were mine.
@@Hiraghm funny thing is, that was mostly real emotion. By that point, the other actors and actresses had already wrapped up their portions of of on screen time. The voices Matt Damon hears then is just pre-recorded lines. The emotions kinda got to Matt in that moment as he put himself in Mark's shoes.
One of my favorite parts of the movie. If they didn’t have that it would be fake to me. Everything he’d been through, hearing their voices, being so close to getting rescued…. It makes perfect sense that he would get emotional.
What I really liked was that it was Sean Bean who got to explain the Council of Elrond reference.
"One does not simply walk to Mars..."
"The very air you breathe is 95.97% CO2."
Nobody expected this light-hearted of a movie from Ridley Scott, but it's really uplifting and makes you feel good.
Other than facehugging parasites pretty great
I have a soft spot for movies/shows like this that can be dramatic without a villain. I think it takes some extra skill to craft a story like that, and this movie (and the book it's based on) does so wonderfully.
I bet you love Interstellar, that too...in the grand scheme of things did not have a villain. Don't you think?
@@jasonmest87 a bit trippy at the end but yes, I enjoyed it. My prototype movie of that kind is Star Trek IV. I wonder if it's a Sci - fi thing?
Technically the environment and space could be called the villains.
@@adamplace1414 no I wasn't looking for those, I was looking for a simpler description rather than going into a full literary rant unlike you.
"Apollo 13" is another major example, albeit based on a true story. In fact, many action-adventure films based on true stories don't have villains (e.g., "The Finest Hours"), but "Apollo 13" is one of the best.
An astronaut met the writer and told him he didn't like aspects of the book. The writer was an engineer and he asked if the book seemed too implausible. The astronaut told him something along the lines of 'no it was too much like work. I found myself double checking your calculations and it wasn't an escape that I sought'
A fact that often gets forgotten is that because of how far away Mars is from Earth, it takes radio signals up 20 minutes to go from one place to the other (depending on how close the two are in their orbits). So every time Mark (or Mission Control) said something, it would take up to 40 minutes to get the response.
Fantastic movie... great cast, great acting, inspirational and the comedy was the icing on the cake. Yes... Sean Bean lives! 😄
Not exactly, he got fired.
@@theirishhero81 Pretty sure he had a (golf) stroke at the end...
@@EmonEconomist lol
I've watched this movie so many times! I've read the book at least three times too. I think one reason it resonates so strongly with me, and with many people at this moment in history, is that it's about many highly competent people of goodwill working together for a compassionate goal, at the same time a single, highly competent person of good humor and iron resolution, is working to outwit fate. It stands for the proposition that we are smart, we are good, we care about each other and will do what we have to to protect each other. We badly want it to be true.
This message wins the internet... 😢
Perfectly said
100%. This is what I love about both The Martian and The Mars Trilogy (by Kim Stanley Robinson) - both very different (despite sharing a setting), but both beautiful uplifting hopeful stories about what humanity can accomplish by working together.
17:03 Haha. Fun to see Addie get a reference that she maybe wouldn't have, before starting the channel. The "giddy" sound is priceless. Please watch "The Right Stuff" (1983).
I don't care what anyone says. The Sean Bean/Project Elrond joke is hands down the greatest in-film nerd joke there will ever be in the history of cinema. No matter how many times I watch this movie, it makes me crack up every time. I'm so glad Addie picked up on it.
It's very good. But I wouldn't go that far.
@@nikolatesla5553but they said they didn’t care what anyone says 😑
@@nikolatesla5553 Then what's the competition?! Give us answers!
@racernatorde5318 I nominate Nathan Fillion in "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters", who described "Hercules Busts Heads" as "The BEST TV show, EVER! So, of course... canceled!"
12:34 That's... actually a really good point! If the entire crew would have stayed on Mars to wait out the storm, their ship could have been damaged beyond repair and the crew would not have been able to survive on the planet for months waiting to be rescued! Mark was only able to survive because he was using all the equipment that was meant for an entire team of people all by himself.
The MAV would have tipped over and they'd have died there. Remember that was how Martinez was introduced, that his whole thing was reporting that the MAV was still upright.
Matt Damon actually owned this role, I cried for him several times.
She got it! The first reactor I've seen that GOT THE LORD OF THE RINGS joke! 🤣 Best "in-joke" in a movie, maybe ever! Brilliant movie... A very worthy adaptation of the very excellent book. I highly recommend reading the book. It flows very nicely and is an easy read that also explains everything as it goes along...
The best part is that the Council of Elrond is also in the book, although Andy Weir couldn't have known Sean Bean would be there someday! 🤣
If I’m not mistaken, there’s also a thing like that right when the Iron Man idea is mentioned where the camera then immediately cuts to Sebastian Stan who obviously played Bucky in the Marvel movies.
Andy Weir, the author of the book the film is based on, was doing a regular web comic strip, called "Casey and Andy". It's still online. He abandoned the project, telling the audience that he has taken on writing a novel. And everything else is history.
When the message comes from the Ares crew saying “Rich Parnell is a steely-eyed missile man,” that’s a real (very high) compliment they use at NASA. Although I’ve been told it didn’t originate with him, the story I first heard it associated with was John Aaron saving the Apollo 12 mission when the craft was struck by lightning just after launch. (He was also involved with the Apollo 13 mission, and is portrayed in the “Apollo 13” movie with Tom Hanks).
the thing that hit Watney during the storm was the communication antenna
17:05 One does not simply walk into a secret meeting.
The book is really, really good! The story of how it got published is worth learning as well.
I agree, the book is simply superb! I've read it multiple times.
Also how the movie got made is interesting as well.
Definitely one of my favorite, feel-good movies over the last few years. One of the best things I love about it is that there are no villains. Well, Mars is the "villain" but there's no antagonist. There's no nefarious evil-doer looking to make a profit off an astronaut's death or looking to screw the mission for his own gain. Its just a pure, grounded movie showing humanity at its best, coming together to solve a problem and save a life. Showing that we can work together for a common good.
5:05 "Crap. I really thought the computer would be able to send a message to NASA."
Absolutely.
They use communication equipment in the habitat, cameras, microphones, keyboards, computers, etc.
Their message is transmitted up to a satellite in stationary orbit above Mars which relays the signal to Earth.
They talk to Earth all the time.
Easy.
Except that they use a large satellite antenna (dish) to send and receive signals.
That dish blew away in the giant wind storm, but not before it slammed into Mark and knocked him down and punctured his suit.
Without that antenna, there is no communication at all.
It is one of the best movies ever put on film. The sheer motivation you feel when you watch ‘Mark’ survive by using his brains is inspiring by itself. And then all the other characters doing everything to rescue this man is truly profound.
The term for that is "competence porn"
Showing Martinez in the next Aries mission was really significant, because there was a high chance of him getting court marshaled and never going to space again.
Sadly, I think it also implies that his marriage has ended (in the book, his wife seemed unhappy about the Hermes crew going back for Mark). Note that Martinez is, of course, the commander of Ares V due to the seniority he now has, and that a Chinese astronaut is also aboard pursuant to the earlier agreement with CNSA.
*martialed
@ Martialled is absolutely fine.
I love that your non-MCU movie this week is just FILLED with Marvel actors 🤣😊
10 total!
cant find that many, help me out, all i got is Wong, Ejiofor, Pena, and Damon (but only as comic relief)
oh and sebastian stan
@@christopherbowers7236Donald Glover, Kate Mara, and if X-Men movies become tied to the MCU somehow Jessica Chastain
Gen X space nerds got goosebumps when they dug up Pathfinder
Matt Damon is so funny and charming in this but the best scenes are when he lets out the emotion a little, like when he gets to read the first text message from NASA or when he thanks the crew for coming back for him
To answer your concern that the nose cone of the module that Watney was lifting must be really heavy, don't forget that the pull of gravity on Mars is only 38% as strong as on Earth, so everything on Mars weighs about 60% less than it would on Earth!
Love Addie's reaction to Watney's breakdown in the rover after the decompression incident 14:00. She actually empathizes with Watney and rubs the heel of her hand as if it hurts.
Mark Watneys little "i colonised Mars. In your face Neil Armstrong" is actually very meaningful because the book begins with Mark self deprecating himself as basically the least important member of the third mars mission. Not a figure of any significance or accomplishment, no one remembers the 9th person to step on the moon. But in managing to survive on Mars the way he did he earned a position of actual prominence in the history of space travel.
The reason why Mark was not able to initially send some type of a message to NASA was because the object that hit him during the storm was the communications antenna for the hab. That’s why they ended up having to use other means to get communication going.
Sean Bean referencing the council of Elrond was just hilarious.😎
I think the great thing about this movie is that it's about an actual smart guy doing smart things to solve the issues nature put up against him, unlike most movies where it's all about people causing issues by being stupid and then having to solve the problems they caused.
I’ve been sick for most of a week, and this reaction was exactly what I needed today. Thank you Addie.
One of my favorite movies. Really well made.
The communication antenna is what broke and hit Mark. He had no way to communicate with Nasa after that.
That giggle as Sean Bean says "Because it's a secret meeting"... my reaction exactly!
That end scene is the essence of the entire manned space program. You solve one problem at a time. You solve enough, you come home. That's spaceflight. And this movie does an excellent job of showing how that works. It also shows why astronauts cross train in so many things. You gotta know a lot of things because, as Watney says, you may have to science the shit out of things. There's a lot of "hacking" and DIY involved sometimes.
It's interesting how things have changed since 2015. These days, the Falcon 9 rocket, an incredibly reliable workhorse and still the only reusable rocket in the world, launches about once a week (a record), hasn't had an accident in years, and SpaceX always has several reusable cores available for extra launches in a pinch. Three cores can be assembled into the massive Falcon Heavy, which can get payloads to Mars in a hurry, and for a relatively low price (not that price matters much in a life or death situation). Back in 2015, though, the Falcon 9 was still new and unproven, and the Falcon Heavy was still several years away. Nowadays, getting things into space has finally almost become routine.
Such a good space flick! Matt's really good in this. He's funnier than I thought he'd be.
Have you read the book? It's the writing. And the book is even better! (because they had to leave stuff out)
Another great sci-fi film is "Moon" (2009). Unexpectedly thoughtful piece.
I love how the opening scene is a nod to Alien when Dallas, Lambert, and Kane go outside on LV-426. Plus the part where he's rocking out to Donna Summer despite hating disco cracks me up.
Another great reaction, Addie. You're absolutely right, it's got everything in it, minus the scary Xenomorph from Alien. It's another well done space movie from Ridley Scott. And Mars has some beautiful scenery, thanks to the cinematography of Dariusz Wolski, ASC. BTW, nice shacket.
Speaking of Jessica Chastain, please react to The Help (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Interstellar (2014), Crimson Peak (2015), Molly's Game (2017), Ava (2020), & The 355 (2022).
What I really liked about this movie is, that it has no villain. Well, I guess you could see the NASA director as one, but even he wanted to get Mark back. Everyone was trying to rescue him without questions. And that's very wholesome.
Mars is the villain
Nah, not really...Mars is just there. Everything they go through is just a consequence of exploration and taking risks. Sometimes things go wrong and it's how to react to it that decides your fate.
I love this book and movie so much.
The most weird thing about this movie is that Sean Bean didn't die in it. I think his last character to not die was Sharpe, from the 90s or something (no IMDB look because bah).
Sharpe, of course, was the main character of his own series. (Ever notice what Boromir says when he cuts his finger on the hilt-shard of Narsil? A great example of an in-joke done right without taking viewers out of the story.)
17:04 the last thing every LOTR fan expected from the movie. Easily one of the funniest references I've ever seen in a film.
Yeah, except I'd read Andy Weir's book before seeing the movie, so I knew that moment was coming. (I was just hoping they wouldn't decide to drop the reference to avoid the metafictional humor created by Sean Bean's casting, but fortunately they leaned into it instead.)
Sean Bean giving the context for the name of the mission is 👌🏻
I am so happy you love the little references in this movie! The iron man one feels pretty special knowing you are still going through then marvel movies c:
The book is even better Addie! One of my all-time favorite reads.
Great reaction!
Such an excellent movie. Matt Damon is one of the greats, and the cast in general is brilliant in this one.
Awesome reaction, especially the "Council of Elrond" moment. 😃🤣
Welcome to Winter. 🙂🌨❄
hahahahaha ... Thank you for the scream warning, of course, you need to show what scared you!
In 2014 then 2015 we got Interstellar and The Martian. I did not go see either.
Matt Damon had a smaller role in Interstellar and then this lead. Part of me thought that these would be linked, I was obviously wrong. I have seen both since then.
17:06 ... I could not wait for the LOTR reference scene to come and see how you would react. You did not disappoint! (you never do) You were so excited that you knew what it was about!! You're too precious! (see what I did there?)
Along with this movie, you have a list of movies you haven't seen before. I did not see a lot of movies when they came out for one reason or another. Addie, you and other reactors have had an impact. You have had a few videos of movies I haven't seen. So to enjoy your reaction video, yup, I watched the movie for the first time myself.
That seems to be a major reason why reaction videos are a hit, I want to enjoy that movie for the first time like you did. And I enjoy re-watching other movies while you watch for the first time.
I don't know when I officially started following but I look forward to a notification from you every chance!
Take care, Addie!
17:20....Would have been so great if Sean Bean said, "I'll go by Boromir then." lol.
I do think that would have been going a *little* too far. 🙂
6:28 Priceless Reaction!
Rich Purnell is the low-key hero of this movie.
One of my favorite movies, really shows that there is no need to un-alive protagonists to create a great cinematic experience
Also no need for a love story, as much as I like those, it's not always needed
17:07 I always wondered what Sean Bean's reaction was when he read about "Project Elrond" in the script. It goes to his acting talent that he was able to do the scene with a straight face
there's two major factors of reality that bust this movie. one factor was aknown thing before the movie was made , the other was a factor discovered after the movie was made.
The known factor , is that Mars , with an atmospheric pressure of only 2% that of earth's would never have a storm so bad that it could blow people away. the martian air would have to be traveling several 1000's of miles per hour to carry that much force ...that's many times faster than wind speeds on jupiter even which usually see's windspeeds between 500-800 miles per hour. so not possible to get a storm on mars that could blow some one away.
as for the factor discovered after the movie : Mars' soil has high alkaline content , it would be toxic as hell to plant life , so couldn't grow potatoes in martian soil unless you had some means to leech off the alkalines.
I love this movie! I've seen it probably around 6 times now. I always love the theme of humanity coming together to save one of our own
In the book Watney have way more troubles, the poor guy. And the final scenes, when he's back on Earth, were created for the movie. I remember people recommending this book to me, and when I started reading it I just cracked up laughing in the very first sentence.
Nice reaction as always, Addie.
I love the way you went full geek when you heard about the "Project Elrond" being a "secret meeting". That was adorable.
I've seen a fair few reactions to this movie and I have to say that your selection of scenes was the best. Your emotional responses were wonderful to see. Bravo!
I would highly recommend reading the book. I saw this movie and loved it, so I read the book afterward, and it’s now one of my favorite books of all time. The book has a lot more problem-solving in it. Mark explains all the problems and his solutions to them at every step, and it’s fascinating.
When I saw this posting I smiled involuntarily knowing how much Addie would enjoy it.
The Martian is one of my favorite space movies! For me it’s right up there with Apollo 13 and Interstellar 😍
05:07: They gloss over it in the film (as you have to do for an adaptation), but what hit Mark and made everyone think he was dead was pieces of the antenna array. The main dish blew off its supports, hit the antennas, one of the antennas hit him. All the backups were on the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle), the MAV was designed so that if it wasn't completely obliterated it would be able to talk to Earth. NASA just never contemplated that there would be people on Mars without an MAV. This does kind of fall down in the book when there's mention that the presupply probes that bring the equipment a Mars mission needs well before the astronauts arrive have radios that can report successful landings to Earth, so the area around the Hab should have been littered with Earth-talking radios, pretty much literally.
While they didn't physically kill off the Sean Bean character, they did kill the character's career as he was forced to resign, symbolized by him playing golf at the end during the launch
I love this film and i enjoyed your reaction to it
8:22 "I wish they were landing a little bit closer."
Mars has a lot of land.
It's roughly equal to the land area of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia added together.
Humans send ships to explore mars.
The Rover that Mark has is only capable of driving from one side of Los Angeles most of the way to the other side, assuming no traffic, but not quite the whole way.
Los Angeles is a tiny dot on the giant map of Earth.
There would be no point sending exploration ships and rovers that close to each other - they would be sampling the same soil, same climate, same everything.
I mean, if you could only send 1 ship every 4 years, would you want them as close as Pasadena and Anaheim? '
Or maybe more like Los Angeles today and Seattle in 4 years?
Welcome back! Love your comment about Sean Bean not getting killed! LOL!
FYI, the "steely eyed missile man" reference comes from the movie "Apollo 13."
Glad you enjoyed it. Such a good cast. I've yet to see Lord of the Rings (I know. It's on my list if I ever start a react channel myself), but even I got the fact that Sean Bean is the one to explain in this movie what "Elrond" means, when his character in Lord of the Rings was on the council.
I half-expected his character to say: I was there 3000 years ago, almost touching the Ring. And then I died, oh well.
@@susah135 The "Council of Elrond" joke is also in Andy Weir's novel, so it became even funnier once Sean Bean was cast. Note that this film continues the trope of Sean Bean's characters dying in its own way: although no one dies in the film, Mitch Henderson commits career suicide to save Mark (he's working as a golf pro in the epilogue). Also, the Council of Elrond scene in the film gives rise to one of my favorite trick movie trivia questions: "What was the first movie in which Glorfindel was mentioned by name?" It's the 21st-century equivalent of that old classic, "What was the first movie in which Boba Fett was mentioned by name?"
Every second of your reaction is absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much. You pronounced my every thought. Wow...
Great reaction.
Another movie that involves space with a similar feel to it is Apolo 13 with Tom Hanks.
Actually Apolo 13 is based on a true story.
If you haven't seen it. I would definitely recommend.
Yes. Also "The Right Stuff" (1983) or the newer TV-series with the same name.
@@sirjohnmara I liked the Disney+ "Right Stuff" series, but it wasn't very popular. It's somewhat unsatisfying because it was canceled after only one season, and, because it was taking a "slow burn" approach to its storytelling similar to that of "The Rings of Power", it ends at a much earlier point in the story than the book or the 1983 movie. I would have loved to see it go on indefinitely and tell the entire story of the U.S. space program with the same actors in the same roles throughout, something that's never really been done.
@@anthonybernacchi2732 Yes. I agree. I have not seen, Rings of Power. The movie "The Right Stuff" follows Tom Wolfes book almost to the letter. The only thing I miss in the movie is: In the book it's explained that they had NO clue of what to test the becoming Astronauts for, that's why they made up every conceivable test at the Lovelace Clinic.
I met Fred Haise. He says they didn't actually pull off their bio monitors.
This movie is really really good. The book is on another level because of its capability to have more details of course . I would recommend reading it even if you already saw the movie. I loved that movie ,one of the best adaptations of a book i think.
The thing that hit him in the storm was the base communications dish.
Hi there I just found your channel. I’m thoroughly enjoying all of your reactions. I’m binge watching all of them. Thank you because I was feeling a lot of severe depression.
Anyway thank you for all that you do.❤🎉
This is one of my favourite movies as well! It is so well made and the build up towards the end highlights the stakes so well that even on second watch I cheered when they caught Mark!
If you want more of Mark Watney, the movie creators made really cool extra scenes, like for example interviews of the astronauts after they spent months in isolation to test them.
Look up The Martian - The Right Stuff, for example. Or the scene "Farewell", the last social media vlog posted by the astronauts before they left Earth.
You hit the marks with your reaction. A truly marvelous and inspiring film. A definite favorite of mine.
This is my favourite movie (and second-favourite book)! The soundtrack is also amazing, the disco music is always fun and Harry Gregson-Williams' score is perfect to listen to while studying/working. Thank you for sharing your first experience of it with us!
For "stuff that goes wrong in space" movies, you've seen this and Apollo 13. Next (if you haven't already seen) you should watch Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey (also has Matt Damon), and then Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock. :)
I've watched many reactions to this movie. Yours is Top 3. Thank you for an honest, heartfelt reaction.
You're my favorite reacter it makes me happy to watch you. Thank you.
You're such an empath and I really enjoy watching your movie reactions...keep up the great work beautiful
This movie has been on my watch list since it came out... your reaction made me go watch it so that I could watch this reaction lol.
Such a great movie with so many classic music hits (as much as they mock it in the movie). Glad you enjoyed it so much!
I'm so glad she saw that it played I Will Survive on the end credits. SUCH an inspired choice. And it's really a movie where you walk away from it just energized and full of hope.
I love that so many people get the LOTR reference with Sean Bean in the room, but they also reference Iron Man with Sebastian Stan and Michael Pena there too.
Vandenberg AFB, just north of Santa Barbara, CA is used to test rocket launches. Every few months, they do another test launch at an island in the Pacific. They also launch satellites. And Space-X did their early launches from there, too. Once I saw 1/4 of the country’s annual intelligence budget blow up in the air.
Yea I agree.. very glad I got it on DVD .. as well as many many many many others 👍🖖
♥ this movie to. Very re-watchable too. You should check out the movie Arrival (2016) with Amy Adams. Another cerebral sci-fi drama
5:00 - *“Oh, there is no way to contact NASA.”*
Unfortunately, the radio dish that the computer used to communicate with the orbiting satellites (and thus with NASA) was the very thing that ripped loose in the storm and almost killed Mark, when this all started. Even if Mark could find it again, and it was relatively undamaged, he would have no way to replace the fine-control motor that keeps the dish aligned with the orbiting satellites.
6:05 - *“This whole process is really inspiring.”*
You just summed up this movie in six words. 😁
'Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.'
Addie, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, July 21st 1969.
If you love The Martian, I would highly recommend Ron Howard’s Apollo 13, a true story.
I think she was joking when she said, "Neil Armstrong who?" BTW, the line "In your face, Neil Armstrong" comes directly from the book, which was published online in 2011 and in print in 2014, two years after Armstrong's death. I was pleased that the line was retained in the film, released in 2015, and that it wasn't considered to be "too soon" -- since the book and film take place in 2035 (a date which, alas, already seems too optimistic), it's not "too soon" for Mark.
One of my favorite novels turned into one of my favorite movies. The novel has a fascinating story as to how it was written, originally it was a serial posted on Andy Weir’s website. Once he was done people wanted an ebook version so he published one to Amazon and that caught the interest of a book publisher and the film industry.
While it’s very well researched and scientifically accurate, there are some major exceptions to that rule, and the author admits these are necessary for plot reasons. Firstly, the windstorm couldn’t do what it shows in either the novel or the movie. Mars atmosphere is very thin, less than 1% as dense as Earth’s. The speed is accurate, the force is not, it couldn’t lift a dish or tip a rocket, it would be like a light breeze even at a couple hundred kph. Another issue would be radiation. Mars doesn’t have a strong magnetic field to deflect cosmic and solar radiation. You could shield against it, but you’d need a couple centimeters of lead, 50 cm of water or a full meter or rock to do it. Without such shielding, as he puts it in the book, you’d have so much cancer, your cancer would have cancer.
All that being said, I love the story, I love the book, I love this movie, so glad you dug it as much as you did. The audiobook is one of my favorites I’ve ever listened to, and another of Weir’s fantastic books called Project Hail Mary is currently in the works to be a movie too, with Ryan Gosling planned to be the lead.
Indeed, this is one of the most realistic science fiction movies in a very long time. Yes, that beginning with the massive wind storm is not possible. The other part that always bugged me is how did they keep the crew of the spaceship from hearing about Mark's survival when the entire Earth was talking about it for two months? That spaceship can't hear radio/TV signals? Other than those two items it mostly clicks for me.
@@testfire3000 I think the hand wavy explanation in the novel is that NASA controls everything that goes to Hermes… which I suppose makes sense. I’m sure the crew would have more important things to do than scrub through, or try to filter out, broadcasting from the entire planet who might be trying to talk to them. Probably some encryption to prevent malicious code from getting on the several billion dollar space ship as well.
@@houdin654jeff Ok, I accept that its a very hand wavy reason. I can't help but notice it, but it doesn't ruin my experience of the movie either. It is still a kickass move with human wits against a hostile universe. How to say this: They don't have to throw aliens or asteroids at the cast throughout the movie, Mars itself is trying to kill him just by existing. I love his line that now I have to science the shit out of this. Perfect movie line!
I'd never seen this movie but will watch it now! It has SCIENCE! And I love a movie where the problems are solved by really smart people! Another movie in this vein is Apolo 13.
This is such a good film adaptation. Obviously not everything is exactly the same as the book, but they really didn't change a lot, and the screenwriters and actors did such a good job of conveying the tone of the book. I also love that this movie is so full of tension and suspense even though there really isn't an antagonist at all: everyone wants to get him back safely, the only difference is how much people are or aren't willing to risk to do it. It's very rare for a movie without any antagonists to work well. Man vs. nature movies are just about the only ones where that's possible, and I guess that's what this movie is, but most of them just don't end up working nearly as well as The Martian.
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I also adore this movie and recently bought the 4K UHD extended cut which honestly makes the film even better and I highly recommend this cut off the film.
The book is incredible. A lot of it is in the film. Although they did leave out about a 3rd but it is totally understandable. Andy Weir is a great author. I've read most of his books after reading The Martian. Yes I really did read it before the film, which is pretty close. As has been commented below, this is based on a book that would be described as HARD science fiction.
Glad to see your great reaction / review.
Y'all be safe.
As good as the movie is as an adaption they left out some crucial parts which produce some annoying inconsistencies.