I definitely did not expect this movie to get these much laughs out of me. I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for watching🙌🏾🙌🏾 What is your favorite Space movie?
My personal favorite is Hidden Figures. It's the story of the team of female human computers that saved NASA's '60s space race. New to your channel, glad to be here. Peace, all 💕
Though it’s not set in space, my favorite movie is heavily connected to space as it centers around the Australian crew of one of the giant satellite dishes that supported the Apollo missions. What makes the movie super fun is the fictional characters and subplots, but the story is loosely based on real life events. The movie is called The Dish and it was made in Australia and not super well known in the USA, but I absolutely love the movie and if you enjoy the humanity side of things I think you’d enjoy it too. Another space movie that’s definitely worth watching if you haven’t already is Apollo 13. That’s very closely based on real life events and is an excellent movie.
This and Gravity are the most realistic for me. Hidden Figures is an all around classic that centers around space travel, but has little space activity in it.
I think Teddy gets a bad rep in this movie. People see him as a villain which is so unfounded. He’s the director of NASA. He has to make the tough choices and he also has to consider all the publicity and Congress. PR is EVERYTHING to NASA. It’s what keeps them funded.
Yeah I agree. I think the issue is that there really is no traditional antagonist character in this story, which is sort of unusual. And because the average moviegoer expects to see a "bad guy" in every movie, they pick up on the somewhat colder analysis of Teddy and just assume that he is going to be the villain. This then clouds their perception of his motives and actions throughout the movie since they think they are supposed to just disagree with everything he does and dislike him rather than view the character with more nuance.
Besides the value of the lives of the other astronauts for Teddy to account for there is the Billions of taxpayers dollars invested in the ship they are in a sense "high-jacking" to go back for Watney.🖖
Teddy is not a bad guy at all here. He's responsible for all of NASA. The lives of every member of that crew. Just like you were saying you got humbled when the explosion occurred that destroyed all his crops. So much could have gone wrong with that plan to rescue him. Just adding 500 more days to the mission as a whole increases the chances of something going wrong exponentially. Let alone things like settine off bombs in the the good space ship. There wouldn't even have to be anything catastrophic. Someone could just get ill. Something simple. An appendicitis that might have occurred after they arrived back home originally, that now occurs 120 days from earth, could be fatal. The reason he cuts the safety checks from the supply mission is because Watley doesn't have the time. Not for some opticacs. And he jumps on the guys to get things done faster because time is precious. Every extra hour decreases his cha ces of survival. And yes, he is responsible for NASA as a whole. If every member of this mission dies, it is highly likely we would never go back to Mars again, a d also that NASA could be disbanded. Look how few times we've been back to the moon, and they were successful missions. And, every once in awhile, the idea of shutting down NASA gets floated.
The emotion that Matt (Mark) was showing before being shot off of Mars was real. He had been acting alone for months and the Director had the other actors fly in to deliver their lines as a surprise. It was a while since he had heard their voices and was expecting to hear the Director. Great Directing. 👍🏾
Here's the thing: So when Vincent is asking for satellite time at the beginning, Teddy is avoiding it because if he puts Watney's dead body on screen, NASA's funding gets absolutely gutted and it's even possible that Congress will kill the rest of the Ares missions. He would be forced into a position of laying off a ton of people, and yes, Watney's death is tragic from his perspective, but now he has to protect the rest of the space program. It happened after the Apollo 13, it happened after the Challenger disaster. Every time that one thing goes wrong in the space program, they're under threat, and every director has to balance that. If your ability to get groceries was based on how well the people at the supermarket liked you, you'd be pretty focused on the optics as well. The decision not to tell the crew is based on keeping the astronauts safe that are going to be in space for the next several MONTHS with nothing to do but think about how they left Mark to die on Mars. It's like Commander Lewis said, "If it's mission critical and it fails, we die." That includes the already diminished crew. And NASA wouldn't even know for around fifteen minutes that something went wrong, far past the point they could do anything. If anymore crew dies, NASA's funding gets absolutely gutted and it's even possible that Congress will kill the rest of the Ares missions. He would be forced into a position of laying off a ton of people. Turning the Ares around also isn't really a possibility because of how space travel works. They would've had to spend a month decelerating, then burn even more fuel turning around, then spend ANOTHER month burning to get back up to speed, and would run out of fuel at a certain point, which would kill them all, and if you're noticing a pattern here, yup, Nasa's funding gets gutted on top of the deaths. Teddy is handling the problem of it, such as saying that Watney would run out of food. He's already doing the math of how long Mark can survive given what supplies he has. Pointing out problems is a part of being in NASA. You spot the problem at the earliest point you can, to give you the best possible time to find a solution. He drops the safety inspections because buying Mark 15 days is the difference between life and death. They do the tests OR get Mark food and supplies before he dies, they couldn't do both, and he immediately takes sole responsibility for it when it goes wrong. He chose getting the supplies in time. It comes up again at the meeting, when Teddy chooses supplies again, this time over sending the Ares crew back to Mars. "A low chance of killing six people, or a high chance of killing one person." He chose the option where the highest number of people live. There is no enemy or villain in this movie. Teddy is trying to protect the five astronauts he knows are on track to come home safely, and the entire space program he's worked in his whole life.
"How freaking naive of me, to have just been enjoying the flow of this movie, not even considering the fact that, like, something can go wrong? 'Cause everything has just been going right; I just got comfortable. Lesson learned." Congratulations. You just summed up the entire history of space exploration, along with not just how quickly things can go wrong, but how quickly people can forget when and how they do.
think about apollo 13 for example. just sitting in the capsule when youre commanded to stir the tanks, and all of a sudden BANG! your oxygen is gone, youre pushed off course, and youre about to run out of power
This is such a great film, I'm happy you enjoyed it. The reason they were trying to cut corners on the resupply probe launch was due to orbital mechanics... the best time to launch anything to Mars is when its closest to Earth, so missing the "launch window" can mean adding weeks or months to the trip. So it wasn't just about saving the time it took to do the inspections, it would have saved them much more time than that by the time it made it to Mars. It was definitely a big risk but the rocket they used had a very good history of successful launches... the problem that caused them to destroy it was due to a mistake in how they loaded the probe, which the inspects might, or might not, have caught. The guy that is upsetting you is the head of NASA... he certainly wants to get Mark back to Earth, but he has ALL of NASA to manage, and public perception of how NASA is working can make a huge difference in their annual budget... they regularly have to scale back or completely cut programs due to Congress not giving NASA the budget they requested that year.
The unabridged AUDIOBOOK version performed by R.C. Bray is simply incredible. If you laughed in the movie, you'll howl at the unedited invectives Mark Watney used in the book!
@jasoncaldwell5627 unfortunately it's been removed from audible due to issues between Podium and Audible. Still worth tracking it down because as much as I like Will Weaton he just doesn't embody Mark the way Bray did.
@@AlexSilverCat the book is incredible. The only thing that was unrealistic was the storm at the beginning. Everything else in the book is at least plausible.
The movie is so great because the original novel is so exciting, hilarious and sciency! The movie's vibe is so very much like the book's vibe. The novel's author was Andy Weir. And he has written another book with an equally unexpected story, exciting, hilarious and sciency; same genre. It's called Project Hail Mary. We MUST all keep our fingers crossed that the people who are to make the book into a movie do as good a job as the team on this one.
Like others have mentioned, Terry isn't a villain. As NASA Administrator, he has to keep funding going, while also making the hard calls that effect thousands of people. To quote another wonderful film that you should react to, "The Right Stuff" (the early years of the US space program), "no bucks...no Buck Rogers". The real villain is Mars. Man vs. Space...an environment that is always trying to kill you. Great reaction.
I totally agree that the problem solving aspect reels you in. Best comment 20:18 “Nothing against aliens”. 😂 Thanks for doing this one, Frank! I loved this movie too.
7:25 not only theoretically you could but it has been done. A famous case is of a Russian Antartica explorer in the 1980s who was alone at his base during the Antarctic winter for months and isolated and needed surgery in his abdomen from a wound, he did it over the course of some hours on himself without anesthetics and lived
Yeah it's a cool movie. You actually pointed out an interesting thing about the protagonist being without love interest (or having kids) in the entire movie. It's really rare indeed. One of the few things not credible about this movie is the storm in the beginning, Mars being famous for its thin atmosphere, its winds are actually very weak compared to Earth. And yeah, it can't be based on a true story because we never set foot on another planet. Even on the Moon we haven't been back since 1972 and we didn't have bases there
@@slightlySuperior I wouldn't say it's "normal" but it sure happen a lot more, but I'm not sure if it has something to do with the media, more with the time and place it was filmed/written. When I think about it, even 2001 Space Odyssey and Shawshank Redemption had no love interest in their story. But for movies and books that come out today or last 15 years it's very rare
8:50 If I recall correctly that is the low oxygen alarm going. He may of set the oxygen low to just give up. 25:10 The extended edition does say. If you watch it do not google the word. 40:20 The amount of radation they will be exposed to will put them over their lifetime limit. 50:30 When you slow down you change the time you intercept.
6:14 Normally no. It is stoping the bleeding. What you do is get to the hospital where they have medical equipment right their to fix things. However he is now in the closest thing to a hospital he is going to get too. (Possibly he should of set up before pulling it out though)
Loved the fact he though Hexadecimal to the rescue. I had a smirk knowing what he was doing, I was doing it in the era of Pathfinder to break some in-game programming in order to circumvent hard-coded stuff at the time (like, no cheat codes allowed when the games where insanely difficult. Like Driver 1)
nice reaction, thank you! i must chuckle when i realise that all the reactiors are so young they don't know about Pathfinder which was a household name in its time (at least in my household, lol).
This is honestly a top 5 movie all time for me. For me, it has the perfect blend of drama, suspense, and humor. Matt Damon is fantastic and is the rest of the cast. It's never not fun to watch no matter how many times I've seen it. Great reaction.
Andy Weir also has another novel called Project Hail Mary, no movie or anything for it yet but its so good and if your into reading or audiobooks I highly recommend it
Great reaction to a great movie! One of the first questions you had was about Mark doing surgery on himself. I suspect there's a precedent for this from another novel. If you get a chance to watch "Master and Commander, Far Side of the World," (2003, starring Russell Crowe) there's a scene in which the ship's doctor is accidentally shot in the abdomen by a careless officer. There being no one else on board able to do the surgery, the doctor operates on himself to remove the bullet. At least in THAT movie, he has somebody nearby to hold the mirror! It's another great movie that I hope you get the chance to watch: about life on a British warship in under sail the early 1800's.
That is wild. Depictions of people operating on themselves it's just amazing. Shows the lengths we humans will go for survival. I'll keep an eye out for that moment
The director was an even bigger douche in the book, but he made the right call to skip the inspections in the movie, I felt. He wasn't negligent or careless about Watney's life. He was making a decision that he felt gave him the best chance to survive. Mark was already out of food and was on a starvation diet. He saved him ten days by taking a calculated risk that should have worked. Inspections rarely found any problems, but the rushed nature of the project made it more risky.
One thing I really wish they didn't change so much from the book was Teddy's character. In this he's made out to be a minor antagonist, but in the book he gets along much better with the rest of the crew. It's just that Mitch is the idealist, and Teddy is the realist - as the head of NASA must be.
I’ve seen this movie about 3 times and I’m always touched when Mark cries after hearing from NASA. I like your intake too on his sobbing due to him hiding his fear with humor 💚
They needed to skip the tests to meet the launch window. Mars is always moving and leaving at the wrong time is bad. The director made a hard decision to try to save Watney. It didn't work.
@@FrankFreezy_ I get what you're saying about the consequences of skipping the tests, but the consequence of doing the tests was that it wouldn't be able to make the launch. Think of it as you having a ticking time bomb in front of you with 3 seconds on the timer. There is a wire you can cut. It may disable it, or it may make it blow up. If you don't cut the wire, it is going to blow up anyway. The only reasonable course of action is to cut the wire and hope it works. That was exactly what they did.
"Martian winds have about 99 per cent less force compared with the winds of the same speed on Earth due to the planet's thin atmosphere." source: the Internet (which NEVER lies). So the opening scene with the storm of hell, would not be realistic, but it is a fantastic movie, as a work of fiction.
Love this movie. It’s fascinating & beautiful to watch such an ingenious human being use every single resource & ounce of brain power he has to survive. But more than that, we get to see all the psychological & emotional struggles of his survival & isolation. I don’t think many people expect the humor in this movie, but how else do most of us get through the dark days except for humor? This movie is very beautifully human. And completely randomly, I love that you thank Siri after she answers your question. Skynet will definitely spare you.
If put into such an extreme situation, you absolutely would be able to treat yourself like he did in the beginning. You have no other choice. Your survival instincts just kick in, plus his training.
You are WAY TOO HARD on Teddy’s character. Tough decisions keep people alive. Saving 1 person or 5 is a hard decision to make and the reason they cut the safety checks was because they would have missed the window for the launch and had to wait even longer. I think you misinterpreted his understanding of the complex nature of the problem with him wanting to look good in the public’s eye constantly. Saying he doesn’t care about the astronauts is is a total misread. Side note, if you thought the movie was funny, Marks character in the book this is based on is 10x funnier and an excellent read
Oh, man! You doing all my favourites lately! This is in my top ten. I can rewatch it over and over and never get tired of it. Matt Damon carries this so well and the humour offsets the isolation perfectly. 😊
@@FrankFreezy_ Absolutely. And you're right in what you said. It was his coping mechanism to be funny, as well as his personality. When your life is in danger and you're in a dire situation like he was, it's really important to stay calm and focused and humour helped him do that. However, you see his real emotions break through when he first contacts NASA with Pathfinder, when his food gets destroyed and when the crew come back for him. He isn't scared when he hears their voices. He's overwhelmed. His potential rescue is so close. That was the first time he'd heard a human voice in almost 18 months and it was the voice of his friends who had come back for him. Just got finished with watching and there's a couple of things I want to add. You seem to misunderstand Teddy (head of NASA) a lot. He isn't a bad guy at all. He really did want to get Mark home. He just has to think about all of NASA though. Any bad publicity severely affects NASA's funding and they do so much important work like Earth defence and asteroid monitoring etc that relies on that funding. He has to think of those things too. However, he was finding them all the money and resources to try and get Mark home. Also, he cut corners with the probe to make the launch window. Earth and Mars don't always have the best position in relation to one another. If we launched the probe during a bad position, the food would have gotten there too late to save Mark. As for telling the crew or sending the crew back for Mark, Teddy was weighing the lives of six people against the life of one. Even a moment spent in space is a risk and Teddy didn't want to risk the lives of the other six. That's also why he didn't want them told Mark was alive. He needed them to focus on their mission, not be distracted by guilt for leaving Mark behind. So, he isn't a bad guy. He just has to stay calm and collected and make the decisions that will keep the most people alive or in a job. That's not to say Mitch (crew supervisor) is wrong, but he doesn't have the same level of responsibility as Teddy and thinks with his heart instead of his head. If you ever watch it again, go into it with that mindset and you'll see Teddy isn't the bad guy you think he is. A lot of reactors misunderstand him though. Also, the science in this is all pretty much accurate and that's another reason I love this movie. If you want another excellent space movie, try Apollo 13. It has Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton and is based on a true story and is pretty accurate to it. As always, loving the reactions. Keep them coming! 😊
This is one of my favourites and I've watched dozens of different people watching it for the first time, what surprises me is they all say things like, I've seen her in this or I've seen him in that, but everyone seems to miss the fact that the winter soldier is on board the Hermese....go figure
Great commentary. I think the specific lack of human connection you mentioned is intentional so you/Mark appreciate it so much more when it's back. His break was honest to God relief. And I loved your reply of him blowing himself up 😂
A decent reaction, but I have some beef... I have a hard time seeing eye to eye with people who think that HEROIC decisions made by regular people, in life or death scenarios, are easy and obvious. While some movies, or stories in general, make it seem like the decision was easy or obvious (because, rational thought: be damned), in situations like this one, the cost of human life and indeed your own, is a serious discussion to have! Being well aware of the horrific outcome that is LIKELY, is something that needs to be explored and accounted for. I think that casting dispersions on those who actually take the time and weigh the good vs the bad, and opt for the most good, is a really odd way of looking at reality. The HERO of a movie is usually named so, because he or she is uncommon. The other characters are demonstrating what regular humanity is like! The HERO is showing us what we could aspire to be, not what or who we commonly are. Teddy (the head of NASA) is the common human, opting for the most good that can come from disaster. Mark and the Aries Crew are HEROES. Uncommon and somewhat, benevolently, irrational.
The real interesting part of this is that the guy who wrote be book outsourced his ideas to the public and asked people online what he got wrong. Its super interesting as an approach. Also I highly recommend watching Chris Hadfields reaction to this movie (among others)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who says "thank you -insert robot name-" lmao in the back of my mind I'm like if they ever go Skynet on us hopefully they see that I've always been nice to them and either don't kill me or give me a quick death XD
Been watching movie reactors for years and have to say you have top tier commentary. Really enjoy your vibe and your reactions keep up the good work my guy 👍🏽
You are literally watching all my favourite movies and is such a nice and smart guy. I look forward to the future watching you. I hope you watch The Help!
And I'll continue to watch so much of your favorite movies😄😄 Remember to always recommend in the comments. At least it puts the movies on my radar. Thanks for bringing up the help. I've heard it's a great movie.
@@FrankFreezy_ My pleasure! Enjoying your Arrival reaction now. Other movies : The talented Mr. Ripley The English Patient The King's speach Chocolate Amelie Hidden figures Inception Pride and prejudice (2005) The bridge of spies Four weddings and a funeral Legends of the fall Green book I will give you more later 😉
I'm with you, man. The Martian is a decent, B or B- movie, but Interstellar is perfect. If you haven't seen Arrival, yet, it's the only movie I can name that rivals it. The book The Martian was based on was actually significantly funnier than the movie. If you're a reader, you might give it a try or listen to the audiobook. The movie cut so many elements of the book that there's a lot of stuff missing. Mark inadvertently destroys Pathfinder while drilling a hole in the roof of the rover, so he's once again cut off from Earth and just has to head to Schiaparelli Crater with no further communication from NASA. That obviously wouldn't fly for the film, so they cut it along with too many other things. I'm sure they didn't have the time for it all.
Each member of the Hermes was permitted a five minute conversation with their family as they shot around Earth, grabbed the probe with the supplies, and headed back out to Mars to grab Watney. Here's an excerpt of Johanssen's to give you a taste of the book: Johannsen's father fidgeted in the chair, unsure what to say. After a moment, he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and mopped sweat from his balding head. "What if the probe doesn't get to you?" he asked. "Try not to think about that," Johanssen said. "Your mother is so worried she couldn't even come." "I'm sorry," Johanssen mumbled, looking down. "She can't eat, she can't sleep, she feels sick all the time. I'm not much better. How can they make you do this?" "They're not 'making' me do it, Dad. I volunteered." "Why would you do that to your mother?" he demanded. "Sorry," Johanssen mumbled. "Watney's my crewmate. I can't just let him die." He sighed. "I wish we'd raised you to be more selfish." She chuckled quietly. "How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sale manager of a napkin factory. Why is my daughter in space?" Johanssen shrugged. "You were always scientifically minded," he said. "It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter." "Thanks, Dad, I -" "But then you got on a giant bomb that blasted you to Mars. And I mean that literally." "Technically," she correct, "the booster only took me into orbit. It was the nuclear-powered ion engine that took me to Mars." "Oh, much better!" "Dad, I'll be all right. Tell Mom I'll be all right." "What good will that do?" he said. "She's going to be tied up in knots until you're back home." "I know," Johanssen mumbled. "But . . ." "What? But what?" "I won't die. I really won't. Even if everything goes wrong." "What do you mean?" Johanssen furrowed her brow. "Just tell Mom I won't die." "How? I don't understand." "I don't want to get into the how," Johanssen said. "Look," he said, leaning toward the camera, "I've always respected your privacy and independence. I never tried to pry into your life, never tried to control you. I've been really good about that, right?" "Yeah." "So in exchange for a lifetime of staying out of your business, let me nose in just this once. What are you not telling me?" She fell silent for several seconds. Finally, she said, "They have a plan." "Who?" "They always have a plan," she said. "They work out everything in advance." "What plan?" "They picked me to survive. I'm youngest. I have the skills necessary to get home alive. And I'm the smallest and need the least food." "What happens if the probe fails, Beth?" her father asked. "Everyone would die but me," she said. "They'd all take pills and die. They'll do it right away so they don't use up any food. Commander Lewis picked me to be the survivor. She told me about it yesterday. I don't think NASA knows about it." "And the supplies would last until you got back to Earth?" "No," she said. "We have enough food left to feed six people for a month. If I was the only one, it would last six months. With a reduced diet I could stretch it to nine. But it's be seventeen months before I get back." "So, how would you survive?" "The supplies wouldn't be the only source of food," she said. He widened his eyes. "Oh . . . oh my god . . ." "Just tell Mom the supplies would last, okay?"
33:50 Teddy is playing with fire, but he has to balance everything in his hands, he needs to get that probe to Mars as soon as possible since Mark is running out of food faster than expected and every day they save is a godsend. He's doing what he can and never points the blame at anyone, just as he should. 34:50 The alternative was telling Mark to count his food for two more weeks instead of what he expected
The movie is amazing, but the book is even better. I highly recommend reading it! It goes into a bit more detail on the different stuff that happens to him. Also, his trip to the other landing site from where he ascends.
The Book is great... the movies did a very good job of recreating the book.. but as always I recommend reading the book to get more details that the movie can't give.
The basic storyline is not much different than that Tom Hanks film "Cast Away". The video log is Watney's 'Wilson', helping to keep him sane. Success begins with a mission statement. Watney's mission statement is "I'm not going to die here." The reasons he's doing the planting inside is three-fold: -It's too cold for temperate plant life to survive outside (you'll see that made clear later in the film). -Mars has a very low and thin atmosphere; even if it had carbon dioxide necessary to sustain plant life, there isn't enough of it to keep plants alive. -Due to the thinness of the atmosphere, water just evaporates into space; not only could you not water the plants, but the plants would freeze-dry if they could grow at all. Note: Technically this would still not work. There are chemicals and minerals in the martian soil that would prove deadly to plants. Just brining martial soil inside, adding human compost, and then keeping it warm and moist does nothing to remove the toxins in the soil. The precautions would not have made a difference; it would not have kept the rocket with the supplies from destabilizing and blowing up. Some of the supplies were liquid and loaded without attention to placement. During launch, those liquids through off the balance. That would not have picked up in prelaunch procedures. Being Director of NASA is a political position. The Director's decisions affect financing the agency and even its continued existence. His decisions have a direct impact on the scientists and other employees that work for NASA. Every option about Watney is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if--you-don't situation. Optics affect funding, green-lighting projects and programs, and so much more. He tried to get desperately-needed supplies to Watney before Watney died, but it didn't work out. So, the Director went the other way, being more conservative in his decisions to keep the returning crew as safe as possible. There really isn't any good options in this situation, only gambles. Watney waiting to take off from Mars is not scared; it's been almost two years since he's heard a human voice besides his own. Hearing his friends, knowing they've come back for him, has to be affecting him. Plus, he's had to keep busy to stay alive up to now. This is the first time in nearly two years he's been left not working on a problem. It's just him and self-reflection at that moment. It's a lot flooding into him, emotionally, now. I believe 42 meters per second is something like 94 miles per hour... Chiwetel Ejiofor (Vincent Kapoor) is a really good actor. You should do reactions to some of his other films: -"Amistad" (1997) -"Kinky Boots" (2005) -"12 Years a Slave" (2013) -"Doctor Strange" (2016) Great reaction to this film! Love your gentle approach to the things that come up in the story. This is why I subscribed. I would love to hear you compare Matt Damon's characters in "Interstellar" and "The Martian". How did the difference strike you?
I thought that Jeff Daniels did an awesome job as the Director. His acting has come a long way since Dumb & Dumber and it's roles like this that show his potential range as an actor.
Damn.. I would love to watch a movie with you bro, you hit on everything I feel watching a movie. If you love the humanity aspect in a movie (and I know you do) please react to Dances With Wolves, I'll bet it becomes your new favorite movie. Keep up this great product you put out, loving it! 😎👍😁💯🔥
If you like space movies, you should check out Apollo 13. The idea to slingshot the ship around Earth came from that movie, which was based on a true story that happened in the '70s.
"Let me know in the comments. Could you do this to yourself ?" Well, yeah. Did it. Sawed ? No. Usually prefered to dip in the sea (Even though it's risky since unknown bacterias can settle in) Made compression to stop the bleeding ? Yes, on myself and some friends later. Used black powder to cauterise my wound ? Yes. Never even saw Rambo back then. I do not recommend it unless it's a matter of life or death, 'cause it hurt like hell for days) Glue for models is better if you can hold the wound closed for a minute or two. (The real problem is that you can't pass out from pain if you are alone & with zero pain killers, so you have to adapt.) So I kind of have an habit since early childhood to carry medical emergency supplies just in case. I've seen & live so much sh*t that after awhile, you just know what to do, what's going to happen & when. Let's go arround my left leg pocket : Hydro-alcool gel, bandages in every form, desinfectant, a small kinda Swiss Army knife from my grand father, surgical taping, the list goes on. You don't know when or why they'll be needed, but at some point they will. I don't always carry all that of course, but It's the vibes. When you don't feel it, something is about to go very wrong very quickly. You don't want to be unpreapared to help someone.
This was a great reaction. If you haven't seen The 33 with Antonio Banderas, I highly recommend it. It's another rescue type movie based on a true story about the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for over 2 months. It's a great film.
As a fan of the book first, I always think the end of the movie is too "Hollywood", but other than that, I think it's a great adaptation. Thanks for the Reaction!
I heard about the book and that they were making a movie of it a year before it came out. I got the Audiobook for my daily commute. There's way more in the book that they left out or the movie would have been 4hrs long. Lots more off the wall humor and wiseass cracks throughout. Best Watney quote, "Duct Tape is Magic and should be Worshipped!!" So the movie was pretty good but shorter. Spoiler Alert! Mark Did Not do the Iron Man thing in the book! Martinez made the EVA and went and got Mark out of the MAV and brought him back.
No, you're not supposed to pull any object out of you, because it will probably cause way more bleeding. But that's assuming you have access to an ER with an OR. He's alone on Mars... Gotta do what u gotta do.
Franklin, are you gonna sell (maybe you already have?) prints of that beautiful painting you did behind you of the woman with the blue scarf? Either way, stunning. You’re an incredible artist!
aww thank you so much. I've been wanting to make prints of this one for a long time. I actually just made canvas prints for them today. I'll send you the link here. Thanks for asking and thanks for appreciating the work ❤️ link: my-store-f182f9.creator-spring.com/listing/new-wodi?product=2253
This movie tried to be accurate to reality but I just can't get past the problem with the initial premise. A storm does major damage to everything including putting shrapnel into Watney and leaves him stranded. The problem is that the atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1% (0.088 psi, 610Pa) of Earth's. A 300 Kph wind would feel like a light breeze. The strongest storms observed so far are estimated at 100 Kph (60 mph). Oops. Plot hole. LOL It just triggers my inner nerd. 🤣
@@FrankFreezy_ It basically says Mars' atmosphere is so thin, that super high speed winds would do almost nothing. So, the storm scene is pure fantasy. LOL My inner science nerd makes it a challenge to enjoy movies as it calls out impossible things in physics and tech.
It's okay to exaggerate facts for the sake of storytelling. I used to feel same way but the true art of cinema is being able guide your emotions thru the story. A dangerous storm was used to create situation that made it feel justifiable to launch without Watney. While the storm is unrealistic for Mars, the danger it presented was immediately understandable by everyone.
@@bubblesculptor Oh, yeah, I'm well aware of the writing tool. I just get annoyed at myself for not being able to let go of inaccuracies to go with the films. LOL
I’ve already seen several comments pointing it out already but I just got to say it’s a real shame you’re getting the wrong impression of teddy and misunderstanding his choices in this movie. He doesn’t not care about mark he just has to think about the bigger picture that’s his role as the director he would be doing a bad job as a director if he allowed himself to get to invested into just one astronaut. Not hating on your reaction it just hurts to see him getting a bad rep.
Matt Damon has acting range... Saving Private Ryan Good Will Hunting We Bought A Zoo Bourne trilogy Departed Rainmaker Just to name a few...keep him n your radar..we love his work... 🌿🌿🌿
I appreciate the way you feel all the right ways through this, but you were continuously watching off the mark about Teddy. He was every bit as invested in Mark’s life as anyone, but he has to make the hard choices. Total misunderstanding of Teddy’s intentions and intellect.
The extended edition hints at what Mark said after he was told off for cussing. Right after everybody acts shocked at his response, one guy turns to his companions and asks, "what's a felcher?" Warning: DON'T GOOGLE IT!
Syfy is one of my fav genre's but can at times freak me out specially when it comes to A.I. Love space and deep ocean, but u'll never see me in either. I'll just keep my feet on solid ground, lol. So if this planet fails, Im going with it. I was an EMT in my younger days, I can def treat myself to a point. No major surgery skills and If I did I sure wouldnt be fighting these doctors for care thats for sure. Thanx do much, be well, Peace
lmao we are very similar in that sense. I definitely love my feet on Solid Ground 😂😂 I think everyone should be able to have basic first aid training for situations like these. Thanks for watching
I think they made the wrong decision, but I understand why they decided not to tell the crew. They really had no way of knowing they could rescue him, let alone any kind of plan; also no way of contacting him at that time. There was nothing the crew would have been able to do and the stresses of knowing this may have led to life threatening mistakes. Like I say I think they should have listened to the flight controller and trusted the crew, but I understand why they decided the risk was too great. The two senior crew and the Commander's taking the blame on herself is the sign of a good leader; she's not going to let anyone else take the blame for what ultimately her decision; no matter how correct it was given what they thought they knew at the time, kerk
I definitely did not expect this movie to get these much laughs out of me. I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for watching🙌🏾🙌🏾 What is your favorite Space movie?
My personal favorite is Hidden Figures. It's the story of the team of female human computers that saved NASA's '60s space race. New to your channel, glad to be here. Peace, all 💕
@@janecrow1122 oh yes I saw a trailer to that movie a while ago. I would love to watch it. And thanks for being here
Though it’s not set in space, my favorite movie is heavily connected to space as it centers around the Australian crew of one of the giant satellite dishes that supported the Apollo missions. What makes the movie super fun is the fictional characters and subplots, but the story is loosely based on real life events. The movie is called The Dish and it was made in Australia and not super well known in the USA, but I absolutely love the movie and if you enjoy the humanity side of things I think you’d enjoy it too.
Another space movie that’s definitely worth watching if you haven’t already is Apollo 13. That’s very closely based on real life events and is an excellent movie.
Frank he called them bureaucratic Fletchers which as it says in the movie you don't want to look up what that is.
This and Gravity are the most realistic for me.
Hidden Figures is an all around classic that centers around space travel, but has little space activity in it.
I think Teddy gets a bad rep in this movie. People see him as a villain which is so unfounded. He’s the director of NASA. He has to make the tough choices and he also has to consider all the publicity and Congress. PR is EVERYTHING to NASA. It’s what keeps them funded.
Agree. Hard job.
I feel you. Especially in the scene where he was telling the other dude “people forget why we fly. I’m just trying to keep them in the air”
Yeah I agree. I think the issue is that there really is no traditional antagonist character in this story, which is sort of unusual. And because the average moviegoer expects to see a "bad guy" in every movie, they pick up on the somewhat colder analysis of Teddy and just assume that he is going to be the villain. This then clouds their perception of his motives and actions throughout the movie since they think they are supposed to just disagree with everything he does and dislike him rather than view the character with more nuance.
Besides the value of the lives of the other astronauts for Teddy to account for there is the Billions of taxpayers dollars invested in the ship they are in a sense "high-jacking" to go back for Watney.🖖
@@cincinnatus230 that's fair
Teddy is not a bad guy at all here. He's responsible for all of NASA. The lives of every member of that crew. Just like you were saying you got humbled when the explosion occurred that destroyed all his crops. So much could have gone wrong with that plan to rescue him. Just adding 500 more days to the mission as a whole increases the chances of something going wrong exponentially. Let alone things like settine off bombs in the the good space ship. There wouldn't even have to be anything catastrophic. Someone could just get ill. Something simple. An appendicitis that might have occurred after they arrived back home originally, that now occurs 120 days from earth, could be fatal. The reason he cuts the safety checks from the supply mission is because Watley doesn't have the time. Not for some opticacs. And he jumps on the guys to get things done faster because time is precious. Every extra hour decreases his cha ces of survival. And yes, he is responsible for NASA as a whole. If every member of this mission dies, it is highly likely we would never go back to Mars again, a d also that NASA could be disbanded. Look how few times we've been back to the moon, and they were successful missions. And, every once in awhile, the idea of shutting down NASA gets floated.
Yeah I see your point. There's a good points. He has a hard job
The emotion that Matt (Mark) was showing before being shot off of Mars was real. He had been acting alone for months and the Director had the other actors fly in to deliver their lines as a surprise. It was a while since he had heard their voices and was expecting to hear the Director. Great Directing. 👍🏾
Here's the thing: So when Vincent is asking for satellite time at the beginning, Teddy is avoiding it because if he puts Watney's dead body on screen, NASA's funding gets absolutely gutted and it's even possible that Congress will kill the rest of the Ares missions. He would be forced into a position of laying off a ton of people, and yes, Watney's death is tragic from his perspective, but now he has to protect the rest of the space program. It happened after the Apollo 13, it happened after the Challenger disaster. Every time that one thing goes wrong in the space program, they're under threat, and every director has to balance that. If your ability to get groceries was based on how well the people at the supermarket liked you, you'd be pretty focused on the optics as well.
The decision not to tell the crew is based on keeping the astronauts safe that are going to be in space for the next several MONTHS with nothing to do but think about how they left Mark to die on Mars. It's like Commander Lewis said, "If it's mission critical and it fails, we die." That includes the already diminished crew. And NASA wouldn't even know for around fifteen minutes that something went wrong, far past the point they could do anything. If anymore crew dies, NASA's funding gets absolutely gutted and it's even possible that Congress will kill the rest of the Ares missions. He would be forced into a position of laying off a ton of people.
Turning the Ares around also isn't really a possibility because of how space travel works. They would've had to spend a month decelerating, then burn even more fuel turning around, then spend ANOTHER month burning to get back up to speed, and would run out of fuel at a certain point, which would kill them all, and if you're noticing a pattern here, yup, Nasa's funding gets gutted on top of the deaths.
Teddy is handling the problem of it, such as saying that Watney would run out of food. He's already doing the math of how long Mark can survive given what supplies he has. Pointing out problems is a part of being in NASA. You spot the problem at the earliest point you can, to give you the best possible time to find a solution. He drops the safety inspections because buying Mark 15 days is the difference between life and death. They do the tests OR get Mark food and supplies before he dies, they couldn't do both, and he immediately takes sole responsibility for it when it goes wrong. He chose getting the supplies in time.
It comes up again at the meeting, when Teddy chooses supplies again, this time over sending the Ares crew back to Mars. "A low chance of killing six people, or a high chance of killing one person." He chose the option where the highest number of people live. There is no enemy or villain in this movie. Teddy is trying to protect the five astronauts he knows are on track to come home safely, and the entire space program he's worked in his whole life.
"5 astronauts die trying to save their lost friend" sounds better than "we chose to leave him behind even when we knew we had a viable rescue plan"
"hey siri what is vicodine"
siri : "go watch Dr house"
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100%. Top tier TV right there! One of my favorites along with The West Wing and The Newsroom.
And he’s taking the Vicodin because he’s in a great deal of pain from the back breaking labour he’s been doing, such as moving tonnes of dirt around.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"How freaking naive of me, to have just been enjoying the flow of this movie, not even considering the fact that, like, something can go wrong? 'Cause everything has just been going right; I just got comfortable. Lesson learned."
Congratulations. You just summed up the entire history of space exploration, along with not just how quickly things can go wrong, but how quickly people can forget when and how they do.
touche my friend
think about apollo 13 for example. just sitting in the capsule when youre commanded to stir the tanks, and all of a sudden BANG! your oxygen is gone, youre pushed off course, and youre about to run out of power
This is such a great film, I'm happy you enjoyed it. The reason they were trying to cut corners on the resupply probe launch was due to orbital mechanics... the best time to launch anything to Mars is when its closest to Earth, so missing the "launch window" can mean adding weeks or months to the trip. So it wasn't just about saving the time it took to do the inspections, it would have saved them much more time than that by the time it made it to Mars. It was definitely a big risk but the rocket they used had a very good history of successful launches... the problem that caused them to destroy it was due to a mistake in how they loaded the probe, which the inspects might, or might not, have caught.
The guy that is upsetting you is the head of NASA... he certainly wants to get Mark back to Earth, but he has ALL of NASA to manage, and public perception of how NASA is working can make a huge difference in their annual budget... they regularly have to scale back or completely cut programs due to Congress not giving NASA the budget they requested that year.
ah I see. Thanks for adding that extra context
Fun fact - that snarky guy who facilitates the communication between Watney & NASA is Nate on Ted Lasso.
I'm a bookworm, so I'm going to take a moment to recommend the book this movie is based on- the humor genuinely comes from the source!
Yes!!! This right here. Book was great and had great comedic moments!
The unabridged AUDIOBOOK version performed by R.C. Bray is simply incredible.
If you laughed in the movie, you'll howl at the unedited invectives Mark Watney used in the book!
@jasoncaldwell5627 unfortunately it's been removed from audible due to issues between Podium and Audible.
Still worth tracking it down because as much as I like Will Weaton he just doesn't embody Mark the way Bray did.
@@AlexSilverCat the book is incredible. The only thing that was unrealistic was the storm at the beginning. Everything else in the book is at least plausible.
The movie is so great because the original novel is so exciting, hilarious and sciency! The movie's vibe is so very much like the book's vibe. The novel's author was Andy Weir. And he has written another book with an equally unexpected story, exciting, hilarious and sciency; same genre. It's called Project Hail Mary. We MUST all keep our fingers crossed that the people who are to make the book into a movie do as good a job as the team on this one.
Like others have mentioned, Terry isn't a villain. As NASA Administrator, he has to keep funding going, while also making the hard calls that effect thousands of people. To quote another wonderful film that you should react to, "The Right Stuff" (the early years of the US space program), "no bucks...no Buck Rogers".
The real villain is Mars. Man vs. Space...an environment that is always trying to kill you.
Great reaction.
I totally agree that the problem solving aspect reels you in. Best comment 20:18 “Nothing against aliens”. 😂 Thanks for doing this one, Frank! I loved this movie too.
Best part of the movie for sure. Hehe aliens would’ve ruined how grounded the movie was🤣 of course. Thanks for watching
7:25 not only theoretically you could but it has been done. A famous case is of a Russian Antartica explorer in the 1980s who was alone at his base during the Antarctic winter for months and isolated and needed surgery in his abdomen from a wound, he did it over the course of some hours on himself without anesthetics and lived
Yeah it's a cool movie. You actually pointed out an interesting thing about the protagonist being without love interest (or having kids) in the entire movie. It's really rare indeed. One of the few things not credible about this movie is the storm in the beginning, Mars being famous for its thin atmosphere, its winds are actually very weak compared to Earth. And yeah, it can't be based on a true story because we never set foot on another planet. Even on the Moon we haven't been back since 1972 and we didn't have bases there
Yeah I love when movies go against the romantic interests norm. True and true
@@slightlySuperior I wouldn't say it's "normal" but it sure happen a lot more, but I'm not sure if it has something to do with the media, more with the time and place it was filmed/written. When I think about it, even 2001 Space Odyssey and Shawshank Redemption had no love interest in their story. But for movies and books that come out today or last 15 years it's very rare
37:08 No, china isn't helping. Only their space agency. They said to keep it between scientists.
You would enjoy Apollo 13. Based on an actual moon mission and starring Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise. It's definitely something for you to consider. 😉
Can confirm. Would love to see a reaction on that.
frank: they need to help them
teddy: scrap the inspection or we wont make it, my responsibility
blows up
frank: good!
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By Teddy not doing the extended testing, he was buying time for Mark as there was a real risk of him running out of food.
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If I recall correctly that is the low oxygen alarm going. He may of set the oxygen low to just give up.
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The extended edition does say. If you watch it do not google the word.
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The amount of radation they will be exposed to will put them over their lifetime limit.
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When you slow down you change the time you intercept.
Andy Weir's other book Project Hail Mary is also amazing. It's being turned into a movie starring Ryan Gossling.
That is going to be great. I'll keep my eye out for that
I just bought Hail Mary the other day! I'm excited to get into it.
@@kaziu312 it's great, if you liked the Martian you'll like that one.
@ericlaw171 Ooooh! I've not read The Martian, but I'm still excited!
@@kaziu312 I love the Martian movie, but the book is even better.
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Normally no. It is stoping the bleeding.
What you do is get to the hospital where they have medical equipment right their to fix things.
However he is now in the closest thing to a hospital he is going to get too. (Possibly he should of set up before pulling it out though)
Loved the fact he though Hexadecimal to the rescue. I had a smirk knowing what he was doing, I was doing it in the era of Pathfinder to break some in-game programming in order to circumvent hard-coded stuff at the time (like, no cheat codes allowed when the games where insanely difficult. Like Driver 1)
nice reaction, thank you! i must chuckle when i realise that all the reactiors are so young they don't know about Pathfinder which was a household name in its time (at least in my household, lol).
45:55 I don’t think he’s scared. I think that’s the emotional release of a man hearing another human voice for the first time in a long time.
This is honestly a top 5 movie all time for me. For me, it has the perfect blend of drama, suspense, and humor. Matt Damon is fantastic and is the rest of the cast. It's never not fun to watch no matter how many times I've seen it. Great reaction.
I feel that way about both the movie and the book. Such a fun story.
45:53 he’s definitely scared but I think the emotion he’s feeling is from hearing his friends voices after years of silence.
Regarding the tests... If they waited the extra 2 weeks, Mark would've starved. If they wanted to save him with Iris, they had to launch regardless.
True. I missed that part on my first watch
Matt Damon was a much nicer astronaut here than in interstellar lol
Hahaha sooo much nicer! 😂
But still blew up an airlock.
@@catprog more like the airlock blew up itself
Andy Weir also has another novel called Project Hail Mary, no movie or anything for it yet but its so good and if your into reading or audiobooks I highly recommend it
Great reaction to a great movie! One of the first questions you had was about Mark doing surgery on himself. I suspect there's a precedent for this from another novel. If you get a chance to watch "Master and Commander, Far Side of the World," (2003, starring Russell Crowe) there's a scene in which the ship's doctor is accidentally shot in the abdomen by a careless officer. There being no one else on board able to do the surgery, the doctor operates on himself to remove the bullet. At least in THAT movie, he has somebody nearby to hold the mirror! It's another great movie that I hope you get the chance to watch: about life on a British warship in under sail the early 1800's.
That is wild. Depictions of people operating on themselves it's just amazing. Shows the lengths we humans will go for survival. I'll keep an eye out for that moment
I don't blame NASA in the movie.As dude said: Congress.
The director was an even bigger douche in the book, but he made the right call to skip the inspections in the movie, I felt. He wasn't negligent or careless about Watney's life. He was making a decision that he felt gave him the best chance to survive. Mark was already out of food and was on a starvation diet. He saved him ten days by taking a calculated risk that should have worked. Inspections rarely found any problems, but the rushed nature of the project made it more risky.
We saw this when it came out and weren't sure what to expect--we LOVED it, and we rewatch it fairly frequently. Super entertaining and so well made.
One thing I really wish they didn't change so much from the book was Teddy's character. In this he's made out to be a minor antagonist, but in the book he gets along much better with the rest of the crew. It's just that Mitch is the idealist, and Teddy is the realist - as the head of NASA must be.
I hear you. Someone in the common sense they had to make Teddy a little bit of the antagonist in this movie because it didn't have one.
This movie is such a good watch. Thanks for all the great reactions ❤
It really is! My pleasure. Thanks for being here for them💜
I’ve seen this movie about 3 times and I’m always touched when Mark cries after hearing from NASA. I like your intake too on his sobbing due to him hiding his fear with humor 💚
Absolutely. It's such a human moment for Mark. Beautiful
They needed to skip the tests to meet the launch window. Mars is always moving and leaving at the wrong time is bad. The director made a hard decision to try to save Watney. It didn't work.
And it had conferences, but I hear you
@@FrankFreezy_ I get what you're saying about the consequences of skipping the tests, but the consequence of doing the tests was that it wouldn't be able to make the launch. Think of it as you having a ticking time bomb in front of you with 3 seconds on the timer. There is a wire you can cut. It may disable it, or it may make it blow up. If you don't cut the wire, it is going to blow up anyway. The only reasonable course of action is to cut the wire and hope it works. That was exactly what they did.
"Martian winds have about 99 per cent less force compared with the winds of the same speed on Earth due to the planet's thin atmosphere." source: the Internet (which NEVER lies). So the opening scene with the storm of hell, would not be realistic, but it is a fantastic movie, as a work of fiction.
I absolutely love how you mentioned you're very reliable source haha. But yeah I feel you.
I read that the storm in the beginning is the ONLY inaccuracy, making it one of the most scientifically accurate works of fiction ever.
The book is fantastic and had me hooked from the first page. This is one of my all time favorite movies.
Love this movie. It’s fascinating & beautiful to watch such an ingenious human being use every single resource & ounce of brain power he has to survive. But more than that, we get to see all the psychological & emotional struggles of his survival & isolation.
I don’t think many people expect the humor in this movie, but how else do most of us get through the dark days except for humor? This movie is very beautifully human.
And completely randomly, I love that you thank Siri after she answers your question. Skynet will definitely spare you.
You said it perfectly. Those are the reasons I love this movie.
haha I'm happy I will survive Skynet😂😂Just prepping for whenever AI takes over
If put into such an extreme situation, you absolutely would be able to treat yourself like he did in the beginning. You have no other choice. Your survival instincts just kick in, plus his training.
True. Especially when you’re alone. You just have to
You are WAY TOO HARD on Teddy’s character. Tough decisions keep people alive. Saving 1 person or 5 is a hard decision to make and the reason they cut the safety checks was because they would have missed the window for the launch and had to wait even longer. I think you misinterpreted his understanding of the complex nature of the problem with him wanting to look good in the public’s eye constantly. Saying he doesn’t care about the astronauts is is a total misread.
Side note, if you thought the movie was funny, Marks character in the book this is based on is 10x funnier and an excellent read
You are too hard on Teddy, if they did the inspections they would not have the time anyway, so he took the only risk he could
I know I know. He has a difficult job and has to make a lot of hard decisions.
Oh, man! You doing all my favourites lately! This is in my top ten. I can rewatch it over and over and never get tired of it. Matt Damon carries this so well and the humour offsets the isolation perfectly. 😊
I love how you said that. The humor definitely obsess the isolation. He’s having so much fun with himself😂
@@FrankFreezy_ Absolutely. And you're right in what you said. It was his coping mechanism to be funny, as well as his personality. When your life is in danger and you're in a dire situation like he was, it's really important to stay calm and focused and humour helped him do that. However, you see his real emotions break through when he first contacts NASA with Pathfinder, when his food gets destroyed and when the crew come back for him. He isn't scared when he hears their voices. He's overwhelmed. His potential rescue is so close. That was the first time he'd heard a human voice in almost 18 months and it was the voice of his friends who had come back for him.
Just got finished with watching and there's a couple of things I want to add. You seem to misunderstand Teddy (head of NASA) a lot. He isn't a bad guy at all. He really did want to get Mark home. He just has to think about all of NASA though. Any bad publicity severely affects NASA's funding and they do so much important work like Earth defence and asteroid monitoring etc that relies on that funding. He has to think of those things too. However, he was finding them all the money and resources to try and get Mark home. Also, he cut corners with the probe to make the launch window. Earth and Mars don't always have the best position in relation to one another. If we launched the probe during a bad position, the food would have gotten there too late to save Mark. As for telling the crew or sending the crew back for Mark, Teddy was weighing the lives of six people against the life of one. Even a moment spent in space is a risk and Teddy didn't want to risk the lives of the other six. That's also why he didn't want them told Mark was alive. He needed them to focus on their mission, not be distracted by guilt for leaving Mark behind. So, he isn't a bad guy. He just has to stay calm and collected and make the decisions that will keep the most people alive or in a job. That's not to say Mitch (crew supervisor) is wrong, but he doesn't have the same level of responsibility as Teddy and thinks with his heart instead of his head. If you ever watch it again, go into it with that mindset and you'll see Teddy isn't the bad guy you think he is. A lot of reactors misunderstand him though.
Also, the science in this is all pretty much accurate and that's another reason I love this movie.
If you want another excellent space movie, try Apollo 13. It has Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton and is based on a true story and is pretty accurate to it.
As always, loving the reactions. Keep them coming! 😊
This is one of my favourites and I've watched dozens of different people watching it for the first time, what surprises me is they all say things like, I've seen her in this or I've seen him in that, but everyone seems to miss the fact that the winter soldier is on board the Hermese....go figure
Another movie that I own, watch multiple times and loved! So fun to watch you watching the movie! You’re so good at this!
Great commentary. I think the specific lack of human connection you mentioned is intentional so you/Mark appreciate it so much more when it's back. His break was honest to God relief.
And I loved your reply of him blowing himself up 😂
A decent reaction, but I have some beef...
I have a hard time seeing eye to eye with people who think that HEROIC decisions made by regular people, in life or death scenarios, are easy and obvious. While some movies, or stories in general, make it seem like the decision was easy or obvious (because, rational thought: be damned), in situations like this one, the cost of human life and indeed your own, is a serious discussion to have! Being well aware of the horrific outcome that is LIKELY, is something that needs to be explored and accounted for.
I think that casting dispersions on those who actually take the time and weigh the good vs the bad, and opt for the most good, is a really odd way of looking at reality.
The HERO of a movie is usually named so, because he or she is uncommon. The other characters are demonstrating what regular humanity is like! The HERO is showing us what we could aspire to be, not what or who we commonly are.
Teddy (the head of NASA) is the common human, opting for the most good that can come from disaster.
Mark and the Aries Crew are HEROES. Uncommon and somewhat, benevolently, irrational.
If you are alone and injured, you would do whatever you had to in order to stay alive.
This is true
The real interesting part of this is that the guy who wrote be book outsourced his ideas to the public and asked people online what he got wrong. Its super interesting as an approach. Also I highly recommend watching Chris Hadfields reaction to this movie (among others)
This movie is on my saved list and we've watched it so many times. It's so heart warming, fun and interesting to look at a little science and NASA.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who says "thank you -insert robot name-" lmao in the back of my mind I'm like if they ever go Skynet on us hopefully they see that I've always been nice to them and either don't kill me or give me a quick death XD
Been watching movie reactors for years and have to say you have top tier commentary. Really enjoy your vibe and your reactions keep up the good work my guy 👍🏽
that always feels good to hear. Thank you so much. I'm glad I'm doing a good job
This movie is Bear Grylls in space 😂
Never thought about it that way, when you mentioned him “meeting” life with the plant but that’s beautiful
The themes of this movie and Castaway, with Tom Hanks are very similar!
So I've heard. I kind of wanted to do Cast Away next but I thought the same thing. It will be like watching the same movie twice.
@@FrankFreezy_ definitely get to it at some point. It’s excellent.
@@lisazaccardimeunier8378 will do🫡
31:59 in this moment, I had a feeling you’d appreciate the scene with the Chinese space program
You are literally watching all my favourite movies and is such a nice and smart guy. I look forward to the future watching you. I hope you watch The Help!
And I'll continue to watch so much of your favorite movies😄😄 Remember to always recommend in the comments. At least it puts the movies on my radar. Thanks for bringing up the help. I've heard it's a great movie.
@@FrankFreezy_ My pleasure! Enjoying your Arrival reaction now.
Other movies :
The talented Mr. Ripley
The English Patient
The King's speach
Chocolate
Amelie
Hidden figures
Inception
Pride and prejudice (2005)
The bridge of spies
Four weddings and a funeral
Legends of the fall
Green book
I will give you more later 😉
If you enjoyed this movie, you should check out the original book by Andy Weir. It's incredible!
I'm with you, man. The Martian is a decent, B or B- movie, but Interstellar is perfect. If you haven't seen Arrival, yet, it's the only movie I can name that rivals it. The book The Martian was based on was actually significantly funnier than the movie. If you're a reader, you might give it a try or listen to the audiobook. The movie cut so many elements of the book that there's a lot of stuff missing. Mark inadvertently destroys Pathfinder while drilling a hole in the roof of the rover, so he's once again cut off from Earth and just has to head to Schiaparelli Crater with no further communication from NASA. That obviously wouldn't fly for the film, so they cut it along with too many other things. I'm sure they didn't have the time for it all.
Each member of the Hermes was permitted a five minute conversation with their family as they shot around Earth, grabbed the probe with the supplies, and headed back out to Mars to grab Watney. Here's an excerpt of Johanssen's to give you a taste of the book:
Johannsen's father fidgeted in the chair, unsure what to say. After a moment, he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and mopped sweat from his balding head.
"What if the probe doesn't get to you?" he asked.
"Try not to think about that," Johanssen said.
"Your mother is so worried she couldn't even come."
"I'm sorry," Johanssen mumbled, looking down.
"She can't eat, she can't sleep, she feels sick all the time. I'm not much better. How can they make you do this?"
"They're not 'making' me do it, Dad. I volunteered."
"Why would you do that to your mother?" he demanded.
"Sorry," Johanssen mumbled. "Watney's my crewmate. I can't just let him die."
He sighed. "I wish we'd raised you to be more selfish."
She chuckled quietly.
"How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sale manager of a napkin factory. Why is my daughter in space?"
Johanssen shrugged.
"You were always scientifically minded," he said. "It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter."
"Thanks, Dad, I -"
"But then you got on a giant bomb that blasted you to Mars. And I mean that literally."
"Technically," she correct, "the booster only took me into orbit. It was the nuclear-powered ion engine that took me to Mars."
"Oh, much better!"
"Dad, I'll be all right. Tell Mom I'll be all right."
"What good will that do?" he said. "She's going to be tied up in knots until you're back home."
"I know," Johanssen mumbled. "But . . ."
"What? But what?"
"I won't die. I really won't. Even if everything goes wrong."
"What do you mean?"
Johanssen furrowed her brow. "Just tell Mom I won't die."
"How? I don't understand."
"I don't want to get into the how," Johanssen said.
"Look," he said, leaning toward the camera, "I've always respected your privacy and independence. I never tried to pry into your life, never tried to control you. I've been really good about that, right?"
"Yeah."
"So in exchange for a lifetime of staying out of your business, let me nose in just this once. What are you not telling me?"
She fell silent for several seconds. Finally, she said, "They have a plan."
"Who?"
"They always have a plan," she said. "They work out everything in advance."
"What plan?"
"They picked me to survive. I'm youngest. I have the skills necessary to get home alive. And I'm the smallest and need the least food."
"What happens if the probe fails, Beth?" her father asked.
"Everyone would die but me," she said. "They'd all take pills and die. They'll do it right away so they don't use up any food. Commander Lewis picked me to be the survivor. She told me about it yesterday. I don't think NASA knows about it."
"And the supplies would last until you got back to Earth?"
"No," she said. "We have enough food left to feed six people for a month. If I was the only one, it would last six months. With a reduced diet I could stretch it to nine. But it's be seventeen months before I get back."
"So, how would you survive?"
"The supplies wouldn't be the only source of food," she said.
He widened his eyes. "Oh . . . oh my god . . ."
"Just tell Mom the supplies would last, okay?"
33:50 Teddy is playing with fire, but he has to balance everything in his hands, he needs to get that probe to Mars as soon as possible since Mark is running out of food faster than expected and every day they save is a godsend. He's doing what he can and never points the blame at anyone, just as he should.
34:50 The alternative was telling Mark to count his food for two more weeks instead of what he expected
The movie is amazing, but the book is even better. I highly recommend reading it! It goes into a bit more detail on the different stuff that happens to him. Also, his trip to the other landing site from where he ascends.
I really enjoy your reactions. Perfect amount of commentary without rambling. I loved your reaction to Interstellar too. Thanks.
Thank you for the compliment. I'm very happy you're enjoying them
This is a film that stays pretty close to the novels, but I still say the novel is better and very worth reading!
I've been hearing a lot of that lately. That's awesome
The Book is great... the movies did a very good job of recreating the book.. but as always I recommend reading the book to get more details that the movie can't give.
The basic storyline is not much different than that Tom Hanks film "Cast Away".
The video log is Watney's 'Wilson', helping to keep him sane.
Success begins with a mission statement.
Watney's mission statement is "I'm not going to die here."
The reasons he's doing the planting inside is three-fold:
-It's too cold for temperate plant life to survive outside (you'll see that made clear later in the film).
-Mars has a very low and thin atmosphere; even if it had carbon dioxide necessary to sustain plant life, there isn't enough of it to keep plants alive.
-Due to the thinness of the atmosphere, water just evaporates into space; not only could you not water the plants, but the plants would freeze-dry if they could grow at all.
Note: Technically this would still not work. There are chemicals and minerals in the martian soil that would prove deadly to plants. Just brining martial soil inside, adding human compost, and then keeping it warm and moist does nothing to remove the toxins in the soil.
The precautions would not have made a difference; it would not have kept the rocket with the supplies from destabilizing and blowing up. Some of the supplies were liquid and loaded without attention to placement. During launch, those liquids through off the balance. That would not have picked up in prelaunch procedures.
Being Director of NASA is a political position. The Director's decisions affect financing the agency and even its continued existence. His decisions have a direct impact on the scientists and other employees that work for NASA. Every option about Watney is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if--you-don't situation. Optics affect funding, green-lighting projects and programs, and so much more. He tried to get desperately-needed supplies to Watney before Watney died, but it didn't work out. So, the Director went the other way, being more conservative in his decisions to keep the returning crew as safe as possible. There really isn't any good options in this situation, only gambles.
Watney waiting to take off from Mars is not scared; it's been almost two years since he's heard a human voice besides his own. Hearing his friends, knowing they've come back for him, has to be affecting him. Plus, he's had to keep busy to stay alive up to now. This is the first time in nearly two years he's been left not working on a problem. It's just him and self-reflection at that moment. It's a lot flooding into him, emotionally, now.
I believe 42 meters per second is something like 94 miles per hour...
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Vincent Kapoor) is a really good actor. You should do reactions to some of his other films:
-"Amistad" (1997)
-"Kinky Boots" (2005)
-"12 Years a Slave" (2013)
-"Doctor Strange" (2016)
Great reaction to this film! Love your gentle approach to the things that come up in the story. This is why I subscribed.
I would love to hear you compare Matt Damon's characters in "Interstellar" and "The Martian". How did the difference strike you?
I really enjoyed your reaction to this movie!
I'm glad you did. It was a fun one
I thought that Jeff Daniels did an awesome job as the Director. His acting has come a long way since Dumb & Dumber and it's roles like this that show his potential range as an actor.
You are right. He played his part excellently
He did an outstanding job in THE NEWSROOM. That and The West Wing are two Aaron Sorkin (writer) masterclasses in TV!
The book is a great read!
That was one of the more intelligent reactions to that movie. Well done.
Damn.. I would love to watch a movie with you bro, you hit on everything I feel watching a movie. If you love the humanity aspect in a movie (and I know you do) please react to Dances With Wolves, I'll bet it becomes your new favorite movie. Keep up this great product you put out, loving it! 😎👍😁💯🔥
If you like space movies, you should check out Apollo 13. The idea to slingshot the ship around Earth came from that movie, which was based on a true story that happened in the '70s.
"Let me know in the comments. Could you do this to yourself ?"
Well, yeah. Did it. Sawed ? No. Usually prefered to dip in the sea (Even though it's risky since unknown bacterias can settle in) Made compression to stop the bleeding ? Yes, on myself and some friends later. Used black powder to cauterise my wound ? Yes. Never even saw Rambo back then. I do not recommend it unless it's a matter of life or death, 'cause it hurt like hell for days)
Glue for models is better if you can hold the wound closed for a minute or two.
(The real problem is that you can't pass out from pain if you are alone & with zero pain killers, so you have to adapt.)
So I kind of have an habit since early childhood to carry medical emergency supplies just in case. I've seen & live so much sh*t that after awhile, you just know what to do, what's going to happen & when.
Let's go arround my left leg pocket : Hydro-alcool gel, bandages in every form, desinfectant, a small kinda Swiss Army knife from my grand father, surgical taping, the list goes on. You don't know when or why they'll be needed, but at some point they will.
I don't always carry all that of course, but It's the vibes. When you don't feel it, something is about to go very wrong very quickly. You don't want to be unpreapared to help someone.
This was a great reaction. If you haven't seen The 33 with Antonio Banderas, I highly recommend it. It's another rescue type movie based on a true story about the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for over 2 months. It's a great film.
As a fan of the book first, I always think the end of the movie is too "Hollywood", but other than that, I think it's a great adaptation. Thanks for the Reaction!
I heard about the book and that they were making a movie of it a year before it came out. I got the Audiobook for my daily commute. There's way more in the book that they left out or the movie would have been 4hrs long. Lots more off the wall humor and wiseass cracks throughout. Best Watney quote, "Duct Tape is Magic and should be Worshipped!!" So the movie was pretty good but shorter. Spoiler Alert! Mark Did Not do the Iron Man thing in the book! Martinez made the EVA and went and got Mark out of the MAV and brought him back.
No, you're not supposed to pull any object out of you, because it will probably cause way more bleeding. But that's assuming you have access to an ER with an OR. He's alone on Mars... Gotta do what u gotta do.
Franklin, are you gonna sell (maybe you already have?) prints of that beautiful painting you did behind you of the woman with the blue scarf? Either way, stunning. You’re an incredible artist!
aww thank you so much. I've been wanting to make prints of this one for a long time. I actually just made canvas prints for them today. I'll send you the link here. Thanks for asking and thanks for appreciating the work ❤️
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This movie tried to be accurate to reality but I just can't get past the problem with the initial premise. A storm does major damage to everything including putting shrapnel into Watney and leaves him stranded.
The problem is that the atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1% (0.088 psi, 610Pa) of Earth's. A 300 Kph wind would feel like a light breeze. The strongest storms observed so far are estimated at 100 Kph (60 mph). Oops. Plot hole. LOL
It just triggers my inner nerd. 🤣
I'm not going to pretend like I understand anything you just said but yeah dude, that shit is crazy
@@FrankFreezy_ It basically says Mars' atmosphere is so thin, that super high speed winds would do almost nothing. So, the storm scene is pure fantasy. LOL
My inner science nerd makes it a challenge to enjoy movies as it calls out impossible things in physics and tech.
It's okay to exaggerate facts for the sake of storytelling. I used to feel same way but the true art of cinema is being able guide your emotions thru the story. A dangerous storm was used to create situation that made it feel justifiable to launch without Watney. While the storm is unrealistic for Mars, the danger it presented was immediately understandable by everyone.
@@bubblesculptor Oh, yeah, I'm well aware of the writing tool. I just get annoyed at myself for not being able to let go of inaccuracies to go with the films. LOL
I’ve already seen several comments pointing it out already but I just got to say it’s a real shame you’re getting the wrong impression of teddy and misunderstanding his choices in this movie. He doesn’t not care about mark he just has to think about the bigger picture that’s his role as the director he would be doing a bad job as a director if he allowed himself to get to invested into just one astronaut. Not hating on your reaction it just hurts to see him getting a bad rep.
Matt Damon has acting range...
Saving Private Ryan
Good Will Hunting
We Bought A Zoo
Bourne trilogy
Departed
Rainmaker
Just to name a few...keep him n your radar..we love his work...
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He really does. Very good mentions. I have some of these on my list already.
True story?? Come on, man. No one’s been to Mars. 😄
Hehehe
Botany rules 😂❤ 🌱
Haha it’s a life saver for real 😄
Read the book. Funnier. Way more emergencies different ending. Nevertheless, fabulous movie. Mat was nominated for oscar for best actor.
New to the channel. Great reaction. Keep it up!
My personal opinion The Martian is 1,000 times better than Interstellar.
I appreciate the way you feel all the right ways through this, but you were continuously watching off the mark about Teddy. He was every bit as invested in Mark’s life as anyone, but he has to make the hard choices. Total misunderstanding of Teddy’s intentions and intellect.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
Thank you very much for watching
He was so scared he had plenty of poop for the potatoes 😂
If you wanna know what Mark wrote, it was actually a lot more funny in the book. This is what Mark wrote.
"M: Look, a pair of boobs! ---> (.Y.)"
The extended edition hints at what Mark said after he was told off for cussing. Right after everybody acts shocked at his response, one guy turns to his companions and asks, "what's a felcher?" Warning: DON'T GOOGLE IT!
Syfy is one of my fav genre's but can at times freak me out specially when it comes to A.I. Love space and deep ocean, but u'll never see me in either. I'll just keep my feet on solid ground, lol. So if this planet fails, Im going with it. I was an EMT in my younger days, I can def treat myself to a point. No major surgery skills and If I did I sure wouldnt be fighting these doctors for care thats for sure. Thanx do much, be well, Peace
lmao we are very similar in that sense. I definitely love my feet on Solid Ground 😂😂 I think everyone should be able to have basic first aid training for situations like these. Thanks for watching
I think they made the wrong decision, but I understand why they decided not to tell the crew. They really had no way of knowing they could rescue him, let alone any kind of plan; also no way of contacting him at that time. There was nothing the crew would have been able to do and the stresses of knowing this may have led to life threatening mistakes. Like I say I think they should have listened to the flight controller and trusted the crew, but I understand why they decided the risk was too great. The two senior crew and the Commander's taking the blame on herself is the sign of a good leader; she's not going to let anyone else take the blame for what ultimately her decision; no matter how correct it was given what they thought they knew at the time, kerk
Best space movie eva
Great movie with a super fun and unexpected soundtrack.
It really was. So much wonderful soundtracks that I unfortunately had to cut out because of RUclips copyrights
TERRIFIC movie and a GREAT reaction by you buddy!
In the book during the first contact with NASA again, Mark writes this: look boobies -> ( .Y. )
At least that’s in the Swedish version of the book.
Really good movie. Very rewatchable. Enjoyed your reaction. 👍
It really is. And thank you so much for watching
You need to react to the movie Paul with Seth Rogen as the alien 👽 One of the funniest movie out there.