The Martian (2015) Movie Reaction *First Time Watching*
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What did you guys think of the music choices in this movie? Comment below!
Also make sure to check out my reaction to Alien here: ruclips.net/video/MYPhXwB-WlE/видео.html
This is one of my favorite edits! You'll see why during the Ash reveal haha 😅
I love they used disco music. Not my style, but i like few iconic songs of thar era.
This music was great and fit the mood. He needed something classic that kicked, was fun, and had a nostalgic vibe to help him keep his sanity in a life and death situation.
You have to go with what you've got. If Mark had brought his own music, maybe we would have some Metallica, but apparently only Commander Lewis brought any media...
I'll never understand the very odd script: anything by Donna Summer's would never EVER be voted "least disco". Donna was the absolute queen of disco - while not every song WAS disco, HOT STUFF most definitely was one of the pinnacle choices. Matt Damon - or someone on the script team - should have re-written HIS narration.
@@BuffaloC305 I think the line was supposed to be a bit cheeky since Lewis listens to nothing but disco. So it's like "this is the least macho wrestler I can find at this WWF event" or "this is the least vegan-friendly apple in this apple orchard", said by a vegan who happens to hate apples and is stuck at an orchard. Something like that. I'll try to come up with a better one. 🙂
One thing you may have missed is that the crew couldn't have just turned around and returned at an earlier time, just physically. The whole plan that Donald Glover presented depended on them sling-shotting around Earth as they approach it, to boost their return trajectory.
Yup. It's not like traveling on a planet where you just go from point A to point B and can turn around on a whim.
Also not like Star Trek or Star Wars. Real spaceships don’t just “turn around.”
Exactly what I came to the comments section to say. From what I recall of the movie, they play a bit more fast and loose with orbital mechanics than the book does... but either way I've played enough Kerbal Space Program to know you can't just turn around.
Right...if they'd been willing to do it 5 months ago, and tried it, they'd be stranded in space with no destination. They still would have had to follow the orbital paths to their conclusions, in any case. In order to 'turn around', they'd need to spend fuel to re-orient the ship, and then spend a constant amount of fuel to decelerate -- meaning, they'd have to burn the engine in the opposite direction they've been travelling, for an equal amount of time to the time that they have been travelling, to get back to zero...then, START from zero again, in the new direction. You can see this is a VAST expenditure of fuel. Add to that, the fact that Mars' orbit around the Sun means that it's going to be in a different, much more distant point by the time they could arrive there.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 - Yup... they've got enough fuel in that ship for two long burns. They did one burn to get up to speed for their journey. The remainder of the fuel is mostly needed just to slow down when they reach earth. If they try to 'turn around', they'd have just enough fuel to come to a relative standstill. They'd all be stuck there in limbo, somewhere halfway between Earth and Mars.
Even if it WAS somehow possible to 'turn around', the only thing that made their return trip possible was the resupply mission to load up on food, water, oxygen, fuel, etc etc. If they tried to extend their mission without returning to earth, they would have all died of either hypoxia or starvation.
17:30 You may have missed that when he's counting the salvaged potatoes during the storm and the tarp is flapping... it's not just the food that's stressing him. If that tarp doesn't hold over the breach, he dies. I think they did a great job portraying somebody who is in immediate danger and is trying to go about a task...and the stress is getting to him.
Aerospace engineer here. Some more depth on the "you can't just turn around" stuff you've already been spammed with:
Most of the time, sending a rocket through space is like throwing a baseball -- you spend a bunch of energy (fuel) to get moving, and either spend a bunch more to stop, or just run into something. (Hopefully with enough atmosphere to slow you down before you hit the ground!) Once you're on your way, you rarely have enough fuel left to turn around, especially because that would require burning enough BOTH to stop (cancel out your original movement) AND to move back the other way -- so, double what you spent to leave in the first place. And then (assuming you're going to Mars to pick up Watney and come back) you have to stop AGAIN and depart AGAIN. Bear in mind that most of the time you burn 99% of your fuel during your first and only departure, and then just coast all the way to your destination.
It's a bit more complicated in this movie because their ship has an always-on engine -- but the purpose of those is to be VERY fuel efficient, which means they have VERY VERY low thrust. Ultimately, the physics plays out the same way, just in slow motion over the course of months.
The Rich Purnell slingshot maneuver was a way to redirect the energy from their original departure back toward Mars (which was in a different place in its orbit by then) without requiring a full stop, either in deep space or at Earth.
FUN FACT: According to my source, since Matt Damon was already in space filming "Interstellar", and space travel is pretty pricey, the studio just left him out there until they were finished with this film. My cat does poker night with Jessica Chastain so his info is like 97.3% accurate.
I heard the same thing !
Seems legit 😂
👍
Story checks out
My cat says your cat is full of it. But my cat has spent the past 5 days locked in a box with a device set up to poison it if a radioactive isotope with a 5 day half life decays, so it's only got a 50% chance of being alive right now. I don't think you can trust information from a dead cat, so who knows if this means anything.
One of the things brought up in the book they just kinda left out was that Mark isn't just a botanist. All the crew have at least 2 areas of expertise. Mark is also a mechanical engineer.
Whatney HAD to yank the impaling debris out, because it was effectively stapling his pressure suit to him. In order to effect any type of treatment, he'd have to get the suit off.
At the end Day 1 isn't his first day back but his first day teaching the new class. As others pointed out you can't simply turn around in space. It takes the same amount of time to slow down and stop as it does to speed up the point is known as turn over. You flip the ship 180° and start firing the engines in what would be backwards until you come to a stop. 5 months of acceleration means 5 months of slowing down.
I need to go back to science class 😅
@@NoxSoSubtle lol that information and $1 will get you a small coffee at Mickie Ds. I enjoyed science and read or watch lots of sci-fi.
@@NoxSoSubtle Most science classes don't actually do a very good job of teaching orbital mechanics. The basic concepts of gravity, sure... but the details of the consequences are kinda niche. The video game Kerbal Space Program, oddly enough, is what I would recommend to really understand how it works.
18:07 him slipping was a blooper they decided to leave in. Asking him if he was all right was a genuine reaction
Fun Fact: Someone calculated how much it has us cost to rescue Matt Damon's characters. The total currently sits at around $900 Billion.
In the book, watney's humor is a pretty central component of his character and the style of the narration, and it's a lot more about coping with being alone by cracking jokes and keeping up his journals. There are a couple more dire situations that were cut out of the movie (I assume for length), and there's a LOT more detail about the "figuring things out", the whole book is basically Solving Problems 101 while trying not to give in to despair. I highly recommend the book (and Project Hail Mary, by the same author). For me with this adaptation, I loved that a lot of the humor was kept intact, and the music choices were similarly based on that "use what you've got" mentality of only having the commander's music collection available, and I really love the moments of community where the space agencies and astronauts all band together for a common cause. I do wish it had kept in some of the more serious situations from the book, because those problem solving issues were some of my favorites for him to work through. And without a sciency background, or without having read the book where it goes into intricate detail, I guess some of what he does in the movie is left largely unexplained.
Yes, I loved the book! ♥
Loved the book. I'll have to check out Project Hail Mary. Thanks for the rec!
His inner thoughts were way better than what could have been shown on screen without being cliche
@@AL-fl4jk For sure. The movie was amazing in my opinion, but the book was amazing-er. 😆 Seriously though, they were both awesome. I thought the writers of the movie did a good job in translating it for a screen audience.
The author of this book also wrote a best-seller called "Project Hail Mary" about, among other things, first contact with an alien species. It's filled with problem solving with science and lots of comedic inner dialogue. I absolutely loved it and highly recommend it. I have no doubt a movie is already in the works.
Everything you were wanting as far as depth of characters and stuff like that is absolutely nailed in the book. I'm not a book reader, but I could not put this book down when I read it. I highly recommend reading the book. I actually saw the movie first then read the book and it was fantastic.
I am a reader and have read the book. One of my favorites.
Its my favorite movie of all time and one of the main reason is BECAUSE its light hearted!
This movie evokes so many dreams of my childhood, the movie, realistic space exploration, REALISTIC astronauts (most movies get astronauts very WRONG, they are exceptional persons... every single one of them, with minds of steel, thats the main thing of an astronaut, but many movies need them to be crazy lunatics) and Davied Bowie Starman that pass that nostalgic loniless feeling.
Its not a film about action, plot twists, fighting or aliens, is about the human drive for exploration and survival, about ingenuity saving your life and very few movies do this better than this one.
The dream about world cooperation, about caring, about everything good humanity has to offer...
If you put to much darkness into it, the awe of the exploration is lost to the common troubles and fears of human daily life, imagine if the movie focus TOO MUCH on his fears of being alone or of dying, you would lose the awesomeness of he colonizing another planet by acident, or he traversing a thousand miles in half a year just to be able to survive.
I do agree that i would love to know more about the other characters, specially the other astronauts, and I wouldnt mind this movie having 4 hous, but unfortunally, the most people do and cinema money do even more, so they tryied to keep only the essential in. I would insta buy an extended director cut with more character development of the other characters.
Great review, as always.
It would not have mattered when they told the crew, as long as it was done before they reached earth. They could not just ‘turn around’ to go get Mark. They had to get a gravity assist & slingshot around earth in order to change direction, so they had to make the entire trip back to earth before they could turn around. They could’ve waited a few more months to tell the crew about Mark & it would’ve made no difference.
Star Wars and Star Trek both make it look like you can turn on a dime. But not in this century with current technology.
The weird choice of music is there for a reason.
It's the songs of Cmdr. Lewis' 70s collection.
We hear it because that's all Whatney has for "music".
When Donald Glover tripped over the trash can when he was getting up, it was an accident. Ridley Scott kept it in the movie because it added to the character
By accident, I mean it was unintentional.
Oh nice! It definitely added a good touch to his quirky character.
@@kenlangston3451 "That's what she said."
12:28 "Are you receiving me? Yes or no?"
😄 This would be a time to channel their inner wise ass and turn it to the "no" sign.
"If they had just told them five months ago, they'd have already been there"
Space doesn't work that way.
If you're interested, a couple extra clips were published by the movie creators and are available on RUclips: "ARES 3 - The Right Stuff" (interview of the astronauts after isolation training) and "ARES 3 - Farewell" (vlog just before the astronauts left Earth)
I wasn't interested in connecting with anyone except Mark. He carried the whole movie.
I mean in Die Hard the two cops had a better connection on the walkie-talkie. That could be it though. Since they are just reading what they type on the screen it doesn't come across. Joking around you see them trying hard to show you the connection.
So to preface this post the author of The Martian, Andy Weir gave a talk at my work. He wanted to tell a story where man vs nature was the central conflict. The story would unfold based on things that could actually happen in the situation Watney found himself in.
He purposefully made sure his characters were all trying to solve the problems at hand and any conflict between them came not from someone with ulterior evil motives but differences in opinion on what’s the right thing to do.
He specifically had Watney be a single guy because he thought a stranded astronaut was an empathetic enough figure without contriving an emotional backstory. Same with his crew members and the members of NASA/mission control. These are highly trained folks trying to save Watney and he thought the situation was interesting enough.
(It’s also possible Weir was playing to his strengths as this was his first book)
He specifically didn’t want to write a story about a stranded astronaut contemplating existential questions and battling to retain his sanity. He felt others had done that better than he could.
So Watney dealt with his dread through focusing on each problem and humor. And you know what? The book is really funny and the problems he solved are fascinating.
I work in human spaceflight. I know guys like Watney and we deal with situations like the ones in the story. So I’m guessing we were some of his target audience.
I can never hear someone say "Matt Damon" without thinking about Team America: World Police :D
*mAtT DAmOn*
So, the duct tape is an astronaut's best friend! I hope they remember it when they plan the first flight to Mars.
"If they'd gotten them to go 5 months ago, they'd already be there!" - No... that's not how it works at all, but a VERY common misconception about the plot of this film.
They used up at least half their fuel in the initial rocket burn that would speed them towards Earth. During the trip, they use zero fuel... they are just coasting along in a vacuum. The other half of the fuel is to slow them down when they get to Earth. So if they tried to "turn around" mid-trip to go get Watney, they would use all their remaining fuel just to come to a near standstill somewhere between Earth and Mars. They'd be stranded in space with nothing left.
And even if it was somehow possible to 'turn around and go back'...they'd also add a bunch of time to their trip and wouldn't have the needed food, water and oxygen to make the trip. They had to use Earth's gravity to slingshot them back towards Mars (and of course take on a LOT of extra food, water, fuel, etc).
Remember, in space _everything_ is moving. Mars is moving, Earth is moving, and they're moving at different speeds. Getting from planet to planet isn't just a matter of distance, but timing. You have to time your arrival so that your destination has also arrived. Once they'd left Mars orbit, they were committed. If they'd turned around and gone back, Mars wouldn't have been there anymore. At that point, the only way to get back would be to go all the way around the Sun again, and even then, they needed to adjust their orbit to arrive at Mars when Mars got to where they were going. The only way to have enough fuel to make the intercept was to use Earth's gravity as a slingshot and rendezvous with the supply ship.
The writer, Andy Weir, actually chose the dates of the mission to coincide with the right positioning of the planets to make the Rich Purnell maneuver possible. Most of the time the arrival window from Mars comes several months after the departure window to Mars (this hasn't been an issue yet since we've never had anything arrive). In fact, that was the case here, too, but they were able to do it because they were _already_ moving rather than starting from the ground.
@24:06 I don't think the music is meant to be light-hearted. Whatney is trapped on Mars with no music to listen to except someone's disco collection. So, like him, that's the only music we are allowed to have either. That's how I take the sound track anyway. Love this movie! Great reaction.
My favourate thing about this book/movie isn't even in the book/movie.
Wier (the writer) gave an interview about visiting NASA after writing the book. For the book, he was having to calculate power usage a lot. Realizing the character would have too do the same thing, he had Mark invent a unit of measurement... "Pirate-ninja" (1 kilowatt hour per martian day). Well, it turns out that the engineers at JPL were having to do the same calculations all the time, so a lot of them had adopted the pirate-ninja. It was common enough usage that it was used in meetings, even between engineers and management.
Although you did not include it in your reaction "Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man" is a nod to Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" - a movie worthy of your reaction if you have never viewed it.
Not so much a nod to Apollo 13 as a guess at how real astronauts would complement an engineer. They called someone a steely-eyed missile man in the Apollo 13 movie for the sake of historical accuracy -- I don't know for a fact that the guy who designed the CO2 scrubber workaround was given the SEMM title in real life or not, but it was a compliment used around NASA starting with Apollo 12.
*pushes glasses up bridge of nose*
TBF, I read the book before seeing the movie. That said, I think your perspective of the characters is skewed by thinking that everyone not Whatney is part of an ensemble. They are actually traditional supporting characters who are in the service of the main character. This keeps the focus on Whatney -- which is easier to do in the book given that there is even more Whatney there in comparison with there being only a little bit more for the supporting cast.
In terms of the lightness of mood -- if you have the right people, it's like that. I worked in the bleeding-edge space industry for a while, and while you do have your fair share of Aspie types (that would be me), you also have this well of creativity and mischief of more smart-asses per capita than in your typical office (that would also be me). Not to say that there aren't areas of humorless, mission-only rigidity, but it's usually lighter than that.
Another great entry in the "saving Matt Damon from things" movie genre.
Great to see you!!!! / Not only is this the second time he's been left on a planet to die, he was Private Ryan and they had to go save him then too, lol. The things we do for Matt Damon! :P
Project Elrond: notice that Sean 'Boromir' Bean is present at the meeting...
Haha yes!!!
Since you kept wishing for scenes to be a bit longer I highly recommend listening to the audiobook performance of the novel the movie was adapted from.
The voice actor is incredible and I think you'll be able to better connect with the characters since you'll now have a visual in your head of what they look like as the story plays out in greater depth.
Can't just turn a huge ship around in space.
But yeah, great movie.
Favorite part is the end when everyone is waiting to see if the crew is successful. Seeing everyone have a common goal and celebrating when it's been accomplished.
The size doesn't even matter. But they would have to negate all their acceleration and then push the other way. That's why the slingshot works. They turn around the planet and keep up their acceleration and no fuel wasted.
technically you can, but it's still going to go in one direction :)
Plus if they didn't have enough food/oxygen to go back properly, they would all die anyway.
The music choice was forced by the limited selection of Commander Lewis' music collection - basically all 70's disco. Disco music is generally pretty upbeat and happy sounding. Although I've always wondered why only Commander Lewis brought any music along. Anyway, Watney's disco music complaints are straight from the book. In fact, the whole movie is quite faithful to the book, and that's where a lot of the light-hearted tone comes from. It works in the book, because the story is told there mainly through journal entries and (later on) excerpts of the communications between Watney and NASA, and Watney is generally trying to stay positive in order to keep his spirits up and keep focusing on what he needs to do to survive. The (few and brief) exceptions to this rule are that much more impactful because of that.
The "oxygenator" in this movie is now real, recently tested on Mars. It turns Mars air into breathable air.
Never heard anyone complain about the editing choices in this movie. In fact it was nominated by several awards bodies for best editing, including Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, BAFTA Awards, Capri Hollywood, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Hollywood Post Alliance, Online Film Critics Society Awards, Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, Satellite Awards, Seattle Film Critics Awards, St. Louis Film Critics Association and Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards. *Not to mention numerous Best Picture nominations and wins.* Your opinion is definitely in the minority as far as criticisms go, but everyone is different. For example I was not impressed by Avatar at all.
There is a director's cut. And I felt it filled in a lot of things and gave scenes more space to breathe. Assuming you reacted to the theatrical, you might really enjoy that extended version.
This is one of my favorite movies. I agree with the guy below that said you have to keep in mind that it's NOT an ensemble. The focus is on Whatney, everyone else is trying to get him home and we aren't really supposed to connect to them per se.
lol "Everything I've learned from Grey's Anatomy tells me..." this is what I want to hear from the first person on the scene at my next car crash
No, the ship couldn’t have turned around five months prior. It doesn’t work like that. The ship would have to return to Earth in order to sling around it to head back to Mars.
According to Scientists at NASA, one of the few scientific inaccuracies in this film is that, given that Mars has very, very low atmospheric pressure, even a storm that huge would have winds no stronger than your average sunny day in the spring.
Favorite bits? I don't know, so many. I guess I kinda love the fact that Sean Bean attends a second Council of Elrond (I know, not 'council' here, but close enough).
Easteregg: the German astronaut Alex Vogel in this movie looks almost exactly like the real German astronaut Alexander Gerst. Vogel comes from the same village as Gerst, has the same age and also studied at the same universities :D
Well fair enough the book also started pretty quickly and doesn't have a lot of scenes with Watney and the crew, you just gotta take what the book/movie gives you to connect with them enough, and the book is probably 50-60% of Mark's journal in telling what he's doing to survive on Mars, 30% NASA's characters, and 10% the crew & 3rd person omniceint POV to describe something building up (like the rocket launch failing, or the airlock breaching)
Some one figured out how much it cost the world to save Matt Damon, with all his movies together. It's a whopping $900 billion. $500 billion was the Interstellar rescue; $300 billion was the Martian rescue. There were others.
I’m a huge fan of the book and it did well to follow along it imo. The end was different and a few things here and there but something translate better a different way on screen.
The audio book is told by Will Wheaton if any one is into it.
Great reaction as usual! Really liked the movie for it’s quirkiness and scientific accuracy. When it came out alot of science nerds were praising it for being as close to reality as any space film. It’s not as emotional as Arrival for instance but that wasn’t really the goal. It’s a what if.. and showcasing what we as a species is currently capable of.. while taking some liberties to tell a story.
The 4k Blu-ray disc of "The Martian: Extended Cut" is the best way to watch this movie. This is one of those rare times when a film with a cinema 2k DI master was rebuilt from the ground up from the source camera and effects files to be a true 4k presentation on home video rather than being a basic upscale with no new image detail. Plus, it includes a Dolby Atmos immersive soundtrack.
Probably the only movie Sean Bean doesn't die 😂😂
There are big dust storms that can last a long time on Mars, but they’re not that strong. The atmosphere there is super thin. It’s like 100x thinner.
Oh, and plants don’t need oxygen, they need C02.
This movie is a very simplified version of the book with a more dramatic ending. If everything in the book was in the movie it would have been 8 hrs long. Andy Weir said he wanted it Mark Watney vs Mars so he invented the storm which couldn't happen on Mars. Also he wrote it before Spacex was the dominate launch provider that it is now so he wrote it with China stepping in to help. The movie is a dumbed down version of the book, but still very enjoyable.
The soundtrack is what is on the commanders laptop, the disco music.
You should read the book. They left out about one third of the book but... The film is spectacular. The only thing lacking realism is really the wind of the dust storm. The atmosphere on Mars is so thing it could never pick up large objects and toss them around. Let alone fast enough to physically hurt someone.
Enough drivel. Excellent reaction. I wish they would use more of Andy Weir's books for films.
Y'all be safe.
The science of this movie is accurate to what we know, the only creative liberty is the storm on Mars at the start of the movie, Mars doesn't have the atmosphere to support such huge storms
Leading up to the film there were short videos of the crew interactions released on the Martian film website.
The music helped push the idea that these were professionals doing a job. Darker music would have made it feel more like a suspense movie, which this wasn't.
I believe a lot of the Mars scenes were filmed in Jordan.
21:57 "Mark Watney: space pirate."
_Matey!_ ☠
🎵 When will the _Wellerman_ come 🎵
🎵 To bring us sugar and tea and rum 🎵
They CANT turn around earlier
Fun fact. This film was nominated for a comedy at the Golden Globes 😂
I loved this movie. Its one of my favorites. The book is quite a bit better..
The EXTERIOR shots were filmed in Jordan.
Anyway the Hermes couldnt go back to Mars just after they left, Because they would have already used a fair amount of fuel to escape mars and perform intercept with Earth. To go back they would need to burn to slow down to Zero and then speed back up to go back the way they came. They wouldn't have the fuel. Hence Glover's solution, instead of decelerating to enter orbit of Earth, They SPEED UP, Resupply on the Pass-by with Earth, and when the ship gets to the opposite side of the planet, use a short burn to intercept Mars again. A "Sling Shot", Use Earths Gravitational pull to get a free speed boost.
I'd recommend the book this is based on by Andy Weir. Also his other two "Artemis" and "Project Hail Mary" are great. I listened all 3 on Audible. I think they are both being shopped around or in pre-production as movies...
Oh I didn't know it was him. Heard of him though from that "The Egg" bit he wrote.
now, i LOVE this movie; but there is a glaring oversight that literally kills it, like Eagles to Mordor level plot hole: the potatoes are peeled. and NASA wouldnt sent ones with skins or eyes to save weight and prevent fungal contamination from spores that might be in the eyes, meaning he literally couldnt have grown them. he just has hunks of starch. and whats really missing is he is a botanist, they never explain WHY he's on Mars, but if growing potatoes was his experiment that would kill 2 Middle Earth sized eagles with 1 stone, but they omit that. is it different in the book?
They're just yellow skinned & well washed.
@akinpaws yeah.... so, he really MUST be the greatest botanist who ever lived, he grew peeled potatoes 🥔
They ciouldn't just turn the Hermes around and send it back to Mars once it was on its way to Earth. It's momentum would be too great to stop the ship, let alone reverse the momentum 180°, the best way to turn them around was to slingshot it around some other body (like the Earth, which they did) that was already along the path it was headed. So, if they had made the call to send the Hermes back earlier, it wouldn't have changed anything. The Hermes still would have had to fly to Earth first.
Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I'll add another discrepancy between the book and film.
Kapoor's first name in the book wasn't Vincent, it was Venkat - clearly an Indian name. Sure, they had a person of color in the role, but there was no reason to whitewash his name other than to keep white people happy.
Also the "flying like Iron man" bit wasn't in there. (edit: neither is that final scene of him teaching future astronauts)
The book saved my life. I was contemplating suicide when I read it. The book helped me cling on to the idea that despair is temporary, and I didn't feel so alone anymore as Watney faced his setbacks with grace aided by a sense of humor.
I do love the film, but yeah, the book is astounding. Artemis is Weir's second and was optioned for a film which would have been out by now if not for covid. It's still gonna come out though. Can't wait. I tore through the book (well, both of them, each) in 2 or 3 days.
Still haven't finished the third novel because I left it at someone's house and now we're not on speaking terms. Sigh. Hopefully soon I'll buy another copy.
Thanks for the video!
Kapoor was an Indian-American in the book; but they hired a black actor to portray him. That is the reason for the name change. Likewise, In the book Mindy Park was a Korean-American; but they hired a white actress to portray her.
These people train for years together to go on these missions of course they're going to know each other I don't need to see that I know they are close
I can't remember if a video/movie library is mentioned in the book? The music is potentially the only human voices/noises other than his own that he hears for the entire duration until he launches and helps keep him mentally grounded. I think it is fine that what he has to suffer, we have to also. A dramatic score would have cheapened that
No, they can't just turn the ship around whenever they want. Without the resupply and using the earth's gravity to turn around, they could not have made it back to mars and back to earth.
The Mars scenes were filmed in Jordan.
Cinema Therapy checking in. Great video!
Thanks Trevor!! 🙂
Am I the only one who wants to see her finish the Rocky series? I know the 5th one sucked, but the last one, Rocky Balboa, totally makes up for it!
One of the most scientifically inaccurate things in the movie was the storm that started the whole problem.
The atmosphere is very thin on Mars and it's worst storms don't bother any of our rovers. In fact there have been times when scientists have wished for real winds so solar panels could be cleared.
The Ingenuity helicopter is extremely light weight with dual rotors so it can gain lift in the thin air.
Never heard this many complaints actually never heard any complaints about this movie but I guess it makes sense since she thinks you can just stop and turn around and go back to get him
20:55 😂😂🤣 they are in space, they can not just turn arround and go back😂
Don't get too hung up on your perceived lack of emotional depth.
Astronauts, military, first responders work in an environment where death can come unannounced at any second. There's no room to dwell on what disaster MIGHT happen. There's just the mission and enjoying each new day.
Matt Damon performance in this is amazing, on parr if not even better than his performance in Good Will Hunting. In this moviehe was basically an actor having to be believable whilst generally acting solo
The composer is Hans Zimmer, so good.
I am no Disco fan but I can't say I hated the soundtrack. I feel they were just trying to use music and they had already from the commander's laptop music collection similar to the way they used the music in Guardians of the Galaxy. Those are the songs on the Favorite Songs tape track that Quinn's mom made for him.
A little more science stuff. You can't have the rocket changed directions on in the middle of a flight.
My very favorite movie. I love everything about it.
You are not the first reactor who noted the scenes did not allow for emotional development.
this is a good movie but the book is so much better. for obvious reasons the movie shortens and simplifies a lot of the events and actions. All of the events in the book and the movie are also technically realistic, with the sole exception of the storm that kicks things off at the beginning. the book is incredibly interesting and enjoyable.
How on earth is David Bowie's Starman out of place in this movie?
Great reaction as always
Ayy shes back...missing your reactions!
Yay so glad u are reacting to this
Elon Musk once said in the Interview, The Martian movie have 80% Scientifically Correct, and the last scene when Mark Watney be 'IronMan' is Not Impossible, just extremely unlikely (you can do it if you're Matt Damon 😆)..
*He really enjoyed the Movie 👍
*You all can see the interview in RUclips yourself..
Interested in seeing his journey. Or lack thereof! I missed your reactions. Seems like it gas been a while. Your good cheer and reasonableness is always most welcome. Good movie in this case too.
Great reactions to the uplifting film The Martian, Edig!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Your suspicions about some of the scenes is probably accurate. There is an extended edition of the film which gives some more character building. It is 151 minutes long, about 10 more minutes.
When NASA sends a craft to Mars they take into account when Mars and Earth will be closest to one another and we send our craft to the spot they calculated Mars will be at that time you can't just turn around
Gotta disagree a little with the comment about the interactions; the camaraderie in the first few minutes and the reactions of the crew as they left their friend behind were more than enough, in very little time. to show just how much it hurt to leave him behind and thinking he was dead. Yes there could have been more, but between us discovering Watney was still alive and them being told. Re; the music; worth remembering that the score and the soundtrack are too very different things. Soundtrack here is the music Watney is having to listen to as it's all he has & the core is for us in terms of emotional cues, kerk
If I were stranded on Mars, I would die in the first 8 hours. I'm not good for anything! 😭
This is probably said somewhere else, but the Hermes could not have just turned around earlier. It needed the resupply and gravity assist. Real space ships aren't like Star Wars.
Nox asks great questions!
Anyone ever wondered what the 'No'-Shield next to "Do you reveive me?" is about? ^^ Just saying ...
Great reaction, happy girl..... love watching how you cope with how he gets on with surviving there.
You've made me smile; that's no mean feat. Stay well and happy girl. I'll now go watch you're reaction to Alien.
Good movie but it did have a few flaws.
1 - Enough people have already told you about density on Mars.
2 - Transmissions between Earth and Mars would take several minutes each.
3 - Sean Bean's character didn't die.
I thought 17 minutes transmission each way sounded reasonable. They said the alignment between the planets was bad. I haven’t read the book though. Was it faster in the book?
@@Y_.R No clue. Never read the book. I thought I heard 8 minutes somewhere (transmissions from the rovers?) But 17 sounds equally reasonable. It would depend on where the planets are at any given time so I'm sure it would vary.
Yeah, you're right, music is strange for a movie with this theme but I think Ridley Scott's intention wasn't to do a horror movie such as Alien's saga but a hopeful one with a mean character that never lost hope (or at least in a desperate way).
Matt's character seems to me as an adolescent, you know, who moves from his parents house for the first time and hears his favourite music aloud. He's in Mars, he's home (he colonized) and he does whatever he wants. That's what the music told me.