Mark Kermode reviews The Martian
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2015
- Mark Kermode reviews The Martian. Botanist Mark Watney is one of a crew of astronauts on a manned mission to Mars. When Watney is lost during a powerful storm, his crew believe he is dead and leave him behind. But Watney survives, and finds himself stranded in a hostile environment. With limited supplies, he must use his skills and ingenuity to keep himself alive and signal his survival back to Earth.
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One of the things I love about Kermode and Mayo - there are many - this is one... Is that in the 80's Mayo was an irrelevant, generic superficial R1 douche - they all were...However, he turned into a brilliant/brilliantly grumpy/smart/perceptive/audience representing foil to the best film reviewer in the world... I really love their dynamic. Good for them - good for us! I'm drunk...
Drunk, but wise. Totally agree.
You're lucky...you're one of those 'write drunk, edit sober' types who operate on a higher level when moderately inebriated. 👍
Never make a comment while under the influence… trust me :|
Can we have Mayo wears the helmet in every episode now?
Has anyone told Mark that he is obsessed with moving the glass of water back & forth without drinking it?
It's an OCD tick.
I have several, he probably has others only to be seen off camera.
Ma boi Mark Watney is wicked smahhhhtttt!!!!!
+bombkas jr Who ah?
How'd you like them apples ?
How'd you like them apples ?
Yes! I'm so glad Mark enjoyed it, I thought the book was great so it's nice to hear the film is good, can't wait to see it, hopefully the adaptation won't be disappointing.
A faithful adaptation of an ingenious book. It walks the perfect balance between being purely entertaining, genuinely intelligent, and surprisingly motivating.
I will give a lot of credit to Drew Goddard. The book is great but it didn't strike me as one that would be easy to turn into a film as so much of it is just Watney talking to himself in a video diary. It's a pretty remarkable feat that Goddard managed to plot it out keeping all the essentials but making it much umm... filmier.
Really good.
+Killer_Tapir Andy Weir was thrilled with the screenplay. Make sure to give the Audible book a listen too. It's fantastic!
Finally watched the film years later... I thought the video diaries were the worst part of the film.
Mayo with a helmet is my spirit animal
Simon is quirky and out of left field, while Mark is the straight man.
Is this real life? Am I in a parallel dimension?
One of the few occasions where the viewing the video has benefits over just listening to the podcast! Simon looks bonkers - and he has a great space-helmet-stamina!
2:29 That light change perfectly synced with "...Not Die". Was that orchestrated by the same person who cut to the empty chair last week?
Prop building community must be crying by watching the treatment of that helmet. Including me.
Wasn't expecting that. Mark likes it, really likes it.
+Charmian O'Brien He also liked Prometheus. He was wrong. But he did like it.
+tmcthree
How can liking something, especially a movie; be incorrect ?
+ExtremeBogom Ask Mark.
+tmcthree there's a difference. The Martian is a good film. Now I really like Scott, but I hated Prometheus, I hated a Good Year and I don't really even care about seeing Exodus (I actually enjoyed the counsellor) but this was really good.
+Will Watt Have any of you ever even listened to the radio show?
“Let’s do the math” is a line that should never be uttered by anyone, especially in a science movie.
Could someone please explain the Watney's Red Planet thing Simon says in the beginning?
4 years later - it's a pun on a "Watneys Red Barrel" beer from 1970's.
What a fantastic review!!! You guys are truly brilliant!!!
Watney's Red Planet - genius
So glad Mark liked this film as much as I did. In my top 3 of the year so far, easily.
I just saw the movie today & it's hands-down the best science fiction movie I have seen in years upon years. The short description of this film: Plausible. The longer description: Utterly beautiful, grand scale, super-cool, scienc-y, thrilling, the best of the human spirit, scienc-y, AND IT DIDN'T HAVE SOME DUMB HUMAN VILLAIN THAT WRECKED THE LAST HALF OF THE MOVIE -- kinda like how the screenplay writers & director Danny Boyle ruined "Sunshine."
Ridley Scott & crew have created, what is in my opinion, a masterpiece for science fiction lovers who tend to lean more toward the science side of fiction. I left the theater invigorated, uplifted & inspired. If plausible science fiction is your thing, even a little bit, then see this film!
Just finished watching this tonight & thought it was a good film despite being a little bit long on its running time.
The first thing I thought however, was that it's premise was similar to Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) which I also enjoyed watching years ago as a kid.
Simon Mayo looks like a Smash Robot with that helmet on :)
Love these videos. Mark always goes into a movie wanting to like it, it's the times that he doesn't that I love the most.
Mark, you've got a foodstain on your tie.
Happy to help.
I want Simon's helmet, goddammit. Hell, I'd like a full costume of those space suits.
“You want to send him into space without the front of his ship?!”
I have to say Mars looks absolutely spectacular in The Martian. The image at the beginning of this video doesn't do it justice at all, the planet looks SO MUCH better when you actually see the movie at the theatre.
Simon looks like one of the "Martians" from the old Smash advert, with that helmet on - especially when he removed the visor! :-)
Director Ridley Scott delivers one of his best films, the cast’s acting is unforgettable as the film’s stylish, effective, realistic & is A nomination for one of 2015’s best films. (98%) (5/5 stars) (positive)
As always Mark Kermode is a top class critic intelligent witty and informative. Simon Mayo I can't believe how close he and Matt Damon are in terms of his looks and his voice ;-) but seriously Simon IMO has been is and hopefully will continue to be a fine presenter on British radio. Cheers I'm off for a pint of Watney's Red Martian :-)
The only annoying thing about this movie is that I've read that all the science is plausible except the initial "dust storm." Yes, there are dust storms, but Martian winds aren't strong enough to blow a pinwheel around, thanks to an atmospheric pressure 1/100th of Earths'. Why didn't the book's author go with an earthquake (Marsquake) which would be possible, and have a perfect scientific record?
+cygil1 He talked about that in his speech at Google (on youtube), and the problem would have been that the others would have seen him, the storm was needed so they could not verify he was dead. - The Book is a must, as is the audible book by Andy Weir. R.C. Bray is amazing doing the voices.
If that really bothers you then perhaps fiction isn't for you.
dragons123ism I think Kim Murphy explains very well why Weir needed it to be a storm.
I'm so happy he loves this. I loved the book.
"I'm Matt Damon!" hahahahahaha
Great review!
I wasn't expecting that Mark'd like it so much. Personally I enjoyed it (watched the premiere), but I'm certain I'd have enjoyed it more if I hadn't read the book. There was so much missing (obviously and necessarily), but assorted plot changes which were just a bit jarring for me. Definitely read the book if you enjoyed the movie, and fancy a bit more science and a few more disasters/crises.
I've read the book and just seen the movie -all good, but the audio book read by R.C Bray is the best version, his narration brings the whole book to life, the cut down and adjusted movie can never do.
Perfect Videography,good pacing
I liked The Martian. But seeing the response to this film makes me more frustrated that Moon was largely ignored and underrated when it was released, and is still is pretty much overlooked now.
+Aroreiel Yep...this movie looks too predictable and meh. I disliked Gravity, Interstellar, Prometheus for different reasons....though each had the potential to be great, but were ruined by dumbass characters and preposterous plot devices....all of them overrated. Moon was excellent. When people try to compare the above 3 to 2001, I just roll my eyes. Europa Report wasn't too bad.
@@stevef4010 I agree with both of you, moon was brilliant, the above listed films you mentioned just hollywood crud.
Moon wasted hour and a half of my life. So mediocre and really quite empty.
Oh shut up Interstellar is great
@@fejugaism time to watch Prometheus again
Glad to see Mark is reviewing popular American films again.
I watched it yesterday and thought that while it was decent, it wasn't something I'd want to watch again, nor would particularly recommend to sci-fi aficionados (presumably its intended core audience). For me, the best parts of the film were a) its charming and un-ironic Go Science! attitude to problem-solving, and b) the film's upbeat and optimistic outlook that strongly recalls 'Golden Era' sci-fi. Yet while I support the idea of science-leaning sci-fi movies in general, and appreciate variety in tone, there were plenty of problems with this film's execution.
This was especially obvious in the scenes involving NASA's rescue efforts. The film was so afraid that the audience wouldn't *get* the stakes, that it barely stopped short of having the actors explain mission details directly to the camera. There was also a surplus of clunking and gravelly-intoned one-liners, arriving after various characters inexplicably asked their colleagues questions to which they should already know the answer. At other times it felt as if I was watching an episode of House (or some other Sherlock Holmes-inspired drama) as characters figured out a solution mid-conversation and raced excitedly away without pausing to give the other party an explanation. The worst part of the movie, however, is Donald Glover, whose overacting is painful to watch, even allowing that he didn't have a great deal to work with (given his character is your run-of-the-mill autistic-spectrum super-nerd stereotype).
But perhaps the movie's primary problem is that while *in theory* the dramatic tension hinges on the main character's isolation and dim survival prospects, in reality there is no little tension. The main character is so resilient and resourceful that his survival never truly seems in doubt, and the movie is so filled to the brim with people such that his supposed loneliness and isolation never really sinks in. A few scenes involving Matt Damon sobbing to the camera does very little to remedy a palpable lack of despair, panic, and existential crisis that would lend this movie real emotional heft, rather than merely paying lip-service to it.
Also the movie's joking obsession with disco music is probably a mistake. While it is mostly well-executed and situationally-credible, it is an immensely distracting given that -the device was almost certainly borrowed from smash-hit Guardians of the Galaxy. The whole trope reeks of executive intervention- [I've since been informed that it is from the book, which is just an unfortunate coincidence].
Finally, for all the hype around Ridley Scott as a master stylist, there are also numerous dubious cinematography decisions. The choice of camera shots share more in common with modern superhero films than the work of, say, Kubrick, with plenty of rapid panning, flying, ducking, diving, bobbing, and swooping. In other words, the camera is full of bustle, activity and life in what is meant to be a cold, sterile, and lonely environment.
It all adds up to a movie that is clearly trying to follow the formula of go into a dark place in order to make the eventual triumph all that much sweeter, but botches the first part of that so badly that all we're left with is the triumph; and that's not nearly as satisfying.
Saw it tonight with a mate who said it reminded him a lot of Cast Away (I haven't seen it). I enjoyed it a fair amount more than you did but I agree with everything you've said here. Whilst I quite liked the facetious and light hearted manner Damon's character approached his situation it did seem misplaced.
Agreed on the cinematography; it wasn't bad but just strange. Like you I was often wondering to myself "why did they shoot it like that?" Do disagree re Donald Glover/Childish Gambino however. He's not a scene stealer but I do feel he carries charisma in his (few) scenes. But you're right, there wasn't a whole lot there that made me want to see it again.
Controversial opinion: The Martian convinced me that Interstellar wasn't is even better than I thought it was and that Gravity is nowhere near as good as I thought it was.
one final point about the lack of despair/reaction to the situation, I felt the exact same way when I watched The Matrix. I just thought "hang on, this guy has been told that everything he knows his a computer simulation and 5 mins later he's just ok with it?"
+mushyw1234 I get that. Although in The Matrix there's a partial justification in that Neo had always suspected reality was fake. Also there's the idea that he's uniquely suited to be the messiah (i.e. 'the one ') and so of all people was perhaps the most likely to handle a strange situation so well.
+mushyw1234 I don't want to give the wrong impression about The Martian though. I enjoyed it and would give it a 6.5/10. I should give Damon's acting an epecially honourable mention, as he was one of the best parts of the whole thing. He pulled off a very good performance (regardless of how well that performance fit with the overall situation; which is much more down to the director and screenwriter in my view).
Regardless, I'm still surprised/delighted that this kind of story is even reach the silver screen in this spectacle-obsessed age.
+Jo Pearson Pretty much in agreement with you on everything. It was a fun, well acted, crowd-pleasing type movie, and I too liked how it was as pro-science as it was...but yeah, overall I'm in no rush to see this again. Also it was MUCH longer than it really needed to be for the kind of film this is.
I think this is another case of where people are just satisfied it isn't TOTAL crap like (insert filmmaker)'s past few movies, so they go nuts when they finally make a film that actually is halfway decent (see also The Visit and Inside Out) (yes, THAT Inside Out. It was just alright...)
Mark - STOP MOVING THE GLASS OF WATER!
Anyone else read the book? Really enjoyed it! No second storm in the movie though??? Anyway - recomend it. Watney is hilarious
that helmet signed by ridley scott is utter chaos
Read and loved the book. Been waiting for Ridley Scott to come out with an undisputedly great film
+Marco A i know right?, alien and blade runner are such failures
+dennisdahmer You're right about that, but I'm assuming "Marco A" meant that we had to wait quite some time for an undisputedly great film by Scott. Or at least I hope that's what he meant, because those two films you cited (at the very least) are brilliant.
+dennisdahmer Sir Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors however exodus, Robin Hood were such bland movies. The counselor while flawed was not bland but not good either. Alien, blade runner, gladiator are unquestionable cinematic masterpieces .
+dennisdahmer blade runner and alien are failures . wtf are you smoking
+Marco A Thelma & Louise and Kingdom Of Heaven: Director's Cut were great films as well.
It was different than the other rmars movies. Almost viewer involvement instead of telling a story and hoping the viewer becomes engaged. I was glued to the screen for the whole time. No aliens or existential questions about space and time. Just quality entertainment.
An absolutely gripping film. (I know 0 about science BTW.) Tightly-plotted, not a word too many, no flab at all. Everything is made to work.
The helmet...it's for Snaptat! 03:39
I would recommend Mr. Kermode read the book. It's a quick read. It isn't a great work of literature, but I think It'd be interesting to see how he felt they did in taking the book to the screen.
Really enjoyed this Movie !
After i see a movie i like, i go onto youtube and type kermode titel
Watney's Red Planet...great.
I was concerned about seeing this film as Ridley Scott put me off a bit with Prometheus, but apparently it's quite good...
So it's the plot to Mission to Mars. Already saw that and it was awesome.
+SuperDashRendar Plus Red planet, Saving private ryan and Castaway and gravity,,pass
Steve F Maybe Angry Red Planet but having Val called Gallagher was just too silly in Red Planet. I kept waiting for him to smash martian watermelons.
I did not feel that much dramatic tension in this movie
i don't normally watch sci fi movies because i find they can be kind of ponderous and dull- like the ones George Clooney seems to make- but this review made me think the martian might be more of a fun movie than those. So i watched it, and i really enjoyed it, so thanks guys. I watch these reviews hoping to find some movie i haven't watched i'll like, but almost every film Kermode reviews doesn't appeal
Damn, Kermode really enjoys shuffling his glass of water around, doesn't he?
Just popping in here to say I loved the Counselor.
How many times does mark move his glass of water? I lost count at 7. But never once drinks from it.
+Blue Whovian Now we don't all have them. I don't have one. I've never had one. I don't have a tick. What is a tick anyway? I've never had a tick. I don't have a tick and I'm not going to start having a tick now.....tock.
Can anyone tell me what Watneys's Red Planet means?
I'm not sure but there's an old beer called Whatneys red barrel
Read the book, can't wait to see the movie. I plan on seeing it this weekend.
I wouldn't say it referenced other films, it jsut had similarities. I was a good watch, it reminded me of Mission to Mars in that it was an adventure story, not horror, or over egging the existential aspects.
+Ross Leeson Red plant too IMO..
yay Drew Goddard from Buffy
+Natalie Gray Drew obviously learned how to make characters you care about from The Master, Joss Whedon.
+Natalie Gray ...and Cabin in the Woods. And Daredevil. Goddard s emerging as a creative force to be reckoned with. (...with which one should reckon...in case Dr. K is reading...). Waiting for the new season of Daredevil is going to feel like waiting for a new series of Sherlock: well-nigh endless...
+devilstoysuk2 Buffy Firefly and Avengers assemble...that's three tricks at least
And i think he did as good a job as possible juggling the 5 million Marvel plot threads in AOU
I so wanted a baked-potato after watching this film...
Drew Goddard is an astonishingly good writer.
Should've called it Mark Watney (Of Mars).
Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
Great movie but an INCREDIBLE audiobook!
Holy crap, the audiobook performance (which is unedited and has FAR more profanity as Early deals with pain and frustration) is so funny, I had to pull my car off the road because we were laughing so hard.
This Halloween I will dress as Mark Kermode and repeatedly perform the finest "Collar and Lapel adjusting Dab" @4:07.
Nice Sidebottom impression lol
i really really enjoyed "The Martian", mostly b/c i love anything Matt Damon -all the Jason Bourne films (I live in Bourne-mouth, UK!), Good Will Hunting, The John Grisham film adaptation (The Lawyer/The Judge/The Juror?), The Legend of Bagger Vance, Chasing Amy, Dogma... Mystic Pizza (his 1st appearance in a feature film i think, little more than a cameo really, just a couple of lines of dialogue), Courage Under Fire, Saving Private Ryan, The Monuments Men, even Behind the Candelabra (which i have yet to see)... His performance is brilliant in this though, i think possibly his best performance so far, totally believable as an astronaut, maybe less so as a botanist stranded alone on Mars, but otherwise believable enough & the rest of the cast -Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Donald Glover, Sean Bean, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan & Chiwetel Ejiofor etc... even a brief appearance by Henry Winkler on a TV clip as "The Fonze" in Happy Days... are all phenomenal in each of their own roles, again all v.convincing performances & the rift & disagreements b/w Sean Bean's & Jeff Daniels's characters' makes for a brilliant backdrop to the otherwise fairly lonesome/isolated storyline going on with Matt/Mark Watney on Mars! Jessica Chastain aces it as the crew's leader & the rest of the crew members are also smart, independent-thinking & individual stand-alone characters in their own rights. I struggle to find fault with the film, excepg maybe with the nuts/insane rescue "contingency" plan that eventually unfolds b/c it really is hard to fathom as a realistic kind of plan that would have any chance of succeeding, as of course it does! The pop music (Gloria Estefan etc...) is funny, Matt Damon gets to inject a little comedy to his role/performance, with his over-zealous bomb explosion of fertilizer or whatever it was when planting/growing his potatoes till he gets the quantities right. But overall, i was willing to be taken on a sci-fi journey of "suspension of disbelief" & just enjoy the space adventure & rescue mission from Earth & the ending back on the university campus with Mark Watney lectutinv students & sitting on a park bench rounded it all off nicely imo. 😊🎥🎞📽🎬❤😍
Casilda Peel shush
I hadn't read the book. Was expecting aliens and monsters but got potatoes and poo, which summed the movie up perfectly for me.
Didn't see that coming
Why its Kermode playing chess with his glass of water?
Simon rules!
0:42 Can someone explain this? I don't get it.
+Jay Quintana Watney's Red Barrel is the name of a beer
+James Logan thank you
@@vvvictoriav5958 I'm sorry, I still don't get it. Could you say a little more?
@@trollop_7 Watneys Red Barrel was a beer that you may only remember if you're British and over 50 yrs of age. Watney was the protagonist in the movie; the red planet is aka Mars.
@@thederson7130 I get that there was a beer, and I get that there is a protagonist. Beyond that, I'm all at sea. Can you help me?
nice frank reference!
The Martian > Straight Outta Compton
why compare the two ? lol
datboi forthere Because I can.
+Joey Marlin IV No way!
+Joey Marlin IV Well duh.
I feel Straight Outta Compton is mostly for a specific group who love it. But I don't think it has a lot of appeal to people who hardly know these people.
+Joey Marlin IV and you can guarantee straight outta compton will win the oscar...
Watney's Red Planet (Watney's Red Barrel). One of the bad ales of the 70s and 80s. XD
Sm would it be fair to say "The Martian" = "The cast Away"
Saw the film first and enjoyed it. Read the book after and found it extremely tedious.
i WANT that helmet
How can Kermode talk about this film without once referencing 'Robinson Crusoe On Mars' (1964)?
I saw that one in the theater but have forgotten a good bit of detail since then.
I remember Tonto on it. Or some native American tribe that helped him. Also the monkey..
Saving private Watney ! thanks to Annia S.
So what's the Red Planet reference about? Google just gives the The Martian results.
There was a terrible 1970s beer called "Watney's Red Barrel". There's a Monty Python sketch where Eric Idle rants about it
@@tantive4 in Fawlty Towers you can see Watney’s Red Barrel in the hotel bar. And yes, it came in a little red barrel
"WAtney's Red Planet" hahahaha!
0:50 He meant to say "What is Red Barrel?"
No, he meant "What is Whatney's Red Barrel."
@@DavidBeaumont
Did you mean: _"What?? What's Watney's Red Barrel?"_ ?
The ending ruined it for me. It was so over the top
PLEASE stop moving that water glass around!
I've been doing the Watney's Red Planet joke for weeks and no one got it
+tantive4 I don't get it.
+tmcthree I looked it up - apparently there was a really bad beer in the 60s and 70s called Watney's Red Barrel. You're welcome ;)
+feralapple Same here. "Saw your advert in the bolour supplement".
+doswillrule I thought they were referring to the movie Red Planet, which was the first thing I thought of when I saw the preview.
It's a movie for people who watch space related documentaries, which my son and I are. So we loved it. Also, I think this movie isn't aimed at the baby boomer/millennial crowds. The two have failed to acomplish anything of worth the previous gen had started(sorry boomers, the Moon landings were done by adults of the previous gen) in terms of space travel. This is a love letter to space, exploration, and science. I have to agree with the good doctor on this one.
Also, it wasn't as vapidly dense as Gravity, so that was a plus.
when did marks OCD for moving his glass of water start?? lol
..i felt the same way........
actually we are spoiled because mastermind ridley scoot always pull out te best of........of us,of the movies,of everything!!!!!
NOW when that level of "being excited" going little down......critics came around....
but ,about" prometheus"-if you are real fan of "alien" story,i mean REAL FAN-then,where is problem? still best sf movie lately
better than stellar,avatar.............
+Lino orangegroove Yeah, why everyone is slagging off Prometheus? It was all right, wasn't it? Anything is better than Interstellar.
+Kosta Sapovalov ....cause they dont understand real story of alien,never felt it On the right way,never going to be available to see HOW IS CONECTED ending of "prometheus" with a movie filmed almost 40 yrs ago......
...in the way how R,Scott did ; best possible....
..............
leave the bloody glass alone!
tbh, I just thought it was cast away in space, well written but just so damn safe
Anyone else find Kermode kinda cute?
Why does no-one reference the fact the the rescue plan and ending was crazy and juxtaposed to the rest of the film which worked so hard to seem to be scientifically plausible? Did anyone else think this?
You're thinking about Interstellar.
....MARK!!!!!!!!....LEAVE THE GODDAMN GLASS OF WATER BE!!!!!!!
I have this feeling that the Matt Damon character will get rescued at the end of the film, but he will have to use his survival instinct. A la Gravity.
It's Matt Damon playing Mark MacGuyver. 😁
Did anyone else find themselves focusing on how many times the interviewer moves his water glass back and forth without actually taking a drink? I enjoyed his dialog but I had to look away from the video & simply listen in order to quit waiting for the glass to move right, then left, then right, then...
No
No, not for one second.
That's all I'm noticing now. DAMN YOU!
Mark leave the glass of water alone man!