for Vic's, he's already: Risked his license/career Gone to prison Tried other drugs (methadone, heroin) Screwed over all his friends Gone to rehab (and then immediately went back on) and more going to Mars isn't too far fetched
or when Venkat goes "i wonder what he's thinking, right now." and it cuts to him going "I wonder how Aquaman can control whales. They're mammals! Makes no sense."
It wasn't that it was goofy, it's that he was moving when the picture was taken. They can't take a bunch of pictures cuz there's like 300,000 ping from earth to mars
@@ibrahimsoualhi7735 Na they were complaining about his pose. There's no way they were expecting him to stand perfectly still for several minutes otherwise.
In the book its explained a little better. Essentially they wanted a PR photo, something like him waving, to show that though the situation was serious, he was doing okay. The intended effect was to humanise him and the situation, so that the American public wouldn't start to become disgruntled at the amount of money was being thrown at trying to save one guy. From what I can recall most at NASA thought it was funny, except Annie (head of PR) and Teddy (NASA Director), because they believed his pose would make it seem like it was all a joke.
@@Deccaz I can understand from the movie itself that it was a public relations thing, but I was just kind of surprised at the actual anger of it all. Losing a man on the moon would be fucked enough, but on Mars? No one could blame the guy in reality cause it's literally a no-hope situation. Miracle they came up with any idea in the first place heh.
If you’ll recall, in an earlier scene you can see him squirting what seems like half the ketchup bottle out for one meal. It’s not surprising he runs out of ketchup so quickly.
Watching back on this, I think of this as one of Matts best performances to date. It's probably made all the more impressive because for 99% of his screen time, he doesn't have anyone else to bounce off of. He's completely acting and reacting alone. There's so many moments which show he's got a keen sense for comedic timing. Especially when he's rationalising the proposed changes to the rocket that NASA have made. The small pause to show contemplation works really well. I would like to know what Direction if any he was given for his characters monologuing to camera.
Ok yeah reading what you said, it remindded me again he was all alone up there. Yet, i keep wanting to see him more and more rather than the earth scene tryin to rescue him
Oh yes. Reading your comment reminds me a interview John Cho did after the film Searching. He said it was unlike any acting he did because they filmed the whole movie isolated, as a single subject on the cam. Those acting really seems to be way difficult to carry.
I love this movie because of how accurate it is. Like not only the science but the movie constantly shows Mark handling the psychological distress by talking to the camera as if it was another person. I know that it was so the audience can understand his thoughts and include humor but this is also the best way to handle yourself mentally if you were stranded on a planet by yourself
The whole movie is based on an inaccurate premise, the atmosphere on Mars is so thin that other than the dust you wouldn't really notice a wind storm, good movie and scientifically plausible mostly, but I wouldn't call it "scientifically accurate".
I think the orbital mechanics of a random return to Earth, then a random return to Mars, followed by a return to Earth are probably wrong. But I'm too lazy to crank up some software to figure it out. Partly, because it's just a movie...
He says in the movie that it would be the last thing to run out...first food, then water, then finally oxygen. So starvation was the immediate concern.
I’m glad this movie brought justice to the book. What’s even more funny is in the book he talks how he hated the disco when he finds his commander’s music “Goddammit it’s disco” I believe he said. I can watch this over and over again
House doesnt seem that intelligent than, because in a fucking hospital you can get access to opiates that last much longer and are much stronger than vicodin. Percocet, Oxycontin, Oxymorphone, Hydromoprhone.. Even morphine would be better because it doesnt have all the tylenol thats in vicodin that eats ur liver. Vicodin fell out of style when i was in highschool in like 2007.... There was just so much stronger stuff around for the same price or a small fraction more. Ur telling me this man has no knowledge to anything else but vicodin ? Dudes a rookie if thats the case. Hes just a dumb fiend who cant get a better connect. LMAO
Lol, that was funny how that cut worked out... 0:29 "What is he doing?" "I'm uhh, dipping this Potato in some crushed Vicodin... nobody can stop me." Lmao
The pirate thing doesn't work in the movie. It works in the novel because he fries Pathfinder while drilling and no longer has any contact with NASA and thus cannot get permission. In the movie however, he doesn't fry it, so he has contact with NASA the whole time, therefore he DID have permission. They obviously wanted to keep the Pirate joke from the novel, but they cut out the part that actually makes the joke work and then tried to hack it in.
@BlewnHeadGasket Yeah, but he's only a pirate in a legal sense because bureaucracy got in the way, where as he's an actual pirate in the book who probably had to to sit through dumb court proceedings because the USAF just *LOVES* bringing people to court for the littles things...
Noooo. Nasa did not give him permission to steal the other ship. The one guy who resigned sent the other ship directions to divert and forced Nasas hand. They never gave permission.
Also, when he made preperations to breach atmo, he took great pain to move the Rover as far from the launch site as possible to prevent damage, and left a note for the next users to take good care of the Rover.
"We won't be able to bring you back to Earth, I'm sorry." "Oh ok" "We also won't be able to send you any supplies" "Alright" "Including ketchup" "Now wait a god damn minute"
Is this the kind of situation NASA need to think about and end up having to accomodate, like having super dense nutrient packs or something? I'd eat potatoes every day if I could have like a nutrient pill as well, a multi vitamin to stop me dying after six months from simply tripping over and breaking my hip.
In the book vitamins weren't a problem. Bottles of vitamins were light enough that they sent up a shit ton of them. The problem was just raw calorie count.
@@charlesrast4235 why not? Its not meant to be abused like that, but in the event of a mission injury, astronauts would need pain management. It was also meant to be doled out by the mission doctor, not self medicating.
It's not _really._ In the book the crew had somewhere in the vicinity of twice as much food as they needed to survive the 30 days on the surface, which for a mass-sensitive mission like the one to Mars is actually a bit overkill. The potatoes were only grown because Mark was stuck there way, _way_ longer than anyone expected anyone to survive on the surface of Mars.
NASA does think about stuff like this, thats why they sent the original team with huge redundancies like double rations, and extra water and O2 recyclers, extra battery cells, etcetera
huh? what? no... it doesn't matter. I wear SCBAs for work and I have a deep voice. The rate of consumption of oxygen is the same. The biggest factor for extending your air supply is cardio health.
Your body is consuming a static amount of oxygen no matter how much air moves through your lungs, even though the volume (how much) of air won't be much effected by pitch (more or less flow restriction) but rather the volume (how loud) of your voice. Your body uses oxygen based on energy expenditure. More talking is more activity so if you want to save oxygen don't speak, don't move, don't do anything.
I liked the movie but I was wondering the whole time, how is it after 500 sols he wasn't dead from radiation poisoning? Mars has no magnetosphere unlike Earth and only about 1% relative atmosphere to protect from solar rays.
In the book they mention that the HAB has radiation shielding. The movie didn't have time to go into all of the details, but that's why he used pieces of the HAB material to modify the rover
They gotta stop sending Matt Damon to space this is the third time he got stuck. In case you're wondering the previous two were Titan AE and Interstellar
The movie was good but the audiobook was a million times better. The movie cut half of the funny bits and internal jokes, which are all played in Mark's head.
The book is better. But I also think the movie is the best it can be. Cause it would've 4 hrs long if it included everything in the book. And no one wants to see a 4hr movie in theaters.
I don't get something, I don't know if some of the Ares missions were either made up ones or based on those that possibly failed to launch? But I wonder, if they launched Ares 1 in real life, and 4 in this movie, but his suit says 3, I wonder what happened to Ares 2 and 5?
There were multiple manned missions to different sites. Its common for space agencies to use the same name if the mission uses the same equipment/procedures
Well, Ares 4 was a future mission, and what they did to prep for these missions is send an automatic base camp to the site, complete with the ship that's supposed to take them back into orbit. So Watney basically traveled to the site of the Ares 4 mission. As far as Ares 5, that's the one that Luis piloted at the end.
Too costly to simulate. Counterweight rig wouldn't have worked in all the enclosed spaces, not enough vertical height. And the lenght of scenes would have made trying to film them on zero G flights extremely expensive as well. And given the movie it's not really integral to the story or setting.
I probably shouldn't have looked into it as much as i did, but mars' gravity is 38% less than earth's. If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you weigh 38 pounds on mars. There's a huge mathematical equation to support it. I'm sure someone can look that up though.
While Mars has 38% the gravity of Earth, they found that the spacesuits they're wearing would make up the difference in weight. Hence, they didn't see any need to simulate lower gravity (Or something along those lines). It's a minor thing in any case.
@@avantgarde6778 as a massive stoner, i agree but vicodin is something that should be outlawed. as far as pain medication goes we unfortunately dont have any substitutes yet but for recreational use, that shit is so horrific
The Space Pirate scene makes no sense in the movie. It only works in the book because Pathfinder gets fried and Mark loses contact with NASA, and is thus unable to get permission prior to boarding the MAV and activating it's communications. In the movie Mark never loses contact and retains Pathfinder for the entire duration of the Rover modifications and trip to the Ares IV MAV. NASA can absolutely give him permission to board the MAV.
Space pirate? He is on Mars, not in the intermediary void between celestial objects. Although if he is condimenting starch with Vicodin, a callous disregard for proper noun placement is warranted.
First Technicality, anything from Low Earth Orbit and beyond is considered "international" and cannot be expressly claimed by any individual nation as agreed upon. This includes any celestial objects, which includes Mars. Second Technicality, while the above might be true, the fact that Mark managed to cultivate plant life on a land mass makes it a colony, which I believe would circumvent 1T, as an established colony would inherently be considered sovereign territory. Completely indefensible given he's just one guy, and not remotely sustainable because procreation (and, y'know, not wanting to die on Mars), but...
Historically, humans have proven to be petty in regard to territorial claims. Without contest, a planck length will be subject to such regard. Given that it has been named suggests likewise.
@@rcslyman8929 i think he means that Mark should be a Mars pirate not a Space pirate, b/c he committed piracy on Mars, not in what most would consider "outer space"
As a farmer and an ecologist, I would like to point out that mixing human feces and dead Martian soil WILL NOT create suitable growing conditions. Martian soil has no life, no beneficial bacteria, no microbes, no ability to uptake and distribute nutrients. The roots of plants would form into tiny nubs and not protrude into this material. His potatoes would sprout and then die without ever breaking the surface and forming viable plants, let alone last 120 days to produce full size potatoes. Furthermore, the feces itself contains bacteria that would destroy the seed potatoes. Since the feces is not composted and there is no soil life to break down the material into nutrients that the plants can uptake, the seed potato would simply rot due to the competing gut bacteria from the feces. This simply and scientifically speaking WOULD NOT work, please don't go to Mars and try this.
I don't know about the "it's dead soil" part but the feces were left in the martian terrain (that can reach really low temperatures) and to the sun radiation for long stretches of time, that would have killed any kind of bacteria I think
@@TheCube31 1. Human feces is NOT a fertilizer, and is NOT compostable. It's actually toxic to both soil microbes and plants. 2. Martian soil is dead soil, it contains no microbes, no nutrients, no mycelial network, it CANNOT support growth. 3. The soil itself is radioactive due to Mars' thin atmosphere, it's bombarded with cosmic rays and cleansing solar radiation.
@@blankspace178 www.nasa.gov/feature/can-plants-grow-with-mars-soil/ From NASA itself But of course it won't be as easy as the movie, it is however possible.
@@TheCube31 That's not a study and contains no links or information to a scholarly article, and it's from 2017. This idea has been debunked numerous times and thanks to the new rovers we know for a fact that the soil does not contain the necessary nitrates to stimulate or sustain plant growth.
