**The Martian** is one of the BEST space movies! (Reaction!) 

As one reviewer put it, “The most science fiction aspect of this movie is that NASA is fully staffed and funded, and the politicians listen and follow the scientists’ advice.”

He didn't lose the weight, they used a body double. He was WILLING to lose it, but the director forbade him. Apparently he lost a ton of weight for another movie and it cost him in health problems. Also your copy has scenes I didn't have in my version, so I got to see some extra scenes now. Love your reaction!

"And this is exactly how scientists are." Yes, we all look like Matt Damon.

4:28 In the books the NASA people go through Watney's file and discuss the fact that he is the best possible person to be stuck on Mars because he is: a trained astronaut, a botanist and has a psych profile that indicates incredible determination and good humour in high-pressure environments.

I always start crying when China steps in and is like - "You need a rocket, we... uh... we got a rocket." The idea of superpowers working together to do something that's actually truly good makes the optimist in me weep.

My favourate thing about the book this movie is based on is at one point, Watley had to calculate power usage per sol a lot, so he developed a unit of measurement to help with it. Since it was just shorthand for himself, he called it "Pirate-Ninja". Well, the people at JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) have to calculate that a lot as well. They have started to informally use that unit of measurement between engineers, and even when speaking with management.

Adam Savage *loved* the book, and the movie, and interviewed Andy Weir multiple times. One of my absolute favorite facts learned from those interviews was that the orbital mechanics, launch dates, etc., are accurate, and required Andy to work the timeline *backward* from Thanksgiving so that there would be reason for fresh, whole potatoes to be on the lander.

I like how in the book it is stated that Mark’s humor and state of mind is a major factor to his survival.

Never question the power of Duct Tape. Great review.

while the book has so much more material, the movie did a phenomenal job with the adaptation. neil degrasse tyson himself says this is one of the best, scientifically-accurate space movies. the author, Andy Weir, recently published another space-centered book (with an Audiobook version), "Project Hail Mary". I 100% recommend it to everyone who loved The Martian.

FYI - because sometimes people forget, or weren't even born by then and don't know or haven't looked it up. Pathfinder is a real probe that landed on Mars in 1997. Interestingly enough - it was the very first time I can recall of NASA releasing images and data to the public via internet. This was in a time when dial-up modems were still the primary means of getting online. Needless to say - their early website got CRATERED (pun intended) from the attention by tech savvy fans.

i LOVE this movie because of how un-dramatic it is. it absolutely has dramatic moments, of course, but its never hollywood-ized added drama like in Apollo 13 (which is an awesome movie, dont get me wrong) ...this just FEELS right, its what you would expect highly trained scientists and astronauts to do: be professional, solve the problem, and science the shit out of everything.

There are two deviations from scientific reality in this story (both in the book and movie). The first is that the Martian atmosphere is so thin that even though winds get up to 200mph or more, they'd struggle to rustle a fabric flag let alone rip a metal dish antenna off its mounts and knock Watney far enough that he couldn't be seen (the darkness and lack of visibility is very true, that darkness is ultimately what killed the Opportunity rover). Weir knew this but needed the story to start somehow, so took artistic license to force a situation where Mark could be left behind. The second is that Martian soil is full of perchlorates, a poison that would make it impossible to grow anything. Weir didn't know about this because it wasn't discovered until after the book was published. That said, perchlorates are soluble in water, so you'd just need to wash the soil thoroughly first and then filter the water for re-use. Rather than a scientific discrepancy, it's easy enough to simply assume Mark did that and we just weren't told about it. If Weir wanted to, he could publish a second version with an additional paragraph added to deal with the perchlorates. As for your question about whether the crew can turn around and go back. No. Travelling between planets isn't anything like driving between two locations on Earth because both the destination and origin planets are moving relative to each other. There is a transfer window where you can move between planets but once you're outside that window you just have to wait (the transfer windows come around approximately every two years), and once you're on a transfer orbit there's nothing you can do but get to your destination. The only reason the Rich Purnell maneuver was possible is because Andy Weir chose the dates of the story to fit the alignment of transfer windows, that is a departure window was almost perfectly aligned with the arrival window, this is an extremely rare occurrence (I think this was the only one he found in a 10 or 15 year range or something).

I've seen this movie at least 20 times. Never fails to engage me. This film is terrific.

The thing is with space travel, it's essentially 99% just falling. Once the spacecraft is out of the atmosphere, rockets just help guide the spacecraft to where it's falling to. It's near impossible to make U-turns with limited fuel supply and without the aid of gravity wells from other heavenly bodies like moons and planets. Best explanation of space travel I've heard was from Space Cowboys, "You just have to hit the baseball halfway there and the Moon's gravity does the rest."

The Martian is criminally underrated. It’s easily my favorite film. It got me into watching more of Matt Damon’s films as I never cared much for him until I saw this. Now he’s one of my more liked actors lol.

Can we also mention how great the soundtrack is? The way this film uses 'Starman' by David Bowie is just perfection. And I love the fact that they actually played 'I Will Survive' over the end credits, that is just so fantastically appropriate

I love how hopeful this movie is. Shows how versatile humans can be in adverse circumstances. Lovely film.

I can not miss the two scenes that are very meta, as when they refer to the Fellowship of the Ring, with the actor from Boromir there present, Sean Bean. Or that they reference Ironman with the Winter Soldier also present, Sebastian Stan. Although good, Matt Damon also had sequential roles in two Marvel movies, Deadpool 2 and as Loki in Thor Ragnarok.

the death star at 19:43 lmao :D love it

One of my favorite lines from the book, was after he had reached the fuel converter at the booster site, NASA ordered him to assign every drop of unnecessary water to be converted to fuel, including his urine. Mark said "If this works, i'm gonna tell my grandkids that I was p*ssing rocket fuel!"

If I remember correctly, he wrote the book chapter by chapter online for free, and with each release, people corrected his science on what would actually happen. So he corrected the science with each chapter and edited with each release so the most unscientific thing is the storm at the beginning. The atmosphere is too thin to have that sort of storm, though there can be storms that are a bit different.

All the people who were kids in the 90s, we cheering when Matt rescue the Phatfinder

I'd like to recommend the movie Gattaca. It's a futuristic, sci-fi movie. Nothing flashy, but it tells a great and moving story.

This movie is basically ET. In that movie the alien, "ET" was a botanist left alone on an alien planet who had to find a way to "phone home".

Regarding the HAB blowing up: I don't know if it was explained in the movie or not but it was explained in the book. Mark going in and out of the HAB over and over and over again weakened the structure of the airlock which gets put under a lot of stress going from pressurized to vacuum over and over again. To prevent this situation from happening again, he was told to alternate which airlock he uses to get in and out.

Slingshot maneuvers actually do two things: For one, they use the gravitational pull to change the trajectory, but they also use the movement of the planet/moon/whatever to accelerate or decelerate the vessel. 😊

19:44 THAT is a Death Star. Thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did…

I say this to anybody that enjoyed this movie: My favorite thing about this movie is the fact that it had no villains. There wasn't like some nefarious astronaut or high-up NASA manager or something looking to make a profit off somebody being stranded on Mars. It was just... nature. And Space. And humanity needing to come together to solve a problem to save one man's life. That's just so wholesome!

As for the windstorms, on Mars the air is so thin, the effects wouldn't be so violent.

Hi Vkunia! While your copy has scenes that did not make it to the movie version, there are still some scenes left out. Are Kate Mara and Sebastian Stan's characters partners? Well, yes. There is a cut scene where Jessica Chastain finds out Michael Pena's character has been sleeping in the hallway since the temperature control in his room malfunctioned. Over breakfast, she tells him to use Sebastian Stan's room as he does not use it anyway. She then turns to both Stan and Mara and tells them that she is the Mission Commander and she knows everything.

One of the best things about this film is that it's probably more accurate than any other fictional space film. There are some major exceptions (e.g. the wind on Mars is nowhere near that strong - the atmosphere is less than 1% as dense as Earth's) but for the most part the author of the book it's based on (Andy Weir) ran all the science past astrophysicists, botanists etc., to make sure everything was as correct and plausible as it reasonably could be.

He played "hot stuff" because he had a "hot" radioactive decaying plutonium per source a few feet away from him. The irony of the situation that it was keeping him warm / alice but can kill him because of the radiation, it was hot stuff, literally! Why not dance to it... 🤪 Mark Watney Space Pirate!

If you get the chance you should get the Blu-ray because they made a mock-u-mentary about how the staff at NASA fed the crew the Rich Parnel plan that allowed them to go back get him. They also made a number of "news shows" reporting the Watney Crisis" It's fantastic!

2:25 Given that it's a "YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE" alarm, that's a good thing. XD

I love hard sci-fi so much more than fantasy sci-fi. This, Firefly, The Expanse, ... Being puzzle together how humanity got to a point like that is so much more enjoyable than a universe where aliens suddenly walk in and out

The Hot Stuff scene was even more hilarious when you see the temperature reading on the bottom left and realize that it was 109 degrees inside the rover whilst Hot Stuff was playing.

"that romance came out of nowhere." Well not really. They were the only 2 single people, working in close quarters for 3 years on mission and more in training. They've seen each other at their absolute best and probably at their worst. You either start loving someone or you can't really stand them after that.

This is one of those movies that if it’s ever on when I’m flipping, I have to stop and watch it until the end.

Great reaction. I appreciated all of the little easter eggs you peppered throughout the video.

5:04 "what could possibly go wrong now" YOU NEVER SAY THIS WORDS WHEN YOU ARE IN SPACE

Astronauts are the most terrifyingly chill under pressure people in existence.

IF you read the book, he has dual degrees in mechanical engineering and botany. That's how he was able to do all that crazy rocket fuel stuff and working on the hab and rovers.

Just wanted to say that science is inspiring. This is a cinematic version of science but it’s pretty close. This is what people who are fighting for science believe in (minus the Hollywood, which isn’t too bad), and we believe in humanity. Human ingenuity and engineering is… humbling.

If you like this movie, you should watch Apollo 13! It is closely based on the actual mission. Starring Tom Hanks!

I like "The Martian" for these two reasons: 1. It takes place in space. 2. This was the movie where I first heard a David Bowie song.

I can recommend the series The Expanse if you want more of this kind of "realistic" sci-fi.

7:37 Props to the Props Dept, eh? 14:11 Absolutely incredible prediction, Vicky! Your knowledge of movie tropes has come so far!

"What could possibly go wrong now?" Oh, you have no idea...

That "fuck" was the realization that he got thru only the first obstacle in his otherwise inevitable doom

Hard to believe they left out about 30% of the book. His challenges in getting to the ship to leave Mars is largely ignored. Still the film is awesome. Glad you reviewed / reacted.

This is such an inspirational movie. And if you loved it you should also watch Apollo 13. My family actually watched this in a marathon with The Right Stuff, Hidden Figures, and Apollo 13 to get the whole history and future of nonfiction spacetravel.

5:04 "What could possibly go wrong now?" *chuckles*

Watching you being invested and so engrossed in a movie was amazing!! I got to re-live this great movie. I don't think I've seen such a reaction from the VK.

The reason why the airlock tunnel failed and blew out is that it was only designed to last for 30 days, so, a few hundred uses. They could have built it stronger, but when every pound counts, like when shipping to Mars, you build for what you need, plus a nice safety margin. After a year on Mars, Mark had fallen into the habit of using that one airlock (out of three) every single time he went in or out because it was the shortest path, but that meant he'd also pressurized and unpressurized that tunnel a couple thousand times, which was waaaaay past the design life. After he realizes what happened he spends some time kicking himself for not rotating through all three airlocks from the start, which would have likely left them all working fine, but of course nobody can think of everything ahead of time, no matter how smart they are.

2:54 Ah! That lil purring noise just put a smile on my face! 😁🤯

As a beard and mustache owner, we don't keep food in there but there's always a bit of food in there.

You commented upon the abruptness of Johanssen and Beck's relationship. There is a deleted scene that provides context to this. I will do my best to summarize it. The temperature regulator in Martinez's room broke and he couldn't fix it because it's inside the hull of the ship. During a full-crew meeting, he brings this up to Commander Lewis and mentions that he's been sleeping in Airlock 2 since it's the only place that he could sleep without being tripped over. Lewis won't have it and tells him to sleep in Beck's room. When Beck asks where he'll sleep Lewis responds with "In Johanssen's room." This delves into Beck being somewhat embarrassed and Martinez making some 0g sex jokes.

Another good space rescue movie with lots of problem solving is Apollo 13. Even better, it's true

So few humanity reaffirming movies get made these days, and we could really use more of those right now.

Really not easy to get over how adorable your personality is not to mention your beauty..but regardless thanks as always for fun reaction videos

The "Alive... or aliens?!" eyebrow wiggle was waaaay sexier than it had any right to be, holy cats.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this movie. It's one of my favorite sci-fi's of all time. Everything about it, from the cast, to the plot, was perfect. Will always be one of my favorites.

19:43 All these troll shots x) I love it

“So many French fries” 😂😂😂

This movie actually won an Oscar that year for best comedy.

This won the Academy Award for best comedy. Not a misprint

The dust storms on Mars aren't actually that bad. The atmosphere is much, much, thinner than earths. In order to have the kindof force shown in the movie, it would be the equivalent of an apocalypse type storm on earth. For example, 60mph winds on Mars, would be the equivalent of around 6mph on Earth, force wise.

Love your reaction. A story about Nasa you might enjoy: Early in the space program, it became clear that terrible problems would arise no matter how careful you were. And often, solving these problems required very fast action, but also incredible intelligence and creativity, and of course boldness, all done at the same time. Someone once called someone who did this "a steely-eyed missile man." This became one of the best insider compliments you could be given in Nasa. In Apollo 13, the guy who figured out how the astronauts could make an emergency setup to use the CO2 absorbers from the command module in the LEM, was, in the movie, called "a steely-eyed missile man" in appreciation of his feat. I am impressed at how you, without a lot of heavy "science" and "tech" background, picked up on that and saw how it was portrayed in "The Martian" and how important it is to the story. I have doubts as to whether I would have been as sharp.

Are we aint talking about the edits xD they got me everytime 😂

I was so excited when I got the notification that you reacted to this amazing movie. It has become one of my favorite movies of all time and I loved your reaction.

Fun fact. While this is one of the most accurate sci-fi films ever made. The storm that sets up this situation is inaccurate. While global sand storms are actually pretty common on mars the atmosphere is so thin that a 100mph gale would feel like a light breeze. And couldn't possibly tip the ship over. However they are still very dangerous but mainly because of the sheer amount of dust it would blow into there equipment and suits. And the dust on mars is actually pretty toxic to human life due to the extreme amount of salts in them.

if memory serves, in the book he proposes the idea of poking a hole in his glove to fly around, and they tell him something like "this isn't a movie watney". but in the movie version he does it because.. well it's a movie

The edits!!! THE EDITS!!!!

The science WAS spot on, thank you! I love that your scientific literacy shows through, I just discovered your videos but you are amazing.

The casting in this movie is superb!

I've been to where they filmed in the desert and it feels like Mars.

A couple of minutes in, I see you already need hugs. In the book, Mark was the botanist and the mechanical engineer. By the way, I highly recommend you read the book. Come on, you did not include the the Lord of the Rings reference? I am a little disappointed. Great review!

I love you watched the extended version! Great reaction, hope you have a great holiday season.

"What could possibly go wrong now?" Oh, just wait. Love this movie, easily in my top 10. Love your reaction to it. Recommendation from me: Inception.

It's that rarest of films Sean Bean LIVES.

Even the audible version of this is really good.

I just always crack up when they make the Lord of the Rings reference about Elrond and they make Sean Bean of all people present explain it with him having actually played Boromir in it. Steely Eyed Missile Man is one if not the highest honor to bestow upon someone for a unique ability to quickly and cooly solve complex problems under enormous pressure. I like it how amongst all the other myriad of details also put this NASA tradition into the movie.

dang it, you made me spit out my drink with "do people keep food in their beard?" LOL

Great movie. If you loved this - the Tom Hanks movie about Apollo 13 is an absolute must see! "I dont want another estimate! I want the procedure! NOW!" Seriously, Apollo 13!

Fantastic reaction! I love that you watched the extended edition. 😊 I love this movie so much! One of my faves with a great cast. The book is EXCELLENT! It goes into more detail, but really good.

“Apollo 13” will get your tears going.

BRUHHH those few frames of the deathstar got me good xD 19:43

I DID NOT KNOW they came out with an extended version, holy hell.

God all the random stuff you inserted, hilarious :D Even the Death Star!

Reccently joined your Chanell from the UK. Your comments on The Martian have got to be the best on RU-vid.

As someone with a mustache and beard, I can confidently say that we usually do not keep food in it. at least not voluntarily.

The biggest regret a captain can feel is leaving a person behind.

5 mins into the reaction, “what could possibly go wrong now?” 😳

Lovely reaction. As you enjoyed this movie about astronauts and science, I'm sure you'd also enjoy Interstellar (2014). It also has some strong emotional moments and a nice little surprise after watching The Martian! Probably also Gravity (2013).

The Martian is great movie. If you want another space movie, watch Apollo 13. It's got Tom Hanks and it really happened. Top 10 movie for me.

"I just had to explain to the President of the United States what a bureaucratic felture was." 'I'll look it up later.' Yeah, that made me physically wince.

When you say that’s the most annoying alarm clock in the world, it technically could be for Whatney

It's shown in a deleted scene that those two astronauts are sleeping together. Also Lewis (I think his name is) is sleeping in the air lock.

"Do people really keep food in it?" 😂 ♥️