@@johncampbell756 That's so true... I never thought about that. He can launch into space with seran wrap, but the whole movie started with a massive wind storm... hmmm
NASA experts rate the science in The Martian really highly. The one thing that's actually wrong is the storm at the beginning. The atmosphere on Mars is so thin that even an impressive looking storm like that would feel like the gentlest of breezes...but then there'd be no movie.
@@anyone9689 it's more detailed in the book but he actually has a CO2 collector and releases carbon-dioxide into the carbon scrubber(not actual name) to make more Oxygen.
@@anyone9689 The atmosphere of mars is 95% CO2, its the most abundant resource he has. It wasn't fast tho he swapped tanks every day and used water meant for his team that he went threw first, when getting what he needed. The jokes in the book also made a lot more seance (not related it just amazes me how someone thought "hay lets make the jokes longer and more boring for the movie")
Fun fact: For the novel series, The Expanse, the authors accepted the events of Andy Weir's novel The Martian as canon to their series (in fact, in one of the novels for The Expanse, there's a mention of a ship called The Mark Watney). So, technically, the film version of The Martian is a prequel to The Expanse TV series.
The best thing I loved about this movie is that everyone in it was trying to do good by everyone else; everyone working towards a common goal. There was no astronaut going crazy and trying to kill everyone for some random reason... no evil military subplot to murder mark before he finds evidence of god knows what. No one had any even mildly bad intentions. It was just a joyful exploration of humans working together against adversity. I love to just put this movie on and simply absorb the feelings from it. Makes me feel better about the world.
It gives you hope. The Chinese reaching out to help because it's the right thing to do. I first saw this movie on HBO;and as soon as Love Train stopped playing, I hit re watch.
I remember seeing an interview with Chris Hadfield (the Canadian Astronaut who was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 35), who talked about how little international differences mattered once you were in space. The only thing that mattered wasn't your ethnic background or nationality, the only thing that mattered was your competence.
Yea, the closest thing it has to a villain (if you don’t count Mars itself) is Teddy, and thats only because the last time he made a risky decision (with skipping the inspections) it backfired, and he’s gun shy to do it again with the Rich Purnell plan.
The antagonist of the story being the environment the main character is trapped in while people fight to save him is my favorite kind of movie. The characters all have a common goal that they achieve through cooperation. They're uplifting movies.
In the book, they make a point of Watney being a cheerful person, the kind that boosts morale for the entire crew. This was one of the reasons he didn't go batshit crazy with fear and isolation.
Andy Weir who wrote the book is actually a pretty legendary computer programmer and mathematician as well. All the math Watney uses to figure out everything from food conservation, route plotting, weight to thrust ratios, even communicating with NASA is completely accurate which is another reason The Martian is amazing
15:20 “The airlock’s on its side, and I can hear a steady hiss. So either it’s leaking or there are snakes in here. Either way, I’m in trouble.” - The Martian chpt 14
16:28 In the books the people at NASA comment that Mark was chosen alongside the others because of his skills, but most importantly, his mental state. He never cracked under pressure, he was always optimistic and his good humour kept the spirits of himself and the rest of the crew up. The fact that he's also an engineer and a botanist made him one of the best possible people to be stranded on Mars.
Basically, they left behind the gardener/fix-it guy ( he had Master's degrees in Botany & Mechanical Engineering). He also served a year in the Peace Corps, growing food in Africa ).
What always got me about this story was the dread of not only being stranded like this, but being qualified enough to know and be able to describe in great detail how completely fucked you are. With ignorance there's at least hope, but someone with the experience and training of someone like Watney, it would be easy enough to give up, because you KNOW the situation, everything is determinate, the math IS the math, and it looks bad for you. It's hard to stay positive when you've run the numbers and can say the exact date you're going to die EVEN IF you do everything right and nothing goes wrong. It's like that scene in Gravity where Clooney's character sacrificed himself, jetting off into space irretrievably, you're cursed with the knowledge there is no hope, you're lost, even if humanity wanted to save you they don't have the means, and you know and accepted that, and now have alllll the time to think about it while your atmosphere lasts.
I was one of the lead techs who built the Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last year - first time ever flying a helicopter on another planet not to mention doing anything other than a sub-orbital landing. You'd be surprised what we can do. The next part of that project is to intercept the samples currently being dug up in the same fashion and essentially slingshot them back to earth. Also, just finishing up the Pysche project which will be looking into an asteroid rich in 'planet building' particles to help us understand how planets fully develop. Lot of fun stuff JPL and NASA do that are, frankly, quite hard to sometimes believe.
@S Bjorlond watched the whole landing thing live, it was an amazing feat. Did you already find something interesting or cant you tell until the stuff is back on earth?
@S Bjorlond Man, that officially makes you one of my heros! I've been following Ingenuity's journeys from the minute it launched the first time, and the whole Perseverance adventure! And yes, I jumped on the Boarding Pass thing, so my name is up there on the list on Perseverance! Thank you for telling us about this and thank you for Ingenuity! Yep, I'm fan boying all over you, if you were standing in front of me, I'd totally be after your autograph!
Hey! I’m a senior mechanical engineering student at Penn State working on the second (using “second” in very loose terms there) Psyche mission! Small world, eh?
This is a great example of an excellent book to movie adaptation. It's not perfect of course, but it's very well done. And Matt Damon captures Watney's humor and personality really well, which was my major concern when they adapted the book because Watney was just so fun to read.
@@steriopticon2687 Exactly, and the three disasters cut wouldn't have really added much to the narrative of the story (though I can only remember 2 big ones - the communication system shorting out and the rover overturning - what was the 3rd? It's obviously time for me to reread it!).
@@michelle6337 the dust storm on the way to the final launch zone, there was the waiting period to see if he would figure out he was headed to suboptimal solar conditions that would make him late.
The movie is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Andy Weir. This book is VERY well researched and is very much on the "hard science" side of the sci-fi spectrum. So while not 100% realistic it's surprisingly close.
It's so close that the situations he was put in has changed plans for the actual missions to Mars. Like having all the back up radios in the launch vehicle that leaves at the beginning of the movie/book. Also plans for growable food to be taken with on the trip, in the book it was only because they were going to be on Mars at Thanksgiving they had the live potatoes. It was a very well researched book. If anyone hasn't read it, I highly suggest it. There are parts of it I couldn't stop laughing. I especially loved the audio version with RC Bray reading it, he makes it so much funnier.
To my understanding the storm at the beginning is the only unrealistic part. While Mars does get winds that fast, the atmosphere is too thin for it to be noticeable.
@@wackyvorlon Yeah, that's the part that Weir deliberately ignored the then-known science of Mars. He needed a violent windstorm, because if he didn't then he didn't have a novel.
This is a movie that NEEDS to be shown in schools across the world. To show kids that with nearly any problem you can solve it by doing what Mark says, “Science the shit out of it.” Also I freaking love that Sean Bean aka Boromir was in this movie for the “Council of Elrond” scene.🤣🤣
Matt Damon actually asked Ridley Scott if he should lose weight for the later scenes when Mark Watney is so dilapidated, but Sir Ridley said absolutely not! He didn't want to compromise anyone's health for the scene so he pulled off some goddamn impressive CGI to make Matt Damon look the way he did!
It was a body double, basically another actor entirely for the scenes without his EVA suit with Matt Damon's CG face on where it was necessary. They did it like that because Matt Damon famously hospitalized himself much earlier in his career trying to diet like this for a movie and they didn't want him to risk it again.
I KNOW this has been mentioned, but it was too funny to hear them talking about The Council of Elron and there's Boromir standing right in the room. :D Such a great movie, so creative and intelligent, and funny.
I absolutely love this movie. I have the extended version and I've watched it almost a dozen times. The commentary when he vlogs makes his movie a lot more entertaining. It never gets old and the cast is also amazing.
Fun fact (since you asked): The science in the book actually checks out. The odds of all of this working out just the way it did in the book/movie are frighteningly small, but he science is 100% accurate.
They didn't mention the problem of cosmic radiation. Mars' magnetic field is very weak, not to mention living in a weak gravity field for so long. He would definitely have medical problems when he came back.
That and the deceleration by the Hermes very likely not produce enough delta v. The other thing is that the gravity assist would immediately be seen by JPL as an option. The gravity transfers is extremely common in interplanetary travel.
I envy the hell out of anyone seeing "The Martian" for the first time. Such an outstanding cast, from top to bottom! One of the best movies of the last few years, and my personal favorite out of the entire decade of the 2010s.
They did a very good job adapting the book into a movie. In the book, Bucky's character goes to Mark's capsule and gets him rather than the Iron Man scene seen in the movie. The crew were not in the air lock to meet him. What's funny is, in the book, Mark says "If this was Hollywood, they would have the whole crew greet me in the air lock". I love that they did exactly what the book said they would do. Scientists, including Neil Degrasse Tyson, said it is the most scientifically accurate movie they've seen. The author of of the book did a lot of research. Very good adaptation
The NASA astronaut selection process always looks for the "never give up" attitude. It's a pretty common attitude among engineers because when starting on any engineering project there's always an unknown number of unexpected issues to solve and each of those has an unknown complexity. So you have to just push through the job until you solve everything, one step at a time.
NASA needs folks who know how to troubleshoot, think on their feet, and possess an innate sense of curiosity. In the beginning, NASA thought only Test Pilots had those qualities; once they opened the selection process to everyone, all kinds of people came in droves and NASA discovered that regular folk have those exact same qualities.
"Oh hi, Mark." Nikki just officially became the most awesome person in the world. BTW, this is one of the few times where both the book and the movie are equally enjoyable.
24:45 ok so I'm not technically an astronaut, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night so I can tell you with certainty that what happened in this movie indeed possible.
If you're still wondering, the science in this movie is very sound. It's even more impressive when explained in the book which i would highly recommend. This is one of those rare movies that was adapted extremely well from the book.
Fun fact: the author of this book is an engineer who originally self-published this as an E-book before a major publisher picked it up. The book was hugely successful and resulted in this film adaptation.
This was more a story about overcoming system problems than it was an actual solution to survive being left on Mars. The author of the book is by Andy Weir a computer programmer who understands solving one problem at a time in development and code fixing. The methodology is the same in any situation and space makes it nice and scientific. There are some basic problems that would probably kill anyone instantly or over a few months that are ignored for story but that is well ok. The move is a good adaption but it misses on what the book goes over. Some of the elements of the book just did not translate well to the movie. My favorite is they kept you guess what his first response was back to earth when he was pissed off but in the book it tells you how he spelled boobs out for them. Great movie and even better book.
immortaljanus, Project Hail Mary is actually his third novel. The second one is called Artemis. They are all stand-alones and so don’t connect to the Martian. I believe both books have been optioned to become movies. I read Project Hail Mary and I loved it, maybe even more than the Martian. I’m about to start reading Artemis.
fun fact: the book’s author Andy just released a similar book, Project Hail Mary, last year and the film rights were already sold in 2020 before it even came out! Ryan Gosling is slated to play the lead and I’m VERY excited and optimistic!
Nikki, the Martian was filmed in Korda Studios 26 kilometres (16 miles) west of Budapest, Hungary, in the wine-making village of Etyek. Many great films are filmed in the huge "Hollywood studios" just outside of Budapest.
I had to do an IB Chemistry report in High School on how he made water and grew potatoes for survival and how accurate it was. I spent like four days watching this movie over and over again, but it was so good I didn't even mind!
The man who wrote this book was rigorous in making everything potentially feasible. The only thing we know he got wrong (and he could not have known this when writing it) was the strength of the winds on Mars are not enough to cause the initial disaster. I'm told in the book Mark Watney is severely traumatized by events, is still putting himself back together a few years later. The entire crew of the HERMES were grounded and let go for their mutiny. No way any of them were ever going into space again. Ever.
Actually Andy Weir did know about the storm being unrealistic, but neither he nor any of his collaborators/advisors on his blog could think of a better scenario to kickstart the story, so they let that one slide. The thing that has _maybe_ thrown a spanner in the works since publication is the discovery that Martian soil has a lot of perchlorates in it which would make the soil poisonous to plants, human fertiliser or no. However there seems to be some back and forth on this point.
Sorry I'm soooo late to the party - love this film and your reaction 1- NASA and other scientific bodies said this was, for the most part, a very accurate movie in terms of the possible science and engineering, taking into account all the 'future' stuff that took them to Mars in the first place. 2 - the film was mainly made on location in the Wadi Rum basin, a beautiful desert region in Jordan.
I loved reading the book it had way more jokes and a lot more swearing. I did a count when reading the book and it came out to an average 1 swear per page. The author is a nerdy person who studies stuff like this for fun so when he wrote the book he made it as accurate as he could and wrote it as if NASA was actually going to Mars. I believe some people who work at NASA said he was pretty accurate with his book.
"Mars" was filmed in Tunisia, at a place called Wadi Rum. The classic film Lawrence of Arabia was also filmed there. 12:52 All of the Science is plausible, with the exception of the dust storm at the beginning. Andy Weir himself stated that in several interviews.
This is an excellent movie that shows how well trained many of the astronauts can be in interchangeable sciences even though his expertise is Botany. The movie was slated by scientists to be the most accurate conditions in the event something like this might occur. I'm surprised you haven't seen it until just now because it's been out a while, but it was and still is an excellent movie.
The only thing from this movie that was technically impossible, was the storm at the beginning of the movie. Mars' atmosphere is only 1% of earth, so even the worst storm possible on Mars would only feel like a strong breeze. Basically everything else was semi-plausible to completely legit.
Well, that and the gravity of Mars is less than half that of Earth. So he’d have been bouncing around the entire movie. But that’s never really shown on any movie about Mars that I’ve ever seen. Too expensive I guess.
This book was amazing. The technical aspects were even better and more descriptive and he is just as funny. This is one of the most scientifically accurate science movies made. His character isn't so much a genius. He knows chemistry ,has great science literacy and critical thinking skills. In the theater this was amazing. So glad you guys loved it. Was up for best picture for a reason
22:54 although that's more of a observational and presuming statement, it is true if a person lives at mars for more like a year or so he/she would different have some different body characteristics. just like astronauts would grow an inch or 2 if they are in space.
Unlike most sci-fi, the ONLY thing scientifically inaccurate (ok, apart from the force of Martian storms) is that Martian soil is poisonous - to grow food, he would have had to refine the soil first - BUT - that's not impossible, either...I'll forgive it... great reactions, guys, more content we can ALL watch pls...
Recently, the Mars Colonization Society has a simulation project being done in Utah. It's doing something similar to what had happened in the movie. Geographically, Chile&Peru mountains has the most similar terrain to Mars since it's very high with reduced oxygen. So it's easier to simulate Mars if everyone's in space suits while doing the practice colonization in Utah. Anyway in the movie, Mark still has spare potatoes that wasn't frozen but he'd be behind in production since it takes over several weeks to grow them to full size plants actually making him 2 times behind to be self-sufficient again if he had to repair his garden again.
She rolled her eyes when he said the body changes in an atmosphere like that, but he's actually right. You'll whole DNA genes will changed and has actually happened already to an astronaut. His DNA was never the same, and still isn't to this day. He has a twin brother but his DNA changed so much that their technically not even twins anymore
This is the issue with talking authoritatively about subjects you only understand on a very basic level (genetics in this instance). Reading headlines isn't sufficient.
I love this movie! Glad you both did too! One of the main reasons is because it sticks to the one problem - he's stuck on Mars. It doesn't do what so many other disaster/suspense movies do and try and create so many other problems and issues, be that personal or world or whatever. It lets you stay connected with him the whole time and really feel the emotions he feels. One of my favourite moments from this film you didn't show specifically in this vid is just before he takes off from Mars, the scene where he breaks down under the realisation that he could get off the planet and back to his team and earth along with the possibility of dying trying. I thought it was a really incredible piece of acting from him and had me in tears along with him. Can't wait for your next reaction guys, absolutely loving your channel!
This is definitely one of the best movies of the last 10 years or more. As someone who graduated with a science degree and keen interest in all things space I can tell most of the science aspect of it is very real or very near term technologies. That's one of the best thigs about this movie. The movie works on so many different levels. I love this movie! Glad you guys liked it too..
One of my favorite movies. saw it in the movie theater with friends---and just as Steven said, every time something momentous was accomplished I would lean over to my friends and say I'd be dead by now. This movie really is a testament to smart and to science and to ‘doing the math’.
This is a star studded cast, holy... Sebastian Stan, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Kate Mara, Chitwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Jeff Daniels, Donald Glover, Benedict Wong, and Naomi Scott all in one movie.
I live by the line Watney said at the end in front of the students "... everything is going to go south. This is it. Now you can either except that or get to work". Motivates me everytime.
Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain were in what could now be considered two great science fiction classics in 2014 and 2015. First, 'Interstellar' starring Mathew McCaugnehey and Anne Hathaway, and then 'The Martian'. Check out next 'Interstellar'. The plot is sometimes difficult to understand due to the complexity of the scientific concepts it portrays, but I think you'll like it anyway.
You guys would love Weir’s latest book, “Project Hail Mary.” I recommend the audiobook. It’s supposed to be adapted into a film too but it’s in the early stages right now.
Only thing I disagree with regard the movie adaptation of Project Hail Mary, as of now, is the choice of Ryan Gosling as the main character. Got more of a Chidi-from-The Good Place vibe reading that book. Meanwhile, either Emily Blunt or Regina King should be Strat. Both are badass women would be perfect for that role.
In the book he talks a bit about the psych profiles of astronauts on these missions, being folks who can take the pressure and claustrophobia and being around people in those conditions. Basically Whatney’s coping mechanisms made him almost uniquely suited to not totally losing it… and he still almost lost it several times.
omgg idk if you guys have seen interstellar but I highly recommend it 💃🏽 edit: also the revenant! its not sci-fi but its another survival-like movie with Leo Dicap !💃🏽
As I recall, this book came about because Weir was a nerd who liked to write about space. He got a contract to write for a sci-fi magazine and would submit regular updates on Watney's story. He developed a fandom including several actual scientists at NASA who would correct the feasibility of his story, like the slow, but constantly thrusting nature of the ion engine over the traditional high speed engines. He adapted his story to make it as accurate as possible. When he finished, he was besieged by fans who wanted the ability to reread the story in book form, but no publishers would take it. He then tried to self-publish on Amazon in ebook form, but was told he couldn't publish it for free as he intended. He asked what the cheapest amount he could charge was and was told 99 cents, so he published it for 99 cents, whereupon it shot up to bestseller numbers. After that, the publishers came running and the book became the hit that it is. I should mention, the movie as good as it is, isn't nearly as good as the book.
I read somewhere that the author of the book and the writers of the script had one or more NASA people to talk about what was possible and what wasn't. Supposedly the things that Watney scienced the heck out of are really possible as long as Watney had the different pieces of equipment he used. It is as truthful as it can be considering nobody has ever been there. By the way, good reactions Nikki and Steven.
One thing the movie left out from the book that I never understood is that NASA has crew members with multiple specialties. Mark is not only a botanist, he's also the mission engineer. That's how he knows how to build all this stuff.
I'm so glad y'all watched this! Everytime it's even on regular TV with 4 billion commercials I still watch it because I'm an astronomy geek. The coconut colliding sound when they bumped helmets as he was saved was hilarious! Love your content! Please watch All of Us Are Dead!!! I know Nikki enjoys zombies and tears 😁
Stephen is not wrong about body changes. Mars has only 1/3 Earth's gravity and it has a thin atmosphere so you may get irradiated a lot unless you live underground. Living there for a few years could have changes to your body.
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PLEASE WATCH INTERSTELLAR. BEST MOVIE OF THE 2000'S.
@@kylefam9356 Interstellar is an experience man. Emotional, gripping, amazing music. Must watch!
Apparently, the least plausible thing was the storm that nearly killed him to begin with. Not enough atmosphere for it.
@@johncampbell756 That's so true... I never thought about that. He can launch into space with seran wrap, but the whole movie started with a massive wind storm... hmmm
RealiZed I actually gotta watch or rewatch or watch the beginning of this movie! Gotta find it first then hop back on!
Nikki sarcastically: “hey, just swing by and pick me up. You don’t even need to stop just slow down a little”
The Martian: exactly how they resolve it
yeaah lol. i was like. oh you HAVE seen this before.
I literally laughed out loud when she said that!
@@howardbalaban7051 I laughed so hard at that
Nikki has that uncanny ability to predict freakin' everything!
you dont even have to stop all theway, just slow down a little. 100% accurate
NASA experts rate the science in The Martian really highly. The one thing that's actually wrong is the storm at the beginning. The atmosphere on Mars is so thin that even an impressive looking storm like that would feel like the gentlest of breezes...but then there'd be no movie.
actually no, its not exactly accurate, but there are dust storms that envelop the whole planet actually carrrying lethal high speed rocks
Seems the unlimited supply of oxygen , including enough to make water , stretches credulity
@@anyone9689 it's more detailed in the book but he actually has a CO2 collector and releases carbon-dioxide into the carbon scrubber(not actual name) to make more Oxygen.
@@TobiClinicallyInsane OK so he has unlimited supply of co2, enough to make water rofl , it's ridiculous
@@anyone9689 The atmosphere of mars is 95% CO2, its the most abundant resource he has. It wasn't fast tho he swapped tanks every day and used water meant for his team that he went threw first, when getting what he needed. The jokes in the book also made a lot more seance (not related it just amazes me how someone thought "hay lets make the jokes longer and more boring for the movie")
Fun fact: For the novel series, The Expanse, the authors accepted the events of Andy Weir's novel The Martian as canon to their series (in fact, in one of the novels for The Expanse, there's a mention of a ship called The Mark Watney). So, technically, the film version of The Martian is a prequel to The Expanse TV series.
Damn, I didn't find this yet. Which book is it in?
@@immortaljanus Babylon's Ashes
You have got to be fucking kidding me. You're about to make me fangirl as a 35 year old man. Shut up!
Can confirm this is accurate and not made up.
Yeah, that made me smile when I got to that part in the book
The best thing I loved about this movie is that everyone in it was trying to do good by everyone else; everyone working towards a common goal. There was no astronaut going crazy and trying to kill everyone for some random reason... no evil military subplot to murder mark before he finds evidence of god knows what. No one had any even mildly bad intentions. It was just a joyful exploration of humans working together against adversity.
I love to just put this movie on and simply absorb the feelings from it. Makes me feel better about the world.
It gives you hope. The Chinese reaching out to help because it's the right thing to do. I first saw this movie on HBO;and as soon as Love Train stopped playing, I hit re watch.
I remember seeing an interview with Chris Hadfield (the Canadian Astronaut who was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 35), who talked about how little international differences mattered once you were in space. The only thing that mattered wasn't your ethnic background or nationality, the only thing that mattered was your competence.
Yea, the closest thing it has to a villain (if you don’t count Mars itself) is Teddy, and thats only because the last time he made a risky decision (with skipping the inspections) it backfired, and he’s gun shy to do it again with the Rich Purnell plan.
The antagonist of the story being the environment the main character is trapped in while people fight to save him is my favorite kind of movie. The characters all have a common goal that they achieve through cooperation. They're uplifting movies.
Man vs nature
Nikki laughing hysterically at her own "Oh Hi Mark" joke made me howl 😂😂😆
Same
I've never heard her laugh like that, ahahha
I giggled with her 🤣
They're in denial but they loved The Room. Don't hide it, we know 😂
It was so random I actually unironically LOL'd 😆
In the book, they make a point of Watney being a cheerful person, the kind that boosts morale for the entire crew. This was one of the reasons he didn't go batshit crazy with fear and isolation.
Yeah right. It was one of the reasons he was picked.
@@Marina_in_oz And also he hit so many more snags in the rescue too.
I hope to be the kind of person Warner is, smart quick thinking and cheerful.
There was a teaser or something like that with an interview with the crew and they showed that Mark was thinking about Aquaman and stuff.
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Andy Weir who wrote the book is actually a pretty legendary computer programmer and mathematician as well. All the math Watney uses to figure out everything from food conservation, route plotting, weight to thrust ratios, even communicating with NASA is completely accurate which is another reason The Martian is amazing
15:20
“The airlock’s on its side, and I can hear a steady hiss. So either it’s leaking or there are snakes in here. Either way, I’m in trouble.”
- The Martian chpt 14
"Once I got back to the Hab, I felt a lot better. Everything was right where I left it (what did I expect, Martians looting my stuff?)"
16:28 In the books the people at NASA comment that Mark was chosen alongside the others because of his skills, but most importantly, his mental state. He never cracked under pressure, he was always optimistic and his good humour kept the spirits of himself and the rest of the crew up. The fact that he's also an engineer and a botanist made him one of the best possible people to be stranded on Mars.
Basically, they left behind the gardener/fix-it guy ( he had Master's degrees in Botany & Mechanical Engineering). He also served a year in the Peace Corps, growing food in Africa ).
What always got me about this story was the dread of not only being stranded like this, but being qualified enough to know and be able to describe in great detail how completely fucked you are.
With ignorance there's at least hope, but someone with the experience and training of someone like Watney, it would be easy enough to give up, because you KNOW the situation, everything is determinate, the math IS the math, and it looks bad for you. It's hard to stay positive when you've run the numbers and can say the exact date you're going to die EVEN IF you do everything right and nothing goes wrong.
It's like that scene in Gravity where Clooney's character sacrificed himself, jetting off into space irretrievably, you're cursed with the knowledge there is no hope, you're lost, even if humanity wanted to save you they don't have the means, and you know and accepted that, and now have alllll the time to think about it while your atmosphere lasts.
The Martian 2015. When the Ascent vehicle ship was landing on the Mars planet. Didn't show when
I was one of the lead techs who built the Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last year - first time ever flying a helicopter on another planet not to mention doing anything other than a sub-orbital landing. You'd be surprised what we can do. The next part of that project is to intercept the samples currently being dug up in the same fashion and essentially slingshot them back to earth. Also, just finishing up the Pysche project which will be looking into an asteroid rich in 'planet building' particles to help us understand how planets fully develop. Lot of fun stuff JPL and NASA do that are, frankly, quite hard to sometimes believe.
that's incredible
@S Bjorlond watched the whole landing thing live, it was an amazing feat. Did you already find something interesting or cant you tell until the stuff is back on earth?
Is Mimi as awesome as she appears? I hope she makes her way back to NASA one of these days. She is so good at PR.
@S Bjorlond
Man, that officially makes you one of my heros! I've been following Ingenuity's journeys from the minute it launched the first time, and the whole Perseverance adventure! And yes, I jumped on the Boarding Pass thing, so my name is up there on the list on Perseverance! Thank you for telling us about this and thank you for Ingenuity! Yep, I'm fan boying all over you, if you were standing in front of me, I'd totally be after your autograph!
Hey! I’m a senior mechanical engineering student at Penn State working on the second (using “second” in very loose terms there) Psyche mission! Small world, eh?
2:41: "swing by real fast, i'll hop on, you don't even have to stop all the way" is literally the solution tho haha
This is a great example of an excellent book to movie adaptation. It's not perfect of course, but it's very well done. And Matt Damon captures Watney's humor and personality really well, which was my major concern when they adapted the book because Watney was just so fun to read.
They just cut about 3 disasters out of the book for the movie, so that let them examine the remaining disasters in some detail.
@@steriopticon2687 Exactly, and the three disasters cut wouldn't have really added much to the narrative of the story (though I can only remember 2 big ones - the communication system shorting out and the rover overturning - what was the 3rd? It's obviously time for me to reread it!).
Only thing I think they missed in the movie, was just how long it tool him to drive to the other spacecraft.
@@michelle6337 the dust storm on the way to the final launch zone, there was the waiting period to see if he would figure out he was headed to suboptimal solar conditions that would make him late.
@@alexkramerblogs Ahhh that's right. Thank you!
“You don’t even have to stop all the way! Just slow down a little!” Couldn’t help but laugh at Nikki predicting the exact rescue plan!
"Oh, hi Mark!"... I literally laughed out loud. Thank you Nikki!
The movie is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Andy Weir. This book is VERY well researched and is very much on the "hard science" side of the sci-fi spectrum. So while not 100% realistic it's surprisingly close.
It's so close that the situations he was put in has changed plans for the actual missions to Mars. Like having all the back up radios in the launch vehicle that leaves at the beginning of the movie/book. Also plans for growable food to be taken with on the trip, in the book it was only because they were going to be on Mars at Thanksgiving they had the live potatoes.
It was a very well researched book. If anyone hasn't read it, I highly suggest it. There are parts of it I couldn't stop laughing. I especially loved the audio version with RC Bray reading it, he makes it so much funnier.
To my understanding the storm at the beginning is the only unrealistic part. While Mars does get winds that fast, the atmosphere is too thin for it to be noticeable.
@@wackyvorlon Yeah, that's the part that Weir deliberately ignored the then-known science of Mars. He needed a violent windstorm, because if he didn't then he didn't have a novel.
Do u guys know about project hail Mary. Another book of his. It is also getting a movie.
@@wackyvorlon The "flying around like Iron Man" is unrealistic as well, though I don't know if it's in the book. I have yet to read it.
This is a movie that NEEDS to be shown in schools across the world. To show kids that with nearly any problem you can solve it by doing what Mark says, “Science the shit out of it.”
Also I freaking love that Sean Bean aka Boromir was in this movie for the “Council of Elrond” scene.🤣🤣
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It was basically the inspiration movie for the next generation of astronauts that Interstellar never was.
This one and Apollo 13.
I am currently reading it with all my HS juniors right now. They have really taken to it.
and for once, Sean didn't die
you can count those on the fingers of 1 hand
Matt Damon actually asked Ridley Scott if he should lose weight for the later scenes when Mark Watney is so dilapidated, but Sir Ridley said absolutely not! He didn't want to compromise anyone's health for the scene so he pulled off some goddamn impressive CGI to make Matt Damon look the way he did!
It was a body double, basically another actor entirely for the scenes without his EVA suit with Matt Damon's CG face on where it was necessary. They did it like that because Matt Damon famously hospitalized himself much earlier in his career trying to diet like this for a movie and they didn't want him to risk it again.
@@sechura3698 what movie was that?
@@ckelcro Courage Under Fire
I KNOW this has been mentioned, but it was too funny to hear them talking about The Council of Elron and there's Boromir standing right in the room. :D Such a great movie, so creative and intelligent, and funny.
I absolutely love this movie. I have the extended version and I've watched it almost a dozen times.
The commentary when he vlogs makes his movie a lot more entertaining. It never gets old and the cast is also amazing.
Wasn't aware of an extended version.
Gotta look it up now
@@vilseck95 Me either, can you tell me how much time was added to the movie?
@@TommyBBQBessinger looks like 11 extra scenes.
10 minutes of extra footage
The irony is Nikki actually predicts the ending in first few minutes
I just LOVE the Council of Elrond reference even more specifically because Sean Freakin Bean is there too. it's just too damn PRECIOUS!
I see what you did there! 🤣
Boromir!
you know Sean had to be pushing for that from the moment he was cast! LOL
Fun fact (since you asked): The science in the book actually checks out. The odds of all of this working out just the way it did in the book/movie are frighteningly small, but he science is 100% accurate.
They didn't mention the problem of cosmic radiation. Mars' magnetic field is very weak, not to mention living in a weak gravity field for so long. He would definitely have medical problems when he came back.
Its not 100% accurate, but its very good. The biggest issue is that Mars atmosphere is so thin that the whole storm thing wouldn't be that strong.
@@spaulagain also there's basically no way the iron man moment would work
@@moproodu Well the Iron Man moment wasn’t in the book. Mark suggested it, but the commander said no
That and the deceleration by the Hermes very likely not produce enough delta v. The other thing is that the gravity assist would immediately be seen by JPL as an option. The gravity transfers is extremely common in interplanetary travel.
I envy the hell out of anyone seeing "The Martian" for the first time. Such an outstanding cast, from top to bottom! One of the best movies of the last few years, and my personal favorite out of the entire decade of the 2010s.
They did a very good job adapting the book into a movie. In the book, Bucky's character goes to Mark's capsule and gets him rather than the Iron Man scene seen in the movie. The crew were not in the air lock to meet him. What's funny is, in the book, Mark says "If this was Hollywood, they would have the whole crew greet me in the air lock". I love that they did exactly what the book said they would do. Scientists, including Neil Degrasse Tyson, said it is the most scientifically accurate movie they've seen. The author of of the book did a lot of research. Very good adaptation
The NASA astronaut selection process always looks for the "never give up" attitude. It's a pretty common attitude among engineers because when starting on any engineering project there's always an unknown number of unexpected issues to solve and each of those has an unknown complexity. So you have to just push through the job until you solve everything, one step at a time.
NASA needs folks who know how to troubleshoot, think on their feet, and possess an innate sense of curiosity. In the beginning, NASA thought only Test Pilots had those qualities; once they opened the selection process to everyone, all kinds of people came in droves and NASA discovered that regular folk have those exact same qualities.
"Oh hi, Mark."
Nikki just officially became the most awesome person in the world.
BTW, this is one of the few times where both the book and the movie are equally enjoyable.
I did not hit her i did not
It's fun to remember that there's literally a backstory to the cover for the hub before it pops and all hell breaks loose lol
24:45 ok so I'm not technically an astronaut, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night so I can tell you with certainty that what happened in this movie indeed possible.
If you're still wondering, the science in this movie is very sound.
It's even more impressive when explained in the book which i would highly recommend.
This is one of those rare movies that was adapted extremely well from the book.
Fun fact: the author of this book is an engineer who originally self-published this as an E-book before a major publisher picked it up. The book was hugely successful and resulted in this film adaptation.
I remember seeing this in the theaters, very fascinating.
This is the best kind of science fiction, no space bad guys, no bug eyed monsters, no aliens.
This was more a story about overcoming system problems than it was an actual solution to survive being left on Mars. The author of the book is by Andy Weir a computer programmer who understands solving one problem at a time in development and code fixing. The methodology is the same in any situation and space makes it nice and scientific. There are some basic problems that would probably kill anyone instantly or over a few months that are ignored for story but that is well ok. The move is a good adaption but it misses on what the book goes over. Some of the elements of the book just did not translate well to the movie. My favorite is they kept you guess what his first response was back to earth when he was pissed off but in the book it tells you how he spelled boobs out for them. Great movie and even better book.
as someone who isnt a book reader, i highlyyyyy recommend reading the book or the audiobook. Its sooo freaking amazing
I'm on the second one now, Project Hail Mary.
also check out his discontinued webcomic, "Casey and Andy"
The book is amazing. I read it several times and so did many of the actors in this movie who all took less money to get it made.
@immortaljanus its fantastic as an audiobook as well.
immortaljanus, Project Hail Mary is actually his third novel. The second one is called Artemis. They are all stand-alones and so don’t connect to the Martian. I believe both books have been optioned to become movies. I read Project Hail Mary and I loved it, maybe even more than the Martian. I’m about to start reading Artemis.
fun fact: the book’s author Andy just released a similar book, Project Hail Mary, last year and the film rights were already sold in 2020 before it even came out! Ryan Gosling is slated to play the lead and I’m VERY excited and optimistic!
Nikki, the Martian was filmed in Korda Studios 26 kilometres (16 miles) west of Budapest, Hungary, in the wine-making village of Etyek. Many great films are filmed in the huge "Hollywood studios" just outside of Budapest.
I had to do an IB Chemistry report in High School on how he made water and grew potatoes for survival and how accurate it was. I spent like four days watching this movie over and over again, but it was so good I didn't even mind!
Cool project! Hope you got an A 🙂
I love when the crew started cheering and all agreed to go back and the reaction we get from Nikki is “they’re gonna die” in a sad mellow tone. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The man who wrote this book was rigorous in making everything potentially feasible. The only thing we know he got wrong (and he could not have known this when writing it) was the strength of the winds on Mars are not enough to cause the initial disaster.
I'm told in the book Mark Watney is severely traumatized by events, is still putting himself back together a few years later.
The entire crew of the HERMES were grounded and let go for their mutiny. No way any of them were ever going into space again. Ever.
Actually Andy Weir did know about the storm being unrealistic, but neither he nor any of his collaborators/advisors on his blog could think of a better scenario to kickstart the story, so they let that one slide. The thing that has _maybe_ thrown a spanner in the works since publication is the discovery that Martian soil has a lot of perchlorates in it which would make the soil poisonous to plants, human fertiliser or no. However there seems to be some back and forth on this point.
Sorry I'm soooo late to the party - love this film and your reaction
1- NASA and other scientific bodies said this was, for the most part, a very accurate movie in terms of the possible science and engineering, taking into account all the 'future' stuff that took them to Mars in the first place.
2 - the film was mainly made on location in the Wadi Rum basin, a beautiful desert region in Jordan.
My good friend and former Marine, Dennis Borders RIP, wrote the program for Mars rovers to communicate with NASA
My favorite scean in the Movie is the "Elron" scean where they all picking codenameds. When the guy who played Boramir is sitting right there!
Exactly. That was hysterical.
9:24. He's driving on Mars.
That would make me smile too.
11:24 I LOL so hard at this and Steven reaction, like his mind went back to The Room, like "Oh hi, Mark" is a trigger for him.
Nikki's "Oh hi Mark" drop made me laugh really hard! 😂😂 Love this movie so much!! Great reaction as always!
"oh hai Mark"....thank you Nikki....i literally applauded when you said that
I love how Nikki's joke of "Just swing by and pick me up. Don't even stop. I'll just hop in." ends up being pretty much exactly how they rescue him. 😆
My favorite line: "... our bad - sincerely, NASA"
I loved reading the book it had way more jokes and a lot more swearing. I did a count when reading the book and it came out to an average 1 swear per page. The author is a nerdy person who studies stuff like this for fun so when he wrote the book he made it as accurate as he could and wrote it as if NASA was actually going to Mars. I believe some people who work at NASA said he was pretty accurate with his book.
“How come Aquaman can talk to whales? They’re mammals, not fish
11:25 Nikki wins reaction of the week 🏆 “oh hi Mark” *chef’s kiss*
Your "Oh hi Marc" sent me into a fit of hysterical laughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Mars" was filmed in Tunisia, at a place called Wadi Rum. The classic film Lawrence of Arabia was also filmed there.
12:52 All of the Science is plausible, with the exception of the dust storm at the beginning. Andy Weir himself stated that in several interviews.
This is an excellent movie that shows how well trained many of the astronauts can be in interchangeable sciences even though his expertise is Botany.
The movie was slated by scientists to be the most accurate conditions in the event something like this might occur.
I'm surprised you haven't seen it until just now because it's been out a while, but it was and still is an excellent movie.
And this movie was nominated to the globes as best comedy AND WON, which is in itself hilarious 😂 😂 😂 😂
The only thing from this movie that was technically impossible, was the storm at the beginning of the movie. Mars' atmosphere is only 1% of earth, so even the worst storm possible on Mars would only feel like a strong breeze. Basically everything else was semi-plausible to completely legit.
Manually aiming the Iron Man thruster was also implausible.
Well, that and the gravity of Mars is less than half that of Earth. So he’d have been bouncing around the entire movie. But that’s never really shown on any movie about Mars that I’ve ever seen. Too expensive I guess.
Love that we actually have places like this on earth to film. We got everything to fake another planet right here.
This book was amazing. The technical aspects were even better and more descriptive and he is just as funny. This is one of the most scientifically accurate science movies made. His character isn't so much a genius. He knows chemistry ,has great science literacy and critical thinking skills. In the theater this was amazing. So glad you guys loved it. Was up for best picture for a reason
22:54 although that's more of a observational and presuming statement, it is true if a person lives at mars for more like a year or so he/she would different have some different body characteristics.
just like astronauts would grow an inch or 2 if they are in space.
OMG When Nikki said, "Oh hi, Mark" I bust out laughing so hard I almost woke the family. So hilarious! Thanks for the fun reaction.
Your "oh Hi Mark" comment was perfect and had me rolling lolol
The guy that needed more coffee, the trip and fall was not planned. He really did fall over.
I love this movie so much and Matt Damon is always a win.
Unlike most sci-fi, the ONLY thing scientifically inaccurate (ok, apart from the force of Martian storms) is that Martian soil is poisonous - to grow food, he would have had to refine the soil first - BUT - that's not impossible, either...I'll forgive it... great reactions, guys, more content we can ALL watch pls...
Recently, the Mars Colonization Society has a simulation project being done in Utah. It's doing something similar to what had happened in the movie. Geographically, Chile&Peru mountains has the most similar terrain to Mars since it's very high with reduced oxygen. So it's easier to simulate Mars if everyone's in space suits while doing the practice colonization in Utah. Anyway in the movie, Mark still has spare potatoes that wasn't frozen but he'd be behind in production since it takes over several weeks to grow them to full size plants actually making him 2 times behind to be self-sufficient again if he had to repair his garden again.
She rolled her eyes when he said the body changes in an atmosphere like that, but he's actually right. You'll whole DNA genes will changed and has actually happened already to an astronaut. His DNA was never the same, and still isn't to this day. He has a twin brother but his DNA changed so much that their technically not even twins anymore
The DNA didn't change, but gene expression did.
This is the issue with talking authoritatively about subjects you only understand on a very basic level (genetics in this instance). Reading headlines isn't sufficient.
I love this movie! Glad you both did too! One of the main reasons is because it sticks to the one problem - he's stuck on Mars. It doesn't do what so many other disaster/suspense movies do and try and create so many other problems and issues, be that personal or world or whatever. It lets you stay connected with him the whole time and really feel the emotions he feels. One of my favourite moments from this film you didn't show specifically in this vid is just before he takes off from Mars, the scene where he breaks down under the realisation that he could get off the planet and back to his team and earth along with the possibility of dying trying. I thought it was a really incredible piece of acting from him and had me in tears along with him. Can't wait for your next reaction guys, absolutely loving your channel!
Nice ! One of my favourite movies such a. Great film all around Matt Damon really killed this character looking forward to this one
This is definitely one of the best movies of the last 10 years or more. As someone who graduated with a science degree and keen interest in all things space I can tell most of the science aspect of it is very real or very near term technologies. That's one of the best thigs about this movie. The movie works on so many different levels. I love this movie! Glad you guys liked it too..
One of my favorite movies. saw it in the movie theater with friends---and just as Steven said, every time something momentous was accomplished I would lean over to my friends and say I'd be dead by now. This movie really is a testament to smart and to science and to ‘doing the math’.
This is a star studded cast, holy... Sebastian Stan, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Kate Mara, Chitwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Jeff Daniels, Donald Glover, Benedict Wong, and Naomi Scott all in one movie.
Omg when Nikki said "Oh hi Mark."
I laughed so hard 😂😂
I live by the line Watney said at the end in front of the students "... everything is going to go south. This is it. Now you can either except that or get to work". Motivates me everytime.
Nikki's 'Oh hi, Mark' was so perfectly timed. Slow clap, young lady.
Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain were in what could now be considered two great science fiction classics in 2014 and 2015. First, 'Interstellar' starring Mathew McCaugnehey and Anne Hathaway, and then 'The Martian'. Check out next 'Interstellar'. The plot is sometimes difficult to understand due to the complexity of the scientific concepts it portrays, but I think you'll like it anyway.
Hahaha I love Nikki laughing at her own joke, "hi Mark" lol. Great movie, one of my favorite sci fi so far
I love this channel man, you both seem like such great people. Plus, you have a great selection of movie reactions!
Great movie. Sci-fi, survival, comedy. It ticked all the boxes.
One of the Martian colony ships in The Expanse book 6 (Babylon's Ashes) is called the Mark Watney.
"Oh hi Mark"
I had to pause and laugh for like a whole minute 😂 🤣
I love that this movie made a reference to the Council of Elrond in Lord of the rings with the actor who played Boromir in the scene
You guys would love Weir’s latest book, “Project Hail Mary.” I recommend the audiobook. It’s supposed to be adapted into a film too but it’s in the early stages right now.
absolutely!
Only thing I disagree with regard the movie adaptation of Project Hail Mary, as of now, is the choice of Ryan Gosling as the main character. Got more of a Chidi-from-The Good Place vibe reading that book. Meanwhile, either Emily Blunt or Regina King should be Strat. Both are badass women would be perfect for that role.
In the book he talks a bit about the psych profiles of astronauts on these missions, being folks who can take the pressure and claustrophobia and being around people in those conditions. Basically Whatney’s coping mechanisms made him almost uniquely suited to not totally losing it… and he still almost lost it several times.
I never even realized that you had not yet watched this movie 😳 .... Some popcorn and here we go 😁
“Oh Hi Mark” 🤣 Love you guys!
omgg idk if you guys have seen interstellar but I highly recommend it 💃🏽
edit: also the revenant! its not sci-fi but its another survival-like movie with Leo Dicap !💃🏽
21:42 They filmed in Jordan - Wadi Rum. The same place they used for Arrakis in Dune.
I LOVE this movie! 🥰
As I recall, this book came about because Weir was a nerd who liked to write about space. He got a contract to write for a sci-fi magazine and would submit regular updates on Watney's story. He developed a fandom including several actual scientists at NASA who would correct the feasibility of his story, like the slow, but constantly thrusting nature of the ion engine over the traditional high speed engines. He adapted his story to make it as accurate as possible. When he finished, he was besieged by fans who wanted the ability to reread the story in book form, but no publishers would take it. He then tried to self-publish on Amazon in ebook form, but was told he couldn't publish it for free as he intended. He asked what the cheapest amount he could charge was and was told 99 cents, so he published it for 99 cents, whereupon it shot up to bestseller numbers. After that, the publishers came running and the book became the hit that it is. I should mention, the movie as good as it is, isn't nearly as good as the book.
Fun fact about the beard not looking real: It isn’t 😂 Damon has allergic reactions to synthetic beards, so it’s fully CGi
I read somewhere that the author of the book and the writers of the script had one or more NASA people to talk about what was possible and what wasn't. Supposedly the things that Watney scienced the heck out of are really possible as long as Watney had the different pieces of equipment he used. It is as truthful as it can be considering nobody has ever been there. By the way, good reactions Nikki and Steven.
that's awersome... thanks Sam!!
Nikki calling out the ending in the first 5 mins, props 👏
One thing the movie left out from the book that I never understood is that NASA has crew members with multiple specialties. Mark is not only a botanist, he's also the mission engineer. That's how he knows how to build all this stuff.
The most scientifically “unrealistic” thing is the storm. There’s not enough atmosphere to kick up a wind like that.
When Steven said "Matt Damon!" it made want him and Nikki to watch "Team America: World Police."
ha!! that's exactly where I got it from... after that movie, can never hear his name the same
I remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson said out of all scifi movies that involve NASA and the general science, The Martian was the closer to accurate.
I'm so glad y'all watched this! Everytime it's even on regular TV with 4 billion commercials I still watch it because I'm an astronomy geek. The coconut colliding sound when they bumped helmets as he was saved was hilarious! Love your content! Please watch All of Us Are Dead!!! I know Nikki enjoys zombies and tears 😁
Nikki. I did the "Oh, hi Mark" thing when we got to this part of the movie, too. This is one of my all time favorite movies.
Stephen is not wrong about body changes. Mars has only 1/3 Earth's gravity and it has a thin atmosphere so you may get irradiated a lot unless you live underground. Living there for a few years could have changes to your body.
I love this movie so much. The wife got me the extended version and its even better!
That “oh hi Mark” had me rollin 😂😂