The "because I'm stupid" remark is almost every scientist at one point in their career

This is one of the only sci-fi movies that actually has a proper explanation for a lot of key points and turns out to be true.

I love this scene. It's great in the book too, because it took him a lot longer to figure out what was going on since he wasn't doing clean burns and was filling the hab with straight hydrogen without realizing it. The last entry of his log ended as "Things are looking up. I may actually survive this." The next entry started with "I AM FUCKED AND I'M GONNA DIE!"

"Dear diary, today I blew myself up. Turns out, it's quite painful. Ow."

One thing I never got about this movie was just how famous this guy would be when he got back to earth. I mean your rescue is projected on billboards in Times Square, with billions of people watching worldwide. This man easily would’ve been the most famous person of the modern era. Edit: just to clear the air, at the end of the movie it just cuts to him sitting on a bench in what looks to be a university campus. They don’t show what was probably 5 years or so worth of talk shows, bestselling autobiographies, etc.

The explosion could have been easily avoided had he worn safety goggles. Every chemistry teacher knows that.

"[...] nothing bad has ever happened from lighting hydrogen on fire . . ." lol his little sarcastic laugh always get me. Nope. Nothing bad. Not ever.

The most heartbreaking scene in this entire movie, to me, is when the HAB is lost and the camera shows the potato plants all frozen to death. Watney spent days to weeks getting those things to finally grow. That one shot absolutely ripped my heart out. Then followed by him screaming "GOD!!! GOD, GOD!!!" is just heartwrenching.

How is this movie 5 years old now?! Felt like it just came out a year ago!

The part that makes the scene is when he sits down smoldering like Will E. Coyote after once again blowing himself up trying to get the Road Runner.

This reminds me of tony Stark’s first test in iron man 1 lol

Matt Damon in interstellar: *blows up* Matt Damon in Martian: *Also blows up*

" nothing bad has ever happened from lighting hydrogen on fire " *a few moments later* "So yeah... I blew myself up"

This makes me want to try harder in physics and chemistry so in case I ever get stranded on Mars I'll know what to do

The camera man literally survived this holy shit

It's even worse for him in the book. He forgets that no reaction is 100% effective, so accidentally floods the Hab with excess hydrogen, therefore risking a massive explosion.

"I'm sorry Martinez, but if you didn't want me to go through your stuff, you shouldn't have left me for dead on a desolate planet."

This is honestly one of the best sci fi/ realistic fiction movies ever

Someone wrote in to our local newspaper and asked if this was based on a true story! This has become one of my all time favorite movies. His determination in extremely trying conditions is fantastic. I would hope that any astronauts actually going to Mars in the future would watch this movie.

This movie was a huge comeback for Ridley scott after years of bad movies. Amazing movie and matt damon brilliant performance

Just saw this movie today for the first time. WOW. It is truly one of the best movies of all time, what people have been saying about this film. I'm glad I finally watched it. Now it's time to see the extended version.

This feals like a quarantine survival!

This is one of the best movies I’ve ever watched

Under rated film tbh

-Makes a mistake most think tanks probably would have made, given his situation. -Calls himself stupid. Boy oh boy I would CHERISH the day I elevated my thinking to that level of "stupidity".

Jason Bourne of Barsoom

This reminds me of the scene in Iron Man when Tony is trying to figure out flight, and gets smashed onto his ceiling. I love the "Tony Stark" type fail Watney does at organic chemistry, and chides himself, properly. It's a very charming way to show how smart people think, sometimes, which can make all the difference. No despair, just even more determined, with a sense of humor to make the humility go down.

I remember reading the book when I was 11, getting obsessed with it, and finding out that a movie adaptation was literally coming out the same year. I went to watch it with my mum and was probably the only kid in the cinema lol, nice memories

I bet he can grow the best bud in the history of earth 🌎

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm looking forward to Vogel ngl

I knew Will Hunting was capable of doing great things...

Im always expecting a shirtless scene with any Matt Damon movie. Theres always one.

I LOVE "The Martian", not only because it's a splendid film, but because it's one of only two films in recent years ("Limitless", with Bradley Cooper, is the other) that actively celebrate the power -- the sheer BEAUTY -- of intelligence. American popular culture is generally anti-intellectual to its core; TV shows like "The Mentalist", "Bones", and "The Big Bang Theory" convey the message that, if you are unlucky enough to be cursed with a brain, you will either be a sideshow freak or an active sociopath. ("IT'S MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO F-E-E-E-L-L-L" is the perennial message -- as if the two were mutually exclusive.) Mark Whatley can make Mars "fear his botany powers", and still has muscles and gonads. A VERY healthy role model.

My boy's wicked smart.

2:58: Hello my names Wile E Coyote Genius! 3:03: Hello my name is MUD

"I forgot to account for the extra oxygen" he says, oxygen displayed clearly on the screen he's recording into.

I swear this movie is one of the best i've seen in ages

Idiots saying we dont exhale oxygen, but Carbon dioxide. Inhaled air is 20.95% oxygen and 78.08% nitrogen, including small amounts of argon, neon, helium hydrogen and carbon dioxide. What we breath out is 15% oxygen and then carbon dioxide from our blood stream and other gasses. Breathing out, he would have definitely altered the oxygen levels. And not calculating them properly, more than likely would have been worse than that was in that environment.

I like the way smoke is still rising off of him as he sits down to make his next log entry.

Excess oxygen from my breathing. Such a small thing but a big thing

Jason Bourne was so good at surviving, he was asked by NASA to be one of those travelling to Mars

One of the best survival movies ever! Science is awesome, and it can save your life.

I laugh every time I see this scene They got everything correct minus a few flash burns I blew myself up similar to that🤯

I fucking love the "WOOOOOOO- *Explosion*"

This scene doesn't exactly make sense as portrayed in the film. "The excess oxygen he's been exhaling?". That doesn't make sense when he is breathing the Hab air, with no oxygen mask or anything. He'd actually be reducing the available oxygen by breathing, so it doesn't really work. However, the novel has a slightly different scene that actually works and makes sense. For whatever reason it was changed for the film. In the novel he messes with the Hab systems so it pulls all the oxygen from the air, replacing it with I think nitrogen to maintain pressure so he doesn't need to work in his Eva suit. As he works, he is breathing from an oxygen tank and mask, which leaks oxygen and as he exhales even more is released as our lungs don't take it 100% of the oxygen we inhale. He would then squirt out a little O2 into the building hydrogen to have controlled burns, limited by the available oxygen. If I recall correctly he realizes this before he lights up, and panics because the Hab is now a large bomb.

2:58 :D --> *Boom*

I LOVE the smoking shirt and hair when he sits back down to the video after the explosion...

True grit. Excellent!! Great work out of you...ALL OF YOU!! 🙌💫 GO JOE!!!

As someone diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder I have to say that this movie is my favorite movie of all time, because I've always wished that I could be stranded on Mars provided with the means to survive.

I was really busy when this movie came out and never saw it in theaters and consequently forgot about it. In fact, this is my first clip I've seen from the movie. I'm regretting that time now but at least I can watch it on Amazon or Netflix.

I love how he is still smoking when he sits down to explain what possibly happened.

So he practically discovered how to grow potatoes in Mars.

When your done with homework and your teacher sends you more

Love this movie, Watney is my favorite character ever in the film and I love USA because of him!!!

wOO- *explodes* always got me there lol

Good Mark Watney: "How do you like them potatoes?"

The Martian was like Mark making gardens for seeds. Making a fire and explode Mark I hope the Martian to be viewmaster or trading cards.

This scene in the book was terrifying

Matt Damon is a legend

“Everything was going great..right up to the explosion”

Him getting happy and blowing up is like my entire existence in a nutshell

I really hope these diary entries got back to earth

This is the ultimate quarantine movie.

Thinking of doing this in my living room 🤔 Quarantines getting to me!

I like how he comes to the recording in smoke

This is reverse "I make fire"

one of the best space movies EVER

"Mah boy iz wicked smaht"

I would totally love the title of “Space Pirate”

Failure is trying another way to succeed.

2:57 me in science class in school this one time

3:40 -- when everybody wearing headphones started needed hearing aids.

Maybe during Quarantine, people could create water just like Matt did in this movie. xD

The alternate timeline in which he was saved and didn't try to kill Matthew McConaughey XD

Best film i have ever seen.

Hydrogen + oxygen + fire = boom + water Gotta love science. It’s exact! 😁

No one: Music: *POTATO PLANTING INTENSIFIES*

2:38 "Amen" in silence

One of my favorite films of all time

This is how my parents got a glass of water when they were young.

damn,the music

So they didn't leave in the same ship they landed in?

Funny how NASA sends a botanist to a planet that has no botany

This reminds me of Seamus Finnigan of Harry Potter Series.. Who always got blasted during spells🤣

Man he wasn't alone the camera man was with him

Met Matt Damon once, I might have been too young to remember but I still met him

Will: I'm a botanist 2:59 Mars: How'd you like them potatoes!

Mans evolution began when we made fire, now we are to make water!

Reminds me of Pyro in the X-Men original trilogy: "I can only manipulate the fire, I can't create it.".

Nobody: People in the year 2100 when all the water got polluted:

A gold star for.anyone who can explain why this movie won... Best Comedy. I know why .. I'm curious as to how many others know too ;)

I seriously hope the next ares mission drops by to recover those recording Mark made while stranded.

I’m still mad at him for trying to leave Cooper in that planet

Best movie Ever made 🙂

Hang tight Matt! McConaughey and Anne are on their way!

i would just kill to see all his clips from mars being watched by his crew after they got home and retrieved the data

3:00 he should've been pulled back 0.2 seconds earlier.

2:59

THANKS

Mark, you didn't need to damage the crucifix - you've got loads of paper!