The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/marijchu11211 :)

A rare acting job for Sean Bean where he makes it through the entire thing alive.

Sean Bean, the actor whose character told the crew and then had to resign, was on the real council of Elrond in the Lord of the Rings as Boromir. So he would know about what Mission Elrond meant.

One of the things that I love from this movie is that everybody comes together to bring him back. There are no villains here, just people giving reasonable explanations for their actions, and all of them doing their best to overcome an impossible rescue.

Fun story about the author of the book the movie is based on. He would post his writings to his website where is nerdy readership would comment and make suggestions. After he got the story done they asked if he could publish the story as an ebook. He did and made it free to download on his site. Later they asked if he could publish on Amazon to make it easier to get it on to Kindles. He did for the minimum $0.99. The book shot to the top of the sci-fi section of Amazon, which got him noticed by a publisher and a movie studio. He ended up signing with the publisher and the movie deal the same week while still working his software job. Not bad!

My favorite in the "Saving Matt Damon" Trilogy: Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar and the Martian :D

One thing I really love about this movie is that everyone means well. Teddy is the closest there is to a villain, but even he has good intentions to get the probe made faster and then to save the remaining crew members. They aren't popular decisions, but they aren't mean-spirited either. Just pragmatic. It proves that you can have conflict and stakes in a movie without having people constantly being evil to one another, and I think that's really nice. :)

A "Sol" is a timekeeping unit. The Martian version of a day. It's slightly longer than Earth's 24 hour "Day".

I'm glad I'm not the only one around here who still grooves the fuck out the moment that any disco song comes on.

Watney: "This is the worst possible music I could have to listen to." Mary: "OMG this is amazing. At least he has great tunes to listen to." LOL.

From what I've read the science is mostly accurate, with a bit of dramatic license. The main exception is the premise of the movie, while there are frequent storms on mars, the atmosphere is so thin it actually couldn't cause the damage that is shown. But other than that the rest of it is pretty much real.

I just love the line "I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this" :) Both the movie and the book are among the best SF works of their kind.

I LOVE how much you were into the music. It was a comical juxtaposition because of its cheeziness but it was SPOT on for Mari. So fun.

Mary nerding out on disco is the best part of this reaction, hands-down.

23:36 "Which launch was that?" It was Space Shuttle Challenger, on flight STS-51L 78 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts were killed. The problem was that poorly designed rubber seals in one of the solid rocket boosters failed, because of extremely cold temperatures at launch.

Each of the astronauts had a 1 terabyte thumb drive (it's in the book). Commander Lewis (the character who brought up how serious mutiny was; she was pulled from the Navy to be an astronaut) had just about the entire history of disco, and a couple of TV series from then, saved on her thumb drive. I'm pretty sure that's why the movie had all that disco in it.

29:41 - Most of the external scenes were filled in Wadi Rum in Jordan, a popular filming location (also used for e.g. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, a couple of STAR WARS movies, and the new DUNE movie).

One of the great things about this movie is that all of the science is accurate with the sole exception of the Martian Dust storm at the very beginning. The Martian atmosphere is too thin to have that much wind force. Otherwise, everything that Mark and NASA does is fairly scientifically accurate. Now, go read the book. They had to leave so much out of the movie. Every single chapter in the book ends in a cliffhanger with Mars doing her damned best to kill Whatney and leaves you saying, "How the hell is he going to get out of this one?!?!" I guarantee you won't be able to put it down.

22:34 "What a weird song to play for a left guy on a planet." This is part of why I love reactions in English by non-native speakers.

So watching an interview with Weir (the author). In the book, one of the things the character needed to calculate was power use per sol, and calculate it a lot. So instead of always referring to it in the full form, he had the character invent a unit of measurement for it and called it a "Pirate-ninja". Later he was talking to some people at JPL, and apparently that unit of measurement was used in calculations and referenced in meetings.

As far as I know, Sol is used for local days. If you said 4th day of a mission, people my calculate 24x4 hours, but days in Mars are longer. Sol 4 means 4th Martian day. I thought that it was used for all missions, but according to the Wikipedia, it is specifically about Mars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_(day_on_Mars)

_Hidden Figures_ is a good film about some of the people involved in the Space Race - not the astronauts, but civilians. Also some good music, and it honors some of the Black women who were working for NASA at the time; they had been largely overlooked by history for a long time. Some good, somewhat overlooked films just in general: _Moonstruck_ _Dave_ (with Kevin Kline) _Sneakers_ _Dirty Dancing_ _Fried Green Tomatoes_ _When Harry Met Sally_ I'd really love it if you did some older films like _Arsenic and Old Lace_ or _Some Like It Hot_ or _His Girl Friday,_ but I don't think you've ventured quite that far back yet. Still, I hope you try it out eventually. Thanks for the fun reaction!

Andy Weir wrote the book this movie is about and his new book 'Hail Mary' is even better i hope they will make it into a movie as well.

They cut a lot out of the book (of course, that's part of adaptation) and, unfortunately, they lost some of the things that made the story make sense (he wasn't able to get permission to take over the Ares 4 MAV because his radio was broken, they removed the part where his radio breaks, but kept the space pirate thing). It was Andy Weir's first published novel and was self-published as an e-book (the publication rights have since been bought by a traditional publisher), I highly recommend it. It is _mostly_ scientifically plausible, though slightly less so than the book. Weir went to great lengths to make sure the things he was saying were possible. He calculated how much food someone would need for the allotted time, he calculated orbits and intersect trajectories such as the Rich Purnell Maneuver. The main part that wasn't scientifically accurate was the strength of the storm that got Watney stranded there with no communication in the first place. No matter how strong the wind, the pressure on Mars is just too low to move anything heavier than a sheet of paper, let alone rip an antenna from the roof of the hab, let alone fling it hard enough to penetrate his suit and his body and back out through the suit, let alone knock him far enough away that the crew couldn't find him quickly. Weir has said he felt ok making that choice because he needed a way to get the story started. I say fair enough.

I'm sad that you missed the best inside joke in the history of movies.... Sean Bean was in Lord of the Rings, and his character was AT the Council of Elrond. About the science of the movie and book "The Martian"... it gets an "A-". It starts out with an impossibility... the winds on Mars could not carry someone off. The atmosphere is too thin. Almost everything else (with a few exceptions) is pretty darn close to what a reality would be. I can highly recommend reading the book!

The space pirate thing makes a little bit more sense in the book because by that point he'd (accidentally) blew up the Pathfinder communications array, so he was running blind, again, by then as well. He'd received the plan, but not explicit permission (or even full instructions on how to get everything he needed into the rovers). As it stands in the movie he was just doing as told, so he would not in any case be a pirate. Definitely read the book. Everything is so much worse. Mars even tries to kill him twice on the surface while he's heading toward Schiaparelli, and the movie just has a montage. Mark Watney is one tough unit of a man.

For the record.. A "Sol" is a "Day" on Mars Roughly 24hr40mn. So just slightly longer than Earth's day. Also, Matt Damon is a phenomenal actor and writer. I'd highly recommend "Good Will Hunting" Makes a great reaction video as well.

This is such a pleasant and surprisingly feel good movie, especially from director Ridley Scott.

People tend to forget Professional Astronauts are like superheroes. They are massively fit and have the mental discipline of a house brick with the education of University professors.

Sitting in my lab at work on a low late-shift, not much to do sadly so this comes at the perfect time :) wishing a great Sunday evening to you all !

I'd highly suggest reading the book as well. It goes way more into Watney's scientific/mathematical nature.

I guess we found our disco queen here.

Several years ago I was in London, checking the train timetables in King's Cross station. I didn't pay any heed to the man in shades and a baseball cap standing next to me until two other girls ran up and asked for his autograph. It was Matt Damon, who quickly signed something and then fled the area before anybody else troubled him. I have only the very best "celebrity encounter" anecdotes. ^_~

I love what you said about space being magical. It brings peoples and nations together. "From the Earth to the Moon" wtih Tom Hanks is a great series about the Apollo missions, including the story behind the first actual photograph of the whole planet earth from space that brought a moment of peace in a turbulent time. We're all trying to live together on that blue marble.

I don't think there were astronauts in the first supply rocket. I'm pretty sure it was unmanned. I mean, every rocket we've ever sent to mars, at this point, has been unmanned. So it wouldn't be hard, we're pretty good at it.

For people who like Mars stuff that's more on the accurate side of things, there's a wonderful series called Mars put out by National Geographic. Two seasons. It's part present-day documentary, part dramatic near-future colonization story.

I remember going to the cinema with my dad to watch this and we couldn't decide between this and the second maze runner and im glad he convinced me to watch this as it was perfect for me

Excellent reaction to this one. I really enjoyed the movie as well. I looked up where it was filmed - The vast red land that depicted the surface of the Red Planet, Mars, in The Martian, was actually the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan. Wadi Rum is also known as the 'Valley of the Moon'.

Sol= a day on Mars. 1 "Day" on Mars is a little over 25 hours long. On Jupiter, it's about 10 hours, and on Venus it's 255 days. They need different terms to avoid confusion. Of all the stuff in this movie, the least plausible is the storm at the beginning. Mars does have huge dust storms, but the atmosphere is very thin. So thin that it's almost a vacuum. The air there just doesn't have the mass to exert much force when the wind blows. The dust storms are due to the fact that soil is very dry and fine, and there's only about 38% of the gravity that we have on earth. it doesn't take much wind to blow the dust around, and it lingers in the air for much longer.

She did not even notice Ned Stark was in the movie and got fired from this job too!

A 'Sol' (where we get the word "solar") is a DAY on an alien world.

_The Martian_ is a movie that anyone can enjoy, even if they are not particularly science fiction fans. Think of it as a "shipwreck" movie based in science. Even my elderly parents enjoyed it. They took some creative license in some areas, such as the storms on Mars: Mars' atmosphere is about 1% as dense as the Earth's so storms would never be as severe as it is depicted here, but overall they did a fantastic job. Great movie.

23:40 Challenger. Saw it in a classroom, our teacher had to leave for the day. She couldn't deal.

The irony of hot stuff while transporting an object emitting radiation. I lol when i first saw that.

Hi Mari! Just came from Twitch, glad that your reacting to this one - quite inspiring to watch -

Sol is the term used to define the length of a day on mars. Mars rotates slighty slower than earth resulting in a day that's around 34 minutes longer than a day on earth. That's not something explcitly explained in the movie. To translate that more effectively that means 48 sols would be approximately equivalent to 49 days on earth. One of the things I always love about this movie is when they're breaking down the mav modifications to Vincent and his expression is just this ever increasing mask of incredulity.

Best movie reaction I have seen in a while! You are my kind of crazy!!

The Elrond council joke is by far the funniest thing in the movie because of the person who delivers it

It was filmed in Jordan for the Mars locations, the indoor sets were in Budapest and Hungary.

22:36 He did said that all the music is disco music belongs to his commander or something.

Things are expanded a lot more in the book, with several more things going wrong along the way, particularly with communications and on the journey across Mars. One of my favourite books of recent years. I love the movie but I'd recommend anyone who enjoyed the movie to give it a read.

Farmers or anyone can cut a potato into quarters. as a potato ages, it grows an "eye" or a little sprout. if each quarter has an eye, you can plant it and the eye will grow above ground, sprouting leaves and stalks, while more potatoes grow under ground. after a few weeks, you can harvest the new potatoes and repeat the process.

What this movie made me realize is that Sean Bean not only dies in a lot of his roles but he also is a betrayer in a lot of them. Sometimes he’s both betrayer and dies. This movie he was good guy betrayer but didn’t die vs National Treasure where he was bad guy betrayer and didn’t die.

You should really watch Contact with Jodie Foster, you'd probably love it.

The creators of this movie made a KZfaq channel and posted a few extras. One of them was an in-movie interview of all the crew when they were still being tested for their spot on the Hermes. They just spent a long time in total isolation from the world and were asked to say what they thought of other members. Everybody liked Mark, the glue that helped them not long each other through his humor. But I liked Johannsen's comment on the commander : "Lewis is a badass."

A 'sol' is what they call a martian day in this movie. it's about a half hour longer than an earth day (which, incidentally, is why a lot of people who work on mars missions, for example the Perseverence Rover, end up with work schedules that shift by a half hour every day).

Sol is a term used for a Mars day, which is slightly more than the Earth 24 hours day. Therefore its the number of day/night cycles. Fun fact: JPL scientists monitoring a Mars mission live on the Mars day time cycle and eventually work odd shifts compared to others.

7:07 "What does that do?" That's an anesthetic, to numb the area so it doesn't hurt as much when he pulls the debris out of his wound. 15:40 - "What is a sol?" You are very close! "Sol" is a shortening of the NASA term "Solar Day," and it refers to the time it takes for a Mars to revolve once around its own axis. It is about 24 hours and 40 minutes long, which is roughly 3% longer than a day on Earth. 29:39 - "Where was this filmed?" It was actually filmed in Wadi Rum, Jordan. This is a valley cut into sandstone and granite rock, and it is also known as the Valley of the Moon. Other movies which have used this location for filming include Lawrence of Arabia, Prometheus, Rogue One, the live-action Aladdin, and Dune! 39:46 - "I wonder how much of it is possible?" You've probably already heard this by now, but the only thing in this movie that is technically impossible is the initial windstorm. Something about the atmosphere (too thin?) won't let winds get that bad on Mars. Almost all of the rest is scientifically sound. Fun fact: The author never intended to sell this story. He wrote it as a free serial for his website, one thing led to another, and then he sold the rights for "low-to-mid" 6 figures (something like $300,000?) @_@

I just thought that the fact Mari didn't know what "Martian" means was adorable hahaha I mean.... It was cute, IDK

Great movie, but I liked the book even more. They really go into the science details in the book. As a space nerd, I loved it.

why did i think it was adorable that you didnt know the word martian. i was like awwwwwwwww

When the director said that they'd skip the inspections and if it gets out, it's on him, he wasn't talking about rescuing Mark, he was talking about the launch mission to send him more supplies, because he was trying to get it launched as soon as possible so it'd get there before he ran out of food. If they did inspections, they wouldn't be able to launch in time if they found problems. They'd have to stop everything, fix whatever issue there was, inspect again, if there were more problems, stop again, etc. That would be extra months. So, he wasn't being glib with Mark's life. Just thought I'd clear that up.

Just something that might not have been explained yet. Patatoes, similar to many types of willow(the tree thing) basically grow if you stick one in the ground. Like, you can cut of a branch of a willow tree, stick it in the ground and you'll get a new one. It's also the most energy(calorie) dense thing you can plant and it holds a wide VARRIETY of nutrients. It does lack vitamines though hence why as you see his naked back you see a lot of blood everywhere, he suffers from scurvy, similar to what pirates had problems with. Lack of vitamines.

Matt Damon and Ben Aflac won best screen play academy awards for Good Will Hunting in 1997. You might want to review it some time. Actually it won two academy awards, golden globes and a slew of other awards

On a potato (aardappel) there are called an eye in English. You cut a potato up with each piece having an eye or bud. The plant grows from these. The potato with each eye is the nutrient for the baby plant. You plant it, fertilize it, water it .. and you get a potato .. hopefully

Great reactions to a great movie, exactly the same feelings I went through even knowing the gist of the story from the book (which I couldn't put down while reading). Matt Damon was the perfect actor for the role of Watney and the rest of the cast worked well together and were adapted quite well considering they didn't appear in the book all that much (being that it was heavily focused on Watney's logs from a first person perspective). Spoilers ahead if anyone hasn't read the book and is planning on it (highly recommended). The ups and downs here just a few compared to in the book. The hydrogen explosion was much more violent in the book, to the point where Watney is knocked out and is surprised when he comes to that, not only is he still alive, the Hab and all of its systems are still perfectly fine. While preparing the rover for the journey to ARES IV a drill electrically shorts out Pathfinder and Watney loses communication from NASA (he's able to communicate to them in Morse code using rocks but they can't respond). He has to complete the journey without them only regaining communication when he boards ARES IV (this makes the boarding a ship without permission line make more sense in the book as he couldn't get permission like he could in the movie). During the journey to ARES IV, he almost runs out of power by narrowly avoiding a dust storm and only finds a way around it by laying out solar panels kilometres apart to measure power gain/loss to find a way around the storm without overly affecting his timeline. And while entering the Schiaparelli crater where the ARES IV's MAV is located the rover tips on its side and he has to jerry rig a way to flip it (and the trailer) back onto its wheels to complete the journey. Combined with the things that made it into the movie, the guy went through some shit.

Please watch "MARS ATTACKS!"! Packed with movie stars!

I love that you were as excited by "Waterloo" as I was when I saw the movie! :)

"Our parents watched the Moon landing on TV" - yes, they did. With me sitting there with them. Oh, I feel old! 👴 Anyone with me on 'Gravity' being on Mary's list? Lots of spinning around in that one! It's also a survival movie, Mary, with awesome special effects, and it's quite short and to-the-point, about the length of a Luna nap.

I haven't scanned the comments but "good Will Hunting" or "Dogma". :)

Have you watched "The Girl W/The Dragon Tattoo"? I highly recommend. The original is great, but has subtitles for English. The remake w/Daniel Craig is pretty good too though.

I love this movie. And the book was even more amazing. The book even reads like Matt Damon is the main protagonist. I read it before seeing the moving, and it's like the book was written for him.

I think they filmed the majority of this in Wadi Rum, in Jordan - one of the few places on Earth that has geography comparable to Mars. The book 'The Martian' is really worth a read, too. Mark has to deal with so much in the book that they had to take out of the film otherwise it would be too long. Shame as some of it is really intense and adds to the character of Mark and how he thinks.

So as an interesting note, NASA has in fact stated that this is the most accurate sci-fi book/movie to be produced. Pretty much everything was as close to real as you could make it.

Mars is quite an interesting and horrible place to live at, we haven't figured out how we gonna grow anything on the poisonous soil of mars, the atmosphere is 99 times thinner than earth, there's no radiation shielding like we have on earth as there is no active magnetic core which creates a magnetic filed shielding from charged particles of sun, discharged in a solar storm, which actually happens a lot. Sand storms are often, nights are -100 degrees colder. Gravity is only 1/3 that of earth, means the longer you stay your bones would lose its mass and, so every crew members like space must do weight training, but in long run it won't be enough

This is absolutely my favorite movie of all time. It's very sympathetic to the novel and only really cuts a couple of corners, primarily to keep the runtime down. I'd have been fine with it being three and a half hours to be honest.

That is one of the very few occasions where I really enjoyed the Trifecta of editions: movie, paperback and audiobook (greate voice work by non other than R.C. Bray)

9:00 They made him a botanist, ET the Extra Terrestrial was a botanist. Movie reference? A botanist left behind on an alien planet, who must find a way to contact his friends? This movie is the same story as ET but without the kids.

Great reaction Mary, I love the channel. I have to confess I mostly watch because I love your accent. And your laugh. Those are the two things that keep me coming back. It doesn't even really matter what your watching. You're quite entertaining, lol. Keep posting!

The non realistic things are : the suits that one person can put on his own (but it is not far away to accomplish that) , the big spacecraft that is like the space station (the technology is there but the cost is to great) , and the wind at first (mars has very thin atmosphere so it is impossible to be dangerous for the ship. ). The orbits , times , math , communications , the water making , the planting using human waste (bacteria) are all real.

The NASA Building from this movie is in real life in Budapest, called "The Whale", and the chinese Headquarters is only about a kilometer from it, the "Palace of Arts" (MÜPA). So NASA and the chinese are much closer as you would think... :D

Hey Mary! Matt Damon has been as main character in a lot of movies! I would recommend "The Bourne Identity", it's actually a trilogy! 😀

Mary loving the music in this restores my faith and gives me hope for the future.

FYI, Potatoes are a root, not a fruit or vegetable. When a potato is pulled out of the ground, it has sections of roots growing out called "eyes." Cutting up the potato into section with on eye each will allow the potato to essentially become the seeds for more potatoes. Fun fact, the potatoes we eat are the exact same genetics for the past century or so, since potatoes are not grown from seeds. The potato plant does sprout fruit, but it is poisonous. We don't replant the potato seed out of fear of mutating the root into an inedible state.

The challenger shuttle is what you are thinking of. It blew up when I was a kid. It carried a school teacher and was supposed to carry Big Bird but there wasn't a space suit that would fit

one minor point that gets me - When Whatney wakes up , apparently he never notices that the return rocket is gone....oh, others have prob. mentioned - NASA helped with this flick, > an 'aren't we smart '' advertisement .many of the photos are actually from Mars & probably NASA buildings. ( ? ) the moving rover , Jordan.

Andy Weir did write a sequel short story with Mark in a fast food restaurant and absolutely positively wanting NO F@&ING FRIES with his burger.

The author of the novel, Andy Weir only took one creative license. He needed an excuse to strand the astronaut on Mars. But in real life, a strong wind on Mars is a very soft wind on Earth because the atmosphere is very thin, and for all practical purposes it could even be considered as vacuum, except for descending to the surface. It is thin enough to make aerobrake impractical or to use control surfaces like a plane, but dense enough to not allow ships to turn backwards to conduct retrobraking burns. Mars is a nightmare for vehicle designers. Aside of that Weir did proper research on all the problems that are handled in a realistic way.

We need a full-on "Disco Dance Party with Mary"

In the book, Mark doesn't cut a hole in his suit and Dr. Beck reaches into the capsule where Mark is and pulls him out instead of being caught by Commander Lewis. Overall the book and movie are similar but with some differences (the book is much more detailed of course). Great book AND movie!

Today's MSM : "Does Mark Watney deserve to be saved, after his recent hate messages from Mars" lol

The Martian is a fantastic film and an awesome book i highly recommend reading. On a side note, after 26 MCU films I like playing "did they appear in an MCU movie?" with the cast of other movies. So far: "actor" Loki (and Deadpool butt-wipe), Wong, Karl Mordo, Spiderman criminal, Iron Man 2 Us Marshal and The Winter Soldier. Who did I miss?

A "sol" is one day on Mars, which just so happens to only be about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day.

Yes, absolutely. Sol is the time it takes for the planet to make one complete revolution, thus exposing all aspects of Mars to Sol (sun).

Sol is the name of our star (the Sun). A day is ~24 hours. Mars rotates differently from Earth, so the equivalent of a day is a sol.

Hi Mary! Yes, Matt Damon is a great actor, but he won his Oscar award not for acting but for Best Screenplay for the movie "Good Will Hunting", together with his old friend Ben Affleck. Both of them also starred in the film, which also had Robin Williams and Williams took home the Best Supporting Actor for the role. You usually see him as Jason Bourne in the Bourne Series of movies, in the Oceans series of movies (Oceans 11, 12, and 13), Saving Private Ryan (as Pvt. James Ryan), The Departed, The Green Zone, Courage Under Fire, True Grit, and even cameos in Thor:Ragnarok, and the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. He is considered one of the best actors of this generation

The Martian is ALMOST entirely scientifically accurate. The only MAJOR inaccuracy is that the same thin Martian atmosphere that mean Mark Watney was able to take off without the nose cone to his ship, and just use a tarp instead, ALSO means that there's simply no atmosphere to create the massive wind storm that set off the events of the whole movie. Mars DOES have storms and high winds, but the thin atmosphere means they're weak and feeble. Think of how it feels to get blasted by a massive blast of water from a hose, or to get hit by a wave. And then compare that to the equivalent blast of air from a fan or a storm. The mass and density of the water hits SOOOOOO much harder than the air. The same is true for a wind storm on Earth vs a wind storm on Mars. Earth has a thick and dense atmosphere with a lot of matter (air molecules) to smash into you and blow you around. Mars has a thin atmosphere with very sparse air molecules that don't amount to much more than a light breeze even in the most powerful Martian storms.

I find you adorable. Have found that the more I watch, the better it gets. Was first interested in your accent. It's been great seeing you learn a new craft. You are part of my"what happened next Grandpa" group. I can only imagine what being Robinson Crusoe with the added pressure of you can't survive without the protection of your artificial environment. Great story. Great cast. Great job by you. Maybe expand your choice of music.

Fun Fact (not...): The crash you mentioned (23:37) was probably the Space Shuttle Challanger 1986, it was the first time a regular civilian, Christa McAuliffe, would go to space. She was a school teacher and the most horrible thing is that her class of kids (11-13 years old) were actually there at NASA Kennedy Space Center, watching live as it all went very wrong... Thanks for your great reactions!

The story is Robinson Crusoe, same with Cast Away With Tom Hanks. Another space movie is called Robinson Crusoe on Mars.