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A movie without a villain, without bigotry and hate. Just mankind working together to save one man. IMHO one of the best movies of the last ten years.

That is Ned Stark, one of the few times Sean Bean’s character doesn’t die And the whole Project Elrond thing was funnier since Sean Bean was also there 😂

Teddy is not cold or a coward. He's doing his job. When you're a leader, you have to make unpopular decisions

The Martian is one of those movies that i watch when i feel down and need a Feelgood movie to cheer me up.

The bit with Mark blowing himself up and THEN wearing his space helmet in the second attempt is a classic example of - "Safety SECOND - for when Safety First wasn't considered in the original plan." :D

The crew can't just simply turn the ship around and pick up Watney because it would require burning too much fuel to turn around, change trajectory, go back to Mars, retrieve Watney, and turn the ship back around to head home. If they run out of fuel, no one makes it back to Earth at all. Also, both planets would need to be in close enough orbit with each other to make the trip as short as possible. Both planets orbit the sun at different speeds, and Mars' orbit of the sun is wider than Earth's. That means the distance between Earth and Mars can be longer or shorter depending on each planet's orbit. It's absolutely necessary to travel between both at the right time - when they are closest to each other.

This is a rare film that focuses on positivity and solutions rather than the crises occurring.

There's a hilarious line from the book they had to delete. When they're resupplying the space ship Johannsen secretly tells her dad that if something *does* go wrong the crew decided to take cyanide pills so that she could - and this is gross - eat them as sustenance in order to survive. After everything goes according to plan Martinez helps her grab the supplies and on the way casually asks her who she would've eaten first. She races on in disgust and Martinez calls after her, "BUT I THOUGHT YOU LIKED MEXICAN FOOD."

A lot of astronaut training is knowing other team members jobs and a fair amount of medical procedures in case it's the doctor who's hurt or dead.

Sigourney Weaver, Russell Crowe, Matt Damon - Ridley Scott knows how to choose actors that can carry movies based on their sheer charisma

My wife and I are chemists & fell in love with the movie when he said he needed to “science the sh*t out” of it.

Matt Damon @ 6:57 "looks at pouch containing his own waste." Mary Cherry @ 6:58 "because he knows his sh!t." Impressive.

“He’s played an astronaut so many times” - 2x in 84 movies lol

I think you are being a little harsh on Teddy , unlike the other members of NASA he's looking at the bigger picture and not just about Mark Not only was Mark a Botanist he was also the missions Engineer. The reason the airlock blew is due to the canvas of the Hab stretching it started with the storm on Sol 18 and every time Mark used the airlock it caused more stress eventually causing it to fail.

12:05 he's not heartless, of course he cares. It's just that he as the director has to watch over space exploration as a whole, and all his decisions are directed at doing his best to not jeopardize the 'industry' as a whole.

"Turn around." So this isn't a dig against you, it's more me shaking my fists in impotent rage against the heavens, but I really wish that the basics of how space 'works' were more broadly known. They can't just turn around and go get him due to orbital mechanics. Can't. Can. Not. And what they do later in the movie is basically a case of everything lining up just right for a lucky Hail Mary attempt.

Andy Weir is a fantastic writer. This movie was great and so is the book. I'm hoping Artemis gets turned into a movie.

I adore this movie and how it approaches the story from an engineers/scientists mindset. It's not about some vague notion of believing in yourself or trying really hard. It's about using expertise to solve one problem at a time.

The reason the airlock “blew up” and destroyed his crops: The habitat is essentially a pressurized “tent”. Which sounds flimsy, but it does have an internal frame. And the hab had *three* airlocks. But because the rover and the Pathfinder probe were on one side, he kept using the same airlock over and over instead of using the others. And the fabric around the airlock got stressed and finally gave way. (This is info from the book that clarify what you see - READ THE BOOK!! It’s even more awesome than the movie! )

With all the unrealistic sci-fi people watch, they don't understand you can't just turn around. It takes huge amount of fuel to turn around. Fuel they wouldn't have. Just to make it there everything must be carefully balanced.

Fun Fact: Of that 6 Person Crew 5 People have been in Marvel Movies

This was a film where casting the lead was everything. You need just the right person, when you're spending so much time with one isolated character. The whole thing hinges on it. The studio wanted Channing Tatum, but Ridley got it just right. And beyond that, the whole supporting cast is phenomenal, as well.

If u enjoyed this, u should check out a film called Moon (2009). It is one of the most criminally underrated films of all time and has an Oscar snubbed performance from Sam Rockwell. And it is directed by David Bowie’s son

The reason they can't just turn the ship around is because they have a finite and carefully measured amount of fuel. The ship has enough to get to Mars, decelerate, and then accelerate back to Earth and decelerate. If they turned around, they would use up all their fuel getting to Mars and then get stuck.

"Why can't they just turn the ship around..." Someone really needs to play some KSP =-)

Orbital mechanics means you cannot simply "turn around". Getting from one place to another in space is mostly a matter of burn really hard to go the right way and then spend (in this case) months "falling" towards your objective. Attempting to "simply turn around" means counteracting all that time spent "falling" (read: accelerating) and there is no way to carry that much fuel with you. "Stopping" at your destination is a matter of a gravity capture or aerobraking since most of your fuel was already used up just to start the journey. Notice in this film, they do the opposite of a gravity capture and perform a "gravity assist" (slingshot) where the extra speed needed to return to Watney comes from "falling" so fast past the Earth that they shoot right back out there.

I think this is one of Ridley Scott's best movies.

One of those films that you can watch more than once and that makes for a good movie

Mary: "He knows his shit." Mark: *literally picking up vacuum-sealed shit*

I'm glad you liked this. Please consider watching Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as angels in Dogma.

In the original book there's one more peril for him: as he's driving toward the pickup point, there's a major storm that NASA can see approaching but they can't contact him to warn him about it. I kind if wish they'd included that in the movie.

I love how much hard science is in this. The only 'creative license' he took (based on science of the time. I know that there are a few things that have changed since then) was on the strength of the winds. With 1% of the atmosphere of Earth, that means that 100km/h winds would have the force of 1km/h winds. But, hey. He needed the planet to strike the first blow.

Each of the crew actually had two different 'functions'; Commander Lewis, for example, wasn't just the Mission Commander, but she was also assisting with gathering the appropriate soil samples (the geology mission). Watney was a Mission Specialist; obviously trained in Botany (he had a Master's Degree in it), as well as Mechanical Engineering (also holding a Master's...they had explained some of that in some of the extra stuff). So, he was an over-trained gardener & handy-man, exactly what he needed.

6:59, perfect timing. “He knows his s***.” As he is literally picking up the freeze dried poop.

A sol is a Martian day. Mars actually rotates just slightly slower than Earth so for simplicity's sake, they're essentially the same length. Therefore each sol is actually equal to a full Earth day.

What I've always loved about this movie that puts it in my top list of movies, is that its such a positive, feel-good movie. Like, there are no villains in the movie, no bad guys out there to purposefully fuck shit up for their sole benefit/profit. Its all real people trying to do a job to save one person, and they figure it out and it ends on a positive note.

The base was only meant to be occupied for 31 days. The airlock wasn't designed to go through so many cycles.

Between Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar, and The Martian the US government has spent a whole lot of money rescuing Matt Damon.

Glorious thing about this movie is that it’s actually pretty scientifically accurate and somewhat possible to do things like this.

"How did this happen?" Well first Matt Damon was born.. ...and about 44 years later he got stuck on Mars.

There are seven Marvel actors in this film... Matt Damon Michael Pena Benedict Wong Sebastian Stan Chewitel Ejiofor Donald Glover Kate Mara

24:53 For some reason I love this part of the movie so much. I just imagine Sojourner going "HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT! HUMANS ARE YOU SEEING THIS SHIT! MARS HAS LIFE AND A WAY STATION AND PAVEMENT!"

Dr Mann: Pray you never learn just how good it can be to see another face Mark Watney: Hold my potatoes A thoroughly touching and lovely film

"They're f--king Matt Damon, and heading to the stars. They're f--king Matt Damon, and leaving him on Mars!"

If you want to see a space rescue movie that's even better than The Martian, check out Apollo 13. It stars Tom Hands, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, and Ed Harris. It's one of my all time favorites!

Why can't they just turn the station arround? Because it's not a car that has a steering wheel. It's basically on a eliptical orbit/trajectory that intersects Earth, the only way to turn it arround is come back to Earth first...

Still my favorite movie ever. AND THE BOOK IS EVEN BETTER!

"he knows his shit" just as he is picking up a freeze dried package of his shit lol

To give you a little context - the reason the ship couldn't just turn around is that orbital mechanics are really complicated. Just turning around would have actually taken longer (potentially much, much longer) than an entirely separate mission launched from Earth at the right time of the year. The slingshot maneuver around Earth took advantage of the right timing and on top of that picked up much more acceleration from Earth's gravity than the ship's engines would have been able to manage alone.

Quite possibly the only hard Sci-Fi feelgood movie in existence. I love it.. even though there are some flaws in the physics with storms not being dangerous on Mars being the big one.

6:58 Matt Damon picks up packets of poop. Mary: “He knows his shit.”

why does everyone think that you can just "turn around" in space?

"When they get him back, this man needs a promotion!" No, when they get him back, this man needs a good retirement plan.

Ned "Boromir" Stark: One does not simply survive on Mars single-handedly and get off the planet.

I never thought I'd enjoy a book that gets so granular with the science and math but here we are. The film does a good job of balance that. The one thing the film doesnt do well is explain certain things. The habitat blewout because there was fatigue on the seal because of the storms, IIRC, and it failed. Unlike sci-fi, you cant just turn a spaceship around. Theyre traveling super fast and would have to decelerate, adjust, and accelerate to Mars, then (presumably) decelerate when they get to Mars. All of that takes fuel and they (again, presumably) then wouldnt have enough to return to Earth.

They answer the blowout a bit more clearly in the book. He kept using the same exit over and over, and the canvas wore out and tore.

"That looks like Ned Stark" Well thats because it is

One of the few movie where Sean Bean doesn't die...

If you want a movie dealing with loneliness away from Earth, I'd recommend 'Moon' with Sam Rockwell! Also I really can't recommend 'Good Will Hunting' enough, also starring Matt Damon, he also wrote the script together with Ben Affleck, fantastic movie, and so far in my opinion Damons best dramatic performance.

That's so funny !!! "When he gets back this man needs a promotion"... Ah, he's already the highest ranking person on the planet. Lol

6:57 - *“There's actually a chance here, 'cause he knows his shit.”* Said at the _exact_ moment that Watney picks up the crew's… waste products.

7:26 During WW2 my grandmother had some potatoes saved to plant in the spring. They were starving though and ate the potatoes and saved the eyes(they weren't sure if you needed the flesh of the potatoes or not). They didn't starve that day or when it came time to grow them. So yes.. the answer is yes.

Idk if you ever started The Expanse, but this can be seen as a prequel of sorts to that

The ship the crew is on, Hermes, is a giant ship that does not do good in turning around sharply. Its like a bus that takes the crew to and fro Earth and Mars using an ion engine that's constantly accelerating compared to a fuel engine like they do in Iris and Tien Shen (sp?). Its why the MAV and MDV are important ships. Hermies is the main ship that gets you to earth and mars but MAV gets you out of mars while the MDV gets you from Hermes to Mars.

if WONG just used his Portal, he could have save Mark in seconds

The science in this movie is top knotch if you omit the storm in the beginning. And Pathfinder is a real Mars probe currently on Mars.

This is one of those movies where you can watch it ten times and you still forget that he survives and that reunion scene is always as tense as f*ck. lol

With regard to the potato, yes you can stick a potato in the ground and it will grow. No seeds necessary. In fact, that's how farmers do it on earth because a potato plant from seed takes 14 months, but a potato plant from another potato cut up takes 2 months.

There are so many moments in this that make me tear up every single time. Love this move. And I hear the book is even better. I love the credits where we see where it is that everyone ended up. The event brought the world together, and the world stayed together: CSA, ESA, and NASA team up on the next Aries mission. "Start a Love Train" indeed. :-D

21:09 book has him go on a sailer mouth spree about moving to western Australia because its as far as possible from Idaho

LOVE this movie so much! And yes Mark Watney is really smart. He's not just a botanist, he's also an engineer! They don't say it in the movie, but my mum who read the book shared that with me.

The crew can't just "turn around". Their spacecraft does not have a surplus of fuel to reverse course. They also wouldn't have had enough food for the return trip with added travel time. They received more fuel and food prior to the rescue mission to Mars.

As an old kerbal space program player I know doing a u-turn mid trip to another planet is not possible. The amount of fuel needed to stop alone would empty the tanks.

The novel makes a point of pointing out that between his particular skill set (he's not just a botanist, he's a mechanical engineer) and his sense of humor Watney was probably the only one that could have been marooned like that. It's even mentioned he was selected for Ares 3 in part because of his sense of humor making him an unofficial morale officer in a way. I also always have to laugh that they unabashedly did something that, in the book, Mark mentions would have happened had it been a movie. Right after he's rescued he notes that if it were a movie, the crew would have all met him at the airlock, but they had jobs to do.

Between Saving privatel Ryan, The Martian and Interstellar, the US government has spent billions trying to rescue Matt Damon

I couldn't help but laugh at 6:58 "he knows his shit" as he's literally picking up packaged shit.

As for why they can't "just turn back." That's how space travel works. Things aren't like in Star Trek where ships can do whatever. In reality, they are extremely fuel limited and bound to exact trajectories between planetary bodies. The only way for the crew to turn around is to use Earth for a slingshot, and even that is with artistic license. They were moving too fast to do that in real life.

FYI, if you read the book, the reason he had that outburst after the hab blew (a stress tear) was because he knew it mean all the microbes the potatoes needed to survive were dead and would not be coming back. So he was left with what potatoes he had left. So extreme rationing. Literally 2 years of scurvy and malnutrition and pain were ahead. All his efforts over many months were for naught and he couldn't contain the frustration anymore.

“I’ll expect your resignation” “Bastard!”

“It’s given him something to do. It’s purpose and structure to his day” 😂 cause, ya’know, he was so bored and all BEFORE, being an astronaut on MARS 😅

I don’t know if you have, but the Bourne Identity series of movies is Matt Daemon’s breakout roll and my favorites

Yup, we cut up potatoes and grow them regularly. There is no such thing as a potato seed, as such. Not in the seeds in a packet sense. It works best if you get organic potatoes or potatoes from a farm, because a lot of stores like to spray them with a chemical that makes it harder for them to grow.

There should be a compilation of Mary saying "This is my worst nightmare."

You should absolutely enjoy the audiobook of this as well. The sass/smart ass is dialed up even more and the voice actor playing Mark does a brilliant job.

She isn't the brightest bulb in the Christmas tree

You cant simply turn a rocket around in the middle of space. Despite how its portrayed in sci-fi, spaceships dont work like planes. Generally, a rocket blasts off a planet till i reaches a certain speed and then shuts down its engines to safe fuel. After that it simply 'glides' towards it target making only minor adjustments along the way. If you wanna turn around in space youre going to have to turn your rocket around and slow down your speed all the way to zero and then speed up again in the opposite direction. This costs a gigantic amount of energy and fuel. Basically, realistically, its very unlikely a rocket can ever 'turn around' in the middle of interplanetary space. They will generally need a gravity assist (the thing thats explained as if its a eureka moment later on in the movie despite every nerd being well aware of that it is).

This is an excellent example of "hard" science fiction, which means that the producers try to adhere to the laws of physics and known science. I would like to see more like this.

The Survival Rule of Three 3 minutes without oxygen 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food 3 months without hope

Sue Storm (Fan4stic) The Winter Soldier, Mordo (Dr. Strange), Wong (Dr. Strange), Aaron Davis (Spider-Man Homecoming) Luis (Antman) Vuk (X-Men Dark Phoenix) Thors Asgardian actor (Ragnarok) are all in this movie!! And Iron Man....kinda

Among my friends and I, Jessica Chastain has become synonymous with competence. So when someone does something very well, we say she (or he) Chastained it. LOL. (I realize Matt Damon's the super space botanist here, but Chastain was a competent leader, and she's pretty much manifestation of competence in ever other movie she's in.)

This was a great review on your part, truly enjoyable. Thanks.

Spacecraft mostly drift unpropelled. The Hermes, as it returned to Earth, was coasting, falling toward Earth within the sun's gravity well. Turning around isn't a thing they could do. The way they did turn around - with a gravity-assist from the Earth - was the only way they could have done that. Spacecraft really don't carry much propellant, because once they're in space they hardly need any. Just give a little push in the direction you want to go and want for inertia to do the rest.

7:25 the point at which you realized how to grow potatoes, cracked me up lol great videos keep it up!

My favorite movie. This one sparked me to start watching a lot more Matt Damon films.

This movie is one of those movies that is so good IT'S INFURIATING!!

15:50 "that looks like Ned Stark." Can't be. That guy is at least a head taller than Ned.

It was so funny at 7:00 when you said he knows his shit - because of how literally true and pertinent it became moments later...

LOVE your reactions. Thanks Mary. Amazing how many experts on Space travel are out there. Keep going. Your work takes so much time and I appreciate it so much. Thanks again

Love your nails Mary Cherry!! Great reaction to this iconic movie!!! Thanks!!!