The fact that Dasha immediately understood the Elrond reference _and_ the Boromir connection AND said "One does not simply walk into Mordor" makes me sooo happy and impressed. 😁
I always thought the "secret council" scene should have been extended. After the director claimed the codename of Glorfindel, everyone else in the room should have started making choices, then at the end Sean Bean should have muttered something like "I guess I'll have to be Boromir".
That the head of NASA Teddy asked for his code name to be Glorfindel at the secret Elrond meeting is also a notable geek moment. Glorfindel is a reference to a Rings character that wasn't in the movies but was in the books, showing that Teddy wasn't just a pencil-pushing administrator, but that he also had serious nerd credential
Yup. He did the stuff that Arwen does in the first movie. He was also the one who prophecised that the witch king wouldn't be killed by a man which was interpreted as unkillable/can't be killed by a man. Also killed one of the seven balrogs.
This is 99.9% scientifically accurate. The only thing that is inaccurate is the storm at the beginning. Mars' atmosphere is far too thin for anything even close to that powerful.
The 'Iron Man' sequence is also inaccurate. With only a cut on the hand, far from Mark's centre of gravity, Mark really could not go in a strait line, he should have spin. I am sure there are other minor inaccuracies in the movie, I just do not know them. But you are right by saying the movie highly scientifically accurate. At least 95%, probably 98+% accurate.
They never portray gravity realistically indoors. Outside they hand-wave it away by saying the bulky suit is making him move awkward, or he's sitting while he's driving. But when he is just walking around it's just using Earth gravity.
A 100 mph wind would feel like a light breeze due to the less dense atmosphere. It would take much more to tip over the vehicle than what was portrayed. Otherwise, the movie was awesome.
FYI, "hexadecimal" is a number format that's a denser alternative to our typical decimal system. Decimal is base 10, which means a single position encodes 10 possible digits (0 through 9) before you need to add another position (giving you 10). Hexadecimal is base 16, adding 6 more possible digits that we typically write as A through F. In decimal, you count "8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16" but in hexadecimal you count "8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10" -- so "10" in hexadecimal refers to the same number of items as "16" in decimal. Computer programmers often use hexadecimal because it's a more efficient use of computers' innate processing. An "ASCII table" is a standardized table that associates each character (like Y, a, or %) with a hexadecimal number.
Best related quote from the movie version: "I know where he's going with this." Why? Because I said damn near the exact same thing a split second before the mission specialist (Tim, I think) said it when I was watching this in the theater! ^_^
It's more useful for computer science because 16 is a power of 2, which 10 is not. Computers mostly still only have 0 or 1, at the lowest level. Doing base conversion math is work that can be avoided when the base is a power of 2. You will often see base2, base8, base16, and even base64 math used instead of the base10 system that's used in other sciences.
"...living on the planet there with no food but potatoes, this is totally a Russian style survival..." I nearly peed myself laughing on this :) If I were Watney, I'd be sorely tempted to sacrifice a potato ration to make vodka
Couldn't have, I don't think. You at least need yeast which is unlikely. You also need an enzyme to break down the starch into sugars the yeast can digest. You could malt the potatoes, but you would run through a lot of potatoes. Anyway in the movie at least he has grape juice, which would be a far easier way of making alcohol.
Hello Dasha! As to the characters played by Sebastian Stan and Kate Mara, the kiss had a bigger meaning. There is a cut scene where Jessica Chastain, the mission commander, finds out Michael Pena, the pilot, has been sleeping in the corridor as his room's temperature control has malfunctioned. During breakfast the next day, he tell Michael Pena to sleep in Sebastian Stan's room as Sebastian Stan rarely uses it. She then turns to Kate Mara and Stan, "You thought i didn't know what you two were doing? I'm Mission Commander. I know everything."
I always thought the "secret council" scene should have been extended. After the director claimed the codename of Glorfindel, everyone else in the room should have started making choices, then at the end Sean Bean should have muttered something like "I guess I'll have to be Boromir".
"If I see them cry I'll cry too" This exemplifies the quality I most admire in a person. Not just the ability but the willingness to put yourself in others shoes and feel with them and for them. You beautiful soul, Dasha.
I'm SO impressed that not only did you immediately recognize the name Elrond, but you immediately made the connection that Sean Bean was Boromir. I named my daughter, visible in my profile pick, Eowyn, if that means anything to you.
Yes, one of the very very few movies without any villains, violence, guns or deaths. Just smart people from all over the world working together to bring one man home.
@@ChristobanistanMost are unremarkable and tend to still have "villains." This one doesn't. Only Mars, Space, and Time. Nature and physics can't exactly be villains, they simply exist.
As a science buff I love this movie for so many instances of scientific accuracy. As an MCU fan it’s hilarious how many Marvel movie stars are in this movie. It made me wonder did the casting director of this film know someone at Marvel Studios. LOL.
The fact you understand phrases like "intercept velocity" and whatever else is actually amazing. You speak better english than most of the people I know.
I like this movie. This is a movie that talk about a human using his mind to get over obstacles. It is a positive movie which you don't see allot of that this days.
One of the things I like the most about your reaction videos is that you don't miss the emotional gravity of a single one of these moments. Moments that I see other reactors disregard or ignore. You are incredibly good at highlighting the emotional importance of these moments. And this was another great one. Nicely done.
29:00 In the book, when the crew made the decision to return to Mars, one of the things that could go wrong that they had to think about is what would happen if the resupply mission from Earth should fail. In that case, the Hermes STILL would have to go to Mars, but without enough food to feed everyone. The plan in that event was for the crew (other than Johanssen, the smallest of the crew) to commit suicide so that Johannsen could preserve and eat them to survive. Barring that, they would all die. After the resupply mission was a success the crew teased Johannsen about it.
There is a sci-fi book and tv series called The Expanse. It takes place throughout our solar system in the future about 200 years. The original writers of the series love this movie so much they actually retconned it into the show’s canonical past. In one of the episodes a Martian ship called The Watney appears. So the Mars colonies displayed on the show exist in the same fictional universe as this movie. FYI - The Expanse would be a great series for you to react to. It begins its last season in December 2021.
No matter how many times I watch this movie at home or TH-cam, I tear up towards the end. Great message by never giving up and working together humans can solve any problem. Then to see the US and China exploring Mars together it’s me in the feels.
11:27: "For each problem, he finds a solution." This. This could easily be the resume of the film. For each of the problems that either Mark or the crew got, they eventually found a solution. 13:50: Mark is recovering the robot lander 'Mars Pathfinder'. It was a real-life NASA mission, from 1997, and consisted on a lander and a robot. It worked for around 3 months, before the (possibly) battery failed to charge (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder)
Pathfinder (aka Mars Pathfinder) is a NASA mission from 1997. It had the first rover to operate on Mars, Sojourner. It was a cute little thing. To land it they LITERALLY bounced it with huge balloons. Incredible. Then they used that same thing for Spirit and Opportunity. Pathfinder and Sojourner were test beds for various technologies.
I remember as a kid I watched this live, it was one of the events that first inspired me to be an engineer. Watching the videos of how it would bounce and flip open, then seeing the little rover on the Martian surface, it was amazing.
@19:05, The commander and 2nd in command of the Hermes mission are military officers. Being told that they left a comrade behind would hit them even harder. That is part of the code and bond among soldiers - don’t leave anyone behind. Even if all you can do is bring the body of a comrade home you try.
This was my favorite audiobook, the starting sentence grips you immediately and doesn't let go, "I'm fucked I'm so very very fucked" is a brilliant way to open a book
You really seemed to enjoy the movie, so I would recommend reading the book which is even better and has even more challenges for Watney to overcome. Also, if you really want to know what Watney said when they told him to watch his language, it's in the book as well!
@@robwagnon6578 Well, I guess if you are the planetary commander/president/spokesman with the unanimous approval of the entire population, that gives you authority over the commander-in-chief of one smallish part of another one!
@@Xoferif “I made the mistake of typing it into google. Don’t.” True story: first time I watched the extended edition, I paused to look it up because I’d never heard the term before. First line spoken when I resumed the film after recovering from 🤮🤮🤮 was Mitch’s warning not to look it up. If only I’d waited a few more seconds!
Your reactions to this movie covered the entire emotional spectrum, which is why I enjoy your channel so much. Great reaction video Dasha!!! Keep it going!!!
The movie did a great job of telling the story in 2 hours. But the book is even soooooo much better. The movie showed how hard it is to survive on mars. The book gave a feel like mars was a living being and it wanted to fucking kill mark wantney.
Respectfully, I think I preferred the movie over the book, just in terms of tone and feel; I think the movie lets us grapple with emotional beats in a way that the book often undercuts with humor. Just personal preference. I enjoyed both quite a lot In any case, I completely agree with you that as an adaptation, it's incredibly well-done
This movie is great for many reasons. Foremost it proves that you don’t need a human antagonist (the only antagonist is Mars itself) to tell an engaging and entertaining story. And you don’t even have to stray that far from scientific accuracy to do so.
The basic types of conflict in storytelling are often classified as Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, and Man vs. Nature. (Man vs. Society might be included too, but this can also be thought of as just a different type of Man vs. Man.) In the Martian, we see mostly Man vs. Nature.
I think this is the first time I've been to your channel and I must say, I'm very impressed with your intelligence and ability to catch on to what's happening in such a scientific movie. I also liked how you caught the LotR reference with Sean "Boromir" Bean in the scene. 👍👍
This is one of my favorite movies of all time because I love films about people overcoming challenges. I've heard the book is even funnier and better of course.
Read the book and I like the movie. It captures the characters very well. You get more (speculative) science stuff and nerdiness in the book but this is very much an adaption of the book rather than just being based on it imo.
You skipped the part where the Ares crew calls Rich Parnell “a steely-eyed missile man,” which (as I mentioned in my Apollo 13 comment) is a genuine high compliment coined for the man who saved the Apollo 12 mission when the craft was struck by lightning during launch. If you’re into space sci-fi drama, I would also recommend Gravity with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
The phrase "steely-eyed missile man" wasn't specifically coined for John Aaron (btw - just typing in "SCE to AUX" in a search engine instantly calls up his name. Heh. ) it came from earlier in NASA's history - possibly back to the days of the testing of captured V2 rocket tech in White Sands New Mexico back when NASA was actually NACA. But EECOM John Aaron most certainly DESERVED the high compliment!! And in a situation like the one in the movie - so would a theoretical Rich Parnell. An equivalent modern term for comparison might be "coming in clutch with the save". ^_^
Gravity certainly LOOKS real and is absolutely gorgeous. But if you know anything at all about orbital mechanics - you'll quickly realize that it's WILDLY wrong about the way orbits work. Still worth viewing. Just with that caveat.
@@logandarklighter Whenever I do a search for that term, he’s the person that comes up, so if it wasn’t invented for him, it may have only become popular after him.
Sol is the Latin word for Sun. ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and it basically a shorthand way for computers to talk to each other.
i think one of the best things about this movie is theres no artificial bad guy. no enemy (other than perhaps mars itself) theres no sudden moment in the movie where it goes from good times to bad. its a very entertaining and relaxing movie to watch. i think ive watched it about 20 times lol
Loved this reaction. You really got the many nuances and empathised with the characters so well. If you had the training and qualifications that Mark had, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have given up. Bravo!
Haha because of your accent when you said “rationing the food” it sounded like “Russianing the food” which I thought was pretty accurate with all the potatoes!!
I gotta say I really enjoyed your reaction, you were so engaged and it was a fun time hanging out with you as always. The beauty of Maths and its powers of problem solving.
I really liked your reaction. It's fun to watch someone enjoy a movie as much as I did. We follow Mark's adventures and it's an emotional roller coaster ride. Matt Damon did such a wonderful job. And I was impressed by how real all the science was. Another masterpiece from director Ridley Scott.
If you think the commander had been feeling guilty over leaving him behind, just think how she would have felt when he slipped through her grasp and if he wasn't able to grab ahold of the line at 38:32.
This is the most Marvely non-Marvel movie to date, with 7 actors from 6 movies in the MCU: Bucky - Winter Soldier Mordo and Wong - Dr. Strange Luis - Ant Man "Mr. Criminal" - webbed to the car in Homecoming "U. S. Marshall" - serving papers to Toni in Ironman 2 Play actor "Loki" - Thor: Ragnarok
Hexadecimal is a base 16 number system. Digits: 0-9, A, B, C, D, E, F (15). So, the integers 0 through 255 can be represented with only two hexadecimal digits. ASCII = American Standard Code for Information InterchangeIt is the way to encode numbers, letters, punctuation, and some symbols needed for computer systems. More modern systems use Unicode to represent those characters in different languages and script systems. This requires more data.
Hey Dasha, I recommend you watch "Gravity " with Sandra Bullock. Whether you do a reaction or not is up to you. But your in for a "wtf?" Mind blowing survival in space movie unmatched by any other. Best wishes for you ❤️
Hi Dasha very enjoyable reaction as always, one thing I'm surprised you didn't pick up on is the connection between the names of Mars, Ares, and Hermes, Which is Mars being the Roman god of war and agriculture, Ares is the Greek god of war and Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology.
The terms used in science are basically just latin. Botanist.(plants) Paleothologist(fossils basically) Biologist(life) Archeologist(human activity studied from non-written(that's a historian) non-living left overs) etc.
21:14 In the book (which this movie is based on), Mark at point says, "Of course duct tape works in space. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped." 🤣 *Might have paraphrased since I don't have the book in front of me
Here's the full quote. (Note highlighted section below) You were very close! “Of course duct tape works in *a near vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere.* Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.”
Thanks Dasha. Yes, to see people working (International effort) was a wonderful theme. I was a kid during the early space shots (1960s) and the competition between the US and Russians was pretty divisive. It was wonderful to hear your wonderful commentaries. Wouldnt it be wonderful if the entire world could unite in an effort to save and preserve life. Love your channel!!!!
If you like Matt Damon in this please react to "The Bourne Identity" the first of a series of movies about that character. A summary of the beginning movie "A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory." Thanks for your consideration.
15:20 ASCII Table ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort.
There have been several Soviet/Russian Cosmonauts who have done as well. Vladimir Komarov heroically made his failing Soyuz 1 and performed a manual reentry and survived, until the parachute failed and he was killed. In another time the first Soviet space station had all sorts of failures, but a crew of three got it fixed and had a very successful mission. It was the reentry that did not go so well. None of them ever gave up trying to survive until they died.
CGI is everywhere. The background of sets beyond what they're actually touching. Certainly the landscape and sky. Even an actor doing surgery on himself and losing weight & mo-cap in fancy complicated suits. Those space suits might have been nothing but grey suits & mocap. Think of what they did with 3 foot tall hobbits interacting with normal size people, and the entire physicality and surface & hair and teeth of gollum in 2004. Think of what they did with Avatar and Alita Battle Angel. They don't even have to use a lot of makeup and cosmetic prosthetic appliances for anything from complexion or scars and sores or hair. This is one of a handful of actual Science Fiction movies, as opposed to space/tech fantasy. Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain 1971 (Michael Chricton does it well), 2001 & 2010 though it's got sort-of extradimensional god-like aliens. I almost want to say "Ex Machina". The only rubbery stuff in it is the dust storm: yes, 350+knot winds, but less than 1% Earth sea-level atmospheric pressure, so the dynamic force is like a 28knot wind here. Strong, but not a gale-force. Also, the soil is poisonous with perchlorates, so it would take a lot more water and power to process it to grow anything. I want to say that we all fall in love with the commander, but Martinez is great and they're all good. (No, it's not the only movie in which Sean Bean doesn't die.) Probably not suitable for a reaction, unless it's 2 or 3 parts, but Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" is another masterpiece. Too often overlooked, so it might not be mentioned on your patreon polls. Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, David Thewlis, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons. 1200s, Crusades to Jerusalem. Lots of action & grit though not more gory than any war flick (less chopping of heads and such than LotR), and not really jump-scares or anything. Lots of heart.
My father, born here in Canada, but the son of a Hungarian immigrant, also pronounced "potatos" as ... "pa-day-dos" as well. Hilarious Dasha, keep bringing us great movies...
One scientific omission is the presence of perchlorates in Martian regolith (not "soil" since it contains no appreciable organic matter). These perchlorates would render any foodstuffs grown in them toxic. However, if Watney had produced a great deal more water he could have rinsed the perchlorates out of the dirt and then it would be suitable for fertilization and planting.
The perchlorates are NOT a "scientific omission," because at the time the book was written and the movie made, we had no idea the Martian regolith even *contained* perchlorates.
Oh, ok I'll see. I've read the first few chapters, and so far it's pretty good. But I'm still in the very beginning, just after that action scene in the underground lab facility where they measured and confirmed the black hole theory and the party. Let's see how it goes.
@@IroAppe I had actually picked it back up this week to read a second time. I loved it. I edited my initial plug because I don't think I conveyed how good it was. It's being made into a movie next year with Ryan Gosling.
Your commentary is as always, one of the most interesting and smartest out there in the reaction realm. And yes, you are damn pretty too ... proceed accordingly :-)
thank you Dasha for the Chinese translation ? I had always wanted to know what was said in that conversation, but previously only guessed. One of my favorite films.
In the book, there was also an explanation that the Hab has three different airlocks (which you can still see in the movie) but that the one that failed was overstressed additionally by Mark using it more than the others since it was the one closest to where Pathfinder and the Rover were parked. After the accident and when he re-inflates the hab, NASA instructs him to alternate his airlock usage between the other two remaining airlocks so as not to put undo stress on another one.
The decision to not share information about Watney being alive with the crew for the time being when it was first discovered was 100% correct. Having them thinking he's dead is bad, but devastating them with the news that he's alive and they left him there alone would be even worse.
Hi Dasha, I'm glad that you are seeing and reacting to this film. I thought I'd answer some of your questions about this story. First of all, you asked about sols. A sol is a Martian day. Because Mars is further away from the sun it's longer than it is on the Earth. Each day, or sol is about 24 hours and 39 minutes in length. So, a Martian year is 687 days. Pathfinder was a probe launched in 1996 and landed on Mars July 4th., 1997. It collected data via a small rover called Sojourner and transmitted it through a solar powered communications array back to the Jet Propulsion Labotory in Pasadena, California. Next, let's talk about the miracle of duct tape. On Mars the average temperature is a chilly negative 87 degrees. The atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide, and the pressure is a low 6 millibars. Plus, the gravity is.38 of one gee. You do not want your helmet to leak. My final thought is to read the book. Andy Weir is a wonderful author, and his book explains a lot more about it then they could in the movie.
Hi! The actor, who played Boromir, was also sean Bean in Lord of the Rings, yes. He also played in "Silent Hill" and i would like it when you could do an reaction from that movie! 😉 I liked your reaction, like always! I wish you a beautiful week! 🖤 Bye!
The fact that Dasha immediately understood the Elrond reference _and_ the Boromir connection AND said "One does not simply walk into Mordor" makes me sooo happy and impressed. 😁
I always thought the "secret council" scene should have been extended. After the director claimed the codename of Glorfindel, everyone else in the room should have started making choices, then at the end Sean Bean should have muttered something like "I guess I'll have to be Boromir".
Hell yeah. Always cool to see a nerdy beauty queen, something I didn't think existed as a teen.
I love watching her reactions because I know that Dasha will always catch the details, that and of course she is beautiful.
missed that, thought elron refered to L Ron hubbard. a sci fi writer who founded a scifi religion
So many other reactors don't catch that detail. I should have known that Dasha would!
That the head of NASA Teddy asked for his code name to be Glorfindel at the secret Elrond meeting is also a notable geek moment. Glorfindel is a reference to a Rings character that wasn't in the movies but was in the books, showing that Teddy wasn't just a pencil-pushing administrator, but that he also had serious nerd credential
Yup. He did the stuff that Arwen does in the first movie. He was also the one who prophecised that the witch king wouldn't be killed by a man which was interpreted as unkillable/can't be killed by a man. Also killed one of the seven balrogs.
'and this is Boromir saying that!' is literally the first time I have heard this on a reaction video....
This is 99.9% scientifically accurate. The only thing that is inaccurate is the storm at the beginning. Mars' atmosphere is far too thin for anything even close to that powerful.
The 'Iron Man' sequence is also inaccurate. With only a cut on the hand, far from Mark's centre of gravity, Mark really could not go in a strait line, he should have spin. I am sure there are other minor inaccuracies in the movie, I just do not know them.
But you are right by saying the movie highly scientifically accurate. At least 95%, probably 98+% accurate.
They never portray gravity realistically indoors. Outside they hand-wave it away by saying the bulky suit is making him move awkward, or he's sitting while he's driving. But when he is just walking around it's just using Earth gravity.
A 100 mph wind would feel like a light breeze due to the less dense atmosphere. It would take much more to tip over the vehicle than what was portrayed. Otherwise, the movie was awesome.
Yeah, but a dust cloud tickling your faceplate isn't scary...
I’ve read somewhere that the Martian dirt contains some chemicals which make it toxic. Nevertheless, it’s a great story.
FYI, "hexadecimal" is a number format that's a denser alternative to our typical decimal system. Decimal is base 10, which means a single position encodes 10 possible digits (0 through 9) before you need to add another position (giving you 10). Hexadecimal is base 16, adding 6 more possible digits that we typically write as A through F. In decimal, you count "8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16" but in hexadecimal you count "8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10" -- so "10" in hexadecimal refers to the same number of items as "16" in decimal. Computer programmers often use hexadecimal because it's a more efficient use of computers' innate processing.
An "ASCII table" is a standardized table that associates each character (like Y, a, or %) with a hexadecimal number.
Best related quote from the movie version: "I know where he's going with this."
Why? Because I said damn near the exact same thing a split second before the mission specialist (Tim, I think) said it when I was watching this in the theater! ^_^
It's more useful for computer science because 16 is a power of 2, which 10 is not. Computers mostly still only have 0 or 1, at the lowest level.
Doing base conversion math is work that can be avoided when the base is a power of 2. You will often see base2, base8, base16, and even base64 math used instead of the base10 system that's used in other sciences.
"...living on the planet there with no food but potatoes, this is totally a Russian style survival..."
I nearly peed myself laughing on this :)
If I were Watney, I'd be sorely tempted to sacrifice a potato ration to make vodka
A diet of NOTHING but potatoes, even with some hot sauce at first, might very well drive me mad. Still, it beats the alternative.
Couldn't have, I don't think. You at least need yeast which is unlikely. You also need an enzyme to break down the starch into sugars the yeast can digest. You could malt the potatoes, but you would run through a lot of potatoes. Anyway in the movie at least he has grape juice, which would be a far easier way of making alcohol.
Irish reactors to this movie see the potatoes and ask "what are they?"
"Gravity" would be a good follow up.
Hello Dasha! As to the characters played by Sebastian Stan and Kate Mara, the kiss had a bigger meaning. There is a cut scene where Jessica Chastain, the mission commander, finds out Michael Pena, the pilot, has been sleeping in the corridor as his room's temperature control has malfunctioned. During breakfast the next day, he tell Michael Pena to sleep in Sebastian Stan's room as Sebastian Stan rarely uses it. She then turns to Kate Mara and Stan, "You thought i didn't know what you two were doing? I'm Mission Commander. I know everything."
I always thought the "secret council" scene should have been extended. After the director claimed the codename of Glorfindel, everyone else in the room should have started making choices, then at the end Sean Bean should have muttered something like "I guess I'll have to be Boromir".
"If I see them cry I'll cry too"
This exemplifies the quality I most admire in a person. Not just the ability but the willingness to put yourself in others shoes and feel with them and for them. You beautiful soul, Dasha.
I'm SO impressed that not only did you immediately recognize the name Elrond, but you immediately made the connection that Sean Bean was Boromir. I named my daughter, visible in my profile pick, Eowyn, if that means anything to you.
@AB There's a beautiful actress named Sean Young. Anyone naming their daughter Sean could always say she's named after her, if pressed. 😂
Yes, one of the very very few movies without any villains, violence, guns or deaths. Just smart people from all over the world working together to bring one man home.
@@ChristobanistanMost are unremarkable and tend to still have "villains." This one doesn't. Only Mars, Space, and Time. Nature and physics can't exactly be villains, they simply exist.
That plastic door cover thing would be the most horrific thing to listen 2 i wouldn't be able to sleep
As a science buff I love this movie for so many instances of scientific accuracy.
As an MCU fan it’s hilarious how many Marvel movie stars are in this movie. It made me wonder did the casting director of this film know someone at Marvel Studios. LOL.
"I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!" -- Not sure you caught that. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
The fact you understand phrases like "intercept velocity" and whatever else is actually amazing. You speak better english than most of the people I know.
I like this movie. This is a movie that talk about a human using his mind to get over obstacles. It is a positive movie which you don't see allot of that this days.
Yep. Thats i allways loved Star Trek Nextgen, it was the same Spirit.
@@seventone4039 all Srar Trek is like that except the new crap since Star Trek Discovery.
@@totomomo18 Yeah, its a disgrace what Star Trek has become theese days. I heard you can now officially watch STD for free. Thanks but no thanks.
@@seventone4039 They could not pay me to see this crap :)
One of the things I like the most about your reaction videos is that you don't miss the emotional gravity of a single one of these moments. Moments that I see other reactors disregard or ignore. You are incredibly good at highlighting the emotional importance of these moments. And this was another great one. Nicely done.
29:00 In the book, when the crew made the decision to return to Mars, one of the things that could go wrong that they had to think about is what would happen if the resupply mission from Earth should fail. In that case, the Hermes STILL would have to go to Mars, but without enough food to feed everyone. The plan in that event was for the crew (other than Johanssen, the smallest of the crew) to commit suicide so that Johannsen could preserve and eat them to survive. Barring that, they would all die. After the resupply mission was a success the crew teased Johannsen about it.
"What? I thought you liked Mexican!"
There is a sci-fi book and tv series called The Expanse. It takes place throughout our solar system in the future about 200 years.
The original writers of the series love this movie so much they actually retconned it into the show’s canonical past. In one of the episodes a Martian ship called The Watney appears. So the Mars colonies displayed on the show exist in the same fictional universe as this movie.
FYI - The Expanse would be a great series for you to react to. It begins its last season in December 2021.
YES!! I said it before, I highly recommend you react to The Expanse!!
No matter how many times I watch this movie at home or TH-cam, I tear up towards the end. Great message by never giving up and working together humans can solve any problem.
Then to see the US and China exploring Mars together it’s me in the feels.
11:27: "For each problem, he finds a solution." This. This could easily be the resume of the film. For each of the problems that either Mark or the crew got, they eventually found a solution.
13:50: Mark is recovering the robot lander 'Mars Pathfinder'. It was a real-life NASA mission, from 1997, and consisted on a lander and a robot. It worked for around 3 months, before the (possibly) battery failed to charge (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder)
Pathfinder (aka Mars Pathfinder) is a NASA mission from 1997. It had the first rover to operate on Mars, Sojourner. It was a cute little thing.
To land it they LITERALLY bounced it with huge balloons. Incredible. Then they used that same thing for Spirit and Opportunity.
Pathfinder and Sojourner were test beds for various technologies.
I remember as a kid I watched this live, it was one of the events that first inspired me to be an engineer. Watching the videos of how it would bounce and flip open, then seeing the little rover on the Martian surface, it was amazing.
I'm so happy you're watching this! A bunch of us consider this part of an informal trilogy with "Apollo 13" and "Castaway".
@19:05, The commander and 2nd in command of the Hermes mission are military officers. Being told that they left a comrade behind would hit them even harder. That is part of the code and bond among soldiers - don’t leave anyone behind.
Even if all you can do is bring the body of a comrade home you try.
This was my favorite audiobook, the starting sentence grips you immediately and doesn't let go, "I'm fucked I'm so very very fucked" is a brilliant way to open a book
You really seemed to enjoy the movie, so I would recommend reading the book which is even better and has even more challenges for Watney to overcome. Also, if you really want to know what Watney said when they told him to watch his language, it's in the book as well!
What he says in the book is very mild compared to what he says in the extended edition of the film!
It was something to the president right...
@@robwagnon6578 Well, I guess if you are the planetary commander/president/spokesman with the unanimous approval of the entire population, that gives you authority over the commander-in-chief of one smallish part of another one!
The audiobook read by Will Wheaton is great as well
@@Xoferif “I made the mistake of typing it into google. Don’t.”
True story: first time I watched the extended edition, I paused to look it up because I’d never heard the term before. First line spoken when I resumed the film after recovering from 🤮🤮🤮 was Mitch’s warning not to look it up.
If only I’d waited a few more seconds!
Your reactions to this movie covered the entire emotional spectrum, which is why I enjoy your channel so much. Great reaction video Dasha!!! Keep it going!!!
The movie did a great job of telling the story in 2 hours. But the book is even soooooo much better. The movie showed how hard it is to survive on mars. The book gave a feel like mars was a living being and it wanted to fucking kill mark wantney.
Respectfully, I think I preferred the movie over the book, just in terms of tone and feel; I think the movie lets us grapple with emotional beats in a way that the book often undercuts with humor. Just personal preference. I enjoyed both quite a lot
In any case, I completely agree with you that as an adaptation, it's incredibly well-done
This movie is great for many reasons. Foremost it proves that you don’t need a human antagonist (the only antagonist is Mars itself) to tell an engaging and entertaining story. And you don’t even have to stray that far from scientific accuracy to do so.
Mars and Mark's stupidity are trying to kill him. Taken directly from the book.
The basic types of conflict in storytelling are often classified as Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, and Man vs. Nature. (Man vs. Society might be included too, but this can also be thought of as just a different type of Man vs. Man.) In the Martian, we see mostly Man vs. Nature.
I think this is the first time I've been to your channel and I must say, I'm very impressed with your intelligence and ability to catch on to what's happening in such a scientific movie. I also liked how you caught the LotR reference with Sean "Boromir" Bean in the scene. 👍👍
"Potatoes are Russian style of surviving" Made me laugh out loud. Based on what I've read about Russia I can totally believe it.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time because I love films about people overcoming challenges. I've heard the book is even funnier and better of course.
Read the book and I like the movie. It captures the characters very well. You get more (speculative) science stuff and nerdiness in the book but this is very much an adaption of the book rather than just being based on it imo.
You skipped the part where the Ares crew calls Rich Parnell “a steely-eyed missile man,” which (as I mentioned in my Apollo 13 comment) is a genuine high compliment coined for the man who saved the Apollo 12 mission when the craft was struck by lightning during launch.
If you’re into space sci-fi drama, I would also recommend Gravity with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
The phrase "steely-eyed missile man" wasn't specifically coined for John Aaron (btw - just typing in "SCE to AUX" in a search engine instantly calls up his name. Heh. ) it came from earlier in NASA's history - possibly back to the days of the testing of captured V2 rocket tech in White Sands New Mexico back when NASA was actually NACA.
But EECOM John Aaron most certainly DESERVED the high compliment!!
And in a situation like the one in the movie - so would a theoretical Rich Parnell.
An equivalent modern term for comparison might be "coming in clutch with the save". ^_^
Gravity certainly LOOKS real and is absolutely gorgeous. But if you know anything at all about orbital mechanics - you'll quickly realize that it's WILDLY wrong about the way orbits work. Still worth viewing. Just with that caveat.
@@logandarklighter Whenever I do a search for that term, he’s the person that comes up, so if it wasn’t invented for him, it may have only become popular after him.
A Sol means solar day which equals 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds on Mars, a Mars day is 2.7 percent longer than a Earth day.
Sol is the Latin word for Sun. ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and it basically a shorthand way for computers to talk to each other.
So glad you decided to see this!
i think one of the best things about this movie is theres no artificial bad guy. no enemy (other than perhaps mars itself) theres no sudden moment in the movie where it goes from good times to bad. its a very entertaining and relaxing movie to watch. i think ive watched it about 20 times lol
Loved this reaction. You really got the many nuances and empathised with the characters so well. If you had the training and qualifications that Mark had, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have given up. Bravo!
A great movie - so much tension, humor and drama. Also makes me realise I wouldn't last 2 minutes in space..or even an Earth-bound survival situation.
I'm so glad you caught the Lord of the Rings jokes.
Haha because of your accent when you said “rationing the food” it sounded like “Russianing the food” which I thought was pretty accurate with all the potatoes!!
I gotta say I really enjoyed your reaction, you were so engaged and it was a fun time hanging out with you as always.
The beauty of Maths and its powers of problem solving.
I really liked your reaction. It's fun to watch someone enjoy a movie as much as I did. We follow Mark's adventures and it's an emotional roller coaster ride. Matt Damon did such a wonderful job. And I was impressed by how real all the science was. Another masterpiece from director Ridley Scott.
If you think the commander had been feeling guilty over leaving him behind, just think how she would have felt when he slipped through her grasp and if he wasn't able to grab ahold of the line at 38:32.
At the Oscars awards, Ricky Jervais said this movie was one of the best comedies of 2015.
This is the most Marvely non-Marvel movie to date, with 7 actors from 6 movies in the MCU:
Bucky - Winter Soldier
Mordo and Wong - Dr. Strange
Luis - Ant Man
"Mr. Criminal" - webbed to the car in Homecoming
"U. S. Marshall" - serving papers to Toni in Ironman 2
Play actor "Loki" - Thor: Ragnarok
And technically thought not MCU proper. Kate Marra was the invisible woman. But the less said about that the better
It is great that you have watched and remembered enough to get the in-jokes.
You are the sweetest. Your openness is wonderful. Great job Dasha! Hope you are safe love!
“One does not simply walk into Mordor.”
😊 Dasha, u r so cute.
Hexadecimal is a base 16 number system. Digits: 0-9, A, B, C, D, E, F (15). So, the integers 0 through 255 can be represented with only two hexadecimal digits.
ASCII = American Standard Code for Information InterchangeIt is the way to encode numbers, letters, punctuation, and some symbols needed for computer systems. More modern systems use Unicode to represent those characters in different languages and script systems. This requires more data.
She's one of the few that saw the actual ending in credits. So many people stop it before that point.
Hey Dasha, I recommend you watch "Gravity " with Sandra Bullock. Whether you do a reaction or not is up to you. But your in for a "wtf?" Mind blowing survival in space movie unmatched by any other.
Best wishes for you ❤️
Mordo from Dr Strange is in this too. And yes Boromir! haha good job!
Dasha the range of your emotions is fantastic and a joy to watch. Thank you for your reactions they are well worth watching. Respect from Down Under.
Hi Dasha very enjoyable reaction as always, one thing I'm surprised you didn't pick up on is the connection between the names of Mars, Ares, and Hermes,
Which is Mars being the Roman god of war and agriculture, Ares is the Greek god of war and Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology.
Your reaction to the first potato leaf tickled me. You said “I am from Russia”. But at the same time you immediately grasped the importance.
The terms used in science are basically just latin.
Botanist.(plants)
Paleothologist(fossils basically)
Biologist(life)
Archeologist(human activity studied from non-written(that's a historian) non-living left overs)
etc.
Great Film, Great Cast, and a Great Reaction Dasha.
21:14 In the book (which this movie is based on), Mark at point says, "Of course duct tape works in space. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped." 🤣
*Might have paraphrased since I don't have the book in front of me
Here's the full quote. (Note highlighted section below) You were very close!
“Of course duct tape works in *a near vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere.* Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.”
@@logandarklighter That's the one!
Thanks Dasha. Yes, to see people working (International effort) was a wonderful theme. I was a kid during the early space shots (1960s) and the competition between the US and Russians was pretty divisive. It was wonderful to hear your wonderful commentaries. Wouldnt it be wonderful if the entire world could unite in an effort to save and preserve life. Love your channel!!!!
If you like Matt Damon in this please react to "The Bourne Identity" the first of a series of movies about that character. A summary of the beginning movie "A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory." Thanks for your consideration.
If you liked Mark (Matt Damon) you should try reacting to The Bourne Identity if you have not seen it before.
15:20 ASCII Table
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort.
Thanks again for a wonderful reaction. You're right.. It is very inspirational.
Rich Purnell is the ultimate steely-eyed missile man.
There have been several Soviet/Russian Cosmonauts who have done as well. Vladimir Komarov heroically made his failing Soyuz 1 and performed a manual reentry and survived, until the parachute failed and he was killed.
In another time the first Soviet space station had all sorts of failures, but a crew of three got it fixed and had a very successful mission. It was the reentry that did not go so well.
None of them ever gave up trying to survive until they died.
CGI is everywhere.
The background of sets beyond what they're actually touching.
Certainly the landscape and sky. Even an actor doing surgery on himself and losing weight & mo-cap in fancy complicated suits. Those space suits might have been nothing but grey suits & mocap.
Think of what they did with 3 foot tall hobbits interacting with normal size people, and the entire physicality and surface & hair and teeth of gollum in 2004. Think of what they did with Avatar and Alita Battle Angel.
They don't even have to use a lot of makeup and cosmetic prosthetic appliances for anything from complexion or scars and sores or hair.
This is one of a handful of actual Science Fiction movies, as opposed to space/tech fantasy. Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain 1971 (Michael Chricton does it well), 2001 & 2010 though it's got sort-of extradimensional god-like aliens. I almost want to say "Ex Machina".
The only rubbery stuff in it is the dust storm: yes, 350+knot winds, but less than 1% Earth sea-level atmospheric pressure, so the dynamic force is like a 28knot wind here. Strong, but not a gale-force.
Also, the soil is poisonous with perchlorates, so it would take a lot more water and power to process it to grow anything.
I want to say that we all fall in love with the commander, but Martinez is great and they're all good. (No, it's not the only movie in which Sean Bean doesn't die.)
Probably not suitable for a reaction, unless it's 2 or 3 parts, but Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" is another masterpiece.
Too often overlooked, so it might not be mentioned on your patreon polls.
Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, David Thewlis, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons.
1200s, Crusades to Jerusalem. Lots of action & grit though not more gory than any war flick (less chopping of heads and such than LotR), and not really jump-scares or anything. Lots of heart.
I just love watching your reactions, they're pure
Funny thing is the Lord of the Rings reference was already in the book. Boromir being in the movie was just a happy accident...
I love the little tidbits of Russian translation and parallels. Language is fascinating
My father, born here in Canada, but the son of a Hungarian immigrant, also pronounced "potatos" as ... "pa-day-dos" as well.
Hilarious Dasha, keep bringing us great movies...
..."pa-day-das"
The Martian is one of my favorite movies
The more videos you make available to all, the more patrons you will get.
Offtopic: Your paintings in the Background (on Desk) looks neat√
Hope, that's what they keep giving us. Also they keep taking it away. Which is why this is so anxiety filled. Great reaction!
One scientific omission is the presence of perchlorates in Martian regolith (not "soil" since it contains no appreciable organic matter). These perchlorates would render any foodstuffs grown in them toxic. However, if Watney had produced a great deal more water he could have rinsed the perchlorates out of the dirt and then it would be suitable for fertilization and planting.
The perchlorates are NOT a "scientific omission," because at the time the book was written and the movie made, we had no idea the Martian regolith even *contained* perchlorates.
Могу по той же тематике посоветовать «Интерстеллар» и «Человек на Луне»
For those who read The Martian, I'd also recommend his newest book, Project Hail Mary. It was pretty damn close to as good.
@AB My best friend read that one and warned me away from it, too.
Oh, ok I'll see. I've read the first few chapters, and so far it's pretty good. But I'm still in the very beginning, just after that action scene in the underground lab facility where they measured and confirmed the black hole theory and the party. Let's see how it goes.
@@IroAppe I had actually picked it back up this week to read a second time. I loved it. I edited my initial plug because I don't think I conveyed how good it was. It's being made into a movie next year with Ryan Gosling.
Your commentary is as always, one of the most interesting and smartest out there in the reaction realm. And yes, you are damn pretty too ... proceed accordingly :-)
She is so sweet it makes my teeth ache :)
thank you Dasha for the Chinese translation ? I had always wanted to know what was said in that conversation, but previously only guessed. One of my favorite films.
@AB I watched the Maori version...downloaded and free, lol
Check out "Gravity". Extremely good, underrated.
"Ok this is a very survivable guy!"
Dasha nails it early again. 👍
I will just keep saying this, because it is true: Your empathy is beautiful
The airlock failed because it was never built to go through so many cycles. The base was only supposed to be occupied for a month, not years.
In the book, there was also an explanation that the Hab has three different airlocks (which you can still see in the movie) but that the one that failed was overstressed additionally by Mark using it more than the others since it was the one closest to where Pathfinder and the Rover were parked. After the accident and when he re-inflates the hab, NASA instructs him to alternate his airlock usage between the other two remaining airlocks so as not to put undo stress on another one.
@@logandarklighter And he makes a sarcastic remark. Love the book.
11:09 - Favorite line in the entire movie. XD
The decision to not share information about Watney being alive with the crew for the time being when it was first discovered was 100% correct. Having them thinking he's dead is bad, but devastating them with the news that he's alive and they left him there alone would be even worse.
Yes, I guess so. "He was struck and killed instantly" is actually better than "we left him alone to slowly starve to death with no hope of rescue."
Hi Dasha, I'm glad that you are seeing and reacting to this film. I thought I'd answer some of your questions about this story. First of all, you asked about sols. A sol is a Martian day. Because Mars is further away from the sun it's longer than it is on the Earth. Each day, or sol is about 24 hours and 39 minutes in length. So, a Martian year is 687 days. Pathfinder was a probe launched in 1996 and landed on Mars July 4th., 1997. It collected data via a small rover called Sojourner and transmitted it through a solar powered communications array back to the Jet Propulsion Labotory in Pasadena, California. Next, let's talk about the miracle of duct tape. On Mars the average temperature is a chilly negative 87 degrees. The atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide, and the pressure is a low 6 millibars. Plus, the gravity is.38 of one gee. You do not want your helmet to leak.
My final thought is to read the book. Andy Weir is a wonderful author, and his book explains a lot more about it then they could in the movie.
Сол- день на Марсе. От заката до заката. На 35 минут длиннее земного
I love your reactions, Dasha!
Hi! The actor, who played Boromir, was also sean Bean in Lord of the Rings, yes. He also played in "Silent Hill" and i would like it when you could do an reaction from that movie! 😉 I liked your reaction, like always!
I wish you a beautiful week! 🖤 Bye!
Pathfinder’s first pics of Mars are one of the first things I ever saw on the internet
You also missed the fact that there is another Dr Strange actor who played Mordo
Love Dasha's reactions.... such a good heart
25:40 - "Ketchup is coming!"
Dunno why but that was funny!
30:10 in the video: The song is so perfect, "David Bowie - Starman"
I really enjoy your reaction videos very much. Thank you!
The most unbelievable thing about it is that Sean bean survived a movie he was in
Michael Pena was also in Fury. He was Mexican guy who died during the last battle in the tank when he smothered a grenade.
At the start when he has to cut off his top, I believe the needle he used several times was for pain, or just to numb the area so he could do the rest