The NASA director wasn't power-hungry. It's incredibly tough to get people to Mars, and if anything goes wrong, more than one person could be dead, and the space program could be lost because it would lose funding. That's thousands of people losing their jobs. On top of that, space research gave us MRIs, advances in wireless technology, and microwaves, just to name a few. The benefits of space research have made life better for all of the world. Lose the space program, and the whole world suffers by not having future technologies that can only be developed by the research that makes space exploration possible. The director had to weigh all of those factors against one man's life. Someone in that position has to think logically and can't allow their emotions to cloud their judgement because it affects so many other people.
Not only that, he has to do that no matter what decisions he makes, he most likely won't have his job afterwords as that's how things like that work, he either brings them back all alive but spent way to much money doing it, or someone dies or both.
Exactly! I hate how people see him as the villain, since it's so easy and common to see the man in the suit as the villain. His decisions were realistic and understandable. Not corrupt and power-hungry.
@@myopinion69420Well in the end, the director kept his job. Thanks to that stunt, it created some serious positive press for NASA and it started a relationship with the Chinese space program.
Made perfect sense to me with taking it. Dull his hunger pangs, and make it so that he is less affected by daily aches and pains his lifestyle must have been causing. Although it must have made him providing more fertilizer for his potatoes difficult.
@@spanishprisoner Yup. It's the first thing they look for after the logline. Studio readers are notoriously very lazy. The "this-meets-that" approach works very well as an early hook.
@@joeysabad4307 Nah dudes high energy, she seems like a high energy lady. Good match IMO. Now you? You have to address the flies before you get any ladies to talk to you my guy.
I actually had the same thought, "Cast Away" on Mars. With the video log being Watney's 'Wilson'. Because (apart from necessity for the film) if you're stranded alone and isolated for a long time, you need something to talk to or you WILL go insane. Conversations kept within your head will scramble your mind; you need a separation between your thoughts and a 'sounding board'. Hanks's character in "Cast Away" was talking to Wilson; Watney is talking to those who will see the video at a later time. Both are conversations. Frankly, in the 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe", Crusoe writes in his journal recording his experiences much like Watney talking to the video. Actually, there's a film from 1964 called "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". For real.
Dipping the potato in vicodin not only helps with the pain and some of the anxiety but specifically it helps supress the appetite to help him ration his potatoes
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Not so much the drug itself, but vicodin is mostly acetaminophen. So, chew an aspirin if you want to get an idea of the bitter taste.
Teddy is the director of NASA and he's not trying to be a downer, but it's his job to make sure everything works. He's the one person most responsible for Mark's well-being, and responsible for all decisions made concerning the rescue. He's trying to avoid unnecessary risk. He took a big risk in skipping the inspection phase of the supply rocket that blew up, and it didn't pay off. When he nixes the Hermes rescue mission it's because there is an alternative plan that is more likely to work. He comes off as a killjoy but he's just doing his job. This is a rare movie in that it is a suspense/scifi/action film without a real villain. No one is killed or maimed. It's all about the collective effort to save this astronaut. The only movie that comes close is Apollo 13.
All to often the guy at the top that has to look at the big picture and make the tough decisions gets dismissed as heartless or mean by people that have never had another persons well-being in their hands.
Yep. It's absolutely vital for scientific pursuits (and situations similar to this one) to find out all possible flaws and weaknesses to any theory or plan. This way you can identify them and find solutions to these problems -- especially if it involves slow-moving crises -- in order to start managing them. But yeah, most normal people would assume that people like Teddy is just naysaying just for the heck of it. It's a natural human reaction, and should be expected.
I think it’s also important to remember that his role is to play the devil’s advocate. He needs to ask the questions no one wants to. What if it really was wind that cleaned the solar panels? What if the rover was moved and not logged? He may be hesitant to accept conclusions that could raise the Watney Family’s hopes and then break their hearts for a second time. Also, he is ultimately the one that everything falls on. And if he is going to risk NASA, he needs to be sure the answers he’s giving is 99.9% perfect.
@@PhilARobertson More like all too rare. Sometimes they do that but mostly hey do nothing and get paid in fat checks for doing said nothing. You can bet your arse there's an entire team working 'round the clock thinking of all possible scenarios, what they mean, how risky they are and so on. He gets to make the decisions for sure but you're making it sound much grander than it really is lol!
At one point you guys said "a scientist must've written this movie" and you weren't that far off ... this movie is based on an INCREDIBLE book (as good as this movie is, it actually doesn't do the book justice, that's how great the book is). What's cool is the author actually posted parts of the novel on online science forums to allow for outsourcing and fact checking, which made this story incredibly scientifically accurate. I just love that, way to use resources to create something brilliant.
Yes, it's great. He did choose to exaggerate certain parts for dramatic effect, since otherwise the plot couldn't progress. E.g. given the very low air pressure on Mars, even the most violent sandstorms couldn't blow away a satellite dish, or nearly tip a space vehicle over.
One little thing that kind of bothered me about the way the book was adapted was Teddy. In the book, Teddy was a lot more complex, and had to juggle a lot more problems - he wasn't ever really intended to be a villain. He was just a realist, who's literal _job_ was to look at the bigger picture. Here he's, like... genuinely an antagonist.
@@TrackpadProductions yeah agreed .. and I didn't like that they did the Iron Man at the end of the movie, but I guess both are better for dramatic effect 🤷♀️
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney starred as astronauts in _Gravity._ If you've never heard of Vicodin, you have to start watching Hugh Laurie as _House M.D._
Vicodin (Hydrocodone, aka dihydrocodeine) is not available in the United Kingdom, though the combination codeine/paracetamol (co-codamol) is. It is an opioid, considered to be roughly equivalent to morphine in terms of potency.
Everyone who subscribed or watches these videos. You know Hannah is an actress. She’s an amazing actress and you should watch her in the movie “MY DAY”. She also has two new films coming out according to IMDB. She’s funny, witty, can sing and act and her own TH-cam channel is incredible. She needs to be a big movie star and we need to help.
Oi this made me smile (ash) you don’t understand how much your beautiful comment means to us. She’s mad talented and I’m so happy everyone can see it and will see it. Thank you Monty ❤️❤️
When your potatoes in your cupboard get a little old, sprouts start to come out of the "eyes". By quartering or more, each potato with a sprouting eye in the chunk, and it will grow a whole potato plant with 8-20 potatoes each.
I love how the director of NASA in this story isn't a villain or even an antagonist. He does care about his astronauts, and knows his science and how things work, but he also tries to be realistic about how to handle situations.
Watney's a botanist, and up there to research the agricultural portion of what it would take to sustain things like colonies on mars, let alone future manned missions. Potatoes are already roots. He uses the martian soil as growing medium, their own astronaut's freeze-dried poop for bacteria and fertilizer, and he mainly needs water, which he gets from a burning a hydrogen source, I forgot from where in the book but I think it was either a byproduct of another piece of a equipment, which allows him to continually produce it, or from a leftover large source of rocket fuel component. The habitat explodes because part of that entryway corridor is just fabric that was engineered to last for the duration of the mission, about a month?, plus additional safety factor, and he's still there well beyond that. In the book, it occurs due to a microscopic weak spot in the fabric that's within the tolerances for its engineered purpose and duration, but eventually fails, expanding to a large enough tear that breaches resulting in the explosion. He repairs it with a lot of duct tape, also reinforcing it, but it becomes a greater unknown for how long it will hold before he can leave.
This movie was such a lovely surprise - a genuinely great movie, well-written, well-acted, well-directed. That's all you need and it's amazing how many movies miss the mark. Loved this reaction guys :)
2:55 Ash almost courted death with this shocked "high end?!" reaction, like he's not shocked about the prostitute part, but shocked that she feels she could be the expensive kind. 🤣
If this movie was a meme, it would be Casey Affleck's character from Good Will Hunting saying, "My boy's wicked smart." Even funnier that he was referring to Matt Damon's character in that movie. It's perfect lol
Well... They seem to have missed the part with the storm at the beginning. But with reaslistic martian storms there would have been no story otherwise...
@@steffenjachnow8176 true. As thin as the Martian atmosphere is, not even a tornado on Mars would be able to send a satellite dish flying, but they had to get the story started somehow?
The film with Sandra Bullock is Gravity (2013) George Clooney is also in it, its a pretty good movie, though Interstellar and The Martian are much more memorable imo
I've had a lot of " abdominal" surgeries...twice, the wire like " internal " stitches would poke out thru my abdominal area. I could not look at it, touch it,or even dress properly without touching it. 😂 it finally fell out but it was long! I was panicked watching him pull out the metal. Good for you Hanna for not feeling ill
Vicodin is a prescription-level pain killer. The book goes into much more detail, but all of Mark’s physical labor ends up giving him a bad back that he nurses with occasional doses of Vicodin and warm baths he creates using the RTG (plutonium thingee he uses for his rover trips to stay warm).
Really liked your complimenting the writer a little way in. This movie is actually based on a book with the same name by a guy named Andy Weir. He’s a very scientifically minded person, and he started writing the story on his blog and it just took off. One thing led to another and now there’s a huge movie. He also wrote a couple of other books. The more recent one is Project Hail Mary, which starts with a guy waking up in space with amnesia. Very good, and they’re making a movie out of that too. It should come out in 2026.
This movie does a great job of summarizing the book, which is fantastic, but it's really Matt Damon's charisma that makes this movie so good. Also, NASA experts rate the science in The Martian really highly. The one thing that's actually wrong is the storm at the beginning. The atmosphere on Mars is so thin that even an impressive looking storm like that would feel like the gentlest of breezes, but then there'd be no movie.
It's funny that quite a few of these reactors i have seen do this movie don't seem to know what he means when he says that nothing bad can happen when you burn Hydrogen.
The author (Andy Weir) of the book The Martian, knew quite a bit about science, but also got information from actual NASA scientists. Everything portrayed in this film (equipment and gear) is stuff they have now and is accurate. He has also written a couple more books based in space. Project Hail Mary by the same author is incredible and will be made into a movie aswell. I believe Ryan Gosling is signed on to play the main in that.
The one thing he concedes to having fudged on is the storm at the beginning...Mars' atmosphere is so thin that it couldn't have caused the damage it did, but then there wouldn't have been a story.
There is an earlier two earlier Mars rescue movies that both came out in 2000. They called Mission to Mars (starring Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle and Connie Nielsen) and Red Planet (starring Val Kilmer, Carrie Ann Moss and Benjamin Brett) . Neither is anywhere as scientifically grounded as The Martian but they each have their own bit of charm.
The Carrie-Ann Moss subplot in _Red Planet_ should have been the entire movie. It was a really good "lone astronaut survives using their wits" story, years before _Gravity_ came out. And in _Mission to Mars,_ Don Cheadle was the O.G. Mark Watney! lol
13:31 Hannah: "Botanist, that's like um... plants and shit, isn't it?" Me: "If only Ash realized how literally true and prescient those words of Hannah were! Because potato plants and astronaut shit, it will be!"
The movie Hannah is thinking about with Sandra Bullock is a movie called Gravity. It's a great movie and a wild ride that really makes you feel for the characters. You guys should do a reaction to it!
This is the first reaction of yours that I've watched, and I'm loving the exasperated glances Hanna keeps giving Ash. I'll definitely be watching more just to see more of that.
Duct tape in space is in at least one military sci fi book that I've read. The aliens in the book made a huge supply of duct tape one of their conditions for surrender because they saw people on the human ship using duct tape to fix everything, from tools to people. The writer of that series was an officer in the US Navy, so he knew a lot about combat on water. He also consulted some science folks to make sure the space battles were fairly realistic.
@@elizabethparker4511was the author Jack Campbell? I've read his "lost fleet" series of military scifi - it's a great series if you're currently looking for a series to read
The book has an after chapter when he got home. He developed anyiety to go outside and was on constant cancer watch due to being exposed to Mars radiation WAY beyond the limits his equibment was designed to get him through. The book was writen by a software engineer who is a space enthusiast.
Hannah, there are other hatches on the spacecraft that they could seal, like the inner door of the airlock, for starters, and then repressurize using gas (oxygen and nitrogen from tanks) afterward. This is exactly what a private sector space crew are going to do on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in real life in the near future (the first spacewalk done by a private company). In the 1960s, NASA's Gemini program involved letting all of the air out of those spacecraft so that one of the crew could go out into space, which is exactly how the Soviets had just done it.
There are vids on TH-cam with actual scientists and astronauts reviewing this movie. They said that except for the big sand storm in the beginning, they did a good job of being pretty on point with the science. They said the sand storm wouldn't happen because of Mars' atmosphere. They said 100mi hr winds here would be like 1mi an hour wind on Mars.
The camera is also Watney's log book. NASA training and scientific best practice dictates the necessity to keep detailed and accurate records of everything you do.
Vicodin is a brand name for hydrocodone/paracetamol, an opioid painkiller. It's stronger than codeine/paracetamol but not as strong as many others. Basically, he said "Screw it, I'm getting high" 😂
@@ct6852 I didn't say lightweight, as no opioid is. However, hydrocodone isn't legal in the UK but codeine is, so I compared them so they'd understand the context in the movie. FYI, fentanyl's been around since the 60s, so it's not new. The only new part is the flood of illegal versions of it and how so many things are falling apart for so many people that it seems like a good option.
22:48 was just a warning shot, the next time she will shoot with lasers out of her eyes 😂 No for real, i just came out of my last night shift and you guys made me cry again because of laughing. Thank you so much for it!!!
Sandra Bullock's astronaut movie is named "Gravity" along with George Clooney, another grand movie. The Martian is one of the best I have ever watched. So much so, that I have rewatched again and again. Ridley Scott has done it again. And also, Matt Damon really gets himself in trouble, doesn't he? From The Bourne franchise, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, and even this. Alongside Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Jessica Chastain, Michael Pena, even Sean Bean, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Donald Glover, Benedict Wong, and even Chiwetel Ejiofor, this was a star-studded cast!
Even though this movie was heavily grounded in pragmatic scientific theory, it still didn't get a single Oscar which really surprised me because usually Ridley Scott is on it.
"I'm gona have to science the hell out of this" is one of the greatest lines ever said in cinema. Fantastic movie, also very very accurate almost everything is accurate.
I’m no genius, but both of your lack of understanding of basic science is astounding. They say Americans don’t know anything…I know that water is made of hydrogen and oxygen and that there are extreme temperatures on Mars…
I think most everyone knows water is made of hydrogen and oxygen... I doubt many of us would have a clue how to put them together to make them become water. Probably my last guess would have been, you have to set them on fire to make water.
Between Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar and The Martian the US government has spent a whole lot of money rescuing Matt Damon
He's the most expensive person to rescue in Hollywood history 😂
They even tried to kill him for threatening to make the spent amount public. Poor Matt Bourne... I mean Jason Damon...
Couldn't have said it better myself ;)
Then he down sized and led a new life.
He had to get rescued in Blackhawk Down, too.
"As a souvenir?"
"No, as a sign of like, one of my achievements"
"So a souvenir " 💀😭😭❤
I cannot believe how incredibly STUPID this two idiots are?!? It's astonishing!!
The NASA director wasn't power-hungry. It's incredibly tough to get people to Mars, and if anything goes wrong, more than one person could be dead, and the space program could be lost because it would lose funding. That's thousands of people losing their jobs. On top of that, space research gave us MRIs, advances in wireless technology, and microwaves, just to name a few. The benefits of space research have made life better for all of the world. Lose the space program, and the whole world suffers by not having future technologies that can only be developed by the research that makes space exploration possible.
The director had to weigh all of those factors against one man's life. Someone in that position has to think logically and can't allow their emotions to cloud their judgement because it affects so many other people.
Not only that, he has to do that no matter what decisions he makes, he most likely won't have his job afterwords as that's how things like that work, he either brings them back all alive but spent way to much money doing it, or someone dies or both.
And pens that can write upside down. 😎
Exactly. His job is pure pragmatics and calculations. He has to see things from every perspective and not base decisions on what feels right
Exactly! I hate how people see him as the villain, since it's so easy and common to see the man in the suit as the villain.
His decisions were realistic and understandable. Not corrupt and power-hungry.
@@myopinion69420Well in the end, the director kept his job. Thanks to that stunt, it created some serious positive press for NASA and it started a relationship with the Chinese space program.
“What’s Vicodin?”
Two minutes later…
“It’s like he’s been taking drugs”
🤣🤣🤣
Sweet summer children
Made perfect sense to me with taking it.
Dull his hunger pangs, and make it so that he is less affected by daily aches and pains his lifestyle must have been causing.
Although it must have made him providing more fertilizer for his potatoes difficult.
Oh, the constipation caused by opioids is not fun.
Or, so I've heard...😎
@@jefferyshute6641 you’re gonna add a few pounds 🤣🤣
@@pduidesign 😵😖😬😳😖😓🤪😁
Interstellar and The Martian has taught us that Matt Damon and airlocks don't mix.
Ash : "Botanist?"
Hannah : "Plants and shit innit"
Bruh 😂
One of the few movies Sean Bean gets to live to the end. 😂
True 🤣
His career in astronomy dies though.
Still gets fired though lol
He barely gets away with his life in Ronin
@@brettcloud8550 Nah, he resigned
Ash "This is Castaway in Space"
😂
When he watched Star Wars 😂 "Fast and Furious in Space" 😂
@@spanishprisoner Yup. It's the first thing they look for after the logline. Studio readers are notoriously very lazy. The "this-meets-that" approach works very well as an early hook.
Hannah, ... You could, can, (and should, 😉) do better than ash ... 😂 ... Just sayin' ...😊
@@joeysabad4307 Nah dudes high energy, she seems like a high energy lady. Good match IMO. Now you? You have to address the flies before you get any ladies to talk to you my guy.
I actually had the same thought, "Cast Away" on Mars. With the video log being Watney's 'Wilson'.
Because (apart from necessity for the film) if you're stranded alone and isolated for a long time, you need something to talk to or you WILL go insane. Conversations kept within your head will scramble your mind; you need a separation between your thoughts and a 'sounding board'.
Hanks's character in "Cast Away" was talking to Wilson; Watney is talking to those who will see the video at a later time. Both are conversations. Frankly, in the 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe", Crusoe writes in his journal recording his experiences much like Watney talking to the video.
Actually, there's a film from 1964 called "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". For real.
Actually, Star Wars is 'Lord of the Rings in space', which is much more profound, haha.
Dipping the potato in vicodin not only helps with the pain and some of the anxiety but specifically it helps supress the appetite to help him ration his potatoes
That makes sense, as I imagine crushed Vicodin probably tastes godawful.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Not so much the drug itself, but vicodin is mostly acetaminophen.
So, chew an aspirin if you want to get an idea of the bitter taste.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Very very bitter.
@@highlander31527hydrocodone APAPotato.
@@highlander31527 aspirin (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) and tylenol (acetaminophen) are two different types of drugs...
Teddy is the director of NASA and he's not trying to be a downer, but it's his job to make sure everything works. He's the one person most responsible for Mark's well-being, and responsible for all decisions made concerning the rescue. He's trying to avoid unnecessary risk. He took a big risk in skipping the inspection phase of the supply rocket that blew up, and it didn't pay off. When he nixes the Hermes rescue mission it's because there is an alternative plan that is more likely to work. He comes off as a killjoy but he's just doing his job.
This is a rare movie in that it is a suspense/scifi/action film without a real villain. No one is killed or maimed. It's all about the collective effort to save this astronaut. The only movie that comes close is Apollo 13.
All to often the guy at the top that has to look at the big picture and make the tough decisions gets dismissed as heartless or mean by people that have never had another persons well-being in their hands.
Yep. It's absolutely vital for scientific pursuits (and situations similar to this one) to find out all possible flaws and weaknesses to any theory or plan. This way you can identify them and find solutions to these problems -- especially if it involves slow-moving crises -- in order to start managing them.
But yeah, most normal people would assume that people like Teddy is just naysaying just for the heck of it. It's a natural human reaction, and should be expected.
I think it’s also important to remember that his role is to play the devil’s advocate. He needs to ask the questions no one wants to. What if it really was wind that cleaned the solar panels? What if the rover was moved and not logged? He may be hesitant to accept conclusions that could raise the Watney Family’s hopes and then break their hearts for a second time.
Also, he is ultimately the one that everything falls on. And if he is going to risk NASA, he needs to be sure the answers he’s giving is 99.9% perfect.
@@PhilARobertson More like all too rare. Sometimes they do that but mostly hey do nothing and get paid in fat checks for doing said nothing. You can bet your arse there's an entire team working 'round the clock thinking of all possible scenarios, what they mean, how risky they are and so on. He gets to make the decisions for sure but you're making it sound much grander than it really is lol!
@@earth2saka What can I say, I'm an optimist. I like to think the best of people until they prove me wrong.
It is a gift….getting Sean Bean to explain what the Council of Elrond is lol
At one point you guys said "a scientist must've written this movie" and you weren't that far off ... this movie is based on an INCREDIBLE book (as good as this movie is, it actually doesn't do the book justice, that's how great the book is). What's cool is the author actually posted parts of the novel on online science forums to allow for outsourcing and fact checking, which made this story incredibly scientifically accurate. I just love that, way to use resources to create something brilliant.
Project Hail Mary is such a wonderful story by the same author as well!
Yes, it's great. He did choose to exaggerate certain parts for dramatic effect, since otherwise the plot couldn't progress. E.g. given the very low air pressure on Mars, even the most violent sandstorms couldn't blow away a satellite dish, or nearly tip a space vehicle over.
Except the storm that causes him to get stuck in the first place is totally inaccurate.
One little thing that kind of bothered me about the way the book was adapted was Teddy. In the book, Teddy was a lot more complex, and had to juggle a lot more problems - he wasn't ever really intended to be a villain. He was just a realist, who's literal _job_ was to look at the bigger picture. Here he's, like... genuinely an antagonist.
@@TrackpadProductions yeah agreed .. and I didn't like that they did the Iron Man at the end of the movie, but I guess both are better for dramatic effect 🤷♀️
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney starred as astronauts in _Gravity._
If you've never heard of Vicodin, you have to start watching Hugh Laurie as _House M.D._
I assume it has a different brand name in the UK.
That's a good one. I think they'd like it.
@@pendorran I just checked: it is unavailable there.
Vicodin (Hydrocodone, aka dihydrocodeine) is not available in the United Kingdom, though the combination codeine/paracetamol (co-codamol) is. It is an opioid, considered to be roughly equivalent to morphine in terms of potency.
@@chris...9497 Yes, as I said above, it is unavailable in the UK, but my recommendation to watch _House_ stands.
Pathfinder is a real probe sent in the 90s
Makes me sad how often people assume stuff is made up like hello it's supoose to be our future.
Yes, 1997. Somewhere I have a VHS tape of the TV broadcast of its landing that I recorded as a kid... damn I feel old now :(
Love this movie and you two
Well Britain doesn't have a space program so they don't know this stuff
@@cpob2013 That is 100% true. It's kinda sad that NASA cut their pigeon post program budget in 1996, so the news of Pathfinder never got to us.
Everyone who subscribed or watches these videos. You know Hannah is an actress. She’s an amazing actress and you should watch her in the movie “MY DAY”. She also has two new films coming out according to IMDB. She’s funny, witty, can sing and act and her own TH-cam channel is incredible. She needs to be a big movie star and we need to help.
Oi this made me smile (ash) you don’t understand how much your beautiful comment means to us. She’s mad talented and I’m so happy everyone can see it and will see it. Thank you Monty ❤️❤️
WAIT I DIDNT KNOW THAT, I'll look that movie up and keep up with her IMDB page. Thank you. ❤
Hannah SIMPS, RISE !!!!
I never heard that
Agreed, was a great movie.
A Martian is a citizen of Mars, regardless of species.
But Mars doesnt have a dual citizenship treaty with the US, so he would have to renounce his US citizenship to become a martian, wouldn't he?
@@hernerweisenberg7052 huh? I mean really .. huh?;
When your potatoes in your cupboard get a little old, sprouts start to come out of the "eyes". By quartering or more, each potato with a sprouting eye in the chunk, and it will grow a whole potato plant with 8-20 potatoes each.
43:10 "They've had to turn off...they've done something...with the air..."
😂😂😂
Ash's face!
Mark Watney was in danger not of EXploding (flying apart into many pieces), but IMploding (being crushed into the size a ball).
I love how the director of NASA in this story isn't a villain or even an antagonist. He does care about his astronauts, and knows his science and how things work, but he also tries to be realistic about how to handle situations.
Hannah seeing Mark plan: This is what I would do
Hannah 10 seconds later: What is that, what is that for?
😂😂😂
39:26, the Iron Man reference always cracks me up given the number of people in this movie who have been in a Marvel movie.
You too fucking crack me up mate 😂 ‘he’s growing potatoes with grape juice?’ 😂😂😂
I still can't tell if they really think it's "grape juice"
Watney's a botanist, and up there to research the agricultural portion of what it would take to sustain things like colonies on mars, let alone future manned missions. Potatoes are already roots. He uses the martian soil as growing medium, their own astronaut's freeze-dried poop for bacteria and fertilizer, and he mainly needs water, which he gets from a burning a hydrogen source, I forgot from where in the book but I think it was either a byproduct of another piece of a equipment, which allows him to continually produce it, or from a leftover large source of rocket fuel component.
The habitat explodes because part of that entryway corridor is just fabric that was engineered to last for the duration of the mission, about a month?, plus additional safety factor, and he's still there well beyond that. In the book, it occurs due to a microscopic weak spot in the fabric that's within the tolerances for its engineered purpose and duration, but eventually fails, expanding to a large enough tear that breaches resulting in the explosion. He repairs it with a lot of duct tape, also reinforcing it, but it becomes a greater unknown for how long it will hold before he can leave.
Did we just figure out Hannah’s next great TV show? Breaking Bad
Right!? Exactly what I thought
White narcos?
This movie was such a lovely surprise - a genuinely great movie, well-written, well-acted, well-directed. That's all you need and it's amazing how many movies miss the mark. Loved this reaction guys :)
A Martian would be a being that lives on Mars.
Or was born on Mars.
Or lives and was born somewhere else but got the nationality from mars
I dont think Mars has a treaty about dual citizenship with the US, so would't he have to renounce US citizenship first?
A year or more is long enough to establish residency.
@@Stevaroonihe lives in nasa property/territory
Gravity is the movie with Sandra Bullock.
23:35 "How the hell did you get ketchup in space?", dude seriously? Maybe, just MAYBE they brought it there from Earth.
Hannah is great… I would never ask her to do my taxes. Her misunderstanding of story, plot and dialogue is so funny 😂
There is absolutely nothing on Mars to eat unless you brought it.
Thanx Einstein
@@peterwinters8587 You're Welcome!
These two skipped high school chemistry class didnt they
Just realised this is our generation’s “Cast Away” 🍿
Go farther down the rabbit hole with "Swiss Family Robinson" and "Robinson Caruso".
@@seaspike40 Even farther with Robinson Crusoe Goes to Mars.
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2:55 Ash almost courted death with this shocked "high end?!" reaction, like he's not shocked about the prostitute part, but shocked that she feels she could be the expensive kind. 🤣
I'm used to some tangents in the intro but we're getting ready to watch The Martian and Ash is trying to pimp Hannah out for £20
Daddy chill!
What's the conversion to usd?
@@cpob2013 I think about $25, maybe a bit less, so you'd be getting change from a $100 bill for at least 4 hours
@@cpob2013 About $30. Actually, $25.
« They’ve done something with the air »😂😂😂
If this movie was a meme, it would be Casey Affleck's character from Good Will Hunting saying, "My boy's wicked smart." Even funnier that he was referring to Matt Damon's character in that movie. It's perfect lol
Fun Fact- when Rich (Donald Glover) fell that wasn't in the script he really slipt on some paper that was on the ground
"A Martian is an alien"
Lol you *_Earthlings_* are so funny haha😂
The author of the book actually had NASA scientists check his story for realism and accuracy while he was writing it.
Well... They seem to have missed the part with the storm at the beginning. But with reaslistic martian storms there would have been no story otherwise...
@@steffenjachnow8176 true. As thin as the Martian atmosphere is, not even a tornado on Mars would be able to send a satellite dish flying, but they had to get the story started somehow?
How do you get sweet and sour chicken in space? How do you get ketchup in space? Simple. They brought it with them.
Shhh they are British, they don't have a space program
@@cpob2013Yes we do- the U.K. Space Agency.
@@icatfishedyourdad2767shh lil mandem
The film with Sandra Bullock is Gravity (2013) George Clooney is also in it, its a pretty good movie, though Interstellar and The Martian are much more memorable imo
He's making a mars "ouija board", thanks Ash, you just made my day with that one. LOL
I've had a lot of " abdominal" surgeries...twice, the wire like " internal " stitches would poke out thru my abdominal area. I could not look at it, touch it,or even dress properly without touching it. 😂 it finally fell out but it was long! I was panicked watching him pull out the metal. Good for you Hanna for not feeling ill
Vicodin is a prescription-level pain killer. The book goes into much more detail, but all of Mark’s physical labor ends up giving him a bad back that he nurses with occasional doses of Vicodin and warm baths he creates using the RTG (plutonium thingee he uses for his rover trips to stay warm).
“i got more being a clown” 😭😭😭 i LOVE hannah id book her as a clown in a HEARTBEAT
You guys NEEEED to watch Arrival! It’s amazing. And a mind bender
$10,000 an hour for Hannah and an extra $5,000 for Ash to serve coffee in a french maid's outfit.
Really liked your complimenting the writer a little way in. This movie is actually based on a book with the same name by a guy named Andy Weir. He’s a very scientifically minded person, and he started writing the story on his blog and it just took off. One thing led to another and now there’s a huge movie.
He also wrote a couple of other books. The more recent one is Project Hail Mary, which starts with a guy waking up in space with amnesia. Very good, and they’re making a movie out of that too. It should come out in 2026.
“Botanist, that’s like umm.. Plants and shit” lmao
This movie does a great job of summarizing the book, which is fantastic, but it's really Matt Damon's charisma that makes this movie so good.
Also, NASA experts rate the science in The Martian really highly. The one thing that's actually wrong is the storm at the beginning. The atmosphere on Mars is so thin that even an impressive looking storm like that would feel like the gentlest of breezes, but then there'd be no movie.
gravity is wrong as well
It's funny that quite a few of these reactors i have seen do this movie don't seem to know what he means when he says that nothing bad can happen when you burn Hydrogen.
Whoats Pafthfoinda? 😂
@@FatCat-yo2jl ye hardly anyone of them gets that one either. I do have Abit more understanding about not knowing about that.
The author (Andy Weir) of the book The Martian, knew quite a bit about science, but also got information from actual NASA scientists. Everything portrayed in this film (equipment and gear) is stuff they have now and is accurate. He has also written a couple more books based in space. Project Hail Mary by the same author is incredible and will be made into a movie aswell. I believe Ryan Gosling is signed on to play the main in that.
Can't wait for the "Project Hail Mary" movie, it's gonna be awesome!
PHM is such an adorable first contact story
The one thing he concedes to having fudged on is the storm at the beginning...Mars' atmosphere is so thin that it couldn't have caused the damage it did, but then there wouldn't have been a story.
Yes!!! So excited. Stayed up until 3a.m. reading that one 🤗
*Jazz hands*
This was genuinely hilarious to watch. Thank you for the wonderful videos. "What are those flies??"😂😂
There is an earlier two earlier Mars rescue movies that both came out in 2000. They called Mission to Mars (starring Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle and Connie Nielsen) and Red Planet (starring Val Kilmer, Carrie Ann Moss and Benjamin Brett) . Neither is anywhere as scientifically grounded as The Martian but they each have their own bit of charm.
The Carrie-Ann Moss subplot in _Red Planet_ should have been the entire movie. It was a really good "lone astronaut survives using their wits" story, years before _Gravity_ came out. And in _Mission to Mars,_ Don Cheadle was the O.G. Mark Watney! lol
13:31 Hannah: "Botanist, that's like um... plants and shit, isn't it?"
Me: "If only Ash realized how literally true and prescient those words of Hannah were! Because potato plants and astronaut shit, it will be!"
As someone who was born and raised in Wyoming that was absolutely hilarious xD
"Mars -- the Cowboy Planet"
Honestly watching this back, I absolutely love Ash’s reaction to Hannah when she goes off. It’s so adorable and funny
I love you two!
The movie Hannah is thinking about with Sandra Bullock is a movie called Gravity. It's a great movie and a wild ride that really makes you feel for the characters. You guys should do a reaction to it!
This is the first reaction of yours that I've watched, and I'm loving the exasperated glances Hanna keeps giving Ash. I'll definitely be watching more just to see more of that.
Movies and life have trained us to always expect a villain, like Ash suspecting Teddy. Very rarely we’re just people that stick together.
I thought it was interesting that he said he'd never seen a movie without a villain before, and then mentioned Castaway several times.
Duct tape has long been an actual resource used in many NASA missions over the years.
Duct tape in space is in at least one military sci fi book that I've read. The aliens in the book made a huge supply of duct tape one of their conditions for surrender because they saw people on the human ship using duct tape to fix everything, from tools to people. The writer of that series was an officer in the US Navy, so he knew a lot about combat on water. He also consulted some science folks to make sure the space battles were fairly realistic.
@@elizabethparker4511was the author Jack Campbell? I've read his "lost fleet" series of military scifi - it's a great series if you're currently looking for a series to read
I'm a bit disappointed Hannah didn't recognize Ned Stark
The book has an after chapter when he got home. He developed anyiety to go outside and was on constant cancer watch due to being exposed to Mars radiation WAY beyond the limits his equibment was designed to get him through. The book was writen by a software engineer who is a space enthusiast.
That coffee/2hr movie song was a banger.
You guys are the best!! The beef/banter between you two is so funny omg keep it up I’m subscribing!
Would love to see you guys react to Apollo 13, because the story is so incredible and the fact that it happened in real life amazes me
3:08 - 4:13 Ash you put yourself in that corner holy shit lmao!!! It also showcases how innocent you are. Bless you sir xD
You should watch Interstellar again to include Hannah, to watch her reaction. It’s DEFINITELY a movie to watch more than once!!!
Hannah, there are other hatches on the spacecraft that they could seal, like the inner door of the airlock, for starters, and then repressurize using gas (oxygen and nitrogen from tanks) afterward. This is exactly what a private sector space crew are going to do on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in real life in the near future (the first spacewalk done by a private company). In the 1960s, NASA's Gemini program involved letting all of the air out of those spacecraft so that one of the crew could go out into space, which is exactly how the Soviets had just done it.
Ah. Vicodin is made from a combo of Paracetamol, which is also available in the UK, and Hydrocodone, which is not available in the UK.
Sucks for them 😂
Lmao I'm just picturing Hannah's idea that Commander Lewis ordered her crewmate to build a bomb so she could blow herself up for no reason
"Are you receiving me?" I would have answered "No."
THIS JUST MADE MY EVENING I absolutely love this movie and I love you two so this is a very welcome surprise :)
The symbolisms in this movie are off the charts 😂
There are vids on TH-cam with actual scientists and astronauts reviewing this movie. They said that except for the big sand storm in the beginning, they did a good job of being pretty on point with the science.
They said the sand storm wouldn't happen because of Mars' atmosphere. They said 100mi hr winds here would be like 1mi an hour wind on Mars.
Technically Martian is a resident of Mars
The camera is also Watney's log book. NASA training and scientific best practice dictates the necessity to keep detailed and accurate records of everything you do.
Vicodin is a brand name for hydrocodone/paracetamol, an opioid painkiller. It's stronger than codeine/paracetamol but not as strong as many others. Basically, he said "Screw it, I'm getting high" 😂
That would’ve been my first act
Crazy that those are considered so lightweight now. They were the Fentanyl of the day not so long ago.
@@ct6852 I didn't say lightweight, as no opioid is. However, hydrocodone isn't legal in the UK but codeine is, so I compared them so they'd understand the context in the movie.
FYI, fentanyl's been around since the 60s, so it's not new. The only new part is the flood of illegal versions of it and how so many things are falling apart for so many people that it seems like a good option.
"He's got p-ta-oh's" 😅
You get ketchup in space by bringing it with you.
22:48 was just a warning shot, the next time she will shoot with lasers out of her eyes 😂 No for real, i just came out of my last night shift and you guys made me cry again because of laughing. Thank you so much for it!!!
The book was written by Andy Weir and the film is almost exactly the same as the book.
Sandra Bullock's astronaut movie is named "Gravity" along with George Clooney, another grand movie.
The Martian is one of the best I have ever watched. So much so, that I have rewatched again and again. Ridley Scott has done it again.
And also, Matt Damon really gets himself in trouble, doesn't he? From The Bourne franchise, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, and even this.
Alongside Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Jessica Chastain, Michael Pena, even Sean Bean, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Donald Glover, Benedict Wong, and even Chiwetel Ejiofor, this was a star-studded cast!
Hannah always moaning about you interrupting her, as she interrupts you to say it! 😂
This is the type of movies I love watching y'all react to!
Even though this movie was heavily grounded in pragmatic scientific theory, it still didn't get a single Oscar which really surprised me because usually Ridley Scott is on it.
It deserved an award. Fantastic movie ✨🚀
Hannahs brain is a fuckin enigma 😂
What I found impressive in this film wasn't just how he fed himself but the cameraman aswell
The one with Sandra Bullock is called 'Gravity'....its a must watch! Visually stunning as well.
Try to imagine Jeff Daniels (NASA chief) as this character and then as his character in DUMB AND DUMBER.
This is based off a book and it’s incredible. It’s written like a diary and it’s a survival story. The movie is a rescue mission
"I'm gona have to science the hell out of this" is one of the greatest lines ever said in cinema. Fantastic movie, also very very accurate almost everything is accurate.
Well, except it was "science the shit out of this."
@@Corn_Pone_FlicksEven Neil Degrasse Tyson loved that line.😁
Hello Ash & Hannah. The space mission movie you are thinking about with Sandra Bullock would be "Gravity".
We leave dead bodies on Everest. We would definitely leave dead bodies on Mars.
No. The bodies on Everest are idiots. The ones on Mars are geniuses.
I've left bodies on pikes peak.
Loved this reaction 😂.
Especially the part where they set the bomb off to slow the ship.
Hannahs face was a picture!
Botanist: "that' like plants and shiii"
Hannah @ 21:50 LOLLLL she’s too funny 💀
"His ship is getting circumcised in space!" ...I almost spit coffee on my laptop... Thanks for that.
I’m no genius, but both of your lack of understanding of basic science is astounding. They say Americans don’t know anything…I know that water is made of hydrogen and oxygen and that there are extreme temperatures on Mars…
Lmao it's in the name ..... H²0 😂
I think most everyone knows water is made of hydrogen and oxygen... I doubt many of us would have a clue how to put them together to make them become water. Probably my last guess would have been, you have to set them on fire to make water.