*The Martian* was Hilarious | Movie Reaction – First Time

"How freaking naive of me, to have just been enjoying the flow of this movie, not even considering the fact that, like, something can go wrong? 'Cause everything has just been going right; I just got comfortable. Lesson learned."

Congratulations. You just summed up the entire history of space exploration, along with not just how quickly things can go wrong, but how quickly people can forget when and how they do.

I'm a bookworm, so I'm going to take a moment to recommend the book this movie is based on- the humor genuinely comes from the source!

The emotion that Matt (Mark) was showing before being shot off of Mars was real. He had been acting alone for months and the Director had the other actors fly in to deliver their lines as a surprise. It was a while since he had heard their voices and was expecting to hear the Director. Great Directing. 👍🏾

Damn.. I would love to watch a movie with you bro, you hit on everything I feel watching a movie. If you love the humanity aspect in a movie (and I know you do) please react to Dances With Wolves, I'll bet it becomes your new favorite movie. Keep up this great product you put out, loving it! 😎👍😁💯🔥

Absolutely amazing film. …and a great reaction and thoughtful commentary, as well! SUBSCRIBED! Since you love this and INTERSTELLAR so much, you've got to check out "GRAVITY"… it's a BRILLIANT film and science-based space epic, as well… These three films ("THE MARTIAN," "INTERSTELLAR," and "GRAVITY") are the best modern space films since "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY"). Another great film to check out: "CHILDREN OF MEN"… an incredible dystopian tale of the near future.

Also: As a fellow artist, I have to say that I love your painting work, as well! Cheers!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who says "thank you -insert robot name-" lmao in the back of my mind I'm like if they ever go Skynet on us hopefully they see that I've always been nice to them and either don't kill me or give me a quick death XD

Stupid question, are you a painter? It looks awesome!

The basic storyline is not much different than that Tom Hanks film "Cast Away".
The video log is Watney's 'Wilson', helping to keep him sane.

Success begins with a mission statement.
Watney's mission statement is "I'm not going to die here."

The reasons he's doing the planting inside is three-fold:
-It's too cold for temperate plant life to survive outside (you'll see that made clear later in the film).
-Mars has a very low and thin atmosphere; even if it had carbon dioxide necessary to sustain plant life, there isn't enough of it to keep plants alive.
-Due to the thinness of the atmosphere, water just evaporates into space; not only could you not water the plants, but the plants would freeze-dry if they could grow at all.
Note: Technically this would still not work. There are chemicals and minerals in the martian soil that would prove deadly to plants. Just brining martial soil inside, adding human compost, and then keeping it warm and moist does nothing to remove the toxins in the soil.

The precautions would not have made a difference; it would not have kept the rocket with the supplies from destabilizing and blowing up. Some of the supplies were liquid and loaded without attention to placement. During launch, those liquids through off the balance. That would not have picked up in prelaunch procedures.

Being Director of NASA is a political position. The Director's decisions affect financing the agency and even its continued existence. His decisions have a direct impact on the scientists and other employees that work for NASA. Every option about Watney is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if–you-don't situation. Optics affect funding, green-lighting projects and programs, and so much more. He tried to get desperately-needed supplies to Watney before Watney died, but it didn't work out. So, the Director went the other way, being more conservative in his decisions to keep the returning crew as safe as possible. There really isn't any good options in this situation, only gambles.

Watney waiting to take off from Mars is not scared; it's been almost two years since he's heard a human voice besides his own. Hearing his friends, knowing they've come back for him, has to be affecting him. Plus, he's had to keep busy to stay alive up to now. This is the first time in nearly two years he's been left not working on a problem. It's just him and self-reflection at that moment. It's a lot flooding into him, emotionally, now.

I believe 42 meters per second is something like 94 miles per hour…

Chiwetel Ejiofor (Vincent Kapoor) is a really good actor. You should do reactions to some of his other films:
-"Amistad" (1997)
-"Kinky Boots" (2005)
-"12 Years a Slave" (2013)
-"Doctor Strange" (2016)

Great reaction to this film! Love your gentle approach to the things that come up in the story. This is why I subscribed.

I would love to hear you compare Matt Damon's characters in "Interstellar" and "The Martian". How did the difference strike you?

The director was an even bigger douche in the book, but he made the right call to skip the inspections in the movie, I felt. He was negligent or careless about Watney's life. He was making a decision that he felt gave him the best chance to survive. Mark was already out of food and was on a starvation diet. He saved him ten days by taking a calculated risk that should have worked. Inspections rarely found any problems, but the rushed nature of the project made it more risky.

Another movie that I own, watch multiple times and loved! So fun to watch you watching the movie! You’re so good at this!

This is one of my favourites and I've watched dozens of different people watching it for the first time, what surprises me is they all say things like, I've seen her in this or I've seen him in that, but everyone seems to miss the fact that the winter soldier is on board the Hermese….go figure

This is a film that stays pretty close to the novels, but I still say the novel is better and very worth reading!

Such a great movie 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Great reaction to a great movie! One of the first questions you had was about Mark doing surgery on himself. I suspect there's a precedent for this from another novel. If you get a chance to watch "Master and Commander, Far Side of the World," (2003, starring Russell Crowe) there's a scene in which the ship's doctor is accidentally shot in the abdomen by a careless officer. There being no one else on board able to do the surgery, the doctor operates on himself to remove the bullet. At least in THAT movie, he has somebody nearby to hold the mirror! It's another great movie that I hope you get the chance to watch: about life on a British warship in under sail the early 1800's.

If you are alone and injured, you would do whatever you had to in order to stay alive.

One thing I really wish they didn't change so much from the book was Teddy's character. In this he's made out to be a minor antagonist, but in the book he gets along much better with the rest of the crew. It's just that Mitch is the idealist, and Teddy is the realist – as the head of NASA must be.

Regarding the tests… If they waited the extra 2 weeks, Mark would've starved. If they wanted to save him with Iris, they had to launch regardless.