Way more comedy than we expected! First time watching THE MARTIAN movie reaction.

This was fantastic! This movie basically had everything, drama, comedy etc. Everyone nailed it. What was your reaction? Did we miss anything? Early Drops & Full Reactions on Patreon: www.patreon.com/baddmedicine Backup channel Subscribe here www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CLUwA27dz-94o3FR0o3xg

I swear from Saving Private Ryan to Interstellar to The Martian, I can't believe how much money and manpower has been spent saving Matt Damon.

I've always maintained that when Watney says "I'm not gonna die here", it's a mission statement.

Sean Bean explaining Elrond as “a secret meeting” while also being in a “secret” meeting of sorts is just great. 😂

"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this" is the battle cry of the entire human race.

When I was in the 9th grade my teacher put this on for us and he told me this was based on a true story. He even went was far as to say there was a live stream on YouTube that documented when he returns back to Earth. I fully believed this for like 4 years until I decided to look up the Wikipedia page. Now it makes so much sense why I could hear the rest of the class laughing as he told me this was a true story 😂

My favourate thing about this movie/book isn't even in the movie/book. Weir (the author) had to calculate power usage per day so often that he sort of short-handed it. He realized Watley would have too calculate that as well, so he had him invent a unit of measurement in the book... the "Pirate-Ninja". Well... at JPL, they also have too calculate that all the time. So the Pirate-Ninja has made its way into actual usage. Engineers and managers alike use it in calculations and meetings.

I am freely gonna admit that I watch this movie way too often. It is just so well-made and wholesome and entertaining. It's one of my alltime favorite sick-day or "dont know what I wanna watch" movies <3

My favorite random fact from the movie is that at the very end when everyone is celebrating in the airlock, it's actually a purposeful jab at the book! In the novel, Watney says something to the extent of "If this were a movie, we would all be celebrating in the airlock". Instead of course, he hadn't bathed properly in literal years and smelled absolutely abhorent. So in the movie, they made absolutely sure to have everyone celebrate in the airlock.

One of my favorite subtle things in the film is when the Project Elrond meeting is beginning and they’re explaining the name to Annie, Teddy walks in and claims the codename Glorfindel, thus explaining that, for as much of a bureaucratic a-hole as he is, he is still a Tolkien geek at heart. Things like that really make the characters in this film so appealing to me!

Matt crying was actually genuine. Because he did all of his sense alone and had no one to act with. He dedicated his performances because of ridely Scott’s choice to not have him act with the other actors of the Artemis crew. They played prerecorded lines through Matt’s helmet in the suit .

I love this movie and the way it expertly adapted the tone of the book! I'm only sad that my favorite part was cut from the adaptation, that being: Immediately after the hab depressurized, Watney throws a tantrum and records a short log basically saying "screw this, Mars wins! I'm done!" The log cuts, then he starts a new log after five minutes of cooling down and just continues solving problems. It was always my favorite portrayal of his frustration coupled with his ingenuity and tenacity. Also, fun fact, all the materials of the hab and supplies are space-grade, but the duct tape is literally just duct tape. Apparently, not even NASA can improve on duct tape.

The opening lines to the book made me read the story and I wished it's how the movie opened. "I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked." Also instead of disco being what Mark is thinking about while alone up there, the book has this. "How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense."

It's so funny that he mentions Iron Man, considering bucky, Wong and Luiz are in the movie😂 Side note "we got him" and the explosion of cheers after will always make me tear up

If watching Mythbusters has taught me anything, duct tape is the one thing I would want to bring with me to Mars

The fact that both Jessica Castain and Matt Damon are in two of the greatest sci-fi films in the last 10 years.

I've seen this movie four or five times, and every time I watch it I forget for about half an hour that it's not actually based on a true story :') That's just how good it is at drawing you in and making you feel like the story is plausible

I love this movie. Glad to see you watched the extended version which has about 20 minutes not in the theatrical version. Some of the reasons Mark was on this mission in the first place was because he's good at solving problems, he's also an engineer in addition to being a botanist, and his personality helps the crew work well together. In NASA, calling someone a "steely-eyed missile man" is the highest compliment that can be given. It refers to someone who solves a crisis under extreme stress. Pathfinder and the little skateboard rover Sojourner really did land on Mars and the site is now known as the Carl Sagan Memorial Station. Look up the details of that mission. Lots of stuff is different in the book, which I highly recommend you read, than in the movie. For instance, they don't do the silly Iron Man stuff in the book. Mark suggests it but it is vetoed immediately. He stays put and Beck goes out and gets him as planned. He also has lots of crises in the book that they left out of the movie, otherwise it would have been about 12 hours long. As for duct tape, here are a couple quotes from Mark about it from the book: "Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape." "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped."

I love this movie so much. My dad is a retired NASA aerospace engineer and the point of this film where they rush to send him supplies without going through the proper procedures always makes him cry and then he reflects back on the Challenger disaster (of which he was among those investigating just what went wrong).

You're right that the Hermes couldn't turn around get Mark. A lot of reaction channels immediately go there, not realizing that it takes a tremendous amount of fuel to reverse direction when there's no atmosphere. Pretty much the only way to make a sharp turn in space is by using the gravity of a planet, moon, or other large body to propel the craft in the correct direction.