I expect "The Martian" will find the box-office velocity it deserves. 8/10 After hearing all the hype about Ridley Scott and Matt Damon's new film the Martian I was quite eager to see how Scott was going to follow up Prometheus, a film I rather enjoyed even though I hear a lot of complaining about the plot holes to which I do agree exist. When Watney gets Pathfinder working, he responds to the sound of the machinery operating. After being stranded Mark complains about Commander Lewis' disco music. It is a major plot point that it was parked right next to the hab on Sol 18 and not moved again. Given the low atmospheric pressure on Mars, the flexible plastic tarp would have at minimum half sea-level pressure on the inside (the minimum pressure for human activity) or about 7psi, and basically a vacuum on the other side. The Ares III mission starts in early November, and Mark is rescued after 561 sols. Mark Watney is seeing taking apart the Ares IV MAV, exposing the interior of the top capsule to the Mars Atmosphere. Right after, in the following shot, the Montblanc reappears again in Sanders' pocket. The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir.It was his debut novel under his own name. However there are no launch pads in the Johnson Space Center, so such hangers do not exist at the Johnson Space Center. Inside the dome, sunlight won't be enough for potatoes to grow. The Martian - Plot Holes, Clarifications or Questions by ericvschultz » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:04 pm Hi Andy - first things first: I find the story absolutely brilliant. During the shot, we can clearly hear Vincent starting to say "Oh Jesus Christ..." but Vincent is not seen moving his lips or gesturing. However, this movie is set 20 years in the future, so things could change. As the MAV ascends with Watney the MAV altitude is shown as 1843 m/s, altitude is measured in m not m/s. It is likely that the reporter is reporting live based on the communication as it is arriving to Earth. At the end of the scene where it displays the China National Space Administration, a green train can be seen passing by slowly. The Martian opens with the Sol 6 log entry of astronaut Mark Watney, who is the resident botanist and engineer on NASA’s Ares 3 mission to Mars.Watney explains that, while the crew was supposed to spend a month on Mars, they were forced to abort the mission early. Once the camera was pointed at "Yes", Mark would positively know that communications had been established with NASA. One might expect at least another 25 days' travel to reach Pathfinder if one assumes his speed is constant over the Martian terrain. Watney has been stranded after his crewmates were forced to evacuate the planet because of a violent dust storm. And Mark answered "I haven't had a shower in a year and a half". ... Easter Eggs & Plot Holes Explained! Since the waste has been exposed to near vacuum, all the water boiled off and also deep frozen, there wouldn't be any bacteria left. By the time you see The Martian in movie theaters next week, one of its biggest plot points will already be a plot hole—thanks to this week’s announcement of water on Mars. Therefore, it should be day on Mars in order to enable communication with Earth through Pathfinder. Hermes was only depressurized to slow it down, then re-pressurized. Why suddenly liquid protein cubes would cause an imbalance is also a mystery unless they were bulk packed and able to coalesce into a large fluid mass moving substantially within the rocket. Yet Watney is often shown writing on paper in the Hab and paper, obviously, burns. The secret project created to use the Hermes to return to Mars to rescue Watney was called Project Elrond, a reference from the Lord of the Rings (also used in the original book of The Martian). The Martian movie plot holes and absurd quotes in a fun '100 Things I Learned' format. Burn. When Lewis has Watney wrapped in the tether, Johanssen reports "Hermes Actual, we've got him." The contents might be accessible through the hole, but then nothing would be holding them up. ", In the music writing credits for "Hot Stuff," Harold Faltermeyer's last name is misspelled as "Faltermeier.". The MDV is stated to have at least 3 communication devices that can contact the ship in orbit, so it would also be able to contact the satellites in orbit, which contact Earth. The photo that is taken of Watney doing the Fonz pose is in vertical lines, much like the satellite imagery. Mark hooks up Pathfinder directly to one of the Hab's batteries. The wording of this boot message exactly matches the boot message in the book where Mark destroyed these panels in order to free the communications section and lift it onto the roof of the rover. The launch of the IRIS probe shows an Atlas rocket with a payload faring that is wider than the all-white rocket body (the footage is the launch of Mars Science Laboratory, the "Curiosity" rover). when failing to respond. The science is completely absurd with plot holes the size of martian craters and visual effects that make Thunderbirds look like 2001. Vincent's e-mail is presented to Mindy on Sol 54 with a time-stamp of 00:35:16 (no date), but the bottom of the screen shows SOL 462 19:28:30, which would be the day after the pirate scene when Watney leaves the Hab much later in the film. For Mr. Watney, this means the easiest way of making water in the Hab was to bring Mars dirt inside, wait a while for it to warm up, and then replace it with fresh dirt. Were he actually able to do that, he would not have needed to continue releasing gas once he had momentum. However, those nuts and bolts can be seen floating around before the spacecraft finishes its burn, which would not be possible when it is still accelerating. In the MAV takeoff scene in the beginning of the movie, the MAV appears to be very vulnerable to strong storms present on Mars and easily tipped over. The Martian is a hard Science Fiction novel selected by the head of my monthly book club. Watney is exploring the storage cabinets in the base and then eats while itemising his food supply. It wouldn't cause violent changes in velocity and would be easily controlled. Add oxygen. Mark can be seen getting from his EVA suit into a flight suit despite this Mark still refers to it as an EVA suit. Surely the others would have been allowed to bring music and videos on their personal laptops. Mark should have placed a panel that read, "If you are receiving me, point the camera at the YES panel to the left.". Weir admits that this sandstorm is the plot’s greatest scientific inaccuracy. After the airlock fails on the Hab and Watney covers the hole with "Hab fabric" the transparent cover is seen billowing in and out during a storm. The biggest issue is that everything moves along at a glacial pace that makes for a pretty boring experience. Ares 3 astronaut Mark Watney begins recording his log of his Mars residency. Contacting security wasn't needed, she only had to reply to his email in order to contact him. That area should have been sealed from the near vacuum of the Martian atmosphere. When seen in the long shot, it is instead a zig-zag underline. Mitch Henderson, played by Sean Bean , was an attendee at the Project Elrond meeting. It's likely that Mark just wiped himself off with a damp towel (just like astronauts on the ISS do), or even just a dry towel, to maintain a minimum of hygiene. The movie makes the point that Mark Watney would be traveling faster than any human ever had during his ascent from Mars. Other wise, the crew would never been able to greet Watney when he came back aboard the Hermes. The sequel, "Leather Goddesses of Phobos II: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X!" Such a superfluous joint would never exist on a real spacecraft. The Martian Stranded on Mars when a manned mission goes wrong, Mark Watney (Matt Damon) has limited rations, limited resources and as for help, well it’s only 140 million miles away. In one shot, the interior of the model is seen with nothing but one seat for Mark Watney. RTG's must radiate waste heat through their cooling fins in order to generate electricity, burying one underground would have prevented it from functioning. When Mark Watney first attempts to establish communications with NASA and JPL via the Pathfinder, he has a whiteboard panel with, "Are you receiving me?" Much of this water can be extracted by simply heating the soil. It just lacked all spontaneity and mystery because everything is laid out before you. The technology for this is a pattern of dots which are black on both faces, then : selected ones are coloured on one face for the "inside" view, and different selected ones are coloured on the other face for the outside view. What's more, there aren't any railroad near China National Space Administration. The evening timelapse of the rollout of the IRIS resupply mission takes place on SLC-37B at Cape Canaveral as evidenced by the retracting Vertical Integration Building though the rocket in this scene (an Atlas V) cannot launch from there and was added in post. There is next a cut to him flushing the toilet in which he seems to have the idea to go back to a cabinet and so he discovers the potatoes. He counts off packages of Sweet and Sour Chicken and adds them to the list in his notebook. The Hab's (apparently) only communication antenna that can contact Earth is torn away and likely destroyed in the storm, and anything on the MAV is gone, so Mark is left without any means of communication, until he gets the lander. Taking days to research, using a supercomputer, and needing to be in the same room as the supercomputer are all unnecessary. NASA is a safety-conscious organization that will never allow a remote operator to open both airlock doors at the same time. He repeatedly got the Jaimie Foxx hand to the face while looking for a publisher, so he said eff it and decided to release the book chapter by chapter each week on his site for free. When the Hermes crew first messages Mark, Martinez says that he drew the short stick, but he never identifies himself as the author. The building is easily recognized, especially because the bridge behind it (Rákóczi Bridge). When Mark leaves the Hab to travel to the Ares IV site, he says (and it is repeated by Vincent on Earth) that he was not expressly given permission to board the MAV, making him a pirate. It would not be possible, however, for his entire body to be launched, even if the escaping gas actually created the necessary force. When Mark ponders about how to pose for the requested picture, you can see his hydrazine reaction plant in the background still working (flame on top is burning). When Watney retrieves the RTG he only used it to heat the cabin of the rover. With an atmospheric pressure of 1 Bar (100 kPa), it would equate to approximately 3.2 tons of pressure onto the seal(if the outside atmosphere is neglected, since it is less than 0.01 Bar). Therefore, Watney and the other astronauts would have walked with a slight bounce, not as much as what you see in films of the lunar landings, but still noticeable. They should be simple slabs with rounded tops. 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