Anybody here think this guy was unrealistically optimistic and happy while being stranded 15 million miles from earth? And don't fucking say he had to be that way to survive.
>>54948407
Different people deal with adversity differently.
A 5-minute movie about a guy hysterically killing himself wouldn't be all that interesting.
Read or listen to the book.
>>54948407
Wherever you go, there you are.
>>54948407
Holy shit, Matt Damon was in Star Wars?!?
>>54948430
That would be funny as fuck if they branded it as a full length movie and charged full ticket price with 3D glasses and everything.
>>54948407
Anyone else got triggered when he decided to use ASCII, but also put up a question mark?
Astronauts are specifically trained to deal as best they can in life or death scenarios.
He didn't panic for the same reason many soldiers don't panic under pressure.
The training doesn't always work, but when it does it helps them survive.
>>54948623
Don't remember the movie exactly, but question mark is in the ascii character set.
>>54948407
>>54948407
He had to be that way to survive.
>>54948800
Your webm is much lower quality than the original.
>>54948407
>nobody trains people who have to sit in expensive hunks of metal and plastic out there on how to not lose their shit
>>54948718
I know, but apparently nobody told the producers.
The astronaut selection process is one of the most intense and rigorous things a person could ever possibly go through, vastly more in-depth and revealing than any other type of "application process" for even agencies like state security services (CIA/NSA/MI6/etc) and provides for more useful info in the long run while creating a better candidate in the process as well.
Astronauts all share one basic common trait: a sense of duty as well as a secondary trait of always trying to find a better way to get shit done even in situations where there appears to be absolutely nothing that can or even should be done.
The main character in "The Martian" was wired from birth to excel and survive, it's part of who he is/was/etc, and he certainly proved that he's just not one of "those people" that would kick back, take a look at the situation and decide, "Fuck it, they left me behind and I can't contact them so, I'll make the best of what time I have left..." and that's that.
Nothing presented in the movie - aside from us being on Mars, that is - was bullshit and it was all technically possible from start to finish given the constraints of being in the movie's advanced timeline with advanced tech over what we have right now.
The guy didn't want to fucking die, wasn't going to die, and didn't.
Stop being jealous, you punks, and make something happen with the time you have left. Even god damned fictional movie characters have more interesting and varied lives than you do, for fuck's sake.
I liked the movie due to how legitimate it would be. One guy whose been trained for decades and has extensive academic and hands-on experience would definitely keep his cool in that scenario.
In the beginning he was planning on his death but later felt like living.
>>54948681
What training? You mean to tell me you need to be trained in order to bear isolation? People on /g/ don't leave their rooms for decades and cope with it without any training.
>>54949160
Sitting at your computer at 11:59PM on December 31 2009 through 12:01AM on January 1 2010 does not mean you didn't leave your room for decades just because another (even) 10 years passed on the calendar.
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all
>>54949199
What the fuck are you on about?
>>54949227
Things you can't understand from sitting at a computer, son.
maybe he was a sperglord living the dream.
the dream of finally being alone.
>>54949401
So this is the power of schizophrenia. Hmm.
>>54949199
>2 minutes is a decade
i'll have what he's having
>>54949160
People on /g/ have other people on /g/ to interact with
Imagine being locked in a room for decades *without the internet*.
>>54949492
>calendar
>10 years to a decade
>2000 to 2009 is 10 years
>2010 starts a new 10 year period based on even amounts of 10
What, you can't into math and even multiples of 10?
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all
>>54948533
against the law, unfortunately. Runtime has to be on the movie poster.
>>54949565
worse, imagine being stuck with media of your bad taste crewmates.
>>54949424
This. Give me my books and leave me to read for the rest of my life. People are cunts.
>>54948800
>Tfw I thought my phones internet was the cause
>>54949569
sure, but that doesn't make 2 minutes 10 years, just because it crosses over a calendar boundry
2010 ended the 2000-2009 10 year period, but that period took 10 years to pass, it didn't pass in just the instance between 2009 and 2010
>>54948407
they'd actually take a gun and off themselves in case something like in the movie happens
>>54948407
It's no use crying over spilt milk. You could try crying yourself to sleep every night for a year, OR you could just go do whatever it is you could be doing right now.
>>54949765
>implying you wouldn't write a rudimentry imageboard on the base computers and shitpost with yourself as long as there remains food/water supplies
>>54949802
nah i'm pretty sure i'd shoot myself after fapping one last time and insulting the faggots at cape canyaveral through the camera
>>54949682
But people wrote books...
>>54949846
also slowly depressurize the room, autoerotic asphyxiation best death
>>54948830
Haha.
>>54949102
More intense than becoming a Seal ?
>>54949102
I was inspired by the film but they could have at least showed him lose his shit just once. On his knees looking up screaming why! at God. " Haven't I been good you motherfucker? " you get the picture. Then after that go back to being macgyver.
>>54950654
All they do is make you run around and spray you with cold water. Whoop-dee-do
>>54950696
that doesn't sound like Matt Damon
>>54949603
>Runtime has to be on the movie poster
>make the credit crawl really really really slow
>>54949846
This.
They could have indirectly shown him jacking off just once. Would have been more edgy. Average guy would have said " fuck this, I'm squeezing one out. "
>>54950701
Give it a shot then big timer. You'd probably shit on yourself and scream for your mother half way through.
>>54950750
He wants to live and he has all of his food and activities metered meticulously so he doesn't die.
Why would he waste energy in jacking off?
>>54950825
>Why would he waste energy in jacking off?
Holy shit, he's a dude, it's in our nature to rub one off every now and then.
>>54950825
Morale?
>>54950825
>not wanting to be the first dude to bust a nut on mars
>>54948407
>15 million miles from earth
What are you, 10? That won't even get you half way there. Brush up on your astronomy before you shitpost.
>>54948407
Why does Obi Wan have a NASA logo on his armor?
>>54948430
this. you can also bet that a mission to mars would select people who would deal with being stranded on mars in as healthy a way as possible.
even the middle ground between "hysterically killing myself" and "giddily planning the next 6 months' potato rations" would be catastrophic (it would look something like buckling under the depression of imminent death).
psych profiles and exams and shit are common for jobs a HELLLLLL of a lot less serious than (early stage) missions to mars would be. so i would bet that the vetting and training for an astronaut destined for mars would be absolutely comprehensive for every imaginable contingency. because if anything wonky happened past the moon, the chances of help reaching the person in reasonable time are basically zero.
https://www.wctc.edu/programs-and-courses/applied-technologies/web-digital-media-design/index.php
Is this a good idea?
>>54950886
Underrated.
>>54951029
Give or take douchebag.
>>54950825
>t. woman
>>54951299
close enough
>>54948407
this is exactly what i didnt like about the movie. It didnt ever feel like he was struggling to survive. And the trailer made it look like was going to be a SURVIVAL movie. Felt more like a sci fi comedy.
>>54950696
They did though....
One scene they shoot where he screams and freaks out a little while sitting in the vehicle. I think it is right after the habitat blows up.
>>54951537
yea, the food production he set up was intended to be capable of lasting long enough for help to arrive, when that went to shit (huehue), he was sure he was boned for sure and lost it momentarily
>>54951351
I've used wolfram alpha religiously and never knew it did shit like this. Mainly used it as a graphing calculator to double check my parabolas and slopes.
>>54951493
Exactly. To fucking light hearted. Then the smoking hot female commander wasn't plausible either though I do have a crush on Jessica chastain. She has amazing bone structure.
>>54951537
Nah, he needed to really lose his shit. You're stranded on Mars for Christ sake. Astronaut or not.
>>54950654
Yes, most definitely. There are less living astronauts at any given time than an entire class of Navy SEAL recruits.
So yeah, becoming an astronaut is a much MUCH more difficult thing to achieve.
>>54951777
Not everyone is a tfw no gf r9k beta faget frog like you anon. Suicide, when done correctly, is painless.
>>54951351
That would imply Mars and Earth are in static orbit of the Sun and never deviate from each other's position which is of course not the fucking way it works. It changes by hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, sometimes more, sometimes less, but never a static number hence why a Mars mission would take so long:
They'd have to wait till it could be done where Mars was at its closest point in the orbits of both planets and launch months in advance of that.
You idiots can't into general astrophysics so shut the fuck up.
>>54948407
lets be real.
You're stranded on Mars
you have about 60 days of supplies
you find a solution
contact with earth
you are the first person Ever to grow crops on Mars
the first person Ever to survive on a different world for more than a Year
first person Ever to hack a rover to communicate with earth
Imagine, the first person do so many things with a few computers, some literal shit, potatoes rockets, and Passion & Intensity.
>>54951870
wouldn't you be fucking excited & optimistic?
Look where technology today could theoretically get us.
>>54948407
It's called science-fiction not science-reality
>>54951856
that's really cool and all, but i'm pretty sure everyone and their dog knows that planets move
this argument doesn't need this kind of accuracy, really, it didn't need to start at all
mars is a long way away from earth, this is true, and this is all that matters in this case
>>54951890
>excited
>optimistic
nigga, im on a foreign body and unless i do shit ima died
>>54951923
still tho.
when you got the shit you need to do to survive down, you gotta be excited like
"I'm growing fucking potatoes on motherfucking Mars"
>>54949603
I can just imagine somebody being stuck with nothing but my Vocaloid collection.
>nobody thought to being music except this one faggot who brought TWO THOUSAND fucking songs of fake Japanese girls chingchonging.
>death is starting to look pretty good.
>>54948407
Are you a fucking idiot?
You're 15 million miles away and pretty dang clever. Do you lose your shit and be a faggot to death like some based pleb or do you, and this might be a stretch for you, use your BRAIN to find a way to SURVIVE?
God fucking holy shit damn it, you're the kind of person that just thinks the dumbest shit and then thinks that they're clever. I'm so edge lord right now, go fucking die.
Anyone else get hard when he smelled that girls shit?
>>54951794
In that situation, "losing his shit" beyond a brief tantrum in the rover would mean going outside and dying.
His scope of action for the whole scenario is tightly constrained between "bravely and calmly solve problems" and "fucking die".
they didn't show him jacking off all day every day behind the scenes
>>54952171
lmfao
Matt Damon makes the most boringest movies. He also can't do comedy and should not even try. The movie was poorly executed. Cast someone else besides Matt Damon, focus more on Mars rather than people talking on Earth, double the pace, and suck less China ****. 4/10 movie.
>>54948407
He realized that it was a suicide mission since the beginning and accepted it.
>>54952195
Ofcourse it wouldn't. You're using a worst case scenario model.
>>54951928
I understand he had to psyche his self out but it was too much fluff.
>>54952154
I see my thread has provoked thought in you. My work is done here *rides off into sunset*
>>54952335
They should have used the guy who they replaced him temporarily with in the Bourne franchise. He would have made it bad ass. The guy from hurt locker.
>>54951767
It does alot more than that
>>54948407
no, I'd be happy
>>54952643
I bet it'll tell you that alot isn't a word as well.
>>54948407
I liked the character. Humour is very heroic.
>>54948407
>15 million
i believe you need to add another zero there m9
>>54949102
>Even god damned fictional movie characters have more interesting and varied lives than you do
Isn't that the point of movies?
>>54952905
that'd be even less accurate than op's guess
>>54948800
thought the film was crap
preferred interstellar -- martian was a series of unfunny /unlikely gags & the astronaut chuckling to himself
>>54948407
If you read the book, you'd know that once again, the movie wasn't as good.
he talks about killing himself all of the time. they made the movie way, way more family friendly/PC/safe than the book actually was.
>>54953145
unfunny as in the disco music
terabytes of storage and he has disco greatest hits -- seems like whole film was set up around simplistic gags/situations - which weren't funny, or were unlikely. also, at the end, the whole world thing, everyone applauding .. movie = independence day .. was crud
>>54948873
>Your webm is much lower quality than the original.
3kb What is this? A webm for ants? I can wright out 3kb on paper by hand in binary with out even getting a cramp.
I could weave that into core rope memory before bedtime.
>>54953175
directed to target audience, = demographic family eating popcorn
not a serious movie at all
>>54953175
can we have an interstellar thread
>>54953175
gravity was far better than 'the martian'
>>54953175
anyone got a torrent of the original solaris -- can't get an english language version
"family" scifi-movies don't work
look what happened t
>>54953234
was going to say "family" scifi-movies do not work -- look what happened to apollo 13
>>54953184
i'll raise you a williams tube
>>54948407
"interstellar"
michael caine saying "we're NASA" did it for me
movie has depth -- won't wear out, can be repeatedly watched, insight, thought, had gone into it ... & picturesque
>>54952128
>2000
loser
Your generic electric boopbops are no match for my 5632 albums of generic beepboop 2hu music
>>54952335
matt damon isn't as bad as leonardo di caprio
>>54948623
Yo i literally had a presentation in class and this was my main argument. Why would anyone ever do this to them self? When jpl had to give him firmware instructions he made it hard for no reason.
>>54949565
& all his talking was still coherent, formulated to an audience even -- I didn't get that
in "moon" , years alone & he was losing it, babbling to himself, unshaven -
as has been said about solitary confinement, complete solitary - the person would start to disintegrate. even tom hanks in "castaway" portrayed that. this movie was lightweight/comedy "family" -- wasted IMO. all the resource, coulda been an epic scifi movie
it's like "apollo 13"
castaway was a brilliant movie btw.
>>54953549
let's 'science the shit out of this'
to who -- where was his audience - continual audience playing -- series of gags etc
>>54948830
he had to be that way to survive.
>>54953596
people talk to themselves for various reasons
>>54953196
>>54953214
>>54953223
>>54953234
holy shit shut the fuck up you samefag
>>54948407
Sure, it's extremely unrealistic, but then again, the book was simply meant to play with the scenario whether it would be possible for an astronaut to survive under these circumstances. That would have been pretty boring if it would be just a list of facts, so I guess as the writer knows that he has no talent for drama, he went with geeky reddit humour. It wasn't too bad, in its more subtle moments it was quite entertaining and sufficiently accurate to make you think about it. The protagonist of course screams so obviously "immature male hero fantasy", but that stuff sells. Just look at basically every action movie, even James Bond. It's stupid, but so are evidently men.
>>54953459
Interstellar was completely ruined for me as soon as that girl started making stupid decisions because L O V E~
for fucks sake's i thought she was a scientist
>>54948407
If he would have sat in a corner and cry like you he would have died ;)
>>54950696
>le edgey abrahamic religion meme
>>54953580
I think there's a difference in that in Martian, Matt Damon had long term goals and projects he was able to fill most of his time with working on. A purpose.
In Castaway, Tom Hanks basically had nothing to do but fuck around and wait. No purpose.
>>54948407
He had to be that way to survive.
It's not enough that a warrior is trained to fight. A warrior is trained to fight and win. That positive attitude can make all the difference.
>>54954324
*sciences the shit out of this bitch*
>>54954394
Also, Matt Damon was able to set up communication relatively early, Tom Hanks didn't have jack shit
That's because Matt Damon is a fucking awful actor
They should have got a serious drama actor, not fucking Jason Bourne
>>54949565
You little weak faggots, that was my childhood..we did shit..outside..with girls..inside..with girls..thank god the internet did not come until I was older. We jacked it to wet forest hidden mags and hard to get vhs tapes and scrambled porn channels.
If I had the internet as a kid, with what I can find on it these days, let alone the early world wide web wild west world..I wouldn't leave the house either..I wouldn't have a usable pair of socks as well...
Now get the fuck off my lawn..I am keeping your ball.
>>54948407
who cares, tha movie was shit
also, >>>/tv/
>>54948407
He wasn't miserable because he didn't have the time to be miserable. He wasn't depressed because he was starving. He didn't have time to reflect because he was constantly farming or fixing something. He was always busy, he was hungry (but surviving) and he was able to make contact with Earth so at the very least he had some hope for a rescue mission. Plus he mentions that they won't shut up after he made communication with them. So he had people to talk to.
>>54948407
who gives a fuck. he cuts his suit in the end to "fly like ironman". they should've kept ridley scott away from this movie, maybe it would've ended up decent, the potential certainly was there.
>>54954486
go back to your coffin gramps
>>54950886
He technically wasnt on the first crew to Mars so I'm sure one of the other guys in one of the other missions, beat, him to it.
>>54954514
>He wasn't miserable because he didn't have the time to be miserable.
He had lots of time for that. Basically, time is all he had plenty.
>He wasn't depressed because he was starving.
From experience I know that this statement makes no sense. If anything makes you depressive, it's starvation. Puts your body in a constant state of stress.
>He didn't have time to reflect because he was constantly farming or fixing something.
Not really. The movie implies that, but then again, the movie didn't show every single day he spent on mars. Just the interesting parts of the interesting days. The rest was boredom. The book does a better job at explaining that.
Really, don't fool yourself into thinking that this is in any way a realistic reaction to a situation like that. It's just supposed to be entertaining to geeks, nothing more.
I think the reaction was good. It seemed similar to the Apollo 13 mission but then again they were able to be in constant contact with earth so not quiet the same.
