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Project Hail Mary - Final Trailer

Cyberpunkd

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I recommend everyone to read the book - it goes fast and is peak sci-fi. The movie is shaping out to be great as well, like the Martian. We need more movies with cool scientists.
 
Just picked up the book. Read The Martian after watching the film, another good book. Quite a bit in there that didn't make the film.
Don't venture out the cinema much but will try and watch this one.
 
Cyberpunkd said:


I recommend everyone to read the book - it goes fast and is peak sci-fi. The movie is shaping out to be great as well, like the Martian. We need more movies with cool scientists.
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I agree, the book is fantastic.

All I knew about the book before reading it was that a guy wakes up on a ship in space, with the only memory being he has to save the world.

That was it. What a roller coaster that read was.

I would recommend anybody who hasn't read the book and wants to do so before watching the film to avoid these trailers. Far too much is spoiled. You want to go in blind.
 
Solid book. I read it during Astronomy class in Senior Year. I'm confident this will be a banger of a film
 
Cyberpunkd said:


I recommend everyone to read the book - it goes fast and is peak sci-fi. The movie is shaping out to be great as well, like the Martian. We need more movies with cool scientists.
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Fuck it.

I watched it.

That is a film to see on IMAX. Might see if I can get my tickets in now
 
Just saw it.

Very faithful adaptation. If you've read the book, you'll love it.

If you haven't read the book, you'll also love it.

Amaze!
 
This was a lot better than I expected it to be. Was smiling pretty much the entire movie.

Only reservation was that it was a bit TOO long for me. The characters' plans go to shit maybe one time too many. Still very solid and worth watching in a cinema. I hope it does well.
 
I think this was hyped up way too much for me. It was cool but not really memorable. Maybe I am just over Ryan Gosling. I think I actually liked Spaceman w/ Sandler better, what is wrong with me?
 
Thumbs up. Naively optimistic and fun, a bit sentimental but not too much. Sort of thing that'll put you in a good mood.

Impressive practical effects work that will age very well.
 
Panajev2001a said:
🎶 what did you enjoy the most question. You must tell you must tell 🎶
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I heard they did a fantastic job with Rock. I'm fine with them using mostly practical so it's gonna to be interesting to see how they pulled that off

And yes he's one of my favorite characters from the book

I'm happy that they actually stuck to not changing anything in the adaptation. Especially with the MC, the MC in the book is a dork and coward so glad they didn't hollywoodize him
 
Yea it was good. Went in knowing nothing. I think I watched the trailer once. Ryan Gosling was very impressive. He has some crazy range.
He also stole the Barbie movie.

Was wondering if they changed the ending.
like he doesn't die and lives happily ever after on alien rock planet, and earth is saved. Maybe overly optimistic is the brand. But I like it. We need more of these stories.
 
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Haven't seen it yet, but The Martian was a weird experience for me... enjoyable, but felt very strange because I've never seen a movie that is filmed as if it was a dramatization of some past real life story, while being entirely fictional. I mean that the little stylistic details, cinematography, emotional beats etc were pulled directly from the style of films about real moments in history (Apollo 13, etc), including the triumphant relief in mission control or wherever. And yet, it didn't happen, so those moments felt slightly unearned and self-congratulatory. I don't know how to put it.

It's so strange to learn that the same author behind that one basically wrote another in a similar style here, so I'm curious if this director with take the same approach as the last one (borrowing from real-life or docu-drama scifi tropes) or if they'll treat it more as a normal hypothetical "what if" sci-fi framing.
 
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt said:
I heard they did a fantastic job with Rock. I'm fine with them using mostly practical so it's gonna to be interesting to see how they pulled that off

And yes he's one of my favorite characters from the book

I'm happy that they actually stuck to not changing anything in the adaptation. Especially with the MC, the MC in the book is a dork and coward so glad they didn't hollywoodize him
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He's played by Ryan Gosling, one of the most beautiful humans on Earth.......pretty safe to say they Hollywoodized him :P
 
GateofD said:
Yea it was good. Went in knowing nothing. I think I watched the trailer once. Ryan Gosling was very impressive. He has some crazy range.
He also stole the Barbie movie.

Was wondering if they changed the ending.
like he doesn't die and lives happily ever after on alien rock planet, and earth is saved. Maybe overly optimistic is the brand. But I like it. We need more of these stories.
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I have not seen the movie yet but listened to the Audiobook
End of the book he saves Rocky and goes back to Rocky's home planet and is a teacher there. He learns that earth received the beatles and solved the Astrophage problem.
 
GateofD said:
Was wondering if they changed the ending.
like he doesn't die and lives happily ever after on alien rock planet, and earth is saved. Maybe overly optimistic is the brand. But I like it. We need more of these stories.
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only very slightly, as I understood, in the original story he apparently stays on the planet, while in the movie rock says they are ready to send him back, but he's going to stay longer, so it's a bit more open with him possibly returning.

Insane Metal said:
Wait there's a post credit scene? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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Yes there was but I really wouldn't call it a "scene", it was basically just a single bit of audio of rock saying something, untranslated.
 
I saw this in IMAX, not the greatest movie I've ever seen, but it was very good and well worth going to see in IMAX.
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Yes there was but I really wouldn't call it a "scene", it was basically just a single bit of audio of rock saying something, untranslated.
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Actually there is another neat little easter egg, all the studio logos look like mission patches at the end of the credits.
 
just got out of the theater and what a wonderful movie. I didn't read the book but I was very interested in the movie. went in mostly blind outside of the trailer and it did not disappoint. when a movie made me got teary eyes for a rock being, you know they did a great job. highly recommend this one.
 
This was an excellent movie, with the kind of great storytelling that I expect from Andy. Unlike Interstellar, it didn't get bogged down too much with technical jargon, and the raw emotion made each character very multidimensional and engaging. While we have the traditional macguffin at play, its acquisition comes about from a very character-driven screenplay. What is most appreciated by me, is that these plot points are moved along by the characters doing things that make sense at the time they are doing them, and that the plot is not driven by the writers forcing characters to act like dumbasses in order to trigger another crisis to move the plot forward.
 
Rentahamster said:
This was an excellent movie, with the kind of great storytelling that I expect from Andy. Unlike Interstellar, it didn't get bogged down too much with technical jargon, and the raw emotion made each character very multidimensional and engaging.
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What technical jargon was in interstellar? If anything, that film needed MORE science, or at least a guy to say things like "hey, due to gravitational time dilation every minute you spend down there is like a year up here, so this planet is totally unsuitable for colonization no matter how much of an eden it might be but hey I can see here with my telescope that the entire planet is a flat sea with no land masses, ANOTHER reason why it's a shit planet. And wow this other report we got is from a planet with a negative 150 Celsius average temp, so his reports seem really off, perhaps we can consider reasons why he might be fabricating false info?" Stuff like that.
 
jason10mm said:
What technical jargon was in interstellar? If anything, that film needed MORE science, or at least a guy to say things like "hey, due to gravitational time dilation every minute you spend down there is like a year up here, so this planet is totally unsuitable for colonization no matter how much of an eden it might be but hey I can see here with my telescope that the entire planet is a flat sea with no land masses, ANOTHER reason why it's a shit planet. And wow this other report we got is from a planet with a negative 150 Celsius average temp, so his reports seem really off, perhaps we can consider reasons why he might be fabricating false info?" Stuff like that.
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I agree Interstellar doesn't explain much other than we need a new planet. Time Dilation is explained clearly by 3 people on the Wave planet and the guy they left behind. But other than that they do not get technical. I think they do a better job of showing you the time concepts he is playing with.
 
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