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Project Hail Mary - Final Trailer
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DenchDeckard
Banned
What a brilliant film. Loved it!
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
need to see this in imax…all the images folks posted in this thread of their movie exp in imax has me salty af.
Damn, good news for theaters.
I'm curious what made this film so different from 99% of the streaming slop we get from netflix, amazon, etc even with big $$$ budgets, directors, and actors involved. Would 6 Underground have looked better on the big screen? Rebel Moon? The Grey Man? I wonder if there was some sort of fundamentally different way it was made that set it apart in a way that can make future films more predicably "theater worthy" versus "streaming slop".
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
For starters, it originated with good source material, and was then adapted by a guy who has a good track record for adaptations, and the producers were people who actually gave a damn about the quality.
FullMetalx117
Member
Finally watched it after a lot of hype - what a let down…my fault because I didn't like Martian either. I did think this was better than Martian tho.
My vibe for space movies is more like interstellar, contact. Not really like ET…I guess I just wasn't in the mood for something this wholesome.
My vibe for space movies is more like interstellar, contact. Not really like ET…I guess I just wasn't in the mood for something this wholesome.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I'm 53 and I was expecting it to be more hard sci-fi instead got a buddy film about a guy and his pet rock. I genuinely liked Adam Sandlers Spaceman better. I'm not trolling.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Finally got to see this last night! I missed it in the theaters, just never made the time to go see it. My brother bought the digital version so we went down to watch it in his 12' screen theater room.
What a great film, we loved it! Probably the best new film I've seen since Top Gun Maverick. I loved The Martian too, I just really vibe with Andy's writing style I guess.
I love Interstellar too and I think I'd honestly rate PHM a bit above Interstellar. They are both great films IMHO so its hard to put them in a pecking order, same with The Martian. I wish we got more great sci fi like these nowadays.
What a great film, we loved it! Probably the best new film I've seen since Top Gun Maverick. I loved The Martian too, I just really vibe with Andy's writing style I guess.
I love Interstellar too and I think I'd honestly rate PHM a bit above Interstellar. They are both great films IMHO so its hard to put them in a pecking order, same with The Martian. I wish we got more great sci fi like these nowadays.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I wonder what the author next book will be? I loved Project Hail Mary, I hope he writes more, he has a talent for it
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
He said his next book is, yet again, a new story unrelated to any of his previous books.
I think they are trying to adapt his moon one, Artemis. I didn't care for that one as much. Weir seems to do best with a very small roster of characters and just novel science problems to resolve. Maybe he will grow into a Neal Stephenson type author but I'm half convinced Neal has been replaced by trans-dimensional AI quite a few books ago
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Reading the book now and almost finished. Looking forward to the movie but it seems like it would be hard to adapt. So much of it is inner monologues.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Did both and the film was excellent. So much so I saw it twice, and bought it.
a big theatrical screen, massive sound system, 2 hours without a phone?
Might just not be your cuppa, but I'm starting to really appreciate the cinema experience and how some films can tank without it. I also begrudgingly understand the netflix model for dialogue given how I half watch so much off streaming.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
peish
Member
Maybe you just don't like science fiction?
i think that may be the problem, not enough science fiction in there.
i wanted it cold and hard into me.
read the book then, or hopefully the rumored directors cut. PLENTY o science in the book.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's interesting. I found to be chock full of scifi.
Pejo
Gold Member
This movie somehow became one of my gf's favorite movies, and she hasn't ever really shown affinity for scifi movies ever that I can remember. It's up in the annals of her favorites along with stuff like Good Burger, Wicked, The Sound of Music, etc.
She bought it when it released on Amazon and we re-watched it for dinner. I caught a few things that I missed in the original watch at the theater, but for the most part I got sucked into the trap of thinking "oh, he's gonna say the thing, he's gonna say it! - amaze amaze amaze
Really enjoyed it, even on a rewatch.
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One thing I wish that they would have gone into more detail about, was how the translation software worked and was built. That was a pretty big jump from "oh look, we both have clocks" to all of the sudden instantly translating a bunch of whirrs and clicks into english. Does the book expand on that point at all, for those that have read it?
She bought it when it released on Amazon and we re-watched it for dinner. I caught a few things that I missed in the original watch at the theater, but for the most part I got sucked into the trap of thinking "oh, he's gonna say the thing, he's gonna say it! - amaze amaze amaze
Really enjoyed it, even on a rewatch.
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One thing I wish that they would have gone into more detail about, was how the translation software worked and was built. That was a pretty big jump from "oh look, we both have clocks" to all of the sudden instantly translating a bunch of whirrs and clicks into english. Does the book expand on that point at all, for those that have read it?
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He basically has a very smart program and magically Eredani language structure is similar enough to english that they can work out phrases and stuff. They spent more time in the book on virtually everything, he was there for weeks and weeks IIRC when the movie makes it seems more like just a few days. But he basically records the sound rocky makes and assigns it an english word or short phrase, like in the film, building up a vocabulary. The somewhat unspoken key to the relationship is that Rocky has a MASSIVELY superior memory and is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in speaking a kind of pidgin language that translates more easily.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Almost too much. It's very digestible but they really get into how and why things work as they do.
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
I've only watched the movie, but I was disappointed in how once again the alien wasn't really that alien. I've been reading the manga Heterogenia Linguistico where the are different "animalfolk" the main character needs to learn to communicate with. It doesn't just go into the differences in language, but also the differences in culture and mentality. It's by no means a complex manga, but I think it deals with the topic of communicating with non-humanoids in a far more interesting way. That manga was in the back of my head the whole time.
In the end the rockpeople just seemed to be little Baby Yodas. Gosling and Rocky both synced up too well when it came to humour for example. With humans, even if you spend lots of time together, there'll likely still be lots of challenges in understanding humour. A dry Brit trying to tell standup jokes to native Mongolians and Thai people might not fare so well. Bill Burr once said how some Finnish people had trouble understanding the humour in his stories and asked why he didn't just do X thing to solve the issue. When it comes to customs it might be even more strange when you meet inuit or other remote people.
If someone in my extended family made a beautiful carving in wood, complimenting directly would be awkward. Instead it would be better to say in the right tone: "did you have a bottle of vodka while you worked on that?" The compliment would be understood and there would be no cringe sappiness. But to an outsider it might look rude.
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sure, I really only look to books for really alien aliens. Something like Peter Watts' Blindsight, for example.I've only watched the movie, but I was disappointed in how once again the alien wasn't really that alien. I've been reading the manga Heterogenia Linguistico where the are different "animalfolk" the main character needs to learn to communicate with. It doesn't just go into the differences in language, but also the differences in culture and mentality. It's by no means a complex manga, but I think it deals with the topic of communicating with non-humanoids in a far more interesting way. That manga was in the back of my head the whole time.
In the end the rockpeople just seemed to be little Baby Yodas. Gosling and Rocky both synced up too well when it came to humour for example. With humans, even if you spend lots of time together, there'll likely still be lots of challenges in understanding humour. A dry Brit trying to tell standup jokes to native Mongolians and Thai people might not fare so well. Bill Burr once said how some Finnish people had trouble understanding the humour in his stories and asked why he didn't just do X thing to solve the issue. When it comes to customs it might be even more strange when you meet inuit or other remote people.
If someone in my extended family made a beautiful carving in wood, complimenting directly would be awkward. Instead it would be better to say in the right tone: "did you have a bottle of vodka while you worked on that?" The compliment would be understood and there would be no cringe sappiness. But to an outsider it might look rude.
About the only film that even tried was Villeneuve one and even there it didn't go hard enough. Props to Babylon 5 though, forked penis for the win!
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Just finished watching...
Amaze. Amaze. Amaze!
Amaze. Amaze. Amaze!
Singular7
Member
Same, loved it. The music, the scenery, the whole thing was fantastic.
reezoo
Member
Watched it again on Amazon, it's no ageing well, main issue is they focused mostly on relationship instead of geeky stuff.
Singular7
Member
Geeky stuff is great, and needs to be dialed in, but relationships / philosophy are the thing a movie needs to nail.
Original Star Wars -- epic, spiritual, philosophical.. Incredible
Modern Star Wars -- great geeky stuff, awful human story, morons. Terrible
Project Hail Mary is the modern Blade Runner sort of; if you clue into human issues, its smart and deep and good.
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