Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

variety.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 42 posts

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#21

Post by darepublic »

hermitcrab wrote: post #5
thomasgeelens wrote: post #2

Still wanna watch this movie, I haven't seen trailers (try to keep that to a minimum) and I like Gosling. Anybody here seen it?

Yes. I really enjoyed it. Visually spectacular, pretty faithful to the book (as far as I remember the book) and Ryan Gosling was very good in it. They were even fairly faithful to the laws of physics (relative to other Hollywood movies, anyway).

Found it excruciating to watch. As in boring. And there are a few times where the movie seems ready to make its landing and finish but something happens to extend it. I just couldn't get myself to care. The recent Sam Raimi movie I enjoyed

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#22

Post by HPMOR »

l1n wrote: post #3
thomasgeelens wrote: post #2

Still wanna watch this movie, I haven't seen trailers (try to keep that to a minimum) and I like Gosling. Anybody here seen it?

Watched it twice, cried both times. Probably could have had a few minutes cut while still tight if you care about that kind of thing, recommend watching in IMAX since it's a space movie. One notable annoying science inaccuracy that felt particularly blatent was jurer gur pragevshtr jnf haonynaprq sbe ab ernfba but that's forgivable.

I asked claude to decipher this and it refused. I asked gemini and it was permissible. Very interesting to see ROT-13 banned via Anthropic as a 'prompt injection' risk.

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#23

Post by satvikpendem »

I read the book and really enjoyed it, but I heard the movie isn't really like the book, especially not enough of the science stuff unlike the Martian movie which does indeed have more of the science stuff. Those of you who read the book, what do you think of the movie?

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#24

Post by desolate_muffin »

satvikpendem wrote: post #23

I read the book and really enjoyed it, but I heard the movie isn't really like the book, especially not enough of the science stuff unlike the Martian movie which does indeed have more of the science stuff. Those of you who read the book, what do you think of the movie?

I read the book on release and loved it. The main themes and plot points are present in the movie, though it's overall a bit less nerdy and a bit more comical than the book. I think it is easily one of the best, most enjoyable sci-fi movies released this decade.

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#25

Post by Tagbert »

satvikpendem wrote: post #23

I read the book and really enjoyed it, but I heard the movie isn't really like the book, especially not enough of the science stuff unlike the Martian movie which does indeed have more of the science stuff. Those of you who read the book, what do you think of the movie?

It’s a movie, not a book. The audio book is 16 hours runtime. The movie is 2 hours. Some things were always going to be left out. The details of the science stuff was one of them. It works better in a book narrative where the process is told than a movie where it’s visual and you have to show.

The Martian book has more of the science process than PHM book does to begin with.

The movie hit all of the primary points but never got into the details. If you read the book you can fill in the details. I imagine that a lot of people watching the movie didn’t know why some things were happening. Maybe some will be interested enough to read the book or the audiobook. If not, they had a good experience in the movie anyway.

It’s still a really good movie.

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#27

Post by commandersaki »

thomasgeelens wrote: post #2

Still wanna watch this movie, I haven't seen trailers (try to keep that to a minimum) and I like Gosling. Anybody here seen it?

I haven't been to a cinema in 15 years, but I went to view yesterday with Gold seating. Didn't even know you could get alcohol served to your seat these days.

Lovely movie, it was a lot of fun.

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#28

Post by Jamesbeam »

Watched it with a few people who enjoy different movie genres, and nobody was bored, which is rare for the group I watch movies with frequently.

Would I watch it again? Probably not. Was it my favourite Gosling movie? Nope.

Tough to beat The Place Beyond the Pines.

Is it better than the (audio)book? I have no idea.

Ryan Gosling is one of those actors who make movies emotionally immersive, like Highlander wouldn’t be the same without Sean Connery or What Dreams May Come without Robin Williams. Glad he’s young and fit enough for me to enjoy his acting for a bit longer.

Maybe his acting career is aging like fine wine. Unlike you, Ryan Reynolds.

Re: 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

#30

Post by jemmyw »

I watched it twice, which is pretty unheard of for me. I thought the book was fine but not a favourite. And it's not like it was the best movie ever, but I did feel like it was the best self contained scifi film I've seen in at least 10 years. People acted like adults without being aggressive, decisions were made thoughtfully, it felt realistic which made the visuals more impactful.
Post reply on HN