Me and my brother just saw the movie tonight and we stayed for the credits. I thought the images were beautiful.
I loved that they changed the ending. I did not like the ending in the book.
What changed about the ending?
My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
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#52Incredible work, OP. What a proud feeling you must have. Congrats!! My wife and I saw the movie this weekend, we thought it was great. I adored the book, yet I recognize a book can’t be perfectly translated to the screen. I thought the directors did a good enough job at translating the sci-fi into something the masses would enjoy. Kudos to you
Would you recommend reading the book first?
The audiobook version is amazing, if that’s your thing.
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#53As an amateur astrophotographer, I am both so envious and so happy for you. What a wonderful recognition of your talent and dedication to the craft. Kudos!
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> It’s about friendship and loneliness and the fragility of the human experience and the triumph of the human spirit! So is every Disney movie and that is what this but with the crappy Amazon Studios take on it. >> Anyways, everybody’s a critic these days, Do you believe a movie can objectively be considered good or bad? If you do you then believe some are better critics than others, the same some way some are bette…
You're asking the wrong person lol. I can give you a list of "objectively bad" movies that I think are incredible for a variety of defensible reasons. Just off the top of my head as I briefly scan shit sitting on the shelves of my office: - Joe Dirt - Death Wish 3 - Thrashin - Hackers - Mortal Kombat - Uncle Buck - The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - Tapeheads - Prayer of the Rollerboys - Weekend at Bernie's Not exactl…
Uncle Buck is on your list of objectively bad movies?!?!?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you recommend reading the book first?
Book is better but they’re both good. I don’t think order matters.
I agree; the movie is more of a relationship/self-reflection/friendship story, with some pop science and space stuff mixed in to keep it interesting.
The book is more of a true sci-fi novel, with the relationship stuff keeping it interesting.
I liked both a lot, and think both could be enjoyed fully with or without the other, in either order.
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#56Those shots are stunning. Too bad I rarely pay attention to the credits. I always assumed a lot of effort goes into them though, and this post seems to confirm it.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you recommend reading the book first?
As a general rule, always read the book first. In this case, that holds true - there was too much in the book to cover completely in the movie. It's a pretty quick read as well - you could probably bang it out in a long afternoon, if you were inclined. That said, I never read Harry Potter and can't imagine going back and reading it now. So, YMMV.
I don’t think it does here. This has been one of the times where I enjoyed the movie more than the book. I liked the character in the book, in the movie I couldn’t take my eyes off them.
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Book is better but they’re both good. I don’t think order matters.
I agree; the movie is more of a relationship/self-reflection/friendship story, with some pop science and space stuff mixed in to keep it interesting. The book is more of a true sci-fi novel, with the relationship stuff keeping it interesting. I liked both a lot, and think both could be enjoyed fully with or without the other, in either order.
I found that I would have enjoyed the movie a bit more if I hadn't read the book, but it was still a solid 8/10. I'm really glad that a movie like this did well in opening weekend.
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Those handful of 1-star reviews seem the same as the 1-star reviews on all movies, including all of the good movies you probably liked: “boring”, “overhyped”, “doesn’t live up to the book”, etc.. Are they manipulated? Go ahead and name a movie you like without looking at the reviews first, if you dare, and then let’s check the reviews. I liked the movie and loved the book. Did you read the book? You seeing to be igno…
My problem with the movie is not that it is humorous or accessible. Scifi does not have to be solemn like 2001 or mythic like Dune. The probleme is that reduces a huge premise to a childish emotional register...
The premise is an interstellar mission, species level extinction risk, first contact, scientific problem solving. The film frames this through cute banter, soft sentiment, and quips that shrinks the movie scale.
So it treats a genuinely huge science fiction premise in a disney type emotional level. The humor feels adolescent and tonally deflates the stakes. Instead of using first contact, isolation, and extinction level danger to create awe or intellectual depth, it turns them into a cute, reassuring buddy experience.
Bust fit Deadpool level jokes, with the first Alien humanity ever encountered? Really?
Plus the direction is bad, the pace is bad and Ryan Gosling I am sorry is no great actor who can talk to a rock for 2 hours and carry on a movie....Also it is not just a bad movie it is also bad Scifi, because it wastes the genre central strength meaning using speculative ideas to confront us with something bigger, stranger or more unsettling than ourselves.
You had everything....extinction of the stars of the universe, first contact, humanity in danger, a regular human trust into the most important project... but instead we ignore the scientific challenges, and logical problem solving who are by the way are a major part of the book.
And this is what I mean by Good Scifi vs Bad Scifi...
They even managed to squeeze some kind of half baked love relationship almost unrelated to the core plot for Ryan Gosling, that is so badly delivered and is so ambiguous... you almost wonder who is partner was, and what any of that had to do with the movie delivery...
They managed to turn an alien into a lovable emotional device. No wonder kids love it...