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Project Hail Mary

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,111 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Looking forward to it alright — though would definitely recommend anyone with even a passing interest in the book to just go read it. It's just so good!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭wingnut


    I enjoyed the book, the only issue is now the suprise elements in the movie are spoiled!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,111 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Yeah, that's why I'd always say to read a book first… if one is gonna spoil the other, then it's always better for a good book to come first, as the experience is just so much better and long lasting in most cases. I'll still almost always watch the movie adaptation after I've read a really good book, but i'll tend not to read a book after i've watched the movie, as already knowing the story makes that time investment a lot less worthwhile.

    So yeah, if anyone's gonna read the book - try and avoid the movie trailers 😅

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,378 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Yeah they could have just cut the last 40ish seconds from the trailer tbh



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭recyclops


    They should have done yeah, I read the book recently and was sceptical as to how they could turn it into a good movie but was surprised at how good the trailer looked.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,874 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I'm surprised that Matt Damon wasn't available. :D



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades



    I don't think they included anything in trailer that they should have left out.
    The, lets say, "close encounter" is the beginning of the real story and is a hook they wanted people to see.

    There's so much more to the plot after this point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,200 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Trailer #2 was released today:

    Can’t say I’m too keen on the soundtrack..! ☺️

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,111 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Once again, if anyone hasn’t read the book, but intends to, I’d definitely avoid even clicking on that trailer and just go read it asap!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭steve_r


    I really enjoyed the audiobook version as well so would recommend that to people - should be easy enough to get on Borrowbox/Spotify



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭jeremyr62


    I found the book tedious. It reminded me of one long episode of the 1980s TV series MacGyver. Hopefully the film might be better.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    There's a lot of "science", like the Martian, and you really wanna be commited to see it through for sure.

    But I love the look of this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭p to the e


    I listened to the audiobook and didn't enjoy it at all. The plot just seemed like science fiction by Dan Brown. And the overly American accent of the narrator grated on me and all the "fricks". And then there's Ryan Gosling, an actor so wooden he's practically a tree.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,661 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Ive not read the book, but Andy Weirs other book The Martian I read in 2 sittings. So I will give this a go, once I finish the Day of the Jackal.

    And I will take the advice of not clicking on the trailer.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I liked the book well enough, although after Project Artemis it felt a bit like "Do The Martian again" and I'm wondering how well the film will handle the same challenge - not least because the Martian's film version got a bit muddled in the third act where "but spectacle" suddenly trampled all over "solving problems with applied scientific understanding". (And yeah, I get it, the final big challenge in the book is distinctly un-cinematic but in thematic terms it makes much more sense than the film's idiotic "no, the flying around like Iron Man thing wasn't just a joke" denouement).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,111 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Since you enjoyed The Martian i'd say you'll enjoy this too so. I was the same with both books, flew through them in short order.

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