Project Hail Mary

I did like it, but thought very to long and boring in places. Noting visual interesting to me, a lot of the same space stuff you seen before.

My wife loved it do.

Movie is alot more about the bromance and less about the actual science both of astrophage and rocky so those you havent read the books may miss a bit

really really enjoyed this. Got spoiled a bit for me hearing on the radio that an alien is involved. Really wish I hadn’t known that was coming.

I would have preferred it if it was more serious though.

is Rocky the same in the book?

I enjoyed this movie. I knew nothing about it so had no idea what was going to happen. Some lovely acting by Ryan Gosling and great puppetry work for Rocky. So much more convincing than CGI and quite moving in places. It's a wonderful family film as well. A real surprise.

Project Hail Mary – 6/10

A film I have a lot of admiration for, especially on a technical level, but one that pushed things too far in places for me to fully enjoy.

It’s essentially a big budget, live-action Pixar film that doesn’t demand to be taken at all seriously. There were moments where I felt like it had a chance to be bold and try something new, only for it to revert to a safe, family-friendly affair. For example, the introduction of the rock crab felt properly weird and alien, only for it to descend into your standard, wise-cracking, slightly annoying, sidekick (who reminded me a lot of Amy the talking Gorilla from Congo).

I’d have enjoyed it a lot more if it was 40 minutes shorter, and if it didn’t feel like Colin from the Fast Show had a pass over the script, but there’s no doubt this will be wildly successful with the wider audience.

Surely there's a happy Sci-fi medium to found between the uber serious, overwrought sensibilities of the likes of Dune, and tongue-in-cheek wackiness of something like this?

Sometimes you have to suspend reality to not only watch and enjoy a film but to make it too.

Of course the instant translator is total nonsense, but you forget the technology in the movie is more advanced than today as they have interstellar travel, which we'll most likely never have, but you don't question this.

Do you want to want to watch a movie where they communicate everything and translate through a laptop? So you'd have to hear original alien language first, then translation, then the English language answer and alien language translation? That would be a painful 5 hour film so director had to make a choice to move plot along and keep viewer engaged and it was the right one.

Also, Rocky wasn't saved by Grace. He went into a sort of hibernation/repair mode and recovered.

I enjoyed this, Gosling was great and it's space. Little long maybe but kept my attention. I hadn't even heard of the book but sounds like it's good.

I feel there were likely maybe plot holes but it wasn't the type of movie that it matter that much, although the main thing I didn't understand was:

so what did they do to avert this situation?