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Just got back from the cinema.
Fucking really good. Really close to the book as well, they didnt fuck it up. Some bits rushed over (which I get) but nothing major dropped out and nothing ruined by changing the small bits they needed to.
Happy happy happy.
We must of seen two different versions. I hate how they rushed the good parts just so they could add in dumb bullshit that was never in the books. Not a terrible movie and the parts of the book they kept was nice to see on screen. But not happy, happy, happy at all. No spoilers but the bullshit that wasn't in the books was dumb as shit.
Fair comments however I'm not sure how they could have added certain parts without either extending the run time to bum numbing levels. In these situations the books are 'always' better and a compromise has to made somehwere. I feel they balanced the compromises fairly well all things considered
Again I understand how can't translate a book in total without having a long ass movie, and I am sure all the cool science would turn off the average movie goers who don't read. But still hate all the added shit that was never in the book. They could of used those times to put in some really cool scenes.
[Spoiler] Like the copywriters court scene. Damn I wanted to see that.
Ha! Yup. The copywriters court scene would have been a blast.
I didn't like the juvenile shit (jump scares, throwing tools on the floor, flailing about) but I understand juveniles are who movies are made for. German milfs with no makup are hot. 5 stars.
I am at the cinema for a late night screening of it, I am tired, but excited for it.
I had an 11pm viewing and it was an excellent time. A very full theater, at certain moments you could hear a pin drop. I loved the movie in spite of it's deviations from the book.
Let us know what you think of it.
I just got back from it, I liked it! It makes a few minor tweaks from the book but generally sticks to it pretty closely, so if you liked the book you'll probably have a good time.
It was fun!
A bit rushed in parts, but fun and well made.
It was an amazing watch. The visuals and soundtrack are chef's kiss. It's proper sci-fi without all the confusion.
It did have to do some pandering. Some over explanation so the denser audience members could follow along, which always irritates me.
Outside of that single complaint, its up there amongst the best original scifi of the decade.
Really great performance from Ryan Gosling and James Ortiz. Actually I thought all the characters were well portrayed. And I’m glad they didn’t make it a two parter or a trilogy.
Just watched Project Hail Mary Thursday night.
Amazing movie. My only issue is that it was made by Amazon/MGM.
Ryan Gosling is great.
I laughed, I cried. And laughed some more. And cried more.
It drew me in and kept me engaged. It went in directions I didn't expect and that was great. So many movies and shows are too predictable. This wasn't, for the most part. When it was predictable, it paid off.
The visual effects and music are amazing.
Between this and "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die", 2026 has been good for me, movie-wise.
Fist my bump!
I was a bit worried when it breezed through the first half of the book, but it more than made up for it adapting the second half. Despite knowing where the story was headed I got emotional towards the end.
I want to see this movie more than I’ve wanted to see any movie in many years
But still not enough to get ripped off at the movie theater and forced to sit around a bunch of blabbering idiots on their phones who can’t shut the fuck up and sit still for an hour and a half. And for this, I gotta play $20+ for a ticket and $20+ for a measly bucket of popcorn and a drink? Fuck that!
No matter what, nothing could ever force me to go to a movie theater ever again. I’ll wait a couple months so I can download it and watch it in the comfort of my own, quiet home.
I just wanted to say to people who don't go to the theater because they think people make too much noise: Go to a different theater.
I usually go to a theater that's fairly famous because of its location, and there is NEVER a problem with talking or noise. When I want to see it on IMAX, I have to go to a different complex, and that one is also very quiet.
If your theater is noisy, find a better theater. They are aren't all like that.
This has been my mindset also with this complaint. I go to the movies every week and the only times I hear anyone making noise are either expected noises like laughter at jokes or kids during a kids movie. I don't even see people on their phones except during trailers which I don't care about. Once the movie starts, I forget there's even people around me.
It might be worth looking around. At least over here, independent/small chain cinemas are making a bit of a comeback.
I'm a lot happier to pay £10 for a big, comfortable, motorised recliner. It's a lot better than the tiny hard seats in the big chains.
When I lived in Brooklyn, there was Alamo Cinema Grill. No phones were allowed to be used, nor was any talking permitted. If you made so much as a peep, or if you pulled your phone out, they kicked you the fuck out. Period. And ticket prices were reasonable. They also served food and drinks. Silently. Which was awesome. They also had cool, comfy seats, and they didn’t play 12 hours worth of shitty TV commercials before the film began.
I don’t live in Brooklyn anymore.
I will watch this in IMAX sometime soon!
The non balanced centrifuge scene ruined my immersion.. Otherwise awesome movie and pretty faithful adaptation of the book.
Ah I had noticed that but it was barely on screen so I wasn’t sure if I had missed something.
Yeah, the centrifuge is really my biggest issue with the movie.
And then fact that the ship has solar panels.
Other than those two minor nitpicks, it's a fantastic movie. PHM is one of my favorite books, so I wat pretty happy with the movie overall.
I didn't interpret those as solar panels. I thought they were radiators.
Hmmm, maybe. But same question. Astrophage can sink a ton of heat energy, so you theoretically wouldn't need radiators. Granted, it would only let you cool things down to 98°C (or so, can't remember the exact temp) which isn't exactly cool. But still.
However I'm gonna stick with your interpretation, since I like that better.
Yeah, you would still need radiators if all it can cool down to is 98C. Otherwise Ryan Gosling would be slowly sous vided as he slept. I love pointing out the radiators on the ISS as an example!
The solar panels are the dark ones, but the white ones are the radiators. Note the radiators are perpendicular to the solar panels. You want the solar panels to absorb sunlight, but not the radiators. Solar panels get oriented perpendicular to the Sun's rays, while radiators get positioned parallel.
Actually though, let's take another look at the ship. After looking at this image, they may in fact be solar panels.
The panels are black. Also note that they're oriented to catch the star's rays in this picture. The sunlight is illuminating the side of the ship, and the panels are arranged to catch this light. If they were radiators, we would be seeing them edge-on in this picture.
So yeah, it seems they really are solar panels.
Good point on the radiators vs astrophage. Gotta say I didn't think about what would need to be radiated.
Thanks for the pictures, definitely nice to visualize it! I will continue to think that they're radiators as that makes more sense, and it was just a goof that they were rotated the wrong way. Makes me less angry than there being solar panels on an astrophage powered ship. Unless it is there as a backup method?
Another theory. The electrical needs of the ship and life support must be a rounding error compared to the power output of the engines. The energy required to accelerate up to and down from relativistic speeds absolutely dwarfs any onboard power use.
While the ship is under acceleration, power is no problem. You siphon off 0.1% of the astrophage drive's power, and that's more than enough for the ship's onboard power needs.
But what about when the ship isn't under acceleration? If your engines were infinitely throttleable, you could run the engine at 0.1% output just to use it as a generator. But rather than design an engine that can run at such a huge range of output levels, it may be more mass efficient just to slap some solar panels on the craft.
This also makes sense for the mission the ship was designed for. The only time it's ever in deep space is when it's accelerating. The main drive only turns off when the ship is already in orbit in the inner solar system of the target system. So the only time you ever need power but not the main drive is at a location where solar panels would work well.
I think this may explain it best. They ship could be powered entirely by astrophage. But trying to make one engine that can work at such a huge range of power outputs just isn't practical. It's easier just to have some supplemental solar panels to use while the craft isn't accelerating.
I don't wanna be the "well the book said...." Asshole, but it is one of my favorite books. So....
Well the book said that they actually have a dedicated (well a few, redundancy, you know?) Astrophage powered DC generators. They turn miniscule amounts of astrophage into electric power for the ship to run its systems. There's also battery backups.
Minor spoiler for something that had more detail in the book, but also happened in the movie (towards the end, with an explosion).
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The original Science Officers blew up in both the book and movie, because in the book they were experimenting with a corner case of the generator that could cause it to overheat and explode. However they thought they were doing the experiment with a nanogram of astrophage, but they ended up doing it with a milligram, which is 1,000,000 times the energy density. So instead of the generator simply overheating and maybe menting, it blew up the entire building, even atomizing the metal and everything.
The spin drives also don't generate electricity for thrust, so there isn't really any way to "siphon" it off.
However I am inclined to believe your train of thought, if nothing else maybe they just didn't have a way to use the DC generator while fuel wasn't flowing for the engines (although that seems like a design flaw, but the ship was definitely rushed)
And this, folks, is why they were never not going to spoil the main spoilery part. Sounds like it was well done, so I guess maybe I'll actually see it in the theater.
Excellent movie