Rudyjax said:

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Gnome Sayin said:

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Saw it again with the kids this time. It was a perfect adaptation from the book. If the movie was longer it would have driven the non book readers nuts. If it was shorter then the book readers would have lost their minds. Great balance. And again, the sounds and music hit harder than the visuals.

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I still think a 10 episode HBO would've been perfect.

Expand on Strout. Expand on the astronauts that died. Expand on Grace.

Who knows. 20 years later they did the same with Harry Potter.

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Get Vince Gilligan to produce it. He is great with details.

gigemags-99 said:

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Burdizzo said:

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Rudyjax said:

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Gnome Sayin said:

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Saw it again with the kids this time. It was a perfect adaptation from the book. If the movie was longer it would have driven the non book readers nuts. If it was shorter then the book readers would have lost their minds. Great balance. And again, the sounds and music hit harder than the visuals.

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I still think a 10 episode HBO would've been perfect.

Expand on Strout. Expand on the astronauts that died. Expand on Grace.

Who knows. 20 years later they did the same with Harry Potter.

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Get Vince Gilligan to produce it. He is great with details.

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There would definitely be one filler episode where the whole time Grace is trying to catch a fly in the spaceship.

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Too soon!

mickeyrig06sq3 said:

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It was announced they're doing a VR game. Weir is involved, and it looks like it's just immersing you into a part of the story vs trying to tack on a bad sequel. Hopefully they stay true to the heart of the story.

'Project Hail Mary' is Getting a Mixed Reality Game for Quest & Pico This Year

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This movie has made me consider re-playing the Lone Echo VR games- fantastic zero G story games.

Rudyjax said:

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Gnome Sayin said:

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Saw it again with the kids this time. It was a perfect adaptation from the book. If the movie was longer it would have driven the non book readers nuts. If it was shorter then the book readers would have lost their minds. Great balance. And again, the sounds and music hit harder than the visuals.

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I still think a 10 episode HBO would've been perfect.

Expand on Strout. Expand on the astronauts that died. Expand on Grace.

Who knows. 20 years later they did the same with Harry Potter.

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make Rocky a black British guy

Does Idris Elba really need the work? Anyways, I'm holding out for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Just watched it last night.

Thought Gosling was great, but otherwise thought it was Temu Interstellar/Arrival. Not deep enough from a science/save-the-world standpoint to match Interstellar, but also not deep enough from a emotional standpoint to match Arrival.

Would have been an enjoyable flick at 90 minutes. At 150+ it was a slog.

I need to read the book, because I can definitely see where in book format it would flow better.

It's space nerd problem solving porn. If that is your jam, you'll like the book. If not, don't bother. What the book does well is taking more time to elaborate on the problems they were solving in the movie.

Agreed, it was never presented as any kind of spiritual successor to either of those movies. I feel like all the marketing presented it exactly as what the movie was.

DannyDuberstein said:

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It's space nerd problem solving porn. If that is your jam, you'll like the book. If not, don't bother. What the book does well is taking more time to elaborate on the problems they were solving in the movie.

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This is correct. The movie was a fine adaptation and it really worked for a fun surface level movie that was very well made.

But expecting interstellar is not considering the source material.

Also, I will die on this hill, Arrival is so overrated.

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DannyDuberstein said:

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It's space nerd problem solving porn. If that is your jam, you'll like the book. If not, don't bother. What the book does well is taking more time to elaborate on the problems they were solving in the movie.

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This is correct. The movie was a fine adaptation and it really worked for a fun surface level movie that was very well made.

But expecting interstellar is not considering the source material.

Also, I will death process on this hill, Arrival is so overrated.

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I will reiterate that the movie is a Buddy Movie set in space. The Martian meets Lethal Weapon.

This is not an empty hill. I'm there too. I thought Arrival was extremely overrated, saw it a 2nd time a few years later thinking "maybe this time I'll realize more of what everyone was so crazy about" and thought it only cemented it's super overrated status for me.

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Just watched it last night.

Thought Gosling was great, but otherwise thought it was Temu Interstellar/Arrival. Not deep enough from a science/save-the-world standpoint to match Interstellar, but also not deep enough from a emotional standpoint to match Arrival.

Would have been an enjoyable flick at 90 minutes. At 150+ it was a slog.

I need to read the book, because I can definitely see where in book format it would flow better.

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Well, you're going to be disappointed in the book because it doesn't try to be either of those things, either. Sounds like you expected this to be something it was never trying to be.

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I also saw this at home, not in theaters -- so I accept I likely didn't get the full space experience as I've heard it looks amazing on IMAX.

But from a story standpoint, it was a quirky fun space buddy movie.

IMO a surface level space buddy movie has no business being 2.5 hours long.

And Arrival hit completely different for me once parenthood hit.

I think it's settled... Arrival > The Arrival > Project Hail Mary.

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This is not an empty hill. I'm there too. I thought Arrival was extremely overrated, saw it a 2nd time a few years later thinking "maybe this time I'll realize more of what everyone was so crazy about" and thought it only cemented it's super overrated status for me.

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I'll fight. Arrival's source material (the short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang) is deeper and more emotional than the movie. I wrote a really long post about it when Arrival arrived in theaters that covered the differences and nuances in the original story. The movie did a good job of adaptation, but I'll admit that it might not have had the fullest impact if you didn't read the short story. It's excellent and worth seeking out.

i have no idea what the Arrival is.

watty said:

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Arrival is amazing and I will die on that hill so now what?!?

Seriously, one of my favorite movies ever. So so good.

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Arrival was gay Hollywood slop.

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watty said:

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Arrival is amazing and I will die on that hill so now what?!?

Seriously, one of my favorite movies ever. So so good.

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Arrival was gay Hollywood slop.

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Didn't realize this was a Mega Lops sock.

Charlie Sheen Arrival?