12 thoughts on “Project Hail Mary”

  1. We saw it as well, we really liked it. In particular, I liked the way they portrayed solving the problems encountered during the mission.

  2. I liked the movie better than the book. When I first read it (years ago), my head version of Rocky sounded just like Boris, from Rocky and Bullwinkle. His on-screen voice was much more charming.

  3. I expect to see it when it hits streaming availability on Prime or Netflix. Theater showings cannot be paused to allow bathroom breaks and also represent pointless contagion risks to someone who is moderately immuno-compromised. Then, of course, there’s the ticket expense and the logistical limitations of no longer having either a car or a valid driver’s license.

    I expect to like the movie – I liked the book – but my eagerness to see it is very much tempered by the central presence of its star. I am decidedly not a Ryan Gosling fan.

    1. But they launched Ryan Gosling all the way to another star with no way home, so you should be pleased. ^_^

  4. Kat and I really liked the book, and it is interesting to me that Chris C liked the book better than the movie. My younger son and his wife saw the movie, and really loved it – and afterword watched the Artemis land in the Pacific. They found the convolution of the two events spiritualistic in some sense, and definitely uplifting. I was once a business associate of Pete Conrad, so I’m a little harder to impress…

  5. Read the book; then saw the movie. Good book though in much the same story structure as The Martian. Movie was a good adaptation. Left out a couple of really important facts that could have been stated in 5 seconds, and made things much more understandable.

    Wasn’t an awesome mind blowing, totally fantastic, incredible movie. But it was very good.

  6. I think the book and movie complement each other well. The book has the deep dive tech stuff, the movie conveys emotion and spectacle.

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  8. I didn’t care for the book – thought it dragged in many places and was just way too many McGuffins – so I don’t plan to see the movie.

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