Watched last night on Prime. I swear, the end scene looked just the ending to The Martian (classroom)
I enjoyed the audio book to the Martian. Maybe R.C. Bray also did Hail Mary? I'll have to look.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Since books always contain more information, reading them first will inevitably cause the viewer of the movie to be disappointed.

Mario Puzo's The Godfather novel was a huge success, on the NYT best sellers list for a couple of years, an extremely popular book at the time. And many readers were later disappointed with the film adaptation feeling it did not exactly conform to the book or felt it missed many of the inner details, etc. So to me, Project Hail Mary is really no different.

Spoiler alert.


I guess I’ll remain odd man out since I think reading the book first helped me to enjoy the movie without getting hung up on things. Like why did the containers fail? Why do the stainless containers not fail? What happened to rocky when he tried to save grace? How did he recover when he looked dead?

6guns: fair point. But to me, at least for this movie, it was smoother for me to read first. Compared to my wife who asked many questions during and after the movie which was distracting and detracting.

I’m not saying that reading first is the best way. Only that it’s my preference for my personality.

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Originally posted by SigSentry:
Watched last night on Prime. I swear, the end scene looked just the ending to The Martian (classroom)
I enjoyed the audio book to the Martian. Maybe R.C. Bray also did Hail Mary? I'll have to look.

I think authors and movies are being mixed. The Martian here is written by Andy Weir who also wrote Project Hail Mary.

ETA: sorry, I missed that the reference was not to author but to narrator.

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Looks like Ray Porter narrated Project Hail Mary. R.C. Bray's version for The Martian is no longer available. It's a great listen.

This movie kicks ass.

My wife and I both prefer The Martian but this was both great and different.

SPOILER ALERT

I believe at the end the book The Iridians were able to detect some sign of life from Earth that they shared with Grace. I liked how both the book and movie left it "open" at to whether Grace would ever want to make the long journey back to Earth with his repaired ship. (especially after seeing his two shipmates die on the initial voyage)

We just saw this movie last week and loved it! My SIL was in town and she's Brazilian, so the subtitles were in Portuguese, so I missed a lot of finite details. I'll have to watch it again with English subs so I can see the technical details I missed.

When I first watched the movie and he's calculating how long to get home, I thought he was calculating how long he'd been in space so that confused me. I thought he'd been in space for over 100 years. I had to ask Grok about details and found out he'd only been traveling for 4 years.

This is one of those movies I may have to watch four or five times to understand everything.

One of the few movies that we all enjoyed as a family.

Tony.

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Originally posted by benny6:
This is one of those movies I may have to watch four or five times to understand everything.

Read the book. It's an easy read - 2 days to finish. Explains a lot.