Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling
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Damn, I kept putting off reading it and they're already making it into a movie. At least now I have a deadline.
It’s a page turner and a pretty quick read!
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I thought the same thing but on my last run through the book. Grace describes himself as being super buff, like really buffed. So guess it tracks. But I do hope they stick to how he really was. I am more interested in the Stratt character will be portrayed?
Naa he says in the beginning he has muscle tone still, not buff at all. He's wondering why he has muscle when he first wakes up. The dude is a teacher and a self described coward. Plus spoilers at the end of the book I won't say here.
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Naa he says in the beginning he has muscle tone still, not buff at all. He's wondering why he has muscle when he first wakes up. The dude is a teacher and a self described coward. Plus spoilers at the end of the book I won't say here.
Yeah I know about the end.
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Fucking love the audiobook. Listen to it so far four times. Plan on reading the novel this year (finally picked up a copy.)
My worry is they will fuck this up like they did the Martain. Great novel, and also solid audiobook, listening to it now for like the 20th time. But didn't care for that PG13 movie.Spoiler but the first sentence in the book got the word fuck in it. And Annie cursed up a storm in the book.
Edit: They better do Rocky I swear.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The botched comical farce ending that he makes fun of in the book becoming the movie ending was offensive... I loved so much of the pieces but talk about a slap in the face.
Also, removing the detail of Pathfinder failure so you have months of mental health issues... Damon did spectacular at emoting the strain in the moment he regains contact with the crew, but it felt disjointed without the context of zero contact and the desperation.
Many of the actors were amazing, but Ridley screwed up bad.
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This guy is a billionaire btw
Edit: I don't want movies and don't know the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
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I said they're similar thicknesses because they're right by each other on my bookshelf and are similar thicknesses. I just looked inside for the page counts, and excluding appendices, maps and diagrams of spacecraft, my copy of Project Hail Mary (the original paperback, starting on page 3 and ending on page 476) is just 55 pages shorter than my copy of Dune (50th anniversary paperback, starting on page 1 and ending on 529). Having 10% fewer pages seems pretty reasonable for about as thick. If yours are different by 180 pages, then you've clearly got a different edition of at least one of the books to me with a different font or page size, which is pretty likely given how long Dune's been in print. Given that I didn't even mention page count or word count or the complexity of the prose, just thickness, which could have simply been because of thicker paper, I think your response is unreasonably harsh.
Obviously, I don't disagree that Dune's a more complicated book, but regardless of that, The Martian is much shorter than either, and to turn it into a film, a lot of detail had to go, and a whole act had to be turned into a montage and condensed to Watney modifies a rover and drives to another site, then takes apart a rocket that's waiting for him there. I don't think there's anything simultaneously as large and expendable in Project Hail Mary, yet they obviously need to cut more.
I used goodreads because different editions are presented differently. It puts Dune at 658 and PHM at 476. If you want to truly go apples to apples the kindle edition of both, which I assume has consistent font/margins/spacing/etc has Dune at 883 and PHM at 482 for a 400 page difference on an eReader. Comparing the task of turning a vacation book into a movie vs adaptating a legendary book into movie (which was so difficult to do, that this is the third attempt and the first commercially successful one) is a false equivalence
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Hoping they pull a switcheroo and gosling plays Rocky
...I figured Rocky would be voiced by an array of theremins.
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That's an incredible poster. Hope they do it justice.
Well.. right off the rip, the suit is wrong...
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I feel like Any Weir's name should be on this poster. He's a bigger draw than Gosling in my book.
Just Any ol' Weir?
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This guy is a billionaire btw
Edit: I don't want movies and don't know the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
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Looks like Andy Weir is worth 50 million?.
That makes him a milli-billionaire.
If he was 8000 times more successful, he could join the ranks of those buying media outlets and elections
All that to say, I don't think Andy is the problem, Jeff.
(I am humorously implying that I have discovered Jeff Bezo's personal Lemmy account.)
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Well.. right off the rip, the suit is wrong...
Eh that's not an important detail for me
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...I figured Rocky would be voiced by an array of theremins.
Right but Hollywood so gosling does mocap and the voice is his but heavily vocodered thru the theremins.
In all seriousness I would love to be wrong about this but I doubt hwood will allow rocky and the other eridians to have musical verbal language. That means subtitles, and Hollywood fucking hates subtitles.
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Gosling is not a grace... really hope they do great but knowing hollywood they're gonna turn grace into some hero that was always a hero vs what he was in the book a scared scientist that just loved knowledge.
Gosling personally wanted to make this movie cause he loves the story. I don't think he's too far off, and rather have someone who cares.
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Ray Porter stan checking in.
Hi Stan. I meant to write you sooner, but I've just been busy.
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I actually like the movie. It made the best out of the book, which is meh at best.
I agree wholeheartedly. The book and movies are just vehicles for delivering nostalgic references, but while in the book 80% of those references were just listing off one thing after another, in the movie I could see and hear them, which makes it much better for that nostalgia.
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Gosling personally wanted to make this movie cause he loves the story. I don't think he's too far off, and rather have someone who cares.
I really hope he keeps to the story, cause the martian was ok but they holywooded the shit out of it, and removed a lot of the stuff that made it a great book.
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Damn, I kept putting off reading it and they're already making it into a movie. At least now I have a deadline.
Just listen to the audio book. It's read by ray porter and he nails it.
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I used goodreads because different editions are presented differently. It puts Dune at 658 and PHM at 476. If you want to truly go apples to apples the kindle edition of both, which I assume has consistent font/margins/spacing/etc has Dune at 883 and PHM at 482 for a 400 page difference on an eReader. Comparing the task of turning a vacation book into a movie vs adaptating a legendary book into movie (which was so difficult to do, that this is the third attempt and the first commercially successful one) is a false equivalence
I never said that it was the same, just that more would have to be cut than The Martian as the book was much longer, and gave an example of the most similarly wide sci fi novel on my shelf that's successfully been turned into a movie. You're the one that made the leap that the thickness of a book is a definitive measure of anything and wanted the comparisons to be apples-to-apples, which it never was as one book's becoming one movie, whereas the other became two.
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If they cut too many of the flashbacks, it gets rid of, or at least erodes, the WTF? Where am I and how did I get here and why? part of the book, which is a pretty major part of it.
They don't need endless scenes of meetings. Those will probably go.
Regardless, I just hope the main character isn't as annoying as he was in the book. (He shouldn't be mr cool, either)
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This guy is a billionaire btw
Edit: I don't want movies and don't know the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
How dare he do what he loves and get recognition and money from it! Burn him!
