Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling
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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!
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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.
You can be jacked and still be a coward.
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Just listen to the audio book. It's read by ray porter and he nails it.
Seconded. Read it on my own first, ended up reading half of it out loud to my wife just because I was so tickled by it, then put it on for the whole family on a road trip. Such a great story, everyone loved it.
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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.
Which guy? Gosling is at 70M and Weir at 10.
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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.
Matt Damon did a fantastic job portraying Mark Watney, though I'll definitely say movie!Watney had it a lot easier than book!Watney. He didn't kill Pathfinder, basically the entire long haul to ARES IV was "he did it, he drove to ARES IV", no sandstorm, no figuring out which way to go, no rolling the rover.
They pussed out on a lot of the mission control characters as well, Annie wasn't a no nonsense ballbuster, I don't even remember Mindy the meek satellite girl who grew a pair, and Vince unilaterally sending the Rich Purnell maneuver in defiance of orders and daring them to fire him over it...
Some of that would have been cut for run time; what works in the span of a novel doesn't work in the span of a film. I think to fully capture the entire scope of the book you'd need a 6-8 hour miniseries. If I want to revisit The Martian, I'm going to play my copy of the audiobook narrated by R. C. Bray.
Look: Boobies! ( . Y . )
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That was a fun, very light sci fi novel. I hope they don't fuck it up too bad. I hope Gosling plays Rocky, bwahaha
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Amaze!! Amaze!!
…I’m excited for this film, but so scared that it will be another enshitified movie of a great book with the story twisted and warped by producers and other interests.
Like Ready Player One turned out to be; utter garbage.
Ungh….
Ready Player One the movie wouldn't have been any better with him playing PacMan and Joust for hours or quoting Monty Python and War Games word-for-word.
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Filmed "for" IMAX?
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You can be jacked and still be a coward.
Sure but the book doesn't say he is jacked, just that he has muscle still after waking up from the coma
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Seconded. Read it on my own first, ended up reading half of it out loud to my wife just because I was so tickled by it, then put it on for the whole family on a road trip. Such a great story, everyone loved it.
Yea it's become one of my top books. I have listened to the audiobook probably 30 times now. I'll go through a series like the Dresden files or the grey man and then PHM gets a listen.
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That was a fun, very light sci fi novel. I hope they don't fuck it up too bad. I hope Gosling plays Rocky, bwahaha
I hope Gosling plays Rocky
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The book is so good, I don't know if I wanna see the movie.
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I actually like the movie. It made the best out of the book, which is meh at best.
Yep. Book wasted time with unnecessary callback lists, obscure shows, and a hero that was kindof a jerk. The movie was fun - not deep or anything, it didn’t waste time though.
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I hope Gosling plays Rocky
Is it weird that this is kinda how I imagined him in the book?
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Is it weird that this is kinda how I imagined him in the book?
I'm just going to assume you mean the protagonist, and not Rocky
