Project Hail Mary is better than The Godfather (Spoilers in Comments)

Im ready to see this bad boy tonight. Wish i was going to see it in 70mm IMAX at the Indiana Museum but that will be next week if i love it.

Well alright!

I loved the book and I’m excited to go. First non kids movie I will have seen in theaters in years.

I use villain as a synonym for antagonist.

Yes, she was not evil, but her pragmatic approach to sending grace in the hail Mary against his will is what makes her the "principled villain"

The karaoke scene was fun, but unnecessary and against type for her character.

I suspect there is a Stratt/Grace love side plot sitting on the cutting room floor.

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Is this the spoiler thread?

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I'll put it in the OP that spoilers are OK. The other thread still isn't doing spoilers so I wouldn't mind talking about some details.

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When it was announced, I wasn't sure about the gosling casting, it he nailed it.

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I've always liked him so I was excited when they casted him. I had pretty high expectations on this one and they more than met it.

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The only thing I didn't love is how they tried to humanize Stratt. She is such a cold/objective principled villain in the book. Making her human hurt her character imo

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This was one of the few things that my memory was hazy on from the book. I couldn't remember her character details all that much but just remember her being kind of cold. They did humanize her but obviously when it came down to the tough decisions she was very cold.

I think they did a good job of condensing the science aspect of it. The book would get a little tedious with the math and I think they did a good job of explaining things simple enough.

Rocky was absolutely perfect. Actually better than what I tried to imagine in my head while reading. I always just pictured a regular ol spider in my mind Rocky had me in all the feels that he did in the nook and probably more. Seeing him grab grace and almost kill himself was so so so good. And the scar/burn mark on Grace's arm they showed later was a nice touch.

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The karaoke scene was fun, but unnecessary and against type for her character.

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Even that scene, it seems like she only did it (and just enough of it) to increase moral and productivity. I saw more pragmatism.

I understand your pt though.

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I haven't been in years and this thing is 3 hours long, I have reservations.

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It's on the longer side for sure. But I don't feel like it really dragged anywhere outside of the dang trailers. We had over 30 minutes of trailers. I normally like seeing the trailers but it got to I was like good lord can we get on with the movie already.

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It's not really, but it's incredible. I'd pretty much just say anything to convince someone to go see it though.

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Gotta say this is an awful way to go about it because of how obsessed people on this board are with the concept of “overhyped”

No disrespect to OP but I heard The Martian was a masterpiece as well when in reality it was just an okay one and done flick. I'm a little leary of the hype this one's getting because it takes me back to 2015 when the Martian came out and that one was a bit of a let down.

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We had over 30 minutes of trailers.

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I went on Monday and expected this, being at an AMC.

Apparently there were none for the prescreening, because I walked in 5 minutes late and he was already discovering the crewmates.

I can’t even say I’ve seen the whole movie yet.