Post #3925168
2026-07-19 02:52 UTC
In today's episode of Will doesn't understand why some films get universal acclaim: Project Hail Mary.
Starts out Sci Fi, but somehow morphs into a buddy comedy (with an alien) for kids?
Also, to go through pains to clearly show how the alien uses echolocation for vision, and then later on we're expected to completely forget that and just believe that it's watching computer screens and projections. How does that even happen? I get it that 3 hours is a long film, but shouldn't the filmmaker remember what they just did?
To each their own, I suppose.
Replies (4)
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@chris@mastodon.mihalis.net 2026-07-19 02:55
@wdormann@infosec.exchange my wife “it had a kind of muppet thing going on”
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@bielsubob@infosec.exchange 2026-07-19 03:00
@wdormann@infosec.exchange The book is much, much, much better than the movie.
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@james_inthe_box@infosec.exchange 2026-07-19 11:45
@wdormann@infosec.exchange PHM is absolutely a book -> movie kinda film.
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@sym@cyberplace.social 2026-07-19 04:32
@wdormann@infosec.exchange That's the issue with all Weir's books. A big part of them is the protagonist's stream of consciousness, which explains scientific concepts, practical hypotheses that stem from them, and how they would work in the specific setting. It's impossible to recreate that on screen. That's why the movies are better appreciated and understood if watched after reading the book.