Project Hail Mary (Spoilers)

[Anonymous]

Saw it last night with my kids (16, 13, 10). We all loved it, apart from the length (did feel a bit bloated). But on the whole, amazing! We all laughed a ton, my sensitive kid (13) cried several times, but a very happy ending. Ryan Gosling may be the most likable actor in Hollywood.

[Anonymous]

I am now a proud owner of a t-shirt saying. “ fist my bump “.

That is probably the most wholesome sexual innuendo I have seen in a movie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to like the movie but I didn’t like how human-centric it was. Why did the alien have to learn OUR language and way of being? Felt like too similar to how our MAGA-lead culture is now - American-centric and disinterested in those that may be smarter.

Dummy it was the opposite- Rocky's language was translated for us via Grace's computer. So we heard Grace talking and the translated Rockey back in English. The computer did the language. Nobody learned or tried to vocalize a different species' language. It's covered in the book too. Not really a way for them to organically do that....

In the book you absolutely know that Rocky's civilization is "smart" if not smarter. In the movie they did a pretty good job representing that. Rocky's ship was more advanced. Their capability on their home planet creating an "earth" (remember, this is a species that likes very high heat and ammoniac conditions!) is amazing. They also create organic food for Grace to eat, which is not in the movie! So calm down Patrice!

I didn't get the impression from the book that Rocky's civilization is smarter. More advanced in other directions, less advanced in others. If Rocky's civilization was smarter they would be familiar with radiation. That's the way most planets are heated on the surface. They know space is a vacuum, and sound isn't communicating energy from the sun to their planet. Records would indicate some sort of solar cycle, which a curious mind would question. Lord Kelvin wondered why our planet isn't a cold rock in space, leading to thermodynamics. Perhaps the Eridians lack curiousity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw it last night with my kids (16, 13, 10). We all loved it, apart from the length (did feel a bit bloated). But on the whole, amazing! We all laughed a ton, my sensitive kid (13) cried several times, but a very happy ending. Ryan Gosling may be the most likable actor in Hollywood.

+1
My husband and I saw it last night too and we really liked it (but too long). Ryan Gosling is so enjoyable to watch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to like the movie but I didn’t like how human-centric it was. Why did the alien have to learn OUR language and way of being? Felt like too similar to how our MAGA-lead culture is now - American-centric and disinterested in those that may be smarter.

OMG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to like the movie but I didn’t like how human-centric it was. Why did the alien have to learn OUR language and way of being? Felt like too similar to how our MAGA-lead culture is now - American-centric and disinterested in those that may be smarter.

Dummy it was the opposite- Rocky's language was translated for us via Grace's computer. So we heard Grace talking and the translated Rockey back in English. The computer did the language. Nobody learned or tried to vocalize a different species' language. It's covered in the book too. Not really a way for them to organically do that....

In the book you absolutely know that Rocky's civilization is "smart" if not smarter. In the movie they did a pretty good job representing that. Rocky's ship was more advanced. Their capability on their home planet creating an "earth" (remember, this is a species that likes very high heat and ammoniac conditions!) is amazing. They also create organic food for Grace to eat, which is not in the movie! So calm down Patrice!

I didn't get the impression from the book that Rocky's civilization is smarter. More advanced in other directions, less advanced in others. If Rocky's civilization was smarter they would be familiar with radiation. That's the way most planets are heated on the surface. They know space is a vacuum, and sound isn't communicating energy from the sun to their planet. Records would indicate some sort of solar cycle, which a curious mind would question. Lord Kelvin wondered why our planet isn't a cold rock in space, leading to thermodynamics. Perhaps the Eridians lack curiousity.

Eridians don’t have eyes. Humans had an advantage of “ starting off” by naturally seeing the visible light spectrum and then making the intuitive and experimental jump to other forms of radiation. We learned about echolocation ( how eridians navigate ) by studying bats and whales. If Erid is so dark that no forms of life there see then it’s logical that Eridians may have never knew what that didn’t know regarding radiation.

[Anonymous]

My kid wanted to see this after reading the book and I went into it totally blind. Not a Gosling fan, but he was really good in this and the story is great! I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this film, and it was worth seeing in the theater.

And to the PP upthread with the shirt, I need one! My kid and I now say this to each other, which I'm sure will get us some weird looks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to like the movie but I didn’t like how human-centric it was. Why did the alien have to learn OUR language and way of being? Felt like too similar to how our MAGA-lead culture is now - American-centric and disinterested in those that may be smarter.

Dummy it was the opposite- Rocky's language was translated for us via Grace's computer. So we heard Grace talking and the translated Rockey back in English. The computer did the language. Nobody learned or tried to vocalize a different species' language. It's covered in the book too. Not really a way for them to organically do that....

In the book you absolutely know that Rocky's civilization is "smart" if not smarter. In the movie they did a pretty good job representing that. Rocky's ship was more advanced. Their capability on their home planet creating an "earth" (remember, this is a species that likes very high heat and ammoniac conditions!) is amazing. They also create organic food for Grace to eat, which is not in the movie! So calm down Patrice!

I didn't get the impression from the book that Rocky's civilization is smarter. More advanced in other directions, less advanced in others. If Rocky's civilization was smarter they would be familiar with radiation. That's the way most planets are heated on the surface. They know space is a vacuum, and sound isn't communicating energy from the sun to their planet. Records would indicate some sort of solar cycle, which a curious mind would question. Lord Kelvin wondered why our planet isn't a cold rock in space, leading to thermodynamics. Perhaps the Eridians lack curiousity.

Eridians don’t have eyes. Humans had an advantage of “ starting off” by naturally seeing the visible light spectrum and then making the intuitive and experimental jump to other forms of radiation. We learned about echolocation ( how eridians navigate ) by studying bats and whales. If Erid is so dark that no forms of life there see then it’s logical that Eridians may have never knew what that didn’t know regarding radiation.

The Eridian's sun is metal poor, meaning it doesn't have heavy elements. So it's unlikely the planet has any internal heating from radioactive decay, like our planet. All of the heat that is essential for life on Eridian is coming from their sun. Surely some Eridian wondered why it was periodically hotter and cooler. To build an interstellar vehicle, they couldn't be working with some idea that heat is a magical fluid like caloric or a mechanical theory since their sun isn't physically connected to their planet. So they must know about infrared radiation.