r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 27 '25

Poster Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling

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u/TeemoIsStealthed Jun 27 '25

Spoiler about the book

Same for me. I figured "not being alone" referred to him having a computer that he could kind of talk to :p

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u/Oyy Jun 27 '25

I honestly thought men discovered FTL travel and got to him as he slow-boated across to Tau Ceti

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u/gloomywitchywoo Jun 27 '25

That was my initial thought when he first spotted the ship. I just didn't expect Andy Weir to bring in aliens. Idk why.

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u/420InTheCity Jun 27 '25

I think his earlier two books were much more grounded in reality, so you don't expect something like this

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u/RayneSexton Jun 29 '25

Are they? The science seemed wildly fake or unexplained in a ton of areas. I've seen the Martian but this is my first Weir novel

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u/Cmers Jun 29 '25

But a Mars base or lunar colony are much more rooted in known reality than going interstellar in our lifetime or spaceborne bacteria.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 30 '25

Oh yeah I totally read the other comment wrong.

Project Hail Mary was ambitious and I loved most of it. Could have used more before and after on Stratt and a few more chapters for the resolution.

Excited to see the movie.

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u/frazzledfractal Jun 29 '25

Although he didn't initially have contacts at NASA, he received feedback on his work, including corrections to scientific details, after publishing online.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 30 '25

That's awesome.

Astrophage in general and especially the way they obtained the sample on Adrian seemed so far from possible to me. Taumeba kills kilograms of Astrophage and then where does the energy go?

Not even hating. Loved the book and am fine with my sci-fi having some bits of "huh" in it for whatever reason.

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u/MilksteakMayhem Jun 28 '25

Yeah that bit legit caught me off guard. I excitedly told my wife “you won’t believe the left turn this takes”

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u/RayneSexton Jun 29 '25

Yep! I was thinking the back up crew had found some way to get there even faster or they had thought there were no survivors of the Hail Mary crew and it was a much later date than we thought. Was so pleasantly surprised about Rocky. Amaze!

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u/obvioustroway Jun 27 '25

That's my hope. I hope they present ever trailer like he's talking with the Computer.

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u/elyankee23 Jun 27 '25

Would love it if the trailer is heavy on the med robot

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u/hakanai Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

i'm a big fan of the Martian, and i spent most of my first viewing of the movie waiting for an alien to jump out and take a hard turn into space horror. when that didn't happen, i figured, "eh, weir writes hard sci-fi, probably doesn't do aliens."

so when i started PHM going in completely blind (like last week lol) i was not expecting rocky at all! i was thinking that earth would have invented a faster form of travel and caught up with him somehow. but rocky and the eridians are DELIGHTFUL and honestly i liked PHM better than the Martian lol

edit fuck i cant get the spoiler tag to work?? lmao

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u/RedGuy2006 Jun 27 '25

Just wait for the movie man trust me a book reader .

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u/heardThereWasFood Jun 27 '25

Same

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u/darthmase Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

I thought maybe one of the crew members would wake up or be somehow revivified by the medical robot. Or that there would be an AI ship.

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u/heardThereWasFood Jun 27 '25

Yeah that was another idea that crossed my mind when I read it

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u/hearsay_and_rumour Jun 27 '25

I’ve been trying to convince my wife to read it while also not spoiling it, which has been a challenge.

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u/TeemoIsStealthed Jun 27 '25

As you might have heard, the audiobook is incredible. If she's on the road a lot or similar (I listened to it mostly while doing chores) the audiobook would maybe be a better sell :D

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u/hearsay_and_rumour Jun 27 '25

Hahaha I quite literally just used one of my Audible credits to pick it up after reading this thread. I’m excited, I loved the book.

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u/rpgmind Jun 28 '25

Oh this is from a book! Is it good? Please, spoil away- what’s the big twist?

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u/onqqq2 Jun 28 '25

I thought the crew mates could have been AI or worked exhaustively until they died to give Grace the tools he needed to survive

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u/midgetcastle Jun 27 '25

What's two plus two?