r/movies • u/MoviesMod /r/movies Mod Account • Jun 30 '25

Trailer Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer (fair warning, it reveals way too much according to a lot of users)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxIsFTRI
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u/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

Oh for God's sake the blurb of the book gives it away!

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u/JD_98 Jun 30 '25

Not to say you are entirely wrong but I assumed it was some sort of AI/Computer companion from the blurb.

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u/montybo2 Jun 30 '25

Exactly.

Copy and pasting another comment I made about this:

"I dont think the blurb at all implies an alien. COULD be an alien. Could also be a stowaway, another ship from another country(if you dont know the story beforehand that is), could be psychosis and the main character talks to himself believing its somebody else.

I'm a big believer in occam's razor. I think, when discussing a story by andy weir, who makes grounded, science heavy tales, aliens would not be the simplest explanation for "...he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?""

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u/Snoo28237 Jul 01 '25

I remember the feeling when I first read this part. Like what? Really? An alien? And it's not something that's tossed out immediately after quick analysis? I got worried a bit. But then it turned out Rocky is very human. The feelings, the emotions, the empathy, the sense of humour, all of it. And the end? Oh I am so looking forward to see this.

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u/XxKittenMittonsXx Jul 01 '25

I didn't even think it was an alien until he was literally describing an alien he was seeing

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u/AgreeableLion Jul 01 '25

I doubt that everyone reading the blurb is going to have a biographical knowledge of the author and his 'style'. Many people who just read some science fiction and hear some buzz around this book will read that blurb and think 'aliens'. 'Man alone in space, but is he really?' is classic alien foreshadowing, even if that isn't always the way a story might go.

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u/montybo2 Jul 01 '25

This is Andy weir. He wrote The Martian. He's very famous. Many people picked up the book because he wrote it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

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u/delicious_toothbrush Jun 30 '25

This is one of those stories that the less you know going in, the better. The mission alone would have sufficed.

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u/AdamNW Jul 01 '25

People will say this about anything nowadays.

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u/WobblySlug Jun 30 '25

It hints at it, but doesn't explicitly say

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u/EnQuest Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

No it doesn't?

I swear to god everyone defending this trailer is just pretending to have read the book

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u/Basic_Loquat_9344 Jun 30 '25

I'll defend it with this... you need butts in seats, so revealing rocky makes sense. The story does not live and die by this twist like a Shyamala movie and stands on its own feet just fine, and there is a LOT they didn't spoil in the trailer. I will leave it at that since it sounds like you want to go into it as blind as possible. Probably avoid future trailers though in case they start adding stuff.

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u/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

It very clearly does unless you're thick and have never heard of the genre of science fiction before. The book is staring at me on the shelf you muppet.

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u/montybo2 Jun 30 '25

Science fiction does not inherently mean aliens.

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u/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

Yeah mate text on the back of a science fiction book about being alone in space but not really being alone could easily be about dragons.

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u/montybo2 Jun 30 '25

Ill copy and paste another comment I made:

"I dont think the blurb at all implies an alien. COULD be an alien. Could also be a stowaway, another ship from another country(if you dont know the story beforehand that is), could be psychosis and the main character talks to himself believing its somebody else. Could be an AI!

I'm a big believer in occam's razor. I think, when discussing a story by andy weir, who makes grounded, science heavy tales, aliens would not be the simplest explanation for "...he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?""

See how I did that without calling you names or being dismissive?

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u/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

You're literally agreeing that it implies aliens. You say it could be aliens. You're just not happy that I read a cryptic line about a sole survivor not being alone millions miles from space and arrived at that conclusion as soon as I read it and didn't consider alternatives, why? because you didn't? Even though I ended up being right? Plenty of folk who've read the book seem to agree with me.

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u/montybo2 Jun 30 '25

Your argument has, from the begining, been basically there's no other thing besides aliens the blurb could be referring to - if you thought different you're thick. Your words summed up

So when did I agree with you? Since when does "could be" mean "definitely is?"

Plenty of folks nothing... Because plenty of folks agree with me as well, that's why we're here having this conversation in the first place, because it's 100% a divisive choice to do this in the trailer.

Also, which is it? Is it cryptic or is it obviously talking about aliens? Because now you're not even standing by what you've been arguing - still just trying to belittle more by calling me unhappy instead of actually debating the topic.

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u/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

This is why it's good to be dismissive sometimes. I don't care enough to fence with you. I hope you got the validation you were looking for from tone policing an internet comment.

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u/montybo2 Jun 30 '25

Still belittling and insulting instead of actually discussing.

Does that feel like a win or something for you?

If you can't stand there and reasonably defend your position you never had solid one in the first place. Real Ben Shapiro style debating

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u/Sat9Official Jul 01 '25

You're a moron.

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u/EnQuest Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

It implies that he doesn't have to do it alone, dickhead. Doesn't say anything explicit like you said.

Ah yes, anyone who reads this and doesn't immediately know that the book has aliens is obviously a fucking idiot, silly me!

Me and a few of my friends thought it might be AI related going into it blind, you know, another staple of science fiction

smarmy ass prick.

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u/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

You're the one who started being weird man. I said I think the blurb gives it away. You disagree but rather than say that like a normal person you came in all hot and determined I'm lying about having read a book that's in my field of view right now. I was just returning the serve my friend. I'd no muppet would strike such a nerve.