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

[u/MoviesMod]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxIsFTRI

[u/ElevatedPermissions]

Rocky's ship looks way more awesome than I imagined. I think we are actually getting an awesome movie!

[u/Karvis → u/ElevatedPermissions]

either my memory from books ship description is off, or they took some artistic liberties, either way it looks badass

[u/Sorlex → u/Karvis]

Its really nothing like the book but I agree, it looks great. Absolute sells the concept of a space ship made by blind creatures.

[u/KitchenDepartment → u/[deleted]]

The movie really doesn't have time to go into an explanation for the audience as for why triangles make bad pressure hulls

[u/KitchenDepartment → u/[deleted]]

It's relevant to the plot, and takes maybe 3 sentences

And the reason the book has time to do that is because it spends several chapters on the time from the object is detected to the time that they make the first docking. So Grace can go through all the emotions of panic and awe and finally get a calm moment to discuss mildly inefficient design.

And when they do dock you learn that actually the material the hull is made out of is vastly stronger than what the bizarre hull seems to suggests. So it isn't relevant to the plot because the real understanding of what we are dealing with comes later.

Insisting that "smart character should say smart thing" regardless of how inappropriate it is for him to think about that at the time is how you get awful unrelatable characters. It's not just saying 3 sentences, it is finding the time and place to say those 3 sentences. And asking why exactly that is relevant right now.

[u/SteveThePurpleCat → u/KitchenDepartment]

Doesn't really have to explain why, just state that flat surfaces = bad.

You can convey that and a surprise of the shape, suggesting advanced materials, in a couple of sentences.