[Movies] Project Hail Mary
Apr. 25th, 2026 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoI've been waiting to see Project Hail Mary ever since news of the adaptation came out. I was so excited, I decided to not even look at the trailer.
Our cinema here in town was closed for several weeks, and I was worried that I wasn't going to get a chance to see it. Fortunately they reopened on the 10th, so here we are. Anyway.
The film was great! I really enjoyed it! Ryan Gosling was awesome as Dr. Grace! The scifi stuff was cool! And I'm really glad I got the chance to see this at the cinema because all of the Awesome Space Scenes are even cooler with the big screen.
I was a little unsure how this would even work as an adaptation. There are a lot of elements that are, uhhhh, kind of challenging to put on screen. However I think they did a pretty good job. By necessity a lot of stuff was cut and streamlined, but like... they had to cut a ton of stuff; it's a long movie as it is, there isn't room to stuff more in there.
On the upside, even though it's long, it didn't feel long. I felt the runtime was just right.
Then again, I do think some of the plot elements toward the end - bacterial mutations, fuel contamination, finding a solution and so on - went maybe a little too quick. But honestly, this is the kind of movie where stuff like that is hard to get perfect, because in terms of the span of time in the story, there is a lot of time where things wouldn't be happening, or things would be happening but only in the protagonist's head, or things are happening but the things happening are microbes reproducing, and so on. It's very hard to streamline scenes like that. So I'm not particularly fussed.
Also Ryan Gosling was pretty hot in this film and I like his fox sweater, it looks very cozy.
[Edit] Apparently a metric fuckton of this was practical effects; puppetry and such, no greenscreen. Hell yeah! I'll have to look for more info on that when I have a minute.
Our cinema here in town was closed for several weeks, and I was worried that I wasn't going to get a chance to see it. Fortunately they reopened on the 10th, so here we are. Anyway.
The film was great! I really enjoyed it! Ryan Gosling was awesome as Dr. Grace! The scifi stuff was cool! And I'm really glad I got the chance to see this at the cinema because all of the Awesome Space Scenes are even cooler with the big screen.
I was a little unsure how this would even work as an adaptation. There are a lot of elements that are, uhhhh, kind of challenging to put on screen. However I think they did a pretty good job. By necessity a lot of stuff was cut and streamlined, but like... they had to cut a ton of stuff; it's a long movie as it is, there isn't room to stuff more in there.
On the upside, even though it's long, it didn't feel long. I felt the runtime was just right.
Then again, I do think some of the plot elements toward the end - bacterial mutations, fuel contamination, finding a solution and so on - went maybe a little too quick. But honestly, this is the kind of movie where stuff like that is hard to get perfect, because in terms of the span of time in the story, there is a lot of time where things wouldn't be happening, or things would be happening but only in the protagonist's head, or things are happening but the things happening are microbes reproducing, and so on. It's very hard to streamline scenes like that. So I'm not particularly fussed.
Also Ryan Gosling was pretty hot in this film and I like his fox sweater, it looks very cozy.
[Edit] Apparently a metric fuckton of this was practical effects; puppetry and such, no greenscreen. Hell yeah! I'll have to look for more info on that when I have a minute.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.