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Bro. Broooooo.
The book is phenomenal. The movie is amazing, but needed to be at least 3 hours longer to cover everything in the book.
I'd say that's true for every book... Except Peter Jackson gave us those extra hours and still fucked it up.
It definitely is. Part of why I like miniseries more than standalone movies for deep stories. You can do a lot more in eight or nine hour and a half episodes than one 2 and a half hour movie. And with all of the flashbacks in the book, you could have nice clean stopping points for a miniseries, and really go into detail on those.
I actually enjoyed the movie more than the book, but I think that maybe be because I don't enjoy Andy Weir's writing style too much.
Can I ask what you liked more in the movie vs the book?
The biggest difference I remember is: Book opening has more science (which I like) vs movie has more happy ending/comedy. (More jokes. Grace seeing inside rockies ship)
It probably mostly stemmed from reading Artemis by Andy Weir. If you haven't read it, don't try. He tried to write a female main character, props to him for branching out, but it felt like every single chapter he had to write some terrible joke about her having sex. It was to the point where I wanted to give up on the book completely.
Also, I was reading Red Rising in parallel with Project Hail Mary, and I distinctly remember going through a part in Red Rising where the character had to kill someone he thought was sweet and didn't want to kill. The book went through his horror of committing the act and how he couldn't wash the blood off his hands because there wasn't enough water and it was a really heavy scene. Then I got the point in Project Hail Mary where Dr. Grace was like "I think I loved this woman, but I dunno, anyway into the airlock!"
I know that's not how it really went but the juxtaposition of those scenes made it come off that way to me.
The movie I thought did a really beautiful job painting the scenes. The music was great, the characters were great, the effects were phenomenal, really a solid movie. Did it fail in a couple of aspects? A little. Was the book bad? Absolutely not, still very good. All that to say I went in thinking I would like the movie less since I finally read a book before the movie, but by the end of it I really liked it. Even my wife who doesn't like Ryan Gosling or space movies really liked it.
That's fair. Have read Artemis. 100% agree that Wider can't write a female protagonist.
Do have red rising. Should try to finish it someday
I like it, I'm currently in the the third book. Pierce Brown can write for sure. Im not typically into fantasy like that, I like more nonfiction or plausible fiction like Project Hail Mary, but it has grabbed my attention.
I get that. He definitely has a style that not everyone likes. But there was a lot of thing that were in the book
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Like the beatle probes. They just kind of glossed over it in the movie, but that was the entire point of the mission and why Grace was never meant to go back to earth and was going to die in space. They barely mentioned that he wasn’t going home. That was like the entire second half of the book, but a hand wave in the movie.I thought were critical plot points that got glossed over in the movie.
Gaaah I need someone to just pay me to read books all day, there's too much good shit
Hello, I do that, I'm an audiobook narrator :)
God that sounds like a dream job. I've contemplated it before, but in a world with luminaries like Jeff Hays it's hard to feel like I can ask anyone for money for narration.
Everyone who knows the book will be happy for a 5 hour movie