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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.