Went and saw this at the movies a few days ago.

I really enjoyed it and the author of the story clearly spent a lot of time trying to ground the plot in actual science... sure there are bits the stray into the 'science fiction' space (and that's fine) but there were clear efforts to make the script scientifically credible which I think is to be commended..

This movie is by the same team that did The Martian a number of years ago.

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On 28 Mar 2026, Avon said the following...

Went and saw this at the movies a few days ago.

We somehow scored early access tickets and got to see it the Monday before it was officially released. Thought it was a great movie, so much so that we're going to see it again later today, this time in IMAX 70mm.

I really enjoyed it and the author of the story clearly spent a lot of time trying to ground the plot in actual science... sure there are bits the stray into the 'science fiction' space (and that's fine) but there were clear efforts to make the script scientifically credible which I think is to be commended..

This movie is by the same team that did The Martian a number of years
ago.

I loved The Martian as well. It also received a lot of praise for sticking close to the science.

I've listened to the audiobook for The Martian and am now going to start on the Project Hail Mary audiobook.


Jay

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Re: Project Hail Mary
By: Avon to All on Sat Mar 28 2026 12:18 pm

I really enjoyed it and the author of the story clearly spent a lot of time trying to ground the plot in actual science... sure there are bits

I felt that way about The Martian, too. Even if it weren't well grounded, the writing seems believable enough to 'be there'.

Certainly entertaining - it's not too often I see a 2.5 hour movie and don't feel like I've sat through a 2.5 hour movie! :-)
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On 28 Mar 2026 at 04:55a, Warpslide pondered and said...

We somehow scored early access tickets and got to see it the Monday
before it was officially released. Thought it was a great movie, so
much so that we're going to see it again later today, this time in IMAX 70mm.

cool, I've never seen an IMAX screening but here it's amazing..

have spent some time watching a ton of post movie interviews with cast and writers etc. Adam Savage from Myth Busters has a cool behind the scenes video out of the spaceship set... most of it was real, little CGI :)

I loved The Martian as well. It also received a lot of praise for sticking close to the science.

I've listened to the audiobook for The Martian and am now going to start on the Project Hail Mary audiobook.

Nice one :)

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On 28 Mar 2026 at 08:10a, The Wanderer pondered and said...

I felt that way about The Martian, too. Even if it weren't well
grounded, the writing seems believable enough to 'be there'.

Certainly entertaining - it's not too often I see a 2.5 hour movie and don't feel like I've sat through a 2.5 hour movie! :-)

I was the same I looked at the length before going into the film and gulped :)

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I really enjoyed it and the author of the story clearly spent a lot of time trying to ground the plot in actual science... sure there are bits

I saw the film today (Sunday). I found it interesting but nothing extraordinary... It's true that it doesn't feel like it lasts 2h30.

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On 29 Mar 2026, Avon said the following...

cool, I've never seen an IMAX screening but here it's amazing..

It was an interesting experience. The first time I saw it was in Laser Ultra which is a larger wide-screen.

The IMAX experience was an "extra tall" screen. All of the "present tense" scenes filled the whole screen top-to-bottom and the "flashback" scenes were only wide-screen leaving only the middle of the screen filled. It was an interesting experience.


Jay

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Re: Re: Project Hail Mary
By: Avon to The Wanderer on Sun Mar 29 2026 16:07:32

it's not too often I see a 2.5 hour movie and don't feel like I've sat through a 2.5 hour movie! :-)

I was the same I looked at the length before going into the film and gulped

I find 2.5 hours the longest I like movies before they seem to drag on. I remember seeing the LotR movies and they were three hours each, and those were the edited versions! They just seemed too long. Last night I watch Avatar: Fire & Ash, which was 3h17m; too long...too long.
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