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LeoNatan
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It has the exact same mood of The Martian, so it’s a function of the author, not director. I haven’t read the Hail Mary book yet.
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| Posted: Wed, 13th May 2026 21:34 Post subject: |
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| ixigia wrote: | | the lighthearted family-friendly tone with its aura of wholesomeness, simplified logic and humanization of the obligatory cute sidekick(tm) was more than my grumpy self could tolerate. Fitting when looking at the directors' previous works, but the space experience wasn't exactly the most palatable and memorable one for me. Several light-years away from the target, really. |
Same watched it with wife last night. I rarely watch movies but seemed interesting.
I got the same vibe. I kept rolling around in my head: Oh its a baby yoda, "I am Groot", style toy line setup being primed!
I expected rocky to be more than "Mechanically Adept Gru Minion"
He really felt like Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs Monkey, that has the speech translator. Or maybe Pixar's UP dog.
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| Posted: Wed, 13th May 2026 22:08 Post subject: |
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we just got spoiled by star trek scotty and will never reach said hights anymore for sci fi engineer stuff
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Wed, 13th May 2026 22:25 Post subject: |
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That's not it at least for me, I don't watch Star Trek, the movies or the shows.
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| Posted: Wed, 13th May 2026 22:54 Post subject: |
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why not ? its good shit for the soul but u will hate anything new scifi after watching said masterpieces and wonder if we want back in time
a time where the writing had to carry and the vfx filled in the gaps. not the other way around
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Wed, 13th May 2026 23:01 Post subject: |
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Because I'm not interested in it is all. Space Soap Drama TV Shows are not my thing.
I mean I HAVE seen it, not like I'm confused what it is, or never seen an episode. Just not my thing.
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Wed, 13th May 2026 23:40 Post subject: |
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Not my style either. 
99% of what I watch is: Stand up comedy, documentary stuff (mostly space), How its made types shows, and adult/whatever they are called, cartoons like: Venture Brothers, Archer, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Boondocks, BoJack Horseman.
And that's pretty much it.
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| Posted: Thu, 14th May 2026 01:37 Post subject: |
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Martian was far more grounded, this is Pixar/Disney/Marvel vibe, especially the ending but the whole movie is just too cute for its own good. Nothing wrong with some sprinkles of that, but nah, felt like a kids movie and nothing wrong with that either, just not my preference for sci-fi.
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| Posted: Thu, 14th May 2026 01:37 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | It has the exact same mood of The Martian, so it’s a function of the author, not director. I haven’t read the Hail Mary book yet. |
It's a shame because I enjoyed The Martian (movie) despite its shortcomings - it had indeed a similar approach and frivolous tone/occasional hollycheese but to me, it provided a far better balance between actual sci-fi elements and (melo)drama than Hail Rocky.
@DX: Haha yup, as soon as I saw the little guy I had a genuine  moment. At that point, I already knew the movie was inevitably moving in a direction that didn't appeal to me, while also thinking about the number of plushies ready to ship from the Amazon HQs  |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 16th May 2026 13:09 Post subject: |
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| zenux wrote: | | LeoNatan wrote: | | It has the exact same mood of The Martian, so it’s a function of the author, not director. I haven’t read the Hail Mary book yet. |
Didn't 'real human bean' affect that mood in any way? 
After all, like Martian, it is practically one actor movie. |
Sure, but Damon has a lot more charisma to carry that mood. Never been a fan of Gosling or find him a good actor. |
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| tonizito wrote: | Wasn't Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! but still liked it. Low point are some of the goofy/clownish dialogue scenes, especially some of the music they used for those really takes me a bit out of it 
BTW
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| Spoiler: | It's been a while, but I think yes. IIRC it was that this type of travel was risky for everyone to be begin with. Like, they were put in a medically induced coma which normally kills everyone, but a few select people with specific genetic markers. In the book that is also the reason why main-guy has to go, because the original crew members died and they had no time to look for other qualified people with the genetics.
But even with the right genetics, it didn't work for everyone. So basically, bad luck  |
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| bringiton wrote: | | tonizito wrote: | Wasn't Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! but still liked it. Low point are some of the goofy/clownish dialogue scenes, especially some of the music they used for those really takes me a bit out of it
BTW
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| Spoiler: | It's been a while, but I think yes. IIRC it was that this type of travel was risky for everyone to be begin with. Like, they were put in a medically induced coma which normally kills everyone, but a few select people with specific genetic markers. In the book that is also the reason why main-guy has to go, because the original crew members died and they had no time to look for other qualified people with the genetics.
But even with the right genetics, it didn't work for everyone. So basically, bad luck |
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Thanks for the explanation men 
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| Posted: Tue, 19th May 2026 21:54 Post subject: |
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did not expect it to be this disney like, still was a good movie but i much prefer something like spaceman in tone, in fact both are very similar movies
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