Nate A.M.Project Hail Mary adaptation is two and a half hours and:
>is engaging through the entire runtime
>manages in all that time to still gloss over almost all the problem solving that characterizes Weir's novels
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Its production design is sharp, its film language mildly clever – expected of Lord and Miller. The cast is perfect. The science is there in the bg. It captures the novel's humor. Nothing is wrong, except that it lacks most of the qualities which made the novel any more than idle entertainment
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…and I already thought the novel lacked many of the things that made The Martian notable literature, though as I said at the time, not necessarily through any fault of its own. bsky.app/profile/kbne...
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