The ship is waaay to big, and way too polished in the movie. The Hail Mary was 3 (not counting the storage crawlspace under the dorm) smallish rooms in size, not a sprawling advanced space station, every gram on that ship mattered, so there was absolutely no way they would launch an entire fucking IMAX surround screen experience for shits and giggles. The Mary was built as a rush project too, cobbled together from existing off the shelf components and simple structures. Humanity didn’t have 10 years to design and build an advanced ship. I understand taking some creative liberties with the ship design. Stacking the occupants in coma beds was pretty neat, and I thought it was a nice touch compared to the description in the book, but fundamentally changing the entire structure, scope and parameters of this ship is a stretch too far. Having ample space, entertainment and privacy would have invalidated the need for putting the crew in comas to begin with.
Rocky’s shape is wrong. He’s not a tallish diamond thing, he’s squat. Per the book “The carapace, which is roughly a pentagon, is 18 inches across and half as thick.”
Whole movie felt rushed, would have been better as a series.
I don’t, they fucked up the ship, Rocky, and the whole movie felt rushed.
I’d give it like 3/5 stars.
How do you think they messed up the ship? And which one? I thought Rocky was spot on except for him wearing more clothes in the book.
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The ship is waaay to big, and way too polished in the movie. The Hail Mary was 3 (not counting the storage crawlspace under the dorm) smallish rooms in size, not a sprawling advanced space station, every gram on that ship mattered, so there was absolutely no way they would launch an entire fucking IMAX surround screen experience for shits and giggles. The Mary was built as a rush project too, cobbled together from existing off the shelf components and simple structures. Humanity didn’t have 10 years to design and build an advanced ship. I understand taking some creative liberties with the ship design. Stacking the occupants in coma beds was pretty neat, and I thought it was a nice touch compared to the description in the book, but fundamentally changing the entire structure, scope and parameters of this ship is a stretch too far. Having ample space, entertainment and privacy would have invalidated the need for putting the crew in comas to begin with.
Rocky’s shape is wrong. He’s not a tallish diamond thing, he’s squat. Per the book “The carapace, which is roughly a pentagon, is 18 inches across and half as thick.”
Whole movie felt rushed, would have been better as a series.