Five days later, I'm still processing what I saw.
A couple of months ago I wrote about how much I was looking forward to the release of “Project Hail Mary”, a movie based on one of my favorite books ever. While the trailers and clips released beforehand led me to believe that it would be a good movie, you can never trust trailers and clips. You have to see the whole work for yourself. And after finally seeing the whole work, what do I think?
I think that it's an awesome movie, and it did something that's insanely rare while adapting a book into a movie. Many of the scenes up on the screen looked very much like the scenes in my mind as I was reading (or re-reading the book).
I went and saw the movie Saturday, fully prepared to be a little disappointed, and when I wasn't I entered a place that I've rarely been sent to while watching a movie. When I left the theater and got into the car I actually had to sit for a few seconds and process what I just saw. Even now, five days later, my mind will flash back to a scene or a sound or a thought and I'll have the same reaction. I just have to sit for a second and go through what's running through my mind.
The last movie to do that to me? “The Martian”, also, like “Hail Mary”, based on a book by Andy Weir.
Having read “Hail Mary” five times (and counting), I had absolutely no problems knowing what was going on up on the screen. Part of me, though, wondered if people who hadn't read the book five times (and counting) would get what was going on in scenes where one line of dialogue might have replaced five pages of description. However, after speaking with a few people who watched the movie but hadn't read the book, it seems it wasn't an issue. They enjoyed the heck out of the flick, and didn't seem they missed anything.
Which is a good thing.
I know a lot of people don't go to theaters to watch movies any more (heck, even I don't go out to theaters to watch movies much any more), but if I may make a recommendation, if you wanna watch “Project Hail Mary” do so on as big a screen as possible. There's just so much visual information to take in during some scenes that you wanna catch as much of it as you can.
I guess that, in the end, it doesn't matter how you watch it, just make sure that some time you DO watch “Project Hail Mary”. You may not be like me, and still processing what you saw five days after the fact, but I'm pretty sure you will be entertained.
And with movies these days, that's saying something.
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