The book was amazing, one of my all-time favorites. Can’t wait for this to release!
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Why would they spoil rocky in the trailer smh. That surprise while reading the book was incredible.
Right? It’s the perfect surprise, that’s why the book keeps it under wraps. They basically spoiled the whole movie right there.
From a Doylist/marketing perspective, though, I honestly think most people gave the novel a chance because Andy Weir made a name for himself with The Martian. In Sci-Fi publishing, he’s the brand, so the publishers can indulge a surprise plot point. For a mainstream movie, “from the author of that one Mars movie that didn’t suck and did quite well ten years ago…” doesn’t really move the needle, but "Ryan Gosling is a…
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funny reluctant astronaut who meets a fuckin’ alien"…
Well, that just might.
Not the whole movie. But a big fun surprise yeah.
Yo dawg, your spoiler alert needs a spoiler alert.
Thanks for the heads up, now I definitely won’t watch the trailer.
Ha!
Yeah this should have a spoiler tag. That took away from what could have been a fun development
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I’ve never read the book. Never heard of it actually. The early claim of “stars being infected except one” paired with comments in this thread made it clear there was an alien encounter. Nothing really seems spoiled to me. It maintains a comedic element throughout.
If anything, I’m somewhat more interested in it for not being like the trilo/quadrilogy (1) I was going to jokingly put it in: the unofficial Warhammer origin movies. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Namely, a remake of Sunshine. These 3 movies introduce demonic beings brought on by space travel which is more or less accomplished by traveling through/near hell. A flaw, to me, is their late-plot reliance on downright supernatural abilities. I enjoyed the relatively solid scifi aspect (2) a lot until things used a godly deus ex machina to wrap it up. Maybe that’s my fault for not actually being into 40K.
(1) the 4th reference movie is Black Hole (1979), the Disney Star Wars before Disney Star Warred. As far as I’m concerned, Event Horizon is a remake.
(2) the solar shield on the 2nd ship in Pandorum should have absolutely roasted the back of the first ship upon rendezvous. The movie established reflections could slice metal. The convex shape of the shield would diminish the strength, but the much larger size should have done the trick. I know it was hot before and Mark Strong was naked, but I don’t think he would’ve been strong enough. Complete the nuke mission. God plot closed.
Edit: sorry to put yall through weird superscript formatting. It didn’t isolate the 1/2 like it did in reddit. Paranthesized instead
Oh I’m gonna have to see Pandorum! Thanks for the reply.
Fun book but I think it was his weakest one. Though I do like plausible space problem solving as a genre.
