“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.” The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that translates into about 5 million ticket buyers.
“ Good movies bring people into the movie theater.” Who knew?
So were just ignoring Sinners then?
I still haven’t seen Oppenheimer, it just sounds like a long boring movie. I’m 70% through the PHM book and I can’t wait to see it.
It was fun, but they stripped 90% of the science out of it. The book is much, much better.
I loved the book, it’s the first novel I’ve reread more than once in my adult life.
In glad they stripped the science out of it. It would have been a boring film if they’d left it in. They did the story justice. There’s only so much you can do in 2.5 hours and I think they did brilliantly.
I’m honestly fatigued with all the reboots/rehashes and marvel slop, glad this one is doing well.
Yeah, I eagerly awaited Infinity War and Endgame, but I was immediately marvelled out after that. Took me years before I watched Loki and Wandavision. They were both good, but I still don’t have much of an appetite for them.
Similar with Star Wars, though that eagerness diminished a bit after ep 7 and a lot more after ep 8, to the point where I only went to see 9 more out of a sense of obligation to who I used to be. Funny because they were the opposite of IW/Endgame in their setup (ie, they planned the whole arc out for Marvel but didn’t even plan a movie ahead with SW, didn’t even use the same director).
Went and saw it. Despite “Rocky” being a little bro to the Galaxy Quest Rock Monster and kinda being cheesy with the “coos” and decidedly un-alien thought processes that were very human…
It was a relief to watch and enjoy.
Not dark, not apocalyptic like supervillains bent on world destruction, not yet another rehash of a franchise or live action reboot.
I was glad to see it. A decent, feel-good original movie.
Amaze!
Because its actually good and has real humans. Listen up Hollywood.
Read the book, but the audiobook is so much better.
agree…what fucking idiot downvoted that?
I read and enjoyed the book, but the movie improved on some story beats and trimmed some sciencey stuff that wouldn’t have translated well to the screen. Pretty great adaptation.
If you’re considering watching it, do try to avoid the trailers for it. I understand that you have to market the story, but introducing things in ads that should have been delightful surprises kinda stinks.
trimmed some sciencey stuff that wouldn’t have translated well to
…American audiences
I managed to avoid all trailers, bought tickets for the family, got to our seats and guess what was showing in the early trailers? That’s right, clips from the movie spoiling Rocky and giving stupid facts.
Like WTF?
Don’t show promotional material for the movie you’re already in, let alone spoilery ones
The trick is to find a theatre that lets you reserve seats with your tickets and then show up about 10 minutes late to miss all the ads spoilers/trailers for other movies.
It’s one area where my procrastination paid off and gave a better experience instead of a worse one.
I’ve read the book a billion times, it’s so damn good, (listened to it ray porter is amazing in everything he reads) and watched the trailer and yea…they spoil the hell out of the big surprise. Like damn…
I managed to avoid the trailers and just caught some pre-release hype which motivated me to go see it. I didn’t read the book so I can’t compare the film to the book. It’s definitely one of the best movies I’ve seen. I really enjoyed it.
I went to a 9pm Thursday showing and the theatre was probably 3/4 full which I haven’t seen in a general screening in a long time, definitely since the pandemic.
I was trying to abstain from the trailer. I was watching a live episode of Saturday night live when it cut to commercial- the project Hail Mary trailer. They showed Rocky in the first 5 seconds! I was pissed off. I had to quiet my rage at 11:30 pm while my wife and kid were sleeping. I hate movie trailers
Rocky isn’t even the biggest twist, tho.
Which is why they put him in the trailers. They wanted a cute character beside the Hollywood guy.
I assume you mean Ryan Gosling is the cute character beside the Hollywood guy, Rocky.
Agreed on all points! Went with a friend who hadn’t read the book, and the important story beats hadn’t been ruined for her; certain emotional points hit her hard. So well executed.
Dude certain emotional points still hit me hard and I had just re-read the book two weeks ago
Turns out these chumps knew how to make a fuckin’ movie.
I’m so glad I never watched the trailer. I did have something spoiled but I mostly forgot about it until it happened so all is well.
Honestly trailers are why I’m not seeing it. With the massive spoilers I don’t want marketers to have my money. I’ll watch it at home later, but very upset with them. I know it’s small in the grand scheme of things, but I’m very annoyed at them
When you can just watch a couple trailers and get all the major plot points, why waste the money?
Does the movie keep the suprise? I’ve read the book, just hoping it pops out of nowhere in the same way.
There are a couple of good surprises, one early-ish and one pretty late. (Trying to avoid spoilers here.)
The early-ish surprise (a character reveal) was a genuine jump-scare for me and I knew exactly what was about to happen. So pretty good.
The later surprise (a revelation about why someone is in their situation) is actually subtly foreshadowed better in the movie than it was in the book. A really great improvement.
I literally jumped at that first surprise. Well played …
And I agree that this was a superb adaptation.
This movie wasn’t on my radar at all. After seeing Adam Savage talking about the production, I definitely want to see it.
Go and see it. Then read the book. Then listen to the audiobook. They’re all bangers.
“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.”
So, 3 years ago?
so 3 years is like 12 superhero movies. AND THEY STILL HAVEN’T MADE THE ORIGIN OF THE SHOVELLER.
That’s an eternity for dipshit business brains that can’t think beyond the current quarter
what if we made Oppenheimer 2: nuclear bugaloo?
Oppenheimer and Melania 2. Melanheimer.
This was a joke, but I think a biopic about Edward Teller that kept the cast of Oppenheimer would be truly excellent.
i would definitely pay to see a dramatization of “project nuke the shit out of the alaskan coastline”.
There was an equally brilliant plan to nuke all of Hibernia in Canada to get oil.
Oppenheimer: The Two Towers
Well everything has to be a trilogy!
Sucks killing them wpuldnt fix anything.
non-franchise
Are you really saying that people might actually be fed up with recycled and reheated remakes or yet another addition to a superhero universe? Color me shocked…
Marvel Avengers IV: Revenge of Steroid abuse. Featuring the lovable, Shrinky the Testicle.
You’re reading that wrong, they’re saying franchise films make more money than non-franchise films. You might interpret that as franchise films are still more popular than non-franchise films. Alternatively you could say even though franchise films suck most non-franchise films suck even more.
I didn’t think there’s any evidence that audience size has to correlate with quality.
proof: Big Bang Theory.
It was a decent book and I guess I’ll see the movie eventually. We just have a really lousy theater locally.
Since Oppenheimer, you say?! That must have been released like a hundred years ago, right?! Amazing. The world we live in. Truly the future.
To me anything around 2000 I consider “newer” . considering film had been around wince what, 1880, I feel I’m accurate.
