Project Hail Mary review

41:11You know what I mean? It was all right. It was all right. No, I you know, I think that it was beautifully shot. Like I love the visual language of the film. I thought the visual language was fantastic. The cinematography was fantastic. Um, you know, I think the concepts were really interesting. Like the also spoiler alert warning. So, if you haven't seen it yet, we are going to talk about the actual details. So, um, like the Patrol-line concept and like like the the narrative tension of like what was happening and why it was important, I thought was great. I really had a hard time getting emotionally invested into the

41:51relationship between Ryan Gosling's character and Rocky. Oh, okay. >> I might have just been having an off day and I was feeling a little bit like the Grinch, but it I just couldn't get into it. That's that's uh very interesting because I had the opposite experience. I was like super emotionally invested in Rocky, the alien. And I thought I I thought like as a film, I thought it was a masterpiece, honestly, because um you know, I've seen a lot of films with probably like a higher budget or like a higher production value where I could not care less about the main characters. A good example is like the Formula 1 F1 movie. Like at the end, I really couldn't care if Brad Pitt won

42:34or if Lewis Hamilton won at the at that last race because like the way that they set up the character, I just wasn't there there was no arc, there was no like time to identify with him. I don't know why, but somehow the way that they to me at least, right? The way that they they had Rocky come up and like his struggles of like he like his crew died and all this other stuff. There's like there was so much that I could identify with. I actually like I think this was better than Interstellar. I In terms of a movie, in terms of something that I could like emotionally feel and be a part of. Like there are scenes in Interstellar that were very

43:15that I emotionally resonated with. Like the fact when he was talking to his kids and he saw the the kids just grow up in like an hour. Um that was kind of crazy because obviously like I know about general relativity and things like that, but seeing it on screen is like pretty insane. Um but yeah, I think I think in terms of that like the movie um and the characters, I thought I thought it was amazing. >> I I don't I don't agree. >> Okay. No, that that I I'm really fascinated by that take. Um again, I I have to probably watch it again. I it just might have been not the right day for me. Yeah. Um but saying it's better than Interstellar is heresy. >> Yeah, to me to me I will say I will go ahead and say that. I think the science

43:56of Interstellar is cooler. For sure. But I think in terms of a movie that where I resonated with the characters and I was like emotionally locked in and I was I was just like what's going to happen? Oh my gosh. I think this one was like I think here's where we may be able to get a point of agreement with you, which is the one relationship that definitely was forced and didn't make sense or didn't have enough time to marinate was between Carl the security guard driver and Ryan Gosling's character. That was a bit rushed. >> They they get this immediately became buddy-buddy and I was like I was like all right, that's a little too It was a little too fast. >> too fast. That So I think we can agree on that one. Yeah. I I I'll agree with you on that one. Um let's continue. Yeah, so okay. Well,

44:37anyways So I want to cover some of the things that I found good about the science and some of the things that I was just like that kind of doesn't make sense. Again, I want to just say that the movie itself I still think was just really well done. So let's let's start with the good. Yep. So I loved the way that the um the population dynamics I thought was very cool in that in the in Tau Ceti the reason why that Astrophage is not runaway exploding is because there's a predator. Predator prey dynamics is like one of the first things that you learn about in differential equations and how

45:18there can be like stable equilibria. So I thought that was really cool. The idea that the acceleration of the spaceship was creating gravity and that once Ryan Gosling and his spaceship arrived at Tau Ceti the spaceship stopped pushing Yeah. and then he was in zero G. I thought that was really cool. I like that switch because like when he when he first wakes up there's still gravity. >> Yes. Right? And I was I was like what is going on? How is there gravity in space if he's in space? >> Yes. And then it switched off and then there was zero G. I thought that was really cool. >> a nice touch. >> That was a really nice touch because because I was like ah okay now I see that. Um the details of Rocky the alien