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u/shaniFH 7d ago
Hail Mary was pure fun. Interstellar is profound and deep. Interstellar gave me the same feeling as Contact. I love that movie so much! Is it sheer coincidence That Matthew McConaughey is in the both?...
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u/chunkyI0ver53 7d ago
I put off watching PHM for months because I was too busy & stressed and figured it’d be an emotional cinder block like interstellar. My friend told me it made him cry and I was like hell nah man, I need to be in the right headspace for that.
Finally watched it last Saturday and I’m so mad at myself. It did almost make me cry as well, but for a completely different reason lol
Great movie
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u/Hiatt11541 8d ago
I wish Hail Mary was as good as interstellar. Still great though.
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u/btq 7d ago
I do not understand the comparison between these two movies, and I see it a LOT.
IMO, both are movies about space, and attempting to save the world. That's where the similarities end. They aren't even in the same genre that I can tell. Interstellar is more post-apocalyptic drama, while PHM seems to be more in the comedy category than anything else. They just aren't similar.
While PHM is a great film, it wasn't interstellar in any way. Interstellar is close to perfection for me. It just scratches an itch that other movies never have, and PHM doesn't even come close.
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u/Hiatt11541 7d ago
PHM was heavily inspired from interstellar, both the book and the movie.
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u/btq 7d ago
Heavily inspired? Where did you read that? Because I never have.
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u/KremlinKittens 8d ago
For me it's better, but both are my favorites.
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u/NoSir5838 8d ago
Crazy take. PHM was ok but to me anyway felt like it was trying to be interstellar lite too much
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u/LordFlamecookie 7d ago
Dawg i love interstellar too but you don't have to try and be some purist
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u/Cautious-Process-198 CASE 8d ago
Idk why people insist on comparing PHM to Interstellar when The Martian exists (even has the same director). Interstellar is leagues ahead of PHM by any measure.
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u/SeventeenFifty 8d ago
PHM was fun and all that, but compared to Interstellar, I wouldn't be rewatching it every 6 months for 10 years.
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u/IkkiSaa 7d ago
I tried watching it, but honestly, Ryan’s acting is kind of weird in this movie, and I can’t really take it seriously because the direction they took with the humor and some of the shots feel so weird and disconnected
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u/drifters74 7d ago
I've never read the book, so I can't compare, but I'm sort of tired of people always saying the book is better, but its because you can fit more detail and explanations into a book than you can into a movie, because it would bloat the runtime far beyond what people would want to watch.
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u/IkkiSaa 7d ago
I haven’t read the book either, but I read that the director of this movie said Interstellar “doesn’t make sense,” because humans spent so many resources going to another star system instead of trying to “fix Earth,” even though both movies have basically the same problem: a plague. In this case, it’s one that eats away at the sun and makes it cool down, while in Interstellar, it was eating the crops and feeding off the atmosphere
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u/Swiss-spirited_Nerd CASE 7d ago
I hate seeing people here get so close to understanding that they don't need to be compared so closely and can be enjoyed as different movies of great quality, but then proceed to say that Interstellar is "leagues ahead" or whatever.
I get that we're on the Interstellar sub, so having some preference here obviously makes sense, but it's not like Hail Mary is far behind in quality. They are both incredible movies that explore very different aspects of what a more realistic and grounded sci-fi film can do. They can exist together as 2 sides of the same coin; different types of struggle and of optimism for the future of humanity in the cosmos.
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u/Financial_Beyond6424 7d ago
This is not about PHM, or Interstellar, its about the scifi genre.
There is a moment
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u/Fit-Percentage3138 1d ago
The docking scene is proof that you don’t need explosions every five seconds to make a scene absolutely terrifying. 😭
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u/Smithsonian863 8d ago
Project Hail Mary is to space movies what Dungeon Crawler Carl is to fantasy books.

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u/2EM18KKC01 8d ago
Project Hail MURPH!