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by thomasgeelens 77 days ago
Still wanna watch this movie, I haven't seen trailers (try to keep that to a minimum) and I like Gosling. Anybody here seen it?
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Yes. I really enjoyed it. Visually spectacular, pretty faithful to the book (as far as I remember the book) and Ryan Gosling was very good in it. They were even fairly faithful to the laws of physics (relative to other Hollywood movies, anyway).
Found it excruciating to watch. As in boring. And there are a few times where the movie seems ready to make its landing and finish but something happens to extend it. I just couldn't get myself to care. The recent Sam Raimi movie I enjoyed
I also saw 'Send help' at the cinema. I enjoyed it, but preferred 'Hail Mary'. Highly subjective, obviously.
Just came back from the show. Loved it. Might go back for an IMAX viewing. I liked the book as well, and thought it was a good adaptation.

Cried a lot.

Yeah, my wife and I saw it earlier this week. I thought it was an excellent adaptation of a very good book. My wife, who hasn’t read the book, didn’t like it and took a nap. (I think that’s a pretty minority position for most people who have seen the movie without reading the book.)
I heard someone snoring loudly in the cinema, so being “bored to sleep” seems to be a surprisingly common reaction to this movie!
I haven't been to a cinema in 15 years, but I went to view yesterday with Gold seating. Didn't even know you could get alcohol served to your seat these days.

Lovely movie, it was a lot of fun.

Watched it twice, cried both times. Probably could have had a few minutes cut while still tight if you care about that kind of thing, recommend watching in IMAX since it's a space movie. One notable annoying science inaccuracy that felt particularly blatent was jurer gur pragevshtr jnf haonynaprq sbe ab ernfba but that's forgivable.
I'm inured to varegvny flfgrzf va zvpebtenivgl orunivat yvxr gurl'ir nccneragyl tbar znq va mreb-t, but once science doodad from the film, I have spent the last week scrambling my brains thinking about was the tbq-sbefnxra raretl/cnegvpyr genafcbeg vafvqr gur nfgebcuntr. Qbrf vg unir, yvxr, n gurezbahpyrne zvgbpubaqevn? Arhgeba genafcbeg vafgrnq bs ryrpgebaf, gura DHNAGHZZNTVK gval shfvba
That part bugged me too!!! Like, why! There are two places at least, guh.
I asked claude to decipher this and it refused. I asked gemini and it was permissible. Very interesting to see ROT-13 banned via Anthropic as a 'prompt injection' risk.
what is that gibberish?
Its rot13 encoding to avoid spoilers.
Likely a rot13-encoded spoiler.
Rot13
The book is very good and the movie is pretty faithful to the book. They did an amazingly good job of making Rocky into a real character.
Yup and loved it. I like Gosling too and he was awesome in this too.