[nunez]

This was exactly one of the reasons why I hated the movie.

Andy did a fantastic job describing how nation-states might put aside their differences and work together to solve an existential crisis. Some of the events he imagined were just as awesome as they were unlikely in today's political climate.

ALL of that was distilled away in the movie. Like, LITERALLY ALL of it.

Lord Miller reduced the book to "Hot Homer in space and telepathic rock alien thing work together to save their planets." It was a beautifully crafted movie, but SO much dumber than it had to be.