Project Hail Mary 9/10
Spoilers! This movie was so damn good. There are movies like this that come out maybe once every two years that make me go “Damn, I wish I had seen this in a theater!” or “I am so glad movies exist.” This movie is told out of order filling in blanks which L and I were thankful for because I kept wondering “Why is a teacher on a shuttle?” Yes. I watched Challenger blow up decades ago in school and there was a teacher on it. Shut it. Plus, this teacher Ryland Grace absolutely didn't want to go to space. He wasn't a science teacher that dreamed of one day heading into the cosmos. I should probably talk about what the plot of this movie is. I seriously was gonna just keep writing like a weirdo.
So its 2032 (which sounds so far away but as of me writing this is only six years away) and Grace wakes up on a shuttle with long hair and a beard confused as to what is even happening. The ship is trying to check on him with this medical bot and he tries to escape because he doesn't remember his name or how he ended up on this ship. He checks the ship and sees that two other crew members are dead and that he is traveling 11.9 light years away from Earth. Hell of a way to wake up. Through flashbacks we see him teaching junior high kids (ugh) and they start asking about some stuff they have been seeing on the news and hearing from adults about these black spots on the sun. Turns out that this “Petrova Line” stretching from between Venus and the sun is slowly cooling off the sun. In 30 years the planet Earth would be cooked. Meaning cooled. Bunch of folks would die. Planet ruined.
This movie is carried by Grace's character being likable and explaining what he was doing in a way my non scientific ass could understand. I understood most of it. While near the planet he is trying to get to (to gather a material that could kill the black spots) a blinking light signals towards him and starts throwing canisters at him. Grace refuses to dock with this massive weird ship and is forced to where he meets who he calls Rocky. Its this rock looking alien that chitters. Grace sets it up so that he can see what Rocky says on a screen and then in voice form. Rocky was funny as hell. This movie made me feel terrible thinking a rock alien was about to die. This wasn't some cutesy-poo alien with big eyes and fur. It looked like a rock and when he ate we lost our minds. This would have been a 10/10 if not for some answers to questions coming far too late into the story and it having multiple endings. Seeing how he ended up on the ship was funny until it was like “Oh. They are forcing this guy to go on a suicide mission. Damn.”
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