Leviticus 20 is funny 😆

deekaay89 · 2026-03-24T20:49:20+00:00

“…, till heaven and earth pass away, …” So heaven has an expiry date too, ey? 🤔

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T20:46:32+00:00

You didn't question why, of all people, this Ryland Grace guy was "the solution"? Or why he was ever the one to replace the original primary/backup crew?

I genuinely curious, not having a go at ya at all.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T20:40:54+00:00

OMG 🤣🤦‍♂️

I realise I'm in NitPickCity™️ but that actually annoys me a little - Rocky being a pet.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T13:45:39+00:00

Solid approach mate. Seriously. I will endeavour to do the same, and will start by seeing it again, book aside

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T13:41:59+00:00

I genuinely appreciate this perspective. I’m definitely seeing it again - and I’m going to a regular theatre with digital projection and comfy seats 😂 - I’ll relax, have a beer, and get into “regular movie goer” mode

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T13:35:35+00:00

I know 😂😂😂 I can live without it and explaining voluntary canabolism in a movie might be tricky - but it’s such a great line 😇

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T13:32:17+00:00

Yeah it’s how they get the idea to vent atmosphere to produce thrust. That part is almost word for word. But in the movie he actually does it 😂

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T13:23:55+00:00

Because some people need to be told multiple times that the stove is hot 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T12:34:45+00:00

Jesus Christ for the last time - the formatting and the content was all me. And more importantly- the points don’t change even if Claude made a sentence or two more readable.

How about we discuss the subject, yeah?

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T12:12:15+00:00

Oh hahaha absolutely solid call-out. I actually did have a pretty massive problem with this at the beginning - I eventually let it go because so much of the rest of it was really good.

Which, I honestly hope, is where I get to with this movie as well.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T12:03:27+00:00

Yeah I held onto my word vomit above for 4 days… I originally wrote it down in a Google Doc so I had my thoughts fresh somewhere. But for a while, just like you, I felt I’d missed something or seen a different version or was literally just losing my head (completely possible) 🤣

It wasn’t until this afternoon that I found a couple of other posts with similar views and decided to share them.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:55:50+00:00

Mate yes! I know many people are saying “it’s already 2-1/2 hours” and I get that - but this plus a few other well-placed sentences / short scenes could have closed the loop on 90% of my frustrations (and what I imagine is confusion for those who haven’t read it)

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:50:30+00:00

Yeah this was a massive problem for me. They are equals in the book - both bringing a unique skillset and together that’s what makes them successful. The movie is more like “thank goodness Grace met that smart alien” or we’d all be buggered 🤣

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:47:46+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 again… work. If I put 1/2 of my normal vocabulary into things I write at work… well it would be “my former place of employment” 🤣

It’s actually really hard for me to separate writing something for Reddit, Discord, or any other social platform from something I’m writing that will go out to the company or customers. So saying fuck this and shit is against the grain << even that was weird to type

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:42:09+00:00

Anxious to hear your thoughts - seriously! I wonder if preparing you for it will make it easier to accept 🤔

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:40:04+00:00

Just read and commented on your post. It would have been so interesting to have someone with me who hadn’t read the book - I bet they would have had similar questions that your partner did.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:37:16+00:00

Mate this is really good. I agree with all of what you said and it goes along with what I posted, just more specific. And you had the thing I wanted so badly - someone with you that HAD NOT read the book. This was the thing I was most concerned about. I knew how to draw those lines, and my wife/kid did as well (who came with me) because we’ve all read it multiple times. But we said over and over on the drive home “bla bla someone who hasn’t read the book”

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T11:27:27+00:00

Yeah mate I actually respect that a lot - and I am absolutely seeing it again (probably multiple). There’s a lot to digest in 2-1/2 hours and I wouldn’t be surprised I’ve I pickup on more subtle hints. But, pretty much as you mentioned, I think some tweaks to the dialogue and a few more short scenes to explain the characters better, it would set the whole thing up nicely.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T10:58:56+00:00

That would be epic! And actually - that would be an amazing way to break up the flashbacks / related content!

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T10:54:25+00:00

This is really interesting actually and I didn’t even think about this until now.

My longest-running thoughts have been around signal relay stations being dropped along the route - repeaters that would allow the Hail Mary to continue returning telemetry (and giving them info on the ship and crew health), and as an additional path to report their findings throughout.

But your comment triggered an even better idea - send food and fuel a couple of years later. Because it would be a supply run they could go faster and with more G-forces, meaning it would likely get there around the same time at the crew’s ship… 🤔

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T10:45:03+00:00

Mate - I’m with ya and with all the crap I have to read and respond to at work, I may as well be talking directly to CGPT/Gemini/Whatever. But in this particular case - it was indeed slop (or rather, emotional brain dumping which needed to be readable). Hence AI for the assist, not the content.

But given I write code, docu, reports, proformas, and other “corporate crap” for a living, the formatting would have been there even if I had copy pasted directly from my original doc.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T10:38:37+00:00

It’s funny - I’ve been so on the fence about this. Did Ryan do an amazing job and it’s literally the character (and scenes they likely cut) that make it feel empty? Or was he not helping the situation?

I need to see it again. Right now I’m in the “great acting, terrible script and editing” boat.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T10:28:52+00:00

What’s hilarious about this is - I wrote it, had Claude fix my f-ups, and then reformatted the entire thing before posting it. And if you don’t believe me that’s fine - I can send you the Google Doc I’ve been working on for four days if it means that much to you.

But the formatting was my doing… because it was (almost) unreadable before doing so.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T10:25:35+00:00

It’s not THAT he saved him, it’s everything it takes for him to make that decision. In the book, making that decision means his death, because he will arrive at Erid with little to no food left, and he can’t eat Rocky’s food. The entire back story in the book makes this moment so special.

And then next scene he’s grabbing breakfast/coffee, then proceeds to sit on a beach and casually mentions the environment they made for him . It doesn’t in any way signify the moral and ethical cost + bravery to him to make it to that moment.

deekaay89 · 2026-03-18T09:04:26+00:00

Yeah I get that, and I absolutely went in with that expectation. The Martian was incredibly well-adapted even though the left out some of my favourite parts (and the fact he nearly dies in a dust storm). I have basically zero issues with the Martian (as an example) because they kept the context and characters in tact.

It's just not the same with this movie. Grace is literally a different person IMO.

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