Project Hail Mary

Ryan gosling and puppeteering are doing the heavy lifting.

Phil lord and Chris Miller(and Drew Goddard) lack to give any character any meaning besides saving billions yet I never felt like anything was at stake. Rocky has no personality, his design is cute and marketable.
The script is filled with half of the time lame jokes, drew Goddard never was the best with dialogue and really, grace is extremely 1 dimensional.
The reason why the film fails is due to its inherent use of high stakes but in order for us to care about those high stakes in a classic 3 act structured film, you have to make it personal which they don't.
Actually grace was put in space without his permission so that automatically creates a problem when I have to care about your characters.

Back to rocky, rocky is cute but thats all he really is and frankly he has done his job already, the film uses emotional manipulation so that you think he's a character when all they want from you is to be sad because he is cute and has "funny" lines.
Thats the worst case with what you can do with such a character.
We should make aliens not cute Actually or at least just something other then cute or entirely monstrous.
The flashback scenes being intertwined with the space scenes adds nothing and you could've just done it in chronological order but then again that wouldn't be as interesting but it still wouldn't do anything substantial.

The film is hopeful but that isn't specifically a great theme when you just.....present it. To be honest sci fi imo is a hard genre or at least astronaut films are a difficult thing to do good and I fear drew godardd just never was the right choice.

This is what the animation is cinema crowd would call prestige cinema.
Kendog will pay for this.

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Just when you think Ryan Gosling can't get any more charming, he grows some scruff, puts on glasses and a cardigan, and becomes best friends with a rock.

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