David Mcsween

Word! Or any letters can be light streaks 😁#b3d

The phones already are the COLLARS.

@agentsmart Yes i noticed this too, Chris Bowen at least got whole sentences on abc

Commercial Nightly News: BREAKING: SIX CRITICAL TANKERS LADEN WITH OUR FUEL & HEADING TO TOP UP AUSTRALIA'S EMPTY STORES TURNED BACK AT SEA!! Non Commercial Nightly News: 75 out of a scheduled 81 oil tankers are on their way to Australian fuel stores, 6 were redirected. #auspol

@VektorError @sainimatic @FinancialPhys Stupidity also 🙄

@sainimatic @FinancialPhys Knowledge is an infinite resource.

I’m so happy to see others addressing the issue of space travel SiFi is a plot device for storytelling, nothing more

@ToughSf Ooh how about a magnetic flux tube with a wider mouth🤔🤪 shedding heat might be an issue along with misaligned capture

O'Neill's spirit rests easy in his grave. I wonder how these payloads are maneuvered inserted into orbit or caught, since they seem to lack a propulsion system. The 'mass receiver' he described is... awkward.

@GulfShoresRMS @noahlevy13 Making his redemption arc so much heavier, sacrificing himself for someone who wasn't all of us 😉

@noahlevy13 Yes, it was very good. Spoiler alert. Don't read below .. . . . . . My fav part was when she made the decision for him. So sad, so brave, and his reaction was normal, most of us cannot. 😭

You ever read a book and you’re like “holy shit this is my favorite book” and then they make a movie of it and you’re like “I hope they don’t screw it up” and then the movie comes out and you’re like “holy shit they didn’t screw it up and this is one of my favorite movies ever”?

@stefceretti His mistake, serving a country and not the one orange man

“I am glad he’s dead” - DJT 3/21/2026 about a former FBI director, lawyer and veteran of the US army. That’s the respect you get for serving the country your entire life.

@sainimatic Its been all down hill since Cecil B Demille

important thing Hollywood used to know but kinda forgot

@ashlee3dee And here I've been wasting my time with displace🤔😅

interesting thing you can do with map uv and voronoi

@agentsmart Agree, its really odd and seems like a gimme' But so many good ideas here get screwed so in not surprised really

@3pointedit We're not going anywhere. We should at least ensure we have what we need for things like MRIs and party balloons first before exporting this time. Considering it comes bundled with natural gas I'm surprised the people sucking that out weren't already doing this as a side hustle.

Might be time to look at resurrecting our helium industry. Should be a bit of it about, what with all that natural gas we give away and all. 🤔

@agraphafx Deliberately withhold*

@agraphafx Like a casino, they deliberations withhold winners at the regulated rate. There's probably a folder somewhere with the hits that you're not allowed to have until you exhaust all your tokens 🤣

You think social media is addictive? Try using an AI image generation that almost gives you what you want? It’s like gambling slot machines. (The next one is it, for sure!)

@agraphafx Put it in here, direct shunt

@vant008 @GingerMan512 @HailMaryLogs @projecthailmary If they put in some surprising element then it wouldn't be faithful to the book

@vant008 @GingerMan512 @HailMaryLogs @projecthailmary Perhaps knowing the plot via the book, thoroughly spoiled the drama of the movie, it did for me somewhat?

There’s a really cool hidden gem on the official Project Hail Mary site. You can download a 3D model of the xenonite Grace sculpture and, if you’ve got a 3D printer, make your own mini Ryland for your desk ✨

@vant008 @GingerMan512 @HailMaryLogs @projecthailmary Not many movies have the hero reject the call entirely but still be heroic. And i guess you guys just didn't sync with Rocky?

@GingerMan512 @HailMaryLogs @projecthailmary Exactly. The major plot points weren’t taken seriously and the soundtrack made it impossible for there to be any suspense or any thrill. I was very disappointed. Idk what’s with the 2 meat riders that responded to you. They must think “good visuals=good” or corny Mormons

@imPatrickT @projecthailmary This is nice but I liked the baked in scene changes more. I wonder if they shot extra spinning frames on Earth for editing flexibility? 🤔

Cinematographer Greig Fraser shot vertical-squeeze anamorphic on the Alexa 65 to create additional height for the space sequences in Project Hail Mary. It expands to 1.43 in IMAX. He partnered with Arri on a whole new set of lenses. This is why the flares run vertical.

@imPatrickT @projecthailmary Glad it wasn't retro CCD smear 🤣

@nickalanen @AnishA_Moonka Yes this, I couldn't give it a 10 simply because knowing the story from the book spoiled some of the enjoyment. Otherwise it's still a masterpiece

@AnishA_Moonka Maybe a 9.5. 10 is Perfection. It could never live up to the book. If you haven’t read the book, maybe 10.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.