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The WEIRD Hollywood society launched a Hail Mary movie into the dead zone of its current crisis, turning a popular hard Sci-Fi book into a never-ending collection of comic relief reels totalling 2.5 hours. And it did not exactly stick the landing. It started innocently enough. When I read the interview Perri Thaler, from Science , did with Wendy Freedman, an astronomer at the University of Chicago, I became genuinely interested in the Project Hail Mary movie. The science sounded fascinating — the kind of premise that makes you feel slightly smarter just for knowing about it. I had not been in a movie theater in a while, and when I started spotting the posters at bus stops and some colleagues mentioned they wanted to go, I joined them. What followed was completely unexpected. But before I get to that, let me dwell for a moment on the title — because, as it turns out, it is something of a foreshadowing. The term "Hail Mary" has two primary meanings: it is a traditional ...