OKAY SO

I live and breathe for the Project Hail Mary movie, it's my pride and joy

Have the book, read the book, I enjoy both equally for what they are. But just like with Interstellar, and the Martian, the book fans come pouring in to rapidly

And OH MY GOD just like every time before the book fans are PRETENTIOUS as all hell that it is genuinely GETTING UNDER MY SKIN

I like seeing people's reviews for movies, what they think of it, every once in a while

BUT OH MY GOD

ALL I'VE BEEN SEEING IN COMMENTS IS JUST "The book is better" "the book is better" "the book is-"

SHUT, STFU, I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE MOVIE ITSELF NOT THE BOOK, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BOOK, IT'S ABOUT THE MOVIE, STOP BRINGING UP THE BOOK EVERY 5 SECONDS IT'S LITERALLY ALL I SEE

And yes it's okay to have an opinion and things you prefer more over others. There are times where I like the books more than the movies and the movies more than the books, they are two entirely separate things, entirely separate stories, in entirely seperate mediums, in entirely seperated universes. You ain't catching my goofy goober self comparing the Rudolph book to the Rudolph stop motion movie, I like both, both are equally good, you can't compare apples to oranges

My problem WITH THESE PATICULAR GUYS is that they aren't stating it as a subjective opinion based on two entirely different mediums. They state it as a fact, like it is a genuine fact that the book is better, and they say that constantly and it annoys the absolute goose feathers out of me when they say subjective opinions as facts especially in reviews about the movie which IS IT'S OWN THING, WHY ARE YOU HERE??

AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE WORSE PART

THEY DO IT IN THE MOST PRETENTIOUS WAY POSSIBLE

Like someone can love the movie and go "Hey guys, should I read the book? I really liked the movie :]" AND SOME GOOFNUGGET SUDDENLY APPEARS LIKE-

"Uhuh, actually, the book is WAY BETTER. The movie you like is 'okay' at best and now I am going to spend the next 5 minutes telling you why the thing you like is inferior to the thing you should be liking. Now after that explanation I highly recommend you read the book"

LIKE NO, NO I WILL NOT

YOU JUST SPEND 5 MINUTES SHITTING ON THE THING I LIKE AND THEN SAYING I SHOULD LIKE YOUR THING INSTEAD

Why would that get anyone to read anything EVER? If you have to tear something genuinely amazing to most people down in an effort to make the thing you like look "superior" despite them being two entirely different things then it shows the person you are talking to that the thing you want them to like can't stand on it's own without making them feel bad for liking something different. And on top of that it makes them feel like they won't like the book because of how drastically different you make it out to be compared to the thing they like

LISTEN, LISTEN, IMA HOLD YOUR HAND WHILE I SAY THIS

You aren't bringing in book fans like this

You are DRIVING potential book fans AWAY every time you do this

AND AND I am here to tell you, I am going to absolutely turn your world upside-down because as someone read the book AND watched the movie

I ACTUALLY LIKE the movie version A LOT more than the book version and I like it A LOT better than the audiobook. The book/audio, to me personally, was entertaining in it's own way but left much to be desired to me in peticular, it's just not my cup of tea

GASP, I KNOW, SHOCKER, CRAZY, NEVER BEFORE SEEN

And notice how I said LIKE and not IS

I said I LIKE it better than the book

Not that it IS better than the book

Because it's a SUBJECTIVE OPINION

And notice how I didn't go out of my way to complain and tear down the book in favor of promoting the movie because both the movie and the book are equally good in their own right? OH MY GOD SHOCKER I KNOW

Yeah so, I just needed to rant about that, because lord knows it's been getting on my nerves because I for some reason can't seem to escape you people

I like the book, the book is cool, but some people like the movie, let them like the movie. If they want to read the book, they'll read the book, if they ask if they should read the book just say "Hey it's so cool that you like this! If you are interested in a different take on the story then I definitely say you should give the book a chance, especially if you liked things in the movie, let me know how it goes :]"

YOU KNOW, like a calm, sensible, and polite human being, but apparently that's too much to ask for these days

He made a beanie for Rocky so they could match! 💖

(in reference to the movie that implies Grace makes his beanie on the Hail Mary for some type of familiarity)