Saw Project Hail Mary. I feel like this movie is trying to convince me it's a "smart science guy solves problems in space" movie because Andy Weir wrote the Martian even though it doesn't actually work as that kind of movie. Like, they have the scene where the characters MacGyver together a Science Machine out of cardboard and duct tape, except there is no reason for them to do this? The scene takes place on Earth, there's time pressure for the mission overall but they definitely have time to get normal materials and tools. It winds up coming across like Grace is just kind of a bad scientist who's screwing around and not even writing anything down.
I would also have liked it if the wild radical idea Grace was fired from science for defending wasn't one of the first things we think of with regards to alien biology. It felt like a cheap way to get the viewers on his side and make us feel like smart science boys too. Let him believe something really out there.
It seems like it's kind of a mark of prestige for blockbuster sci-fi movies to be Smart and have Hard Science and Problem Solving and get theoretical physicists to read the script, and if that's not the kind of sci-fi the script actually is, the movie can be worse off for it