see, Rama is .. a .. well, a pretty stupid story.
Or rather, it's enticing because - spoilers for those who have not read a 50-year-old book - there's a lot of mystery about this thing that's arriving from outer space, and when they get there, it's a big deserted city. And the fun of pretty much all the middle of the book, is these alien vistas, these weird environments that they run across.
Basically that's all that happens, 1. they identify the object and get to it, 2. they look inside and see this deserted spaceship, 3. they leave.
There's a tiiiny little bit of tension with one accident one guy has, but nothing really changes throughout the book.
And, give that Villeneuve put his name to, *literally, not figuratively*, the worst film miniatures i have ever seen - specifically the flyover of Arrakeen - i have serious doubts that, short of an improptu' brain injury, he can do better.
Clarke's stroke of genius is - again, *literally* - concentrated into one single phrase at the end of the book, without which i would rate RWR much lower. You know, i loved the book, it's different in the way the narrative is constructed, it's very strick with the science, it's an interesting concept, and, while it kinda slows down by the second half, it manages in the end to leave you with even more interest that you came in with.
But again, Villeneuve is a guy who can't do subtlety, he couldn't cope with the concept that Rabban is a sadist, so he made him BIG, and VIOLENT, because normal people can't be evil. Idaho is a warrior, so he's gonna be a mentally-superficial mountain of muscles. I do not trust him to be able to even conceive the subtleties of character differences in a crew where everyone is a scientist.
Sign of the times, i suppose. The crew of Alien were realistic, the crew of Prometheus were caricatures. It's just a third-millennium thing.