Re: Movie: Arrival (Amy Adams)
Posted: Mon April 10, 2017 10:04 pm
It was alright....
I do remember thinking arrival could be the movie that caused a civil war on RM
Good to know the haters never managed to stage a real argument.
The part I disliked about the film was the middle where Hawkeye's character just started narrating the part of the movie they decided not to film. "Let's just have Exposition Man start talking for about five minutes and show random scenes."spike wrote:yeah, this movie's going to be nothing like that. all they're lifting is the idea of a human linguistics expert learning how to communicate with a race of aliens.tragabigzanda wrote:I read the short story this is based on some years back. It's phenomenal (Chiang's entire collection is some of the best sci-fi I've ever read). I'm excited to see this, though it looks like they're adding an element of danger to a story that was entirely peaceful and without any major conflict. Book spoiler:
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This is hilarious.dimejinky99 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:See my spoiler for the original story on the first page. Would love to know how closely it adheres.dimejinky99 wrote:I'm going to a preview of this on Tuesday. My pal works for these film companies. He tells me the trailer is entirely misleading. But won't say why.
Excited to see it.
Why would I do that?? I like going into a film knowing absolutely nothing about it. Theorising and speculating is for morons!!
See, the issue there is that the Chinese and Russians both came away with "weapon" before she did though. I wonder if this goes back to her "ask what's his face what the Sanskirt word for war is" and how she's the only one who was able to see beyond "weapon" to "language".
They didn't just travel, they appeared and disappeared. Also at one point one of the TV interviews with a DC person she said, "We have protocol for this" which made me think that of course they do. It's probably revised every two years (because that's the usual timeline for gov't documents) and then shelved again. And I do wish the film would have said more about the looting situation, it was all a little too...not medical...sterile, that's the word. It wasn't a very dirty movie.dimejinky99 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:I also think this movie captured exactly how humanity would unfortunately respond to a situation like this. If an alien race has the capability to travel to us and visit, even if their intentions are friendly, we're doomed.
I was thinking about the reality of us being visited. This film almost gets it right. In truth we'd tear ourselves apart and fight against each other I think.
Lead me on to another question.
Are we being prepared for something like this? Lotta alien arriving on earth movies lately
Because I have to ask - is this how you say "one way ticket"? Because half way sounds like a terrible trip.dimejinky99 wrote:You can get to Iceland from Belfast for €89 a half way. Dont know why I've never gone.
I know this post is almost two years old but I hope you've gone to Cinetopia at least once since then.BurtReynolds wrote:They don't have any of those around here I don't think.durdencommatyler wrote:Did you go to an Alamo Drafthouse?BurtReynolds wrote:Times have changed.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:oh no, why?BurtReynolds wrote:Theater. It might very well be the last time.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:did you go to the theater or download it?BurtReynolds wrote:I liked it. felt a bit flat at the end, but it aligns with my cinematic values.
The most unbelievable thing was the people allowed to just call outside of camp and the soldiers watching videos. The whole thing is secret-level clearance and that's how secure it is? I get that it had to be there to setup the whole bomb thing but come on. And even then it was like the command knew immediately what was going on. "Oh, those soldiers are against us now, shoot first and ask questions later."Kaius wrote:The non-linear time stuff was mishandled, but even as a critic, I'm not willing to put in the thought it would require to make it come through the screen better.
The aliens were awful. Conceptually they get a B-, but the execution gets a D. Also, even 30 seconds of imagining what their home planet must be like and I'm bored out of my skull.
I don't want to get into the military level issues because despite the clusterfuck everything at the base camp and worldwide seemed to be, it's not so hard to believe the accuracy of that kind of disorganization.
I will reiterate that Amy Adams was quite good.
Everyone and everything else seemed so plot driven and tedious that it may as well been the pilot for a new series on the USA Network (that I would probably binge watch on Netflix because I hate myself).
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.