I fucked up. I should have seen this movie in theatres when it came out. I just watched it on Netflix for the first time.
This movie fucked me up. I was so captivated, I was dying to learn more and understand the heptapods, the same way Louise was.
Is it just me or is everything about this film fucking amazing? This is an experience.
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Yes it's good, but it's also a huge pleb filter, so get out of here before the unwashed masses arrive to shit on this thread.
The wrapping up of the third act was a bit messy writing wise, also a few cheesy lines here and there.
GOAT cinema experience though, probably one of the best executed first contact scenes in cinema history. Villeneuve knows how to create actual tension.
5 minutes in and i was so disgusted by amy adams and her hideous face
10 mins in and i was on the floor writhing in pain
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It's an interesting idea about language, but executed way too plebby so that appealed to Joe Retard.
If they had gone deeper in to the actual grammar, syntax, phonics etc then even though it might have been a lot more interesting linguistically, the average Twitter/Instagram mouthbreather would have hated it.
This film kind of reminds me of when I was doing jury duty. For 2 days we had to listen to handwriting specialists analyse the handwriting on several documents that the prosecution thought were forged. We were given colies of the documents then written analyses by both defence and prosecution arguing both sides. I thought it was fascinating, but the other jurors were falling asleep and complaining about how boring it was.
He's a fucking painter. This movie was just a dream to watch. I've never felt so much tension and flow in a film before.
I get what you're saying but you can't expect the film to go THAT in depth on these things. Also, if you're really interested in that stuff, you'll be glad to know that they brought the creator of wolfram alpha to actually help develop the language. It's a real language with rules, and the software they used in the film to analyze the words was an actual piece of software developed to do that. That was actually practical effects. It was a real program doing the analyzing and translating.
Such a phenomenal film, felt like I was seeing reality through a different lens upon finishing it.
The soundtrack is one of the best things I've ever heard.
They went into it as much as they could. You're missing the point in the sense that the movie isn't about the actual specifics of phonics and the likes. It's not a bloody documentary.
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this is what warned you about.
Run, get out while you still can.
... you realise they have only 120 minutes and the film is a drama
also youre not a fucking pleb if you get bored listening to people explain handwriting analysis for 2 goddamn days
I get that, but it just felt very dumbed down. Maybe it's because I'm fascinated with the evolution and history or languages that made me want them to spend more time on the theory behind how they decoded it, rather than skipping through large parts of the process, throwing in a big explosion and having American paranoia take over.
I understand that they had to do all this to make it in to a Hollywood film proper. But it would have been nice for them to show how complex and beautiful language is, to pique people's interest to maybe start learning how their own language came about.
I was actually pretty satisfied with how much they included. They put in what was necessary but made sure it related to the plot. If anything, their selectivity with what to insert was pretty clever and probably intrigued people who'd never considered the mechanics of language before.
It wasn't dumbed down at all, by the way. Or maybe I just walked into the theater expecting absolutely no breakdown - albeit a simple one - of language, just hurr durr language breaks barriers and we should all just, like, coexist
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Why do people say they got the feels when the line Abott is in death process?
Hahahaha
This made me laugh more than it should have
I love alternative alien first contact scenes. Hell everything else is "yes hello hi we are english speaking humanoid aliens and we have come to kill you"
This movie is a damn good step in the right direction as to where alien movies should go.
I thought the Charlie Sheen Arrival was better
"Abbott is death process"
>Hahahaha
get the fuck back to where ever you came from
>DUDE LEARNING SIGN LANGUAGE MAKES YOU ABLE TO TIME TRAVEL LMAO
retarded concept
are you sure you don't want to post this on Reddit?
>went to the cinema with a girl I was seeing
>I wanted to see arrival
>she really wanted to sew fantastic beasts and where to find them
>she "hates scifi" so protested
>we saw the film she wanted
>had to pirate arrival to watch on my own
>stopped seeing her in the end