Overrated by pseudo-intellects and pretentious nerds
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SmotherEarth — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 02:29 AM)
Agree.
This film is not good as an intelligent sci-fi but i see it as durable as a feel good film for people who think its intelligent,had it went into the language part with the..ya know,linguist it focuses on i probably would've liked it. -
anjansons — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 10:24 AM)
In find it funny that people who loved Interstellar say that Arrival is a bad movie and everyone who liked Arrival is pretentious.
Now I enjoyed a good chunk of Interstellar, but it's an incredibly uneven movie which did not really know what it wanted to be. Had they stuck with the original screenplay, the movie would have played as a straight 70s-80s Trek-like sci-fi story and it would be great. But Nolan decided to infuse fantasy-like ending there with the bookshelves and dimensions
Now Arrival also is more like science fantasy movie than what I call Trek-like science fiction. Meaning it relies on mind games and "premonitions" more than gadgets and more or less successful technobabble. But that does not immediately means that the movie sucks or it is not science fiction. Maybe it's not your type of science fiction, but at least it is consistent in what it wants to be and executes from 1st to last minute. I also did not find it Earth shattering, but AS A MOVIE, MAYBE NOT AS YOUR EXPERIENCE OF THE MOVIE it is much more solid than Interstellar which solidly executed its old school (in the best sense of the word) sci-fi plot when suddenly it decided to go all profound and deal in some atrocious dialogue and fantasy bookshelves I mean, you can't possibly defend the "love" monologue starting from 0:21 in the video below, in a beep sci-fi movie which until that had played as a straight good old-timey gadget sci-fi:
Martian was amazing also because it too knew what it wanted to be, nothing more, nothing less. If the main character would have cracked jokes for half a movie and then started to have monologues about God and universe and have visions of bookshelves before pissing on his "potato field" to have some moisture reclaimed, I would not enjoy it as much too. I mean- you need to understand what kind of a movie it will be. The first few minutes should set the tone. Arrival did that, while Interstellar showed us chasing a drone and dealing in gravitational anomaly - so I did not expect that the endgame would be main character wandering around bookshelves after getting sucked into black hole. It would be perfect ending for a movie like Arrival, not Interstellar. -
Flamboyant_Little_Devil — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 12:35 PM)
CockCatcher, we know you consider Prawnetheus a MASTERPIECE. No wonder you have a deficient brain to understand the vastly superiority of a movie such as this one.
It's just way too much for your lonely brain cell to take.
"I see you try, I see you fail
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gotmyorangecrush — 9 years ago(January 21, 2017 12:44 PM)
Overrated by pseudo-intellects and pretentious nerds
Or people who just love science fiction and enjoy different things than you do when it comes to the films they see. Basically, the very essence of subjectivity.
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rabidbeaver-17250 — 9 years ago(January 22, 2017 07:06 AM)
Frankly, I don't think humans would even TRY to talk to anything that looks like that.
If humans think trying to talk to dolphins, apes, or other non-human citizens of Earth is a waste of time just because humans don't think they look smart enough (ie, too hairy, not primatey enough), why would they deign to talk to space octopi? Unless those space octopi were threatening, and they HAD TO. But humans are just too stupid to think outside their own human mental box. Humans would NEVER be able to talk to aliens.
Noam Chomsky would be the first one denying them language, too, just like he knee-jerk denies apes language. He loves turd whirdlers, but hates apes. I hate Chomsky. -
janis_bananis — 9 years ago(January 22, 2017 02:14 PM)
So you think humans would be like "
Hey look, intelligent space octopi, with science and technology way more advanced than ours, who can build huge, hovering, teleporting craft, control gravity and experience non-linear time! Yeah, let's not talk to THEM
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Seriously?
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