Worse Line of the Film
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bikesloth — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 01:04 PM)
Funny, I thought both lines were great. The book ends with the same line, it's why it's called Arrival (movie) and Story of Your Life (short story). Like the Heltapod language, it's not linear, there's no beginning and no ending. That final line followed by the panning of the camera and the word ARRIVAL to end the movie was perfection.
If you were paying attention, you'd realize that it did not come out of nowhere, every shot in the movie leads to that last line. -
bikesloth — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 02:16 PM)
Really??? Can you not see that this last scene is at some time after the aliens have left. They're at her (their) place obviously married by now cause she's wearing her wedding band. It's not like they just left the army camp and on their first date.
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aznxscorpion517 — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 11:36 AM)
"The most amazing thing to ever happen to me." is the worst line in the movie. I don't recall that in the short story and even if it wasn't it's fine. It's really the choice to use those words that made it a bit campy. Especially since the build up wasn't there. The fact that they were hiding as much of their romantic connection as possible for the reveal suggests this and doesn't help the problem. I would have preferred something less overtly strong considering they had planned to limit their early onscreen connection. Something like "A lot of scientists would say this was the most amazing thing to happen to themand maybe it wasbut I'm also pretty glad to have met you (or gone through it with you)". At that point in the movie (if I remember right) as far as the movie wants the viewer to knowhe's still just a close colleague at best. Something like that would work as a more subtle hint that he might be interested in her. Then comes that shot later where we see his face as the dad.
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ipeedaily — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 02:18 PM)
Hey, relax.dude was desperate to get laid. I've heard much worse lines.
I can see him using the same "most amazing thing wasn't them, but you" thing at a bar trying to pick up chicks when their marriage goes bad, which judging by her baggage wouldn't be long..put it in a sequel!!!