I caught "Arrival" (2016) on Hulu the other day and liked it. It's an intelligent sci-fi film, though there are a few gaps in logic re how fast Amy Adams picked up the aliens' language.
The next day I was watching Morning Joe and noticed how the stylized O in their logo looks a little like the aliens' writing.
I love the story about how Tommy Lee Jones hated working with Jim Carrey because he thought Carrey was way overplaying the role. It was still a better movie than "Batman and Robin", which reached heights of ridiculousness that made Adam West's version look like Robert Pattinson by comparison.
That scene where the Dynamic Duo, shot into the stratosphere in a rocket, blow off the doors and surf back down to the Earth's surface? I wish I could wipe the memory of that from my mind.
Because she already knew it, silly.
Arrival is a masterful bit of science fiction, Denis Villeneuve can mostly do no wrong, and the source is pretty terrific (Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang), but the movie, holy hell, it gets me every time, it really strikes a chord with me, and when Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" starts playing, that's it, I'm done.
Hahaha, holy hell, bold = really?
I don't even remember that, I guess I was able to actually purge itI'm pretty sure I saw Batman and Robin only one time, I think I saw Batman Forever twice, originally way back when, and I fired it up after I watched the Val Kilmer doc (in the background, at my desk, while I was working ...)
It’s been a while since I saw Arrival, but as I recall, it was exposure to the aliens that rewired our brains regarding how we experience both time and reality. It’s an idea for the sake of the story, you just have to accept or you’re probably not going to like it.. When a movie is as slow as this was, you have to be vested in the cerebral concept. Station Eleven a slow story that I ended up loving, but it did not involve any difficult concept to accept..
As far as Villeneuve, he is a good director, I liked Arrival but it’s not a favorite,
Bladerunner 2049, and was dissapointed in Dune which had great imagery, but included a combination of feeling flat with a heavy dose of oppressive, projection of what the future portends music. This could be because I knew the story and I made the projection, but it was still oppressive. He used a lot of background “mood” music in Bladerunner 2049, but there it did not bother me.
