I was expecting a generic alien invasion movie, and I was pleasantly surprised
I had no idea what I was watching when I sat down in the theater. My friend had bought the ticket and I just showed up. I didn’t know ANYTHING.
One of the best experiences of my life and it turned me into a Denis Villeneuve super fan.
Same. I’m skeptical of most newer movies given all the rehashes and sequels. The presentation of the aliens had me shaking a little bit!
Could you be also recommend a few generic alien invasion movies?
you can watch skyline if you want to watch nothing new or interesting.
Loved the movie! Such a great concept and so elegantly made. But the tagged on love story kind of took me out of it. Could almost hear the producers pushing that love story for wider audience appeal.
The thing I remember about this movie was that India got mad one of the fictional aliens from this movie decided to land in Pakistan instead of India.
The other thing I remember was that they for some reason decided to show the location on the map as “Punjab, Pakistan” which is even more generic because it’s a province not a city.
The other thing I remember was that they for some reason decided to show the location on the map as “Punjab, Pakistan” which is even more generic because it’s a province not a city.
I could see India being upset over that because it’s disputed territory.
The best sound design team. I also love the ability of the visual design team to give a true feeling of scale and weight to things.
This was a good one. Definitely recommend
I need to give this a rewatch
Read the short story before re-watching. Definitely gives you a better perspective.
The aliens reminded me of the Tralfamadorians from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.
That was a mouthful. Is it worth a watch?
It’s a book. Then again I don’t watch much tv, so who knows, it may have been adapted by now. The book is worth reading though, it’s very good.
There’s a film of it, but I’ve only ever read the book. It is a really good book by a WWII veteran who really gets a lot of points about the war and what happened across.
Ah okay! I’ll add it to my ever growing list haha.
I too have an ever growing list. if you’ve never read Vonnegut before, he is really worth moving up the list.
I watched it for the first time last year without knowing anything about it and, as someone who loves to nerd out about anything linguistics related (am translator, for context), I cannot describe how gleeful I was that such subjects had center focus in a big blockbuster like that. Obviously the other aspects of the movie were amazing as well and the story got me very emotional by the end, but I will never shut up about how interesting and important that translation/communication aspect of the movie was.
Don’t remember much of this movie , but what I did see wasz very beautiful
Yeah its one of my favorite movies
Definitely a top 20 in my book, one of my wife’s top 5. I also love the book, it’s very short story, you can probably read it in the time it’d take to watch the movie (I’m a slow reader and did it in a few hours), it doesn’t add too much, but it’s a bit of interesting mathematical philosophy which I found quite endearing.
This movie absolutely destroyed me emotionally for like a week. I was wholly unprepared for what this movie was really about. I was expecting an alien invasion movie and got a brickload of emotions dumped on my heart.
Same. Saw it a few months before my first child was born and it opened up something in me that I didn’t know was there. I’ve never watched a movie that made me weep until this one. Full on sobbing. Watched it again a week later, wasn’t a fluke - sobbed again.
Sapir-Whorf always fascinated me when I first read about it in philosophy class
I read this stuff casually and I was generally familiar with the theories in both Arrival and Interstellar, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of either when I watched the movies. I completely missed what they were pointing at in Interstellar and thought they butchered the idea that Amy Adams was caught in her own frame of how she understood her experience of time.
I am sure that’s my problem, but I truly wonder how anyone was supposed to appreciate the movies without internalizing the critical theories
Interstellar was terrible.
Very happy to see my notion shared on this platform.
“But the science”
Miss me with that bullshit, you don’t get to tote how “scientifically accurate” something is in the first half (it wasn’t) and then get time travel/self recurrence in the second half.
It was just a bad movie with high production value, if I want that I’ll watch moonfall.
Watched it last week for the first time. Really enjoyed it
