""Arrival" movie" Topic

If you haven't' seen the movie "Arrival" and you are a fan of science fiction, I highly recommend it. It's not a Star Wars, space action fantasy type of story, but rather a hard sf story. It has suspense and keeps you guessing right up until the end. It you are tired of seeing the same tired plot lines, check out this original movie.

Definitely one of the better offerings from the genre in recent memory. It was nominated for best picture in a crowded field at the most recent Oscars.

Here's my review of it: link

I thought about renting it, but wasn't sure if I wanted to take a chance. I'll check it out.

I had to scratch a few body parts for a few minutes to figure out the end. I had a good idea, but still needed to piece things together.

An Excellent movie, all around (though I liked Hidden Figures much more).

I liked Arrival a lot. After you've seen it, think about Interstellar.

It is a really good movie. A few aspects of it are kind of head-scratchers, but it is still very thought provoking with some of the most alien aliens I've ever seen in a movie.

I absolutely loved this movie---my favorite sci-fi movie since District 9.

I recommend reading the short story on which Arrival is based -- "Story of Your Life" by Peter Chiang. It explains everything much better. The whole book with other short stories is amazing.

Solid "recommend" from myself.

I didn't like it at all. A waste of time.

Hollywood Aliens. Meh.

I think the various body part scratchings come from the fact that a two hour movie was made from a short story, which led to some stretching and a few plot holes, but overall…a very good movie.

It made me scratch in a way few modern sf films do…that may not have come out right…

Hollywood Aliens have nothing on Bollywood Aliens

My Mrs struggled with this film until I quoted Dr Who at her and he presto it made sense to her.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff".

Time travelling aliens should of gone back in time and done their homework and deciphered humans languages before contacting them. Or brought a language translator with them instead of relying on humans.

But then it would be a different less interesting (from the point of hollywood) story. One concocted by writers about human translators about aliens. My impression was that the aliens were hidden from view most of the time not unlike zoo bears in their caves.

I don't think there was any actual time travel involved as in people travelling to different points in time. Clearly knowledge was being projected forward and backward in time between people, but that's not exactly the same thing.

It's basically the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. And like the hypothesis, it has its problems. But certainly not the worst sci-fi movie out there, and there are some shockers….

Cheers,
JohnG

They needed help from humans in the distance future and humans knew how to communicate with them.

The humans told them that they learn many years ago after they visited.

But the aliens never made a visit so they knew that would have to go back in time to tach them.