I plan on watching Arrival tomorrow night now, just to tell MattHunX how completely and utterly wrong he is.

I really enjoyed it. Sci-fi doesn't usually get to me but this worked. Adams was excellent. It had that air of wonder and excitement (along with the encounter with the sublime) that I expect of good sci-fi. And it didn't lose its human story and misstep - the revelation and the encounters just reaffirmed it.

Spinozasgalt wrote:I watched Arrival last night, so this is a fun coincidence. Can we have more sci-fi like this, please?

I want to agree, because it's a damn delightful movie, but Ani and you both like it, so I can't.

Why the shit do you plebs insist on putting me on the spot like this?

I also enjoy food and alcohol. Ani does too.

Fwiw, Hawkeye is just as useless in this movie as he is in his other movies

Spinozasgalt wrote:I also enjoy food and alcohol. Ani does too.

See, we are so similar on so very many levels and yet you still are biches and I'll never respect either of you.

Well, you. Ani I like, mostly. I just included him to make you feel better. Dunno why.

scott1328 wrote:Fwiw, Hawkeye is just as useless in this movie as he is in his other movies

No, he's the moral heart or something, I heard. You just don't get it.

Mazille wrote:

scott1328 wrote:Fwiw, Hawkeye is just as useless in this movie as he is in his other movies

No, he's the moral heart or something, I heard. You just don't get it.

If there is one thing this film makes clear is that hard determinism is true and that rules out free will and without free will there is no morality and so Hawkeye has no morals whatsoever. I learned this in the free will thread.

Watched La La Land. Yeah, it's a decent film. Like any half decent musical though, it's hailed as the second coming of the golden age of Hollywood musicals. I still maintain that South Park is the best musical to be released in my lifetime.

Who can top that merry number, Uncle Fucka?

Mazille wrote:

Spinozasgalt wrote:I also enjoy food and alcohol. Ani does too.

See, we are so similar on so very many levels and yet you still are biches and I'll never respect either of you.

Well, you. Ani I like, mostly. I just included him to make you feel better. Dunno why.

Because you love me. As I love you. *prepares for epic kiss with surround sound and opera voices*

scott1328 wrote:Fwiw, Hawkeye is just as useless in this movie as he is in his other movies

He was fine. He just had no real presence, I guess. When I saw he was a scientist I was waiting and waiting for him to bring some sort of worldliness or vulnerability that would play into the main ideas, but he never quite got there. Then again, I found it hard to see anyone but Adams. She was great.

aliihsanasl wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

aliihsanasl wrote:
These are the spaceships I used to see in science fiction movies, non look like dick.

If you think the spaceship in Arrival looks like a dick it's time to see a doctor.

I didn't say that it look like a dick, I said it look like a dildo.

Is that a Wii controller?

I didn't know what Arrival was y'all're talking about, but Amy Adams? Sounds good.

I finally finished Titanic (1953). I thought it was quite moving, in the end.
I watched the Leonardo one a long time ago, and actually welled up a little at the end for the one relationship. In the 1958 one I welled up for 2 of the familial relationships, and then for all who went down with the ship.
I don't think I need spoilers for that, but what was most emotional was the singing.

Animavore wrote:I plan on watching Arrival tomorrow night now, just to tell MattHunX how completely and utterly wrong he is.

Spinozasgalt wrote:I really enjoyed it. Sci-fi doesn't usually get to me but this worked. Adams was excellent. It had that air of wonder and excitement (along with the encounter with the sublime) that I expect of good sci-fi. And it didn't lose its human story and misstep - the revelation and the encounters just reaffirmed it.

That's just it. For me, it had no excitement, at all. It wanted to be profound and thought-provoking, but only ended up (far before it even literally ended) esoteric and ridiculous, with certain scenes being laughably dumb. And if that wasn't disappointing enough, it showed the constant urge of the writers to cram in a love-story, no matter what. Shoe-horned in literally in the last few minutes, because for some reason it had to be so fucking important to the story.

I'm not complaining about a lack of action on screen.

I saw low-budget sci-fi, played out in a single wooden house, with people lounging around and just talking, that was more engaging and thought-provoking than this.

This was a massively over-hyped, snail-paced, budget-sink that would've done better as just a 10-15 minute CGI-short.

Nah, I got all that from what you were saying. But for me, none of that felt contrived - the end section felt deliberate because of what Adams' character was affirming about all that had occurred before and after. And, visually, I quite liked the way it was framed.

The_Piper wrote:

aliihsanasl wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

aliihsanasl wrote:
These are the spaceships I used to see in science fiction movies, non look like dick.

If you think the spaceship in Arrival looks like a dick it's time to see a doctor.

I didn't say that it look like a dick, I said it look like a dildo.

Is that a Wii controller?

Looks like a chocolate eclair to me.

scott1328 wrote:Who can top that merry number, Uncle Fucka?

You don't eat or sleep or mow the lawn,
You just fuck your uncle all day long.

I'm With Stupid wrote:Watched La La Land. Yeah, it's a decent film. Like any half decent musical though, it's hailed as the second coming of the golden age of Hollywood musicals. I still maintain that South Park is the best musical to be released in my lifetime.

agreed, i'm not the world's biggest south park fan but that is the greatest original musical film for a long, long time...

Just watched Arrival. Amazing.