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Fred thought we were going to Passengers and I didn't know what to expect but we both really enjoyed the movie:) Definitely not the combative alien invasion tropes we usually see.
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I really liked it, too. I was surprised by audience negativity after the credits, but I think it boils down to pervasive chauvinism throughout the genre.
ReplyDeleteI have to think about this more. My wife's comments before the movie set the expectations high. She read some reviews and quoted one that said it was better than Interstellar, which I really liked. It just didn't bring out the emotion I felt in Interstellar. I wanted more of a payoff at the end. I didn't hate it, but wanted to like it more than I did.
ReplyDeleteI liked it way more than interstellar, much more plausible although just as emotional. The twist was very well done and created tension. It was all about language and science based interpretation which was very cool.
ReplyDeleteI saw Arrival last Friday and thought it was a quiet little film where nothing much happened but which cast a peaceful, hopeful spell on me. It's nothing like Interstellar, thankfully! I hated Interstellar with all its forced drama and over-the-top moments and just plain silliness. Interstellar hit every note wrong, like a kid banging on a piano.
ReplyDeleteIn contrast, Arrival seemed far more real, more plausible, as well as more magical. I found especially beautiful the calligraphy of the Heptapod script.
I'm especially pleased with Denis Villeneuve's choice of protagonists: focusing on Emily Blount in Sicario and Amy Adams in Arrival. He has a refreshingly matter-of-fact way of treating women as human beings that enables the audience to focus on their stories rather than on their mere roles as female characters.
Yes to the women as just people, that's what I found so appealing. And a peaceful resolution.
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