Arrival
9/10
There
will be some spoilers. This always happens. I will have long since
made my best of list (click here to check that out) and then I'll see
some movie and for sure know I would have added it to that list. I
watched Arrival and this damned movie was as good as folks have been
saying. People have been comparing it to Contact and that does not
work for me at all since I did not like that movie at all. I am also
not a fan of the last film the director of this did either. This
movie was great. A damned movie about aliens arriving to the planet
and there was no space battles, punching aliens in their mouths, or
using their weapons against them.
Amy
Adams is a linguist named Louise Banks. She has some flashbacks of
taking care of her daughter, talking to her, and over time watching
her die from cancer. Its depressing. I was like “Oh, its one of
those kinda films, huh?” One day while working at her job lecturing
students only a few are there. Next thing you know their phones start
ringing one by one and one asks her to turn the TV on. She does and
they see that twelve ships have landed on Earth so class is canceled
for the day. While at home watching the news like everybody else
Forest Whitaker shows up like “You know language. Come figure out
what the fuck these things are saying.” Jeremy Renner shows up as
Ian Donnelly who is a physicist.
They
are let into the ship and there is a wall between them and the
creatures. You just see their crazy ass tentacle arms and hear the
sounds they make. Its creepy as hell and I would have been like “I'm
gonna leave y'all to this!” and boned out. She doesn't and slowly
begins to learn what the aliens are saying to them because the
military all around the world are just itching to blow shit up. I
don't wanna ruin or spoil anything else but what I really liked about
this movie was the reactions people had to huge alien ships showing
up the way they did. There was no “USA! USA! Let's get them!”
People freaked the fuck out. It was awesome. You should really check
this one out.
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