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About Arrival, another one of the soulless, empty outings by Villeneuve, it has 7.9 on IMDb and 94% on rotten tomatoes. Obviously, nobody really cares about the
by low_tech_love 3y ago
About Arrival, another one of the soulless, empty outings by Villeneuve, it has 7.9 on IMDb and 94% on rotten tomatoes. Obviously, nobody really cares about the details (unfortunately).
If anyone is interested in the ridiculous amount of potential that Villeneuve threw away by becoming Hollywood’s generic sci-fi director, watch Incendies.
- pier25 3y agoCouldn't it be possible that you just have a different taste? I'm not a huge fan of Arrival but I would not have said it's empty and soulless. I do think it's a good movie though.
- low_tech_love 3y agoAbsolutely; all my expressed opinions are my own.
- darkerside 3y agoI loved the movie Arrival and can't agree it is soulless. Don't get so focused on what it lacks from the short story that you don't see what it does have that the short story does not.
- low_tech_love 3y agoI haven't read the original text, I just couldn't find anything interesting about it. I understand that there is a plot twist which I should've become interested in, and apparently some of the characters are supposed to have some kind of emotional depth, but it just totally missed me.
- bawolff 3y agoI really like the movie, but i think it did lose some of the soul of the short story. The short story is essentially a story about grief using time travel as a metaphor but not actually having time travel in it. The movie has the character changing the past in a critical moment which kind of undermines the whole soul of the story imo. To be clear, i still think arrival is a great movie, just rather different from the source material in terms of meaning and "soul"
- zerocrates 3y agoThere's no actual time travel or changing the past in Arrival.
- bawolff 3y agoThe phone call scene with the general is heavily implied to rely on prescient knowledge of the future