Arrival (2016)
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Its a nod to one of the worst episodes of Rick and Morty. Its almost up there with Sand Snakes in GoT.
With that said Rick and morty is up there with the greats and the best cartoon on TV currently running
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You have to watch Rick and Morty. That show is awsome. Just get through the first episode without vomiting, because of the burpspeech and you good to go.
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I always find it odd that a cartoon is rated up there with The Wire, Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad ect.
As for Arrival, I thought it was good but similar to Interstellar and it was very slow. Definitely shouldnt have went in thinking it was going to be the best movie of 2016
As for Arrival, I thought it was good but similar to Interstellar and it was very slow. Definitely shouldnt have went in thinking it was going to be the best movie of 2016
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I'd rate R&M as one of the best shows ever, period. The writing is just top notch. It exists in the pantheon with (early) Simpsons, best Futurama episodes, etc. for me.
Interesting find but I feel like that article is a bit... generalizing. You can't just say helium atoms function like photons and wash your hands of it, but using the photon slit experiment as a comparison tool makes sense. But there's been other research / theorization recently that may also explain the slit experiment if I recall but I can't find that article at the moment. Was like... a couple months ago?
Regardless, if time is a "dimension" in the sense that space is multiple dimensions, it makes sense that you could fuck with it in multiple directions. If you're walking on a path and there's an obstacle in your way, you'll take measures to go around it before you actually run into the object. Of course, all of this (and quantum mechanics in general) is a giant pile of some math and some random shit we don't understand and I certainly don't understand so who knows.
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My wife kept talking through this and I was playing with my 3 year old and I thought the kid died prior to the aliens showing up. I thought she was using her time knowledge to go back and marry Renner instead of whoever the dad was. I was like, this movie is shit the daughter still dies? WTF?
B- on paying attention but I did think it was interesting.
B- on paying attention but I did think it was interesting.
Time is a circle for the aliens, not a straight line - it was explained pretty well when they were discussing how they wrote: they knew where the sentence would begin and end. They don't have the power to change the future (that's why they need our help with something), they just know what's going to happen.
When she learned the language she started perceiving time the way they do, that's what the scenes with her daughter, the chinese general, her teaching the heptapod language etc. were for. Also that's why Renner hates her guts, it's because he can't look at the daugher like her. He just knows she's going to die soon and it's killing him.
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What, his summary or the thing that made the whole movie what it was? Because if you take that stuff out of the movie, you have literally nothing, since that's why the aliens even came to us in the first place.
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I mean her daughter background story.
overall I wasn't sure if I was watching a mockumentary or a drama or a sci fi.
maybe it was all of it. Drama part was pretty good. By the near end of the movie, it went full retard.
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Finally saw it and i liked it.
The only thing i didn't like was the cliche "military don't understand the aliens, so lets bomb them". I know is to have some conflict BUT in my mind, if this really happened, i don't think political and /or military leaders, even personal, would be so fucking obtuse, and wouldn't think first and give time so everything could be figured out. Hell, chinese are known for their patience.
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The only thing i didn't like was the cliche "military don't understand the aliens, so lets bomb them". I know is to have some conflict BUT in my mind, if this really happened, i don't think political and /or military leaders, even personal, would be so fucking obtuse, and wouldn't think first and give time so everything could be figured out. Hell, chinese are known for their patience.
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