Arrival.. well well well, Arrival for me suffers the fate of what Primer movie was for me, Highly technical, scientific, and true to grounded basis of fiction, BUT as was Primer it suffers the dearth of the "Thrill" the "Entertainment" part, this is a Movie for Gods sake, its not a scene by scene depiction of an actual event that happened. You have to have some kind of mind stimulation going on to be remained interested in the movie, till the end. For the most of the first half I was glued and it was intruging, but in the later half it was just slow and boring, nothing much happened ... yes there was science, calculations, explainations and a so called twist, but nothing coherent which could have led to an entertaining experience, if I can put it that way. The plot was not "that" complex, and then the climax which also was sooo poor IMHO ofcourse.
Now before anyone says if you want entertainment go watch "Transformers"
let me tell you there are movies that are highly technical, very accurate based on science and yet are highly entertaining and keeps your mind stimulated as well...
Contact was one such movie, ARRIVAL had this in common with contact that a scientist is given the job to decode the language, but boy oh boy contact was super exciting, with an even more exciting climax, still remaining grounded with science and math, the technicality, everything. Intersteller is another example. ARRIVAL unfortunately didnt work for me ...sorry ....
6/10 for this .
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i dont remember. what would be the purpose of trump in an ancient chinese fantasy movie ?
Oh! God ....
.Its a sarcastic PJ , in reference to Trump's remark .... don't take it literally ....
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I stopped watching it because of that.
It was not "That" bad to stop being watched .... but anyway ...