Arrival blew my mind 🤯 Denis Villeneuve is a genius!!!

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[@deanroddey2881]

This movie is anything but a horror film. It's only sort of coincidentally an alien movie. All the bits and pieces are sort of just a means to explore ideas of time. linearity, human relationships and so forth. It's a gorgeous piece of work. All of Villeneuve's movies have incredible sound tracks, most definitely, and generally visuals to match. He and Nolan have both really mastered putting atmosphere on screen. BTW, you should do "Deep Impact". It's another movie that is on the surface about a meteor strike on the earth, but in fact is just a brutally emotional exploration of human nature. There are few movies that make me actually sob, but this one has done so multiple times.

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

Arrival taught me that Governments communicating with each other is much more challenging than Humans communicating with Aliens

[@internaut4257]

cuz communicating with aliens would be about realy trying to understand eachother, communication between governments is a dick measuring contest

[@ZacharyFinch]

That’s a good takeaway. This is one of my favorite movies because it makes a very convincing case that communication is the foundation and driving force of civilization. But while I love this movie for the moral it teaches, I can’t help entertaining the question of what would happen next within the story. These beings can see 3000 years into the future. Just how much control over their own perception of the universe, through both space and time, do they have? The dark side to this is that they’re clearly so much more advanced than even the protagonist was by the end of the movie. Who’s to say what kind of “help” they will request. If they are such masters of perception that they can see 3000 years into the future, well beyond the limitations of a modern human lifespan, then who’s to say our lives are any more sacred to them than chicken’s are to us? The language may expand the perspective of our species greatly, but even our leading human expert on this language, who is a professor of linguistics, seems to have a tenuous grasp of how to use it efficiently or even to explain it to other people. Even more frightening: it ultimately doesn’t matter. Because the rational response to the assumption that they are that much more in control of the situation, technologically and evolutionarily, is to submit to their will, at least until they behave in a hostile manner. This runs the risk of being manipulated into a terrible situation, but if you know you’re so incredibly outsmarted and outgunned anyway, perhaps submission means a happier, more blissful life, for however long it lasts anyway.

[@MaryCherryOfficial]

Where’s the lie 😂

[@MrUndersolo]

Profound statement...

[@GorgeGeorg]

That was the particular theme of the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

[@IndySidhu88]

General Shang's wife's dying words translate to "In war there are no winners, only widows."

[@juliocesarg.r.1238]

amazing

[@cloudstone123]

.. only widows and orphans.

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

The best things in this, for me, was how the Heptapods ALWAYS knew all the human languages - and knew she had to let them learn at her own pace. Abbott was the MVP- knowing before they ever arrived that it would mean his death and doing it anyway.

[@arodenburg1570]

i never even thought about Abbott knowing about they're own death already - Oh my lord

[@alyberop1]

He knew he had to

[@fakecubed]

Yeah, Abbott is a hero, but this kind of heroic sacrifice probably means something different to them, since they do experience time in such a different way. In a way, Abbott will live forever in the minds of the rest of the Heptapods, as the past for them is no different than the present or future, until the last Heptapod that knew Abbott is also death process. Presumably, this isn't for at least 3000 years.

[@ADifferentVibe]

The fact that Amy Adams wasn't even Oscar nominated in her performance in this movie is one of the biggest snubs in Academy history. So disrespectful.

[@jimhsfbay]

Harvey Weinstein used bribery & intimidation to buy a best picture win for Shakespeare In Love over SAVING PRIVATE RYAN…so there is that…..

This film doesn't pull big acting feats for any of the actors.

[@kristinalfc5846]

​@completely disagree, just because she doesnt have to go through a physical transformation or be sobbing/screaming the whole film doesnt make it any less of a performance, the fact that her performance can be read on multiple levels is incredible

[@johncourtright1632]

I also believe this was an Oscar-worthy performance by Amy Adams! After multiple re-watches of the film, you can literally see and understand every thought and emotion Louise has throughout the entire film on her face and body language. Her role was masterfully acted and extremely powerful. Adams' performance and Villeneuve's direction was world-class!!

[@taylorh7993]

The scary thing is, the Universal Language very well could have been a weapon rather than a gift. If it hadn't been distributed to all, and used only by one power, said power would then have the ability to see the future, and become unstoppable. Louise being the one to learn and share this gift was necessary. I truly love this film. It's easily one of my fav sci-fis, and by far my favourite alien movie. It's about building bridges, not just between ourselves and extraterrestrial life, but our fellow man as well.

[@Hurbie_53]

"Laughing before being tickled ..." What a prophetic opening to a reaction and way more perfect in tune with this movies theme than you might have thought in that moment 😉 And regarding Denis Villeneufs style of making a slow paced movie that is more impactfull for it: The slow blade always penetrates the shield! 33:56 Happy new year and stay safe!

[@dravenheissel]

I discovered the endind of the film (that it was not a linear narrative) during the conversation between them, in which she mentions "you can end up single", because at the beginning of the film there is a very clear and close shot of her hand with a wedding ring and her voice-over said "I used to think this was the beginning of your story". I really love this movie.

[@dravenheissel]

By the way... Hannah is a palindrome and... did you notice that Jeremy's last name is RENNER? Also a palindrome!

[@TheJerbol]

For me it was the 'non-zero-sum game' conversation

[@17thknight]

I saw this movie a couple weeks after my first daughter died..I had no idea what I was going into, I thought it was just easy sci fi escapism. I broke down pretty badly at the end and had to be helped out of the theater, but I love this movie for being that powerful.

[@kellymoses8566]

Brutal

[@david.j9.rabbithole808]

*big hugs*

[@admiralfrancis8424]

I am very sorry for your loss. I hope you have healed. And I wish you a happy new year.

[@aikighost]

It’s such a powerful story and it makes us ask would we be strong enough to make the decision to have our child if we knew how it would end. Stay strong and live well.

[@THEvagabond29]

My daughter and I watched this in theatres, and a few ppl were crying hard and had to walk out early.

[@nimz8521]

This movie reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from the Expanse. “I know you are trying to save lives. I am too, but we are on the brink right now because we keep reacting to things we don’t understand. We’re scared. We’re hurt and we are reaching for violence cause we can’t figure out what to do, but just this once, can’t we try something else.”

[@r.t.aegean3236]

Wow... thanks for sharing this wonderful quote with us on KZbin!!

[@doncotton3367]

This movie definitely warrants multiple views. Amy Adams's character talks at the beginning of the movie saying, "We are so bound by time. By its order." The aliens experience orderless time, unbounded by time. The implications are very strange. But they don't imply that there are multiple possible futures - that anything anyone does can change the future. It's an odd notion. But I don't think Amy's character has the ability to change anything - she just sees all of her past, present and future at the same "time". Well, my head hurts if I think too much about it. It's such a good movie. If science fiction uses strange worlds/situations to better explore what it is to be human, mission accomplished.

[@AgentOccam]

The story it's based on is called "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, and is well worth reading too. It's broadly the same basic plot, but I read it after having seen the film and I was still roped in. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. The written story has more physics, but the physics is explained so that I could understand it (and if I can, anyone can). But the movie does actually do one or two things better. They're both great and can be enjoyed independently.

[@laylammorais]

Thanks for this comment, just bought the book and I'm excited to read it, this movie is my favourite of all time 😊

[@RyanOlson_21]

It was such a beautiful movie. I had to watch it three times to realized that she was seeing the future. Because I was so caught up in the flashbacks or (flash-forwards)

[@hen913]

This is one of my favorite movies of ALL time. The visuals, soundtrack, story everything. So moving and deep. Dennis is a damn genius

[@DidWeWin1]

That is why this movie is so beautiful. Her choice to embrace the heartaches to come, in self sacrifice for her yet unborn daughter, is so powerful. It makes you reflect on what it means to love someone, and how much you would endure for their sake. I love science fiction for stuff like this. When a good story teller is allowed licensee over reality, they can use it to magnify ideas and emotions in a way regular fiction just isn't capable of doing.

[@pedrorocha9722]

This movie is a precious jewel. Wish there were more like it.

[@MrHale]

This movie gets better every time you watch it, because you pick a lot of little things you missed other times.

[@bigboycombo6342]

I picked up from the flash forwards that she had the alien writings on the wall when she was playing with her daughter.

[@hannahtavana]

Amy Adams helping Aliens to save the planet and get personal(also MoS) is perfect, the story, the cgi, the music, everything about this movie is great, to me it’s THE greatest first contact movie.

[@davidgagne3569]

Amazing film. Thanks for this reaction.

[@noslen1968]

Having the daughter gave the child a wonderful life whose experiences cannot be discounted by an early death.

[@LegitLord2000]

Yesssssss. One of my top 5 movies of all time

[@victorewah2659]

From what I understood from the film it was unavoidable for Louise's character to have to experience the pain of her daughter's death because eventually she realized all the events beginning with her first contact with the aliens to the passing of her daughter needed to happen in order to resolve the conflicts the different nations were experiencing in the present. Castello and Abbott also understood this which is why they were willing to commit to their actions even knowing the fact that one of them would die in the process.

[@davidgagne3569]

Wonderful reaction! It is one of my favorite movies.

[@TexasAnlaShok]

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

[@Alptraumification]

The end of this movie destroyed my inner spacs. The question if you would do something, even knowing in advance that it would have a very painful ending, never let me go ever since. I still haven't found an answer.

[@SteveNaranjo]

To that all reply with this...said you are gonna be a parent but you know your kid will die before you do...will you be selfish and decided not to have the kid just to safe you the pain and suffering or would you live that kid for as long as possible? Would not be better to love and then let go than not love at all?

[@andycooper6085]

"I don't know if aliens drink coffee" My mind went immediately to that scene in MIB "Quanga!"

[@Giovanni_Gabrielli]

In Mandarin Loiuse says to Shang "Jiang jun, wo zai mei guo ying di. Jian jun, ni fu ren gei wo tuo meng le. [inaudible] Ta shuo ni ying ping jie yong qi lai bang zhuo zheng jiu shi jie. Zhan zheng bu cheng jiu ying xiong. Xi hui liu xia gu er gua mu." "General, I am in the American camp. Your wife sent a message in a dream. [inaudible] She said you should be brave/corageous to help save the world. War makes not heroes but orphans and widows."

[@Shino2097]

I was introduced to this movie by my mother. She usually prefers sci-fi or intellectual films over action, so I was a bit surprised when she recommended a movie with aliens. However, after watching the movie, I understood why. We then had some really interesting conversations about communication with aliens and the concept of time. I love this movie very mush.

[@wiseoldman53]

Mary, I'm not sure if you've seen or reacted to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)" by Stephen Spielberg yet, but I think you would enjoy reacting to it as it's basic premise of communication is similar to this movie. Just a thought

[@Tiajuan]

This movie was fantastic. "On the Nature of daylight" changed my life.

[@rafaelalodio5116]

This movie blown my mind when I watched it for the first time, it has such a great build up.

[@massakastuono7870]

I have followed your reactions for some time now.. Your reactions are something, you have always intelligent emotional reactions besides making fun comments and making us enjoy this short time with you. I have been studying how language impacts and transforms personalities according to the language you are speaking you change your personality and bear with its culture. I also study how plants react accordingly to your intentions with spoken words. This universe is a rainbow of opportunities to learn, embrace and love what we are. The language you speak, the words you write should express what you are and what you want from your life, love should be in each word you speak and write because each word your mind creates will create your life in your next minutes in life. .. much love Mary..can t wait to see your next reaction. .. There s a movie called Seabiscuit, could you react to it for us when you can?.

[@TheJerbol]

This is my favourite movie ever. It's just so heartfelt by the end

[@stephenknox2346]

If you learned to see time like the heptapods there would be no fear of what is to come because it has already all happened. The joy and the sadness just are, and are all at once.

[@paulwood8434]

Charlie Sheen's "Arrival" is a fun, standard sci-fi pic. Aliens are on Earth trying to colonize it, and Sheen's here to warn us all!

[@RayMcElroy50]

You need to watch PRISONERS It's from the same director

[@zhorasalome7350]

Louise doesn't really just look into the future. She is experiencing it all at the same time. When you unlock the aliens' language and start thinking like them, you start experiencing time like they do: it's nonlinear. Past, present, future, it's all happening at the same time. That's the real mindfuck for me.

[@andrewr311]

You get it, nice.

[@ottoswanson6664]

First time seeing this movie the other day myself. Thought I'd check out some reactions to it. You're the first one I watched

[@Shawaeon]

One of the most interesting scifi movies ever made.

[@heatherspence3848]

My FAVORITE alien film, ever. Very inspiring, well said.

[@danielshaffer6067]

The Charlie Sheen one is actually not a bad film either! Great react, as always!

[@WolfPlaysGames2]

Yeh, completely different story!

[@karlmortoniv2951]

Yeah, the Sheen one is all kinds of fun. It wasn’t as difficult then to accept him as a brilliant scientist, though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@MaryCherryOfficial]

Thank you 🎉

[@jamenta2]

This is my 2nd favoritest SciFi flick, Interstellar my first. How about Amy Adams? She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in this film, but didn't win it. She should have. Great film. Watching it a second time is worth it too.

[@JoePlett]

The 9-11 attacks are far enough back in time that many folks have no personal memories of them Nothing captured that feeling of something momentous happening yet having no idea WHAT than the opening scenes of this film. It's hard to talk about this film without overt spoilers or at least dropping clues. That said, here goes. You mentioned re-watching this movie, which I think puts the viewer in the perspective of Louise. You already know the course it will take, so your experience of the journey is ....different... but no less engaging. This film blew me away on so many levels. It's technically dazzling - in a surprisingly low-key way, an intriguing premise brilliantly executed... and its handling of 'alien-ness' .... is so well done. Some folks may argue for films like 2001 and Contact as ultimate 'First Contact' movies, but for me, nothing beats Arrival. (Although I loved Contact and would recommend it - even though it's a far more conventional story structure) I think what makes films like this so impressive is that while they are technically 'Sci-Fi' they are more about the human experience of the participants, so they resonate far more strongly. ....just one opinion.... (shrug) Thanks for sharing this. The next best thing to experiencing it the first time, is 'riding along' with someone else's first watch.

[@jensenrogers6611]

I think the moment when Ian explains the zero-sum concept, and then Louise gives it to Hannah, is the moment when she starts changing her future if not the future of the world. Then at the end of the movie when there were a bunch of flashes forward of them being together and raising Hannah together overrules the introduction. That's my theory anyway.

[@thdenwheja756]

This might be my favorite movie from the last decade. I'm a big fan of these high-concept sci-fi stories, and this one did a great job of setting up some really challenging questions. Bonus points for being bizzarely optimistic for an alien movie by Dennis Villeneuve featuring military figures.

[@panner11]

I had similar thoughts to you about Louise's choice. I could never do what she did, it would be too painful. But I really admire the strength to the go through with it. An interesting thing is that a lot of people interpret Louise's decision as very selfish, but I never saw it that way. My reasons for not doing it has nothing to do with selflessness, it would just be too hard.

[@tonyleong4961]

Denis Villeneuve (Vill-E-Noov) is one of the best directors today. Incendies, Enemy, Prisoners, Sicario, Bladerunner 2049, Dune Part 1 is a heck of a run. Can't wait for Dune Part 2

[@multieyedmyr]

One of the greatest movies ever. Very thought provoking and sad. Every love story ends in tragedy on a long enough timeline.

[@SteveNaranjo]

Are you paraphrasing Neil Gaiman? I could swear I read that in The Sandman

[@benmiller3252]

Looper is very good too. Highly recommended watching

[@joevaldez6457]

“Let’s all go to New Zealand everybody.” I second that, Mary. Between their Covid-19 response and the tendency of aliens to focus on New York, Washington D.C. or London, New Zealand seems like the safest place to hunker down. All we need is your awesome channels to keep us entertained.

[@KevinLyda]

I read the short story as my mom was dying of ALS. I saw the movie after she passed. In the course of taking care of her I kind of did the reverse of what her mom did. So as her mom helped her take her first steps, I helped her as she took her last. In the book her daughter makes it to 25 before she dies in a hiking accident. They had her daughter die earlier in the film because even at 16 or so Amy Adams with her dying daughter is a bit of a reach in terms of how young she looks. I like the film; I like that she's with her daughter at the end - even if I did sob in the cinema for that part. I've seen debate about the ethics of Louise having her daughter even though he knew the end. Ian seemed to be in that camp. But the reality is that every parent is making that choice. We all die. That most of us die before our parents doesn't make their decision more ethical. What matters is the time we have together. For all of us our time is finite. Some finites are bigger than others but regardless there's a beginning and an end. Life happens in between. Endings are hard. They are to be mourned. But endings shouldn't stop us from living. From making our connections in the time we have. At least that's what I took from it.

[@parappasan]

4:43 "Let's just all go to New Zealand everybody!" Yeah the Kiwis will be right chuffed.

[@cathyvickers9063]

I went to see this in the theater intrigued by the concept of communication; & watched it thoroughly impressed! Plus, this was a purely unique language, as far as I know. The only positive alien contact films I can think of are ET: The Extraterrestrial & Contact. If the other Arrival film is what I'm thinking of, it's about humanoid invaders masquerading as humans. Sort of like the V TV series, but with a different agenda.

[@BubblyRainbows]

Would Close Encounters of the Third Kind be considered a positive alien contact film? I also seem to remember one with Keanu Reeves (I think) about the end of the world, but which included an overall positive alien contact.

[@kschneyer]

I'm sure someone has already told you, but this film was based on the greatest science-fiction short-story of the late 20th century, Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life." The story is even better (and even more heartbreaking) than the film. As to your question about making the choice to have the baby even though she knows what will happen to it -- time-travel stories allow us to face head-on the fact that we all know: that *all* love stories end in sorrow, that the lovers must inevitably be parted, and that every honest person enters into love knowing that it will end in heartbreak. This is the price we pay for loving, the price we pay for living with hearts and minds. Louise simply has to face it more directly than most of us; she can't hide it from herself the way we can. Chiang's point is, we shouldn't hide it from ourselves either. (In this dimension, also see the novel The Time Traveler's Wife.) As to your question about reliving memories: as is made clear in the Chiang story, the Heptapods don't conceive of any difference between past, present, and future. To them, it's all one fixed continuum; they already know what they're going to do their whole lives, they already know how they're going to die. Louise can go back and see her own birth, or she can go forward and see her own death, but it's not "going back" or "going forward" to her -- she sees all of it, all at once.

[@ChicagoDB]

“Dune” is superb!

[@edwinrollins142]

Such an amazing film!

[@sem1conscious]

Pretty trippy movie! loved your reaction.

[@vee7586]

this is a smack in the face of a sci-fi movie. its so effing good!

[@Stankonia3k]

One of my favorite films of the last decade. Love me some cerebral sci-fi.

[@SporkRevolution]

You have no clue how much I love this movie. Happy new year MC. See you on the down low.

It is not horror but science fiction intrigue. _Arrival_ is somehow similar to Jodie Foster's _Contact_ (1997) which sooner or later you will react to exactly as a Heptapod has foretold.

[@lkf8799]

Such a great movie. Love Amy Adams. Love the twist.

[@portland-182]

You might like to try Starman, ET, Avatar, Contact, Solaris, Galaxy Quest, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included - all feature non destructive aliens...

[@Zralock79]

This is one of my TOP 5 best movies ever.

[@ProjectPaladin]

Jóhann Jóhannson's music was sublime. What a shame there won't be more of his work anymore. Fortunately, Max Richter is still going strong.

[@SteveNaranjo]

I would have loved to have Dennis Villeneuve and Johann Johannson to work on Dune.

[@earlymodern]

5:10 choked on my drink laughing at that joke, caught me by surprise

[@CandC68]

I liked "Hannah". Spelled the same forward and backward. Like time.

[@RyanUptonInnovator]

Great to see you liked the movie.

[@t0dd000]

Brilliant film.

[@sntxrrr]

This is such a beautiful movie and like all great sci-fi movies it is actually not about the aliens or spaceships but about what it means to be human, in this case about how we deal with grief. There are three other classic alien movies I hope you will react to: Contact (1997 dir. Robert Zemeckis ('back to the future') from a book by Carl Sagan), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 dir. Steven Spielberg) and The Andromeda Strain (1971, not the remake, dir. Robert Wise from a book by Michael Crichton ('Jurassic Park')). Non of these movies are scary but are, in order, more epic/personal story, mystery/adventure and science/thriller. They are all excellent movies.

[@zgeorgedelydda8954]

You have to watch "Prisoners" from same director.

[@henriklarsen8193]

If you decide not to have the child, regardless of your personal reasons, that child, the child you loved unconditionally, will never exist. You erase her life from existence. All her joys, all her pains, all your love, all of it disappears. There is no easy answer.

[@KennethSorling]

I remembered to click Like when you made that The Killers rererence.

[@GeoffCano]

Another amazing non-typical alien movie you should watch is Contact. It's another take on first contact with interstellar beings

[@JT-Rebel]

It gives the most brutal perspective of the phrase, "It's better to love and loss, than to never have love at all." Well, are you sure???

[@coolgareth101]

Just a small thing, Mary. The director of this movie (and Dune) is French-Canadian, not Spanish-speaking. So his name isn't pronouned as a Spanish name, as you did it. More like "Veel-neuv"

[@jamesjimraynor382]

Ian left because the daughter died and because he learned that she always did know this, but never told him, which is in my eyes very selfish from her. Even if she can handle the death of her daughter so well, not everbody can. She could at least gave him the choice and told im advance. From my point of view I can understand why he left... In a relationshiop trust is the only currency. Beside of this, its a very good film. :)

[@KoshNaranick]

great movie and I love this channel.. hope you had a great Christmas!

[@MaryCherryOfficial]

Thanks, you too!

[@benjalucian1515]

Mary you did respond the right way. You said you wouldn't have a child that would suffer and die. Louise was selfish. She _knew_ her child was going to born to suffer and die young. She knew this was wrong because she kept this knowledge from Ian instead of telling him ahead of time and giving him a choice. Louise wanted to do what she wanted to do, no matter who suffered. She gave no one else a choice. How many lies did she tell her child? How many times did she lie when Hannah talked about her future, one Louise knew would never happen? No wonder Louise had dating problems and no wonder Ian divorced her and no wonder it appears their divorce was not amicable. Louise is a selfish POS.

[@Varmer]

Max Richter is a genius. Best composer alive. Check his work in HBO masterful series The Leftovers. Incredible stuff

[@scope40k]

The composer is Max Richter, not Max Ritcher. You should also watch Bladerunner 2049 by Denis Villeneuve (also 's' in Denis is silent, since he's a french Canadian. All those names yeah? 😃), if you hadn't already. Another kind of movie, still great though. Love your reaction, almost cried in the end ❤

[@nitelite78]

When you expect an alien movie and you get a human story. Shame we have to wait 3000 years for the sequel.

[@mikedignum1868]

An interstellar ship arrives on earth and the human military thinks their weapons will actually harm them? You got to love humans thinking that. Another good film to watch is Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[@hobbypassion]

You should watch 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' (the original from 1951) for another view of aliens.

[@newbiesama]

21:40 "they are so smart" they build a spaceship, that can alter gravity. I think that would make thhat obvious

[@canadianicedragon2412]

If you think it is hard to "endure" the love/marriage/birth because you know the death is coming... remember that the the Heptapods knew Abbott would die before they even came. You know the end, before the beginning even starts. She see time, and knows that "it is better to have loved and lost" so she goes forward to what she knows is worth having. Edit: "The Arrival" is nothing like this movie, which is just "Arrival" that one... I didn't like and is more of just a standard "sci-fi aliens are coming" movie where this one is... epic.

[@j.f.fisher5318]

One of a very tiny number of "science fiction" films that actually measures up as _good_ science fiction.

[@lawrencenull]

The Charlie Sheen one wasn't bad.

[@RoyDallass]

If you want to watch a similar alien movie, check out Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

[@jamessmith7959]

The first ,dune,movie was in the late 70s

[@MoviesandCoffee]

If you liked this, the other film you need to watch is Contact (1997)

[@NTXCoog12]

To truly understand this, you need to reconsider how we view time. You're assuming time is linear: past then present then future. But really time is non linear, and all exist at the same time. That always messes with my head because it means one if the following is true: 1) Everthing is deterministic so we don't have free will 2) We still have free will, but there must be an infinite multiverse to accomodate every possible action anyone takes

[@jean-marcvien3988]

"The arrival" and "Arrival" (no "the") are two very different movies with totaly different stories.

[@MrFilbot]

You should watch the Signal.

[@philrob1978]

A masterpiece of its genre - it only gets better every time you re-watch it. No, "The Arrival" from the 90s has absolutely nothing to do with this.

[@GiRR007]

For some reason i just find it so comedic the aliesn trying to warn them about a dam bob like hey... heyyyy HEYYY HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

[@Donniedangerously]

Sicario has great sound also; Another Denis Villeneuve film.

[@thomasharris4942]

The best sleeper of the past 10 years

[@Cauldronb0rn]

A few war movies I know of that noone has reacted to yet that are absolute classics. Maybe you want to be the first to react to them for the views? Memphis Belle, Tuskeegee Airmen, The newer(and not as good) version of Tuskeegee Airmen story called Red Tails, and Greyhound.

[@rataflechera]

When you realize the movie isn't even about aliens, communication, international politics, science fiction, or Sapir-Whorf... it is about life choices.