MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Interstellar by miles. The visuals alone are 
Arrival (Amy Adams) or Interstellar?
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BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
Interstellar and with DeGrasse Tyson explaining shyt, I like it even more
No need to even go into the epic OST of Interstellar
No need to even go into the epic OST of Interstellar
Arrival. And it's not even close. Nolan wishes he could capture the human condition like Villeneuve.
Lord_Chief_Rocka
Superstar
People finally echoing my takes on Adams
Interstellar. I feel Arrival sorta bit a lot of the story from Interstellar such as ambiguous being trying to save humanity from itself in order for their existence to survive. The concept of non-linear time. And to me, Interstellar was more ambitious and more epic.
You need to watch the last 10 minutes again. You literally missed the entire twist ending to this movie. You missed every ounce of it.
No, actually you are confused with the twist and everything in terms to time. Nobody "time travelled", the point is that time is not linear. It's the same point that was made in Interstellar in which once you understand the dimension of time, you can manipulate it. With Arrival, Amy Adam's character as she was breaking the language barrier with the aliens also was evolving into seeing time as parallel which the past, present, and future runs simultaneously. So, she's living everything all at once as with the aliens are. Nobody actually time travelled, rather by mastering the dimension of time, she was able to affect things in the future because she's living it at the same time as she is the present.
In Interstellar, it is somewhat similar in where once Cooper was placed inside the Tesseract, he was able to see and manipulate the past because it was simultaneous with the present. All Amy Adams character did was the same where she manipulated the future in order to change the past.
KillbertArenas
Superstar
Interstellar easily, that film was fukking amazing. The part where they are trying to dock on the spinning station was just.
Yes!
TARS!
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
I fell asleep in the movie theater on Arrival.
Interstellar, other than that strange twist in dark matter physics, was a solid movie.
Interstellar, other than that strange twist in dark matter physics, was a solid movie.
Arrival for me. It was a tight, original, unpredictable story. Not an amazing movie but a completely satisfying one.
I was biased against Interstellar because the whole premise was so bullshyt The idea that stupid global agribusiness would result in worldwide blights is believable, but the idea that the world's greatest scientists would stupidly just keep pursuing the same global blight-prone agribusiness until the human food supply collapsed, and then think that flying to another galaxy was a more plausible solution than growing food different?
That issue probably tainted the whole movie for me, but I'm also a huge Christopher Nolan fan and thought it was one of his worst efforts.
The only part I liked was Matt Damon's character breaking bad.
A desire for more cows.
Say that I taught them Chess instead of English.
I was biased against Interstellar because the whole premise was so bullshyt The idea that stupid global agribusiness would result in worldwide blights is believable, but the idea that the world's greatest scientists would stupidly just keep pursuing the same global blight-prone agribusiness until the human food supply collapsed, and then think that flying to another galaxy was a more plausible solution than growing food different?
That issue probably tainted the whole movie for me, but I'm also a huge Christopher Nolan fan and thought it was one of his worst efforts.
The only part I liked was Matt Damon's character breaking bad.
Can you quote a line of dialogue from Arrival?
A desire for more cows.
Say that I taught them Chess instead of English.
TrebleMan
Superstar
Really close to me.
But both movies have a different lesson regarding our relationships with our loved ones and how we choose to spend it.
I’d say equal. Two great movies.
But both movies have a different lesson regarding our relationships with our loved ones and how we choose to spend it.
I’d say equal. Two great movies.
The ending was stupid thoughInterstellar easily, that film was fukking amazing. The part where they are trying to dock on the spinning station was just.
Arrival for me. It was a tight, original, unpredictable story. Not an amazing movie but a completely satisfying one.
I was biased against Interstellar because the whole premise was so bullshyt The idea that stupid global agribusiness would result in worldwide blights is believable, but the idea that the world's greatest scientists would stupidly just keep pursuing the same global blight-prone agribusiness until the human food supply collapsed, and then think that flying to another galaxy was a more plausible solution than growing food different?
That issue probably tainted the whole movie for me, but I'm also a huge Christopher Nolan fan and thought it was one of his worst efforts.
The only part I liked was Matt Damon's character breaking bad.
A desire for more cows.
Say that I taught them Chess instead of English.
Well, even though it's your opinion and I respect it, I have to sorta correct you as to what was happening. It wasn't because of the scientists kept pursuing the trends that continued the blight, but the governments got together to get society back to some kind of "normalcy" because it was in utter chaos due to the blight crisis. Then, discontinued programs for the scientists, hence why there were so limited and only a very select few are chosen in that field. This is more or less the government fuccked over the planet, concluded that mankind on this Earth is lost and so find another place to start anew. It's basically more of a prequel to WALLE.
By "pursuing the trends that continued the blight", I'm referring to the fact that they were growing vast single-strain monocultures, which are naturally susceptible to epidemic disease. That's a horrible idea right now, it would be especially horrible in a world where blight was an existential threat. At absolutely any point in the process they could have stopped doing that, and it wouldn't have taken the continued input of scientists because mixed-plant farm systems have been common in ancient societies from China to Italy to South Africa. The only way that they could have ended up with those unending acres of pure corn just waiting to fall to blight is if no one at any point in the process had ever stopped and said, "Hey, if we're having disease issues, maybe we need to diversify into mixed-plant communities rather than just growing giant monocultures everywhere."
The idea that you wouldn't have had anyone solving simple agricultural issues like that, and instead would be searching other galaxies for new planets to live on necessitating technology not even possible today, just really rubbed me the wrong way. It's like Stephen Hawking's idiot idea that we need to colonize other planets like Mars cause we're going to destroy Earth. Come on now, beyond the incredible technological leaps necessary to colonize other planets, don't you realize that if we are destroying a planet perfectly built for us like Earth, we're obviously going to much more quickly destroy a fragile, barely-works-for-us planet like Mars or anything else we find?
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