Weekend Box Office: Arrival (Pretentious, OVERRATED!)
By Debbie Schlussel
So we’re into November and, usually, at this time of year, the movies are supposed to get better. Right now, it seems like it’s just hype getting bigger. (I did not see “Shut In,” which was not screened for critics and didn’t have any nearby early showings–both bad signs.)
* Arrival – Rated PG-13: This movie is waaaay overrated. Liberal movie critics are falling all over themselves to gush about this nothing movie. Don’t believe the hype. In fact, it’s a crappy movie. This movie emperor wears no clothing. It’s long, slow, and boring, and nothing really ever happens. I never thought I’d hate an aliens-from-space movie, but this managed to induce me to that state. This is how liberals idealize dealing with aliens and fellow humans. It’s soooo pretentious. And so dumb. It will also be confusing to most moviegoers.
This is a snoozefest chick flick parading as something else. If you enjoy constant flashbacks to a single mother playing with and lamenting over her young daughter who died of cancer, then this is for you. For everyone else, this is a dud.
And there are a couple of cheap tricks used at the end of the movie to explain what is unexplainable. It doesn’t pass the smell test. I felt ripped off. On top of that, the script hides the relationship between some of the characters. Like I said, the whole thing makes for a confusing ending for the average moviegoer. It’s almost like you need a movie whisperer or a Cliffs Notes aide to help you figure it.
The story: twelve pod-style spaceships from outer space land all over the world. Well, they don’t really “land,” so much as they hover. There’s one hovering over a field in the United States. U.S. government officials can’t communicate with the aliens aboard the pods because they can’t understand the alien language, which is essentially a bunch of pictures that look like puffs of smoke in the shapes of circles.
Amy Adams plays the aforementioned single mother of the young daughter who died of cancer. She’s a linguistics professor who is recruited by the feds to go to the alien pod over the U.S. and try to figure out their language. This is necessary to tell the aliens we are peaceful and to find out if the aliens are peaceful (and why they are here). There, she and a physicist (Jeremy Renner) try to communicate with the aliens.
The movie is supposed to be a statement on miscommunications between humans. It’s a “statement” I could do without. There’s nothing enlightening or the very least interesting here. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional or a pretentious, phony intellectual.
ONE MARX PLUS ONE MICHELLE LAVAUGHN ROBINSON HUSSEIN OBAMA IDI AMIN DADA DON’T LET THE DOOR AT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE HIT YA ON THE WAY OUT ON JANUARY 20TH
So we’re into November and, usually, at this time of year, the movies are supposed to get better. Right now, it seems like it’s just hype getting bigger. (I did not see “Shut In,” which was not screened for critics and didn’t have any nearby early showings–both bad signs.)
* Arrival – Rated PG-13: This movie is waaaay overrated. Liberal movie critics are falling all over themselves to gush about this nothing movie. Don’t believe the hype. In fact, it’s a crappy movie. This movie emperor wears no clothing. It’s long, slow, and boring, and nothing really ever happens. I never thought I’d hate an aliens-from-space movie, but this managed to induce me to that state. This is how liberals idealize dealing with aliens and fellow humans. It’s soooo pretentious. And so dumb. It will also be confusing to most moviegoers.
This is a snoozefest chick flick parading as something else. If you enjoy constant flashbacks to a single mother playing with and lamenting over her young daughter who died of cancer, then this is for you. For everyone else, this is a dud.
And there are a couple of cheap tricks used at the end of the movie to explain what is unexplainable. It doesn’t pass the smell test. I felt ripped off. On top of that, the script hides the relationship between some of the characters. Like I said, the whole thing makes for a confusing ending for the average moviegoer. It’s almost like you need a movie whisperer or a Cliffs Notes aide to help you figure it.
The story: twelve pod-style spaceships from outer space land all over the world. Well, they don’t really “land,” so much as they hover. There’s one hovering over a field in the United States. U.S. government officials can’t communicate with the aliens aboard the pods because they can’t understand the alien language, which is essentially a bunch of pictures that look like puffs of smoke in the shapes of circles.
Amy Adams plays the aforementioned single mother of the young daughter who died of cancer. She’s a linguistics professor who is recruited by the feds to go to the alien pod over the U.S. and try to figure out their language. This is necessary to tell the aliens we are peaceful and to find out if the aliens are peaceful (and why they are here). There, she and a physicist (Jeremy Renner) try to communicate with the aliens.
The movie is supposed to be a statement on miscommunications between humans. It’s a “statement” I could do without. There’s nothing enlightening or the very least interesting here. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional or a pretentious, phony intellectual.
ONE MARX PLUS ONE MICHELLE LAVAUGHN ROBINSON HUSSEIN OBAMA IDI AMIN DADA DON’T LET THE DOOR AT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE HIT YA ON THE WAY OUT ON JANUARY 20TH
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