I never thought I'd say this, but you have a point.
I always have a point, they're just not usually very good ones.
Respect my lack of authority.
What I learned from Dr Strange is that I could add to my list of vows for Tilda Swinton. "Will you take her in sickness and in health or in baldness or in giant ass wings or when she gives you Turkish delights?"
I do
Judge me after Social Services has her way with me.
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Everything is brought to you by Fjohürs Lykkewe.
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“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
Watched "Silence" last night.
Very slow, almost depressing film. Not worth 2:40 hours.
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“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
Arrival
The more I think about the film, the more faults I find with it. Gonna have to stop thinking about it soon, I reckon. Hopefully this post will provide some catharsis.
I'll make this two parts. (Part I) being first impressions, (Part II) being 72hrs afterthoughts.
Part I:
1. Very old-fashioned start, reminiscent of Independence Day and Avatar.
2. WTF, Forest Whitaker?!? There goes my suspension of disbelief.
3. [sarcasm] Ooh, the ship's got its own internal artificial gravity field, and OMG, it's perpendicular and upside down or sth. Mind blown.[/sarcasm]
4. My, look at that big old window! 8-0
5. Pretty giant squid monsters.
6. Nice ink FX.
7. Man, those military guys are retarded. Who knew?
8. Now somebody is explaining to me what whatsherface has been doing for months. Never heard of 'show, don't tell', apparently.
9. Oh, the Chinese are talking to ET in MahJong, right. Not Go, not their own damned script, but Mah-fucking-Jong. Okay.
10. Wait, the Pakistanis have figured out how the orthography works? Not Miss Smartypants?
11. What the shit, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? Learning a circular timeless lingo rips you out of time and lets you know the future? Must have slept through that lecture.
12. Okay, now the Chinese don't trust ET because it responded on their terms. Guess them Chinese must be real stoopid. Oh, and the Russians, too. And Pakistan! I thought the Pakistanis were the smart ones here, what?
13. "If only we'd all just communicated with one another." Srlsly, that's the msg?
14. So, all that stuff with her daughter hasn't happened yet. Could've fooled me, what with the character being apparently ageless and that whole part of the 'entertainment' based on deceiving the audience.
15. OK, I suppose that Mommy / dying daughter thing was emotively effective (Nothing wrong with that, per se!).
16. "Mom and Dad talk to animals," fuck that. The kid's fucking mother makes her career off of the 'Universal Language', there's been video footage of Cthulhu and pal all over the world, and the girl thinks those were 'animals'? You'd think maybe the bloody number one expert on the subject might have taught her own offspring the bloody lingo, but no.
Part II:
1. Since the aliens are outside time, effectively omniscient, the film isn't SF, it's a religious fairy tale.
2. Even if you don't mind that it's a religious fairy tale, the film doesn't shed any new light on ideas such as blind faith and divine gifts.
3. It says nothing about the human condition, doesn't speculate, doesn't tease with any new ideas, doesn't challenge conventional interpretations.
4. All I'm left with are a few pretty pictures.
Overall verdict: Weak.
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TWO Pakistani men emigrate to Scotland , and agree to meet two years later to see who has become the most Scottish.
Two years passed.
They meet and the first one says "I have a Scotland football jersey,
I drink Scotch whisky and eat haggis every week, I've joined a pipe
band, I own a Scottie dog, I wear a kilt everywhere, I salmon fish
and I play golf .........
That's how Scottish I am.
How Scottish have you become?"
The second one replies, "AWAY TAE FUCK YA PAKI BASTART!"
Old shit was here. Now it's gone.
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