/tv/ hates this movie because they've never played a real

>literal brainlet

Arrival is part of a recent series of movies I'd describe as Dunning-Kruger Sci-Fi. Along with Interstellar and to a somewhat lesser extent The Martian, they perfectly play to the crowd that fancies themselves as (and, to be fair, may truly be) smarter than average audiences but are not as smart as genuinely "smart people." They are movies designed to make the audience feel smart by introducing complicated and heady concepts, and then holding the viewer's hand the entire way through until there is next to nothing to be left up to interpretation.

If you didn't already know the twist in Arrival by the time she was in the milky section of the ship with the aliens AT LEAST, you perfectly fit the audience I am talking about.

There is no reward for being smart while viewing these movies because everything is eventually spelled out in big fridge magnet letters. Any clever idea is made so transparent that even the most simple in the audience will get it. It also removes any reward for rewatching or trying to figure out what you just saw.

Granted, there is a difference between Arrival and Interstellar. I think where Interstellar was pretending to have a brain it actually didn't have, Arrival has a brain that it is refusing to let the audience use.

Completely disappointing movie.

Also
>so that just happened

I didn't like it because I didn't understand it. This movie was way too complicated for me, just like Interstellar.

>>85408978
i dont hate it
but it bored me because i figured out the twist like halfway through
its just a shiny star trek episode

>>85408978
>you need brain damage to like this movie
Sounds about right

>>85409435
>has never played a sport other than air hockey in his life

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>>85409537
>air hockey
>a sport
anon, I...

>>85409027
Your post seems to imply that if any work of fiction doesn't leave anything to interpretation, with grey areas and/or lots of symbolisms and contemporary RL interpretations, it is bad and for stupid people.

You may be a very, very common case of Dunning–Kruger IQ

>>85408978
>being proud of your brain damage
gg anon

>what the audience thinks at first are flash backs, are really flash fowards.
>Mommy Adams doesn't realize any of it at first.
>thinking in this alien language makes you see into the future and past.
>eventually at the end adams gets it. using her time language powers to get a phone number and other information from the future.
>the heptapods are there simply to teach time language to humans. for some vague justification about needing humans to be there for them in 3000 years.they already knew everythign that was going to happen.

>>85411701
according to Newtonian physics this is indeed possible

>>85409027
Bro get off /tv/ you are 2 clever. Go cure aids and stuff

there is nothing clever about the movie.

There is nothing to figure out or to try to unravel because the movie beats you up with the "ITS MAGIC!" explanation 3/4 of the way through the film.

Nice premise, but it gets nowhere.

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