This one really caught me off guard! What did you think of ARRIVAL? Be sure to subscribe for upcoming reactions: A League of Their Own, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Terminator 2, Gosford Park, and Hacksaw Ridge!

@chefskiss6179

Жыл бұрын

Gosford Park?! Well that deserves an instant subscribe ;) Thanks for that!

@musicmashup9597

Жыл бұрын

watch Shot Caller

@scottjo63

Жыл бұрын

Arrival made me forget that Close Encounters Of The Third Kind even existed and became one of my favorite movies. Not only that, made me forget Steven Spielberg even existed. I could even put James Cameron on that list taking so many years on the Avatar sequel. Heck, when Cameron decides to do Avatar 3, he'll probably be 150 years old. While the director, Denis Villeneuve, Arrival, went somewhere with Dune, Spielberg went ??? with West Side Story (1960), and now another working on another classic Bullet (1968), that starred Steve McQueen. Both movies did NOT need any improvements unless they put a great big star in it which we really don't have anymore. Not like Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford (too old). Melt down, Tom Cruise??, an ashole now I think Dune (2021) was certainly a great choice as the original Dune (1984) directed by David Lynch not only bombed but was pretty bad. Of course Dune (1984), has become a cult classic now, go figure. Denis Villeneuve also directed such originals as Sicario (2015), and its sequel (2018) and did a great sequel to Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049. And yes, Dune (2021) is done in parts, part 2 is on its way for 2023 from 2021. Not Avatar 3 in which we may never see until 2080. Heck, Avatar 2 is slated, FINALLY, for Dec. 2022, from 2009's original. Thank goodness not only do we have Denis Villeneuve but also Chistopher Nolen, Innerstellar, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight 2 and 3 and his upcoming Oppenheimer (2023). Forgot special mention to Sam Mendes, the movie 1917, Jarhead, Skyfall, Spectre, The Road To Perdition. Almost Jordan Peele, Get Out, and Us, but nope to the movie Nope. Nope started out good but went nopewhere with me. At least Jordan Peele goes somewhere else then what Spielberg and Cameron are doing.

@shirleyduffer2081

Жыл бұрын

I love this movie. I saw it at Contact in the Desert ( UFO conference In the Southern California desert)…and it was pretty cool!

@Scary__fun

Жыл бұрын

@@scottjo63 You should already know that James Cameron is a perfectionist and auteur that creates tech that doesn't exist yet. He's already written the stories for Avatar 2-5, and 2-3 were filmed concurrently so 3 is already scheduled for 2024.

This film has always moved me. My wife died of cancer. Had I known that in advance, I still wouldn't change a single moment. That's what it's really about.

@eddietucker7005

Жыл бұрын

I hope you just felt my heart fill with love and hope for you. What a wonderful thought process you have about love, life and passing. I will never forget your comment. Thank you…

@CraigMurraysVids

Жыл бұрын

@@eddietucker7005 Thank you. I feel your heart now.

@nitelite78

Жыл бұрын

Yes. For Louise the future memories are the same as the past memories. It seems it would be unfair to expect her to change things (if that's even possible) to take away those memories and to prevent her childs existence. It would essentially be taking love out of the universe.

@KevinLyda

Жыл бұрын

I read the short story this film was based on as my mom was dying of ALS. In a way I was caring for her in reverse of her mother if that makes sense. Every child dies. Sometimes after the parent does. Sometimes before. But they still all die. What matters is the time in between.

@WelshAmethystGirl087

Жыл бұрын

Wow just wow, I have nothing but the upmost respect for you what you said touched my heart, sending you nothing but love

This movie made me realize something *awesome...* She got to know her daughter, and experience her love for her in advance. That's why she could not NOT want to have her, even knowing the consequenses and ending. I understand, because I lost the love of my life, and I know that even if I had known before meeting him that I would end up "only" having him in my life for ten years before he died, I would still definately choose the devastating pain of having to lose him, in order to have those ten years together. *Love has no time.* I will love and miss him for the rest of my life. And... that's okay.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Beautifully said.

@TARS20

Жыл бұрын

The title itself isn't merely referencing the arrival of the Heptapods, but could be a way of saying that an arrival is more important than the departure, in that case the arrival of her daughter. Arrival/beginning gives us the chance to create something beautiful. That's what I think, I can't put it to words better than this lol

“I forgot how good it felt to be held by you.” Beautifully sums up the movie in that moment and most reactors miss it. Good job.

In case no one else has commented this, general shang's wife's last words were: "in war, there are no winners, only widows"

THIS is what a Sci fi movie should be about! Not stupid guys shooting lasers and doing bad jokes at the audience, but the explorations of ideas and new concepts. Arrival (2016) is one of the most Star Trekkish movies i have ever seen.

@Otokichi786

Жыл бұрын

"Science Fiction is about Ideas."

The General's wife’s last words are “In war there are no winners, only widows.”

"Canary in a coal mine" (also a Sting song) refers to the miners practice of keeping an actual canary in a cage in a mine to test for toxic gasses. If the canary died the miners would know that they had to stay out until the gasses dissipate. Same principal in this film, pure genius but horrible for the bird.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Very nice inclusion.

I really love Arrival, it's an intelligent and beautiful film, definitely one that sticks with you. I started to catch on when Hannah said her picture was "mommy and daddy talk to animals". It's just as good on a re-watch, there are so many little things that you don't catch the first time. General Shang's wife's dying words were "War doesn't make winners, only widows." It wasn't said but was shown that Ian never learned to speak Heptapod. He had no knowledge of Hannah's inevitable illness and death until Louise told him. That also explains his reaction. Louise knew the whole time and didn't tell him, and he can't travel back and forth through his life the way Louise can. So she can still be with their daughter and will never lose her, while Ian has lost her forever. The feelings of betrayal and loss would be very hard to come to terms with.

@TARS20

Жыл бұрын

There's a foreshadowing about the logogram when Ian read Louis's quote out loud "Language is the first weapon drawn in a conflict". I think Ian knows bits by bits how to read heptapod, he got to because he helped deciphering it, but he just didn't immerse himself into it which is why he didn't perceive the time like the Heptapods and Louis. As the theory of Saphir-wolf said, you need to really immerse yourself in the language to be able to perceive the world through that language.

If ever a film got close to capturing just how wild meeting an alien race would be, this has to be it. Absolutely mind-boggling!

@Cassxowary

Жыл бұрын

Not enough violence from a people point of view because that’s all most people seem to know, violence abuse torture agony suffering horrific slaughter destruction war annihilation etc... people wouldn’t see reason because that would imply agreeing to start using heart and brain and most aren’t willing to...

@Cassxowary

Жыл бұрын

Especially from the military meat puppets...

@HermanVonPetri

Жыл бұрын

@@Cassxowary Unfortunately, you're probably right. This film does show that the nations of the world would eventually turn on each other and the aliens if it weren't for the possibility of someone communicating across time.

@wackyvorlon

Жыл бұрын

Denis Villeneuve is an absolutely brilliant filmmaker.

This film is based off a short story by the wonderful Ted Chiang, "The Story of Your Life". I’d read it before the movie existed, so I knew what was going to happen (though it is a little different), and I still cried my face off. It really is a beautiful movie.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@JoePlett

Жыл бұрын

So true. Knowing how Casablanca ends doesn't stop folks from watching it again and again, and while it may no longer have surprise, it still has emotional power. Just like this film.

@kschneyer

Жыл бұрын

"Story of your Life" is probably the single greatest SF short story (technically it's a novella) of the late 20th century. It is a work of genius.

@Dularr

Жыл бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions it's a very fast read.

@petrjasinski8659

7 ай бұрын

Yes, but also this is one of those rariest of times when movie is even better than book it is based on. Eric Heiserer who wrote this movie script has done a fantastic job.

A friend of mine (who not too long ago became a mother) was trying to put into words why she didn't care for this film and got teared up while talking about it. And then retracted, saying something like "I guess it just hit me in a way I wasn't ready for." Thank you for sharing this with us.

@carlalussini

Жыл бұрын

Maybe she didn't like it because she saw herself in Ian and not Louise, and felt lacking as most mothers do when comparing themselves to the ideal of what a mother should be in today's standards.

"Abbot and Costello." A comedic duo whose entire routines were based around understandable misunderstandings. "It wasn't about meeting aliens, it was a human story." I completely agree, and keep hearing that again and again from reactors.

Villeneuve is one of the best contemporary directors so when he turned to sci-fi with this movie I couldn't be happier. The only thing that slightly put me on the wrong foot on first viewing was that I went in expecting this to be a realistic take on a first contact scenario but it actually isn't about that (partly because the aliens come not as explorers or scientists but with a very specific goal). It looks like it is more about language and then about time. But it isn't that either. Like all good sci-fi it is actually about what it means to be human, in this case in particular about how we deal with loss. Arrival is in my top 5 of best sci-fi of the 21st century, sitting comfy next to the movies Villeneuve made after this: Blade Runner 2049 and Dune! If you want to see what Carl Sagan thinks of aliens I would highly recommend watching Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster, one of my favorite movies. And if you want to see the best Hollywood depiction of scientists using science to solve a problem you have to watch The Andromeda Strain (1973).

Amy Adams can channel hurt and vulnerability like no other. If you haven't seen it, I think her acting pinnacle so far was in the miniseries, Sharp Objects. The series was incredible and Adams knocked her role out of the park.

@kristinalfc5846

Жыл бұрын

She never overdoes it either, one of the best subtle actors of her time..the fact that she won nothing for either performance still upsets me a bit

A great writer once said that all love stories are tragedies, because the reader knows, knows, knows that eventually, after long enough, the lovers must be parted. Time-travel stories (and stories like this one, that assume a nonlinear perception of time) force us to see it directly.

Martin Luther said that even if he knew with certainty that the world would end tomorrow, he'd still plant his apple tree.

This film is exquisite. The science (unlike so many movies) is about adherence to first principles, and logical consistency. I could rant for days about science in films trying to always have all the answers, when that's not how it works. And at the end it even leaves us with this beautifully respectful ambiguity of two people who love each other, yet perceive a situation in entirely different ways. Which of course brings me to our main character, who is truly what makes this film so wonderful. I can't really think of another choice that is more self-sacrificing, and wise than the one she made. Throughout the entire film, everyone in charge is suspicious, and people with no clue what's going on are acting out violently. The situation devolves and humanity fails in exactly the ways we've all watched it fail a thousand times. But for this one woman who ends up being a model for humanity, if only humanity were actually a civilized species. The whole movie is just so amazingly beautiful, and profoundly sad.

How in the AF do you not have more subscribers!? I REALLY ENJOY YOUR REACTIONS- SO GENUINE AND VERY SWEET.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy. Thank you so much. ☺️

I really love this movie and I'm so glad you did too. I have always had a great love for all things melancholic and bittersweet. On my second rewatch I noticed that when Hannah (the daughter) first showed the drawing and said "the show is called 'Mommy and Daddy Speak to Animals'" the caged bird is shown in her drawing just slightly, for a brief moment and I think that was the only obvious clue given. I also realized that when one of the aliens isn't there to speak with Louise and John, John says something like "Abbott isnt here" and as soon as he does, Abbott appears which, imo, means they could already understand our language and didn't need to learn it but they continued with the lessons so *we* could understand *them* This brings me to another point: during the bomb scene in the alien ship, just before it explodes, Costello leaves and Abbott stays. They already knew that the bomb was coming and so Abbott always knew he would die ): One of the reasons I think the movie is unique is that they don't portray aliens as evil being. I do wish we knew what they needed help with but I do enjoy that they leave that up to us to contemplate. Regardless, the message of "amor fati" in the movie was deeply touching. Neitzhe wrote a lot about time not being linear and eternal return: _"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Thou art a god, and never have I heard anything more divine'?”_

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Wow so much great insight, even down to the quote at the end. Thanks for Sharing!

I'm one of those people that don't try to figure out mysteries. I prefer to let the book or movie lead me on it's path

I was the same way --- it had to be pretty much spelled out to me, and I still don't think I completely got it until I saw it a second time. This is a movie I like better and better every time I see it--- it is breathtakingly intelligent--- but it is also very somber and dark and I definitely have to make sure I'm in the mood to overcome some of its tone.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

It is definitely a mood! I know some people find it boring, and had I been expecting a sci-fi action thriller I’d have been really confused. As it was it was a great sci-fi drama and really fascinating story.

I loved that I didn’t know where this film was going to take me.

This was a hard movie for me. Knowing now how my son would die, would I do it again?? Would I give birth to him and love him as much as I do if I had known how it would end for him? It hits hard. It is a great movie.

@dmwalker24

Жыл бұрын

Every single time I see this film, I have an overwhelming compulsion to drive the 50 miles to give my Mother a hug, and thank her. There isn't a word strong enough to describe what Mothers will endure for their children.

@JoePlett

Жыл бұрын

I keep thinking of the saying 'Better to have loved and lost than to never love at all' (Yeah, I'm sure I mangled it , but I think the point remains). I loved that such a grand story - First Alien Contact, nearly global war, humanity pulling back from the brink and comping together in a spirit of common interest - was told from such an intimate, human perspective.

@TARS20

Жыл бұрын

The title may not just referencing the arrival of the Heptapods, but could also mean that the beginning/arrival is more important than the end, because the beginning gives us a chance to create something beautiful and meaningful.

This movie has to be one of my favorites. Truly a beautiful movie. I remember leaving the theater and heard some guy say to his girlfriend “well that movie sucked” I was dumbfounded 😅. Unfortunate that some people can’t recognize quality when it’s staring them right in the face.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Wow, shame that people feel that way, but this is obviously not for everyone. It’s great though.

@lucianaromulus1408

Жыл бұрын

Intellectual movies aren't for the low IQ 😅

OMG! I got the Abbott and Costello reference first time around, but I didn't actually "get" it until just now! The whole "Who's on first? What's on second? Third base? I don't know! Exactly!" routine. That part flew over my head entirely and I've watched this movie really hard four or five times. Miscommunication. Talking past one another. Misunderstanding. Species bias. Human bias. "Ask him what is the Sanskrit word for war, and the defintition." I had always never really thought through the implication of Renner dubbing the two beings Abbott and Costello until about five minutes ago. Mind blown! Even the throw-away lines are deeply connected to the reveal.

7:38 - "If you don't start, you can't finish". Boy, that quote is very interesting in hindsight

There's a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode called Darmok, season 5 episode 2 that handles communication and language the same way Arrival did, without the time travel. From Google: The Enterprise encounters a civilization which communicates only in metaphor; in an effort to foster understanding, their leader transports himself and Picard onto the surface of a planet where they are hunted by a beast. Talk about a misunderstanding in what the aliens say. When Picard is taken (no pun intended), the Enterprise takes it as a hostile act and suits up for battle, while Picard, on the planet thinks the alien wants to go Mano on Mano with him but has deeper meaning then that. Remember, there's a beast near by. The alien is excellently played by Paul Winfield (Terminator and Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan).

It's based on a short story called "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. The short story is very different, but I would still call this a pretty faithful adaptation. In the story it's more explicitly spelled out that Louise can't change things, and when she gains the ability to see the future her perspective also changes such that she doesn't feel compelled to change things.

one of the best twists in a movie ever, cos you do not see it coming. jaw dropping on first viewing

I love this movie so much. It's brilliant. Time and reality are much stranger than we've been taught to believe and I love how many movies, especially recent movies, offer new perspectives for our consideration. I find these various points of view (this movie; several Christopher Nolan movies; Everything, Everywhere, All At Once; Coherence; etc...) exciting to think about and I have no reason not to believe they're all possible.

the daughters, "More sciency then that." is me so often, I will know the perfect word to say something and perseverate for like a hour trying to think of it :>

This is at the top of my sci-fi list. So rich, “other”, and moving.

@NateConklin

Жыл бұрын

Also, if you’ve ever experienced the tragedy of meanjngless illnesses, this message of embracing the full moment is so powerful.

I cry every time....such a lovely, beautiful idea, and put to film so well. Life is just so incredible, isn't it?

Truly amazing watching each lightbulb moment for you. What a great path they lead you to put together.

Always enjoy riding along with you on your journey of cinematic discovery.

"Why did they bring a bird?" Because they obviously haven't seen Mars Attacks.

I loved this movie really hard. It's so well written and we were not prepared because of all the conclusion of the linear movie made to talk about a conception of time as we are not able to perceive. And the discussion about the theory that our words and ways of communicating alter our society. Plus, the flashbacks that are the flashforwards actually. I always noticed how it is important for movie maker to say "their society is bad because they have one word to say" love" and 36 to say" kill". It says something about the importance of things and by learning the English and noticing how sometimes the way we describe things modulate how we perceive a situation compared to other languages. The whole subject is utterly a utopia in the making by making a language so important (it permits you to perceive things differently) that everyone at some point knows it. And create a long term future for human kind. Very good movie.

"If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change anything?" every one of us can see our whole past. so knowing that, would you change anything?

Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing.

And now I see why Villeneuve made "Dune". "Arrival" is about becoming Qwisatz HaDerach.

@PeloquinDavid

Жыл бұрын

... except that in Dune, most of the possible futures DON'T come about: by making choices, different branches of the future become possible or impossible. So in that world, free will DOES exist, but can "lock in" particular futures... for good and ill.

@zvimur

Жыл бұрын

@@PeloquinDavid a passage from the book Dune, stuck into my mind. Paul considered approaching the Baron, outing himself as the Baron's grandson (Jessica was the Baron's daughter). But he couldn't accept the results of such a future.

My favorite serious alien/space film. It's so well-done, without needing huge battles or jumpscares and drama. It's a gorgeous film and message.

This film is smart AND beautiful. Having engaged CE-5 in 2011 (and on...) I notice the "aliens come to eat our...to destroy our...to enslave us..." cliche is absent. The "bad aliens" are so powerless as to be insignificant. The "good aliens" (I can't type enough) are ten thousand times smarter and funnier than you can imagine. CE-5 is human initiated contact. It's a thousand times easier than you thought.

"She's not Lois Lane." Very cute. 😆

The title, "Arrival" does not reference the aliens; it references the 'arrival' of Louise's full grasp of the Language. It 'arrives' in that momentary revery that ends with her seeing the book she will write and her teaching the Language to others and becoming the world authority on it. The Language 'arrives' when she is able to move into that time that she knows it, literally backwards and forwards. The movie is based on a theory that language sets perspective, that it also reforms the brain to harbor, support, and promote a language's perspective. In the film, Louise's grasp of the language opens her to a very different perception/conception of what time is. We currently see time in a linear fashion, which is supported by earth languages that have verbal tenses. But the Heptapod Language sees time as static, constant, all time present at once. The Heptapod experience of time is that each person exists in a range within the eternal constant; that's our lifetime. According to their experience, we have choice for our consciousness to inhabit any point in that lifetime. One's existence is finite, but one's life stands eternal within that piece of time. You just choose which part and when to experience it. Given that time is a constant, there is no changing time; you can't go back and make different choices. Your free will is in what part of your life you choose to inhabit and how many times you choose to. It's an embrace of the life you have. For Louise, her daughter's lifetime was brief, but eternal, and she can see her whenever she wants; that works for her. For Ian, his daughter's lifetime was brief and she's dead; he will only know her passing, which could have been avoided if they had not had a baby. But I'm sure Louise knows her daughter was always conceived, lived, died; and Louise can go through that and treasure those times. For the Heptapods Louise worked with, they knew 'death process' occurs in this visit. It's a constant in time, so there's no stopping it. They also know their race needs Humans, so they forgive, the aggressions being the cost of the visit. After the Language 'arrives' in Louise, they leave. I expect they just moved to a different part of time, which is how the ships just evaporate. 'Weapon' is actually an apt term for the Heptapod Language. Imagine if they had handed it to only one person, one culture/nation. The ability to see past/future gives a group a weapon that ensures conquest. You can know your enemies' resources, when those resources are available, when they are weakest or strongest. If time is a constant, ever-present, unchangeable, then it's not so much a weapon, but those who wish to use it as a weapon will not be those who can learn the Language and experience All-Time. So there will be battles over getting a weapon that doesn't work the way warmongers want it to. It will result in Humans destroying themselves, leaving the Heptapods with no help in 3,000 years. But the Heptapods know this is how it happens - happened - will happen. It's a constant in time. It's how it is. Love at the end how Louise is embraced by Ian for the very first time and says how she'd forgotten how his embrace feels. Yes, a great movie. Makes you think. Also makes you think in an entirely different way, of how things are experienced in that mindset. I don't need to see what happens in 3,000 years. This film confers an appreciation of patience, of trust that what happens, happens. Getting ahead of ourselves serves no purpose; it's inelegant. Patience is all.

This is a complex film, love your account! If you allow me, I suggest you watch What ever happened to Baby Jane? (1962) , one of my fav movies

There's a theory that said humans will wage war against the zen aliens in the future. Teaching humans how to use the alien's kind of weapon instead of the human ones will save them. Quiet, contemplative scifi is the kind of movie I enjoy the most. No big budget FX, just great acting and a solid script. Sadly, this is also the subgenre that makes the least amount of money.

@rosyidharyadi7871

Жыл бұрын

Then you might be interested in movie titled "Man from Earth". Go check it out. Watch the first one, the sequel is horrible imo. It definitely belongs to sci-fi genre, but there are no laser guns, car chasing, or visual effects. The whole movie is just a guy telling a story to their friends... And his story is really... weird.

@E_l_l_i_e

Жыл бұрын

@@rosyidharyadi7871 Thanks for the recommendation.🙂 I've seen The Man from Earth. I enjoyed that a lot, but it would've been even better if I went in 100% blind, which I didnt. I skipped Holocene, but I'm willing to give it a chance. My current favorite is Alex Garland's Ex Machina. There are only 4 characters in the entire movie.

@rosyidharyadi7871

Жыл бұрын

@@E_l_l_i_e Agreed. Ex Machina is good (and disturbing at a time).

@Scary__fun

Жыл бұрын

Science Fiction is anything that includes a future view of non-existing but possible tech. It can encompass all subgenres, so to fans of sci-fi it's not a surprise that Arrival includes a human drama. Only non-fans of general public think sci-fi is about other planets and pew-pew space battles which is actually the subgenre of space opera where different factions are fighting for prominence.

simply beautiful - one of the best films of the 21st century?

I don't think I ever heard of this movie. Chris can to react to the 1955 movie The Night of the Hunter staring Robert Mitchum who plays an psychopathic preacher who is in a relentless pursuit of two children. It also stars Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish.

@MyraJean1951

Жыл бұрын

Oh I heartily agree - Chris, you really should react to Night Of the Hunter, the only film directed by legendary Charles Laughton!

As someone who understands their life and death life is eternal is not about now it's about everything

Absolutely love this film! Great reaction 🤩🤩 Btw, I picked it up with the "non-zero sum game" memory 😎

I remember watchin this film lot rewatched back in 2016-2017. Favorite film for sure. This film told me that arrival means lot than a departure. Because, it contained the process of life itself. It make s u grow and wise.

A thinking persons alien movie. Finally some aliens who just wanna meet us.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

I like that thought. They just wanna meet us.

@druidriley3163

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking originally that the aliens came to give us their language in order for us to help them in the future, facilitate getting along with them faster. But someone else suggested they came to give us this gift of their language in order to thank us. I like that thought better.

I was as surprised and moved by this movie as you were. Really unexpected. And the piece of music used (Max Richter - On the nature of daylight) is beautiful and so appropriate. The rest of the soundtrack is amazing too. I found this film to be one that really didn't leave me feeling like there are plot holes or bits of bad acting. Some films, even ones I like more than Arrival I often feel there are alway some bits that are annoying or badly acted that take me away from the story and back to my own reality. But Arrival just feels complete and extremely well thought out and executed. I'm sure some people can point out loads of plot or science issues but for me I just didn't see any. I was captivated throughout, never distracted. I absolutely love how the aliens were handled and it's always nice to have a sci-fi alien that feels real i.e. no laser beams, unbelievable technology, silly space explosions. I'm kind of surprised more KZread reactors don't react to this film really. Wish they would because I love watching people react to it.

Easily one of my top favorites

This was movie was unexpectedly good.

I doubt that anyone would be up to the task of making a sequel set 3000 years in the future. But this movie is premised on the idea that our race would benefit from viewing time as they do, with past present and future all mingling together as one. So if a sequel were made, I would imagine that the heptapod race must somehow benefit from viewing time the way we do, with a hyperawareness of the present, living each moment one at a time consecutively.

@fjgiie

Жыл бұрын

Only want to speak of a possible sequel. We humans have not invented or found the technology we need to help the Heptapods in 3000 years. Finding fission in the dirt ain't easy.

I had to watch it again to understand everything. A wonderful movie.

3:41, pretty sure that was in fact a callback to "Close Encounters". There too, was a scene with helicopters mistaken to be UFOs.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Haha they got me then too 😅

I love your reaction videos. You CARE. Thank you for sharing them :-)

I love that movie. I watched it a couple more times since. Your reaction fairly reflected my reaction to the first time I saw it. Very good reaction.

Denis Villenueve is a genius……Polytechnique, Prisoners, Sicario, Enemy, Arrival, Dune he’s amazing at atmosphere

Your reaction to this movie is one of my favorites. It’s such a moving film.

One of my favorite scifis ever

Love your reactions.

In Russian "Orudie" means both a Tool, Weapon, Means.

I have a short list of 'best' movies, from hundreds(maybe thousands) of movies I've watched. This is one of them. Others, off the top of my head: "The Day the Earth Stood Still (195l)" "The Last Samurai" "Hacksaw Ridge" "Saving Private Ryan" "The Green Mile" "The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)" "Schindler's List"

I enjoyed your reaction. A very thought-provoking movie to be sure.

I highly recommend the short story this is based on

No one was in Louise's class in the beginning because they already saw the news and new there was a declared national emergency. 🤦🏼

heartbreakingly brilliant movie! ♥

This movie brought me to tears. It was fascinating and beautiful.

Since I can't see the future, I have to settle for watching others experience this now-familiar film and watch their faces as they have all the 'Ah-HA' moments. From the purpose of the canary to all the other things that would qualify as spoilers if mentioned. Arrival has become my favorite First Contact movie (Contact being a very different, but close second). Sorry Kubrick. To each their own. Thanks for letting us watch you watch this. It is so much fun watching new viewers discover this intriguing, expertly told story.

Have you seen Contact? It's another great sci-fi movie about first contact with extraterrestrials. Including all the cynical government types.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Not yet! It’s one I’ve had my eye in for years, but never got around to watching.

@jowbloe3673

Жыл бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions - One of my favorites, based on the book written by world renowned astronomer Carl Sagan. Looking forward to when you do get around to watching *Contact.*

28:23 If she sees her future, she has no choice; it happens, so she knows she chose to have the child. If she didn’t have the child, she wouldn’t have seen that future. Right? 😵‍💫

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Certainly possible. 😅

I’ve watched this movie so many times! It’s just beautiful.

This is in my Top 10 of Favorite Movies. It blew my mind. And I didn’t understand the twist until it was spelled out, too.

This movie was not at all what I expected, such a beautifully sad story

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

It really is. One I’m fairly glad I went in knowing as little as possible.

Another top notch reaction by you. awesome movie. I had to watch it twice to appreciate it to fully. mostly because my mindset was set to another genre than "braingymnastics". looking forward next reaction. youre awesome!

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

I believe it, expectations really can change how we experience a film.

funny you mentioned hand, I was half expecting them to BE hands and the top was attached to something hehe.

Holding up the sign: Y'all got any space memes?

ty for this vid. I listen to quantum physics audio books, and other books that try to define universe, there was one thing in those books about beings from other worlds, and why they may never contact us or cant contact us. this movie is just one of those thing in those books tells us..communication.. is just one of them. very good movie very deep. ty :)

I know I'm wait late to this party but per chance you read this comment, or anyone else, Arrival is based on a short story by Ted Chiang "Story of Your Life" (from a book with a collection of stories called "Stories of Your Life and Others") - so worth the read.

I loved it, but like you I definitely want a part 2 to find out what Earth is like in 3000 yrs & what the aliens will need help with.

@fjgiie

Жыл бұрын

Quickly, no details, but how about the Heptapods birthrate slowing to dangerous levels. Pan (chimps) had to help Homo out millions of years ago.

Hi Chris. First - i like what you are doing. You are making content that I enjoy. We have pretty same taste in movies and I like to compare your point of view on legendary movies with my. Last years are very short of good scifi movies. Arrival belong to better ones. I pretty enjoy it in cinema. It was a bit confusing at the begining, but as movie goes, all those bits starts connect and this is wow effect for me. This story is very touching. This movie show us something wha is not typical for this kind of movies. It show who we are. Visitors was our mirror. To show us how is mankind and how would it be. Thank you for your review. I am looking forward to next one :)

Strangely enough, I think there would be a lot to say in comparing and contrasting this with Homestuck. Yes, the webcomic. Homestuck also has time shenanigans, but as a multiverse of timelines. Most timelines are doomed; a doomed timeline ceases to exist not long after it splinters off from one of the main timelines, and it's doomed because someone, somewhere, made a decision that went against their nature. Page 8006: “everything that ever happens to every version of you is an important part of your ultimate self... like a superceding bodyless and timeless persona that crosses the boundaries of paradox space and unlike god tiers or bubble ghosts or whatever, it really IS immortal” Some day I will write that essay.

I did see this movie in the theatres and I do remember thinking it was unexpected and I liked it

You are absolutely amazing. I’ve watched this film over 20 times and …DUH… I never got what you got on your first watching! How can i have missed, what you called “until they spelled it out to me”? And when does it happen in the film? I am so dum(b)! I never got that she was seeing the future, not the past. I am, right now, going to watch it again with my head hanging in shame and utter stupidity. I feel like the world of this film just opened up to me with you observations. Thank you!

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

No shame or stupidity needed here! I’m glad you enjoy the film so much without recognizing that and I hope you enjoy it even more now ☺️

As someone who's dabbled in linguistics, I think in reality, we need to know how to speak to all earthly animals before we have a chance to speak to aliens. Great movie, but how do you speak Wookie?

This is such a unique and touching movie. I loved it.

@CasualNerdReactions

10 ай бұрын

Unique and touching are great words to describe this film!

There are two Jim Jarmusch movies I think you of all the reactors would enjoy. Dead Man, and especially Paterson. Both deal with deep themes in a highly entertaining way.

The one part where this movie kind of loses me is that the big twist depends on the movie keeping information from us that the characters know, ie that at this point Louise never had a daughter and is just confused at who this girl is that she's getting flashes of. But the rest is so well done that it's very hard to care about that too much.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Valid point! Definitely didn’t bother me.

Love love love this movie

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

Sometimes I like to imagine that the squids actually feed in human flesh and they saw that humanity was going to destroy themselves so they came down to help us out. Prolong society and help fatten us up. In 3000 years they'll be ready for their next meal.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Haha it’s as possible as anything else 🤣

As "Arrival" played, I got "Quantum Leap" (1989-1993) and "Slaughterhouse Five" (1972) vibes. I looked for it on the "premium cable TV" channels but found it on FX, instead, just like "A Quiet Place" (2018), which is/was distressing.

Hey, it's actually based on a short story, so the person who thought of it is a sci-fi author, Ted Chiang (spelling?)

It is not about what is natural it is about what is realistic which humans have a long time to understand which is OK

You just know that if something like this would happen, people would complain how it is handled no matter what is being done. And a stupidly insane part that would want us to show "force"

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Oh for sure! There is no decision that everyone would think is right, just wouldn’t happen.