I was expecting a generic alien invasion movie, and I was pleasantly surprised
I need to give this a rewatch
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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Read the short story before re-watching. Definitely gives you a better perspective.
This was a good one. Definitely recommend
I know that I enjoyed this movie but I don't remember it at all. Yay, I get to watch it again like it's new.
Me rewatching a movie:
"Oh yeah, I remember this part..."
"Oh yeah, I remember this part..."
The thing I remember about this movie was that India got mad one of the fictional aliens from this movie decided to land in Pakistan instead of India.
The other thing I remember was that they for some reason decided to show the location on the map as "Punjab, Pakistan" which is even more generic because it's a province not a city.
The other thing I remember was that they for some reason decided to show the location on the map as "Punjab, Pakistan" which is even more generic because it's a province not a city.
I could see India being upset over that because it's disputed territory. Edit: This is incorrect, Kashmir is the disputed territory.
No that's Kashmir.
Punjab is technically a region that also happens to be the name of the province in both Pakistan and India since they both encompass the same region.
Thanks, that second fact is what threw me off! So they could have said either and it should not have been seen as a political statement either way (which is how I saw India being upset over it.)
Yeah essentially.
India was just mad because of general rivalry lol
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Could you be also recommend a few generic alien invasion movies?
you can watch skyline if you want to watch nothing new or interesting.
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I don't remember much about the movie, but isn't it one of the movies where time gets wacky?
Almost
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Memories are what get wacky. The main character (as well as the aliens who "arrive") can remember the future as well as the past due to learning the alien language. It's based on the possibly-not-linguistically-sound Sapir-Wharf hypothesis that says the language you speak influences the way you think. The aliens use a circular rather than linear writing system so they think of time in a non-linear way
Watched it last week for the first time. Really enjoyed it
I watched it because Lingthusiasm has a podcast episode about it and loved it too!
The rule is simple: if uts by Denis Villeneuve, YOU WATCH IT
Genuinely one of the best movies of all time IMO
Sapir-Whorf always fascinated me when I first read about it in philosophy class
I read this stuff casually and I was generally familiar with the theories in both Arrival and Interstellar, but I couldn't make heads or tails of either when I watched the movies. I completely missed what they were pointing at in Interstellar and thought they butchered the idea that Amy Adams was caught in her own frame of how she understood her experience of time.
I am sure that's my problem, but I truly wonder how anyone was supposed to appreciate the movies without internalizing the critical theories
Interstellar was terrible.
Very happy to see my notion shared on this platform.
"But the science"
Miss me with that bullshit, you don't get to tote how "scientifically accurate" something is in the first half (it wasn't) and then get time travel/self recurrence in the second half.
It was just a bad movie with high production value, if I want that I'll watch moonfall.
Really is a good view.