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Wow, does this movie look great. And the music is about the best I've ever heard in a movie. An absolute audio-visual feast! Man, great, great stuff.

Unfortunately, the movie all of that is in service of is a big steaming wad of fart. Jesus, what a pile.

Here are the two things I don't understand:

1. How this got nominated for Best Picture, or nominated for Even Remotely Acceptable Picture.

2. How people found the ending confusing. Here's a handy tip, if you found Arrival confusing, you are either six years old (a slow six) or need to be in some sort of full-time care facility.

Now I will go on MRQE and try to find a review that doesn't suck this bag of crap's stanky dick, so I can read it and agree with it.

One of my homework assignments for Monday is to read the script for Arrival. You have really sold me on it.

I thought it looked and sounded great.

pinback wrote:Wow, does this movie look great. And the music is about the best I've ever heard in a movie. An absolute audio-visual feast! Man, great, great stuff.

Unfortunately, the movie all of that is in service of is a big steaming wad of fart. Jesus, what a pile.

So I guess you have a departure from the approvals of the movie?

Flack wrote:One of my homework assignments for Monday is to read the script for Arrival. You have really sold me on it.

My wife and I have this thing when a particularly odious, hackneyed, terrible line of dialogue is spoken in a show or movie, we look at each other and say, matter-of-factly, and with slight bewilderment, "somebody wrote that!"

At the end of this movie, when she asked my opinion, I summed the entire experience up by saying, "Somebody wrote that!"

Then I found out who.

The screenplay was written by "Eric Heisserer", whose few writing credits on IMDB include such literary masterpieces as The Thing remake, and Final Destination 5.

This must be some class you're taking.

pinback wrote:My wife and I have this thing when a particularly odious, hackneyed, terrible line of dialogue is spoken in a show or movie, we look at each other and say, matter-of-factly, and with slight bewilderment, "somebody wrote that!"

I have always had that feeling about everything you write. Now I know what to say about it. Thanks.

Why are you so cruel to me, Paul? What have I ever done to you?

pinback wrote:This must be some class you're taking.

I know, right? I requested we read the script to Dark Star and her response was "Fuck you, Harris."

pinback wrote:Why are you so cruel to me, Paul? What have I ever done to you?

What cruel? You said you disagreed with the people who thought Arrival was a great movie. So, obviously, I made a pun by saying you had taken a departure from these approvals. Yeah, it was a cheesy pun, but it wasn't a muenster one. And it was brief, not full of holes like Swiss cheese, and I think I have provolone the accuracy of my statement.