Arrival.

[Glebe]

Teaser.

Full trailer.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve, whose done a few noted films (none of which I've seen yet, natch, not even Sicario) and is helming the Blade Runner sequel. I really hope this isn't shit. Second trailer gives away a little too much, by the look of it (but don't they all, these days?). Nice to see Forest Whittaker having a bit of a resurgence with this and Rogue One.

[Puce Moment]

Incendies and Polytechnique are great little films, and I thought Prisoners was a really excellently conceived mainstream film.

Enemy was a really surprising follow-up - much more unusual and risk-taking (did he produce it prior to Prisoners?).

Sicario, for me, was awful. Pointless and boring.

This, however, looks fantastic. If he can keep out all the things I hated about Interstellar I will be delighted.

[Glebe]

'Arrival' Architectural Invasion Stirs Political Reaction in Hong Kong.

Whoops...

[brat-sampson]

When God drops a chocolate button.

[Bad Ambassador]

or clips his fingernails.

The British poster doesn't work either. It's supposed to be a deserted beach, but the coordinates in the corner are for Kingswear, just across the Dart estuary from Dartmouth. Shameful.

[BlodwynPig]

ban whispering voice overs in trailers.

[Lord Mandrake]

Sicario, for me, was awful. Pointless and boring.

Yeah. All the ingredients are there but it just tapers off into nothing. Traffic covered all that ground and more to much better effect sixteen years earlier. It also used Benny del Toro better. Huge dissapointment. 

[WhoMe]

It looks good but don't you find the premise a bit flawed if they have the technology to traverse the universe but can't do a bit of code breaking in order to understand us when they get here?

[Glebe]

Several early reviews online now, generally positive.

[Glebe]

Denis Villeneuve on Making 'Arrival', 'Blade Runner' Sequel His Way Within Studio System.

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt "Dune," but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

Blimey, he's gorn science fiction mad!

[Johnny Caramel]

Trailer - https://youtu.be/tFMo3UJ4B4g

[Johnny Caramel]

The communication chamber resembles an orange segment.

Various art: https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=411&bih=459&q=Arrival&oq=Arrival&gs_l=img.12..0l10.2117.3880.0.6038.7.7.0.0.0.0.426.1038.0j1j2j0j1.4.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..3.4.1034.wVfD7FfSOKM#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=arrival+movie

[Pissant]

I'm looking forward to this.  Basically Independence day for grown-ups seems to be. 

After all these years of having the 'Christopher Nolan is an intelligent film-maker' meme bandied around as if having a convoluted plot was evidence of mastery, when all his films feel flat and inhuman.  So I hope someone with a bit more nous like Villeneuve rises up into the top sci-fi director spot.  Sicario naysayers must've been watching half-blind, I found the blend of thriller/character study completely and diligently gripping.

Something else I lucking fove: characters and lines trailing off, mumbled scripts.  Didn't catch that bit?  Tough tits, this is an adult movie for adults.

[Pissant]

It looks good but don't you find the premise a bit flawed if they have the technology to traverse the universe but can't do a bit of code breaking in order to understand us when they get here?

The curse of all alien invasion movies, how far do you dial the dials forward?  Are they so advanced we don't even recognise them and wouldn't they have killed us all in a single instant?

But then we're presuming that all intelligences are created linearly equal, and we are de facto lower down the pecking order in every other single area.  Perhaps they got the space-rockets no problem, but seeing as how they evolved ESP in the first million years they haven't had much need for written symbolism since. 

[Mr_Simnock]

Basically Independence day for grown-ups seems to be. 

after watching the trailer it would seem it's more scooby do level than adult, oh and this...



fucking hell even star trek tng would balk at that

'.. me.. h u m a n...'

'do you think they understand?'

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."

[Pissant]

[Glebe]

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."

"Temba, his arms wide... on the ocean."

[Malcy]

'Shaka, when the walls fell'.

Unsure about this film. Looks good but not too convinced by the trailer amd don't wan't to know too much about it either. Still, Forest Whitaker is in it so that's a plus point.

[Jerzy Bondov]

I just read the short story this was based on, Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, which doesn't have any of the (what looks like) war stuff but is quite an interesting look at how we might learn a totally alien language. I like the way they've done the writing in the film, not really how I imagined it but very cool. Story is worth a read, check it out!!!

In conclusion, Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

[DrunkCountry]

The British poster doesn't work either. It's supposed to be a deserted beach, but the coordinates in the corner are for Kingswear, just across the Dart estuary from Dartmouth. Shameful.

from the trailer:

[Glebe]

^Some farmers are in for a big surprise, I can tell you that!

[Johnny Caramel]

G

















"The greatest danger to the whirled has been the world's best kept secret... Until now"

[hewantstolurkatad]

That thing in the poster looks like a piece out of a terry's chocolate orange

[Serge]

Saw the trailer for this again yesterday, and am quite excited now - especially as a friend is in the States and has just seen it and is raving about it, and he's usually a more miserable fucker than I am about films.

[Glebe]

Saw the trailer for this again yesterday, and am quite excited now - especially as a friend is in the States and has just seen it and is raving about it, and he's usually a more miserable fucker than I am about films.

Look's like this year's 'intelligent' SF film.[nb]Passengers leaves thread sulking. Rogue One keeps it's mouth shut.[/nb]

[Serge]

Well, I've seen the unintelligent one ('Independence Day 2: Independencer'), so it's about time.

[Glebe]

Final trailer.

[Pissant]

Amy Adams: impressed
Jeremy Renner: quite impressed
Forest Whitaker: not impressed

[Glebe]

Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on 'Arrival', Preparing to Score 'Blade Runner 2049', and More.

Saw some bus stop posters of with Jeremy Renner's face yesterday. Trying to depower the female lead!