The Oscars: Arrival

The Oscars: Arrival

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Arrival – Film synopsis: When 12 alien spacecraft land on Earth, U.S. officials ask linguistics professor Louise Banks to team with theoretical physicist Ian Donnelly and learn how to communicate with the visitors. While Louise races to learn the aliens’ language, uneasy governments around the globe debate the advisability of military action.

Space flicks have been around for a long time going back to 2001: A Space Odyssey – a 1968 epic science-fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick to Sandra Bullock in Gravity in 2014 to Matt Damon’s The Martian in 2015.  We applaud this and enjoyed Amy Adams in Arrival and certainly appreciate the search for life beyond earth – a worthy endeavor.  However, we are taking it off the winner’s list for Best Picture…..her role as a woman too predictable which becomes tiring and the movie moved too slowly among other things.

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