I like how the movie left if open ended whether the tapping was intended as a warning about the bomb or a request to come up to the screen. It was a nice element in the film's theme of what an incredible thing communication is and how incredibly difficult conveying even the most basic information can be. Overall, I…

In the middle of the film when we started seeing more "weird" visions, like her talking to the heptapod in her bunkroom, I was really confused by it. But I believed the film was going somewhere with this, I just didn't have the slightest clue what that might be. But as the characters in the film worked their process…

This movie really got to me as well. I stayed in the theater until the credits finished rolling just because I wanted to soak in as much of it as I could. I walked out of the theater at about 12:45pm, It's 10:00pm now and there's barely been a moment where I haven't been thinking about this movie.

Amy Adams had better get at least a best actress nomination for this film.

One of the things I've been contemplating is the ethics of having a child that you know is going to die of a protracted illness in regards to the child. You may decide that the joys of the life outweigh the pains of the loss, but is it right to put the child through that death? What's the more ethical choice, not…

I'm assuming they have the words because they have the memories of when they fully figure out human language and concepts from the future. I'm also assuming that teaching each other each other's language was a necessary step of the process, that's why the heptapods don't just don't start communicating in English…

Multiple fully fleshed out characters, what a concept! Rest of Hollywood, please follow this example.

I'm not sure how to interpret that, I got out of the film about nine hours ago. I don't know if that's meant to imply she didn't tell him what she's seen and things are going to play out as we saw them in the flash-forwards, or if he has the same knowledge she does and together they've decided the pain is worth the…

That was one of the things I was wondering about, can she try to do the Golden Path (I think that's what it's called) from "Dune?" The Golden Path is using your knowledge of the future to alter your present actions to create the best possible outcome.

I agree that this was the correct choice for the movie. The first two acts are paced very deliberately, so I think the ratcheting up of the stakes and the internal and international tensions was a good way of keeping the audience invested in the importance of what they were doing while keeping the tension high. …

Yeah, Cassandra really didn't have a happy existence in the Trojan War myths.

Of course there's also the possibility that their daughter's illness had nothing to do with their time in Montana. That their bodies were unaffected and it was simply a case of bad luck where the one slightly defective sperm or ovum that was produced without outside interference was part of the fertilization. Which…

The film was based on the short story, not a direct adaptation, so I'm still trying to parse out what exactly the film was going for with its ending and if it differed from the story, which I haven't read, only read about.

I saw "Arrival" earlier today, I took the flash-forward to the interaction with the Chinese general at the gala to be part of a self-reinforcing loop. The more of the alien language she learned, the more of the future she could remember. And the more of the future she could remember, the more she knew the alien…

Greetings from the world of tomorrow!*

I'll drink to that *air shreds*

Yeah, when you're talking for that long about an hour long episode almost everything interesting you have to say about that episode is going to get lost in the clutter and the meanderings. The complete and utter lack of focus drove me nuts.

I remember J.K. Rowling saying in an interview that looking back even she thinks "Order of the Phoenix" is way too long, that it should be about 100 pages shorter.

No you don't. No one posting here hates to be "that guy."

It'll be interesting to see how the big three YA franchises (Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games) hold up over time. I think enough time has passed that you can say that Harry Potter has staying power and is thought of pretty fondly. I think it's too soon to tell how cultural memory is going to treat…