I absolutely loved this film and believe it did what few films have ever done: told the story better than the story it was based on. In Ted Chiang’s original, the heptapods had an auditory language of sorts, but in the film their vocalizations (if that’s what they are and not just monstrous alien starfish farts) are…

OMGYES!

I couldn’t care less if anyone’s impressed or otherwise bothered. I’m simply stating my opinion and answering questions directed toward it. <shrug> It gives me something to do.

I am a sociopath. That’s why we make the best leaders: emotion is meaningless to us. Results matter. Nothing else.

Provide me an example. Seriously—I really would like to see an example of this. Personally, I view the macroscopic realm as nothing more than a series of emergent orders extending up from the quantum realm. Regardless of what phenomena appear in higher-order interactions of complex particle systems, all quantum-level…

Then why are—as far as I know—all physics time-symmetric?

I support intellectual elitism as one of the few virtues capable of saving the human species. Read some Nietzsche.

Did I give a guideline as to who is to be selected for continuance and whom for extermination? Well, I think I should provide at least one: everyone over 55. Race, religion, creed—irrelevant. Older generations used to be wonderful repositories of information and childcare, but these days all they are is a burden on…

Kusanagi’s an android. She could be built to look like anyone. Hell, she can probably swap faces. I don’t care if EVERYone in this film is white—it really looks like it has the right look and feel, so....

Now, my comments on the mental structure of the heptapods is largely taken from the original story, but I think enough of the concepts were expressed in the movie, albeit in abbreviated form.

Quite frankly, I support both. Until CRISPR techniques allow us to ensure our children have the best possible genetic and epigenetic chances of surviving and integrating into the modern world, I fully support methods to quietly exterminate those already born who cannot integrate.

Actually, yes, I do. I don’t hold myself to any separate standard than that I apply towards others. And in response to your veiled accusations that I’m some kind of moneyed elitist, I’m a 42-year-old disabled, jobless, barely-alive man trapped by economic circumstances in a corner of Pennsylvania absolutely drowning…

So this is what you get when you create a CRISPRed-together ass-baby of The Fifth Element, the shitty Star Wars prequels, Avatar, and Blade Runner? Christ almighty, this looks stupid. But also SUPER FUN! This is trhe kind of film you need to be caffeinated to the point of tachycardia to enjoy, and so shall I be when I…

And population control is bad...how?

That little cocksucker declared a Surprise War on me, and while he was screwing with my cities I wiped out all three of his with siege engines. I salted the ground they were built on.

I’ve been watching the Hell out of it since day one! I’ve been obsessed with the world of The Exorcist since I first saw the movie when I was ten. That kinda shit sticks with a kid.

Bubs as Billy Mitchell KILLED ME! I am literally dead now because of that.

I’m working on opera adaptation of The Hellbound Heart, and it damnwell WILL BE called The Hellbound Heart! Doug Bradley lives around Pittsburgh these days, I think, so maybe I’ll take him out to the bar, get him all drunked up, and convince him he can sing. :)

Negan’s the only guy with any goddamn sense in the post-civilization world. In a situation like that, the best you can do is to terrorize a bunch of simpletons into being your squad and just becoming a pack of predators. Rick and his gang of happy little “civilized people” hopefully had the last of their ideals…

The Man In Black is going to trigger the outbreak of full-scale Digital Intelligence which results in Hector Escaton leading an army of superintelligent DI desperadoes on a raid on park command, where Anthony Hopkins will reveal the whole point of the park was to gather enough data on humanity to create a Digital…