Heck, we already had the buses, they were just being used in East Coast!

I take the point to be that the meaning one originally gets out the cut is incorrect precisely because of our assumptions of time and causality, which is of course what is happening in the film itself with the heptapod language. Our realization that we misinterpreted the cut is using film's grammar to produce a…

Yes, Arrival screws with the language of cinema, and that's the point. Understanding the film requires a shift in viewing film language just like the characters in the film are required to shift their view of language in general.

Was he shopping for fava beans? I really hope he was shopping for fava beans.

Yep, he is intense and deeply earnest. He seems like a really great guy.

The whole cast of West Wing, the literal actors, would be better at the jobs they portrayed than the people currently in charge.

Are we still not doing phrasing?

Oh sure, like there will be anything in 2025 but giant cockroaches that hunt us in the crumbling radioactive wasteland of our cites.

Or soul. But perhaps the one entails the other.

Shorter: Reading causes schizophrenia.

What do you mean "terms"? You actually think there will be elections again?

Hay!

So forced castration?

Enough!

The best claim the US has to world cheese culture is American slices and Cheez-Whiz, so I don't know how well that claim holds up. (It would also require the belief that France is the pinnacle of civilization, which I doubt many right-wingers would endorse.)

They're very concerned about macroeconomic trends and the reduction in US manufacturing.

That would be some rather strange fruit.

Don't worry, it's almost over — just another few thousand days to go.

So, guys into lifting flexed shirtless with each other while a white liquid dribbled out of their mouths.

Christina Hendricks.