Science Fiction

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts) Wed Nov 16, 2016, 06:30 PM Nov 2016

If you have not yet seen 'Arrival', I urge you to do so ASAP

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Science fiction that makes you think past the usual thud and blunder.
Takes every thing you've seen from in the usual "OMG, extraterrestrials are here"
onscreen treatments and bins them- think "Solaris" or the original
"The Day The Earth Stood Still".

Added on edit: Amy Adams is the heart and soul of this movie, and I will be
sorely disappointed if she doesn't win an Academy Award for this.

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If you have not yet seen 'Arrival', I urge you to do so ASAP (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Nov 2016 OP

Have you read the short story it is based on? sweetloukillbot Mar 2017 #1

sweetloukillbot

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1. Have you read the short story it is based on?

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Mon Mar 13, 2017, 12:45 AM

Mar 2017

"Story of Your Life" - by Ted Chiang. Absolutely magnificent, and I'm not even sure it's his best. I just read "Lifecycle of Software Objects" and was blown away.

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