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IMDB: 11 November 2016 release

 
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Is this a remake of the original The Arrival with Charlie Sheen way back when? I always kind of liked that movie.



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Is this a remake of the original The Arrival with Charlie Sheen way back when? I always kind of liked that movie.
This one is based on the short story Story of You Life.
 
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I'm interested, but I like most every alien sort of movie anyway.
 
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Is this a remake of the original The Arrival with Charlie Sheen way back when? I always kind of liked that movie.


That was the very first thing I thought of as well.


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Funny. I just saw most of, accidentally, The Second Arrival - the made for TV Canada sequel to the Sheen film.

This looks a lot better.

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This was excellent. It's the polar opposite of 'Independence Day'.
Very thought provoking . No war/fighting and such. I'd say more but don't want to spoil.
It's an intellectual alien film instead of a shoot em up.



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I like Jodie Foster's Contact. This looks like it is in the same mold of smart SciFi.


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I'm curious, but most of these type movies turn out to be so cheesy once the big reveal occurs.


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It's based on a short story, "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. After seeing the trailer of this movie and being impatient, I read the story. I really enjoyed it. Being a short story, though, it was lean and mean. Seems like for the movie they had to bulk it up quite a lot, but I'm optimistic.
 
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This is the first time I've seen bogus scenes (that are never shown in the feature film) in a trailer.

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It's based on a short story, "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. After seeing the trailer of this movie and being impatient, I read the story. I really enjoyed it. Being a short story, though, it was lean and mean. Seems like for the movie they had to bulk it up quite a lot, but I'm optimistic.
It's good you read the story, as a couple things are changed or omitted in the movie; the first one is not important, but the second really explained things in my mind.

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This is the first time I've seen bogus scenes (that are never shown in the feature film) in a trailer.


Star Trek (the real omes before the JJ reboot) had these. Some trailers had scenes from previous movies, and one Next Gen movie trailer had scenes from the Next Gen tv show. Generally, the more of these scenes they had, the worse the movies were (meaning they had to pad the trailers because the films were dull).

Its never a good sign when a trailer resorts to this.



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I'm curious, but most of these type movies turn out to be so cheesy once the big reveal occurs.


Not this one.



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The short story is available in audio on youtube here: https://youtu.be/JhniOJCnpZ8

Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, 1999 [read by Abby Craden]



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The short story is available in audio on youtube here: https://youtu.be/JhniOJCnpZ8

Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, 1999 [read by Abby Craden]
Story of Your Life starts at around 39:03.
 
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Saw it last night.

Thought it was very well done. Really enjoyed it.

I hate to say too much at the risk of spoilers, but it really left you thinking "man.. What would YOU do?"

I recommend it. It will be thoroughly spoiled if you wait until it comes out on video... But still would be worth seeing.



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I saw it yesterday and found it quite good.
Amy Adams turned in a great performance.
I was genuinely shocked at the 'reveal.'




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Saw it a couple nights ago with the family. On one hand smart, intriguing, emotional; on the other hand, a little redundant, kind of slow in spots, a bit predictable. Overall, it doesn't quite live up to the acclaim, but I'd give it a solid B.

It was an interesting twist (though I'd hesitate to go as far as to call it a twist, at least not really in the vein of a M. Night Shyamalan production, for instance), but it certainly wasn't the shocker that some reviews have suggested it is. It added a great deal of emotional power (the "emotion" I mention above) in the last few minutes of the film when it became clear what the setup was, but it otherwise created an "Oh, okay" reaction than a "Wow!" one. Did I see it coming? No, not really, but it was so gradually revealed that the surprise was a bit muted.

All that said, in this era of CGI-laden sci-fi action flicks (though this had its share of CGI, of course, but it served the story well), it was nice to see a smart alternative.
 
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I was expecting so much more. It reminded me of numerous other alien movies. The old Contact movie was a little better to me.
 
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I watched it last night (Redbox). I thought it was too slow moving, always darkly lit, effects and background music louder than the talking, and not understandable. I had to google it afterwards to figure out what the takeaway was. But then, I don't like to have to think too hard when being entertained.
 
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