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Ultimately, the main star acquires magical powers from out of nowhere. Or maybe she always had magic powers. Maybe we all have magic powers when we learn the space alien language. It was a bit daft.
She supposedly gained this power of seeing time in a non linear fashion due to study of the alien language. The language allows you to look at whatever time you like, a rather Kurt Vonnegut like thing. Tralfamadorians.
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It fails to explore the motivations of the rogue army folk who decide to explode the spaceship because, well, who knows because it doesn't, y'know... Not does it mention the attack after it happens. It's just an artificial action sequence in a film that's otherwise quite slow paced. The pacing was fine for me so why even include it.
It was showing how the media influence people in a negative way. And the fragility of human peace among humans. Right wing shock jocks are remarkably good at influencing people.
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And whilst she's working on a program to decipher the alien language (which is said to be, like, several words, sentences and meanings in a ring pattern) she's suddenly fluent in alien ring language without the aid of her computer when she's sucked into the alien ship not long after, and all of a sudden alien language can be distilled into very short subtitles for the audience. I suppose the problem was that the timeline over which the film ran was unclear but it was never made clear whether they had been in contact with the aliens for weeks or months. Had they cut out the solider crap and given a realistic timeline for the contact I would have been assuaged but as it stands the last encounter with the aliens was deeply unsatisfying.
She seemed to get more fluent in the language after meeting directly with the aliens.
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And some of the shots at the end of the film were insulting to the audience. In a reveal that lasts some 10 long minutes, miss scientist discovers she can see into the future and was married to...to...this blurry mess in the background, who only the most insipid among the audience hasn't already worked out is hawkeye. The shot lasts so long I was figgiting in my seat screaming "It's FUCKING hawkeye, just show FUCKING hawkeye." They really dragged it out beyond all comprehension.
Yeah I'll give you that. Of course she gets married to him.
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And Amy Adams felt like she was a carbon copy of the Jodie Forster scientist from Contact. And hawkeye and substitute Matthew McWhatshisface, for better or worse. Hawkeye is the physicist but apparently does very little science when he's not acting as Amy Adams lapdog.
Yep I wondered what physics he was up to and what role he could possibly have in helping translate the language. And I'll delete the rest as I largely agree with you.