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For the people who enjoyed this...

posted 8 years ago by davidhkii
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...did you also enjoy Contact, and Drive, or maybe even Eraserhead? If yes, then I begin to understand why I so didn't like this movie.

[–] Ajones47 8 years ago

Contact

Yes.

Drive

Yes.

Eraserhead

I don't think anyone enjoys Eraserhead, they either find it interesting or not.

I begin to understand why I so didn't like this movie.

Cause 2deep4u?

[–] davidhkii 8 years ago

I don't really need to be spoon fed, but to me these movies, as opposed to spoon feeding, say the equivalent of "to live, you need to ingest nutrition. I'll leave it to you to figure out everything else!" Um, what?! LOL I guess.

[–] The-Nuked-Poster 8 years ago

I get annoyed when a movie fails to present a coherent story because it's so steeped in its own murky meaning, yet never makes its theme or subtext accessible.

This movie gives the sense that there is something deeper, and I haven't figured it out yet, but it tells a very interesting surface story and I admired their execution of a strange idea.

[–] palmcourt 8 years ago

Contact: yes, Drive, yes, Eraserhead? lol no

[–] davidhkii 8 years ago

Ok, sounds like this kind of movie isn't for me.

[–] svalinanikola 8 years ago

What's so difficult to understand about Drive?

Don't watch something like 2001 or Stalker then, it will destroy you.

[–] foebane72 8 years ago

I LOVE Contact!

Why are you here if you haven't seen the movie yet?

[–] chrispvella 8 years ago

I quite enjoyed Arrival.

Contact:
Love it.

Drive:
Hated it.

Eraserhead:
Never seen.

[–] ProsAndConsOfHitchiking 8 years ago

Yes. It was a lot like Contact in that it was much deeper than an alien vs human story.

I hear some people are calling it pretentious. I'm guessing that means they didn't understand what they were watching.

[–] rainofwalrus 8 years ago

I love Contact, love Drive, hate Eraserhead.

Arrival was meh. A big mess. Amy Adams dials one in. Oh, Hawkeye too.

Enjoy these words, for one day they'll be gone... All of them.

[–] drzoidberg2 8 years ago

Contact ? up on my top shelf of Sci-fi ... I always thought that would be the most realistic scenario of us receiving and decoding an alien message, and how humanity would deal with it. Though the book is light years better, the movie did ok bringing the idea to the masses.

Didn't see the other movies, waiting to see Arrival