Sarah Rugheimer

What I liked about it was the emotional arc of the main character and sort of him overcoming his own problems, internal problems.

without giving away anything.

And I think that was the part that to me is what I thought about after the movie.

But in terms of the science fiction or whatnot, no, it's not like a high concept.

Definitely Arrival is maybe one of my top.

I think it's my favorite movie.

It's in my top three favorite movies.

So you're competing with something very high up there.

And, you know, it's maybe not that, but it is amazing.

And probably sci-fi.

Don't worry about that.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, so I think one thing I like about the science in this movie is that it doesn't depict aliens as sort of humanoids with just slightly more powerful guns coming and invading or whatever, right?

It's a problem that we have to deal with, but these aliens don't have a plan.

They're microbes, you know, eating our sun.

They're just doing their little microbe thing.

And that's very similar to another one of my favorite sci-fi movies, which is Annihilation.

Have you seen Annihilation?

Yes.

So I think it gets at that.