I’m a sucker for sci-fi. Love it for the potentialities, the hypothesiseses, the extrapolations of what can be. The Multiversed tangents one can explore. It’s why I got suckered into some of the Marvel shit. But there’s a difference between good sci-fi and bad sci-fi. This? Mediocre sci-fi, at best. I was surprised to see it wasn’t written by a chick. Because this? Kinda chick sci-fi. Not that that’s bad. Just like space-lesbian mudfights where they somehow rip off all their tops ain’t bad. But that would technically be dude sci-fi. This is...Drama-Science-Fiction. For chicks. If you’re a lady? You will still not like the other 85% of the movie with all the ‘science’. Because it’s lame.
First contact kinda situation, a bunch of ships all arrive around various points of the globe. Humans try to communicate with them. Militaries from all over the globe pull in their best to establish some kinda basis with what is a completely alien species. Is there logic here? Minimal. Is there actual science? Again, minimal despite all the computer screens and tents and birds in cages. Is there a chest-bursting sequence that rivals all other chest-bursting sequences? Sadly, once again, negatory.
While the dilemma presented here is decent, in that how do you communicate with aliens landing in our global regionalitudes, the following story is somewhat retarded. Logic here is stupid. I’m convinced the story this is based off of is not from a Chinese dude, but pure rubbish from a chick who thinks she’s a good writer. In high school. Villeneuve does what he does here, makes things look pretty to somewhat suspect
