tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:61366 jack jack 2017-08-20T23:09:57Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:61366:1041536 2017-08-20T23:09:57Z 2017-08-20T23:09:57Z public 5 So, Arrival (the film, adapted from the Ted Chiang story). I didn't have a lot to say about it. Aliens, were great. Linguist, was great. Kind-of-sympathetic kind-of-antagonist military were a bit gratuitous, but generally good. But I did have thoughts about a few specific things.<br /><br />And, yes, I'm annoyed it wasn't EVEN MORE like a Ted Chiang story than it was, but please do adapt as many Ted Chiang stories as you can. The tower-of-babel one would be amazing...<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1041536.html#cutid1">Spoilers</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jack&ditemid=1041536" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments