Talk:Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD 2/@comment-24328089-20170310001621

I just had the displeasure of watching "Arrival". It has to be the worst 2016 movie I've seen. Maybe better than Dirty Grandpa, idk.

It was very well directed. Very well acted. The first two acts of the film were thought provoking and suspenseful movie about communication with aliens, exploring themes on how limited human use of communication is, and how limitless the possibilities of communication really are.

Then, in the third act, it renders all of that completely pointless by turning the entire plot of the movie into Cliche Time Travel Plot Holes #112. They give her narrative breaking future seeing powers for basically no reason at all, and dive head first into ontological paradox territory by having her future self give her past self random helpful information with absolutely no origin as to where she got the information in the first place.

I don't understand why anybody would enjoy the story of this movie at all, unless they were the type of person who can't wrap their head around the plot hole and thinks that them being confused is an indicator of it being a good movie.

I wouldn't mind the plot holes, if the film didn't literally revolve around them. If it had something to offer other than being a thought provoking film that basically punishes you for thinking about the film.