The aliens' actions in Arrival make a lot more sense when you realize that thanks to their non-linear view of time, they knew everything would turn out fine before everything started.
But they also must have known that Abbott was going to be killed in the explosion, which meant they thought the goal was worthy enough to sacrifice one of their own for.
I don't think Abbot died in the explosion. I think Abbot's final act is a fatal one, birthing the comprehensive language data at huge personal cost.@@mrquirky3626
Luckily they had good intentions (even if they operated in their own interest) I feel like they had the advanced technology to wreck us if they had wanted to..
This is what got me into Denis Villeneuve films, and it's still one of my favorites of his. This is one of the rare movies where the plot twist adds to the rewatchability to the movie. It just hits a lot harder the second time you see the movie, and you know where it's headed.
I figured out where the twist was heading a little ahead of the "reveal". Normally that would spoil it, but instead I found it devastating. p.s. I think I was a little ahead of the game because I'd read Slaughterhouse Five which has some similar themes with regards to how time can be experienced.
@@jmckendry84I'm with you. I figured out what the twist would be at least an hour before it was revealed, and your word "devastating" is absolutely the perfect way to describe it. It just broke my heart.
I read the anthology it's from last summer and it's pretty much all bangers. The one about AI that can make propaganda more convincing feels worrisomely prescient.
@@yellowflash5838 "Liking what you see: a documentary" It wasn't the main focus of the story, but it made an appearance. The whole thing was kind of unsettling, which I think was the point.
I saw Sicario first. Was so good it made me a fan, then the rest of his Catalogue reaffirmed it. The best part is that, on paper, Sicario is a kind of generic plot/movie, but he really elevated it.
The joke about "an American having to learn another language" doesn't really land when the main character is an expert at multiple languages, something the video also makes a joke about later.
It's a crime that Amy Adams hasn't won an Oscar yet. She's been nominated dozens of times, but nary a single win. I hope that she'll eventually take home the trophy one day. 🏆🙏
> One of the only times the alien characters felt truly "alien" It happens some times in literature. But yeah, in movies it is quite rare. I guess the issue is, that truly alien characters are hard to sell to a main-stream audience.
I watched this movie just because of Denis Villeneuve I hope he gets to adapt "Rendezvous with Rama" because I can't picture anyone better than him for the job
Love this movie. I am so glad that I saw it in theaters. The sound design of this film blew my mind. Also, look up the collaboration between the screenwriter and director on Arrival. It really showed my how much care and craft Villeneuve puts into his films.
I thought because Amy Adams knew she was going to have a daughter that eventually died, she could decide whether or not to take that path, and she decided the short amount of years of having her daughter was worth it, and thats why I love this movie. It reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in that regard and the theme of its better to love and lose than never to have loved at all.
It’s also worth noting that this is the film that introduced much of the world to neoclassical composer Max Richter and his beautifully haunting piece “On the Nature of Daylight”, which itself was from his album “The Blue Notebooks”, which he made in protest of the start of the Iraq War. Fitting, isn’t it?
@k I read Richter originally refused to allow the song to be used for Arrival since he felt it was overused previously. Villeneuve had fly out and explain how integral it was to the plot before he relented. Thank goodness he did; it's so dang powerful.
I live that movie but a couple things they could mention is the innuendo, the fact that Prince Edward and Nancy got married right after they meet (so much for getting rid of that trope), and that they didn't give Idina Menzel a song until Disenchanted!
Absolutely based shoutout to Ted Chiang. I feel like filmmakers should be challenging themselves to see who can actually do a proper adaptation of his works. I want to see someone do the one where two people take a super intelligence pill and basically strangle each other with their pheromones.
@@InsaneGunman I tried googling that, and it looks like that one is based on Ken Liu's work. The same article does mention that AMC is producing a show based on one of Ted Chiang's stories, but it's not out yet.
The whole premise of the short story this is based on is a clever play on classical mechanics. Lagrange gives you the positions and velocities of everything at the start and you figure the trajectories out from there. Hamilton on the other hand gives you just the positions, but at the start and at the end. These two descriptions of the world are equivalent in how much information they give us and thus, we can calculate the same trajectories from both.
Well done. I was worried for a second when I saw this pop up in my recommendations because I didn't want to be pissed at Honest Trailer Guy, but he and the team there obviously recognize what a masterpiece this film is!
"A mean case of resting overwhelmed face", I mean she is meeting aliens & trying to learn how to communicate with them, i think that is just called acting, which she absolutely nailed in this film.
Still my favorite Denis Villeneuve film after seeing Dune 2 (which was amazing). I love the relatively understated approach it took while still being incredibly intriguing
I love Denis Villeneuve - with the exception of THIS NONSENSE!!!!!!!! Just think a little, SciFi nerds: How could these octopi build their magnificent flying machines? Putting them in a tank and screwing... them together floating around? Ejaculating blots of ink??? Why come to earth when they master even gravity with easily idling soundless spaceships?? How could WE help? (ans so on and on and on...)
Bravo for the promo of *Rennervations* at 1:20, and a bit of Jeremy's fabulous NEW album, *"Love & Titanium."* at 1:22. The rest of the video was spot-on, too.
The movie had only ONE redeeming scene: the scene where the Chinese general instantly recognises that he is talking to his former self, through her... That was a 5D chess move, right there. Everything else... meeehh
I guess there won't be anymore Honest Trailer Commentaries. That's really too bad. I find I don't have much interest in the trailers without the commentaries. Best of luck to you guys; thanks for all the great work.
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"Monsters Ink"... chef kiss👌
Indeed 😂. 💯genius. High IQ play
🤌🏻
Only issue with it is I think it should have been the title, not in Starring.
I came here to say this.
@@88porpoise But Words With Friends is such a good title
The aliens' actions in Arrival make a lot more sense when you realize that thanks to their non-linear view of time, they knew everything would turn out fine before everything started.
But they also must have known that Abbott was going to be killed in the explosion, which meant they thought the goal was worthy enough to sacrifice one of their own for.
Death wouldn't have the same meaning because of their experience of time. Something that is, always will be@@mrquirky3626
They knew everything would work out fine BECAUSE they started.....they actually HAD to take action to make it work out
I don't think Abbot died in the explosion. I think Abbot's final act is a fatal one, birthing the comprehensive language data at huge personal cost.@@mrquirky3626
@@mrquirky3626 But if time is a circle they had already sacrificed him.
Arrival was probably one of those most peaceful alien "invasions" in cinema.
Luckily they had good intentions (even if they operated in their own interest) I feel like they had the advanced technology to wreck us if they had wanted to..
IT was Not really an Invasion more a visit
It was a weird hey we exist, you exist, nice planet introduction.
Probably a tie between that and Asteroid City
Was NOT really an invasion though...
This is what got me into Denis Villeneuve films, and it's still one of my favorites of his. This is one of the rare movies where the plot twist adds to the rewatchability to the movie. It just hits a lot harder the second time you see the movie, and you know where it's headed.
I couldn't agree more. This movie is so beautiful.
One of the movies that still make me cry, even after many rewatches.
I figured out where the twist was heading a little ahead of the "reveal". Normally that would spoil it, but instead I found it devastating.
p.s. I think I was a little ahead of the game because I'd read Slaughterhouse Five which has some similar themes with regards to how time can be experienced.
@@akirebaraSame. I cry every time.
@@jmckendry84I'm with you. I figured out what the twist would be at least an hour before it was revealed, and your word "devastating" is absolutely the perfect way to describe it. It just broke my heart.
Thank you for shouting-out Ted Chiang. He's amazing. The story this movie is based on (Story of Your Life) is my favorite piece of fiction.
I read the anthology it's from last summer and it's pretty much all bangers. The one about AI that can make propaganda more convincing feels worrisomely prescient.
@@dylancolon5871 what is the title of that short story about propaganda thing
@@yellowflash5838 "Liking what you see: a documentary" It wasn't the main focus of the story, but it made an appearance. The whole thing was kind of unsettling, which I think was the point.
1:14 In the Estonian translation they were called Batman and Robin.
cause the george clooney movie had only just come out there..? 😆 i'm kidding! i'm kidding...
Anett Kontaveit! 💙 (feat. her plants)
Scarecrow and Woodman in Russian
Thank you! I'm actually glad for this information.
So very meta
This was the movie that made me a fan of Denis Villeneuve. Visuals, music and the mind blowing ending. Such a good film
You gotta watch Sicario!!! The last 5 minutes of that movie is **chef's kiss**. Also, the cast is practically perfect.
@@akirebara Prisoners. For me, it was Prisoners. Brilliant! And Arrival too.
I saw Sicario first. Was so good it made me a fan, then the rest of his Catalogue reaffirmed it. The best part is that, on paper, Sicario is a kind of generic plot/movie, but he really elevated it.
@@PropagandaWithASmilethe perfect director when it comes to "show, don't tell" type of scenes.
Sicario for me. The overall vibe of that movie was intoxicating
This movie is so good they could barely make any jokes about it
Yeah but "Monsters Ink" was such a great one.
Legitimately good films generally make for underwhelming Honest Trailers.
@@alugificator I pissed myself laughing at how defeated they were doing Winter Soldier
@@MrJerichoPumpkinplease let this be sarcasm
The joke about "an American having to learn another language" doesn't really land when the main character is an expert at multiple languages, something the video also makes a joke about later.
It's a crime that Amy Adams hasn't won an Oscar yet. She's been nominated dozens of times, but nary a single win. I hope that she'll eventually take home the trophy one day. 🏆🙏
She’ll win next year for the movie where she turns into a dog
I guess she's been the new Leo
@@rayjinflo Or worse, the next Peter O'Toole where she'll never win in her lifetime and we'll always resent the Academy for it.
Or just realise that people don't need corrupt award recognition to be considered great.
"dozens of times" = 6 nominations
Arrival might just be the best-written sci-fi film of all time. One of the only times the alien characters felt truly "alien"
@@billy-bg9rx 💀
> One of the only times the alien characters felt truly "alien"
It happens some times in literature. But yeah, in movies it is quite rare. I guess the issue is, that truly alien characters are hard to sell to a main-stream audience.
The way the aliens perceive time in Arrival is so mind-blowing, it really makes you think about the concept of time itself.
It's even more so in the original story.
@@retroccryptgaming also into required reading of "Slaughterhouse-5"
Cool story bro
ain' nobody got time fer dat!
Wow, what amazing insights. Thanks, Sherlock.
"I forgot how good it felt to be held by you."
me: wtf, crying, throwing up
I watched this movie just because of Denis Villeneuve
I hope he gets to adapt "Rendezvous with Rama" because I can't picture anyone better than him for the job
Yes I seriously hope he gets to do his Rama project!!
Wooooow ❤
Oh shoot yeah!
Yes yes yes that would be perfect!
I thought it was already confirmed he's doing RwR.
Ted Chiang writes some awesome stuff, I agree 100% with that ending!
Yes! Anybody that liked this movie should read all his books.
@@nils-and-kat-devine100%
Using the "post-credits" stinger to plug Ted Chiang...HELL YEAH
Already write down his Merchant book in my recommendations😁!
@@nils-and-kat-devine fine ill do it
Love this movie. I am so glad that I saw it in theaters. The sound design of this film blew my mind. Also, look up the collaboration between the screenwriter and director on Arrival. It really showed my how much care and craft Villeneuve puts into his films.
“Aliens who only speak in coffee mug stains” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I feel like they had "monsters ink" first and worked from there.
This is one of those movies that stays with you for days after you watch it.
The Dune guy really knows how to make his shots look otherworldly!
I think the word is foggy
@@Luuuuyd That too.
@@Luuuuyd Like Frankin "Foggy" Nelson from Marvel's Daredevil?
One of his best shots is a slow zoom in on the bark of a tree, and that's not a joke.
see someone else just watched the video of his favorite shots 😉
I thought because Amy Adams knew she was going to have a daughter that eventually died, she could decide whether or not to take that path, and she decided the short amount of years of having her daughter was worth it, and thats why I love this movie. It reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in that regard and the theme of its better to love and lose than never to have loved at all.
Super impressed how much SJ raised their game for the caliber of the movie. Had me at second language.
I usually go to this channel for movies I'm never ever going to see. It's great to see that they can do any equally fantastic job with movies I love.
Amy Adams doesn't get nearly enough credit for her performance in Arrival. Or in general.
It’s also worth noting that this is the film that introduced much of the world to neoclassical composer Max Richter and his beautifully haunting piece “On the Nature of Daylight”, which itself was from his album “The Blue Notebooks”, which he made in protest of the start of the Iraq War. Fitting, isn’t it?
to be fair, Scorsese prolly did that with Shutter Island where the song was also used heavily.
@k I read Richter originally refused to allow the song to be used for Arrival since he felt it was overused previously. Villeneuve had fly out and explain how integral it was to the plot before he relented. Thank goodness he did; it's so dang powerful.
Oh thanks for pointing this out! I watched the movie, then came to like the song, and didn't know the song was used in the movie.
The way the music kind of bookends the film was haunting and beautiful.
Have you watched The Leftovers, which he fully scored? It's such a lovely experience of his music.
Easily the best film of 2016. It's a thought-provoking film and very underrated.
In a different timeline, Amy Adams won an Oscar for this role and Arrival won Best Picture (for a few minutes)
Coughs: "Train To Busan" (2016).
It's actually overrated and not even close to the best film of 2016.
I saw this in theaters, and my first thought was that this guy might be able to tackle Dune.
I wish I had seen this in theaters, I will never not watch another Villeneuve movie in theaters.
Legend
Wait, so you've... foreseen it??? LISAN AL-GAIB! LISAN AL-GAIB!
wow talk about learning a language fast
Hands down, this is one of my favorite movies. And the short story it's based on is good, too.
I just realised there is no honest trailer for 'Enchanted' (2007). Like, how? 🙃
Yes! Best Disney Princess!
I live that movie but a couple things they could mention is the innuendo, the fact that Prince Edward and Nancy got married right after they meet (so much for getting rid of that trope), and that they didn't give Idina Menzel a song until Disenchanted!
Resting Overwhelmed Face is me every day trying to survive life on this planet lol
Same
I was a fairly new Dad when I saw this film. Nearly broke me.
Arrivals was and is still one of my favorite sci-fi films, I watch it at least once a year. Great, great film.
Same
Absolutely based shoutout to Ted Chiang. I feel like filmmakers should be challenging themselves to see who can actually do a proper adaptation of his works. I want to see someone do the one where two people take a super intelligence pill and basically strangle each other with their pheromones.
You seen Pantheon? They animated one of Chiang's short story
@@InsaneGunman I tried googling that, and it looks like that one is based on Ken Liu's work. The same article does mention that AMC is producing a show based on one of Ted Chiang's stories, but it's not out yet.
In your epic voice please say,
"Activate inter-lock! Dyna-therms connected! Infra-cells up! Mega-thrusters are go! Let's go, Voltron Force!!!"
This has been my favorite movie ever since it came out. I just absolutely love it.
The monsters inc and words with friends bit at the end was gold 😂
The whole premise of the short story this is based on is a clever play on classical mechanics. Lagrange gives you the positions and velocities of everything at the start and you figure the trajectories out from there. Hamilton on the other hand gives you just the positions, but at the start and at the end. These two descriptions of the world are equivalent in how much information they give us and thus, we can calculate the same trajectories from both.
The first sci-fi movie I’ve seen where the aliens weren’t the villains
Ehm, Contact, ET...
You just hace watched few films.
@@adamnesicothe original idea for ET was that he was abandoned for being a weakling, and his species are deeply hostile.
Try 'District 9' - you'll love it!
Superman?
This movie was about two people meeting and conceiving a child. The aliens and saving humanity were just an afterthought 😅😅😅
One of my favorite movies ❤
Monsters, Ink is the top tier goodness we have come for
"Giant salad fingers who hot box the back of their spaceship." Absolute Gold.
One of the best movies I've ever seen. Loved it so much.
Please do an Honest Trailer for Lethal Weapon!
Arrival is a beautiful movie. I loved every second of that movie.
We need an Honest Trailer for this year's Oscars!
Like you need to ask!
people said Dune is an "unfilmable sceince fiction" and yet here we are, so.... that genre if def ripe for greatness or ultimate flop, no in-betweens
According to Arrival, this trailer was made before the movie.
“I am inevitable.” -🐙🫰
Love this Honest Trailer, funny but loving of the source material!
I love how you managed to do the honest trailer without spoiling the movie!
"Look Sam! The Honest trailer guy is actually saying our comment!" Love ya!
So, they chose her because she understands Farsi? They could just go to LA, and select any random Iranian.
All true; and yet, it’s a masterpiece, and it gets better each time you watch it. ❤
Please say "Who abandoned Snoopy in the vestibule?!"
Would love to see the Honest Trailer writers do a deep dive. A commentary if you will
In all seriousness, *Arrival* is a lovely, sad, and beautiful film and I encourage everyone to see it.
I second this comment. One of the best films ever.
Holy crap, FINALLY we get an Arrival trailer 😂
3:31 you mean ALL mainstream news? Correct?
The short story by Ted Chiang is amazing. I also really liked the Tower of Babylon from the same setp
Oh totally, Tower of Babylon is great!
Amy on top of the Duolingo Leaderboard 💀 that just sent me !! 🤣🤣
I love this movie so much. I watched it the first time with my husband. Then I watched it with my teens. They were riveted, I was bawling.
Well done. I was worried for a second when I saw this pop up in my recommendations because I didn't want to be pissed at Honest Trailer Guy, but he and the team there obviously recognize what a masterpiece this film is!
This is one of the best videos you've ever done. Outstanding!
To anyone who comments first here's your trophy, I'm sure your parents are proud 🏆
First.
@@mylucidlife495 🏆
The participation generation...
First. ¯\෴(ツ)෴/¯🏆
You know, you also came here to say first... Just saying
"A mean case of resting overwhelmed face", I mean she is meeting aliens & trying to learn how to communicate with them, i think that is just called acting, which she absolutely nailed in this film.
Word of advice…if you have a sick child, sit this one out.
Underrated film
Still my favorite Denis Villeneuve film after seeing Dune 2 (which was amazing). I love the relatively understated approach it took while still being incredibly intriguing
You should have saved “Monsters, Ink” for the title at the end 😂
Arrival is phenomenal and so underrated
I really like the design of the spaceship and the atmosphere inside it.
One of the greatest films of all time, Denis is a master.
Ted Chiang is amazing. The movie adaptation tried to overblow a very neatly crafted short story to make it be feature length
Any chance of an Honest Trailer Commentary in 2024?
This is one of my favorite movies of all time! Thanks for the video
Now if we could get one for The Arrival, then we would be talking.
Wrinkled afro picks is fucking gold. Well played.
After that quote, you'll have to make an honest trailer of tropic thunder
I love Denis Villeneuve - with the exception of THIS NONSENSE!!!!!!!!
Just think a little, SciFi nerds: How could these octopi build their magnificent flying machines? Putting them in a tank and screwing... them together floating around? Ejaculating blots of ink??? Why come to earth when they master even gravity with easily idling soundless spaceships?? How could WE help? (ans so on and on and on...)
Kudos how he killed the pronunciation of the director surname in a movie that is all about language 😂
Hahahah I know right? but, in all honesty, they ARE making fun on Americans struggling with a second language.
I nearly hyperventilated at "Monsters Ink"
Bravo for the promo of *Rennervations* at 1:20, and a bit of Jeremy's fabulous NEW album, *"Love & Titanium."* at 1:22. The rest of the video was spot-on, too.
I. Never. Get. Tired. Of. This!!!
Love this film
Give me the chills with the line "Welcome to PlayPaintChill. You just gained honor +2 for following us ! ".
Please say, "My momma always said, 'life is like a hurricane, here in, Duckburg.'"
Hopefully humanity will live long enough to see a sequel.
Always connected this movie and Slaughterhouse 5 in my head. Same deal with aliens who experience time all at once.
This movie hits different once you have kids.
I love Ted Chiang's work. "Exhalation: Stories" is a beautiful collection of short stories.
Dude, you've got to make a new "Go go Honest Trailers" theme song!
The movie had only ONE redeeming scene: the scene where the Chinese general instantly recognises that he is talking to his former self, through her... That was a 5D chess move, right there.
Everything else... meeehh
Lol I'm reading all the glowing comments feeling like I'm in an invasion of the body snatchers movie. Arrivals was so freaking tedious.
@@mariposa9506 I thought I was the only one....
@@bbrown333 we are not alone
@@mariposa9506Braindead
I guess there won't be anymore Honest Trailer Commentaries. That's really too bad. I find I don't have much interest in the trailers without the commentaries. Best of luck to you guys; thanks for all the great work.
Incredible good movie on so many levels.
1:44 When Honest Trailers reads my mind. Amy Adams looked like she was just trying to rip one xD.
"To me, my X-Men" is the quote I never knew I had to hear in this voice. Goddamn!
I'm convinced they did this entire video just so they could deliver the "Monsters, Ink" line. Perfection.
I wept in the theater. Loved it but I'm scared to watch again
Complex and mopey movie. Very clever writing… this Honest Trailer I mean.
I am not watching Miss Webb till you make an honest trailer for it
Whomever came up with "Monsters Ink.", give that man a raise!