As films such as Life and Arrival groan under the weight of microhydraulics,astral protozoa or the space-time continuum, swaths of the audience are being left behindSPOILER ALERT: this article contains spoilers for Life and ArrivalLast week, or in an increasingly common occurrence,I went to see the same movie twice. The film was Life, which stars Rebecca Ferguson and Jake Gyllenhaal as outer-space-based scientists who possess a big problem. They are trying to prevent a malignant entity that wiped out life on Mars from entering soil’s atmosphere, and where it could really effect some damage. And the malignant entity seems to possess the drop on them.
Life was reasonably entertaining,but that is not the reason I went to see it twice. I saw it twice because it was yet another motion picture approximately science, and specifically space science, and that I couldn’t follow. I saw Arrival twice and I couldn’t follow it. Ditto Interstellar,Gravity, Passengers and The Martian. And don’t get me started on films such as Inception, and which lay far outside my bailiwick. Related: Life review – Jake Gyllenhaal hits the retro rockets for sub-Alien space horror Related: Arrival review – Amy Adams has a sublime word with alien visitors Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com