STARGATE: THE ARK OF TRUTH (Movie, 2008)

Stargate trilogy....Hard to follow if not a fan of the show though. 

STARGATE: CONTINUUM (Movie, 2008)

The SG-1 series may be over, but new material keeps coming out. Stargate: Continuum is the second motion picture after the series finale. This is unlike Stargate SG-1 TV series, it is a little more self-contained and is easily accessible for me that I have never watched the series. Stargate and time travel, which are 2 fantastic concepts come together to form this motion picture. 

It's entertaining, for me as a non-SG-1 fan.

life Itself (Movie, 2018)

The rambling “Life Itself” is a multigenerational drama about the messiness of life, but the emotional impact of the movie gets lost in the messiness of its screenplay. It’s an ambitious film by Writer-director Dan Fogelman, but unfortunately, an unqualified misfire. It covers multiple generations, but all the stories (and art direction) seem thoroughly modern. 

The movie uses unreliable narration as a way to pass off poor storytelling as a feature. This movie was told in five chapters of mystifyingly uneven length. All of it leads to heartbreak, betrayal, and an entire sequence designed to make fun of a minor character who didn’t look both ways before crossing the street, and it’s all interconnected to everything that came before. 

This is a film so obsessed with death that it hasn’t bothered to give us any reason to care for the living.

Arrival (Movie, 2016)

It is more about grief, time, communication and compassion than it is warp speed, and it’s a film that asks questions. At its best, and largely through Amy Adams’ performance, the film proposes that we’ve all had those days in which communication breaks down and fear over the unknown sets in. 

Denis Villeneuve is without a doubt an upcoming director who had minimal use of computer generated images, and main focus on story, characters, acting and thrilling scenes. In Arrival there is no action, no explosions, just some amazing acting performances combined with good directing, editing and cinematography.

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