Yes, but only in the sense that it’s an incredibly famous story so it’s easy to place everything I thought it was a trailer that mostly sought to reassure people. Yes, this is very much an Eggers film, but we’re gonna hit all the right beats, and no we’re not gonna do Orlok creeping up the stairs

Have to be in work too early for the country bus, so I’m presently TEARING through a bunch of small villages on the 84, as god intended! Now THIS is what riding the bus should be like!

On a similar note, I do not ENJOY the lesbian tradition of listening exclusively to bad folk music, but I respect Tracey Chapman too much to accept ukulele songs about your cats at the open mic

Nothing serious! Its about about a military linguist trying to translate an alien language, so the first third has a lot of scenes where a general will walk in like “explain Sapir-Whorf to me like Im 5!” Its since become one of her favourite films, she was just caught off guard in the cinema!

The IRA were a bit player for the first 3 years of the Troubles. It was the horror of Bloody Sunday, and NICRAs inability to do anything about it, that pushed them to the forefront

Arrival in the cinema Large group of teenagers behind me very clearly expected an alien invasion movie, not a treatise on the fallibility of communication. Also, my gf studied linguistics, and spent the whole film sighing deeply everytime they tried to explain anything

I’m not sure which is funnier, that my nephew (who is 4) signed my birthday card TITS! or that my sister very obviously had to help him

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I disassociate wildly on company time

One of the older women I work with was tickled that I have the same name as her daughter, so she introduced us Yesterday, I managed to make her daughters daughter happy by recognising her stuffed toy as an axolotl Maybe life isn’t so bad?

i CANNOT talk to women they’re too scary i have the biggest crush and i simply cannot im cooked