People who didn't understand 2001

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2017)

Picasso was a Genius, he had so much to say, he could do it in the most abstract and cryptic way, and still be beautiful, poetic, meaningful.
Jackson Pollock was a talentless drunk who threw paint on a canvas and called it art.
If 2001: A Space Odissey is the Guernica, this movie is Number 8.
That's what most of the new wave Sci Fi has become: Poorly trying to remake 2001. This movie is the definition of Kitsch. 2001 is cryptic because it had to be, this movie is cryptic because they intentionally made it cryptic. Thing is, just like the linguist who never thought of starting with drawings and mathematical representations and went straight for words in the English language, we'll be lost trying to decode it because there's nothing to decode.
Something is cryptic if it has any meaning to begin with. Not all streams of numbers are cryptic, most are merely random. It is pointless to look for the Rosetta Stone to the Voynich manuscript because the Voynich manuscript is a meaningless fake.
Arrival is the Voynich Manuscript of movies, enjoy the nonsense, and don't look for any further meaning, because there isn't any.
If at least it had any action, It could be enjoyed with some popcorn, but on top of being meaningless, it's also a snoozefest. Do yourself a favor, sit this one out.