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Arrival
Film
FilmPG-131996
The Arrival
Directed by David Twohy
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue. From TMDB
62 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 28, 2026 · How this works
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The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction thriller mystery film, directed by David Twohy, starring Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse and Richard Schiff.
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60 of 62 · most liked firstIf they released a film that looked like this today, audiences just wouldn't be able to handle it. They'd react like they did when watching The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station in the 1890s, full panic, screaming, crying, begging for desaturation
neutral · AI labelView post →The Arrival (1996) Director: David Twohy Cast: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Teri Polo, Richard Schiff, Leon Rippy Watch Review wp / wd
neutral · AI labelView post →He looks like he's about to pop his knees backwards and walk like the aliens in the Charlie Sheen movie The Arrival from the 90's.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember the 90s Schwarzenegger movie Eraser? Or the Charlie Sheen alien conspiracy thriller The Arrival? Or Keanu as Johnny Mnemonic? Well all three of these received FMV adventure games that CRUSHED MY ENTIRE SOUL IN UNIQUE AND HELLISH WAYS. My suffering distilled into 90 minutes, just for you:
negative · AI labelView post →Legend has it that when audiences viewed the Lumières’ film ‚The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station‘ in 1896, the sight of the approaching train sent viewers running away in terror. In such lore lives truth, however: A moving picture was a shock to the senses, revolutionary to behold.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Arrival ⁞1996 www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571 #NowWatching #filmsky #scifi #sci-fi ·Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. but the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it·
neutral · AI labelView post →The Arrival |1996 www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571 #NowWatching #filmsky #scifi #sci-fi ·Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. but the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it·
neutral · AI labelView post →It's wild how insanely GOATed the Arrival to Earth score from Transformers (2007) is relative to the quality of the actual movie itself.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie “Arrival.” (I do really like “The Arrival.”)
positive · AI labelView post →"Arrival" ---- Great movie!!! All of it from beginning to end was well done. Amy Adams was fantastic as was Jeremy Renner. More movies about languages would be good as they are rare. note: this is not the movie "The Arrival" with Charlie Sheen.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching THE ARRIVAL FROM THE DARKNESS (1921), a Czechoslovak silent horror movie in which a landowner who lives in an old castle with his comely young wife becomes entranced by a grimoire Directed and co-written by Jan S. Kolar Starring Anny Ondra and Theodor Pistek
neutral · AI labelView post →This just in: At the request of our dearest beloved payment processor overlords, 1996 Charlie Sheen movie The Arrival has been deemed a piece of depraved, problematic pornography and therefore banned forever. Below is and example of its HORRIFICLY lewd content, viewer's discretion advised
neutral · AI labelView post →i put the Arrival essay for free and people are still paying to subscribe to GOOD MOVIE 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 that’s real respect for the work 😭😭😭😭 come be with us it’s a cool place goodmovie.substack.com/subscribe
neutral · AI labelView post →Sixty years ago today, a week after filming The Prisoner's opening title sequence in London, filming began on The Arrival (as the first episode was then known) at Portmeirion on Monday 5th September 1966. #ThePrisoner #PatrickMcGoohan #Portmeirion
neutral · AI labelView post →I HONESTLY AND TOTALLY SCREAMED FOR THE ARRIVAL OF MAYOR VAUGHN'S ANCHOR BLAZER :D The *real* star of this film, outside of... well, we'll discuss that other guy later. #Jaws2024
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway I deeply recommend Ted Chiang's fiction. Most people now know is work through the film The Arrival. Any of his short story collections are masterpieces but "Stories of Your Life and Others" is a great start. For gamedevs I always recommend his novella, 'The Lifecycle of Software Objects".
neutral · AI labelView post →its not like an underrated gem or anything but i really liked that charlie sheen movie from 1996 The Arrival. i would watch anything that was like jacobs ladder, enemy of the state, PI, i loved a paranoid thriller from the 90s
positive · AI labelView post →Watching THE ARRIVAL with Charlie Sheen, the movie that dares to ask "what if THEY LIVE wasn't funny"
neutral · AI labelView post →#justwatched 'The Arrival' (2016). I saw it first time round. I don't remember it being such an emotional watch, but I have a history of not remembering complicated feelings and situations. I'll tell you about that another time. #scifi #arrival #amyadams #denisvilleneuve
neutral · AI labelView post →The Arrival (1996) always surprises me with how many genres it mixes successfully. What a weird, wonderful film.
positive · AI labelView post →I often wonder if the Arrival, a 1996 Charlie Sheen movie, is a documentary because it would explain a lot if aliens were doing climate change deliberately.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the 1996 Charlie Sheen film The Arrival. No one is forcing me. I could stop this at any time and yet I choose not to.
neutral · AI labelView post →feels like this basically suggests Jimothy ends up on a faraway planet and somehow becomes the ancestor to that species from the Arrival movie
neutral · AI labelView post →today I learned that the guy who adopted The Story of Your Life to screenplay (for the film The Arrival) was also the guy that wrote Dionaea House
neutral · AI labelView post →My extremely not online film-loving spouse just watched HAMNET with me, and at the climactic scene he turned to me and said “I can’t believe they used the ARRIVAL song!”
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Arrival," a Charlie Sheen climate change film from 1996. In it, aliens are heating up the Earth. "We're just finishing what you started. What would have taken you 100 years, we'll do in ten." Watch clip to the end. youtu.be/akYf73cUU6U?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Arrival from the Darkness (1921) d. Jan S. Kolár St. Wenceslas (1930) d. Jan S. Kolár Two silent Czech films from a pioneering director. The first a dark supernatural tale; the second a sweeping medieval epic. Even for the seasoned film fan there is always something new just around the corner..
neutral · AI labelView post →UFOctober: THE ARRIVAL (1996) @scrawfish.bsky.social says, 30 years later, it’s time for the truth to come out about this film. Justice will be served! #UFOctober 🛸 www.neonsplatter.com/daily-beasts...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 58- The Arrival from the Darkness (1921) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Arrival (1996 David Twohy) Heard this Arrival movie from a few years back was kind of a big deal so thought I should check it out
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with a TTRPG, book, board game, movie and TV show. 🎲 Monster of the Week 📖 The Player of Games ♟️ Dead of Winter 🎥 The Arrival 📺 Twin Peaks
neutral · AI labelView post →we’ve decided that tonight's movie is “The Arrival” (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →I am so glad to be reminded of how incredible the movie The Arrival is. Language is an art form #randomlyappauled
positive · AI labelView post →We just rewatched the Arrival and boy is that an ugly cry movie. Right off the bat, cuing the tears. So gorgeous and devastating.
positive · AI labelView post →I was watching The Arrival #VHS #PhysicalMedia and Charlie Sheen is actually a pretty good actor. I already knew that from Young Guns, but seeing him in a Sci-Fi movie changes my idea of what his range is. youtu.be/QTl34Gs-OmE?...
positive · AI labelView post →sometimes I randomly remember there's a whole movie/novella based on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativity) it's The Arrival
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking back to the Charlie Sheen movie The Arrival, where they're literally coming from Mexico is... bleak
neutral · AI labelView post →I just figured it was a bad skin suit like in the Charlie Sheen (ugh) movie The Arrival. (1996) youtu.be/e0wRbbzTdhQ?...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE ARRIVAL is the first movie I ever saw where I had the specific thought, "This would be good MST3K fodder." Bad but not unbearable, self-serious but goofy, has Charlie Sheen, etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →And I should’ve said, The Story of Your Life was adapted to the film The Arrival, if you’re not familiar. It’s a lovely short story, and I think for comics makers in particular his description of their written language is simple, ah comics! I keep returning to it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Science Fiction I liked from 1996: Star Trek: First Contact The Arrival Mars Attacks! Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker Dark Skies Escape from L.A. Independence Day MST3K: The Movie The Nutty Professor
positive · AI labelView post →Oh right, now I remember. That's how the aliens looked in the Sci Fi movie 'The Arrival'.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a movie titled "The Arrival" where aliens were hidden among us actively trying to change the planet to suit their alien needs and eventually kill the humans. Just sayin'....
neutral · AI labelView post →Other favourites; Frank God Bless America Safety Not Guaranteed They Live The Arrival (1996 b movie, not the recent film) Heavy Trip Ever since I was little and my older brother terrorized me when the Invaders came on I have been a sucker for alien invasion stories.
positive · AI labelView post →Best gimmick of the Charlie Sheen "The Arrival" (1996) movie was that global warming was caused by the aliens slowly terra-forming our planet to be more like theirs. I wish it was aliens, and not just our own psychopathic greed machines.
positive · AI labelView post →I am not trying to be funny but The Arrival has to be the funniest meant to be serious movie ever made and I’m not sure it’s even a close call.
negative · AI labelView post →Nope! There is a documentary called Children of the Stars about them which is on Tubi!! I went to their website afterward and bought their sci-fi movie The Arrival from them. Doc: letterboxd.com/film/childre... Sci-fi Movie: letterboxd.com/film/the-arr...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd say it was because people had never seen The Arrival which is the non-preschool version of this but The Arrival is a smart, dense, slow burn scifi movie with very little direct conflict that stars a WOMAN so of course they haven't
positive · AI labelView post →That story of an audience panicing and stampeding out over "The Arrival of the Train" but replace the movie with boypussy "The occurrence of the Boypussy" with music by Claude Debussy
neutral · AI labelView post →so he is an alien 👽 probably just like those dudes in the Charlie Sheen sci-fi film The Arrival.
neutral · AI labelView post →15 years ago on September 24, 2011, TV show 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' aired episode "The Arrival of Sound"
neutral · AI labelView post →Anybody seen the movie The Arrival (1996)? A core plot point was that aliens were hastening climate change in order to terraform Earth. The movie opens with one of the main characters standing on a patch of green grass in the middle of the arctic […]
neutral · AI labelView post →You would think that when making alien/sci-fi movies that you wouldn't title it with a name incredibly similar to another movie title. The Arrival and Arrival are two separate, somewhat similar, but yet different movies. The Charlie Sheen version could have definitely been executed better.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film 39: The Arrival From the Darkness (1921) struggled to hold my interest, but it's probably not the movie's fault because it definitely has some interesting visuals.
neutral · AI labelView post →www.ordinarylifeextraordinarygod.org/post/amy-ada... Amy Adams & Denis Villeneuve Reunite 8 Years After 'Arrival' | Vanity Fair "It's been 8 years since Amy Adams & Denis Villeneuve worked together for the movie 'The Arrival.' Amy and Denis sit down to discuss everything from the first time they...
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember that movie, The Arrival?
neutral · AI labelView post →lol, knew it. Sugar is doing The Arrival. Totally slept-on movie, btw.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching "The Arrival", by David Twohy. Very underrated sci-fi film and Charlie Sheen is great in the role. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. #TheArrival #SciFi #Movies youtu.be/jOgXLpyJPFo
positive · AI labelView post →2/2 #TheArrival (1996) Original #Trailer [FHD] #yt https://youtu.be/U6d_OZHCDb0
neutral · AI labelView post →#thearrival or #dieAnkunt 😍👽💙🦄 cant get enough watching/hearing it Soundtrack: https://youtu.be/Ax_rEiw3KwE?si=KEg8kMMmEExpH3dT
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