The Arrival (1996) – Filmsack Show Notes

LINKS

IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

WIKIPEDIA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(1996_film)

Rotten Tomatoes – https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1071267-arrival

TVTropes – https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/TheArrival

WHERE TO WATCH

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usKx5In26lw

MORE WAYS TO WATCH – https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-arrival

TRAILER/CLIPS

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The Arrival (1996) – Like counting cow farts in Montana with Charlie Sheen. It doesn’t sound like fun at first but then you find yourself toweling off a sweaty sheen on a balcony at 2 am… too invested to quit. #winning #kneecapsgoonthefrontside

SHOW NOTES

• It has arrived
• The Bee Man…lady
• Stop and smell the roses bee lady..take a pic
• shouldn’t bee here… in the frozen tundra!
• That is one big satellite
• Oh…it is Evil Charlie Sheen! Goatee
• Oh hi Charlie
• Wolf 
• Meanwhile at the Observatory…
• Post it note to the forehead.
• SETI is tough enough…now on the FM…
• Needles in a haystack of needles.
• I’m a Ride Share Hostage
• You are in some bar while I am working…
• Emotional / Sexual blackmail.
• A man’s reach should never exceed his grasp quote
• Signal Detection.
• Swing Disc Back on Target. Wolf 335 you are howling wooo
• Space is calling…and you took too long to answer.
• Doing the Roller Chair Scoot.
• Piece of Saab stalled out on me
• 42 seconds of non random..no earth base. Not at 107 MHz… below the microwave.
• Sending out their encyclopedia galactica 
• I want serious dish time…normal business hours.
• Are you even shitting me?
• We hate to lose good talent.
• You fired and I’m breaking this tape.
• It’s hot…how hot…towel off the sheen on the 2nd story balcony hot.
• Why did you call me? Well Zane…why do we always analyze this relationship.
• Finger monster!! Problem here on planet earth…while you are looking at the stars… listening…shut the fuck up Zane.
• Cow Farts in Montana…so much for my sabbatical.
• Said you were faking signals 
• Terra Forming…the aliens are terraforming!
• Perhaps you would like to use the Microphone…I am looking for Phil Gordon.
• Why are you telling them lies about me?
• Sorry…a very troubled young man.
• Satellites do not move like stars
• Don’t you tell him about the backup system….don’t you tell them…damnit…you told them.
• Stick your paranoid back in your pants.
• They could be talking to us right now…
• Screw ‘em. I’m make my own phased array. Mort
• Can I see your dish? 
• What is the supercooled pressure cooker for?… Science.
• Sorry Mr. Zane…I wasn’t dropping no eaves.
• Just kicking it here…for a minute
• Cooling jacket for a low noise amp
• I’m from the city…I wear my cap with the bill at a -45 degree angle
• See if you get 92.9…
• Greetings beyond the stars.
• Too busy patting us down to see if we are strapping.
• I’m glad they introduced a character to explain this stuff in basic language…cause I’m science stoopid
• I wonder what they are going to look like?
• Warning your sleep period is over…get out of bed…cause you are dead.
• What happens at 10 o’clock … that is when she passes out on cough syrup…yummy
• This button? Right here? 
• A big one or a little one? Cause I’ve got a big one!
• A street smart / science stupid kid meets a science smart man and they hole up in his creepy listening attic every night.
• 700% increase over the past 5 years
• Central Mexico
• Who me? Just walking my creepy death doll through the crowd…looking back at you.
• One of our very much best hotels.
• This is Satellite…if you are sick or dead… you are fired.
• I head your girlfriend left…can I get her number?
• These pipes are melting …
• I miss your weird and paranoid brain.
• Naked Sheen… almost died…naked! Don’t look at me while I am screaming naked!
• Glad I cam on the Day of the dead…which is the only time any movie has gone to central Mexico.
• Just who the hell are you.
• waaaaat! Did that guy just cock his knees backwards for some extra vert.
• Oh yeah…I got a 20 meter dish
• Listening to my Walkman…sweating…in my metal rim shades..
• Good thing he has a type and she is it.
• That cop looks like my old boss.
• Here is a gravity well ball… go nuts….You’ve just been landscaped.
• Oh this is about global warming.
• Tiny coffins filled with scorpions.
• Things happen first in the Arctic
• I get so damn Apocalyptic when I drink
• Boy Zane that is a lot of guilt for someone who hasn’t done anything yet.
• haha…how the hell did the scorpions get on the ceiling fan…was this some sort of highly trained troop of scoripions?
• Don’t bathe in Central Mexico unless you want to die.
• Lights out…dishes up…look at it Sheen.
• Wait…Glorp…are you saying these humans have knees that go like this….oooooooh…that hurts so damn much…. Yes…I think I can do that 2 to 3 times daily to increase our green gas ball production. Take that colder climate humans…what if we put alarms at all work stations in case a human makes it to sub level 13
• I don’t know how to escape…but perhaps I can strip naked and hop into the alien transformation pod.
• These aliens don’t talk much.
• ”Do you want to see the ruins my friend?”
• I am melting…melting.
• I think I ran over one of their friends…whoopsy
• Actually I look like a can of smashed assholes. 
• Does Sheen have a cherry lifesaver attached to his finger tip.
• If I pull it out…it will be the last thing you ever see.
• You are pumping out greenhouse gas.
• Bang … you are dead…
• I got your camera!
• so..what was they?
• Shit..you been evicted.
• Them…not the police…Them.
• I know about the Poppy Field in the arctic
• I left my grandma a note…I want to go.
• These aliens can’t stand the fire extinguishers
• Get off me lady…Shawna 
• How did he get the power back on?
• For once in your paranoid life..trust me.
• Now Kiki..hit it now
• Kiki for Shit’s Sake
• You didn’t know the half of it.
• When a van full of cold averse aliens try to rear end their way into you satellite transmitter it is time to Liquid Nitrogen their ass
• These aliens have balls
• So slow at tearing away at a guys suit
• That must have been a bigger gravity well ball…cause that one almost sucked a whole satellite dish
• Why did it have to be like this…
• You tell them…That I know..and she knows…and soon they will all know…it is not going to be easy anymore.
• Kiki runs.

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