Quote (Blah58 @ Dec 22 2016 12:30am)
How was it incoherent?
aliens see the future.. they need the humans help for something that will happen in 5,000 years. they can see the future enough to know they'll need human help but not what is going to happen so that they could rectify the issue themselves? doesn't make sense. poor writing.
film tried to say they don't experience time linearly as we do.. which is stupid. they communicate with us in a linear fashion and they are here, now, asking for help with something that will happen in 5,000 years, betraying that they do in fact perceive time as linear, or are at least capable or rearranging fragments into coherent patterns.. which is to say the same thing.
they can also project images of the future into a human's mind. but they can't get by without human assistance in 5,000. they can manipulate time and are vastly technologically superior but they NEED human help. the climax of the film was just stupid. the rest was interesting. most people probably won't/don't care. I thought that was a pretty fail ending for a movie which millions of dollars was invested in.