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Has anyone seen Contact?

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Sheepathon

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1997 movie. Imdb link.

Just finished watching it on HBO. HIGHLY recommend it to everyone. It's engrossing, somehow balances science fiction with spirituality and philosophy, and the acting is damn good, too. It's an utterly captivating and perhaps even inspirational movie. Not as good as March of the Penguins, of course, but still WELL worth a viewing.
 
Any movie with a variation of the "it was all a dream" ending cannot be considered "fantastic" in my book.
 
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Any movie with a variation of the "it was all a dream" ending cannot be considered "fantastic" in my book.
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But it wasn't a "it was all a dream" ending - remember the "static" video footage at the end of the movie?
 
Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Any movie with a variation of the "it was all a dream" ending cannot be considered "fantastic" in my book.
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But it wasn't a "it was all a dream" ending - remember the "static" video footage at the end of the movie?
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note the word variation....
 
Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Any movie with a variation of the "it was all a dream" ending cannot be considered "fantastic" in my book.
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But it wasn't a "it was all a dream" ending - remember the "static" video footage at the end of the movie?
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its still uber annoying
 
No - it just gives you that "oh, so we can think it really happened even though though whole dream was retarded" sensation
 
I loved the movie till I sat in the theater for friggin 3 hours to see the ending was an image of her father giving her a speech 😛
After the ending I hated the movie for the ending kills all of the 2 hours and 59 minute build up to be let down emmotionaly.
 
A great movie, the main protagonist starts as a major atheist, speculating people with faith based on no scientific evidence as foolish and short-sighted. In the end of the movie she ends up experiencing being in the shoes of the believers- sparked by an undeniable 'dream' of what really exists out there. The protagonist ends up finding herself being what she dreaded the most. But she just cannot deny what she had experienced despite total lack of scientific evidence and ridicule from her collegues, a reflection of her former self.

It's a great movie indeed, if you're annoyed by the 'dream' ending, you're missing the whole damn point of the movie. This is not a scifi, that element is only a vehicle to portray a deeper personal growth of one scientist.

I perfectly loved how the movie portrayed the alien as her father. This escaped the movie from being just another lame SciFi. How else would you have liked the alien to look like? It would've been a sore dissapointment if it looked like just another alien seen in other SciFi movies- (StarWars, Trek, War of the World, Signs etc..)
 
Loved the movie, saw it at the theatre. Only bad moment was the retarded skaters walking out of the theater after it said, "For Carl" on the screen, and they were almost shouting, "Carl? Who the fsck is Carl!?"
 
I didn't like the ending. Very realistic movie about what would happen if we got a message from ET's, but the end was a bunch of metaphysical 2001 Space Odyssey junk.
 
Originally posted by: jEct2
A great movie, the main protagonist starts as a major atheist, speculating people with faith based on no scientific evidence as foolish and short-sighted. In the end of the movie she ends up experiencing being in the shoes of the believers- sparked by an undeniable 'dream' of what really exists out there. The protagonist ends up finding herself being what she dreaded the most. But she just cannot deny what she had experienced despite total lack of scientific evidence and ridicule from her collegues, a reflection of her former self.

It's a great movie indeed, if you're annoyed by the 'dream' ending, you're missing the whole damn point of the movie. This is not a scifi, that element is only a vehicle to portray a deeper personal growth of one scientist.

I perfectly loved how the movie portrayed the alien as her father. This escaped the movie from being just another lame SciFi. How else would you have liked the alien to look like? It would've been a sore dissapointment if it looked like just another alien seen in other SciFi movies- (StarWars, Trek, War of the World, Signs etc..)
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what he said 🙂
 
Just a comment that I hope doesn't virge on the political, but wow this movie enjoys portraying the entire religious community as complete idiots.

A quote from the President's Religious Advisor (who's rather good at the one-night stand thing): "Hoccam's Razor?--sounds like a slasher movie"
And the scientist has to explain prime numbers to the goverment agents....

Anyway, it's almost as bad as Pleasantville.
 
Originally posted by: alien42
Originally posted by: jEct2
A great movie, the main protagonist starts as a major atheist, speculating people with faith based on no scientific evidence as foolish and short-sighted. In the end of the movie she ends up experiencing being in the shoes of the believers- sparked by an undeniable 'dream' of what really exists out there. The protagonist ends up finding herself being what she dreaded the most. But she just cannot deny what she had experienced despite total lack of scientific evidence and ridicule from her collegues, a reflection of her former self.

It's a great movie indeed, if you're annoyed by the 'dream' ending, you're missing the whole damn point of the movie. This is not a scifi, that element is only a vehicle to portray a deeper personal growth of one scientist.

I perfectly loved how the movie portrayed the alien as her father. This escaped the movie from being just another lame SciFi. How else would you have liked the alien to look like? It would've been a sore dissapointment if it looked like just another alien seen in other SciFi movies- (StarWars, Trek, War of the World, Signs etc..)
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what he said 🙂
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Ditto, and very well said.

 
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