Has anyone seen Contact?

[Night Blade]

One of my all time favs, didn't mind the ending at all as it just shows you how immature & untrustworthy the human race is, if ET dropped on the whitehouses lawn today there would be critics saying it's a PR stunt to get Americas attention away from the Katrina disaster.

 

[conjur]

I loved the opening scene: the pullback from earth through the solar system, the galaxy, the universe.


Amazing.

 

[NakaNaka]

"I'm OK to GO!"

 

[DVad3r]

I liked the movie, but it was kind of gay with the whole alien signal and building a device etc. She only traveled around it in space, wasnt she supposed to visit the aliens? Then the whole thing about her dreaming it all, ridiculous.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: conjur
I loved the opening scene: the pullback from earth through the solar system, the galaxy, the universe.


Amazing.

Then you might like this.

 

[tweakmm]

The book was much better.

 

[EatSpam]

I was bored to tears.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: conjur
I loved the opening scene: the pullback from earth through the solar system, the galaxy, the universe.


Amazing.

Then you might like this.

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[cmp1223]

Even more proving than 18 hours of static would probably be that she was out of her harness and the chair assembly had completely detached from the sphere. She couldn't have released her harness if it was only a two second drop. Unless it happened when she "landed", but with the net it looked like a smooth ride.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: whitecloak
The book was very good.

I was just about to ask Has anyone read Contact?

The book goes in to quite a bit more depth than the movie does.

** Spoilers **

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I liked the movie, but it was kind of gay with the whole alien signal and building a device etc. She only traveled around it in space, wasnt she supposed to visit the aliens? Then the whole thing about her dreaming it all, ridiculous.

To all the people saying this, you missed the point of the end of the movie. She didn't dream anything. Everything that she experienced actually happened. She traveled through space for 18 hours, but the alien technology happened to return her to the exact point in time where she began. To the observers it looked like she fell straight through. The reason there was 18 hours of static was because during the 2 second drop she and the capsule where gone for 18 hours.

 

[LookingGlass]

I saw it when it first came out, enjoyed it. Good movie.

 

[SilentRavens]

I've seen it, thought is was pretty bad both times I saw it too.

 

[Xyclone]

Yep.

 

[r6ashih]

i saw this yesterday too but missed the end. why dont they send more people?

 

[SaltBoy]

My favorite movie of 1997, but for more personal than "artistic" reasons. Even though it was done for entertainment value, the whole science vs. religion debate in the movie really spoke to the 21-year old me. Older and wiser now, I watched it last week for the first time in five years (and in HD, w00t!). Even though I can now see the movie's flaws, I still find Contact a fantastic example of how to approach a delicate subject without offending the viewpoint of either side of the argument.

And I love the character of Hadden. "Wanna take a ride?"

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Alien contact movies are extremely boring.

More likely the scenario would be "Scientist meets toad, meaningful communication does not begin?"

IF alien intelligence exists, IF it has the ability to travel here, IF they do get here, expect them to be forever incomprehensible.

 

[MazerRackham]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: whitecloak
The book was very good.

I was just about to ask Has anyone read Contact?

The book goes in to quite a bit more depth than the movie does.

** Spoilers **

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I liked the movie, but it was kind of gay with the whole alien signal and building a device etc. She only traveled around it in space, wasnt she supposed to visit the aliens? Then the whole thing about her dreaming it all, ridiculous.

To all the people saying this, you missed the point of the end of the movie. She didn't dream anything. Everything that she experienced actually happened. She traveled through space for 18 hours, but the alien technology happened to return her to the exact point in time where she began. To the observers it looked like she fell straight through. The reason there was 18 hours of static was because during the 2 second drop she and the capsule where gone for 18 hours.

FTW!!

Contact is a great movie and I'm proud to own it on DVD.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Bothers me that in her defense she didn't just say "test it again with a different pilot"... even if that wasn't the point of the movie, it would be so easy to test it again after they spent billions of dollars making the thing.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Bothers me that in her defense she didn't just say "test it again with a different pilot"... even if that wasn't the point of the movie, it would be so easy to test it again after they spent billions of dollars making the thing.

Yeah, that was my main problem with it.

 

[johnjohn320]

Resurrecting this thread, cause I saw it last night.

*maybe spoilers*

Really enjoyed it, the science vs religion thing was pulled off quite well in my opinion. One question though-someone explain Hadden to me. I don't get it-who is he? What did he do? What were they talking about at Eli's hearing at the end, that he "had the resources and money and will to dupe us all..."

<---confused about this character

 

Originally posted by: nick1985
Welcome to 8 years ago.

 

[Wag]

It's good.

Now go read the book and you'll get an idea what Carl Segan was really getting at.

 

[JulesMaximus]

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..)

Agreed, I also liked the movie. Thought it was well written and very well acted.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
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!?"

carl sagan, the writer of contact and cosmos.


I think it was an okay movie.

 

[spidey07]

I wait 3 ours to see a cool alien.

And its her dad.

weak, very very weak.

Great movie though.