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Summary: Making Contact.
Review: This movie is one of my fav's of all time. I was only 12yrs when I saw first it and I loved it(I watched it again last night though). Its funny cause my bro was saying that he heard the movie moved slow and I'm like "Really?", I dunno everytime someone tells me a movie moves slow it doesn't seem like it to me. So anywho, this movie is highly imaginitive. I loved it all. Because its so beautifull visually. And Jodi Foster is magnificent as Ellie. She conveys her emotions and feelings with perfection. If you are looking for a very interesting&Quality movie and are willing to watch a movie fairly long movie. Then I'm sure you'll love this!!! ...
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Summary: Great Special Effects
Review: I love this movie and my kids love this movie. It really opens up your thoughts to our place in this universe and how small our planet really is and it will awaken any interest in astronomy.
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Summary: Pure Sci-Fi with awe-inspiring scenes and deep human thought
Review: This movie is what I call "Pure" Sci-Fi... one that takes our reality, then adds a Science-Fiction element to it. [i]Contact[/i] will not bore you if you get into the movie. Ellie Arroway, portrayed beautifully by Jodie Foster, shows you just what a scientist's life is like, slightly Hollywoodized, on the silver screen. Her spiritual, emotional, and scientific journey is one I don't think you'll want to miss. Are there aliens out there? Is the main question and plot of this movie. "It would be an awful waste of space." It also delves a bit into the politics of the science world, which is refreshing and different for a Sci-Fi film. The plot is also quite similar to the book, which I also recommend reading. The DVD, while preserving the sound and video to almost perfection, has included some worthwhile features. The "making of" sequences tell quite a bit how a movie comes to light. Last but not least, if you're still not convinced, then you should get the movie just for the beginning and climax. Keeping an open mind will help you understand just how those parts of the film are interesting, theoretical, and contraversial.
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Summary: love it
Review: Love this movie--it's beautiful in every way.
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Summary: Great movie ruined by a cop-out ending.
Review: This movie would have rated an easy 5 stars if it had not been for the horrible ending. Great performance by Jodie Foster. She is truly one of the great actresses of our time. Other good performances by supporting cast. Great story line and screenplay. Although, the preacher becomes tiresome. Good special effects. All of this ruined by a stupid ending.
Now, stop reading here if you don't want to know how it ends. Here we go. It makes no sense that a sophisticated Alien intelligence would go to all the trouble of sending out blueprints for a massive space travel machine, invite other races to visit them, tell them "hello", then send them back to their home planet and remove all proof that the trip ever happened. That is the stupidest cop-out of an ending I have seen since Independence Day. What's the point? Then the idea of having the sole alien representative greet Jodie Foster looking like her deceased Dad. Give me a break. So the aliens go to all this trouble so that one person can get a free trip to their planet for no real reason. Brilliant ending guys.
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Summary: Jodie Foster is nothing less than extroadingary
Review: Contact leaves me speechless and every time I watch the film again I can't help but watch the credits float up the screen. The sountrack by Alan Silvestri is also very good (I have it).
I can't decide which is better-the book or the film. I know that Jodie played Ellie Arroway geniusly. I think Carl would be proud of it.
By the way, did anyone realize the two "C's" in the film. One was in Ellie's father's hand. And the other was at the very end when Ellie sifted rocky soil in her palm. I think "C" symbolizes "Carl". They tried to be conspicuous because one "C" is backwards or reversed (forget which). I love this movie.
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Summary: One Of The Finest Science Fiction Films Of The 1990's
Review: Robert Zemeckis' "Contact" is a fine adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel, inspite of the additional subplot involving Matthew McConaughey's character, a young fundamentalist Protestant preacher. Certainly this is one of the most imaginative films I have seen on the subject of contacting other alien civlizations. It is also an excellent depiction of science on how it is done as well as its politics. Jodie Foster's potrayal of astronomer Ellie Arroway is splendid, almost perfect, with the notable exception of her relationship with McConaughey's character. She excels in conveying Arroway's romance with astronomy and her steadfast determination to do first rate astronomical research. Although this does not rank on my list of the greatest science fiction films, it certainly comes close.
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Summary: Great idea, but...
Review: The plot of this story is quite ingenious. Certainly, few science fiction films are more imaginative, and the journey through the universe at the beginning is simply spectacular. However, the film is marred by the typical hollywood inclusion of gratuitous violence (the destruction of the first transporter), and the sexual fling between the scientist and catholic priest. The Washington scenes are also cliche. Overall, an average movie that could have been great.
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Summary: Blended political intrigue and scientific achievement
Review: The only event that I believe would have more power than establishing contact with alien intelligence would be an appearance by God similar to those documented in the bible. However, to many people, the events would be equivalent, which is one of the many themes of the movie. I very much enjoyed the movie, finding so many of the subplots typical of what would be expected if such an event occurred. The main character, a hard-driving independent female scientist, obtained much of that focus from having her mother die when she was born and her father when she was nine. This determination kept her going through many lean years of project cancellation and ridicule.
Subplots aside, the main event was of course the message from aliens. Given the horror of the perspective of history, it seems bizarre that a telecast of Hitler opening the 1936 Olympic games would be the first message received. However, since it was the first telecast of any power, it is a reasonable possibility. The appearance of President Clinton as himself lends an air of realism that could be obtained no other way. He has a stage presence and an air of seriousness that makes his cameo appearance work to perfection. Other cameos by television commentators such as reporters reinforce the realism.
While government agents are occasionally portrayed as bureacratically bound, it does not descend to the appearance of idiocy, which was a welcome relief. The agents are characterized as rigid, but not foolish, up to the very end. The last segment, where you see the beginning of a cover-up is the least plausible notion and comes across as artificial. The main character, played superbly by Jodie Foster, is a strong personality and as befits such a character, she is surrounded by similar strong personalities, one of the toughest of which is the president's chief of staff. She is a hard-nosed woman who gets her way simply by saying what it is. Foster's "boyfriend", a deeply religious man who contributes heavily to her loss of a prized position, still respects her beliefs even though he strongly disagrees with them.
With all the subplots, the main plot is still strong enough to dominate the movie. It is a movie with all the intrigue of a major political event, yet still manages to retain the scientific aspects of any contact with an alien civilization.
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Summary: Pathetic, Uninvolving, New Age Mess
Review: Silly, self-important nonsense masquerading as deep profound Science Fiction. Jodie Foster plays an utterly humorless and emotionally icebound BUT totally brilliant young woman (a type of role she is becoming tiresomely expert at) who is supposed to be carrying a torch for the appallingly inept Matthew McConaughey. The lack of chemistry between them makes a significant part of the story rather hard to swallow. Namely, one can't believe that Foster's walking iceberg has any interest at all in the McConaughey's inane all-purpose guru. This movie is to serious science fiction what a Hallmark card is to Shakespeare. Slight, admittedly rather efficient, but ultimately forgettable.
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