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Summary: The best movie ever!
Review: A fantastic movie, which brings at the same time lots of important points, such as: meaning of human life, science, religion, and many other ones, all together, with a fantastic story. I still wonder how could Contact be ignored at Oscar's, wasn't even nominated, when it deserved at least three nominations: best movie, best actress (for Jodie Foster, great as usual) and for special effects. And deserved to win the three of them. I reccomend for you to watch, you won't regret
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Summary: Exciting, Thoughtful, and Visually Spectacular
Review: Contact is a movie that works on every conceivable level. It is a smart, thoughtful, and entertaining show with an absolutely brilliant performance by Jodie Foster (her closing scene testifying at a Senate hearing could be the best thing she has ever done, and that's saying a lot.) What makes this movie so special is its ability to keep the focus on the characters and story despite the presence of some mindblowing, truly spectacular visual effects. That's unexpected with films today normally leaning one way or the other. (Speaking of visual effects, the camera perspective for the scene in which young Elle tries to help her stricken father is just impossible to explain or describe.) For the serious movie buff, the DVD includes some insightful commentary from the director and FX supervisors, as well as Foster. This is just a stunning piece of work that was overlooked to a great degree when it was released.
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Summary: Not really
Review: Just this,Warner is completly lost and they promise but never give as with this so called special edition which does NOT include the bonus material "after the movie"it claims.Do they really do their work?Do they care?
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Summary: It Rocks the Casbah
Review: I have seen the movie, Contact, about 20 times, and every time i watch it i love it. I am on my second reading of the book which has made me think a lot more. It had made me more interested in the universe - how infinite it is, how beautiful it is...and it is shown beautifully in both the movie and the book.
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Summary: Mankind is not alone in the Universe.
Review: A Visually spectacular film, based on the novel by Carl Sagan, and having a outstanding cast of actors led by Jodie Foster, this movie attempts to address the central idea about what man's place in the universe really is. Similar to 2001 and Star Trek, Contact should rightfully take it's place as a movie which shows us a possitive future that awaits us all.
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Summary: Just fantastic
Review: This movie stands head and shoulders above most science fiction. I was really moved by it when it came out... Before I forget, I want to recommend looking at "Carl Sagan: A Life" by Keay Davidson, or at "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. Both have some discussion of this movie -- Kip Thorne's discussion mostly has to do with Carl Sagan consulting him about the wormhole idea, but still. Or, for more about the Drake Equation, look in your copy of Michael Crichton's "Sphere".This movie captures the excitement of astronomy, and the feel of SETI-like programs, to a "T". Jodie Foster is terrific -- I wonder if she considers this one of her better roles. I hope so, because she blew me away. Tom Skerrit plays a complete jerk, which is sort of a stretch for him, as he generally seems to get more solid, midwestern-American-values sorts of roles... He does a good job though. Rob Lowe has a minor but interesting part, as the movie's version of the real-life Ralph Reed -- look it up, seriously, that guy is worth knowing more about. Also, Angela Bassett plays a powerful African American woman with her usual aplomb. She brings a lot of intelligence and vividness to her part. James Woods is pretty terrific too -- I would give a lot to hear his input on various scenes, he's no dummy, science-wise, as a real-life M.I.T. graduate. The excitement of science is what you walk away from this movie feeling. So often scientists in movies are "mad scientists", or maybe an action movie hero type with a slightly introspective streak. Jodie Foster's character is an atheist, a scientist, and of course a woman, but she makes a great heroine. Generally this movie just rocks, and rocks hard. I imagine that Carl Sagan would have considered this a fantastic curtain call, before he left this planet. Two thumbs up.
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Summary: Thoroughly satisfying
Review: One of my favourite ways to spend two and a half hours is to watch this excellent film over and over again. I can't remember any science-fiction film after 2001: A Space Odyssey to be this thought-provoking, and while Contact is not quite as profound a statement as the aforementioned opus, it still has quite a lot to say for itself. Jodie Foster plays an earnest scientist who spends her whole life searching for extra-terrestrial life and finds vindication when a message is received from outer space. Naturally, it throws the world into a huge frenzy, and despite the efforts of kitschy bad guy Tom Skerritt and military operations-head James Woods, she gets to go on a journey to the heart of the universe and see whether or not she can find the answers she's looking for. Perhaps it's a little hokey, but I found myself totally captivated throughout the whole film, and the adventure Foster goes through in the last third of the picture is one of the most thrilling sequences in the films of 1997 (not the least because Foster, surrounded by all these new worlds she's viewing, can act the scene to pieces, which is amazing considering the fact that we know she really sat in front of a blue-screen for two weeks). Truly moving.
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Summary: Pacman2524
Review: I'd give it no stars if I could. I saw this movie in Denver when it first came out. Ruined my vacation. Just had to come here today and rip on it a bit. My least fav. movie of all time next to Disney's "Hercules." Jodie Foster simply cannot act and has no looks. Matt M. did pretty good and Tom Skerritt also preformed very well. Story is very lame and ending was even worse. I thought this show would never get over. Then when it did end, I had to wait for the credits to make sure, and left thinking "that's it." I was thankful it was over, but thought that "the projection worker had to of fast-forwarded it to help me out." Graphics were pretty good, but I wouldn't pay to see them again. I wish I could get my money back from the theater and forget I ever saw it.
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Summary: Brilliant. My all-time favorite sci-fi film.
Review: It's exhilarating to watch a film like Contact. It's a awe-inspiring, excitingly told tale of a woman and her dreams to discover life beyond Earth. After a beautiful opening shot, the film unfolds slowly but with great care. This is one of those sci-fi films I watch on a regular basis, like the vastly underrated Mission to Mars, as they both involve the discovery of something beyond belief. With all the previews and commericals, it's obvious Jodie Foster's character, Ellie Arroway, will make the trip around the galaxy in the spacecraft. This really doesn't happen until about 110 minutes into the film (it runs at approximately 150 minutes), yet it never, not even for a second, tested my patience. Everything leading up to that moment was perfect, all the way from the intriguing and original plot (for once, we should go to the aliens, not the other way around), the great acting and character development, and the breathtaking visuals, particularly in the final half hour. Contact is pure magic; it's the kind of film one always hopes for: an intelligent, thought-provoking, and still feel good film. Definitely a must see to anybody with even a casual interest in this genre.
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Summary: Sagan asks the tough questions.
Review: Yes, I admit, I saw the movie before I read the book. The movie took some serious liberties with the book, presumably to make it translate better to a film (i.e. stepped-up sex, violence, and controversy). The written word, however, can go to depths that the film can not. The character of Ellie Arroway is fleshier and juicier when we are allowed into her most intimate thoughts. A friend of mine, upon seeing me reading the book remarked that the movie was "boring" and that it "dragged". I found the movie and the book intriguing because Sagan delves deeper into questions I've pondered about in the wee hours of the morning with roommates and close friends and asks the questions that never even entered our minds. Sagan probes the relationship between religion and science and the mutual animosity its respective champions have for each other and their doctrines. The building of the Machine sent (by extraterrestrials from Vega) as a plan over radio waves is almost a secondary plot thread, taking a back seat to more pressing political, theological, and scientific concerns. Imagine receiving this plan in today's world. How many people would assume it was a doomsday machine, or from the devil, or that it was a summons that could not be ignored from a higher technology? How many people would insist we build the Machine, and how many would insist that we should not? How does the world-wide community reconcile its differences, and "get along" so the Machine, which can not be done by one country alone, be built? Fascinating and thought-provoking for me, apparently 'boring' for others, I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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