"Contact" Talkback (Spoilers)

[The Man in Black]

If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
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"For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?" - Ellie Arroway

Release Date: July 11, 1997
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, William Fichtner, Geoffrey Blake, Jena Malone, Sami Chester, Timothy McNeil, Laura Elena Surillo, Henry Strozier, Michael Chaban, Max Martini, Larry King, Thomas Garner, Conroy Chino, Dan Gifford, Vance Valencia

Plot Summary: Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway (Foster) undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from Earth to their home. While struggling to fund her mission, Arroway also struggles with her feelings about the nature of things, particularly after meeting a charismatic New Age believer who questions her disbelief in God. A deliberately-paced, meditative adaptation of the eponymous novel by Ann Druyan and "pop" astronomer Carl Sagan, who died during production.

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Comments?


I've seen this Jodie Foster movie over and over and over and it is just as confusing and intriging every time. and it was just on. any thoughts?

[The Man in Black]

Jodie Foster?

[uhhuhioi]

I'm ok to go. I'm ok to go. I'm ok to go. Sorry couldn't resist :D .

Seen the movie a dozen times and it is still pretty good. I really liked the whole "transporter" thing and that little trip she took. Too bad noone belives her :( .

[The Man in Black]

Helen hunt is Jodie Foster?????

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

Uh, "Contact", the movie about attempting to reach life from other planets, had Jodie "Agent Clarice Starling" Foster as its leading lady, not Helen Hunt. Anyway, I loved the comment that that one lady had about the tapes recovered from the transport, y'know, the 'eighteen hours of it' comment.

[SlyBoy]

I like this movie. Y'know, this was based on a book written by the late Carl Sagan. Most of the stuff that goes on the movie could really happen, since Sagan was an astronomer and a scientist.

[EinBebop]

The fascinating thing is that it's really a movie about religion more than anything else, but it comes off as more of an exploration of religious views, rather than a lecture.

And of course, it contains the all-time favorite line of all us math geeks: "Mathematics is the only true universal language." :cool:

[Discloner]

Originally posted by EinBebop
The fascinating thing is that it's really a movie about religion more than anything else, but it comes off as more of an exploration of religious views, rather than a lecture.

And of course, it contains the all-time favorite line of all us math geeks: "Mathematics is the only true universal language." :cool:

It is a really deep movie. It's got so many diffrent meanings and in that way it's really cool.

I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but the part when the transporter device blows up both creeped me out and made me say cool at the same time.

And in all honesty, I was just a little dissapointed when the alien at the end was shown in the form of her father...I waited the whole movie to see the aliens!! :p

[Behonkiss]

Originally posted by Discloner
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but the part when the transporter device blows up both creeped me out and made me say cool at the same time.

And in all honesty, I was just a little dissapointed when the alien at the end was shown in the form of her father...I waited the whole movie to see the aliens!! :p

The blowing out didn't creep me out(It's more of a shock), but it was very cool. I loved the look on the protestor's face as he blew up the bomb.

As for the aliens, you took the words right out of my mouth. But they could've ended up looking real lame, either too far-fetched or like the ones in Signs.