- ISBN13: 9780790733227
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
- Notes:
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVDThe opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis’s Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days–each is an expression of the heroine’s lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl’s eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)–her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination–turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan’s novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster’s solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable–Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. –Jim Emerson
March 5, 2010
#1
I remember when i saw this god-awful flick in theaters. The suspense i guess is somewhat decent but the ending is where it goes down hill. After sitting almost three hours we find out that Jody foster’s doesn’t go anywhere in time travel. She goes through two lame and boring worm holes. Then she is told that she didn’t advance in anywhere in space. The worst part is we don’t even get to see any aliens, we see her father!! Who cares about her father!! She sees him on some stupid beach and they talk…blah blah.. the end. Overall a very stupid and boring movie. Don’t listen to the five star reviews, because they don’t know a thing about sci-fi movies. You wanna see an interesting sci-fi movies rent 2001 a space odyssey or any of the alien movies. Now thats a sci-fi movie, not some touchy movie about some dumb braud who misses her daddy. A botched attempt at a sci-fi movie!!!
March 5, 2010
#2
The ending to this movie really makes you feel that you wasted a few hours of your life. I cant even think of a worse ending that they possibly couldve done, its like the writers tried to make up the worst ending imaginable
March 5, 2010
#3
So the best earthly specimen, the planet over, that could possibly be fielded, which all nations would just swoon to agree to, would be some poorly set up super-genius, though quite humble Ph.D. super-astrophysicist, or whatever background she’s suppose to have, which she prodigiously got when she was just starting to get her period. UNBELIEVABLY STUPID AND UNREALISTIC.
And then James Woods as head of a crack super-commando, sub-machine equipped, NSA firesquad team, who, when push comes to shove and tensions get hot, supposedly with something so momentous, and uncertain, as alien contact, gives ground and allows Miss Youthful Supergenius to command his team and the entire operation?!?!
If 1 said this were a poorly cast & directed propaganda piece with egregiously affected and phony performances, that would be a step up for it.
March 5, 2010
#4
She rides through space and time to meet her father on some tropical beach. Of course it’s not literal, but that doesn’t give it the right to be crap.
March 5, 2010
#5
I am shocked and disgusted that this movie has received such a high rating. Hands down, this is the worst movie that I’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting through.