Comments on: Contact (1997)

By: guts3d

guts3d — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:02:01 +0000

Good point, Rob, I agree that it could have used some good cop / bad cop team up and some explosions, possibly an evil drug dealer as well. At least I would have stayed awake.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:46:57 +0000

To all who didn’t like the film for one reason or another,
It posed many philosophical questions . And didn’t try
to answer them for us .So rather than try to tear it down
maybe you should look at it in it’s totality as
a descent adaptation of a book that I believe was
a far better film then 99% of what studio are cracking out now.

Just some thoughs

Rob

By: guts3d

guts3d — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:35:28 +0000

Say what you want about Jodie Foster’s deer-in-the-headlights look in this movie, she still tugs my heartstrings. She is one beautiful lady.

By: monoceros4

monoceros4 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:17:58 +0000

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Just think, Jodie Foster could have stayed with the quirky, always interesting William Fichtner. Instead she goes for bologna on white bread–even if, coming from a New Age clown like Palmer, it’s soy bologna on organic white bread.

At the end, when James Woods pushes the idea that the whole alien contact was an elaborate prank of the John Hurt character and that the supposed extraterrestrial transmissions were from a number of ordinary satellites, there were many legitimate counter-arguments to be made. Surely it could have been possible for Foster to make even one or two of them before losing her reserve? Instead Foster launches immediately into a weepy speech about how I Want To Believe or something like that. Vomit.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:37:19 +0000

Yeah pretty dull film. Didn’t this one come out about the same time as another goofy alien film where, man I can’t remember exactly, something where they took over some town in Mexico I think because they needed warmth, oh and their knees bent backwards like a flamingo.

By: oneeye

oneeye — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:19:49 +0000

I remember this one as well, and own it, although I can’t remember what possessed me to buy it. Some days I do actually pop this into the dvd player, but immediately skip to when the signal comes to array in NM, and then skip to when the uber smart rich guy figures out the ‘code’, and then to to the end where ellie gets strapped into the machine. Hmm, now that I think about it, I guess I didn’t like this movie either.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:56:33 +0000

Welcome aboard, Sean

By: Sean Ledden

Sean Ledden — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:27:27 +0000

That’s a good point about the generic rich guy’s super brainy super power. How could NASA and the government code breakers compete with that! – It’s especially ironic thinking about it from today’s perspective, when the “smartest guys in the room” have pretty much totaled the world economy. Thanks for spotting it!
Sean

By: guts3d

guts3d — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:03:46 +0000

I remember this one, it was soooooo boring I closed one eye and half slept through it, which is probably what the script writers did as well. I remember the 3 dimensional thinking in the alien transmission, and wondering why in all the world did some generic rich guy figure it out when all of NASA and other Govt. code breakers couldn’t. We’ll miss you, Carl Sagan. But your book was weak, to be generous. Nice review as always, Sean!