CONTACT (1997) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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@CLFmoto87
@CLFmoto87 11 ай бұрын
“First rule in government spending, why build one when you can have two at twice the price?” Such a great line.
@wal6377
@wal6377 11 ай бұрын
Something about that quote just hits me hard. It doesn't make sense. It should be ...you can have a second for half the price.
@Lucklaran
@Lucklaran 11 ай бұрын
The rationale of the book was so much better though. Book spoilers: They weren't sure the machine would work more than once, so they made 2 of everything so they could run tests on the pieces to make sure they built them correctly before making the parts for the "actual" machine. The second machine was built using the test pieces.
@andrewreisinger6860
@andrewreisinger6860 11 ай бұрын
Agreed! Holds true to this day! $$$
@joshuacoldwater
@joshuacoldwater 11 ай бұрын
@@wal6377you clearly didn’t get his bleak, dry humor.
@wal6377
@wal6377 11 ай бұрын
@@joshuacoldwater or perhaps I just don't care for bleak dry humor. Clearly.
@josephscally6270
@josephscally6270 11 ай бұрын
The quote: "You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. " has remained with me for many years since I first saw this film
@MichaelAS007
@MichaelAS007 11 ай бұрын
I could not agree more.
@luketimewalker
@luketimewalker 11 ай бұрын
me too
@ct6852
@ct6852 11 ай бұрын
So much of this movie just sticks. The lines and concepts pop into my consciousness constantly. And have for years.
@anthb3377
@anthb3377 11 ай бұрын
Great quote
@Metamorfeus
@Metamorfeus 11 ай бұрын
It also reminds me of a similar quote from John Carpenter's "Starman": “You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent but savage. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you? You are at your very best when things are worst.”
@freddiemossberg7204
@freddiemossberg7204 11 ай бұрын
You can’t deny Jodi Fosters passion in this movie. Possibly my favourite of her performances.
@lopa-u9f
@lopa-u9f 11 ай бұрын
they just watched Ransom, but Flightplan is better her Nell performance is noteworthy, though movie is meh
@anonymous19844
@anonymous19844 11 ай бұрын
She was great in Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room, and The Accued, too.
@Faltor895
@Faltor895 11 ай бұрын
Her acting as a 13 yr old in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane was incredible.
@daitommasino911
@daitommasino911 11 ай бұрын
This is my second fav. My fav performance of Jodi Foster is NELL 🔥 one of my fav movies ever that not a lot of people know about
@OG21020
@OG21020 11 ай бұрын
@@Faltor895 I always remember her in Bugsy Malone. 😄
@LF-du4uc
@LF-du4uc 11 ай бұрын
Jody Foster’s performance is out of this world. This is how you write strong, powerful, intelligent female characters.
@jp3813
@jp3813 11 ай бұрын
David Drumlin: "I'm about to end this woman's career."
@eolsunder
@eolsunder 11 ай бұрын
one of my favorite movies of hers, and she has a lot of good ones i love. This, Maverick, Silence, and many more. This one is my favorite.
@genghisgalahad8465
@genghisgalahad8465 11 ай бұрын
@@eolsunder Sommersby.
@gehtgoogle_nixan
@gehtgoogle_nixan 11 ай бұрын
yeah imagine if they just put a chick in it and made her gay.
@nickwhite5119
@nickwhite5119 11 ай бұрын
Make you wonder what went wrong in Hollywood
@AlexSadof
@AlexSadof 11 ай бұрын
That tracking shot into the bathroom cabinet mirror is one of my favorite movie shots of all time. Absolutely brilliant.
@randomthoughts5601
@randomthoughts5601 11 ай бұрын
Corridor Crew did an analysis of how the shot was done. I don't remember which episode, but it was fantastic to see how they did it.
@randomthoughts5601
@randomthoughts5601 11 ай бұрын
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@jameswarner5809
@jameswarner5809 11 ай бұрын
When I first saw this film, I realised that the view down the stairs with the pills spilled on the floor was a mirror image of a previous view of the hallway. For a few seconds I thought it was an editing error until that moment with the bathroom cabinet mirror and my brain whooped and clapped its hands. Smartest piece of cinematography EVER!
@sdrew2lboroacuk
@sdrew2lboroacuk 11 ай бұрын
Yes that shot is my favourite all time shot too
@ezerish
@ezerish 10 ай бұрын
@@randomthoughts5601 Pretty sure they talk about it in the DVD commentary too
@brettmuir5679
@brettmuir5679 11 ай бұрын
When the screen fades to black and the words, "For Carl" appear, every time I cry a little bit. I miss him sooooo much
@thomaspalumbo6482
@thomaspalumbo6482 11 ай бұрын
e too. I used to count the days until the next episode of "Cosmos" would come on TV
@BiffMan42
@BiffMan42 10 ай бұрын
Came looking for this comment. When I saw this in the theater the first time, that was the most brilliant and beautiful punch to the gut.
@Sigusen
@Sigusen 10 ай бұрын
My introduction to cosmos and Carl Sagan was this movie. I didn't know who they referred to and jumped down the rabbit hole. As a millennial, I will definitely stand up and say: Carl Sagan was a beautiful human who embodied the very best of humanity, and I'm sorry I never knew of him before this movie.
@BiffMan42
@BiffMan42 10 ай бұрын
@@Sigusen Thanks for sharing! That's beautiful and I think it's fantastic that he still resonates with new folks to this day.
@brettmuir5679
@brettmuir5679 10 ай бұрын
@@Sigusen I am so happy for you that now you know. It is mindblowing to me to rewatch Cosmos today and understand how much of what he envisioned has now come to pass. Check out another rabbit hole with a similar hero. James Burke and his BBC series "Connections" :)
@seansmith4880
@seansmith4880 11 ай бұрын
This movie rules. Often gets overlooked, in my opinion, as a genuine sci-fi gem. Can't wait for the reaction!
@Pkewe4me
@Pkewe4me 11 ай бұрын
I just thought of them and if they ever did Contact and look what I came on to! I’m excited to see their reaction too!
@DaniBlazin
@DaniBlazin 11 ай бұрын
Agreed! Saw this shortly after release, probably vhs Blockbuster rental lol Opened my mind! 💫
@etherealtb6021
@etherealtb6021 11 ай бұрын
I'm so glad this movie is highly getting its due.
@lopa-u9f
@lopa-u9f 11 ай бұрын
not overlooked, just most people are pre-2000 movie-stupid aka lack culture
@allengray5748
@allengray5748 11 ай бұрын
Dang Mr Smith. A shared conclusion it appears! A gem indeed. ☮️
@NickRedstar
@NickRedstar 11 ай бұрын
Carl Sagan the author based Jodi Foster’s character on a real person. The characterization of Ellie Arroway was inspired by Jill Tarter, head of Project Phoenix of the SETI Institute.
@gsmontag
@gsmontag 2 ай бұрын
At least two people, probably three really. He also based the character heavily on Dr. Carolyn Porco who he worked with on Voyager and Cassini, as well as on his wife Ann Druyan who I believe he co-wrote the book with.
@mzliz1249
@mzliz1249 11 ай бұрын
The beach is a replication of her childhood drawing of Pensacola.🌴🌴
@cmkwan59
@cmkwan59 11 ай бұрын
Being one of the most brilliant scientists and astronomer, Dr Sagan passed away before the movie released, and yet Contact is still the most inspiring and important in movie history!
@Novastar.SaberCombat
@Novastar.SaberCombat Ай бұрын
Yup. Missed it by a mere six months. 😕 Still, I doubt that Sagan wrote his screenplay--and later, the book--simply to cater to his own desires. Obviously, he wanted to unite those who turn to religion and also those who swear by science and evidence. Surely, the end goal is one and the same, yes? *Enlightenment.* The true, everlasting, celestial kind. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
@jdovma1
@jdovma1 11 ай бұрын
I've watched Contact like a hundred times over nearly three decades and I never realized the runtime was 2 and a half hours. That legit surprised me. Goes to show how good it is. You don't feel the runtime at all.
@jp3813
@jp3813 11 ай бұрын
I never even realized that Back to the Future II was only 1 hour & 48 minutes long. So many things happened that it was like three movies. Zemeckis was the man!
@JustSomeGuyLV
@JustSomeGuyLV 11 ай бұрын
EDIT: don't read, turns out i need coffee myself. If you have seen this movie so many times and you always missed the part where they clearly state how long the recording of her camera was, than you need to drink more coffee while watching movies..
@jp3813
@jp3813 11 ай бұрын
@@JustSomeGuyLV **crickets chirping**
@Dinosword2000
@Dinosword2000 11 ай бұрын
@@JustSomeGuyLV Have another coffee and read again.
@JustSomeGuyLV
@JustSomeGuyLV 11 ай бұрын
​@@Dinosword2000Yeah i wrote that before i had my daily coffee.
@willcool713
@willcool713 11 ай бұрын
I was skeptical about whether Carl Sagan, smart as he was, could pull off a good science fiction novel. But he did, this was a great book. One of the final scenes in the movie has a fuzzy, distant shot of Matthew McConaughey in a dark coat and red scarf, which was one of Dr Sagan's trademark public looks. This movie was a nice homage to him.
@carltonbakerii8274
@carltonbakerii8274 11 ай бұрын
I'm not sure you know this (and I apologize if you do) but Carl and Ann wrote "Contact" as a film proposal first but no studio would touch it. They then wrote the book, which got bought and turned into a movie. Weird world, yes?
@luketimewalker
@luketimewalker 11 ай бұрын
oooh
@willcool713
@willcool713 11 ай бұрын
@@carltonbakerii8274 Yeah? Huh. Makes sense, though, they were science communicators with a lot of work in video. I wonder why Ann Druyen didn't get credit on the book? I bet Sagan wrote the book, and they thought it had a better shot at a movie than a best seller. So they worked that angle first. The story in the book was definitely first, because it was trimmed ham-handedly. Significant plot points in character development were left out, which the movie alludes to but doesn't include -- the movie couldn't do that if the book hadn't been out first. It probably would've been better as a miniseries or short, single season show.
@ct6852
@ct6852 4 ай бұрын
Was the book more explicit about the aliens and their world?
@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441
@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441 11 ай бұрын
One of my favorite lines is when she says “ they should have sent a poet.”
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 ай бұрын
A paraphrase from Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins: "What the space program needs is more English majors."
@PygmalionFaciebat
@PygmalionFaciebat 11 ай бұрын
For the first contact with an Alien species i think we should send a child. Whoever the aliens are: one thing is for sure: they also have some ''sort'' of children. Or/and they definetely know the value of children. There isnt a bigger trust , than having children make the first contact with an alien species. It would prove: that we trust in their goodness.
@treborrrrr
@treborrrrr 10 ай бұрын
@@PygmalionFaciebat You just have to look at our own history to see that maybe that's not necessarily a purely good thing. A whooole lotta child sacrifice going on here which aliens might be into or frown very heavily upon depending on how they interpret a child being sent.
@Wolf-ln1ml
@Wolf-ln1ml 2 ай бұрын
But make it a scientifically literate poet, please. I know who my first choice would be - Tuomas Holopainen, Nightwish's composer and keyboard player 🥰
@forgetaboutit1069
@forgetaboutit1069 11 ай бұрын
43:38 it’s subtle and not seen here but during this moment of the movie, Ellie’s face turns into to hers as a child when she says “it’s so beautiful”. Watch again carefully. I know I missed it the first time. Other tidbit: you can see the Big Dipper constellation laid out in the popcorn as she runs up the stairs as a child to grab the medicine. You can also see it in the father’s hand when he picks up sand on the beach. And you also can see the Big Dipper shine in the grains of sand she picks up at the end of the movie.
@arraymac227
@arraymac227 11 ай бұрын
RIP Arecibo, in 2020. It was such a lovely backdrop for this film.
@jackbedient
@jackbedient 5 ай бұрын
There’s amazing yet sad footage online of its destruction…
@WhiteSox67
@WhiteSox67 Ай бұрын
And Goldeneye
@Metamorfeus
@Metamorfeus 11 ай бұрын
The final dedication just before the credits roll that simply reads "For Carl" never fails to fill my heart with such high hopes and such deep sorrows. RIP Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
@Embur12
@Embur12 11 ай бұрын
Carl said we are an insignificant blue marble floating through space, when in reality, we live on a planet so rare the odds of lifes existence on it are almost mathematically impossible. At the time, in the 90s, we thought their were only 30 factors necessary for life to exist, distance from the sun, rotation on an axis, liquid water, etc. We now know it's closer to 300 factors. If a 50/50 probability for each factor exists, the resulting probability that all were present is a mathemaically impossibility.This tends to point toward intelligent design, not a random happenstance of all of these conditions existing.
@dogawful
@dogawful 11 ай бұрын
I loved watching Cosmos when I was growing up. I had a friend who worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center coffee shop. She ran into Sagan there a couple of times. She said he was super nice.
@johnathanmichaud867
@johnathanmichaud867 11 ай бұрын
​@@Embur12how did you leap from extremely rare to an intelligent designer? Also, how did you come up with those variables and probabilities?
@Embur12
@Embur12 11 ай бұрын
@johnathanmichaud867 Science came up with the variables needed for live, gravitation field, liquid water, distance from a yellow white star etc. Over 300 variables now know. If each factor naturally occurs at a "generous" 50/50 variability (yes it occurs with the other factors or not) , 50% X 50% X 50% 300 times equals a mathematical impossibility. So if this is impossible for life in the universe to exists, yet it does, strongly implies it was set in place by a Supreme being, which you can call by whatever name you like. This is just the impossibility of a home for life, with complex life springing from inanimate objects being a much larger step by a factor of 10,000.
@johnathanmichaud867
@johnathanmichaud867 11 ай бұрын
@@Embur12 what are you basing your 300 variables (are they listed somewhere) and 50/50 variability on?
@luciebrisson5881
@luciebrisson5881 11 ай бұрын
Ellie's dad is played by David Morse who was Brutus Howell in the Green Mile, a good guy. Very talented actor.
@Otokichi786
@Otokichi786 11 ай бұрын
I remember David Morse as "Dr. Jack Morrison" from "St. Elsewhere" (1982-1988).
@JohnDAmico-ci2hz
@JohnDAmico-ci2hz 11 ай бұрын
Also was a bad guy on "The Long Kiss Goodnight" with Geena Davis/Samuel Jackson...
@francescathomas3502
@francescathomas3502 11 ай бұрын
I did not watch much of St Elsewhere, because I was busy being a teenager. But I do remember watching this exciting Miniseries called the Brotherhood of the Rose. (1989). Morse was brilliant in that!!! Other than St Elsewhere, that is the first time I clearly remember watching him. Until Contact of course.
@bmriverrat11
@bmriverrat11 11 ай бұрын
He was also the Major in the Rock they both watched that together too.
@wal6377
@wal6377 11 ай бұрын
He was also in a TV series called, Space: Above and Beyong
@falcychead8198
@falcychead8198 11 ай бұрын
Probably my favorite part of this movie is the opening sequence. I haven't seen anything that better conveys the utter vastness of the cosmos. When I saw it in the theater, there was the usual noise of candy wrappers, people coughing, shifting in their seats, etc. But as the camera kept pulling back and back and back... and back... the whole theater fell dead silent as everybody tried to take it all in.
@drozcompany4132
@drozcompany4132 11 ай бұрын
It starts to put the vastness in proportion when you realize that our first radio broadcasts drop off fairly close to home and those have been going into space for almost a century.
@charlie.on.youtube
@charlie.on.youtube 11 ай бұрын
Exactly!
@TrentRidley
@TrentRidley 11 ай бұрын
It's definitely a sequence made for the big screen.
@LordLOC
@LordLOC 11 ай бұрын
@@drozcompany4132 It's still amazing to me, since even now in 2024 it's only been 88 years which means only 88 light years of travel for that first radio signal with enough power to go out into space. Which is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. Considering we look out in the cosmos and see galaxies and stars literally at the dawn of the universe 13+ billion light years away. It's mind boggling in the best way, and the movie indeed did a terrific job showing it.
@TheSpiritOf97
@TheSpiritOf97 11 ай бұрын
*Fun Fact:* The opening shot to contact had been originally intended to be the opening shot for the unproduced and psychedelic rendition of DUNE That Alejandro Jordorowsky had planned. An approximation of the shot was created using still images from storyboards and pencil sketches in the documentary Jordorowsky's Dune. Kind of wild to think that the shot itself would have been considerably longer and included things such as planetary destruction and space battles.
@hibhibb5429
@hibhibb5429 7 ай бұрын
The scene with her Dad on the beach is ugh...It leaves me speechless and with so many emotions. There are so many big names in this movie. Such a big cast.
@ct6852
@ct6852 4 ай бұрын
I thought it was such a disappointment at first that we didn't see the aliens or their world. Then later thought it was perfect.
@PDNH
@PDNH 11 ай бұрын
Just a reminder that the Arecibo Telescope was used as a filming location for the James Bond film "Goldeneye" and the movie "Species" as well as "Contact." The suspended portion of the radio telescope has since collapsed into the dish portion.
@jodyspiegel73
@jodyspiegel73 10 ай бұрын
R.I.P. Arecibo 😰
@Silas.Marner
@Silas.Marner 11 ай бұрын
My Mom passed away last June and this was a favorite of hers. Shout-out to my Mom. RIP.
@themourningstar338
@themourningstar338 11 ай бұрын
Sorry about your mom. My mom passed away in Sept, and she really liked this movie too.
@monacaravetta
@monacaravetta 11 ай бұрын
Peace and love to you, dearhreart.
@chrischampagne9469
@chrischampagne9469 11 ай бұрын
Very sorry for your loss. Your mom had good taste. My dad passed just before last Christmas. He was a fan of Carl Sagan and this movie and read the original book as well.
@whatdidujustsay2094
@whatdidujustsay2094 11 ай бұрын
That's nice!
@furryrug5998
@furryrug5998 11 ай бұрын
Your mum had great taste dude❤
@christopheryochum3602
@christopheryochum3602 11 ай бұрын
The actress who played Ellie as a young girl, Jena Malone, was adorable. Two things made me cry. First, when she asked if they could talk to Mom; and second, when she tried to reach Dad on her shortwave radio.
@ct6852
@ct6852 11 ай бұрын
Hope PiB watches Stepmom at some point.
@dvhughesdesign
@dvhughesdesign 11 ай бұрын
And that shot of her running to the medicine cabinet with the mirror is one of cinema's all time classic cinematography triumphs. It is extremely complex. Many vids on YT that break it down if interested.
@stephenlackey5852
@stephenlackey5852 11 ай бұрын
Jenna Malone-actress, musician, inventor.
@luketimewalker
@luketimewalker 11 ай бұрын
@@dvhughesdesign oh wow thanks!
@mynameisnotearl4383
@mynameisnotearl4383 11 ай бұрын
Jena malone is great in Donnie darko
@fajarkurniawan9434
@fajarkurniawan9434 11 ай бұрын
I watched this on theatre during my high school years “If it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space” That line really triggered my interest of life from outer space
@rama30
@rama30 11 ай бұрын
Her trip through the wormhole will always be breathtaking..
@ct6852
@ct6852 11 ай бұрын
The special effects were pretty solid. They seem to hold up fairly well. Especially the beach scene.
@ribbitrebecca
@ribbitrebecca 11 ай бұрын
I watched this movie for the FIRST TIME in my life a month ago while on a 12 hour plane ride. It was unbelievable. I'm delighted you two enjoyed it and I'm sure you felt the concepts deeply.
@TerryAllenSwartos
@TerryAllenSwartos 11 ай бұрын
John Hurt, who played billionaire in the glasses, is another one of the greatest actors of his era. I think you saw him have a creature burst from his chest in the original “Alien” movie.
@basildave
@basildave 11 ай бұрын
Don’t forget Tom (Drumlin) Skerrit was captain Dallas… mini Alien reunion film.
@MrTrekFanDan
@MrTrekFanDan 11 ай бұрын
Spaceballs …1984 too 😎
@Art-is-craft
@Art-is-craft 11 ай бұрын
John Hurt in the movie The Field was amazing.
@YanyTori
@YanyTori 11 ай бұрын
@@MrTrekFanDan "Oh no, not again"
@bobclarke1815
@bobclarke1815 10 ай бұрын
John Hurt was Mr Olivander the wand seller in Harry Potter.
@555smo
@555smo 11 ай бұрын
My dad was an extra in this film, he's one of the many, unfocused white headed people in the last scene in the courtroom. He got to wish ( along with EVERYONE ELSE on set) a happy birthday to Matthew McConaughey
@ZacharyLoeser
@ZacharyLoeser 11 ай бұрын
Some fun facts: The "one shot" scene where Ellie sprints up the stairway after she first hears the signal was actually filmed in two different states. There's a neat hidden cut. Second, the "Vega crowd" scene was mostly unplanned. The producers invited a bunch of random people (not even preplanned extras) to dress up for essentially what happened in the movie and this is what they got. The choir just showed up. Third: The director considers the handhold at the end of the movie to be the titular "Contact:" the moment when science and religion meet.
@luketimewalker
@luketimewalker 11 ай бұрын
oooho THANKS FOR THAT
@aerosnowu2
@aerosnowu2 11 ай бұрын
I had never realized the symbolism in the hand holding, thank you for that insight! This movie became one of my all time favorites because of how it masterfully weaves together science and religion and I loved the part near the end about the humility of realizing that no one would believe her and that that is exactly what faith is.
@Embur12
@Embur12 11 ай бұрын
Most people assume science and religion are at odds, when in reality they are in lockstep. Pseudo science nowadays claims to know the facts without applying the scientific method, with climate change being the number one example.
@davestang5454
@davestang5454 7 ай бұрын
I was a choir singer extra in a movie and I am a lousy singer! Having "random people" in movies is normal too, because may sets are not "closed" at all. Production crews will set up signs informing the public that they are passing through an active film set and, by doing so, consent to be filmed. It sure saves on expenses!
@forgingbridges2737
@forgingbridges2737 11 ай бұрын
May I also suggest the movie “Frequency”(2000) with Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. Another absolute gem based on the space/time continuum.
@lucianaromulus1408
@lucianaromulus1408 11 ай бұрын
I love Frequency
@AirPowered
@AirPowered 11 ай бұрын
Underrated amazing movie.
@randellosburn5105
@randellosburn5105 11 ай бұрын
And Dennis Quad does an Elvis impersonation I know you are goin' to love entirely.
@retroj4634
@retroj4634 11 ай бұрын
Very underrated movie! One of my favorite hidden gems!!!
@snakesnoteyes
@snakesnoteyes 11 ай бұрын
Frequency is also a great dad movie
@DernhelmTheSheildmaiden
@DernhelmTheSheildmaiden 11 ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to finally visit the observatory at Arecibo when I was out in Puerto Rico for a family reunion in 2018. I was giddy, completely geeking out over the fact that the movie Contact was made there. I was 15 when that movie came out and I absolutely loved it. The observatory itself was nothing short of awesome. I was completely awestruck by how massive it was. There was a walkway, basically suspended in the center of the thing where people were walking, just dangling hundreds of feet in the air… scared the absolute crap out of me. And far across on the other end of the observatory was a helipad and behind the helipad was just straight up jungle and I couldn’t help but imagine a giant Tyrannosaurus rex just showing up out of the blue right then and there. Seeing that place collapse into itself in 2020 via the news was one of the most heartbreaking moments of my life. On top of everything else going on in the world at the time. 😢
@lanwyacaere9274
@lanwyacaere9274 11 ай бұрын
Neglecting that obsevatory and allowing it to brake down also crushed my heart. Thank's for sharing your story. I wish I could visit that place too. I visited La Sila obeservatory in Chile during total solar eclipse and it was an enchanting experience. I hope I will visit Mauna Kea some day also...
@johnlime1469
@johnlime1469 10 ай бұрын
Ah just one more reason to hate 2020.
@patrickcromwell7554
@patrickcromwell7554 11 ай бұрын
The guy who tries to shut Ellie down in the beginning is played by Tom Skerritt. He also played the ship captain in Alien and he played Viper in Top Gun. Ellies father was also in MANY movies but the one I believe you are thinking of (where you said you thought he played the bad guy) could be The Rock with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. He played the Colonel who was helping the General hold Alcatraz hostage.
@rnorth8812
@rnorth8812 11 ай бұрын
Whenever I see David Morse, I think of Dr. Morrison in St. ELsewhere.
@bjgandalf69
@bjgandalf69 11 ай бұрын
Another memorable performance from Tom Skerritt was as Julia Robert's dad in Steel Magnolias.
@Ryan_Christopher
@Ryan_Christopher 11 ай бұрын
@@rnorth8812Just turned 50 and have never seen an entire episode of St. Elsewhere. Always tuned-away when it came on when I was a kid. Perhaps it’s on streaming now but I haven’t checked yet.
@GUNNER67akaKelt
@GUNNER67akaKelt 11 ай бұрын
They probably watched Disturbia, in which he played the bad guy.
@bjgandalf69
@bjgandalf69 11 ай бұрын
@Ryan_Christopher I'm 54 and also haven't ever watched an episode of that show...but then again, I don't really care for any medical dramas.
@porkins74
@porkins74 11 ай бұрын
This was one of the first movies my family went for see after my mom passed away. I’m sure you can imagine how wrecked I was throughout it. It’s a great movie and I’m glad you two enjoyed it.
@Novastar.SaberCombat
@Novastar.SaberCombat 11 ай бұрын
If only Sagan's legacy was truly taken seriously. After all, in many ways, he himself "was" Ellie Arroway. To a point.
@willvr4
@willvr4 11 ай бұрын
Wow, yeah. That sequence towards the end when she sees "her father" must have been hard to watch, but beautiful
@porkins74
@porkins74 11 ай бұрын
Definitely that.
@brianhatcher2799
@brianhatcher2799 11 ай бұрын
I’m so sorry for your loss.
@zammmerjammer
@zammmerjammer 11 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh. I hope the movie helped you feel better a bit rather than just made you feel sad. 😥 I remember going to see "Finding Neverland" in the theatre and some poor woman was just SOBBING by the end. It's a sad movie but obviously it had triggered some real stuff going on with her.
@EdmontonRealEstate01
@EdmontonRealEstate01 11 ай бұрын
The actor who blew the first machine up is Jake Busey (Gary Busey’s son). If you’ve watched the movie “Starship Troopers”, you’ll remember Jake Busey as the guy who asks the drill Sargent “why do you need a knife in a nuke fight”. Also, the actor who plays the billionaire (John Hurt) is the same actor whose character is the first person to die in the movie “Alien”. And the guy that plays the a-hole in this movie also also starred in Alien. He played the captain of the ship in that movie.
@luketimewalker
@luketimewalker 11 ай бұрын
good catch!!!!
@anorthosite
@anorthosite 11 ай бұрын
Tom Skerritt was Drumlin. He has been in lots of movies, including M*A*S*H, Alien, Top Gun, to name a few.
@tylerthompson1842
@tylerthompson1842 11 ай бұрын
He was also in Identity
@rama30
@rama30 11 ай бұрын
When I think of Jake the first film that comes to mind is "The Frighteners"
@w1975b
@w1975b 11 ай бұрын
The actor playing the blind guy was in another movie with Jodie, Elysium (2013). Main star Matt Damon.
@tatianaferreira5998
@tatianaferreira5998 10 ай бұрын
I love that everyone jumps at the Beginning of the movie because it's so loud all of a sudden! 🤣🤣 love this movie and it's always great to watch someone react to it ❤
@MiBrCo4177
@MiBrCo4177 11 ай бұрын
I'm not sure if you guys watched it or not but The Arrival (1996) with Charlie Sheen came out a year before this did and it's another freaky alien film. Definitely worth a watch.
@Ender7j
@Ender7j 11 ай бұрын
True! Underrated gem.
@anorthosite
@anorthosite 11 ай бұрын
I believe this movie and "The Arrival" used the same "sound" and screen visual effect to portray an alien signal. Or maybe it was just in the trailer for the latter movie. Vs. "The Arrival": I personally prefer (2016) "Arrival", with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. Also reacted to, on Popcorn In Bed.
@FreshTechCo
@FreshTechCo 11 ай бұрын
Jody Foster does the single best commentary of all DVD commentaries i've ever seen in my life. She is so smart. Really made the commentary interesting and insightful. Listen if you get a chance!
@michaelross1452
@michaelross1452 11 ай бұрын
She graduated from a top tier college, i think SR Haden's little ellie reel of life has Jodie Foster's real college transcript if iam not mistaken.
@dupersuper1938
@dupersuper1938 11 ай бұрын
Even better than Robert Downey Jr's Tropic Thunder commentary?
@FreshTechCo
@FreshTechCo 11 ай бұрын
You know, I haven't seen that one. Good huh? @@dupersuper1938
@allanmanaged5285
@allanmanaged5285 11 ай бұрын
Based on Carl Sagan's book; also titled 'Contact'.
@gregtalley1601
@gregtalley1601 11 ай бұрын
For anyone that's never read any of his books or watched the show Cosmos, they're highly recommended. He was a brilliant scientist and had a knack for explaining deep and complex scientific concepts in an easy to understand way. One of the great teachers of all time. He also had one of those super chill voices like Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers.
@Doutsoldome
@Doutsoldome 11 ай бұрын
Indeed. I'll comment about another person involved in it, though. When Sagan was finishing his novel, he contacted his friend Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, to help him in finding an explanation for Ellie's travel that would be more scientifically plausible, even though still remaining fiction. Thorne thought about the issue for a while and did come up with new ideas about wormholes. In fact, this exercise lead him to really new mathematical insights and the result was a boon to the scientific research on the matter. Years later, Thorne came up with the basic idea for a plot that, after contributions from other people, evolved into Nolan's movie _Interstellar_ - of which he served as the main scientific consultant, making sure the physics involved was being taken seriously. And a couple of years after that, Thorne was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his contributions to the detection of gravitational waves. Great guy, on all counts.
@charlie.on.youtube
@charlie.on.youtube 11 ай бұрын
I had a REAL hard time dealing with the film differences from the book when I first saw it in theaters. But now I love both
@holdensagan
@holdensagan 11 ай бұрын
@@gregtalley1601 The Demon Haunted World is my favorite non-fiction of all time. I read it once a year.
@CribNotes
@CribNotes 11 ай бұрын
The book was good, but Contact is one of the few cases where I liked the movie better than the book. The movie script is a much different story from the book but of course draws from many of its elements.
@fraziergavin
@fraziergavin 11 ай бұрын
I live in New Mexico, and have been out to the VLA before. It's really in the middle of nowhere, but it is absolutely fascinating to see what they're doing out there.
@ji3194
@ji3194 11 ай бұрын
I used to run a car club cruise from Albuquerque to the VLA every spring so much fun and such a fascinating place one of my favorite places in NM
@deepspeed7862
@deepspeed7862 6 ай бұрын
What they are doing or what they were doing? I thought the telescope was dead.
@fraziergavin
@fraziergavin 6 ай бұрын
​@deepspeed7862 you're thinking of the radio telescope in Venezuela I believe. The VLA is still fully functional
@sebastianhuvenaars6537
@sebastianhuvenaars6537 11 ай бұрын
Carl Sagan is one of those people I wish he could have lived a thousand years.
@mr.kinkade2049
@mr.kinkade2049 11 ай бұрын
If only we could have sacrificed Neil DeGrass Tyson to keep his mentor alive.
@Browncoat66
@Browncoat66 11 ай бұрын
@@mr.kinkade2049 I would do it gladly! PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET!
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 ай бұрын
@@Browncoat66 Pluto is a dwarf planet.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 ай бұрын
@@mr.kinkade2049 Sagan would probably shun you for that remark.
@dreadpenguinlord340
@dreadpenguinlord340 10 ай бұрын
billions and billions of years...
@theschoolshipmassachusetts
@theschoolshipmassachusetts 11 ай бұрын
You would love "Flight of the Navigator." It addresses the issue of time passing differently for the person who leaves Earth and returns versus those who remain on Earth.
@RidgeR5
@RidgeR5 11 ай бұрын
OMG this was one of my favorite movies as a child! A fun, funny scifi flick with a beautiful aesthetic. Compliance!
@Code9
@Code9 11 ай бұрын
Compliance!
@forgingbridges2737
@forgingbridges2737 11 ай бұрын
Compliance! 😎
@SaulofTarsis
@SaulofTarsis 11 ай бұрын
YES!!! "now this is music. I'm getting bugged drivin' down the same 'ol strip, i gotta find a new place where the kids are hip!"
@eve-llblyat2576
@eve-llblyat2576 11 ай бұрын
​@@OneTrueScotsman And thats the point why light speed is impossible. The argument "people belived planes flying through the air is impossible, why dont belive in xy or interstelar travel". is totally imbecile. Even the first humen could see things fly. Leaves, birds. etc. so he knew flying is possible. People build flying things forever. Its known that kites had been made 2300 years ago. People building kites to fly with had been around for thousand of years. 1780 people flew with ballons. 1796 the four aerodynamic forces of flight had been identifyed. Every body knew it was possible. But it needed the ottomotor do propel. But bending physics? Physics are the same since the first humen. Gravitytion, elektric forces, magnetic forces, atomic forces. Even a caveman could observe them. They stayed the same, we only get better in observing them. Lightspeed Gravity or velocity acting on mass equels in rising the energy of the quanten, letting them "move" or "swing" or "what every" faster. Ofcourse this isnt mesurable because we cant leave the inertial system of this quaten / atoms /particels we observing. To load atomic particles with such an amount of enrgy is impossibel. Its a mathematical limited. Only fundamental interactions can travel light speed. But i hate the term " light speed" because light can travel slow as 17m/s or 299.792.458 m/s in vacuum. All in all you guys should forget your belives in scifi travel or interstelar travel. Its IMPOSSIBLE and will stay like that forever. Even if we hack physics (Impossible) and reach light speed it still would take a decade to the nearest star. Thats like traveling 1km on the journey descovering the earth.
@mstorrboy
@mstorrboy 11 ай бұрын
This move should be on every top 10 sci-fi movie list if not the top 5. Watching the device break apart in the theater was crazy.
@brianhatcher2799
@brianhatcher2799 11 ай бұрын
Definitely. I also think Gattaca should be on there. Another sci-fi movie that’s more of a drama and focuses on the human spirit and the beauty of chasing your dreams than on action and visual flair. That one, like Contact, also got me pretty emotional.
@Docjonel
@Docjonel 11 ай бұрын
@@brianhatcher2799 Gattaca and Contact are two movies that affect your view of the world after you see them. That's what the best science fiction does.
@charlie.on.youtube
@charlie.on.youtube 11 ай бұрын
@@brianhatcher2799came out the same year too, iirc
@mstorrboy
@mstorrboy 11 ай бұрын
@@brianhatcher2799 gattaca is definitely up there also. Let's throw in Dark City also. Maybe not a top 10 movie, but it was a neat thriller/mystery sci Fi in it's day
@alanfoster6589
@alanfoster6589 11 ай бұрын
Dark City is real SF.@@mstorrboy
@blacknail
@blacknail 11 ай бұрын
This movie is largely responsible for my life long interest in astronomy and cosmology. I wanted to be an astronomer for most of my childhood. I didn't pursue it later but I will always love this stuff.
@ReaLifeHDchannel
@ReaLifeHDchannel 8 ай бұрын
Same here! I had books on our solar system, but my passion turned into sci-fi writing. Except I haven't finished writing anything yet.
@0rnery0verwatch
@0rnery0verwatch 10 ай бұрын
I'm a grown a$$ man and this move makes me cry full blown tears every time I watch it. Jodie Foster gives an exemplary performance... she reminds me of my sister and I love Carl Sagan and the message behind this movie.
@petersvoboda5526
@petersvoboda5526 4 ай бұрын
Same here. Gets me every time.
@ben_spiller
@ben_spiller 11 ай бұрын
Jodie Foster is great. She became an advocate for SETI after this film.
@MRxMADHATTER
@MRxMADHATTER 11 ай бұрын
There are a bunch of little easter eggs in this. When they zoom out from her eye as a child at the beginning, you can see a reflection of the machine. The pattern of the spilled popcorn on the floor gets repeated in the stars and in the sand in her palm at the end. He picture of Pennsacola and the palms on the beach when she makes contact.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 ай бұрын
"If we're wrong we're cooked." Now what's that from?
@pleutron
@pleutron 11 ай бұрын
i've seen this movie at least 20 times since it came out in '97. it still makes me cry even watching this reaction.
@Lynxdoc
@Lynxdoc 11 ай бұрын
I've probably seen it as many times as well.
@Cadinho93
@Cadinho93 11 ай бұрын
"Wanna take a ride?" Contact is a superb Sci-Fi film. Each time I watch the film, I'm left wondering how "Contact" is time and time again glossed over and seemingly forgotten. It's a true work of art, a beautiful, inspiring, self-affirming, hope filled tale of one woman's ambitious spiritual and scientific journey through the monumental discovery of alien life. Also, "Contact" is the film that came the closest to showing what the cultural/religious impact would be worldwide in the event we did get definitive proof of life outside Earth. All other "alien" movies seem to gloss over that.
@Lynxdoc
@Lynxdoc 11 ай бұрын
I remember listening to Art Bell on the radio in the 90's and he would start some of his shows by saying "wanna take a ride?" His show covered topics like this in the movie - Also movie was done by the same guy who did back to the future and Forest Gump and sure the composer was the same - I heard some Forest Gump style notes at the end.
@stephensmith6599
@stephensmith6599 11 ай бұрын
"wanna take a ride?" Such a great line, delivered brilliantly.
@Neogeddon
@Neogeddon 11 ай бұрын
I got this movie at a yard sale as a kid on VHS. Changed the trajectory of my life; can't even put it into words. Glad yall enjoyed it.
@RetroClassic66
@RetroClassic66 11 ай бұрын
Every time I see the scene where Haddon (John Hurt) asks Ellie, “Wanna take a ride?” I get goosebumps. That is such a thrilling moment!
@IsaacBeImont
@IsaacBeImont 11 ай бұрын
You're nailing it with your film choices, lately! RIP Carl Sagan
@IsaacBeImont
@IsaacBeImont 11 ай бұрын
17:54 Have you ladies been hitting the spice again?
@IsaacBeImont
@IsaacBeImont 11 ай бұрын
Just another reply to say I'm very happy you managed to get this video out of YT jail!
@ChibiHoshiDragon
@ChibiHoshiDragon 11 ай бұрын
And RIP John Hurt
@heatherr296
@heatherr296 11 ай бұрын
I’ll watch anything Jodie Foster is in, she’s a brilliant actor.
@peabee4758
@peabee4758 11 ай бұрын
I SECOND THAT !
@LordNelsonkm
@LordNelsonkm 11 ай бұрын
She's excellent in Elysium as a ruthless elite.
@joebombero1
@joebombero1 11 ай бұрын
Check out the interviews she gives to French TV. She is totally fluent in French.
@ph8429
@ph8429 11 ай бұрын
I thought she was great in Inside Man
@robertcartier5088
@robertcartier5088 11 ай бұрын
@@joebombero1 Indeed, my biggest surprise when I first saw those vids was that she has almost no accent! Impressive!
@jessep6330
@jessep6330 3 ай бұрын
The tribute to Carl is what really brought tears to my eyes. Anyone who grew up at that time knew how important science was to him and how much he gave to all of us.
@SathReacts
@SathReacts 11 ай бұрын
54:02 The kicker is, that the NASA budget for (FY) 2020 is $22.6 billion. It represents 0.48% of the $4.7 trillion the United States plans to spend in the fiscal year. NASA budget isn't even half of 1% of what our government spends.
@herpiede
@herpiede 11 ай бұрын
1997 was a great time for great movies, excellent actors and acrtresses, great stories and not just CGI !
@stevenwinterhill3623
@stevenwinterhill3623 6 ай бұрын
Oh totally
@campagnollo
@campagnollo 11 ай бұрын
The guy who plays Drumlin is Tom Skerritt. Among many other films, he was in ‘Alien’ and ‘Top Gun’.
@Otokichi786
@Otokichi786 11 ай бұрын
He was "Dr. Duke Forrest" in "M*A*S*H" (1970).
@robertdurant-jl8bf
@robertdurant-jl8bf 11 ай бұрын
And Weezer’s arch nemesis in Steel Magnolias.
@lopa-u9f
@lopa-u9f 11 ай бұрын
yep and they should watch A River Runs Through It with him as the dad to Brad Pitt and Craig Scheffer directed by Robert Redford
@troy34bronze
@troy34bronze 11 ай бұрын
I like the fact that Carl Sagan (the author) was himself an atheist, but told a story that didn’t discount people of faith. Ellie initially questioned Palmer’s faith because she said she needed proof. But in her evolution became someone with an experience she couldn’t prove.
@authorrayrogers
@authorrayrogers 11 ай бұрын
The movie inverts after her experience. For the whole film up to that point, she is strictly a person of proof. Then... she goes through something she KNOWS happened, but she has no proof. The world turns on her, wanting the proof she called for herself for so many years... and she now knows what faith is. It's really rather beautiful.
@talkingdonkey1817
@talkingdonkey1817 11 ай бұрын
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series changed my life. Amazing to think that Dr. Sagan’s Voyager 1 (“Veger” in first Star Trek movie) and Voyager 2 are still sending data back to Earth today as they continue their voyage through interstellar space. Big love for my biggest hero, Dr. Carl Sagan.
@MattMajcan
@MattMajcan 11 ай бұрын
thank you.. this is the entire point of the movie and something a lot of people totally miss. the overlap and differences between religion and science.. how they can coexist, or not.. as you said, i think this movie is brilliant for demonstrating that you can be both religious and scientific without contradicting yourself. most people dont think thats true
@willvr4
@willvr4 11 ай бұрын
Yeah, I never understood people who judge those who either believe, or don't believe in God. You can't prove it either way. That's why I'm agnostic. Judging people who are REALLY religious on the other hand....I can understand that. There is way too much contradictory evidence out there for adults in 2024 to still be believing in fairy tales designed to teach people thousands of years ago how to know the difference between what is right vs what is wrong.
@nagaslrac
@nagaslrac 11 ай бұрын
Sagan was agnostic. As he believed a good scientist should be. No proof either way, right?
@vinnydaq13
@vinnydaq13 6 ай бұрын
Jodie’s boss is played by Tom Skerritt, who played Dallas, captain of the Nostromo, in Alien. The billionaire investor is played by Jon Hurt, who played Kane, the guy that had the alien burst out of his chest.
@Polymathically
@Polymathically 11 ай бұрын
Contact is one of my all-time favorite movies. The theme of science vs religion - and how it gets turned on its head in the end - is wonderfully crafted. Along with Goldeneye, this made me want to visit Arecibo. A shame I never got the chance. Also, this was the final movie I ever watched in a drive-in theater; the theater was wiped out a nasty winter storm six months later. It doesn't feel that long ago...
@davestang5454
@davestang5454 7 ай бұрын
The point is that science doesn't have to be at war with religion. You really can be a person of both faith and science at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive beliefs.
@Starbits7
@Starbits7 11 ай бұрын
Fun fact: To film the space scenes there were limitations with the technology back then and they had to create a new program in order to make it look realistic. So this movie basically can be credited with a big step in improving the CGI technology back then.
@carl_anderson9315
@carl_anderson9315 11 ай бұрын
Totally! Actually, after the huge success of the 3 landmarks for 90s CGI Terminator 2, Jurassic Park and Toy Story, in early 90s, there were a subsequent late 90s insanely creative handful of films that helped develop CGI in an unprecedented manner: Contact, Godzilla, Armageddon, Men In Black, etc. I LOVE 90s movies because they’re so bold and unafraid of taking risks.
@BruceHoult
@BruceHoult 10 ай бұрын
The wormhole sequence was done by Peter Jackson's "Weta Digital" in the lead up to doing Lord of the Rings.
@ColdCutz
@ColdCutz 9 ай бұрын
Wow, the wormhole travel scene was superb, my absolute favorite part of the movie. I’d love to see how they actually got the cgi to look like that.
@davestang5454
@davestang5454 7 ай бұрын
GGI has ruined the modern movie industry.
@chefskiss6179
@chefskiss6179 11 ай бұрын
"They're still looking for two Canadian sisters... wanna take a riiiide...?" - Wonderful selection! Can't wait!
@BOGO2020
@BOGO2020 11 ай бұрын
This movie and the book are amazing. Fun fact: In the book, on top of the 18 hours of static, they recovered some traces of sand inside the pod from “Pensacola” which added to the government funding her research. Such a great story!!!
@OneAndOnlyMe
@OneAndOnlyMe 11 ай бұрын
Some the camera shots are amazing, the one where the camera pulls out of Elli on the radio backwards through the glass in the door of her house, subtle and yet so cinematic.
@chadbailey7038
@chadbailey7038 11 ай бұрын
This was one of my favorite movies growing up. Interstellar before Interstellar. Gave me a crush on Jodie Foster! I love how you kept thinking this was a true event! 😅they did such a great job creating this world so did I at times 😂. So glad you guys watched this!
@kaede15
@kaede15 11 ай бұрын
OMG 1997 was the best year for Sci-Fi movies that I can remember. Contact, Starship Trooper, Event Horizon, Gattaca and Fifth Element.... and other really good titles like The Edge, Dante's Peak, Seven Years in Tibet, Spawn and Davil's Advocate. Contact has a special place in my heart, because before this movie I always thought that science and faith are exclusionary... you can have one but not both.. but this movie made me realize that my premise was wrong, in fact most human hisory one is the drive force for the other... Don't know if Carl Sagan had that in mind when he wrote the book but it certainly hint at that. Plus the movie also has my favorite quote of all time: 'The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.' ---Carl Sagan
@CribNotes
@CribNotes 11 ай бұрын
I love movies like this because it's like getting on an amusement park ride. I couldn't believe how smooth and fast it flew by when I saw it opening weekend. "Wait a minute....that movie was two and a half hours???" It doesn't drag at all.
@ct6852
@ct6852 11 ай бұрын
Feel like this would definitely be a series instead of a movie nowadays.
@CribNotes
@CribNotes 11 ай бұрын
"I know you can't see it now but I"m doing you a favor." I love that line from Drumlin during his argument with Ellie, because were it not for his dirty under-handed self-serving behavior....it would have been Ellie who got killed during the alien machine test!
@mdroid7755
@mdroid7755 11 ай бұрын
39:40 "Isn't time time?" When you start moving at the rate of speed they're estimating she's going to experience, time would begin to move slower for her relative to the earth's local time. For her it would feel normal, but on earth many years would be passing in that same span. The 50 year timeframe comes in with them thinking that with Vega being 26 light-years away, the trip there are back would take roughly that long from earth's perspective.
@allovett6246
@allovett6246 11 ай бұрын
30:42 Trivia Moment Actor playing former astronaut John Russell is Stephen Ford. The youngest son of former president Gerald R. Ford. Stephen was also in the first Transformers movie as the 4 star general who orders the strike package on the scorponok attack.
@Ferdawoon
@Ferdawoon 11 ай бұрын
44:30 - I didn't realize until watching this reaction that the area they are in is the drawing she did with her father in the opening scenes. The playa with three palm trees, of the area she managed to radio to.
@dlweiss
@dlweiss 11 ай бұрын
Great reactions! So, to explain why they expected her to not age as quickly as the people back on Earth: space and time are essentially two sides of the same coin (which astronomers literally call spacetime), and this means the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time. This means that a person travelling VERY fast between planets will experience time slowing down for them, causing them to age more slowly compared to the people back on Earth. You can actually see this same phenomenon happen by synchronizing two clocks, leaving one of them sitting still at home, and then taking the other clock with you while you fly back and forth across the country on fast-moving airplanes. After enough of these speedy trips, the clock that was travelling with you will no longer be perfectly in-sync with the clock left sitting at home (by only a fraction of a second, but still enough to be noticeable). As for why she DIDN'T end up aging like that: the alien device created a wormhole that allowed her to travel across space without actually "speeding up" - because wormholes are holes in the fabric of spacetime that you jump through, essentially skipping all the distance and time in-between. Sorry if this just makes you more confused! :)
@authorrayrogers
@authorrayrogers 11 ай бұрын
This is actually one of the best descriptions of spacetime and wormholes that I've ever seen. Thank you!
@GoSolar
@GoSolar 11 ай бұрын
a question/quibble: if you're moving very fast, do you actually "experience" time slowing down? My understanding is that your *experience* of time does not change. But *relative to some other observer*, time passes more slowly for you.
@willmartin7293
@willmartin7293 11 ай бұрын
Yes, you have it correct according to Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity.@@GoSolar
@dlweiss
@dlweiss 11 ай бұрын
@@GoSolar Exactly correct: from your own perspective, time would continue to feel completely the same, because you yourself would be in "inside" the alternate timeflow. Only an outside observer would perceive you as moving in "slow motion" or something similar. I realize my initial phrasing was unclear! I meant "experience" in the sense that you'd be *existing* in a slower timeflow.
@IamnotJohnFord
@IamnotJohnFord 11 ай бұрын
​@@GoSolar You won't feel any different, nor will the people going slower. A real life example would be astronauts on the Space Station. the Space Station is traveling almost 30000 km/hr(almost 20,000 mph). So, astronauts on the Space Station are aging slower than people on Earth. You can have identical clocks. Keep one on Earth and take one on the Space Station. When you bring the one clock back to Earth it will be just a little behind the one that never left Earth. In six months the Space Station clock would be behind about 0.005 seconds. If you could travel close to the speed of light you could essential travel into the future as time on Earth would proceed faster relative to your time. I looked this up, and it's really cool. If you travel at 99.99% of the speed of light for one year when you returned to Earth 70 years would have past. That is so cool.
@dan_hitchman007
@dan_hitchman007 11 ай бұрын
I love how they depicted the alien life as a projection of Ellie's thoughts and aspirations, so she could have closure with her father. In the novel it was pretty cut and dry that this was a totally alien civilization like in the novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based on and that there was no question she traveled through space and time. It makes her just like her boyfriend, having to leave some of it to faith in her experiences because the truth was hidden from her due to government secrecy... that her travels were real, though she would have some doubt in her mind.
@CinHotlanta
@CinHotlanta 11 ай бұрын
I love it when William Fichtner (Kent) gets to play not-a-slimeball 😁
@ChrisReise
@ChrisReise 11 ай бұрын
5:57 Carly, this is William Fichner, you probably recognize him from "Armageddon". He's also in the TV Show, "Prison Break."
@matthewmarcinko9157
@matthewmarcinko9157 11 ай бұрын
Cassie, thank you for reacting to this. I've been waiting for you to watch this for a VERY long time. This movie always makes me cry at the part when Ellie sees her father again, because, personally, I would give ANYTHING to talk to my Dad just one more time, too. Again, thank you, Cassie. You're my favorite reactor of them all on KZbin...
@lennyl3843
@lennyl3843 11 ай бұрын
One of those movies that leaves you sitting on your couch or bed for a bit after its finished. Letting your brain marinade for a while. A must for sci-fi fans.
@aaroncillo4318
@aaroncillo4318 11 ай бұрын
David Morse was also a guardian in the Green Mile. Also, has anyone noticed the similitude of shining stars when Ellie grabs the sand at the end and the one that her "alien father" has in his hand when takes the sand from Pensacola?
@alexspindler1
@alexspindler1 10 ай бұрын
There's a really nice end at the book when humanity discovers that there's a message hidden in the universal constant Pi. It shows how the diversity in experiences can open up new opportunities so we helped the entire galaxy understand a deeper meaning in the universe we share. Really cool but hard to make meaningful in a movie without a ton of setup. Awesome movie, awesome book, and great reaction from you two!
@shaomongoloid
@shaomongoloid 11 ай бұрын
The sound of the signal is a modified heartbeat, which used to just be a neat bit of movie trivia for me until I heard the heartbeat of my first child in utero. Now, when I watch this movie, the scene where they discover the radio signal chokes me up.
@little-wytch
@little-wytch 11 ай бұрын
The 50-year time thing would only have been if she traveled at near the speed of light. Wormholes, which are still theoretical, are a completely different story. The Stargate franchise of movies and shows deals with wormholes and might interest you, but there are a LOT of seasons to go through lol. 17 seasons across 3 series lol.
@Dmitriy.0
@Dmitriy.0 11 ай бұрын
I'd settle for the original Stargate (1994) movie reaction.
@peterolbrisch8970
@peterolbrisch8970 11 ай бұрын
Oh please.🙄
@garryiglesias4074
@garryiglesias4074 11 ай бұрын
@@Dmitriy.0 SG-1 is the only required series, I agree...
@3000KJH
@3000KJH 11 ай бұрын
Don't wormholes bend space time, so travel would be more or less instantaneous?
@dupersuper1938
@dupersuper1938 11 ай бұрын
4 counting Infinity...5 counting Origins...
@mariaghiglieri78
@mariaghiglieri78 11 ай бұрын
One of the best space movies. The book was written by Carl Sagan, and is considered one of the more scientifically accurate books. The movie condenses a lot of it down, but it is beautifully done and I appreciate that it keeps to the spirit of the book. Thank you for watching it!
@barkingmadman1169
@barkingmadman1169 11 ай бұрын
The only movie I saw in the theater, walked out, immediately bought another ticket and watched the very next showing.
@northwestkiwi7742
@northwestkiwi7742 11 ай бұрын
I did that after the The Fellowship of the Ring but only because the cinema screwed up the first session and we had to leave after the first hour.
@SillyMakesVids
@SillyMakesVids 11 ай бұрын
Or you could have stayed for the whole movie and not have needed to buy another ticket. /s
@1177kc
@1177kc 11 ай бұрын
I did that with Chicago.
@charlie.on.youtube
@charlie.on.youtube 11 ай бұрын
@@SillyMakesVidshaha.😅
@charlie.on.youtube
@charlie.on.youtube 11 ай бұрын
I think I saw it five times that year.
@PianoDentist
@PianoDentist 11 ай бұрын
28:57 Palmer: "did you love your father?" Ellie: "Yes" Palmer: "Prove it" Ellie: "sure, he raised me after my mother died, he encouraged me to pursue my dreams, he told me he loved me. He demonstrated behavior that one would expect to see, if he loved me. Is that not proof enough. Can you demonstrate that god loves you, because I have evidence of both my fathers existence and his love". .. should have been her reply.
@Bnio
@Bnio 11 ай бұрын
I see what you're getting at, but Palmer asked Ellie to prove that SHE loved her dad, not that her dad loved her. "Yes, I did," may be a true answer, but it's still not proof.
@PianoDentist
@PianoDentist 10 ай бұрын
@@Bnio That evidence I mentioned should count as the "proof". However, "proof" should have not been the term used, as "proof" applies to mathematics, not to a philosophical question.
@heinleinreader
@heinleinreader 7 ай бұрын
Dad was also one of the guards in the Green Mile. Young Ellie was Joanna in the Hunger Games films. The guy playing Drumland was in Spacecamp. He was also in Top Gun I think.
@3DJapan
@3DJapan 11 ай бұрын
Based on the book by the amazing Carl Sagan who made science easy to understand in his old show Cosmos.
@conureron3792
@conureron3792 11 ай бұрын
Haddon was played by John Hurt - famous as the astronaut that had the baby alien burst thru his chest in Alien….also played The Elephant Man.
@coreyfrancis421
@coreyfrancis421 11 ай бұрын
Got to see the Arecibo antenna shortly before one of the structural cables failed and it collapsed. It was very impressive. Excellent movie.
@ChrisReise
@ChrisReise 11 ай бұрын
4:54 He played one of the guards in "The Green Mile" his name was Brutal. He's the one that punched Percy when he said "I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet." But he DID play the bad guy neighbour in "Disturbia".
@gember1382
@gember1382 11 ай бұрын
This was one of my favorite movies when I was young. I even bought the video tape and watched it so many times. Love these reactions of movies from the '80 and '90 ❤
@dbsagacious
@dbsagacious 11 ай бұрын
I know most people will comment on the movie as a whole, but i will NEVER not be amazed by the shot at 11:05 It is movie magic at its finest. Maybe my favorite shot in all of cinema. The invisible camera lol
@marasmusine
@marasmusine 11 ай бұрын
And so subtle as well, I don't think Popcorn in Bed even registered the transition :)
@ct6852
@ct6852 11 ай бұрын
Zemeckis was king of sneaky CGI moments like that.
@christopheryochum3602
@christopheryochum3602 11 ай бұрын
Cassie's doing "Contact," which isn't done near enough, and Carly''s there. What's not to like!!! :)
@davidsandberg6179
@davidsandberg6179 11 ай бұрын
I have loved this movie so, so much, ever since seeing it in the theater (and reading Sagan’s book). It remains in my top five movies of all time, and I’m thrilled that you two watched and enjoyed it. One also can’t overlook Alan Silvestri’s amazing music score … it too remains in my top five of all time.
@brianhatcher2799
@brianhatcher2799 11 ай бұрын
Yeah, Alan Silverstri did so many musical scores for movies, especially in the 90’s, and they are so beautiful and at times bittersweet that I can’t help but tear up. He really tugs on the heartstrings.❤😢
@snakesnoteyes
@snakesnoteyes 11 ай бұрын
Hey, they spend so little money on NASA. Like at the height of NASA’s budget it was was like 2% of the US budget. But what we got for it was the tech that makes makes your cell phone work, CAT scans, land mine removal, emergency rescue cutters (jaws of life), and so many more things including a way to save our planet from an asteroid impact. That’s just off the top of my head. By reaching for something as difficult as space travel we discover so much that improves our day to day life.
@SeedFactoryProject
@SeedFactoryProject Ай бұрын
It's not just NASA. For example, the CERN particle accelerator lab, which is basic physics, gave us the World Wide Web. They were looking for a better way to organize the data being produced. When you put smart people to work on a very hard project that's never been done before, you learn new things and make progress. Exploring space is a very hard project. Star Trek, Star Wars, and the idea of building space colonies are why I've had a career working on space projects. Don't underestimate the power of entertainment to affect people's lives.
@ji3194
@ji3194 11 ай бұрын
I grew up not far from the VLA and used to drive there all the time its magnificent especially in the winter when it snows.
@Astro95Media
@Astro95Media 11 ай бұрын
An absolute classic of the 90s. I remember watching it over 20 years ago and being moved by every moment of Foster's performance.
@token1371
@token1371 11 ай бұрын
Cassie and Carly - what a team! Contact is my favorite Jodie Foster film. It's her masterpiece. Our society is based on religion and science, but imo intelligent people can hold both in their hearts. Thirty years ago, this concept of movie reactions would be science fiction.
@acnash27
@acnash27 11 ай бұрын
Something a college professor of mine stated which stuck with me was that science and religion can coexist because they answer (or rather ask) separate questions. Science is a question of how, whereas religion is a question of why.
@MiketheratguyMultimedia
@MiketheratguyMultimedia 11 ай бұрын
@@acnash27 That's an excellent quote, I like that.
@Tinman452
@Tinman452 11 ай бұрын
I love the juxtaposition of the characters asking for 'faith' in their science and then those with faith asking for it back. Belief is personal, it can be given but not demanded.
@alberthaust4542
@alberthaust4542 11 ай бұрын
One movie from the past you might like that is sort of a Romcom is "Broadcast News." Holly Hunter is the lead.
@robertomancha6840
@robertomancha6840 11 ай бұрын
Thanks ladies. I usually don’t like watching other people watching movies but I was absolutely floored by this movie when I first watched it as a kid and couldn’t miss the opportunity to witness someone else get deeply invested in the story and characters for the first time. It was like I was watching myself for the first time all over again. Such a beautiful film with so many powerful messages and amazing performances. You took me back to feeling like a 13 year old kid watching this with you! Thanks 🙏 😊
@tomshea8382
@tomshea8382 11 ай бұрын
The echoes of 2001 at the end are pretty palpable: The hypervisuals on her journey and the fact that the alien powers constructed a reality that isn't quite real. In 2001 the aliens put Bowman in a sort of terrarium to watch him, that looks like reality but not quite. When these aliens built Pensacola, they got it not quite right: The tides roll out, the colors are wrong, the visuals stop at her hand's length.
@THOMMGB
@THOMMGB 11 ай бұрын
Well, at least the aliens got the Oxygen part right at Pensacola. 😊
@RidgeR5
@RidgeR5 11 ай бұрын
I DO wonder what all took place over that 18 hours? Was the entirety of her contact with the aliens what we saw, and the rest was traveling through wormholes? Or was the ride real time and she spent the rest of that window chatting it up with spacedad?
@billross7245
@billross7245 11 ай бұрын
I thought that the movement of the shadows of the palm trees were both awesome and alien.
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