Contact (1997) | Reaction and Commentary | First Time Watching

Join me in the adventure of our first Contact!! Another amazing movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, and teamed up with Alan Silvestri for the soundtrack. Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, William Fichtner, Tom Skerritt and more being Carl Sagan's novel to life, and it is just fantastic.
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[@VerowakReacts]

Another sci-fi movie!!! 🤩🤩Do you think that there is life somewhere else in the universe? Patreon (full length & polls): www.patreon.com/ Subscribe to the channel: kzbin.info Follow me on Twitter for stuff and selfies: twitter.com/verowak

[@davidward9737]

Absolutely, we would be arrogant to think that there isnt life out there in the galaxy among 10 billion trillion planets. Look at how much different life there is on earth. Between humans other mammals, fish, animals and birds

[@crisdekker8223]

Be an awful waste of space if there weren't😀

[@DrewAnti1960]

Yes and they think they have seen seven different stars with Dyson Spheres around them. I heard some scientists talking about it. They’re not sure but what if it were true? Awesome ❤

[@Stogie2112]

Is there Life elsewhere in the Universe? The best, most honest answer we can give is, "We don't know." We have no way of knowing if there is or isn't Life elsewhere. We simply don't have enough information. All we can do is speculate and give our opinions. We have no facts. Do I believe that Life exists elsewhere in the Universe? Yes, but we may never discover it. The Universe is Vast to the Nth degree!

[@rexwilliams7643]

The shear size of just the known Universe means the probability is high but it also that size means we are unlikely to ever find out.

[@555smo]

My dad was in this movie. He plays one of the many faceless spectators in the courtroom at the end. RIP pops ❤

[@PlagueXKill3R]

Very coool! RIP ❤❤

[@LukeLovesRose]

Contact is a great and underrated sci-fi classic, and more proof that the 1990s is one of the greatest decades in film history

[@VerowakReacts]

I do really love the 90s movies that I've seen! Makes me excited to see more

[@danzthename]

that's for dang sure

[@user-jp2zw4kw3y]

Totally agree.

[@ReinersBlauerHoden]

Its great until it turns to this absolute trash with her father

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@ReinersBlauerHoden The ending is a little anticlimactic. But that makes it unique. It could be worse. It could be like the ending to Mission to Mars

[@user-fl6wv6rl6f]

Damn! If you've never seen Jodie Foster in a movie, then you HAVE to watch 'Silence Of The Lambs', starring her and Anthony Hopkins. One of the greatest suspense movies of all time.

[@watts18269]

Hard AGREE!

[@Stogie2112]

"The Accused" (1988) with Kelly McGillis. Foster won four awards for Best Actress, including the Oscar.

[@windsorkid7069]

Panic room. Another good one.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Maybe risk "Taxi Driver"?

[@user-fl6wv6rl6f]

@@jamesalexander5623 Also a very good one. Then again, I can't really think of any movies she's done that she hasn't passed all expectations. Even in movies where she only has a very limited bit part, such as in the movie 'The Inside Man', she shines.

[@dumy187]

The "waste of space" thing is a Carl Sagan quote.

[@andrewcorlett5954]

Forrest Gump, 12 Angry Men, Sixth Sense and now Contact. Verowak has been on a tear of late with some excellent movies.

[@Stogie2112]

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." -- Douglas Adams

[@TallBob1962]

When little Ellie talked to the priest she was not blaming herself. She was looking to science as an explanation as rejection of the priest's supernatural explanation.

[@zammmerjammer]

Which ultimately means she was blaming herself. She should have kept a bottle of medicine in the downstairs bathroom -- that's why her father died. Not because of fate or God. Because she didn't get the medicine fast enough.

[@Stogie2112]

@@zammmerjammer ... Being a child, she couldn't help but blame herself to some degree. If she had brought him the medicine faster, he may have lived or he may have died anyway. The important part of that scene was that Ellie dismissed the priest's explanation, as it was not based on facts and logic. The look she gave the priest was great. Her face said, "Get your superstitions away from me."

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@Stogie2112From my experience adults blame themselves in these situations at least as much as children- probably more so. It is a way to feel some control when there is none.

[@BradSimsCPT]

Yes,and I love that there's layers to her reaction.

[@Stogie2112]

The main theme of Carl Sagan's novel, "Contact", was the conflict between scientific inquiry and religious belief. Ellie built her life on "knowing" things rather than "believing in" things. One of Sagan's goals in his too short life was to teach us all that we MUST base our understanding of Life, the Universe and Everything on what we KNOW and not on what we believe.

[@bobbolondz2701]

Sounds like scientism.

[@jeffmansfield914]

But oddly, the movie kinda does the opposite. Ellie didn’t believe in God like Palmer did because he could provide no “proof”… only his personal experience and belief. Once Ellie went on her journey, nobody believed her because she could offer no “proof” other than her personal experience and belief that it was real. If we are frustrated that other characters don’t believe Ellie’s story without concrete evidence, we should be open to believing Palmer’s. To me, the movie makes a decent case for faith.

[@NZBigfoot]

@@jeffmansfield914 I like to quote Babylon 5 on this sort of thing, as one character says "Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one"... and given Babylon 5 was written pretty much all by one guy whos an atheist but with a respect to the concept of religion, and as an agnostic myself... each side offers a person something different, it just goes bad when either side thinks the other is irrelevant (especially when at their core they dont step on each others toes at all). Theres so much we dont know, and we wont know until we eventually know it... fighting just slows down getting to the knowing. Carl Sagan was also an Agnostic from what i gather and the movie to me at least sits that middle ground until the 'reveal' at the end.

[@mattrismatt]

@@NZBigfoot The thing is, if you wait until the 'reveal' at the end, it might be too late.

[@neil2444]

@@NZBigfoot Well put. To say Carl Sagan was against religion would be like saying Albert Einstein was against religion, and he was famously known for saying that god does not play dice with the universe. I think the truth is that science doesn't consider nor attempt to disprove the existence of god. It means you can be a scientist and a believer, so long as you're not deriving conclusions on the basis of belief.

[@januskaminsky5399]

Glad to have been a part of making this movie. It's well directed and enjoyed contributing to the visual effects part. I was entrusted with the "Pensacola in space" scene at the end not telling my boss that I'm partially color blind. When he found out he almost tore all his hair out but it was too late, the stock has already gone to lab and we were on a tight deadline...I laugh my ass off every time I watch that scene....

[@VerowakReacts]

Thanks for sharing that! That must feel pretty awesome seeing your work in a movie like that. Always best to ask for forgiveness than permission! Have you done some of the visual effects in other movies?

[@januskaminsky5399]

@@VerowakReacts Yes, of course, Spiderman, Matrix Revolutions, Lord of the Rings: Two towers, Stealth, Aeon Flux, Bad Boys 2, The Ghost and the Darkness and many more. I was in that business between 1996 and 2005

[@BradSimsCPT]

Januz Kaminski historically has worked with Steven Spielberg on most of his movies. Safe to say he's done some serious work!❤ Thank you Sir​@@VerowakReacts

[@VerowakReacts]

@@januskaminsky5399 It's time for me to look at what you've worked on and check out the movies that I haven't seen!!

[@kinokind293]

Some actors should keep away from aliens altogether. Drumlin is Tom Skerritt, who was the spaceship captain in "Alien", and John Hurt, who plays H. R. Haddon, was the first to die in "Alien".

[@Stogie2112]

John Hurt was the last to die in "Spaceballs". 😉

[@sntxrrr]

We should have put them in more movies with aliens, they'd bound to have been good ones.

[@tc71]

Her disgust with Drumlin was funny to watch. 😄

[@VerowakReacts]

I love dislikable characters in movies, but they make me so mad! 🤣

[@BonniBarlow-fn6oj]

She wanted him to die - I thought, just wait.

[@Pixelologist]

Dr. Carl Sagan was heavily involved in this production but sadly passed away approximately six months before the film was released.

[@t0dd000]

"It'd be an awful waste of space." That's a famous phrase coined and popularized by Carl Sagan, the author.

[@orangewarm1]

“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God." Sagan

[@rijlqanturis625]

Goddamn, "For Carl" always makes me tear up. Love this movie.

[@chanceneck8072]

Carl Sagan.

[@fakereality96]

@@chanceneck8072 Carl's Jr. 🌟

[@chanceneck8072]

@@fakereality96 Idk what that means.

[@mikekay3313]

When I was growing up I watched/listened to his narration of "The Cosmos" series. I was LOCKED In and in awe at 9 years old grasping how huge and amazing the universe really is. 100% it shaped my future. Carl was a gift to our planet and species.

[@MatthewPettyST1300]

@@mikekay3313 If a science guy, late teens can have an Idol to be proud of,.......it would be him. I'm now 69 !

[@carm3d]

If you watch this again, look for a symbol that keeps appearing throughout the film. A crescent-shaped constellation. It was in the spilled popcorn when her father collapsed. At the very start when the camera pulls out of young Ellie's eye, you can see a reflection of the machine in her eye, minus the rings. When Ellie first got the signal and was rushing into the building, there was a hidden cut, splitting two different takes at two different locations. They used video morphing to make it pretty seamless. In the space pull-out intro sequence, look closely at Mars, the famous Mars "face" structure is visible.

[@rickharms1]

The movie does not do justice to the book. Originally there were six people on the trip. Having only one person justifies people’s skepticism.

[@NoOne-so7jt]

43:40 Don't forget Ellie's retort: "Funny, I've always believed the world is what we make of it." In other words, the world doesn't have to be that way if we strive to behave morally, instead of being Machiavellian like Drumlin.

[@samuelbutterworth4303]

Similar to the opening sequence of the movie, Carl Sagan did some PBS specials, in one he started a camera a meter above a couple on a picnic, then kept pulling away different distances until he was at the end of the universe. Then went into one of the people going down to the sub-atomic level. Showing the huge range of everything in the universe.

[@woeshaling6421]

i've watched this on repeat for a long time. The opening radio scene stayed with me to this day

[@mikefox6172]

"Funny, I always thought that the world is what we make of it." Amen.

[@Browncoat66]

One of the flight controllers in this film was Gerry Griffen a real life Flight Controller from the Apollo project at NASA..

[@charleshartley9597]

As a lifelong scifi nerd, the wonder and hope in this story makes me cry every damn time. There are plenty of scifi movies that show humanity coming together because of an alien threat. This story takes the more awe-filled perspective and is so beautiful for it. Also, Corridor Crew has an episode where they go through how they did the mirror scene Vero! Check it out 😁

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

Same! Alien contact stories are a barometer of how we feel about the Other. The earlier shows from the 1960s - 80s, _E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001, Contact, Starman, Star Trek: the Original Series, Cocoon_ portrayed contact with aliens as a wonderful adventure, promising advancement for the human race. These were from a time when America was more confident, optimistic, idealistic, adventurous, humanitarian. Today America is meaner, more self centered, scared, tribal, racist, and nativist. Current alien SF shows reflect these attitudes: _Independence Day, Aliens, Predator, Annihilation, Oblivion, Star Trek: Discovery_ , Signs, Starship Troopers.

[@Embur12]

Arrival, and The Abyss the aliens were helpful. America was healing the racial divide until the most decisive President in our lifetime split the nation. The year was 2009, and Hussien Obama told us colonialism was all that set us apart from the rest of the world, that and a lot of of leftist /communist tripe. Obamas third term is a cess pool of high crime, inflation,, and turmoil caused by a wide open southern border. If Nationalist pride means shutting the border, no more funding for new wars in Europe, law and order, energy independence, and an end to runaway spending and inflation... sign me up!

[@havok6280]

It's between this and Silence of the Lambs for my favorite Jodi Foster film.

[@cshubs]

When you think about it, this is another version of, "If you build, he will come."

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Baseball. really? You 'muricans 😛

[@Stogie2112]

@@dallesamllhals9161 ... Not baseball. The main character dealing with his/her past and missing Dad.

[@TheYakusoku]

23:00 - There's a saying that "Some people prefer a comforting lie over an uncomfortable truth."

[@OldMan_PJ]

Favorite Jodie Foster movie hands down is "Panic Room" (2002), she stars alongside an 11 year old Kristen Stewart. Hopefully it will be getting a 4K release in the next 12 months, it's been rumored for so long.

[@MagusNotre]

What was cool about this movie, was that Carl was pretty much on his death bed after this movie was made, and before he passed, he got to see it in a closed setting, and he appreciated how it was directed. very good movie.

[@canadianicedragon2412]

"This is a risk, the occupant could die?" Do you know how many people "almost" dying to reach the moon? Even on Earth. This movie is... very surreal in the best ways.

[@cshubs]

I live in NM and have visited the Very Large Array a couple times, once during the 2012 eclipse. It's a wonderful place in the middle of nowhere, 3 hours from Abq. I recommend a visit if you can. Each dish is the size of a pro baseball infield. We got a tour of the control room, which about 1/4 the size of the one in the movie. There's a signed photo of Jodie Foster.

[@BradSimsCPT]

I'm amazed at how the CGI in this held up over the years..I consider the quality above average, if not outstanding ❤ also my favorite opening of any movie ever..the sheer scale of seeing galaxies upon galaxies is mind blowing!

[@VerowakReacts]

The opening is just beautiful! I love space and the universe so I'm perhaps biased

[@t0dd000]

The scene where young Eleanor (Jena Malone-man, she was good in this) races to get the medicine is a really famous cinematography shot. There's a great KZbin video on how they did it.

[@matthewmarcinko9157]

This is my favorite of all Jodie Foster's films. I can't get through the ending without crying my eyes out. Thank you for reacting to this, Ms. Verowak...

[@chanceneck8072]

31:33 I have a theory, that makes the movie better, I think: Kent DIDN'T hear a thing. 😅 It's impossible. With all the interferences, the camera picture went out a long time ago. But, he's the blind guy. He heard the structure from the frames earlier and he's CLAIMING to hear Ellie here, because he's just such a good friend. He knows Ellie, he knows she would rather die than abort the mission.... Well, that's my theory at least. I didn't always think that, only since like 6 or 8 years or so... But I like it...

[@srahhh]

I don't mind that theory. I'll think about it next time I watch again.

[@chanceneck8072]

@@srahhh Thanks. Now you're doing more than most people. 👍🤝

[@dorivalcamargojr2953]

SETI project really existed. I would say it was the first form of cloud computing, as anyone could join and allow them to use your PC capabilities to process signals received by radiotelescops around the world.

[@1979video]

One of my all time favorite movies. It also has one of the most amazing camera shots of all time. AKA the mirror shot.

[@token1371]

At that time that fantastic shot had never been filmed.

[@larrybremer4930]

I cannot imagine any actress other than Jodie Foster being able to pull this role off, especially the senate testimony part. Some world class acting on display there.

[@pistonburner6448]

It seems Jodie is a terrible mother: all her children are in Foster care.

[@colinafobe2152]

absolutely adore this film. kudos to Jodie Foster and Tom Skerritt for brilliant acting

[@InfoRanker]

Brilliant movie, written by one of my favorite people of all time. Carl Sagan

[@VerowakReacts]

I sadly haven't read or seen much that Carl Sagan has done. I'll have to fix that

[@bluegizmo1983]

3:27 Not anymore! That radio telescope (Arecibo) was destroyed in December 2020 when the overhead part collapsed due to a lack of maintenance and repairs. It will not be rebuilt.

[@memnarch129]

The saddest thing about this movie now, if no one has mentioned, is you can no longer visit the Arecibo telescope. About 2 or 3 years ago one of the cables anchoring the receiver to one of the pillars snaped, after that the weight was too much and a second one snapped and the whole receiver array fell down through the dish. It was figured it would be too expensive to repair and so Arecibo was decomissioned.

[@VerowakReacts]

That is so unfortunate and sad 😭

[@ronfehr7899]

A suggestion for another Jodie Foster movie: Nell. Great performance.

[@adamwarlock1]

I keep hoping reactors will do Nell. Everybody already loves Liam Neeson and Jodie, and I'd love for people to rediscover Natasha Richardson.

[@ronfehr7899]

​@@user-ih5jr8rt5qNot a poor movie. Just not to your taste.

[@samgradyfilm]

Oh please don't watch Nell. It does NOT hold up. Embarrassing to watch.

[@ronfehr7899]

It looks like some people don't like Nell. Decide for yourself, but maybe just for yourself, and not as a reaction video.

[@raymondregis6219]

My urologist looked and sounded like James Woods. I liked him as much as I did Woods character.

[@VerowakReacts]

🤣

[@zatornagirroc7175]

The Science and Faith juxtaposition in this movie is one of my favorite things about it. I am in the minority, but I believe that science leads to faith, and that faith leads to science. I think there is room for both in this wide universe. One does not cancel out the other, but rather enhances it. I believe that when we find a way to truly bring these two ideas together, it's going to lead us to more truth.

[@fortunatus1]

There is one hole in addition to the static in the idea that the trip is all in Ellie's mind. She was strapped into the seat when the capsule fell and the seat was smashed to pieces in what they believe was a split second fall - massive gravitational effect. Could she have gotten out of the seat in that time when the camera blinked out and the capsule was released? Seems unlikely. Should they have detected such a massive gravitational effect?

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

A plothole deeper than crater lake.

[@flippert0]

22:07 you are not wrong about "Forrest Gump". Composer for Contact is Alan Silvestri and he created the OST for "Forrest Gump" as well (and for many more movies)

[@DB-zp9un]

Your reaction to "the shot" was perfect. And I saw a documentary on how the shot was made, and it was much more in depth than they made it sound.. I watched it and my brain was still broken lol

[@t0dd000]

SETI "How do you know that?" SETI is a very real and very well known project.

[@jakobfromthefence]

So… Running Ellie is considered by many authorities to be the best shot in history of cinema.

[@CB-ju4mz]

I miss Carl Sagan’s hope for humanity. The original cosmos tv series is a masterpiece.

[@sisterdebmac]

You just watched my favorite Jodie Foster movie. And I grew up on her. She's 2 years older than me and was always on my TV. She's done a lot of great stuff. Others will give you suggestions. This one perfectly captures her intelligence and her acting chops. And she's beautiful in it too. No wigs, no accents, no gimmicks at all. Just a fierce, driven woman playing a fierce, driven woman. It's one of my all time favorite movies, period.

[@echobucket]

The other shot which people sometimes don't notice because I think shows have imitated it a lot nowadays, but when Ellie is on the radio after her dad dies, it slow pulls back and suddenly we are outside the window as if we just went through the glass.

[@DB-zp9un]

And when the signal is discovered and she runs from outside to the control room

[@FrancisXLord]

Robert Zemeckis had an unblemished reputation as a director between Romancing The Stone (1984) and The Polar Express (2004) - every film he directed was a hit during those two decades. He also contributed so much to the development of visual effects during that period. Often he includes what I would call 'thankless effects shots', as in the audience is entirely oblivious that there is a visual effect. For instance, did you notice when Ellie runs into the observatory going right from the street to what was actually a set all in one shot? I'll bet you missed that. His films also pioneered composited crowd scenes - before Forrest Gump if you wanted a gazillion people on screen you had to hire a gazillion extras. The impossible shots in What Lies Beneath (2000) were also very innovative and impressive for the time. I notice you haven't reacted to that Zemeckis film. Might I suggest you check it out at some point.

[@larrybremer4930]

Forrest Gump had the most SFX shots in a movie at the time, and its so seamless that its completely unnoticed.

[@robertbunting3117]

'Silence of the Lambs' should definitely be put somewhere on your list of movies that are a must see. Jodie Foster is awesome in it and it's a great movie.

[@dedcowbowee]

I read this book after buying for my late mother when she was recovering from a serous back surgery. After she was done with it of course. I took her to the theater when this came out, we both thought They did a great job making the movie and your reaction has been excellent!

[@teddtarr]

Carl S., after de-bunking several of the more prominent UFO theories of the day (very early 80's), concluded by saying that ( in order to be taken seriously), extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proofs. In other comments, he seemed to strongly imply that he regarded past & present mystical belief systems ( those that attempt to explain the natural world through supernatural causes) as pretty much at the top of the list of extraordinary claims. However, he was also a subscriber to the principle that 'the absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence; i.e., just because you can't prove something exists, does not necessarily prove that it doesn't. Taking both of these concepts to heart is the basis of my Agnosticism, the doctrine that humans cannot know of the existence of anything beyond the phenomenon of their experience. -- it seems to be the only rational approach to those things that have to be accepted on the basis of blind faith ( sometimes defined as belief in the unbelievable.)

[@zhollamychalis4252]

might I suggest,,,soundtrack wise...Silvestri at the end of :the movie Shattered: with Tom Berenger...as the helicopter begins to move away.. Probably my single fav Silvestri moment. Movie's good too. Cheers!

[@HammershotSGD]

“The world is what we make it”

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

"contact" is so good i added the dvd to my dvd collection. and i have films from every year from 1896 to 2007. my only criticisms of the film would be her little space excursion is way too short and the film has 3 false endings. i think that's gotta be some kind of record. thanks for the video smiley.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i can suggest many excellent sci-fi films. don't put too much faith in silly on-line polls. some people just have horrible taste. "colossus: the forbin project" (1970) is a perfect example of sci-fi predicting the dystopian future in which we now find ourselves. check it out. its EXCELLENT!

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm amazed that you have films from every year from 1896 to 2007, that's very impressive! Do you have a favourite decade for movies?

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@VerowakReacts ... i have more films from 1939 and 1967 than any other single years. so i guess the 30s and the 60s would be my favorite decades for film. hitchcock, spielberg, capra and ford are the directors, in order, of whom i have the most films. bogart is the actor of whom i have the most films and jimmy stewart is a close 2nd. i try to promote older films as much as i can. sadly silent films are never viewed by reactors and there's some GREAT, absolutely remarkable silent films out there. some are EPICS and some are "small," charming films. all my dvds from 1896 to about 1912 are from one film maker named georges méliès. i have his complete works. his films range in length from 10 to 30 minutes. he created some fantastic special effects techniques still used today. sorry for the length of my reply.

[@VerowakReacts]

@@cjmacq-vg8um Some movies are also hard to come by, and usually buying a dvd of every movie isn't feasible for reactors. The older movies that I have seen have mostly been really enjoyable! No need to be sorry at all, I love seeing people be passionate about something!

[@miller-joel]

41:26 The sparkling dirt is the same pattern seen on the popcorn on the floor when her father dies, the poster on her wall at Arecibo, the star system when she goes through the wormhole.

[@pistonburner6448]

She doesn't see clearly because she loses a contact lens at some point before she wakes up and sees her father/the alien. That's why the film's name is "Contact".

[@miller-joel]

@@pistonburner6448 Spoilers!!!

[@ronbeck201]

That shape looks like the constellation Corona Borealis, never figured out the meaning of it. Wonder if it is in the book.

[@miller-joel]

@@ronbeck201 The repeating pattern is there to suggest a higher intelligence or design at work, which is funny considering Sagan was an atheist. In the book, he does it by finding a pattern in the number Pi.

[@doctaflo]

28:45 - “it also makes sense that they have hexagons cuz they’re the bestagons” ~some CGP fan

[@manic6030]

Masterpiece! (the movie, the music and your reaction!)

[@VerowakReacts]

Thank you!!! 😁

[@lawrencewestby9229]

The relationship between Ellie and David Drumlin may have been inspired by the real life story of Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. In 1967, Bell was a post graduate researcher at Cambridge and Hewitt was her thesis advisor. During her research Bell discovered a repeating radio signal that eventually was determined to be the first case of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, to be discovered. When the paper announcing the discovery of pulsars was published the first name on the authors listed was Hewish's with Bell being second. In 1974 Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of pulsars with Bell not being included. The awarding of the prize to only Hewish (Martin Ryle was also awarded the prize that year but for different research) was, and remains to this day, a controversial decision. One other note, some astronomers jokingly called the radio sources LGMs, i.e. Little Green Men.

[@kennyteeology3526]

You got it! Same composer as Forrest Gump. Alan Silvestri

[@seantlewis376]

Carl Sagan was a Cosomologist, a studier of everything, though his focus was on astrophysics. One thing that bugs me about every introduction to this movie is that everyone says the book was written by Carl Sagan without mentioning Ann Druyan, his co-author and wife. The credit on the book is "Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan". In addition to being an essay on what may happen, it is a representation of how women in science are treated by their peers. It has always been true, and is true today. I am a member of SETI. Not an active scientist, but part of the crowdsourcing who will download a screensaver program to take up the extra cycles of their personal computer to help process the mountains of data provided by the project.

[@STOCKHOLM07]

"Hopefully they have a mistake when they're building it and he dies." Me - Uhhhh, not exactly but about that.

[@christopheryochum3602]

If I were a director wanting to make a new movie, I'd hire Alan Silvestri to do the music.

[@VerowakReacts]

I wish I would be able to afford him, I can't imagine he's cheap lol. But it would be such an amazing score!

[@willcool713]

The book is really very good, imo. I expected it to be notably academic and was inclined to be charitable, but expected overly rational hyberbole. I was surprised. It plays well with virtually all World metaphysics and carries such breadth to a significant depth, clearly speaking to a universal experience of the divine.

[@NemeanLion-]

Pretty good movie, but I wish they gave us more with the actual contact with the alien civilization.

[@Stogie2112]

23:14 "Hopefully, they'll have a mistake when they're building it and he ends up....dying." CHEERS!! 🥂 🥂

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

40:28 the fact that interests me is why wasn’t the fact that the chair was broken was not in the confidential report. Why didn’t Palmer Joss speak up?

[@BradSimsCPT]

The music sounds to similar to Forrest Gump because Alan Silvestri composed both movies. He later did Captain America and Avengers!❤

[@VerowakReacts]

Alan Silvestri has quickly become one of my favourite composers... I love the avengers music!!

[@NoOne-so7jt]

@@VerowakReacts Have you seen Avengers: Endgame? He reused some of his score from Cast Away in it. You can look up comparison videos on KZbin.

[@liamatsutv]

This is the first of your videos I ever watched… and I was already loving your reaction… but the very instant you said “hexagons are the bestagons” I rushed to subscribe! 😂 thank you for reacting to my favourite movie 😊

[@asmrhead1560]

Can I just say I love that you picked up on the start of the movie with the radio "time travel" at the speed of light? A surprising number of reactors totally miss it.

[@edo27]

One of my fave childhood movies. I love seeing reactors get more and more enraged at Drumlin lol

[@VerowakReacts]

Damn that guy!! 😠

[@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

Whenever I watch a Jodie Foster movie, it always reminds me that Brad Dourif has never played her brother in a movie. 😞

[@t0dd000]

This novel and film has so much heart.

[@alalcoolj216]

A cool extra bit of detail on that mirror shot is that the set with the stairway was built twice - mirror images of each other (why have one set when you can have two at twice the cost). They used the mirror-image reversed version for the mirror shot, so that everything in the mirror is correctly backwards from how it is seen at other times.

[@akw141-yy3rz]

zemeckis is known for interesting cinematography. There's a detailed commentary track about the mirror scene on the Contact Special Features DVD. Other less noticeable shots are her running from outside at the VLA to inside the control room, which LOOKS like one continuous shot but is actually several locations, I believe in different states, seamlessly edited into one sequence. Then you have 360 degree pans, which is impossible continuously because of cameras and equipment, cut together, and the fact that literally any time you see the machine it's all CGI on green screen. I like this movie a lot, but I've also seen it more times than it might even deserve because of the stunning visuals and camerawork. The Clinton footage is from actual speeches, one of them regarding finding microbes on Mars. As with Forrest Gump, this is another thing Zemeckis loves to do. He's up there with Kubrick and Spielberg among my favorite directors.

[@ThistleAndSea]

Love this one. Thanks for sharing it, Verowak. 🙂

[@wesleyrodgers886]

The Arecibo telescope no longer exists. It collapsed. A sad ending. 😶😶

[@VerowakReacts]

A very sad ending :( :(

[@BonniBarlow-fn6oj]

There's a behind the scenes video - or it may be commentary on a separate track of the movie with Jodie talking about how they did many of those scenes - the one where she's running into the office with that long shot was filmed in several different locations. The real "contact" happened at the end with Ellie and Joss touching each other's hands in the limo.

[@sntxrrr]

Still the best first contact movie ever made. Epic and reasonably scientifically plausible. That medicine cabinet shot is legendary. Robert Zemeckis did a lot to advance SFX, not always successfully but often right on the edge of what was possible.

[@arthurcamargo8416]

A Krasnikov Tube can do exactly what the device did in this movie. It constructs a wormhole and brings you back through the same tunnel to the very moment you started the tunnel or entered it. In reality, though, the tunnel needs to be constructed as you go, which means it could only go at the speed of the ship that is creating it.... Many people like sci fi for the possibilities. But the best stories are set in sci fi worlds, while the human conditions are explored within those settings. That is what made Twilight Zone so compelling, for example, or even Black Mirror. They were not necessarily about the tech or science, but about the humans within the context of that! The best fantasy stories as well! Great reaction! Fun!

[@segaiuolo]

I wish they didn't add that "18 hours of static" part: the movie would have been 100% perfect

[@Ultracity6060]

7:45 Looks like she's about to become a... **puts on sunglasses** ...Foster child. _YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!_

[@VerowakReacts]

🤣Good one, I like it!!!

[@stackels97]

'Anna and the King' is a crazy underappreciated Jodi Foster film. She and Chow Yun-Fat are incredible in it and there's a baby Tom Felton tagging along too. It's so rare that modern remakes and adaptations do some justice to the previous versions but that one was such a pleasant surprise. 😊

[@token1371]

*My favorite Jodie Foster movie and performance.* Imo, her acting range is awesome. As Shepard Book said "I don't care what you believe .. *JUST BELIEVE".*

[@glasgowjohn7831]

aw ffs this movie gets me going as it is with out you bringing in shepherds books death

[@fakereality96]

Food for thought: The Trinity site isn't too far east from where the VLA is located, and both are near where the aliens supposedly crashed near Roswell, NM. 🤔👽☢ Good stuff, V-Dubs!!! 🤗

[@peterattilakriszt3150]

If you like the story you really should read the book just because there are a significant difference: in the novel there are not one but five candidates to travel to out there.

[@johnnyrocketed2225]

Composer was Alan Silvestri- same as Forest Gump. Nice call. 🤓

[@waynet1022]

I read the book before the movie came out and I thought it was great. There was something interesting going on with Pi.

[@NativeNewMexican]

YES! Finally a reactor that catches how awesome it was to have a camera going backwards, up stairs, turning a corner, then into and then facing the mirror that Ellie runs to. IIRC Carl Sagan and CS Lewis would have discussions about religion and science which led to things like "do you love your father, prove it" and other faith/science questions written in the source for the movie. For other Science theory adaptations into art, you might listen to The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish which takes Dawkins' writings and puts them into song form.

[@charlesbaker3950]

The bad guy wasn’t arguing that “nothing happened” because he didn’t believe her. He knew something happened. Then began a campaign to discredit Jodie Foster in order to keep the findings secret….

[@miller-joel]

...and to promote his own political ambitions.

[@Ferruccio_Guicciardi]

This film Contact is more about us (humans) than aliens. It is very interesting and profound story.

[@3DJapan]

7:14 This film came out when I was in film school and we studied this scene.

[@RebelCowboysRVs]

The mirror shot was done In Harry Potter, when they were learning to fight bogarts. In it you pass the class looking in the mirror, pass through the mirror an the class is in front of you.

[@Snowman29101963]

I love your reactions, they are both intellectual and emotional at the same time. 😄

[@VerowakReacts]

Thank you! It's a mix of everything 😂

[@MarijnvdSterre]

40:37 He knew, the bastard!

[@davidolden971]

‘…not a hexagon…” The geometric form wrapped around the spherical core of the machine, was a dodecahedron, which has 12 faces, and each face is a regular pentagon.