Contact [VHS]

Contact [VHS]
by Robert Zemeckis

Contact [VHS]

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Actor: David Morse, Geoffrey Blake, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
Producer: Carl Sagan
Writer: Carl Sagan
Producer: Joan Bradshaw
Writer: James V. Hart
Writer: Michael Goldenberg
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Special Edition, THX
Running Time: 153 minutes
Release Date: 1998-06-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Contact [VHS]

Movie Review: i couldnt find it anywhere else
Summary: 5 Stars

i couldn't find it anywhere else, so i ordered it.
good movie. in good condition when it got to me.

Movie Review: After reading the book, this movies sort of disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars

I think they definately should have stuck more closely to the source material. Ellie developing a sexual relationship with Palmer was really corny. I saw this movie once years ago, years before reading the book and I liked it alot then. But I just read the book a couple weeks ago, so I went back and bought this movie and realized how much they actually changed... for the worse.

The main thing that troubles me with this film is the theological aspects. I'm an atheist (I wasn't when I first watched the movie years ago, so I didn't catch all the religious overtones at first) and I felt kind of slighted at the treatment of the source material. The way they made Ellie seem like a bad person for being an atheist. Granted, in the real world that is likely how it would've played out, but I can't help but feel this movie had more of a pro-religion agenda.

The worst part of the film was definately the ending... If they had followed the book directly, the ending would've been much more dynamic. They also definately should've kept S.R. Hadden's ending. It was so cool, but instead in the book we just see S.R. Hadden's dead body being wrapped up. The book's ending was definately ten times more satisfying than the movie version's. All in all, I'd recommend this to others, but warning to those who have read the novel and loved it, you will be disappointed in this film, at least slightly.

Movie Review: One of my most favorites
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is one of my most favorite movies of all time on many different levels. Enough said.

Movie Review: The Truth
Summary: 5 Stars

Great movie. The cast is outstanding. Gets you to think about how science and religion may not be at opposing ends.

Movie Review: I wish I could give it negative stars
Summary: 1 Stars

Contact is quite possibly the worst movie that Jody Foster or Matthew Mcconaughey have ever done. In all fairness, this should be a 2 1/2 or 3-star film, but the utterly appalling ending removes any possible enjoyment.
Many other reviews have summed up the plot, so I see no reason to restate it here. What is so ghastly about the movies' conclusion is the premise that an intelligent, well-educated, experienced SCIENTIST; upon meeting an alien species is reduced to "faith" to explain what happened. I was almost physically ill. Faith is the ENEMY of science. It denies reason, ignores evidence, and accepts no criticism. To suggest that a scientist would throw away logic and reason in some sort of quasi-religious epiphany is not just stupid, it's insulting.
Do not buy this. Do not watch this.
Watch Star Wars instead. It's far more entertaining, and far less insulting to your intelligence.

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Summary of Contact [VHS]

The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson

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