OT: Contact

[Raging Deadstar]

I was wondering why this thread seemed strangely familliar.

I saw it and i had to admit i thought it was interesting, i think i saw it in 1998, of course then i was 12 years old so i wasn't as brushed up in Sci-fi as i am now.

Not a great film, althougth the ending was cool when i saw it.

Maybe have to rewatch it and get a more updated opinion

[Katchoo]

I thought the movie was great. I saw it about a week before it was released at one of those movie 'sneak peaks' they do every so often. Plus, it was part of a double-header: watch Contact first, and then stay to watch Batman & Robin. Needless to say, I didn't stay to watch B&R (already saw it; loathed it).

Anyhoo, Before they mention the "12(?) minutes of static" tape, I felt you were left wondering wether she actually travelled through the Worm Hole, or wether she just had a near death experience (going through a bright passage, seeing a loved one). I thought it was a pretty powerful notion.

And yes, Jodie Foster is certainly hot, even if she's about 10 years older than I am.

[Fyron]

All that religious mumbo jumbo was certainly detracting...

[dogscoff]

Might have been a worthwhile watch if they had cut it down to about 25 minutes. A few good ideas, but nowhere near enough to justify the length of it.
EDIT: And they needed a proper alien too. All that crappy "taking on a familair form from your memory because we spent the entire special effects budget on that stupid spinning tower thing" didn't do it for me.

[ May 17, 2004, 20:43: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Atrocities]

As many of you know, I do not Subscribe to the belief that there is life out there more advanved than ours. In fact until an alien makes contact with us, or lands its ship on the white house lawn I will always believe that we are alone.

Now to the contact issue, if there is life out there, and I know there is not, then I feel the most likely way that it will contact us is through the methods seen in Contact. Space is simply to vast to travel. However a message sent along a laser, or something simular, at the speed of light could theoretically make ti to another planet. However, we would have to identify this planet, or they us, and we both would have to have simular technology to receive, or send the message.

So again, I say it will never happen.

[Raging Deadstar]

I personally myself do believe that there is life out there. Although if it is more advanced, the same or less than us can be anyones guess (and if we could even compare their advancement to ourselves is mindboggling.)

Although, if there is life out there i personally believe there's very little chance of us meeting them, and more than 99% sure it won't be in my lifespan, or for a great length time. The complications are too great for us as a species.

But the film had some good points (i had a quick read up of it to refresh my memory) and if done better (maybe sticking closer to the book it wa sbased on) may have been much cooler.

I'd watch it again though

[Renegade 13]

The universe has been around for (give or take) 14 billion years. Humanity has been around a fraction of that. There may have, at one time in the distant past been alien life. There may be now. But the distances are too great.

Also, we can not concieve of life different from out own very well. So who really knows?

Back to the movie: I still think it wasn't too bad. I even saw it twice. But some people say I have weird taste, so....

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
All that religious mumbo jumbo was certainly detracting...

I would normally agree with you, but in this case, Jodi's character didn't believe in God and questioned what's his names proof that his God was real, he said Faith and yet at the end, it was Faith that she had to use to convince everyone what she experienced was real. Anyway, I thought it was a clever thread inside the movie.

I also agree, reluctantly, that we are alone, unless there is a civilization that uses tight beam communications.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

1: The universe is infinite.
2: Therefore, no matter the ratio of races/stars, as long as the second is not infinite, their are an infinite number of races.

[henk brouwer]

Originally posted by Renegade 13:
Its a very well done movie. I felt that they left themselves a lot of room for a sequel, but never got around to it. Maybe it wasn't a huge success, so a sequel never got made. Too bad.

They could easily have made a sequel since the movie seems to end somewhere halfway the story.

The Book by Carl Sagan went on for quite a while (read it ages ago, hope I remember this correctly) *spoilers ahead*. Later in the story a huge discovery was made regarding the number pi (3,14~) which was always believed to be build up of random numbers when you precicely calculate it.
They discovered that after calculating to like the 10E-10000th digit, binary code started showing up wich formed, when written out, a circle. The only explanation was that god apparently put his autograph somewhere in the number pi, a natural constant, proving his existence.

Indeed lots of religious mumbo-jumbo in this movie, usually not really my thing, but I thought it was a good movie (but the book was better)