26 years ago, my wife and I watched this movie together. It was our first date a few days after we met. This movie is science fiction, but at the same time it has such a romantic and full of emotion atmosphere ... our first kiss was during the section. Things that a great movie in traditional movie theater can provide. Great memories!
@@07kstephen I dont check timeline but I like scifimovies: 2001, 2010, Contact, Moon, Interstellar, Cargo(2009), Life(2017), Pandorum. All which could happen somewhere in the future. Moon is very good, and that music and that the one moment, I felt that tear dropping from my eye.
This film absolutely shat me up as a child. Turned on one day to this mid flow and the sound of the signal creeped me out. Even now, chills. Shows how well it was directed and performed.
Hahah. I first watched it when I was like, 15 or 16. My dad was watching it in the middle of the night and I wandered in and watched it with him. It was at the same time that I began falling in love with space - I watched the landing of InSight in November 2018 and I've been hooked since.
The movie was one of the best ever, but what amazes me the most was that beach scenary with all that wonderful colors of the cosmos, it was something I wish I was on that place forever
i watched this on tv at 2 am when i was a lil, everyone was sleeping and the atmosphere was soo scary and mysterious. it turns out to be one of my favorite movies ever
My earth science teacher in 10th grade made our class watch this movie. There was a bomb threat that day so we didn’t get to finish it but when I got home I ran to the video store to rent it on vhs and finished it. What an amazing movie.
It's really not. I know it's cool on the internet to bag on Americans, but that line is really pretty cringey. Especially coming from someone high up in government who would be used to dealing with language barriers.
I watched this when it came out in 97. Came home late one night. Someone had rented it and left it in the VCR. I had no idea what it was about. 10 minutes in and I was forgetting to blink i was so riveted. Read the book not long after. The book is the greatest novel ever written imo.
I distinctly remember seeing this trailer at the theater. I wish I could've actually seen it on the big screen. It's one of the most intelligent, character-driven, and all around brilliant films ever.
I remember it too and, as a scientist in training at the time, it got me hooked right away. I was the first in the line to see the movie. I remember seeing it on a weekday evening when the ticket was cheaper. The trailer does a great service to the actual film. I was fortunate enough to do see it in a very good theater with amazing sound system. Two scenes that I will never forget because of the amazing sound quality was the sound of the signal (the whole place vibrated!) and the scene where Ellie is about to board the pod. Unique experience!
@@thejamesbondshow9754 I would say the 7 greatest monumental sci fi movies of all time are (no particular order) : Blade Runner (1982) Contact (1997) Annihilation (2018) 2001 Space Odyssey (1968) The Matrix (1999) Alien (1979) An American Werewolf In London (1981) Star Wars (1977) Donnie Darko (2001) They each are the most revered of the sub-genres of sci fi.... I was tempted to put 1982's The Thing in there but Alien is a much more famous movie of the sci fi alien horror genre, also the art design on Alien is just a notch above The Thing ...
Just finished watching that movie. I have only one word - BEST!!! BEST BEST BEST film i ever watched! Robert Zemeckis did great job. If you watch it you will not regret it!
That signal noise has stayed with me since seeing it in 1997 on the big screen. Fabulous movie. And the entire thing is plausible too. I highly recommend watching it.
I truly don't understand why the reviews of this movie are mediocre. This movie is fantastic!! I've seen it like 4 times. The trailer alone makes my blood boil in anticipation .
An agree, it is a fantastic movie. It requires some thinking and emotional investment as well as phantasy from the viewer. That could be the reason that it wasn't the best blockbuster.
0:02 - love those ambient sounds. Reminds me of my local nature reserve where I like to run. I am leaving home in a couple weeks for university. Will miss those noises.
Carl Sagan, famous for the romance of science series 'Cosmos', wrote novel 'Contact'. While writing the novel, he asked theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne the question, ~ would be possible to build an interstellar transporter - Thorne went away and worked a 'solution' (details of which are in updated versions of the text 'Gravitation' by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler). Later Thorne became scientific advisor to Christopher Nolan' for the movie 'Interstellar'. Later Thorne got the nobel prize in physics, a boost in general for the physics community specializing in the study of gravity. So many connections between these two movies, and funny enough Matthew McConaughey is a 'star' (no pun intended) in both. 'Contact' on the big screen was a great, thoughtful watch.
I stumbled across this book browsing in the book store, only picked it up because of Carl Sagan. What a great book, time to watch the movie. What impeccable timing that Mathew was on JRE recently as I am a fan of both of them. The universe seems to work in mysterious ways.
This is the definitive alien contact movie. Next up I would place "Arrival" by Denis Villeneuve. 99% of movies in the genre are: Aliens are coming to wreck us but a miracle happens and we defeat them.
This is one of the greatest films ever! It has humor - James Woods - We poor saps build it and out pours the entire Vegan Army. Touching moments - You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix, you’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares…😢 David Morse had me in tears 😭
Remember when I first watched in 1998 on HBO Brazil, and it was love at first sight this movie. Just rewatched today on HBO Max (despite have it in dvd and blu-ray: huge difference when you see in letterbox and in high definition). By the way, the intro showing the radio signals through the space is epic... and the sound of the Vega signal: my subwoofer jumped LOL
This is what Eastern Monks and Sages have been telling from ages that life is all about experience, you can't understand it unless you, yourself experience it. About the concept of the movie, the universe exists within you, not outside. It is not something you can touch or feel, it is something to experience. But now you may ask, we can see, feel, and touch everything we do is physical. Yes, everything is physical because we are physical. But if we go a little deeper in it, then we will find, 'The basis of everything physical is experience". Now the question is where do you experience everything? Within yourself. Where do you see everything? Within yourself. It means, you see, feel, touch, everything which you call the universe, but where you experience it, "Within yourself". So, the last question would be, "Where is the universe? Within yourself. That's it.
I just go to see the trailer because in this Movie appears the big telescope of my island Puerto Rico and today its crash because of no maintenance and no federal funds for it. In 1997 was the biggest telescope in earth, so many memories of our childhood 😥
I can say that Interstellar took birth from this movie. Just loot at the similarity. Alien or whatever is sending radio signals about a space Machine. In Interstellar,they use gravitational waves to send messages.
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26 years ago, my wife and I watched this movie together. It was our first date a few days after we met. This movie is science fiction, but at the same time it has such a romantic and full of emotion atmosphere ... our first kiss was during the section. Things that a great movie in traditional movie theater can provide. Great memories!
When did she dump you for a big black dck?
Greetings to you both, I'm now watching it with a very dear friend
Are ya winning son 😁
I would have been too afraid of missing the movie with the 'side' attraction of an errant kiss!
@karamqusai did you win son ???
Before interstellar there was contact. A very underrated classic.
And before contact there was 2001 : A space odyssey
@@escapeplan2944 I was about to write that 🤣🤣🤣
Hey, any other suggestions guys?? Seeing as we share some interest??
@@07kstephen I dont check timeline but I like scifimovies: 2001, 2010, Contact, Moon, Interstellar, Cargo(2009), Life(2017), Pandorum. All which could happen somewhere in the future. Moon is very good, and that music and that the one moment, I felt that tear dropping from my eye.
AND IF one hadnt saw Moon, DONT look Moon trailer (it shows too much (just checked), just watch the movie and enjoy and feel the ... )
This film absolutely shat me up as a child. Turned on one day to this mid flow and the sound of the signal creeped me out. Even now, chills. Shows how well it was directed and performed.
Hahah. I first watched it when I was like, 15 or 16. My dad was watching it in the middle of the night and I wandered in and watched it with him. It was at the same time that I began falling in love with space - I watched the landing of InSight in November 2018 and I've been hooked since.
Signs did that with the bloody baby monitor alien signal noise when they were all in the car...
Lies again? Contact Grab USD SGD
finally someone else who thought the signal sounded creepy. it fr gave me nightmares as a kid
Dang, Katya was right. I do need to watch this.
Ahaah I'm here because of her
Dang, Joe rogan was right. I do need to watch this.
@@babamp4 Ahaah I'm here because of him
Yessss ikrrrr
Stephen Edward brought me here
This movie made me cry.
I feel like a child again everytime I watch it.
The movie was one of the best ever, but what amazes me the most was that beach scenary with all that wonderful colors of the cosmos, it was something I wish I was on that place forever
i watched this on tv at 2 am when i was a lil, everyone was sleeping and the atmosphere was soo scary and mysterious. it turns out to be one of my favorite movies ever
Same when I was young lmao search for it my whole life because I thought it was a dream. But I knew I wasnt crazy
My earth science teacher in 10th grade made our class watch this movie. There was a bomb threat that day so we didn’t get to finish it but when I got home I ran to the video store to rent it on vhs and finished it. What an amazing movie.
Hmmm bomb threat message in a CR?
1:24 "Why don't they just speak english"
The most murrican quote ever ;D
It's really not. I know it's cool on the internet to bag on Americans, but that line is really pretty cringey. Especially coming from someone high up in government who would be used to dealing with language barriers.
Ikr... You shouldn't even ask that, that would be a meme for decades if it was irl...
@@vfvs11a have you met american politicians? ted cruz? lindsey graham? they pretty dumb
yeah, cringey like murricans
@@wuderbarvulpine6609 he was from Vega.
I watched this when it came out in 97. Came home late one night. Someone had rented it and left it in the VCR. I had no idea what it was about. 10 minutes in and I was forgetting to blink i was so riveted. Read the book not long after. The book is the greatest novel ever written imo.
I loved ur story
I distinctly remember seeing this trailer at the theater. I wish I could've actually seen it on the big screen. It's one of the most intelligent, character-driven, and all around brilliant films ever.
I remember it too and, as a scientist in training at the time, it got me hooked right away. I was the first in the line to see the movie. I remember seeing it on a weekday evening when the ticket was cheaper. The trailer does a great service to the actual film. I was fortunate enough to do see it in a very good theater with amazing sound system. Two scenes that I will never forget because of the amazing sound quality was the sound of the signal (the whole place vibrated!) and the scene where Ellie is about to board the pod. Unique experience!
I saw it at the theatre.
Arrival is better than both 👀
Who's here for Katya from rpdr uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
drghaam hussain honeeeeeeey 😂😂😂
Ahahahahah the comment I'm looking for. But I still havent watch this movie yet (I'm more of a lite fun movies type of girl)
Honey, I just flipped over from a compilation video of UHNnnnn honeeeyyy 😂😂😂
~because what u see isn't always what u get~
honeeeeeeey
Out of sooooo many films, I believe that this is THE best scifi film of all time. Seriously
Two words
STAR WARS
@@thejamesbondshow9754
I would say the 7 greatest monumental sci fi movies of all time are (no particular order) :
Blade Runner (1982)
Contact (1997)
Annihilation (2018)
2001 Space Odyssey (1968)
The Matrix (1999)
Alien (1979)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Star Wars (1977)
Donnie Darko (2001)
They each are the most revered of the sub-genres of sci fi.... I was tempted to put 1982's The Thing in there but Alien is a much more famous movie of the sci fi alien horror genre, also the art design on Alien is just a notch above The Thing ...
@@thejamesbondshow9754 Star Wars is more fantasy than SF.
And even though, it doesn't rank greatly as a fantasy object.
@@thejamesbondshow9754 No
"And I have finally lost Contact with reality. Katya."
Just finished watching that movie. I have only one word - BEST!!! BEST BEST BEST film i ever watched! Robert Zemeckis did great job. If you watch it you will not regret it!
I did watching this movie, went I was a kid, it's great, And also Robert Zemeckis is one of my favorite director too so much.
Where can I watch the movie?
I will not Jodie Foster this kind of behavior
Bastiaan Kees omg haha
It looooks so boring! xD why does Katya love this so much??
i have nothing but time for that joke
@@pastelaine_art you just don’t have an attention span. Sadly this is something no one can fix. Maybe you can try growing one 🤷🏻♂️
RIP to the days when Katya spoke about this movie 24/7
Who is Katya?
@@trishalmandrik1295 Rupauls drag race supserstar who created hit web series “UNHhhh” with Trixie Mattel
@@samezekiel9749 is this movie good to watch?
THE AMMOUNT OF KATYA RELATED COMMENTS- BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
She’d an iconic queen
I'm soooooooo jealous of anyone who hasn't seen this movie yet. I wish that it was me seeing it for the first time again. Epic!!!!!!
I’m planning on watching it for the first time tonight! Excited after reading these positive reviews!
I never saw this. My Aquarian self will now!👁
Who doesn’t want a big booty?
Just watched this for the first time. OMG i freaking loved it, can't believe i havent seen this gem before.
I know that feeling. I actually just got the movie! Can’t wait to watch it.
Alan Silvestri's score makes me cry like a baby everytime I watch this movie. So touching and beautiful!
💯💯💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I listened to the whole thing while driving to the VLA in NM. Yes I cried a lot 😂
Just watched this earlier. Still one of the best film I've seen.
Yuh
I friggin love Contact, it was 25 years ago and still great and fresh
Who’s here because of UNhhhhh and Katyas obsession
Never heard of it.
@@Inception1338it's apparently some trans TH-camr's recommendation.
katya is gonna make me watch this movie and I'm not even mad
That signal noise has stayed with me since seeing it in 1997 on the big screen. Fabulous movie. And the entire thing is plausible too. I highly recommend watching it.
Not y'all also coming from UNNhhhh per Katya's recommendation, I-
I don't get the reference
I truly don't understand why the reviews of this movie are mediocre. This movie is fantastic!! I've seen it like 4 times. The trailer alone makes my blood boil in anticipation .
I know right, WTF?🤷♂️
different era. Now movies like this are more embraced.
An agree, it is a fantastic movie. It requires some thinking and emotional investment as well as phantasy from the viewer.
That could be the reason that it wasn't the best blockbuster.
Mediocre? It has a 7.5 on imdb thats pretty decent
I think because it contains many boring scenes.
0:02 - love those ambient sounds. Reminds me of my local nature reserve where I like to run. I am leaving home in a couple weeks for university. Will miss those noises.
Wow I'm not here for Katya but now that i know it's her fav movie i'm definitely watching
His
I watched this the other day. It’s still so good.
An absolute beautiful story. My favorite movie of all time.
i would like To say i had
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This is probably the most faith strengthening sci-fi movie ever! Love it! ❤
Carl Sagan, famous for the romance of science series 'Cosmos', wrote novel 'Contact'. While writing the novel, he asked theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne the question, ~ would be possible to build an interstellar transporter - Thorne went away and worked a 'solution' (details of which are in updated versions of the text 'Gravitation' by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler). Later Thorne became scientific advisor to Christopher Nolan' for the movie 'Interstellar'. Later Thorne got the nobel prize in physics, a boost in general for the physics community specializing in the study of gravity. So many connections between these two movies, and funny enough Matthew McConaughey is a 'star' (no pun intended) in both. 'Contact' on the big screen was a great, thoughtful watch.
Carl Sagan was an astrophysist too. So, they must cooperated. Maybe if Sagan didn't die, he would get the nobel prize with Thorne
I absolutely love this movie, I literally just finished watching it again, I forgot the trailer gave so much of the movie away
Where can I watch this movie?
@@pankajkhadke1518 you can stream it anywhere
I love how this is an old QuickTime video upscaled to 1080p.
Goosebumps! This movie still gives me that
How
Same here, bro.
Written by my favorite scientist Carl Sagan, even thou it's a movie adaptation. 😍
Sagan died the year before the film came out. His widow, Ann Druyan, makes a cameo in it.
Have you read cosmos tho? I'm reading it rn and it's amazing. Truly a masterpiece
My absolute favorite sci-fi movie ever
One of my favourite science fiction movie of all time.
Just watched this for the first time
Wow......Speechless
I stumbled across this book browsing in the book store, only picked it up because of Carl Sagan. What a great book, time to watch the movie. What impeccable timing that Mathew was on JRE recently as I am a fan of both of them. The universe seems to work in mysterious ways.
one of the best movies of ALL TIME. ALL TIME.
ive
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seen
"it"
This is the definitive alien contact movie. Next up I would place "Arrival" by Denis Villeneuve. 99% of movies in the genre are: Aliens are coming to wreck us but a miracle happens and we defeat them.
Wow! Contact the movie of 1997! Can't believe it's been 23 years in 2020! Still look Fascinating! 🕯
Haa.. try 2022
This is one of the greatest films ever!
It has humor - James Woods - We poor saps build it and out pours the entire Vegan Army.
Touching moments - You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix, you’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares…😢
David Morse had me in tears 😭
This movie is a masterpiece. 💯
This movie is the ancestor of Arrival & Interstellar, greatest sci friction movie ever
I feel like it paved the way for films like that. When I was growing up, people hated on Contact. lol. Hated that we didn't see stereotypical aliens.
So good. So so good.
damn
samy is my hero
I literally never heard of this movie before, I am so looking forward to watching it. Tnx for the review.
oh hey sammy
Pause
This isn't far away from what I went thorough in my life, except that I experience it everyday since childhood
This is the best alien 1st contact movie ever. I have watched every single one of them and this is by far better
I love this movie, and for me , the movie's intro is the best of all i have watched.
I’m literally here because Katya is a queen & she said we NEED to watch this.
Remember when I first watched in 1998 on HBO Brazil, and it was love at first sight this movie. Just rewatched today on HBO Max (despite have it in dvd and blu-ray: huge difference when you see in letterbox and in high definition).
By the way, the intro showing the radio signals through the space is epic... and the sound of the Vega signal: my subwoofer jumped LOL
One of the best scifi classic
Never knew about this film, only after joe rogan talking to Matthew mcconaughey about it.
wtf, same here
Same lol
its interesting that he starred in interstaller which is another fantastic space sci-fi movie.
My personal favorite movie of all time.
Amazing trailers DO exist in the 90s!
A soul on fire most beautiful and most enigmatic thing in the universe
Criminally underrated film in 3, 2, 1...
This is what Eastern Monks and Sages have been telling from ages that life is all about experience, you can't understand it unless you, yourself experience it. About the concept of the movie, the universe exists within you, not outside. It is not something you can touch or feel, it is something to experience.
But now you may ask, we can see, feel, and touch everything we do is physical. Yes, everything is physical because we are physical. But if we go a little deeper in it, then we will find, 'The basis of everything physical is experience". Now the question is where do you experience everything? Within yourself. Where do you see everything? Within yourself. It means, you see, feel, touch, everything which you call the universe, but where you experience it, "Within yourself". So, the last question would be, "Where is the universe? Within yourself. That's it.
🙂
Here after watching JRE
I CANT BELIEVE I NEVER WATCHED THIS, I LOVED IT SO FREAKING MUCH
One of my all-time favorites since I was a kid.
Anyone here after Arecibo collapse? Sad day.
BGM is really catchy...just as if we have really recieving such signals...ordered book now...will be reading this in few days.
Who's here after the Starliner pulse?
Me!
Watched it coming back from America in 1999...Excellent movie
I haven't watched this since I was like 10 years old. It's great
JODI FOSTER IS BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND BADASS
Man, that ending.
Just the music take u to another world . One of my best favorit movie
This trailer gives away like... 90% of this movie. Goddamit 1997
Yeahhh no it doesn’t….
I love the sound of the thing throughout the whole trailer
I’m currently reading the book. God i hope the movie does it justice
And the intro to the movie? Damn! Gives me the chills to this day!
RIP Arecibo Observatory :(
Should have watched this before interstellar
and why is that?i watched interstellar and now im thinking of this what do u think?
Beautiful movie. I absolutely love the "contact" on the planet. A must watch !!
Jodie Foster starred in a lot of great movie classics.
I just go to see the trailer because in this Movie appears the big telescope of my island Puerto Rico and today its crash because of no maintenance and no federal funds for it. In 1997 was the biggest telescope in earth, so many memories of our childhood 😥
So ahead of its time it’s still relevant in 2024. Jody Foster is a national treasure.
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and I had no idea what the movie was and even the ending
so many good 90's actors.
That still makes my hair stand STRAIGHT UP on my arm when I hear the alien broadcast.
Back when movies were beautiful
Anyone here after the Boeing Astronauts heard a strange signal?
watched this as a child, watched it again after don't look up, so many common themes, also with interstellar.
One of the best movies ever. Thanks Carl Sagan.
Need to watch this. Anyone read The Sparrow? Really want that as a film but some parts of it would really hard to show in a movie theatre..
Why is this film so underrated
I can say that Interstellar took birth from this movie. Just loot at the similarity. Alien or whatever is sending radio signals about a space Machine. In Interstellar,they use gravitational waves to send messages.
Best sci-fi movie ever
Happy 25th anniversary Contact!
Released 07/11/1997!
I remember my parents coming back from the theater deeply moved. They took us kids the following weekend. We loved it.
My dad loved this movie apparently. I haven’t watched it yet.
THE Sci Fi movie of the 90's.
I just love this movie so much.
Before 3 Body Problem, there was Contact. A very underrated classic.
I just finished reading the book and came on youtube to hear reviews. I had no idea it was a movie.
OK so I'm here because of yekatrina Petrovna zamolodjikova this is absolutely not what I expected!!! /