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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
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 ❤
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!
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.
@@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.
“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
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.
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...
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.
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.
A wormhole opens into a point in space-time. You can with super advanced technology select the the spatial coordinates and the time coordinates. The return wormhole was simply set to return her to a point in space and time a moment after she left.
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.
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!
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.
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!
18:44 _This_ is why, even though they tried millions of permutations, they could never get more than three of them to fit. They were trying to make it work in _two_ dimensions and it was designed to work in _three._ _That's_ why no more than three of them fit. If you're working in three dimensions, three is all you _need_ to fit.
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)
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.
'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. 😊
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!
"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.
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 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.
@@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!
Hey Verowak. This is the first time seeing a reaction from you........Well done. U r the first person I've seen to make the connection between Robert Zemekis and Alan Silvestri. I started my love and interest in movie soundtracks when I saw Romancing the Stone in 1984. To keep a long story short, I talked twice on the phone with Alan because of that movie. It turns out we are the same age. He was very generous and told me that his next project soon to be released was a movie called Back to the Future. He went into the studio and made a tape for me along with a note. I cherish it to this day. He went on to have a brilliant career. I love the guy's music. Thanks for making that connection. Bravo!
the actor who plays the father (David Morse) plays in a bunch of other movies mostly, i have only seen him as a villain, but between this movie, and one other, "Hearts in Atlantis", these are two great movies which he isn't a bad guy Hearts in Atlantis is also an Anthony Hopkins movie......terrific movie
Vega was actually the first, blue star system the pod stopped at (where she saw the rails of the transport system); she was then moved to another system
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.
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.)
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.
The fact that you picked up on science and religion together and they both are in the pursuit of truth is great, because it is correct. We as the human race should all be in the pursuit of truth.🙂
I forgot how beautiful this movie is :'( Carl Sagan writing about an alien species trying so hard to communicate with us in the same way he tried to communicate with them, throwing out signals to anything that might be intelligent enough to understand the basic laws of the universe (prime numbers)
For a very young Jodie Foster, "Taxi Driver" (1976) a psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film also stars Robert De Niro & Cybill Shepherd. Taxi Driver is on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. This film is an controversial one for some because Jodie Foster portrays a 12 year old prostitute named Iris. Jodie was really 12 at the time of filming.
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.
The radio transmissions at the beginning (also mentioned near the end) that play older and older transmissions as we get farther from Earth was an interesting approach to a start. But when I first recognized what they were doing, it was only a very short time before I then thought that what we heard should be played backwards, since we are traveling faster than the speed of light in order to catch up with older transmissions that travel at the speed of light. We would be riding those waves, thus playing in reverse (and highly sped up to cover decades in a matter of seconds). But then I just decided to enjoy the concept, and leave the reality out of the picture.
Feels like yesterday I first watched this movie with my dad, he's gone now so It's difficult to watch, it hurts, it's hard to wrap my head around how much time has passed since its realease, it really doesn't feel that long ago and i don't feel as old as I must be, life is shorter and goes by a lot faster than we realise when we are young, its sad.
The Covid Relief package was 3 trillion if memory serves. 333 billion would be a bargain (even in 1990s dollars) for a program that makes first contact.
At the beginning she is "DXing" by HAM radio. "DXING" is "distance-listening," and is a significant hobby. Making contact one typically receives a post card verifying the contact.
The book is fantastic. The dishes are telescopes. The reason for many and sometimes just one giant one has to do with wavelength. Radio waves are measured in meters for some. Micro for things like your microwave oven and light which is a whole different thing. VERY short. Anyway, your reactions to many of the visuals demonstrated your intellect. Excellent. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Top notch sci-fi film. Really good script, casting & storyline. Although we'll probably never hear anything from space, I'd love to go...just to explore. Science fiction is also a favorite genre behind historical period pieces.
The unknown is so fascinating, isn't it? I would love to become a ghost and be unaffected by gravity so I can travel the universe. Sure it could take a while but I could get rides on spaceships eventually lol
Very good movie, though i lately subscribe more to the "dark forrest" theory when it comes to possible alien life. I just dont think another civilazation would go out of its way, and indeed endanger its own existance by contacting another unkown one. awesomev react, as always :)
OMG, a NEW Contact reaction!! 🥹😱🥹 This used to be my #1 favorite movie of all time, growing up, it replaced BACK TO THE FUTURE!! I had the VHS and remember, I always thought, Jodie Foster's haircut looks weird. Until I realized those were headphones... 😅🙈 I will perhaps come back and comment on my favorite moments (here's hoping you kept the DEVASTATING "Dad, this is Ellie, come back?" line in the reaction 🤞😅 I'm literally already crying again right now...) Edit: DAMN, she hasn't!.... 😭😭😭 It's fine, there's so much great stuff in this movie. ...
To quote Freeman Dyson: _"Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete."_ Thanks for reacting to this excellent film!
At once one of my favourite films, while also being one of my least favourite films because it makes me SO VISCERALLY ANGRY at humanity while watching it! (also, that mirror shot is the coolest!)
I enjoyed your reaction and will be looking for more. Just a few comments. 1) I find this an interesting speculation on what might happen when "small science" (SETI), collides with Big Science (Drumlin), Big Government (Kitts), Big Business (Hadden) and Big Religion (Joss and others.) 2) Sagan was famously agnostic (for lack of a better word), but didn't mock religious faith in his in his writings. The book follows Ellie long after the senate hearing, and her continued research of the alien transmissions. Eventually she makes a discovery so shocking that it forces her to question her atheism. 3) You should watch a movie reaction by Dr. Becky (Rebecca Smedhurst, an actual astrophysicist.) She hilariously scoffs at the idea of listening to the radio signals. "No one ever did that." 4) I've never seen anyone, even Dr. Becky, catch the huge math error. "Four hundred billion stars... one-in-a-million... one-in-a-mullion. etc." Do the math. There wouldn't be millions of civilizations. We'd have beaten astronomically long odds. We now know (and probably did back then) that the odds at each step are much more favorable.
Why do certain reactors pretend like they've never seen certain movies before? It's very obvious when they're pointing out certain aspects of a film that people won't typically notice on first watch. I can see one or two things being observed in real time but literally EVERY thing that it would take the average person to notice at least a second watch is pointed out in this reaction. Some of them immediately or before the scene even concludes. It doesn't make her look or seem brilliant when you realize shes already seen or read up on things but rather pretty lame when it's so obviously pre researched or even watched already. Being able to immediately predict just about every part of this film or somehow know every scientific implication on the fly is a complete giveaway. She's done it in so many films,but this might be the most blatant of any film she's reacted to. Respect for this channel has been loat completely.
Try to understand that not everyone thinks like you. Some people are good at storytelling, and may even write their own stories. Just because you don't notice things when you watch movies doesn't mean everyone is like you. I'm sorry you have to automatically think negatively of someone if they do things you can't fathom being able to do.
I haven’t gone through your whole backlog of videos yet to see if you’ve reacted to a video called “How the universe is way bigger than you think” but if you haven’t you should definitely check it out.
1997 things were very bad for me, wasn’t in a good place at all but I remember one particularly bad night and decided to rent Contact from my local video store(remember them ? 😊) it just took me away for a couple of hours and I never forgot that ,amazing what simple things like good stories and film can do ..always had a special place for me
This movie is a good example of how hard it can be to truncate source material for a 2 hour film. Sagan’s book really spends time on Ellie’s entire upbringing. Great movie though.
It's so cool to me that there are two cast members who also starred in Alien: Tom Skeritt and John Hurt. I guess I'm just weird that way. Fun, interesting video, as always.
This is one of my go to movies. I always enjoy re-watching it. The assertion of galactic community just changes the perception of everything so much. We're in such a small bubble here, and so many people with money and power just want more of each. This is certainly my top Jodie Foster movie. Silence of the Lambs is a close second. And... I can't think of another movie with Jodie Foster that I have really watched at all.
"Oblivion" with Tom Cruise is a brilliant Sci Fi movie! So creative anf conceptually clever, with a brilliant theme tune! Anc I think most TC movies are usually rubbish! But ive watched Oblivion 3x! And will do so again no doubt! 😮
I have an above average level of sympathy for Drumlin. He's not evil in any meaningful way, he's just pragmatic. I don't hate him for the same reason I don't applaud horror movie characters that refuse to go to a dark basement before there's any reason to believe a threat lies within. That is: we need level-headed people who sensibly play the odds to live in the world we have rather than the ones we'd like.
My last of us friend! I’ll try and be quick and just make 2points. 1-absolutely agree with the Silence of the Lambs suggestion for a must see Jodie Foster film, yes Anthony Hopkins is the main draw as Hannibal Lector and “ steals the show” but with just a little over 8 minutes of on screen time for the entire film, it’s Ms. Foster in my opinion that carries the film ma’am. And 2- if you’re looking for a series to explore I see that you don’t have Peaky Blinders in your catalog and think that be great to watch here ma’am!
Beyond being a brilliant scientist Carl Sagan was a religious scholar as well. I would never speak for him but having read most of his books, his position was that there may well be a G_D but he would withhold his opinion until he had empirical proof one way or the other. Read his books. Contact is a novel, most of his others are non-fiction.
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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
Be an awful waste of space if there weren't😀
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 ❤
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!
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.
My dad was in this movie. He plays one of the many faceless spectators in the courtroom at the end. RIP pops ❤
Very coool! RIP ❤❤
Contact is a great and underrated sci-fi classic, and more proof that the 1990s is one of the greatest decades in film history
I do really love the 90s movies that I've seen! Makes me excited to see more
that's for dang sure
Totally agree.
Its great until it turns to this absolute trash with her father
@@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
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.
Hard AGREE!
"The Accused" (1988) with Kelly McGillis. Foster won four awards for Best Actress, including the Oscar.
Panic room. Another good one.
Maybe risk "Taxi Driver"?
@@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.
Dr. Carl Sagan was heavily involved in this production but sadly passed away approximately six months before the film was released.
i've watched this on repeat for a long time. The opening radio scene stayed with me to this day
“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
Goddamn, "For Carl" always makes me tear up. Love this movie.
Carl Sagan.
@@chanceneck8072 Carl's Jr. 🌟
@@fakereality96 Idk what that means.
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.
@@mikekay3313 If a science guy, late teens can have an Idol to be proud of,.......it would be him. I'm now 69 !
The "waste of space" thing is a Carl Sagan quote.
It's between this and Silence of the Lambs for my favorite Jodi Foster film.
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...
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.
absolutely adore this film. kudos to Jodie Foster and Tom Skerritt for brilliant acting
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.
One of my all time favorite movies. It also has one of the most amazing camera shots of all time. AKA the mirror shot.
At that time that fantastic shot had never been filmed.
A wormhole opens into a point in space-time. You can with super advanced technology select the the spatial coordinates and the time coordinates. The return wormhole was simply set to return her to a point in space and time a moment after she left.
28:45 - “it also makes sense that they have hexagons cuz they’re the bestagons” ~some CGP fan
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.
And when the signal is discovered and she runs from outside to the control room
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!
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.
A suggestion for another Jodie Foster movie: Nell. Great performance.
I keep hoping reactors will do Nell. Everybody already loves Liam Neeson and Jodie, and I'd love for people to rediscover Natasha Richardson.
@@lopa-u9fNot a poor movie. Just not to your taste.
Oh please don't watch Nell. It does NOT hold up. Embarrassing to watch.
It looks like some people don't like Nell. Decide for yourself, but maybe just for yourself, and not as a reaction video.
One of my fave childhood movies. I love seeing reactors get more and more enraged at Drumlin lol
Damn that guy!! 😠
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!
18:44 _This_ is why, even though they tried millions of permutations, they could never get more than three of them to fit. They were trying to make it work in _two_ dimensions and it was designed to work in _three._ _That's_ why no more than three of them fit. If you're working in three dimensions, three is all you _need_ to fit.
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)
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.
Forrest Gump had the most SFX shots in a movie at the time, and its so seamless that its completely unnoticed.
You got it! Same composer as Forrest Gump. Alan Silvestri
'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. 😊
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!
7:45 Looks like she's about to become a...
**puts on sunglasses**
...Foster child.
_YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!_
🤣Good one, I like it!!!
The back-up shot into the bathroom mirror IS trippy!!
Masterpiece! (the movie, the music and your reaction!)
Thank you!!! 😁
7:31 Love waiting for the mirror shot reaction every time !
"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.
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!
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?
@@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.
@@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!
I've been to the VLA. I ran into it by accident driving from New Mexico back to Arizona! You can actually tour it and see where they filmed!
Hey Verowak. This is the first time seeing a reaction from you........Well done. U r the first person I've seen to make the connection between Robert Zemekis and Alan Silvestri. I started my love and interest in movie soundtracks when I saw Romancing the Stone in 1984. To keep a long story short, I talked twice on the phone with Alan because of that movie. It turns out we are the same age. He was very generous and told me that his next project soon to be released was a movie called Back to the Future. He went into the studio and made a tape for me along with a note. I cherish it to this day. He went on to have a brilliant career. I love the guy's music. Thanks for making that connection. Bravo!
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?
the actor who plays the father (David Morse) plays in a bunch of other movies
mostly, i have only seen him as a villain, but between this movie, and one other, "Hearts in Atlantis", these are two great movies which he isn't a bad guy
Hearts in Atlantis is also an Anthony Hopkins movie......terrific movie
Moore is in The Green Mile.
Vega was actually the first, blue star system the pod stopped at (where she saw the rails of the transport system); she was then moved to another system
30:03 Oh. There's nothing hexagonal about that shape. That's one of the five platonic solids called the dodecahedron because it has 12 faces.
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.
So… Running Ellie is considered by many authorities to be the best shot in history of cinema.
I love your reactions, they are both intellectual and emotional at the same time. 😄
Thank you! It's a mix of everything 😂
Some Random thoughts: The Haddon plane interview remined me of a scene from the 1967 UK show The Prisoner & The VLA is a cool place to visit.
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.)
Whenever I watch a Jodie Foster movie, it always reminds me that Brad Dourif has never played her brother in a movie. 😞
I caught that CGP Grey reference... Hexagons are indeed the bestagons lol. Great reaction.
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.
23:18 You called it, asked for it and you got it. Drumlin's death.
To this day this is the only movie I've seen James Woods live acting in. Whenever he speaks I only hear Hades.
The fact that you picked up on science and religion together and they both are in the pursuit of truth is great, because it is correct. We as the human race
should all be in the pursuit of truth.🙂
One of Robert Zemeckis' masterpieces ever made since Forest Gump, cool reaction Vero and congratulations on 30k subs 🥰❤️👍
He is a director that I really enjoy, I'll have to watch his other movies that I haven't seen yet :D And that you!!
@@VerowakReacts You should see Forest Gump down the road, you'll love it
@@coreyhendricks9490 You mean like this one? th-cam.com/video/eIimMpOeIbY/w-d-xo.html :D
@@VerowakReacts Absolutely
It's already on your channel, that's cool, you have a great weekend 🥰❤️😊🌹
I forgot how beautiful this movie is :'( Carl Sagan writing about an alien species trying so hard to communicate with us in the same way he tried to communicate with them, throwing out signals to anything that might be intelligent enough to understand the basic laws of the universe (prime numbers)
"Hopefully they have a mistake when they're building it and he dies."
Me - Uhhhh, not exactly but about that.
For a very young Jodie Foster, "Taxi Driver" (1976) a psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film also stars Robert De Niro & Cybill Shepherd. Taxi Driver is on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. This film is an controversial one for some because Jodie Foster portrays a 12 year old prostitute named Iris. Jodie was really 12 at the time of filming.
Hi Verowax hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
I am, I hope you are too!!
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.
19:43 me-YOW! kitty has claws. 😃
The radio transmissions at the beginning (also mentioned near the end) that play older and older transmissions as we get farther from Earth was an interesting approach to a start. But when I first recognized what they were doing, it was only a very short time before I then thought that what we heard should be played backwards, since we are traveling faster than the speed of light in order to catch up with older transmissions that travel at the speed of light. We would be riding those waves, thus playing in reverse (and highly sped up to cover decades in a matter of seconds). But then I just decided to enjoy the concept, and leave the reality out of the picture.
Feels like yesterday I first watched this movie with my dad, he's gone now so It's difficult to watch, it hurts, it's hard to wrap my head around how much time has passed since its realease, it really doesn't feel that long ago and i don't feel as old as I must be, life is shorter and goes by a lot faster than we realise when we are young, its sad.
21:20 The military budget is almost $1 trillion. Every year.
The Covid Relief package was 3 trillion if memory serves. 333 billion would be a bargain (even in 1990s dollars) for a program that makes first contact.
At the beginning she is "DXing" by HAM radio. "DXING" is "distance-listening," and is a significant hobby. Making contact one typically receives a post card verifying the contact.
The book is fantastic.
The dishes are telescopes. The reason for many and sometimes just one giant one has to do with wavelength. Radio waves are measured in meters for some. Micro for things like your microwave oven and light which is a whole different thing. VERY short.
Anyway, your reactions to many of the visuals demonstrated your intellect. Excellent.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
I see you with that CGP Gray quote.
Good stuff.
Silence of the Lambs!
A lady I worked with in 2005 had a SETI radio streaming on her computer.
Top notch sci-fi film. Really good script, casting & storyline. Although we'll probably never hear anything from space, I'd love to go...just to explore. Science fiction is also a favorite genre behind historical period pieces.
The unknown is so fascinating, isn't it? I would love to become a ghost and be unaffected by gravity so I can travel the universe. Sure it could take a while but I could get rides on spaceships eventually lol
@@VerowakReacts ooooh, forgot to make a suggestion for you; "Metropolis" & "THX 1138"...both phenomenal sci-fi movies! 😁
Very good movie, though i lately subscribe more to the "dark forrest" theory when it comes to possible alien life. I just dont think another civilazation would go out of its way, and indeed endanger its own existance by contacting another unkown one. awesomev react, as always :)
Thank you!! If I was in a position where I could travel the universe, I would love to interact with other lifeforms. That would be so fascinating!
The Arecibo telescope no longer exists. It collapsed. A sad ending. 😶😶
A very sad ending :( :(
My guilty pleasure is THE Arrival 1996. It's fun radio signal movie.
OMG, a NEW Contact reaction!! 🥹😱🥹
This used to be my #1 favorite movie of all time, growing up, it replaced BACK TO THE FUTURE!! I had the VHS and remember, I always thought, Jodie Foster's haircut looks weird. Until I realized those were headphones... 😅🙈
I will perhaps come back and comment on my favorite moments (here's hoping you kept the DEVASTATING "Dad, this is Ellie, come back?" line in the reaction 🤞😅
I'm literally already crying again right now...)
Edit: DAMN, she hasn't!.... 😭😭😭
It's fine, there's so much great stuff in this movie. ...
Jodie Foster is EXCELLENT in "Anna and the King".
To quote Freeman Dyson: _"Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete."_ Thanks for reacting to this excellent film!
You gotta see her in
Silence of the lambs
Panic room
Flight plan
At once one of my favourite films, while also being one of my least favourite films because it makes me SO VISCERALLY ANGRY at humanity while watching it! (also, that mirror shot is the coolest!)
There should be a genre specific for the movies that make us angry at humanity 🤣
@@VerowakReacts In the end of the day, if a piece of art makes you feel an emotion, then it's good art I suppose 🤷♀
All that talk of Robert Zemeckis movies, I noticed that Romancing the Stone was absent from the list. Time to catch up.
I enjoyed your reaction and will be looking for more. Just a few comments. 1) I find this an interesting speculation on what might happen when "small science" (SETI), collides with Big Science (Drumlin), Big Government (Kitts), Big Business (Hadden) and Big Religion (Joss and others.)
2) Sagan was famously agnostic (for lack of a better word), but didn't mock religious faith in his in his writings. The book follows Ellie long after the senate hearing, and her continued research of the alien transmissions. Eventually she makes a discovery so shocking that it forces her to question her atheism.
3) You should watch a movie reaction by Dr. Becky (Rebecca Smedhurst, an actual astrophysicist.) She hilariously scoffs at the idea of listening to the radio signals. "No one ever did that."
4) I've never seen anyone, even Dr. Becky, catch the huge math error. "Four hundred billion stars... one-in-a-million... one-in-a-mullion. etc." Do the math. There wouldn't be millions of civilizations. We'd have beaten astronomically long odds. We now know (and probably did back then) that the odds at each step are much more favorable.
Try The Brave One 2007. Jodie Foster is living in NYC and beat up by thugs. Asks for Conceal Carry Permit, denied. Get one anyway and defends herself.
28:08 "bastard" lolol
If I were a director wanting to make a new movie, I'd hire Alan Silvestri to do the music.
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!
Another great reaction, this is one of my top 3 space travel movies. 😊👏👏🥰
Why do certain reactors pretend like they've never seen certain movies before? It's very obvious when they're pointing out certain aspects of a film that people won't typically notice on first watch. I can see one or two things being observed in real time but literally EVERY thing that it would take the average person to notice at least a second watch is pointed out in this reaction. Some of them immediately or before the scene even concludes. It doesn't make her look or seem brilliant when you realize shes already seen or read up on things but rather pretty lame when it's so obviously pre researched or even watched already.
Being able to immediately predict just about every part of this film or somehow know every scientific implication on the fly is a complete giveaway.
She's done it in so many films,but this might be the most blatant of any film she's reacted to.
Respect for this channel has been loat completely.
Try to understand that not everyone thinks like you. Some people are good at storytelling, and may even write their own stories. Just because you don't notice things when you watch movies doesn't mean everyone is like you.
I'm sorry you have to automatically think negatively of someone if they do things you can't fathom being able to do.
I haven’t gone through your whole backlog of videos yet to see if you’ve reacted to a video called “How the universe is way bigger than you think” but if you haven’t you should definitely check it out.
I haven't checked it out. Only heard about it from the comments on this video :D
fascinating film I really enjoyed Sagan cosmos series back in the day
23:23 Careful what you wish for...
1997 things were very bad for me, wasn’t in a good place at all but I remember one particularly bad night and decided to rent Contact from my local video store(remember them ? 😊) it just took me away for a couple of hours and I never forgot that ,amazing what simple things like good stories and film can do ..always had a special place for me
This movie is a good example of how hard it can be to truncate source material for a 2 hour film. Sagan’s book really spends time on Ellie’s entire upbringing. Great movie though.
It isn't an easy task adapting a novel into a film, I'll have to read it though
I developed a minor crush for Jena Malone from this movie. Her panicked reaction at finding her dying dad hits me every time.
It's so cool to me that there are two cast members who also starred in Alien: Tom Skeritt and John Hurt. I guess I'm just weird that way. Fun, interesting video, as always.
You gotta do more Jodie! She's one of the greatest of her generation.
This is one of my go to movies. I always enjoy re-watching it.
The assertion of galactic community just changes the perception of everything so much. We're in such a small bubble here, and so many people with money and power just want more of each.
This is certainly my top Jodie Foster movie. Silence of the Lambs is a close second. And... I can't think of another movie with Jodie Foster that I have really watched at all.
The final flight is one of the most exciting things I've ever seen. Still impressive today.
"Oblivion" with Tom Cruise is a brilliant Sci Fi movie! So creative anf conceptually clever, with a brilliant theme tune! Anc I think most TC movies are usually rubbish! But ive watched Oblivion 3x! And will do so again no doubt! 😮
I have an above average level of sympathy for Drumlin. He's not evil in any meaningful way, he's just pragmatic. I don't hate him for the same reason I don't applaud horror movie characters that refuse to go to a dark basement before there's any reason to believe a threat lies within. That is: we need level-headed people who sensibly play the odds to live in the world we have rather than the ones we'd like.
Beautiful Verowak, thank you again, kind reagrds, and love Chris, (UK) As always take care....
My last of us friend! I’ll try and be quick and just make 2points. 1-absolutely agree with the Silence of the Lambs suggestion for a must see Jodie Foster film, yes Anthony Hopkins is the main draw as Hannibal Lector and “ steals the show” but with just a little over 8 minutes of on screen time for the entire film, it’s Ms. Foster in my opinion that carries the film ma’am. And 2- if you’re looking for a series to explore I see that you don’t have Peaky Blinders in your catalog and think that be great to watch here ma’am!
the beach that she saw was the beach that she drew when she was 8
Beyond being a brilliant scientist Carl Sagan was a religious scholar as well. I would never speak for him but having read most of his books, his position was that there may well be a G_D but he would withhold his opinion until he had empirical proof one way or the other. Read his books. Contact is a novel, most of his others are non-fiction.
You are a very astute reactor... Loved it!
Thank you 😊
Your meteors were actually more traveling pods coming from all over the Galaxy. We got a lot of neighbors !