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highly recommended

Sappy but good

First off, an overall great movie that I've watched several times. Great direction by Zemeckis, and Jodie Foster is brilliant as usual, and Sagan's ideas are well worth bringing to the screen.

Now for the nitpicking...

--SPOILER WARNING--

I haven't read Sagan's book, but I'm guessing the story was altered to give it a wonderful sappy ending in which religion and science are "both right". Maybe they are both right, but this movie sure didn't show it. Because the ending has a monstrous gaping hole.

In their effort to teach Ellie (and us) a lesson about faith, the writers contrive an ending where Ellie is left with nothing but a memory to verify her wonderful experience. An angry congressional inquiry, led by the James Woods character, investigates, and comes up with an alternative explanation for everything that has happened -- that it's all been an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the eccentric genius Haddon. But this is ridiculous, for many reasons. For one thing, how did Haddon come up with radically new technology capable of generating lightning and tidal waves yet inside of which "the weather's fine"? He's smart, but not that smart (he has self-sealing door metal technology that he never thought to sell?).

But more importantly, a signal from deep space could not be faked by a satellite, especially one that's been verified in Australia. And even if it could, THE SIGNAL WAS STILL THERE during the entire building of the machine. The aliens could not have known it was received at least until Ellie made her journey, so they would not have stopped transmitting. There was all the time in the world to verify that the signal was in fact coming from Vega. So there was clearly a message sent by aliens, and the public anger over wasted money makes no sense. So, the entire ending of the movie seemed stupid and manipulative to me. The message of this movie should have been "science trumps human stupidity", but that message wouldn't have been commercial.

Oh yeah, and don't anyone ever put Matthew McConaughey in a sci fi movie again. Please.

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A search for love signals and extraterrestrial signals

It's a beautiful movie. The search for extraterrestrial life is combined with a search for romance and a father, who has passed away.
Even the former president Bill Clinton appears. I wonder how they did this... Perhaps they simply invited him to be a star in the movie.
The movie tries to ride on the fame of the president, and on the fame of Adolf Hitler too.

Well, I identify with what one of the guys says in the movie:
"1) If there is intellignt life in the universe, it is probably too far
away and we can't get in touch with it
2) It's possible that there actually is no other life form in space."

For me, it is clear: there is nothing in space, that wants to talk to us.
But the movie is enjoyable anyhow.
The special effects are as good as they should be,
although there is a vibrational space travel scene, which is somewhat annoying.
Jodie Foster plays a very driven and ambitious research scientist,
so she conveys the hope of finding extraterrestrial intelligence to us
in a very sincere way.

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Carl Sagan's Vision Comes Alive

This movie is based on Carl Sagan's novel of the same name. Carl is no longer with us, but he was a key component in the production of this film. Starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, and William Fichtner, this fine film will capture your interest from the start, and even more so if you are into Science Fiction. You really get caught up in Ellie Arroway's heartfelt desire to make contact with another world. She gets her chance, and what follows is nothing short of miraculous. I cried during this movie. It tugs at your heartstrings in a big way at times. This is a truly great movie.

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did not received this movie during 5 weeks

did not received this movie during 5 weeks!

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very thoughtful story about SETI and the personal search by Jodie Foster. enjoyable. sometimes the science gets a stretch but the story holds up well.

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