I remember seeing this movie forever ago, and i just saw it again a week ago or something. And still, this is the single scene that frightens me most, it is so creepy and sad.
Fucking religious god damn nut job. Believe whatever you want, but blowing up a machine worth 300 billion and killing hundreds is WRONG. It doesn't take a freaking genius to figure that out.
Pisses me off, because I'm convinced if we got a similar message, even now in 2011, the same shit would happen.
If aliens contacted us like this in real life the government would probably not make it a public even.
They would most likely use some of the more advance space craft that they have in area 51 to transport crew and supplies to Mars and do the whole thing there without telling anyone. They'd be right and wise to do this to.
I know this movie came out in the late '90's so why does the news anchor gotta look like something out of the early '80's? Jeez come on! we weren't that lame back than!
Honestly, what is wrong with finding intelligent life other then in the earth? The universe is so big, I don't see why God wouldn't have created intelligent life else where.
That's what I think! I had a teacher who used to quote from the New Testament (and this isn't verbatim), Jesus saying "I have other kingdoms that ye know not of." Maybe he meant other countries, maybe he meant life elsewhere in the universe. Arrogant of us to assume we're the best God could do.
When I saw this scene in the theater, I just wanted to stand up and shout "YOU MOTHER FUCKER PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!" and then cry like a bitch.... but somebody beat me to it...
I really disliked this scene. I don't know if the director/film maler had a grudge against Christians or religion in general. I think that the scene was not needed and they could have had some disaster thing happen anyway due to someone building their part wrong or something. Still was a great movie.
It almost seems like Special Effects in movies are moving backwards....I see better special effects in 40 or 50 year old movies...most movie FX today look so incredibly fake. Contact was good though.
@yerk3 Troll seems to be the popular word for the season. Where were you endoctrinated Little Girl ?....and what grade are you in? 1st or 2nd? Besides...I can't help it if the Truth Hurts Comarde.
@MarkFFHH I don't care what's popular or what season it is, but your own comments betray you as a troll. Some people start talking about how bullshit religion is, and you come in with the same well-worn logical fallacies trying to associate atheism with Stalin, Mao etc. Maybe the next time you trot out that sad litany, I'll counter it with "Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Voltaire, Tomas Paine, Socrates..." and just continue the list until I run out of characters.
@yerk3 First of all......You need to get help with that anger..its not very lady Like.... Secondly Twain, Paine, Socarates, Einstein..and even Carl Sagan were NOT atheist...Even Sir Issace Newton wasn't..They all didn't practice traditional religions , although (Newton was a Christian...even quotes God and Creation in his papers.. Why do you think Sagan put the Science vs Religion debate in the Movie ..even he had doubts.
@MarkFFHH Anger? I'm actually quite calm right now. Actually, they were, for the most part, atheists, and the ones who were actually deists didn't believe in a personal god, but a distant force of nature who did not care what we did and was deaf to our prayers. It was the most sensible conclusion before the discoveries of Charles Darwin. Twain was not only an atheist, but an anti-theist. He held the Judeo-Christian god in contempt, as an evil cosmic dictator. What gods did Socrates worship?
@MarkFFHH Einstein was technically an atheist. When he used the word "god," it was as a metaphor for the totality of natural forces, not as literally meaning Yahweh, the omnipotent invisible uncle in the sky that the rabbis taught him about as a kid.
@greenday61892 I'm not at fault for what trolls do. If someone's going to be a troll, they're going to use any excuse they can find. If views cannot be expressed which are in any way negative, then the function of this comment section is reduced to empty flattery.
The actor that plays Controller #8 and says "Can anyone say grandstanding?" is Jose Rey. I knew him years ago, not long before this movie was made. He doesn't seem to have made any movies after 1999, and I was just wondering if anyone knew what happened to him.
I remember watching this as a baby. I was so fascinated by the interlocking circles, and wanted to know how it worked. But, now I know how it actually works ; electromagnets. I always wondered how the inner-most ring just seemed to be levitating.
yes im not into christainity either...lol or any OTHER kind of religion...lol the reason why i hate this movie cuz of mathuew..lol but anyways i LOVE jodie..TOO bad they had to put religion into this...in a way beleiving in aliens is just as crazy as god but.. i take ALIENS over god ANY day..lol so well ok...were BOTH crazy...lol
see, religion solves all of our problems! now we don't have to go into space and make contact with peaceful alien lifeforms in hopes of furthering our species! yay for religion! <(sarcasm btw)
This was a scene I found a bit shocking when Jake Busey had a bomb strapped on him and Tom Skerritt getting killed in that explosion. It was similar to Apollo 13, like a "Houston, we have a problem" kind of thing and also, in Tom's point of view, is that when he gets killed in Alien. He was leading the cast in that movie, but afer the first hour, it's up to Sigourney Weaver and the rest of the team to get out. I thought there was two elements to this scene right here.
It's called hard science fiction because scientists today believe in the possibility of wormholes are wraping spacetime and things of that nature even though it has not been tested in a lab yet. Soft science fiction is science that is really pure fantasy like The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Obvs, it was necessary for the story: Drumlin, the sycophantic puppet, dies so Ellie can go BUT also, b/c if the test had happened they would've only seen the pod fall thru the field like it does during Ellie's trip, IE, they would've thought it'd done nothing.
I can't imagine how much time, effort, and money that was put into making this machine. That guy had to take all of that away, as well as the lives of dozens of crew members.
People like iorixs give religion a bad name. They drive fundamentalism. Contact is not a science fiction movie. It is a movie about faith... as appears in the trailer it is a movie about the "heart of the universe". The tragedy of fundamentalism is that it allows no room for poetry.
Fundamentalism is a sore on humanity. Religion in itself is not inherently bad, but fundamentalism is.
The attacks on religion found in Contact are attacks on fundamentalism only. Otherwise Sagan is prolific in his praise for religion. Hell, in Demon-Haunted World he talked about forming an alliance between science and religion to improve education worldwide.
Sagan was hardly anti-religion, and Contact was even further from it.
Actually, it is; they're using science to travel thru time, which is not just a philosophical or religious concept. The machine is built by scientists, physicists & construction workers but it's still a scientific experiment.
Now, if you want to have a really intense debate w/someone, think about how the entire Star Wars series IS NOT sci-fi but fantasy, sword & sorcery stuff...
Yeah Contact is a movie about space travelling with high advanced technology that some species sent us in signals and we finally catched them, but i'm realy 100% sure that if this realy happens someday, then we'll never understand technology like this and never build such a machine... :) I love this movie.
psphackingtutorials, first know more about God and then think if all those that have made bad things in his name really came in his name, dont be a fool, and is just a movie. open your eyes, that is human acts , no God's. that makes you already a dumd thinking that way.
No, god isn't in the movie, and he isn't even directly in the book. Some of his Spinozan works show up at the end of the book. Not to worry. In the book the bomber's identity and motives are left ambiguous; he might be political, he might be religious. In any case he's clearly a nut job, so you needn't get too po'ed about it, charles.
i think that is the point behind the entire scene "the religious nut getting in the way of scientific progress" interesting anti-religious propaganda this movie
No, the guy isn't identified as anything but a bomber in this scene. In the book it's ambiguous who it is, could be political or nationalist. Sagan's book is the opposite of anti-religious; it goes a long way towards exploring the psychology of a religious experience by paralleling it with Ellie's real experience. Ellie, if not converted, is much more sympathetic with the religious outlook. If you don't see that then you didn't read the book with any comprehension.
@psphackingtutorials Theirs no proof that god exists, but theirs also no proof that god doesn't exist. Don't throw out radical statements without your facts in order please...
@psphackingtutorials I believe in god, I'm just stating the facts. Belief in god is in faith and trust. But, maybe I do have some agnostic beliefs as well. It's hard not to question the existence of such a power.
that is the point of the movie to discredit religion and to promote this sci-fi moonlanding startrek starwars carl sagan modern cosmology space hoax. humanity has been radicaly misled
i did read it a long time ago but i think they find the message in deciphering Pi or something and her hobby is solving coded messages. but this whole modern cosmoloy as presented by sagan et al is a giant satanic anti-religious scam calculated to "belittle" the presence of God and prepare the way for the reign of evil or something stupid like that.
...they find in Pi a code. The end of the book insinuates that the universe has a design, when Ellie talks to the Caretakers they are using a wormhole system built by someone else long before they showed up.
The book is anything but anti-religious. The main character is very intolerant of religious views in the beginning, but through her experiences finds that we're all just looking for the truth, and that the truth is not always so black and white.
honoring God does not mean fabricating false perceptions of reality like sagan's scifi cosmology does. the book is satanic propaganda meant to promote a twisted truth about the size and structure of creation and mankind's place in it and it is directed towards the minds of christians.
Again, had you read the book, you'd see that that was not at all what it meant.
As for "fabricating false perceptions of reality", why don't you look at the Bible, it does a hell of a good job at fabricating a false perception of reality.
billions of light years big universe and aliens is fiction yet it seems to be more real to people than the fact that God revealed the torah to the children of israel at mt. sinai and that they later built a temple in jerusalem above the gihon spring which tourists visit daily, im not sure how many people have gone to vega to converse with aliens lately. try as you may you cannot change the past or defeat God by fabricating lies about the size and structure of the universe
Except the universe is really billions of light years in size. Aliens, as of our current knowledge level, are fiction, and the ones we make up are certainly fictional. However, the jury is still out on them. Just as it's still out on god.
There is no fact in "god" revealing the Torah to anyone...unless you wish to accept the fact that if we accept your accounts, we must accept all religious accounts. Occam's razor.
Contact on the surface is about going and talking to aliens, but that's just
light allegedly travels at 286,000 miles per second so billions of light yrs is the distance light travels in billions of yrs. do you seriously believe that people have conclusively determined that it is that size using satelites and telecsopes. the torah exists, aliens dont. the books of the prophets exist, wormholes and intergalactic empires dont, this world, the fruits, vegetables and grains that we eat exist, provision from God. people have been systematicaly decieved in this matter
Well light DOES travel at 286,000 miles per second - we've measured it. And if you knew even a surface-level of astronomy, you'd know exactly how we know the universe is billions of light years in size - hence billions of years old.
Yeah, the Torah exists, so does the Vidas. And we do not have any proof against or for "aliens" - it is ridiculous to claim absolutely that they don't exist - we don't know, and that's the only good answer to that question.
very same way Neptune was predicted to exist, based on mathematics and observation, in the very same way the existence of cosmic microwave background radiation was predicted to exist.
We have no definitive proof of wormholes existing, but the theories in place predict they should exist - if science's track record is any indication...then we will find them, someday.
the story Sagan used to get his idea across. He wrote a book and created an alien race to get across an idea that clearly has passed by you.
The point of Contact was to show that we're all in this together, all of humanity are one and the same - there's no reason to fight each other. Religion and science can coexist, communists and capitalists can coexist, as long as we respect each other. Because we're all looking for answers, all trying to survive. "What makes this universe bearable is love."
humanity has been cast out of paradise due to disobedience. the same process continues. evil tempts us with false knowledge which is atheistic science. this is the tree of "knowledge" (according to satan), it is in fact lying flattery. so now people have eaten from this tree and they believe they have power over creation "you will be like gods". but it is all lies. the result is that people become more ignorant of the imminence of God's presence - further cast out of eden. this continues daily
Observation of reality is not "false knowledge", it is fact. Whether or not your god created the universe is a moot point - he could have used the much more impressive mechanisms as uncovered by science to do it. Science takes a naturalistic approach because it is necessary.
Until we can make ourselves immortal and are capable of synthesizing matter out of thin air, no one will ever think we are gods.
As for the rest of your little rant - what makes your theology more correct than others'?
You weren't trying to have a conversation, you didn't respond to anything I said, all you've been doing is reasserting your points. All brimstone and hellfire. What about the evidence that disagrees with you? What about the other religions worldwide that make the same assertions you do? Can you give any reason for us to see one religion's claim over the others?
You will never "convert" anyone with the "cast out of paradise" claims you're making. I suggest you change your strategy.
the world's religions are consistent because they stem from the same source, in this world the truth becomes corrupted but at the core there is always the same truth. Bhagavad Ghita (the song of God) 16.21: There are three gates leading to this hell lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul. who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor thesupreme destination
hey yeah i watched the movie yesterday and i loved it :), im just curious if htere has been a movie yet made where humans are the advanced species and they visit a primiative alien race?
yeah that would be a great idea, there actually is a few movies coming out like that i just discoverd but there Animation movies like pixar. First 1 is called Battle for Terra, and the other 1 is called Planet 51 :) check out the trailers
If there wasn't partitioning of funds to various projects, and anything could be done without monetary worry, then maybe it'd be easier to break free of Earth.
@uruseiranma: I have never agreed so much with a YouTube comment...I have always wondered, what if we were free of the constraints associated with money? What if research projects were given all the resources they ever required, all the manpower, all the funding -- whatever they needed to progress?
I've always wondered how much faster we would progress technologically in a world free from financial constraints. It would be fascinating to see.
Yes, they find the aliens. A point of the movie (or better, the book) is that they, in spite of a vastly higher technology, have no better clue about god than we do. The real point of the story is Jodie, though.
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They should of had chuck noris guarding it. To make it more realistic they should of shown the funeral of all the dead scientists and had that crazy american family holding your son was a fag signs. Just to make it more american.
Very realistic aspect of any future contact event. Backwater, sister chasing, zealot christ-bots will likely scream they're demons. On the other side of the world, the muslims will also probably start screaming and shaking sticks.
Reactions of the personel in the control hall suprised me though. The whole thing that cost like an universe amount of money just blew up in pieces, nevertheless they're all like 'okay, it's done now, let's go back to our computers and keep computing...'
Good thing that the parts, which were swept by the explosion, didn't fell on all those people, who were gathered there. It would have been very painfull scene, if the director had decided to put that in the movie.
Gyte75: It is already a painful scene. Some religious nutter kills dozens of people and destroys a piece of technology that could have greatly expanded mankind's knowledge of the universe, all because of his primitive dogma. If the pieces had flown into the crowd, it would have only driven the point home harder: religion and science do not mix.
"it would have only driven the point home harder: religion and science do not mix."
Yerk3, the whole point of the movie is that religion and science CAN mix...as long as you're aim is for the pursuit of truth and NOT a narrow dogma, be it religious or scientific.
At the end of the film, Foster's character realizes that, while it can't be explained scientifically, she had a deep personal experience that could effect all of mankind. Interesting that many religious people feel the same way.
Define "religion" though. Obviously faith (believing something for the sake of believing) is never good. But obviously the mystical experience of experiencing the universe as energy can go well with science.
At the end, she kind of comes into understanding a bit more of what Palmer was saying when he had his own experience.
Even then, and also at the reception in DC, she kind of kept needling him like, 'how do you know you weren't hallucinating, or dreaming, making the whole thing up in your head?'
And of course, she gains a new understanding. I like during the investigation, you see Palmer watching her as she states how she has no proof, but she believes her experience really happened.
Wow that guy was a dick. What a rally killer
Grandeblue 1 week ago
I remember seeing this movie forever ago, and i just saw it again a week ago or something. And still, this is the single scene that frightens me most, it is so creepy and sad.
HelloDailor 5 months ago 3
Fucking religious god damn nut job. Believe whatever you want, but blowing up a machine worth 300 billion and killing hundreds is WRONG. It doesn't take a freaking genius to figure that out.
Pisses me off, because I'm convinced if we got a similar message, even now in 2011, the same shit would happen.
UnknownXV 6 months ago 5
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Good Comment.
Rammshtyn 1 week ago
This is why we can't have nice things
HomoScorpius 6 months ago
that one dislike must have been the fanatic
HomoScorpius 6 months ago
If aliens contacted us like this in real life the government would probably not make it a public even.
They would most likely use some of the more advance space craft that they have in area 51 to transport crew and supplies to Mars and do the whole thing there without telling anyone. They'd be right and wise to do this to.
arch571332 6 months ago
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HomoScorpius 6 months ago
@arch571332 you mean they would take them to the American Reconassaince and Espionage Air Force Operations Base (AREA FO Base!!!)
HomoScorpius 6 months ago
@HomoScorpius Never heard that term before.
arch571332 6 months ago
@arch571332 You've never head fanatic? It means sort of crazy
JoshWhite66 6 months ago
@JoshWhite66 No. I have never heard the term American Reconassaince and Espionage Air Force Operations Base.
arch571332 6 months ago
Why religious fundamentalists should be taken away into insane asylums.
SROnivera 8 months ago 3
@SROnivera Yeah because they blow up our extraterrestrial space travel devices.
BudDickman 6 months ago
My suggestions are " ... and I'm a Mormon"
j0kertimes23 8 months ago
What if the aliens are extremely moral and religious and come to kill all the criminals running the world?
SimonCowellAI 9 months ago
I know this movie came out in the late '90's so why does the news anchor gotta look like something out of the early '80's? Jeez come on! we weren't that lame back than!
LDKBBAB 9 months ago
Honestly, what is wrong with finding intelligent life other then in the earth? The universe is so big, I don't see why God wouldn't have created intelligent life else where.
Shorty15c4007 9 months ago
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That's what I think! I had a teacher who used to quote from the New Testament (and this isn't verbatim), Jesus saying "I have other kingdoms that ye know not of." Maybe he meant other countries, maybe he meant life elsewhere in the universe. Arrogant of us to assume we're the best God could do.
copperandbrick 8 months ago
AAAAAAAH! I almost want to cry.
Daghead 9 months ago
Jodie Foster sure is purty!
slayerd81 9 months ago
CHRISTIANITY WINS AGAIN!
TheyCallMeLud 9 months ago
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TigerMeet2142 9 months ago
@TigerMeet2142 Lets not resort to vulgar language now
TheyCallMeLud 9 months ago
@TheyCallMeLud HELL YEAH
crustypossum 9 months ago
i wonder why the guy on the right is so cool when the machine rips itself apart
Fox1234McCloud 9 months ago
When I saw this scene in the theater, I just wanted to stand up and shout "YOU MOTHER FUCKER PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!" and then cry like a bitch.... but somebody beat me to it...
joesabido 9 months ago 2
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I fucking adore this movie.
thelupoistheman1 10 months ago
If it were me I'd be building another in Asia just in case :]
tyty1794 10 months ago 4
I really disliked this scene. I don't know if the director/film maler had a grudge against Christians or religion in general. I think that the scene was not needed and they could have had some disaster thing happen anyway due to someone building their part wrong or something. Still was a great movie.
genenco1 10 months ago
@genenco1 The movie was based of a novel made by a very famous scientist called Carl Sagan.
EndeavourLaunch 10 months ago
@genenco1 anyone with a brain has a grudge against what religion does to the world
StargateMunky 10 months ago
I guess it was fate, or God, or even the aliens, that she isn't there.
ThunderLizardsRule 10 months ago
@ThunderLizardsRule no its called a movie.
lilsm555 9 months ago
@lilsm555 I mean that its forutnate that she wasn't in that machine when it explode.
ThunderLizardsRule 9 months ago
@ThunderLizardsRule because the guy who wrote the script made sure she wasnt there.
lilsm555 9 months ago
If only this movie had a better ending, then the rest of the movie would've been worth watching.
HiroKiche 10 months ago
Gary Busey's brother, out for revenge!
imposibru 11 months ago
@imposibru LOL, oh man. Growing up with Busey will do that to you.
yerk3 11 months ago
@imposibru uh you mean his son right?
TomVCunningham 11 months ago
And that's why we can't have nice things.
TheGrumpstein 11 months ago 19
This movie is so UNDERRATED
MrHeavySilence5 1 year ago 18
@MrHeavySilence5,
I know. Its so unfair.
thelupoistheman1 10 months ago
4:33 - back to your stations(?) For what??
leonardodp34 1 year ago
@ 2:05 look at the screen in the backround on the right you can see him sneaking in
arb232305 1 year ago
a tea party member
skydreamerXIII 1 year ago 6
@skydreamerXIII hate, ignorance and intolerance comes from the left, not the right.
cgboomer 1 year ago
@cgboomer hate ignorance and intolerance comes from both extreme right AND left and the inability of people to open their eyes to new discoveries
buffaloSabrespommy 1 year ago
when i saw this film when i was 7 i thought that guy that blew it up was an alien
becks137 1 year ago 5
It almost seems like Special Effects in movies are moving backwards....I see better special effects in 40 or 50 year old movies...most movie FX today look so incredibly fake. Contact was good though.
MarkFFHH 1 year ago
That priest has gone to hell
rsexplorer20 1 year ago
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Thats why i hate religious people
TigerMeet2142 1 year ago
The priest dude's face genuinly scared the shit out of me when I first watched this, a brilliant film though. Fantastic!
ArcherBellGallagher 1 year ago 6
Religious peice of crap..I wish we could all be more like those good Atheist Stalin or Mao.
MarkFFHH 1 year ago
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MarkFFHH 1 year ago
@MarkFFHH Fucking Christian troll.
yerk3 1 year ago
@yerk3 Troll seems to be the popular word for the season. Where were you endoctrinated Little Girl ?....and what grade are you in? 1st or 2nd? Besides...I can't help it if the Truth Hurts Comarde.
MarkFFHH 1 year ago
@MarkFFHH I don't care what's popular or what season it is, but your own comments betray you as a troll. Some people start talking about how bullshit religion is, and you come in with the same well-worn logical fallacies trying to associate atheism with Stalin, Mao etc. Maybe the next time you trot out that sad litany, I'll counter it with "Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Voltaire, Tomas Paine, Socrates..." and just continue the list until I run out of characters.
yerk3 1 year ago
@yerk3 First of all......You need to get help with that anger..its not very lady Like.... Secondly Twain, Paine, Socarates, Einstein..and even Carl Sagan were NOT atheist...Even Sir Issace Newton wasn't..They all didn't practice traditional religions , although (Newton was a Christian...even quotes God and Creation in his papers.. Why do you think Sagan put the Science vs Religion debate in the Movie ..even he had doubts.
MarkFFHH 1 year ago
@MarkFFHH Anger? I'm actually quite calm right now. Actually, they were, for the most part, atheists, and the ones who were actually deists didn't believe in a personal god, but a distant force of nature who did not care what we did and was deaf to our prayers. It was the most sensible conclusion before the discoveries of Charles Darwin. Twain was not only an atheist, but an anti-theist. He held the Judeo-Christian god in contempt, as an evil cosmic dictator. What gods did Socrates worship?
yerk3 1 year ago
@MarkFFHH Einstein was technically an atheist. When he used the word "god," it was as a metaphor for the totality of natural forces, not as literally meaning Yahweh, the omnipotent invisible uncle in the sky that the rabbis taught him about as a kid.
yerk3 1 year ago 3
@yerk3 And you are troll bait. First he wasn't even trolling, and then you bit so he DID start trolling. learn2internet.
greenday61892 1 year ago
@greenday61892 I'm not at fault for what trolls do. If someone's going to be a troll, they're going to use any excuse they can find. If views cannot be expressed which are in any way negative, then the function of this comment section is reduced to empty flattery.
yerk3 1 year ago
Yep..1997..long time ago...we even had indoor plumbing back then..we were way ahead of the times
MarkFFHH 1 year ago
I almost turned off the movie when it blew up, I was so mad lmfao DX Thank goodness I didn't l haha :D
trancemusique15 1 year ago
Amazing scene ... Amazing. So riveting. The special effects are top notch. Mind you, this film was made in 1997. Way ahead of it's time ...
bradmedicus 1 year ago 3
@bradmedicus They could do amazing things even "back then". Remember Jurassic Park? Still look looks amazing.
quidproquo2004 1 year ago
hoooooo daaaaaa?
allieversayiswat 1 year ago
2:49 zombie looking for "braiinnnnssss"
Polyron 1 year ago 3
@Polyron
I lol'd
TheAmorri 11 months ago
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it was a fantastic movie. Every science student must watch it.
astoma199 1 year ago 2
The actor that plays Controller #8 and says "Can anyone say grandstanding?" is Jose Rey. I knew him years ago, not long before this movie was made. He doesn't seem to have made any movies after 1999, and I was just wondering if anyone knew what happened to him.
loriaw 1 year ago
How does he get a technician's outfit, and how does he pass security to get onto the rig?! What kind of piss-ant security was working that day?
zatch113 1 year ago
Would you expect the offspring of Gary Busey to do anything different?
zatch113 1 year ago
Hate for religion ... rising ...
TheAmorri 1 year ago 3
I remember watching this as a baby. I was so fascinated by the interlocking circles, and wanted to know how it worked. But, now I know how it actually works ; electromagnets. I always wondered how the inner-most ring just seemed to be levitating.
stevorw 1 year ago
man fuck that guy....
drunkdonutboy 1 year ago
fuck, this scene is so well done
jherr328 1 year ago
yes im not into christainity either...lol or any OTHER kind of religion...lol the reason why i hate this movie cuz of mathuew..lol but anyways i LOVE jodie..TOO bad they had to put religion into this...in a way beleiving in aliens is just as crazy as god but.. i take ALIENS over god ANY day..lol so well ok...were BOTH crazy...lol
SummersideFaeri 1 year ago
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@SummersideFaeri How many times do you want to say lol ?
trulynot 1 year ago
@SummersideFaeri Yeah that was a great speach for your Judgement Day, excellent speach...
kaiyno 1 year ago
BUSEEEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gregarious24 1 year ago
Outstanding movie.
lupoistheman1 1 year ago 5
see, religion solves all of our problems! now we don't have to go into space and make contact with peaceful alien lifeforms in hopes of furthering our species! yay for religion! <(sarcasm btw)
MasteroChieftan 1 year ago
Christians are such peaceful people...
jstnhnh 1 year ago 2
@jstnhnh
Oh, so this guy speaks for all of Christianity? Righhhhhhhht...
MacBubbles 1 year ago
This was a scene I found a bit shocking when Jake Busey had a bomb strapped on him and Tom Skerritt getting killed in that explosion. It was similar to Apollo 13, like a "Houston, we have a problem" kind of thing and also, in Tom's point of view, is that when he gets killed in Alien. He was leading the cast in that movie, but afer the first hour, it's up to Sigourney Weaver and the rest of the team to get out. I thought there was two elements to this scene right here.
yahoo9317 1 year ago
This movie cannot be classified as strictly science fiction. It's something more. I just don't know what to call it.
sveardze 1 year ago
It's called hard science fiction because scientists today believe in the possibility of wormholes are wraping spacetime and things of that nature even though it has not been tested in a lab yet. Soft science fiction is science that is really pure fantasy like The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
thgl2814 1 year ago
Obvs, it was necessary for the story: Drumlin, the sycophantic puppet, dies so Ellie can go BUT also, b/c if the test had happened they would've only seen the pod fall thru the field like it does during Ellie's trip, IE, they would've thought it'd done nothing.
tommyt1971 2 years ago
One person can destroys as much as another can create.
kalasbra77 2 years ago
MANY others.
tommyt1971 2 years ago
Retarded bastard had to go and ruin it for everyone. It's amazing how much destruction only one person can cause.
wtc33391 2 years ago 7
another religious moron!
lector0003 2 years ago 45
I can't imagine how much time, effort, and money that was put into making this machine. That guy had to take all of that away, as well as the lives of dozens of crew members.
wtc33391 2 years ago 16
@wtc33391 Dude, it was a film. It was not real life.
ArcherBellGallagher 1 year ago
@ArcherBellGallagher I know, but still
wtc33391 1 year ago
@lector0003 the people I hate the most in this world
DimitarUnbreakable 8 months ago
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tommyt1971 2 years ago
People like iorixs give religion a bad name. They drive fundamentalism. Contact is not a science fiction movie. It is a movie about faith... as appears in the trailer it is a movie about the "heart of the universe". The tragedy of fundamentalism is that it allows no room for poetry.
rickyseabra 2 years ago
Fundamentalism is a sore on humanity. Religion in itself is not inherently bad, but fundamentalism is.
The attacks on religion found in Contact are attacks on fundamentalism only. Otherwise Sagan is prolific in his praise for religion. Hell, in Demon-Haunted World he talked about forming an alliance between science and religion to improve education worldwide.
Sagan was hardly anti-religion, and Contact was even further from it.
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
@rickyseabra
i agree this is not a science fiction movie its something else completely.
Andyontherocks 2 years ago 4
Actually, it is; they're using science to travel thru time, which is not just a philosophical or religious concept. The machine is built by scientists, physicists & construction workers but it's still a scientific experiment.
Now, if you want to have a really intense debate w/someone, think about how the entire Star Wars series IS NOT sci-fi but fantasy, sword & sorcery stuff...
tommyt1971 2 years ago
I've always said Star Wars isn't sci-fi, it's fantasy in space! :P
Starayo 2 years ago
What's even better is that he is Jake Busey, son of legendary Buddy Holly impersonator Gary Busey.
fox2mike28 2 years ago 2
Great movie; also try to read the book, it is so much deeper (afetr all, it's 500 pages long).
auriciangelescu 2 years ago
Yeah Contact is a movie about space travelling with high advanced technology that some species sent us in signals and we finally catched them, but i'm realy 100% sure that if this realy happens someday, then we'll never understand technology like this and never build such a machine... :) I love this movie.
Tallos1 2 years ago
dam u Jake Busey you could have been a starship troper
doc312 2 years ago 5
psphackingtutorials, first know more about God and then think if all those that have made bad things in his name really came in his name, dont be a fool, and is just a movie. open your eyes, that is human acts , no God's. that makes you already a dumd thinking that way.
charlesj84 2 years ago
No, god isn't in the movie, and he isn't even directly in the book. Some of his Spinozan works show up at the end of the book. Not to worry. In the book the bomber's identity and motives are left ambiguous; he might be political, he might be religious. In any case he's clearly a nut job, so you needn't get too po'ed about it, charles.
puncheex 2 years ago
I'd be pretty pissed off if I worked on that thing and someone did that.
Scratch that, I'd be pissed off even if it wasn't me who worked on it.
EngineerAdams 2 years ago 2
This is why I became an Atheist. Dumb ass people who do things in "The Name Of God". Religious radicalls who think they are helping the world out.
Its time the world learned the God does not exist, but we do. I learned that when I was 10.
psphackingtutorials 2 years ago 7
i think that is the point behind the entire scene "the religious nut getting in the way of scientific progress" interesting anti-religious propaganda this movie
iorixs 2 years ago 2
No, the guy isn't identified as anything but a bomber in this scene. In the book it's ambiguous who it is, could be political or nationalist. Sagan's book is the opposite of anti-religious; it goes a long way towards exploring the psychology of a religious experience by paralleling it with Ellie's real experience. Ellie, if not converted, is much more sympathetic with the religious outlook. If you don't see that then you didn't read the book with any comprehension.
puncheex 2 years ago
@psphackingtutorials Theirs no proof that god exists, but theirs also no proof that god doesn't exist. Don't throw out radical statements without your facts in order please...
malicios 1 year ago
@malicios Agnostic much?
psphackingtutorials 1 year ago 2
@psphackingtutorials I believe in god, I'm just stating the facts. Belief in god is in faith and trust. But, maybe I do have some agnostic beliefs as well. It's hard not to question the existence of such a power.
malicios 1 year ago
@malicios
There's no proof that god isn't a giant penis with eyes either.
tommyzkklol 1 year ago
2:06 - The christan pice of shit is arriving. Watch the monitor in the background...
PriusRider 2 years ago 19
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that is the point of the movie to discredit religion and to promote this sci-fi moonlanding startrek starwars carl sagan modern cosmology space hoax. humanity has been radicaly misled
iorixs 2 years ago
the point of religion is to discredit modern cosmology.
Go the the amish peoples u retard.
PriusRider 2 years ago 3
Not according to most people.
wolfborn10 2 years ago
Lorixs: Never read the book, I take it. Try it; you might like it.
puncheex 2 years ago
i did read it a long time ago but i think they find the message in deciphering Pi or something and her hobby is solving coded messages. but this whole modern cosmoloy as presented by sagan et al is a giant satanic anti-religious scam calculated to "belittle" the presence of God and prepare the way for the reign of evil or something stupid like that.
iorixs 2 years ago
...they find in Pi a code. The end of the book insinuates that the universe has a design, when Ellie talks to the Caretakers they are using a wormhole system built by someone else long before they showed up.
The book is anything but anti-religious. The main character is very intolerant of religious views in the beginning, but through her experiences finds that we're all just looking for the truth, and that the truth is not always so black and white.
I don't think you read the book...
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
it was a long time ago that i read it. but the book is still evil because is corrupts truth and doesn honor God
iorixs 2 years ago
Again, had you read the book, you'd see that the fact that it "doesn't honor god" is far from true.
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
honoring God does not mean fabricating false perceptions of reality like sagan's scifi cosmology does. the book is satanic propaganda meant to promote a twisted truth about the size and structure of creation and mankind's place in it and it is directed towards the minds of christians.
iorixs 2 years ago
Again, had you read the book, you'd see that that was not at all what it meant.
As for "fabricating false perceptions of reality", why don't you look at the Bible, it does a hell of a good job at fabricating a false perception of reality.
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
billions of light years big universe and aliens is fiction yet it seems to be more real to people than the fact that God revealed the torah to the children of israel at mt. sinai and that they later built a temple in jerusalem above the gihon spring which tourists visit daily, im not sure how many people have gone to vega to converse with aliens lately. try as you may you cannot change the past or defeat God by fabricating lies about the size and structure of the universe
iorixs 2 years ago
Except the universe is really billions of light years in size. Aliens, as of our current knowledge level, are fiction, and the ones we make up are certainly fictional. However, the jury is still out on them. Just as it's still out on god.
There is no fact in "god" revealing the Torah to anyone...unless you wish to accept the fact that if we accept your accounts, we must accept all religious accounts. Occam's razor.
Contact on the surface is about going and talking to aliens, but that's just
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
light allegedly travels at 286,000 miles per second so billions of light yrs is the distance light travels in billions of yrs. do you seriously believe that people have conclusively determined that it is that size using satelites and telecsopes. the torah exists, aliens dont. the books of the prophets exist, wormholes and intergalactic empires dont, this world, the fruits, vegetables and grains that we eat exist, provision from God. people have been systematicaly decieved in this matter
iorixs 2 years ago
Well light DOES travel at 286,000 miles per second - we've measured it. And if you knew even a surface-level of astronomy, you'd know exactly how we know the universe is billions of light years in size - hence billions of years old.
Yeah, the Torah exists, so does the Vidas. And we do not have any proof against or for "aliens" - it is ridiculous to claim absolutely that they don't exist - we don't know, and that's the only good answer to that question.
Wormholes are predicted to exist, in the
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
very same way Neptune was predicted to exist, based on mathematics and observation, in the very same way the existence of cosmic microwave background radiation was predicted to exist.
We have no definitive proof of wormholes existing, but the theories in place predict they should exist - if science's track record is any indication...then we will find them, someday.
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
the story Sagan used to get his idea across. He wrote a book and created an alien race to get across an idea that clearly has passed by you.
The point of Contact was to show that we're all in this together, all of humanity are one and the same - there's no reason to fight each other. Religion and science can coexist, communists and capitalists can coexist, as long as we respect each other. Because we're all looking for answers, all trying to survive. "What makes this universe bearable is love."
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
humanity has been cast out of paradise due to disobedience. the same process continues. evil tempts us with false knowledge which is atheistic science. this is the tree of "knowledge" (according to satan), it is in fact lying flattery. so now people have eaten from this tree and they believe they have power over creation "you will be like gods". but it is all lies. the result is that people become more ignorant of the imminence of God's presence - further cast out of eden. this continues daily
iorixs 2 years ago
Observation of reality is not "false knowledge", it is fact. Whether or not your god created the universe is a moot point - he could have used the much more impressive mechanisms as uncovered by science to do it. Science takes a naturalistic approach because it is necessary.
Until we can make ourselves immortal and are capable of synthesizing matter out of thin air, no one will ever think we are gods.
As for the rest of your little rant - what makes your theology more correct than others'?
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
my little rant? i was just trying to have a conversatin, no need to insult me.
iorixs 2 years ago
You weren't trying to have a conversation, you didn't respond to anything I said, all you've been doing is reasserting your points. All brimstone and hellfire. What about the evidence that disagrees with you? What about the other religions worldwide that make the same assertions you do? Can you give any reason for us to see one religion's claim over the others?
You will never "convert" anyone with the "cast out of paradise" claims you're making. I suggest you change your strategy.
NoisyPiper 2 years ago
the world's religions are consistent because they stem from the same source, in this world the truth becomes corrupted but at the core there is always the same truth. Bhagavad Ghita (the song of God) 16.21: There are three gates leading to this hell lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul. who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor thesupreme destination
iorixs 2 years ago
@PriusRider Yeah, I 've just noticed it. Religious people messing up all again!!!
gatigallo 1 year ago
do they end up seeing the aliens?
dthibds 2 years ago
KInda. Not 100% clear.
PriusRider 2 years ago
That's not the point of the movie.
Contact has very very little to do with 'aliens.'
If you want to see them, I'd recommend James Cameron's 'Aliens'
VforVideo 2 years ago 7
hey yeah i watched the movie yesterday and i loved it :), im just curious if htere has been a movie yet made where humans are the advanced species and they visit a primiative alien race?
dthibds 2 years ago
That sounds like a good idea!
I've thought about that too, why are WE never the advanced civilization making first contact with primiative aliens?
VforVideo 2 years ago
yeah that would be a great idea, there actually is a few movies coming out like that i just discoverd but there Animation movies like pixar. First 1 is called Battle for Terra, and the other 1 is called Planet 51 :) check out the trailers
dthibds 2 years ago
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Read Blind Alley novel from Asimov, relatively short, but very fascinating.
Mogzyx 2 years ago
Because mankind works under a budget.
If there wasn't partitioning of funds to various projects, and anything could be done without monetary worry, then maybe it'd be easier to break free of Earth.
uruseiranma 2 years ago 4
@uruseiranma: I have never agreed so much with a YouTube comment...I have always wondered, what if we were free of the constraints associated with money? What if research projects were given all the resources they ever required, all the manpower, all the funding -- whatever they needed to progress?
I've always wondered how much faster we would progress technologically in a world free from financial constraints. It would be fascinating to see.
BadDream51 1 year ago 3
I second your notion holeheartedly.
Please watch "Money as Debt", "The Money Masters" and "Zeitgeist: Addendum" for some discussions of those problems and possible solutions.
The monetary system looks like it's a cancer on humanity, benefiting only a very small elite.
NielsC68 1 year ago
Please watch "Money as Debt", "The Money Masters" and "Zeitgeist: Addendum" for some discussions of those problems and possible solutions.
The monetary system looks like it's a cancer on humanity.
NielsC68 1 year ago
LOTS of Star Trek episodes, or if you prefer more action, Stargate Atlantis is highly recommended.
erlendaakre 2 years ago
Read Blind Alley novel from Asimov, relatively short, but very fascinating.
Mogzyx 2 years ago
Yes, they find the aliens. A point of the movie (or better, the book) is that they, in spite of a vastly higher technology, have no better clue about god than we do. The real point of the story is Jodie, though.
puncheex 2 years ago
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They should of had chuck noris guarding it. To make it more realistic they should of shown the funeral of all the dead scientists and had that crazy american family holding your son was a fag signs. Just to make it more american.
NielsShoe 2 years ago
Very realistic aspect of any future contact event. Backwater, sister chasing, zealot christ-bots will likely scream they're demons. On the other side of the world, the muslims will also probably start screaming and shaking sticks.
ddavismedicalart 2 years ago 11
But likewise, should it be the reverse...all of the people will scream aliens, no?
jmr1068204 2 years ago
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bad film for this scene
BrazilNation 2 years ago
ASPOLDE!!!!
greenpenguino 3 years ago
I would love to see the reaction of humans to a superior Intelligence from afar..
Chaos comes to mind.
sidensvans54 3 years ago 5
the special effects in this movie were phenominal
firevice 3 years ago 6
Reactions of the personel in the control hall suprised me though. The whole thing that cost like an universe amount of money just blew up in pieces, nevertheless they're all like 'okay, it's done now, let's go back to our computers and keep computing...'
Dustie1984 3 years ago 6
lol ya
firevice 3 years ago 3
From what I've seen of real NASA flight controllers (Documentaries, etc), this reaction is quite realistic.
SaganClassSC05 2 years ago
I'm reading the book. It's pretty gripping stuff. I saw the movie when I was a kid and I barely remember it. I can't wait to see it again.
WWAAK 3 years ago
i bet she was going "man that could have been me up there."
veggieeater 3 years ago 5
wierd i thought the same exact thing
firevice 3 years ago
You could hear Taps playing at the end of the scene, could you not?
puncheex 2 years ago
Good thing that the parts, which were swept by the explosion, didn't fell on all those people, who were gathered there. It would have been very painfull scene, if the director had decided to put that in the movie.
Gyte75 3 years ago 4
Gyte75: It is already a painful scene. Some religious nutter kills dozens of people and destroys a piece of technology that could have greatly expanded mankind's knowledge of the universe, all because of his primitive dogma. If the pieces had flown into the crowd, it would have only driven the point home harder: religion and science do not mix.
yerk3 3 years ago 22
"it would have only driven the point home harder: religion and science do not mix."
Yerk3, the whole point of the movie is that religion and science CAN mix...as long as you're aim is for the pursuit of truth and NOT a narrow dogma, be it religious or scientific.
At the end of the film, Foster's character realizes that, while it can't be explained scientifically, she had a deep personal experience that could effect all of mankind. Interesting that many religious people feel the same way.
VforVideo 2 years ago 2
Define "religion" though. Obviously faith (believing something for the sake of believing) is never good. But obviously the mystical experience of experiencing the universe as energy can go well with science.
silverbackman 2 years ago 4
At the end, she kind of comes into understanding a bit more of what Palmer was saying when he had his own experience.
Even then, and also at the reception in DC, she kind of kept needling him like, 'how do you know you weren't hallucinating, or dreaming, making the whole thing up in your head?'
And of course, she gains a new understanding. I like during the investigation, you see Palmer watching her as she states how she has no proof, but she believes her experience really happened.
uruseiranma 2 years ago
SCIENCE KILLS RELIGION .....
edsonry 2 years ago