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1.0 out of 5 stars
A horrible distortion of Carl Sagan's message,
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This review is from: Contact (With Extra Footage) (Widescreen) (VHS Tape)
Did Carl Sagan write this horrible movie ?! I expected something profound and spiritual... this is "junk". On a more positive note, the sense of wonder evoked by the introductory scene does persist in the rest of the movie. Too bad it is supported by "junk".Some positive (+) and negative (-) points : - The "we all need beliefs" argument rears its ugly head more than once. This is apparently the morale of the story.
1.0 out of 5 stars
No wonder they waited till Carl Sagan was dead.,
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This review is from: Contact (Special Edition) (DVD)
That sounds harsh. If anything it's generous.Undoubtedly the worst part of this awful remake of an excellent, thought proving book is at the end, where in big letters it comes up with the words "For Carl". At that point I nearly threw something at the screen. Carl Sagan was an atheist. Contact, the book, contains some intelligent, thought provoking, discussions between two of the main characters ; the atheist Arroway, and the Christian Joss. The "extremist" views on both sides are represented by Drumlin and Rankin. Rankin, as far as I can see, has been removed altogether. Most of the discussions between the two main characters have been rewritten so that the balance becomes blatantly pro-religion. For example, at one point, the Joss character asks Arroway "Did you love your father - prove it" which is the asinine kind of thing an asinine religious person would ask ; and absolutely not the kind of thing the Palmer Joss character in the book would ask. Worse still is the end of the film. In the book, Arroway is basically paid off and hushed up. In the film, there is a big set piece investigation in which Arroway is asked "questions" - this is an unsubtle piece of propoganda in favour of religious faith. Back to "For Carl". Carl Sagan ; the author I've read in Contact and various other books would have disowned this movie, and probably stopped it. Hence the title. Does it matter ? If you like dumb movies, probably not, it then just becomes are rather pointless low level action flick. But then again, you might as well by a Schwarzenegger film for that.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Was this a movie or did they try to promote CNN?,
By Joe Mac Guy "NA" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Contact (Special Edition) (DVD)
When you want to create a world for a big budget science fiction movie, it has to litterally be it';s own world with little or no connection with the everyday world. Showing CNN news casters in this movie from start to finish was clearly a case of over-kill and took away from what the film was supposed to be, had George Lucas or Steven Spielberg made this movie, it would have been a lot more then what was delivered here, which was not much.Carl Sagan's best known films and statements on Mankind's place in the universe was much better explored with the PBS series, COSMOS.
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