Everything Wrong With Contact In 19 Minutes Or Less
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- In honor of the upcoming sci-fi think piece Arrival, we've gone looking for sins in another modern sci-fi think piece... Contact. Oh, god, they should have sent a poet sinner!
Next week: Sins for two truly terrible sh*tty no-good movies.
Remember, no movie is without sin! Which movie's sins should we expose next?!
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The one detail everyone overlooks in the film is when the wormhole opens as the machine powers up, it creates a huge gravity pull on the area even pulling the control ship towards it. No human technology can replicate that. That alone would be enough evidence the pod went somewhere and Hadden wasnt to blame.
ShopTalk, I never understood why they just couldn't fire the machine up again, and send another person through? wasn't really explained in the movie, why it was only a one-time use.
it was built by Tony Stark
Nate D. I think it got critically damaged during the trip, making it too dangerous to send someone else through.
Thought the same fucking thing, just send more people through!
Not to mention the one thing that WAS mentioned in the film but was conveniantly left out of the court case as Cinema Sins mentioned... the 18hrs of video static when in reality that static should only be 1 seconds worth, how would it be 18hrs long if it "fell straight through"
In my opinion, the biggest sin in this movie is when Ellie is asked, "Are you really going to sit there, and tell us that we should take this all on faith?" and she did not say something more obvious which is "No, don't have faith in what I say, run the machine again with someone else, that's how science works." Duh
@Cheetah Panther I used to feel that way. Hope you can get past it. But if not that’s still your choice. Free will.
@@user-tr9nj6ki8u Does "get past it" mean shrug your shoulders at facts and evidence (or lack thereof) and just choose to believe something merely because you want it to be true?
In the film, at the destination, "Ellie's dad" pretty much says hers is a one time trip. In the novel, the machine never works again, presumably because the aliens have shut down the branch line to Earth.
@Cheetah Panther We get it, you're a teenager who just discovered religion bad. If you ever actually went on a rant like that in Congress in front of millions possibly billions of people no one would ever take you seriously again. At least the main character knows what restraint is.
@@chrischampagne9469 yes, that’s exactly what they mean. Get past facts and just believe, because .... reasons.
The novel definitely made it more clear that the Alien Machine Instruction Manual included detailed instructions for producing metallic allies and plastics and ceramic compounds that no human engineer had ever heard of before. So the huge amount of money spent on the Machine was far from wasted, even if it seemed to Congress that the project had been a failure.
Exactly. The ending is the only part of the film that kinda falls flat, partially because it was not in line with what the author had intended (probably, because of his unfortunate passing before the film's completion).
@@FreshTillDeath56 Films aren't filmed in order
You know, what *actually* bothers me about the ending of this movie (and you can throw a sin at me for mentioning the book) is that the original story had her build computers to analyze the number Pi, which turned out to be the mathematical encyclopedia universalis, mentioned in her discussion with the alien. It ends on that computer detecting a pattern: a perfect circle, made up of 0s and 1s, when displayed at a specific character width (like BMPs basically). And boom, science was never the same. Note quite the impact I get from "hey we built more satellites, kids, I'm happy now! *ding*"
20 sins
I think the sudden influx of new payment implies to the world that she was proven valid
Honestly, that wouldn't help. That's also utter nonsense.... A dumb person's idea of a smart film.
@@genestarwind928 Well, if you want to call Carl Sagan a dumb person, that's on you, darling. I'm just saying the ending is different and it bothers me just a little.
@@eslachance 4 years later your responding to a post that only had 3 replies. Jeremy? Oh Jeremy you need to...oh screw it. Jeremy even won't ever come back to this!
Anyone else think of Katya when they first saw this video uploaded?
thats why i clicked it so fast!
With how often she use this movie as a reference, it's inevitable lol
PyromaniaFreebird I will not Jodie Foster this kind of behavior
PyromaniaFreebird I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THEY NEED TO GET A BODYGUARD CUZ KATYA IS COMING TO MURDER THEM.
I tweeted this to her
I saw 2 major flaws in this film:
(1) The time dilation she experienced was the inverse of what special relativity predicts. It was explained in the movie that if she travels near light speed, what she experiences as 4 years traveling would actually pass as 50 years on Earth. By that logic, the 18 hours she actually spent traveling should have passed as 225 hours on Earth. Instead, it passed instantaneously.
(2) They dropped her through the machine once and then immediately wrote the machine program off as a failure. In reality, they would've had a whole team of astronauts lined up and ready to go; they'd be dropping people through that machine 10 times a day. Replication of results is crucial in science.
Late reply bcs i just finished the movie, thw first one is a flaw IF she actually travel with the speed of light,which she didn't, she teleported through a wormhole
AAANNDD she’s a lesbian 😅
everyone who is commenting is just talking about how katya would hate this and she would
AFAGAHAHAHA
CUS WHAT YOU SEE
ISNT ALWAYS THE TRUTH
who tf is katya ?
Jake Harris she always keeps them coming back for more
MrDanaris so basically it’s a drag queen and she was in a show called UHNhhh which is like basicly a talk show with an other drag queen called trixie Mattel. Katyas favorite movie is contact and trixie hates it when katya talks about it. The second reference is from an other drag queen called Tatiana and she says the famous lyrics “cause what you see it’s always the truth” in a spoken word/song she wrote. Also i highly recommend watching UHNhhhh because it’s one of the most funny shows there is on RUclips
You forgot to sin that they didnt investigate the chair being missing and/or broken from the pod. Along with not being harnessed into the chair anymore during that 7 second fall into the net.
And also, that she had removed her gloves in neatly folded them into her pocket some time during that 7 second fall into the net.
They didn't have Hercule Poirot to notice all the details with his little grey cells.
In the end they mentioned the static recorded was 18 hours for that 7 second fall
They of course would think it broke from the fall, won't they? And she could have put the gloves in her pocket, the whole time in the pod, there was no video inside
Exactly!! I thought that too when I watched!
1:21 CinemaSins is a dick to Goldeneye.
Jinigosoti Game-Clips
*Ding*
"i will not jodie foster this kind of behaviour"
*thwoorp*
"Wow maybe if you hadn't been so space oriented your dad would still be alive?"
Damn that's cold!
But stil so god damned true.
Just like deep space!
This guy has proven he's a moron.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 Oh Scott, you always add such postive touches to old conversations.
@@PajamusPrime thank you.
Love the movie, even with its sins. One more sin: When Ellie is 9 years old and watching a meteor shower from outside on a second story landing, she grabs a TELESCOPE and looks through it, as if to get "a better look at the meteors." You don't use a telescope to view a meteor shower. Since a telescope magnifies the field of view, it also decreases the field of view, and in order to see meteors streaking across a HUGE field of view, a telescope would actually sabotage that intent. It would be like using a microscope to get the "big picture" of an entire elephant...
That's the kind of delightful nitpick we wind up attributing to the filmakers. And it's really nice that the problems with this movie really are nitpicks in the end.
Yes, when I watched Roxanne in the theatres I almost laughed out loud when Darryl Hanna set her telescope up in the back porch and showed Steve Martin the colour view of the Orion nebula.
... *Ding!*
American high school. CORIOLLIS EFFECT MORON
@@dracoford755 the issue isn't that they are/aren't going straight, Its the fact that you are using a magnification device to see something that is meant to be seen from a wide angle.
I always loved this movie's opening. Especially how the audio devolves from modern pop music to the first known radio recording as it zooms further out to space. I dunno, I just thought that was cool
I will not Jodie Foster this kind of behaviour
L, m, f, a, o
UNHhhh
Orlando Gondar c, r, i, n, g,
Viktor Nikiforov i have 100% time for that joke
Viktor Nikiforov I'm here for it too
Where are my fellow UNHhhh fans at??
Crystel Castillo YASSSS.
Crystel Castillo HEEEYYYYY
Crystel Castillo Hiiiiiiii! Instantly thought of Katya when I saw this.
I'm pretty sure she's why this got made.
Crystel Castillo right here! I'm just here for Katya
Thank you for removing a sin on the running at the mirror scene. I've watched how they filmed it and it still blows my mind 🤯
They tried to explain it in the DVD commentary but I still don't get it. Pretty amazing
@@guitarbo1 witchcraft. That's what it is
Its a slide lens i am 99% sure
Cause honey what you see...isn't always the truth...
OMFG THIS
LMAO YES
Derrick Berry See me with them hands
Zaria Winter cause baby boy, I've got all the same parts that you do.
My makeup is terrible but i love me anyway. Had to switch it up a lil. Lol.... Alaska Thunderfucc 4 life!!!!!!!!!
Totally missed one of the worst sins of all:
When she asks the President's aide (played by Angela Bassett) for help because she needs to find "a really great dress" for that black tie event.... and then shows up in that mauve renaissance revival velvet car crash of a gown. I guess Angels Bassett's answer must have been nope.
Actually, that may have been on purpose to show you that academics and scientists don't really dress well and may not have a good sense of fashion. Don't forget, she's paid by taxpayer and corporate funding for which she and her team has to beg every year.
@@georgeemil3618 hmmm, I'm thinking it's more just a terrible fashion choice by the costume design team that hasn't aged very well since 1997...
I actually kind of liked it...so meaaah
Because honey what you see, isn't always a good movie
mpstudies because baby boy, ive got all the cinemasins that you do
mpstudies I literally died reading your comment.
mpstudies what is this from ?
no comma needed
suzycreamcheesez
No, comma, needed,
This film blew my mind the first time I watched it. Shame I will never experience those two great twists again.
When I saw this, I immediately clicked on it because Katya has said so much about it 😂😂😂
Livi OMG ME TOO
Who is Katya?
Who the hell is Katya?
Yang Tommy LOOK HER UP IMMEDIATELY! You're welcome.
Richard Jones that's what I'm saying...answer the question ppl :)???
never seen the movie, want to see what Katya's so obsessed with 😂
it's such a great movie honestly
Tis good. And decent. wholesome. Qwasi thinker. From a stupider age. Enjoy!
stupider age?
Gudwell "stupider age?" Correct, it is a reasonable adjective according to many if not most dictionaries even if it sounded wrong to your ears. For example you think im stupider than you for using this adjective but you are wrong. See how it works? And here are more examples of smart publications using the word www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=colHC&query=stupider&x=0&y=0 . That was easy all i did was a quick search, Perhaps in the future you should try googling something that confuses you? "Googling" as well was not an actual word but today is used and accepted widely as a verb even, for using GOOGLE, to google something, try googling it, google is a website. Use it to research things, Educate yourself.. don't wait for me comment next time.
Im sorry? I wasnt really stating that I dislike the word "stupider". I was asking what you meant by "stupider age"!
If I wanted to know if the use of "stupider" is wrong or right, I wouldve searched for it myself. (It does sound pretty dumb, though).
But you had to come from out of nowhere and get all hostile on my ass. No need for that shit man...
Now explain to me: What do you mean by "stupider age"?
I can't believe how underrated and unappreciated this movie is
3:30
She leaves Palmer's # on the nightstand because she has feeling for him but is terrified of losing another person she has feelings for. She can't bear to throw it away and she can't bear to take it with her.
That's how complex humans act, and thus an excellent example of "show, don't tell."
Now a challenge:
Everything Wrong With The Godfather.
André Luiz Agra Wverything wrong with Pulp Fiction
I'd like that. 'Cause then I would finally get to see the end - I never made it through the movie.
SKy_the_Thunder Pulp Fiction? Damn the ending is the best part...
Ooh, a series of sins involving American classics - I love it.
benito franco
Nope, The Godfather.
katya won't like this.
Lmao I was literally just looking through the comments to find a Katya reference
demonte sockwell Katya?
Katya is a drag queen who hosts a show on RUclips called UNHhhh with Trixie Mattel, another drag queen. A running gag on the show is how Katya loves the film Contact.
who is katya?
A complex biological woman.
Anyone notice how weirdly coincidental it is that 2 days after the election, CinemaSins reviews Contact: a movie where a driven, dedicated woman gets upstaged and undermined by arrogant men, during a spectacle in the United States that the rest of the world is anxiously watching?
Too real, CinemaSins. Too real.
Pikaia Gracilens you know these are picked at least a week in advance right? He hints at them each week. So you're now suggesting he had prior knowledge of how the election would turn out.
Hillary is arrogant too.
Yeah, driven and dedicated ain't no virtue. Besides, she did a perfect job of undermining herself. And we're not talking about Jodi Foster here.
Why are you outside your safe space ? Trump has won, stay in your safe space for at least a week man. Come on.
But in the movie the woman isn't a criminal. :)
The real sin is the idea that anybody would fall for Matthew McConaughey when William Fichtner was right there the whole time.
Seriously, Ellie had more chemistry with Kent in that one "Hey, I'm so glad you're back" than she had in all the awkward kisses with Palmer.
Yeah but McConaughey is "so cute". He is the biggest sin in the film.
So Angela Bassett doesn't age ?
must be a Power Ranger then...I'm guessing Pink.
Never! It's amazing
JcMuscle 1 black don't crack.....
I know right it's amazing; however, but if she keeps this up I'm going to have to consider the existence of vampires lol
yeah she was good in Suicide Squad
I never understood why they didn't just send someone else through the machine.
This comment needs to be rated higher. I mean the machine is already built and all. So why not send anyone else through? The money is already spent.
Shame on the rest of us for not pointing this out. Of course a separate trial would follow.
I was thinking that before the movie was even over. If the writers didn't want anyone else to go through the machine, why didn't they have Jodie Foster go through the original one, then have the terrorist blow it up?
All of you get a like!
I never understood why they thought china (or any country) would spend trillions to make a machine and then let someone not chinese go anywhere near it!
You don't get it. The government knew it worked and that she went somewhere. They wanted to discredit her and have the public lose interest, so that they would be free to study it privately.
The end of this movie infuriated me because they equated her defending her experience with religious faith. No! You don't take her findings on faith. It's science. You repeat the experiment and see if you get the same results. When the 2nd pilot reports the similar experience/results, then you don't have to rely on "faith"
dmoose95you you take evolution on faith. no experiment has ever shown that life can come from non life, let alone the chances of them getting together. the earth is a huge place, and organic molecules are very tiny. the chance that they would be even near each other to form anything useful is absolutely minuscule, supposed billions of years won’t be enough. the calculated chance of a single enzyme forming is absolutely mind boggling at 1 in 10^40000
Yeah why didn’t they just run the test again. They ever explain that.
@Hobu123 We do not see evolution directly happening, and it's impossible to see it happening. Evolution takes millions if not billions of years to happen. No research team would last that long to consistently monitor species to see if there were changes. And there is many huge problems that remained unsolved and what makes evolution really an unstable theory. For example, the chance of a single protein (not even a single-cell living entity, just a protein) is 10^40000. This is absolutely ridiculous. Another problem is how single celled life forms started the transition into multicellular life. We have no evidence for that happening, we just assumed it did because we are here now.
A population of mostly white mouse "changing" black after their environment changes is not evolution. No change has occurred, no new genes were added, no chromosomes gained, nothing.
@Hobu123 Can you name an experiment or study that shows single celled life becoming multicellular? Because from what I've heard (I haven't read many scientific journals on it, but I've watched videos from information RUclipsrs such as Kurtzgesagt) this is almost impossible. I've also not heard of an experiment that can show that it's even feasible to cross the gap. How does a single celled organism suddenly become able to not only manage itself but also connections with other cells?
Simple self replicators are not just a few molecules put together. If they're anywhere near as complex as proteins, that's still in the range of 10^50 to 10^100, which is still an insane number. How is evolution studied in living populations? If it happened that quickly, why don't we see new, never before seen species popping up left and right?
"how about getting at least minimal education in subject you are trying to discuss?" seriously, is there not a single evolutionist who is capable of having a civil discussion. Just because someone has a different idea that seems "wrong" and "uneducated" to you, doesn't mean that you can dismiss them as idiots.
@Hobu123 Relax man. Think what would Jesus do
R.I,P. Arecibo
You did what no other land based radio telescopes could during your existence. You were old, utilized to your most complete potential.
You will be missed. : (
Lots of people have killed Sean Bean.
I gotta say, I was not expecting seeing so many Katya fans here ahahah
I love it
SAME.
who ??
Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova (Екатерина Петро́вна Замоло́дчикова) but your dad probably just calls her Katya.
I will not Jodie Foster these sins.
Contact Trivia: the shot where young Eliie runs to the medicine cabinet, opens it and then closes without camera reflection it is noted in many special effects courses. And it,s a very succesful special effect because nobody notices the effect (and done in single shot nonetheless).
Jodie Foster did a great job in contact. She constantly was back stabed from every damn person.
Except Haddon baby! The fucking man
CinemaSins -- RESPECT for incorporating The Sagan leading into the mashup.
Who took care of her? The rancher took care of her....before she ran away with a lamb.
And after that she went to live with Julia Roberts
It’s the lambs that keeps her up at night
they were slaughtering the spring lambs?
LOL the very first sin when he yells
The Netscape laugh is just priceless! Love it! :D Made my day!
STOP SENDING THIS TO KATYA
NEVER
+Dave Fish when will the government stop your sinful hand
Literally the only reason I even looked this up
Nobody tell Katya this exists..
madasnx who is that
madasnx okay
madasnx we must keep it a secret
Apparently EVERYONE told her
lol I came to the comments to see whether anyone else thought of KATYA... guess I've got my answer
Hey I’m just impressed that after Chozen Toguchi from karate kid 3 ran away from the village on Okinawa, he got his act together, trained in Aerospace engineering and was appointed as flight controller for the international machine consortium. Well done boss!
Everything Wrong With Gamer
Jaylynn Kellar this is assuming you live on bleach
Please. There is so much wrong with that movie.
And here, I had not an inkling that actually existed! (Looks at ratings) And I can see why.
Oh Jesus, I saw that movie last week. So bad...
Jaylynn Kellar YEEEEES! I was younger around the time it came out. But when I heard about it I was just so hype because I am a gamer myself. Even back then I knew that movie was complete and utter garbage. T_T
The final overdub at the very end: utterly perfect.
The indirect prequel to Interstellar. It all makes sense because of three things: wormholes, ghosts and Mathew McConaughey.
I wasn't even convinced that the McConaughey character was straight.
His hair was very "pretty" in this movie lmao
She's not. But she was stellar in this film. Sorry
@@scottslotterbeck3796you can’t tell Jodie from Matthew. Where’s your bot farm, Outer Mongolia. 😂😂😂
One of my favourite films!
dravreh same
na, could have been great but they ruined it with all the religious crap, same they did with Gravity. Maybe it's an American thing.
I know it is cliche but READ THE BOOK. The ending is radically different.
IT'S BASED ON A BOOK???? This is one of my Fav movies and I NEVER knew this! *Runs To The Library* .. thank you! :)
Not just that, it's written by Carl Motherfucking Sagan himself.
somewhere katya is hissing
Who the hell is this Katya everyone is on about? O.o
So some F level celebrity I don't need to bother remembering, got it.
wow no need to be rude
Why are you calling a man "her"?
Because the character "Katya" is a woman played by a man.
Find it funny how you asked who she was. then proceeded to be rude and obnoxious when someone told you. Girl, bye.
"How would they respond "We're good" when they have no clue what's going on?"
The call was to Mechanical. Mechanical would be watching motors, mechanical stressors, G forces, and the like. Essentially, they would be keeping an eye on it to make sure the whole thing didn't shatter under its own mechanical stresses, things we're actually pretty good at doing now here on earth, and considering we built the thing, blueprints or not, we'd know what materials we used, what motors and actuators we used, and what each can handle in terms of mechanical stress.
Pair of underwear... you mean that baseball cap he was holding by the brim?
Nice Hitchhikers reference at the end.
I thought it was The Stanley Parable. Sounded similar, anyways.
The Stanley Parable video game sounds similar to a late 70s BBC Radio series? I wonder which one ripped the other.
it was a book two and im pretty sure that came first.
12 Radio episodes - 2 Albums - 2 Books (at least) -Six episode TV Series- Very Disappointing Movie.
artfrankmiami The movie was absolutely terrible. I enjoyed the TV series, though.
This movie sucked , I only watched it for Katya Lol
This is one the most touching movies ever made. Your opinion is incorrect.
Same. I understood her crazy ass personality more than ever after watching it.
pussyyy
SilentBudgie please tell me you're joking
Lilly Bean Watch her character arc over the course of the movie, and then watche the full speech she gives at the hearing at the end. :'(
There's usually at least one line in these that sends me into gut-splitting laughter. In this one, it's "Backstabby McDoucherton." Brilliant.
I agree. This is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard!😂
It's weird how parents use the whole "if everyone jumped off a cliff would you?" But then use the "most of the world word believes in god, how can they be wrong?"
@RuleofVicus Sounds weird worshipping a Japanese dick but ok.
Think for yourself and believe what you will, for at the end of time existence is meaningless. Still it is the journey from here to there that is meaningful and what you do and how you treat others that is important.
bewmdogg…. *God
@@Shaden0040 Existence makes me not want to exist
Absolutely true, I'll use this next time when we have an argument
Contact, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...why does every hard Sci-Fi about early space exploration inevitably devolve into a psychedelic mystical trip to the outer regions of the deranged mind?
I think the issue is back then they were in a "post-star trek" era. Sci fi of the style like star trek relied on using what little special effects and budget they had at the time to make scenery that people would be amazed at and keep the suspension of disbelief, to be amazed at this new worlds and new races, aliens and civilizations. But, time pased, and peopel became more cynical, questioning the poor quality of the special effects of such sci-fi, accusing them of being obviously fake. CGI at the tmie wasn't good enough to compensate, so the solution was... to be more abstract, show less stuff the people can question.
Because the true vastness of space is beyond human comprehension, and the trick to deep exploration is to explore different realms of consciousness to process it, or even for the trip itself
@@Native_Creation I hope you are demonstrated to be correct I'd the decades to come.
Explain to me what was before the big bang.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 That would be awfully presumptuous of a thing to do.
Anyone els brought in CONTACT with this movie through Katya, in the series UNHhhh?
00:24 Ehhh actually, it looks a little big first, but after dezooming, the Moon seems to be approx. 1/4 of the Earth in diameter. Which *is* the real size of the moon.
Soooooo... *ding* to you, CinemaSins.
I was going to post that, but was sure someone did already :)
Also, it does look too close to the Earth, so ding to Contact too.
You can squeeze in 29 more Earths in between the distance from Earth to the moon. The movie obviously failed to represent that, but it would have made it more confusing for the average person if they went true-to-scale.
@@xybeptek3648 Indeed, I was just talking about moon size, but the distance looks stupidely close ^_^
@xybetpek is correct. The moon is roughly 300,00 miles away and would be much farther than what the movie showed. In fact, if the moon were really as close as the movie indicates, there would probably be massive tidal forces/earthquakes/tsunamis. But movie directors don't worry about that...
20 minutes and 16 seconds in 2016.
That's so fucking stupid
AviatorAvis half life 3 confirmed
shit boys i've been spotted
I would've liked to see a CinemaSins on The Arrival with Charlie Sheen, that one is sins rich!
I believe the reason she isnt wearing any space helmet is because the “schematics” of the thing had a human with no protective gear just sitting there
I literally only opened this video to see if a sun would be removed for the amazing mirror shot, and was not disappointed. Thank you, CinemaSins.
Mother, we're counting a film's sins again.
I've realized that I know 2 old movie critics that turned into people who just make us laugh by yelling at the screen or just saying things that are funny (channel awesome (nostalgia critic) and cinema sins)
Nick hughy Yep. And Screen Junkies (Honest Trailers).
Is that so special? I'm sure anyone can make anyone laugh by "saying something funny"
FYI CinemaSins is a two man team.
I guess most people didn't realize that Carl Sagan was responsible for why this film exists. And it's a wonderful film.
I bloody miss Carl S. :(
We could use more people like him.
Dude, your sincere laughter at the Netscape logo completely busted me up! That was f****** funny!
I would have taken a sin off for the end, when the movie says FOR CARL. Carl Sagan one hope was to find Intelligent Life out there. What he fail to realize was there was no intelligent life down here.
Excellent.
oh, that made me think of...
the Flat Earth Society.
dumbest people in the universe.
Your grammar proves it. (had to take advantage of that man, sorry)
Uggghh edgey cringe bro lol
Truth!
katya reacted to this on snapchat lmao
please do everything wrong with "over the hedge" whyyyyyyyy won't you do it D:
tigerlep hunter its a kids movie and it didnt even get that popular. Nor was it really acclaimed
PapaKay yet still it would be an awesome addition to the playlist..especially because it "CinemaSins" ..role credit s lol
+PapaKay So is Pete's Dragon, but that got an EWW and is somehow getting a remake. How does that work? Oh, yeah. DreamWorks isn't creatively bankrupt.
Kimi FW youre right. i miss the days where he would review good movies, popular movies, and criticially acclaimed movies. now he seems to do a lot of shitty movies. there is no humor in finding flaws in those kind of films.
YEH!!!
On of my favorite movies from my youth -- except for the alien scene. It seemed so anti-climactic.
I thought it was peaceful but poorly written... Shes a scientist... They shouldve wrote something similar to neo meeting the architect.
It was absolutely brilliant, using her dead father to talk to her. Brilliant. One of the top 3 SF movies of all time.
everything wrong with John Wick, I love that movie and would love to see you destroy it.
just saw it for the first time a week ago and its great and I would love for a sins count
John Wick was fine until the bad guy started monologuing.
The monologue/hand to hand climax was just a nod to old action movies, I was supposed to make you roll your eyes a bit.
They're making a Chapter Two to it, so Jeremy will probably sin the first one to coincide with Chapter Two's release.
"Keanu Reeves is a dick to people offering him money for his car"
"Marilyn Manson uses a movie to promote his new album"
"Father is a dick to his son after offering him a drink"
"It's raining at a funeral cliché"
"Keanu Reeves uses lots of guns cliché"
Katya Zamolochikova where u at?
Who the hell is Katya?
Who?
I watched this only because of her lol
FLdancer00 drag queen
Cuz honey what you see...
This is my childhood movie and I'm still glad this video's up.
Also, the video should've reached Vega around 1960.
19:41 of Morgan Freeman narration got me all in my feels. The entire movie should have been narrated by him.
Miss Katya's tuck will explode the moment she watches this...
The 18 hours of static was not missed in the hearing. It was intentionally covered up.
The last 13 seconds... just perfect!
(I’m impressed you were even aware that the BBCs 1981 version of HHGTTG existed!)
The movie omits the best part of the book: the true ending. When Elli discovers the representation of a circle within the value of π, implying that the messages are built into the very fabric of the universe.
The director left it out because she thought the audience wouldn't understand.
omg, really?
i need to read that book
Angreh Kittunz Also, I wonder why no one seems to use the word "chiastic" anymore. I had to look it up in a dictionary and it is a perfectly fine word as words go. Chiastic. Chiastic. Chiastic. I appreciate 'Contact' for having introduced me to the word. :D
That's actually pretty silly. If pi is a truly irrational number, ALL possible messages are inside it. Including the infinite number of messages that are wrong or complete gibberish.
Joshua Pearce Not really. Irrational numbers don't mean all possible sequences will appear at some point. Those are normal numbers. That said, π is very likely to be normal, though absolute proof of that is still not possible.
But that's not the point.
When you think of it in terms of likelihood, finding it so soon in the sequence is so unlikely that most people would treat it as something more than just chance. Much more so, if examining other universal constants would reveal the same phenomenon, or even the same constant using a different numeral system (Ellie used base 11 for π).
Each discovery would make it less and less likely that these were random, but there is no actual point where you will dismiss the possibility that it IS random entirely.
You will always be asking whether it actually has meaning or whether it is just wishful apophenia.
And that's the point. The theme of the entire book. The line between faith and science. Where one ends and the other begins, or whether there is even any distinction at all.
This movie is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen.
I get older, they stay the same age
Earth's moon is really big relative to planet size when compared to other moons in the solar system, but not quite that big. The moon's diameter is roughly .25 that of earth. So it wouldn't look tiny next to the earth. But that's not what you should be complaining about. The moon is nowhere near that close to the earth!!! Using that diameter as our visual scale, the moon is 30 earth diameters away from earth. Couldn't even fit them in the same frame.
MP197742 yup, they screwed up their second sin, in less than 20 seconds...
I guess you guys know nothing about perspective then.
Very "long" telephoto lenses can compress visual space an amazing amount. = Minus one sin.
LegenDarius you make no sense because cinemasins is wrong either way
I saw this movie at the cinema, watching Jodie Foster have a nervous breakdown for three hours haunts my memories to this day...
I never got why they didn't just send another person. The machine in Japan was still intact...
The alien implied they wouldn't accept anyone else for now. She says other people need to do this and he doesn't seem receptive. watch?v=HzTHC6JSUvM
Yeah one thing I hated about this movie is that they could have sent Matthew McConehay's character through, or any one else on the planet in the next flight to see if the same thing happens again. The machine was still in Japan and working right? Hell they could have sent several people over several trips to see what happens. That lack of testing is like trying to ride a horse, falling off on the first try, and calling all horses unrideable.. Get back on that horse, damn it!
@Hobu123 What douchebag aliens. How does giving one person an amazing eye opening ethereal experience count as the "first step". It literally accomplishes nothing.
@Hobu123 But that's stupid, because humanity doesn't know, just one person who will die and go down in history as a crazy person knows.
@Hobu123 So why even have the static then? Why not just let the camera work?
@Hobu123 I don't know man, I feel like you're making a bunch of assumptions. Not very scientific of you! Do you believe in god? Haha, jk.
But yeah, you're assuming "The machine could be used only once, as it required aliens to open the wormhole from their side too", but it doesn't say that anywhere in the movie. If it says that in the book that's great, but the movie doesn't. You're also assuming the camera didn't work as intended because of the wormhole, but in the scene where Ellie is talking to the alien, she says "But other people need to see what I've seen, they need to see-" but the alien is shaking its head and cuts her off by saying "This is the way it's been done for billions of years." The head shaking implies that its not going to let her bring any proof back.
And another thing, why would Ellie say "other people need to see what I've seen"? Why would she think that her camera isn't working at that point? Why wouldn't it still be working according to her? THen she gets back and is like "Whaaa? It's just static?" So which one is it? Did she think it was working or not?
It also feels like nothing was actually accomplished by having Ellie go through the portal aside from her own personal growth, which I get, it's a movie, but I wish the alien's motives made sense. The alien intentionally didn't let her bring any proof back. If she wasn't wearing a camera then the government wouldn't have even the static (which by the way doesn't even prove that Ellie went anywhere or saw aliens anyways, all it actually proves is time dilation, Ellie still could have been hallucinating). So if the plan was to have her bring back proof and it was the wormhole's fault that she couldn't, what was the alien's plan if she wasn't wearing a camera? How would she return to earth with literally no proof (government knowing or otherwise) and have that be the "first step for humanity in learning that they are not alone"? She actually would be considered a crazy person by even the government, so it wouldn't lead to mankind learning to live with not being alone in the universe. Which means we wouldn't be re-evaluating many aspects of our worldview. Therefore no "first step". It really doesn't make sense to me, it literally accomplishes nothing.
Maybe the aliens are like "it's not our fault if the rest of your species doesn't believe you" but again, that makes them douchebag aliens.
I like the movie a lot but I just think there are a lot of things that don't make sense. I'd love to be proved wrong though. I thought all this before this CinemaSins video btw.
@Hobu123 I wish we could talk in person about this, it's so hard to have a conversation about this via written word like we're doing.
I agree that it's likely she meant other people have to come through the wormhole too, and that's what she meant by that. That makes more sense.
In the end I guess they are just being douchebag gatekeeping aliens who don't care at all about ensuring humanity takes the first step towards learning as a species that we are not alone in the universe. If they did care, then they wouldn't have the "Not my problem your species doesn't believe you! No proof for you!" attitude. Their motives make no sense to me.
I guess humanity in the Contact universe is super lucky that they sent Ellie with a camera. If it wasn't for the camera (that the aliens didn't tell her to bring btw), it wouldn't have been humanities first step at all, because there wouldn't have been any proof at all, for the public or the government. And again, the static doesn't prove travel, it just proves time dilation.
the last time I was this early I was 9 working 5 illegal jobs
That shot of John Hurt "Wana take a ride?" Should be a huge meme. What a great shot haha
I’m dead” With out working five illegal jobs”😂😂 DAMN
Has anyone noticed Matthew is CLEARLY reading lines and not looking at Jodie's face in that Masters of Divinity speech at 1:33?? I haven't seen that level of "I am looking over your shoulder or down off screen and this camera angle makes it obvious" since I stopped watching SNL.
he's holding a cap, not a pair of underwear, but funny none-the-less
I hit play thinking, "If a sin isn't removed for 'wanna take a ride', I'm gonna be pissed," and you did not disappoint.
Trixie must have funded this episode
Criminally "under-liked" comment!!!!!
I will have you know, Sir, that We DID do live video in the 90s with Netscape. It just wasn't available to the general public as they didn't have the bandwidth to handle it. So there. :-)
Katya will NOT be happy about this.
The Eventide H3000 effects unit. Because when aliens contact us we want to apply some kick-ass reverb to the audio…
18:30 He KNOWS. They hid the fact that the recorder had hours of static in it. Look at his face, its not that they did not find out...its that they decided to keep it to themselves
The whole point of the hearing was to ridicule Ellie so that people in positions of power fluid remain there. Bassett is only saying this to tell Woods that she knows what he’s doing. Of course they wouldn’t provide evidence
I love the movie, the best first contact movie ever. It would be creepy though when Ellie met the alien and the alien used Hannibal as the image and says, "Hello Clarice".
It is a great film. CS guy can't write a Scooby-Doo film.
You better take sins off for that mirror shot...
Good man
That shot was awesome. Can't believe he sinned that scene.
Ray Dutton He didn't, he took a sin off for that shot.
When he tells her to prove she loved her father he is expressing that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Horrible and frustrating part of that was that she could have easily proven it by showing many solid examples of love. And then telling him that is the way she feels. Sometimes things don't match up for comparison. The existence of a single all powerful creator of all things and her love for her father are so far apart in significance it's ridiculous.
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That ain't proof of "love". That's proof of any one experience, but not scientific proof of love. Y'all need to catch up on your philosophy and metaphysics.
@mraims2plez
Also though, it's a point that displays the inability of empiricism to explain all of reality. Some real things simply don't have material evidences.
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So a god that doesn't exist in the material realm is not a reality.
Can you debate the existence of a rock? To do so would render you in the category of a ridiculous clown. Something so pertinent to the cosmos as the creator of all things who is omniscient omnipotent and omnipresent should be and would be beyond the debate of his mere mortal created beings.
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You just made an argument based on your own presupposition. You're begging the question.