26 years ago, my wife and I watched this movie together. It was our first date a few days after we met. This movie is science fiction, but at the same time it has such a romantic and full of emotion atmosphere ... our first kiss was during the section. Things that a great movie in traditional movie theater can provide. Great memories!
@@07kstephen I dont check timeline but I like scifimovies: 2001, 2010, Contact, Moon, Interstellar, Cargo(2009), Life(2017), Pandorum. All which could happen somewhere in the future. Moon is very good, and that music and that the one moment, I felt that tear dropping from my eye.
This film absolutely shat me up as a child. Turned on one day to this mid flow and the sound of the signal creeped me out. Even now, chills. Shows how well it was directed and performed.
Hahah. I first watched it when I was like, 15 or 16. My dad was watching it in the middle of the night and I wandered in and watched it with him. It was at the same time that I began falling in love with space - I watched the landing of InSight in November 2018 and I've been hooked since.
The movie was one of the best ever, but what amazes me the most was that beach scenary with all that wonderful colors of the cosmos, it was something I wish I was on that place forever
It's really not. I know it's cool on the internet to bag on Americans, but that line is really pretty cringey. Especially coming from someone high up in government who would be used to dealing with language barriers.
My earth science teacher in 10th grade made our class watch this movie. There was a bomb threat that day so we didn’t get to finish it but when I got home I ran to the video store to rent it on vhs and finished it. What an amazing movie.
i watched this on tv at 2 am when i was a lil, everyone was sleeping and the atmosphere was soo scary and mysterious. it turns out to be one of my favorite movies ever
I watched this when it came out in 97. Came home late one night. Someone had rented it and left it in the VCR. I had no idea what it was about. 10 minutes in and I was forgetting to blink i was so riveted. Read the book not long after. The book is the greatest novel ever written imo.
I distinctly remember seeing this trailer at the theater. I wish I could've actually seen it on the big screen. It's one of the most intelligent, character-driven, and all around brilliant films ever.
I remember it too and, as a scientist in training at the time, it got me hooked right away. I was the first in the line to see the movie. I remember seeing it on a weekday evening when the ticket was cheaper. The trailer does a great service to the actual film. I was fortunate enough to do see it in a very good theater with amazing sound system. Two scenes that I will never forget because of the amazing sound quality was the sound of the signal (the whole place vibrated!) and the scene where Ellie is about to board the pod. Unique experience!
Just finished watching that movie. I have only one word - BEST!!! BEST BEST BEST film i ever watched! Robert Zemeckis did great job. If you watch it you will not regret it!
@@thejamesbondshow9754 I would say the 7 greatest monumental sci fi movies of all time are (no particular order) : Blade Runner (1982) Contact (1997) Annihilation (2018) 2001 Space Odyssey (1968) The Matrix (1999) Alien (1979) An American Werewolf In London (1981) Star Wars (1977) Donnie Darko (2001) They each are the most revered of the sub-genres of sci fi.... I was tempted to put 1982's The Thing in there but Alien is a much more famous movie of the sci fi alien horror genre, also the art design on Alien is just a notch above The Thing ...
I truly don't understand why the reviews of this movie are mediocre. This movie is fantastic!! I've seen it like 4 times. The trailer alone makes my blood boil in anticipation .
An agree, it is a fantastic movie. It requires some thinking and emotional investment as well as phantasy from the viewer. That could be the reason that it wasn't the best blockbuster.
That signal noise has stayed with me since seeing it in 1997 on the big screen. Fabulous movie. And the entire thing is plausible too. I highly recommend watching it.
0:02 - love those ambient sounds. Reminds me of my local nature reserve where I like to run. I am leaving home in a couple weeks for university. Will miss those noises.
I stumbled across this book browsing in the book store, only picked it up because of Carl Sagan. What a great book, time to watch the movie. What impeccable timing that Mathew was on JRE recently as I am a fan of both of them. The universe seems to work in mysterious ways.
Carl Sagan, famous for the romance of science series 'Cosmos', wrote novel 'Contact'. While writing the novel, he asked theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne the question, ~ would be possible to build an interstellar transporter - Thorne went away and worked a 'solution' (details of which are in updated versions of the text 'Gravitation' by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler). Later Thorne became scientific advisor to Christopher Nolan' for the movie 'Interstellar'. Later Thorne got the nobel prize in physics, a boost in general for the physics community specializing in the study of gravity. So many connections between these two movies, and funny enough Matthew McConaughey is a 'star' (no pun intended) in both. 'Contact' on the big screen was a great, thoughtful watch.
Remember when I first watched in 1998 on HBO Brazil, and it was love at first sight this movie. Just rewatched today on HBO Max (despite have it in dvd and blu-ray: huge difference when you see in letterbox and in high definition). By the way, the intro showing the radio signals through the space is epic... and the sound of the Vega signal: my subwoofer jumped LOL
This is the definitive alien contact movie. Next up I would place "Arrival" by Denis Villeneuve. 99% of movies in the genre are: Aliens are coming to wreck us but a miracle happens and we defeat them.
This is one of the greatest films ever! It has humor - James Woods - We poor saps build it and out pours the entire Vegan Army. Touching moments - You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix, you’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares…😢 David Morse had me in tears 😭
I just go to see the trailer because in this Movie appears the big telescope of my island Puerto Rico and today its crash because of no maintenance and no federal funds for it. In 1997 was the biggest telescope in earth, so many memories of our childhood 😥
This is what Eastern Monks and Sages have been telling from ages that life is all about experience, you can't understand it unless you, yourself experience it. About the concept of the movie, the universe exists within you, not outside. It is not something you can touch or feel, it is something to experience. But now you may ask, we can see, feel, and touch everything we do is physical. Yes, everything is physical because we are physical. But if we go a little deeper in it, then we will find, 'The basis of everything physical is experience". Now the question is where do you experience everything? Within yourself. Where do you see everything? Within yourself. It means, you see, feel, touch, everything which you call the universe, but where you experience it, "Within yourself". So, the last question would be, "Where is the universe? Within yourself. That's it.
I remember watching this when it came out. It's one of those special movies that make you wonder what if, when it's all over. It's thought provoking and very memorable. My only concern is that it becomes a bit weird at the end, when he father turns up at the beach, but overall I adore this film it was years ahead of it's time. It still gives me a buzz watching it many years after its initial release.
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26 years ago, my wife and I watched this movie together. It was our first date a few days after we met. This movie is science fiction, but at the same time it has such a romantic and full of emotion atmosphere ... our first kiss was during the section. Things that a great movie in traditional movie theater can provide. Great memories!
When did she dump you for a big black dck?
Greetings to you both, I'm now watching it with a very dear friend
Are ya winning son 😁
I would have been too afraid of missing the movie with the 'side' attraction of an errant kiss!
@karamqusai did you win son ???
Before interstellar there was contact. A very underrated classic.
And before contact there was 2001 : A space odyssey
@@escapeplan2944 I was about to write that 🤣🤣🤣
Hey, any other suggestions guys?? Seeing as we share some interest??
@@07kstephen I dont check timeline but I like scifimovies: 2001, 2010, Contact, Moon, Interstellar, Cargo(2009), Life(2017), Pandorum. All which could happen somewhere in the future. Moon is very good, and that music and that the one moment, I felt that tear dropping from my eye.
AND IF one hadnt saw Moon, DONT look Moon trailer (it shows too much (just checked), just watch the movie and enjoy and feel the ... )
This film absolutely shat me up as a child. Turned on one day to this mid flow and the sound of the signal creeped me out. Even now, chills. Shows how well it was directed and performed.
Hahah. I first watched it when I was like, 15 or 16. My dad was watching it in the middle of the night and I wandered in and watched it with him. It was at the same time that I began falling in love with space - I watched the landing of InSight in November 2018 and I've been hooked since.
Signs did that with the bloody baby monitor alien signal noise when they were all in the car...
Lies again? Contact Grab USD SGD
finally someone else who thought the signal sounded creepy. it fr gave me nightmares as a kid
Dang, Katya was right. I do need to watch this.
Ahaah I'm here because of her
Dang, Joe rogan was right. I do need to watch this.
@@babamp4 Ahaah I'm here because of him
Yessss ikrrrr
Stephen Edward brought me here
This movie made me cry.
I feel like a child again everytime I watch it.
The movie was one of the best ever, but what amazes me the most was that beach scenary with all that wonderful colors of the cosmos, it was something I wish I was on that place forever
1:24 "Why don't they just speak english"
The most murrican quote ever ;D
It's really not. I know it's cool on the internet to bag on Americans, but that line is really pretty cringey. Especially coming from someone high up in government who would be used to dealing with language barriers.
Ikr... You shouldn't even ask that, that would be a meme for decades if it was irl...
@@vfvs11a have you met american politicians? ted cruz? lindsey graham? they pretty dumb
yeah, cringey like murricans
@@wuderbarvulpine6609 he was from Vega.
My earth science teacher in 10th grade made our class watch this movie. There was a bomb threat that day so we didn’t get to finish it but when I got home I ran to the video store to rent it on vhs and finished it. What an amazing movie.
Hmmm bomb threat message in a CR?
i watched this on tv at 2 am when i was a lil, everyone was sleeping and the atmosphere was soo scary and mysterious. it turns out to be one of my favorite movies ever
Same when I was young lmao search for it my whole life because I thought it was a dream. But I knew I wasnt crazy
"And I have finally lost Contact with reality. Katya."
I watched this when it came out in 97. Came home late one night. Someone had rented it and left it in the VCR. I had no idea what it was about. 10 minutes in and I was forgetting to blink i was so riveted. Read the book not long after. The book is the greatest novel ever written imo.
I loved ur story
I distinctly remember seeing this trailer at the theater. I wish I could've actually seen it on the big screen. It's one of the most intelligent, character-driven, and all around brilliant films ever.
I remember it too and, as a scientist in training at the time, it got me hooked right away. I was the first in the line to see the movie. I remember seeing it on a weekday evening when the ticket was cheaper. The trailer does a great service to the actual film. I was fortunate enough to do see it in a very good theater with amazing sound system. Two scenes that I will never forget because of the amazing sound quality was the sound of the signal (the whole place vibrated!) and the scene where Ellie is about to board the pod. Unique experience!
I saw it at the theatre.
Arrival is better than both 👀
Just finished watching that movie. I have only one word - BEST!!! BEST BEST BEST film i ever watched! Robert Zemeckis did great job. If you watch it you will not regret it!
I did watching this movie, went I was a kid, it's great, And also Robert Zemeckis is one of my favorite director too so much.
Where can I watch the movie?
Out of sooooo many films, I believe that this is THE best scifi film of all time. Seriously
Two words
STAR WARS
@@thejamesbondshow9754
I would say the 7 greatest monumental sci fi movies of all time are (no particular order) :
Blade Runner (1982)
Contact (1997)
Annihilation (2018)
2001 Space Odyssey (1968)
The Matrix (1999)
Alien (1979)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Star Wars (1977)
Donnie Darko (2001)
They each are the most revered of the sub-genres of sci fi.... I was tempted to put 1982's The Thing in there but Alien is a much more famous movie of the sci fi alien horror genre, also the art design on Alien is just a notch above The Thing ...
@@thejamesbondshow9754 Star Wars is more fantasy than SF.
And even though, it doesn't rank greatly as a fantasy object.
@@thejamesbondshow9754 No
Who's here for Katya from rpdr uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
drghaam hussain honeeeeeeey 😂😂😂
Ahahahahah the comment I'm looking for. But I still havent watch this movie yet (I'm more of a lite fun movies type of girl)
Honey, I just flipped over from a compilation video of UHNnnnn honeeeyyy 😂😂😂
~because what u see isn't always what u get~
honeeeeeeey
I will not Jodie Foster this kind of behavior
Bastiaan Kees omg haha
It looooks so boring! xD why does Katya love this so much??
i have nothing but time for that joke
@@pastelaine_art you just don’t have an attention span. Sadly this is something no one can fix. Maybe you can try growing one 🤷🏻♂️
THE AMMOUNT OF KATYA RELATED COMMENTS- BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
She’d an iconic queen
RIP to the days when Katya spoke about this movie 24/7
Who is Katya?
@@trishalmandrik1295 Rupauls drag race supserstar who created hit web series “UNHhhh” with Trixie Mattel
@@samezekiel9749 is this movie good to watch?
I'm soooooooo jealous of anyone who hasn't seen this movie yet. I wish that it was me seeing it for the first time again. Epic!!!!!!
I’m planning on watching it for the first time tonight! Excited after reading these positive reviews!
I never saw this. My Aquarian self will now!👁
Who doesn’t want a big booty?
Just watched this for the first time. OMG i freaking loved it, can't believe i havent seen this gem before.
I know that feeling. I actually just got the movie! Can’t wait to watch it.
Alan Silvestri's score makes me cry like a baby everytime I watch this movie. So touching and beautiful!
💯💯💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I listened to the whole thing while driving to the VLA in NM. Yes I cried a lot 😂
Just watched this earlier. Still one of the best film I've seen.
Yuh
katya is gonna make me watch this movie and I'm not even mad
I friggin love Contact, it was 25 years ago and still great and fresh
Not y'all also coming from UNNhhhh per Katya's recommendation, I-
I don't get the reference
I truly don't understand why the reviews of this movie are mediocre. This movie is fantastic!! I've seen it like 4 times. The trailer alone makes my blood boil in anticipation .
I know right, WTF?🤷♂️
different era. Now movies like this are more embraced.
An agree, it is a fantastic movie. It requires some thinking and emotional investment as well as phantasy from the viewer.
That could be the reason that it wasn't the best blockbuster.
Mediocre? It has a 7.5 on imdb thats pretty decent
I think because it contains many boring scenes.
That signal noise has stayed with me since seeing it in 1997 on the big screen. Fabulous movie. And the entire thing is plausible too. I highly recommend watching it.
Who’s here because of UNhhhhh and Katyas obsession
Never heard of it.
@@Inception1338it's apparently some trans RUclipsr's recommendation.
I watched this the other day. It’s still so good.
0:02 - love those ambient sounds. Reminds me of my local nature reserve where I like to run. I am leaving home in a couple weeks for university. Will miss those noises.
Written by my favorite scientist Carl Sagan, even thou it's a movie adaptation. 😍
Sagan died the year before the film came out. His widow, Ann Druyan, makes a cameo in it.
Have you read cosmos tho? I'm reading it rn and it's amazing. Truly a masterpiece
Wow I'm not here for Katya but now that i know it's her fav movie i'm definitely watching
His
An absolute beautiful story. My favorite movie of all time.
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Goosebumps! This movie still gives me that
How
Same here, bro.
I stumbled across this book browsing in the book store, only picked it up because of Carl Sagan. What a great book, time to watch the movie. What impeccable timing that Mathew was on JRE recently as I am a fan of both of them. The universe seems to work in mysterious ways.
I love how this is an old QuickTime video upscaled to 1080p.
This is probably the most faith strengthening sci-fi movie ever! Love it! ❤
I absolutely love this movie, I literally just finished watching it again, I forgot the trailer gave so much of the movie away
Where can I watch this movie?
@@pankajkhadke1518 you can stream it anywhere
Wow! Contact the movie of 1997! Can't believe it's been 23 years in 2020! Still look Fascinating! 🕯
Haa.. try 2022
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Carl Sagan, famous for the romance of science series 'Cosmos', wrote novel 'Contact'. While writing the novel, he asked theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne the question, ~ would be possible to build an interstellar transporter - Thorne went away and worked a 'solution' (details of which are in updated versions of the text 'Gravitation' by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler). Later Thorne became scientific advisor to Christopher Nolan' for the movie 'Interstellar'. Later Thorne got the nobel prize in physics, a boost in general for the physics community specializing in the study of gravity. So many connections between these two movies, and funny enough Matthew McConaughey is a 'star' (no pun intended) in both. 'Contact' on the big screen was a great, thoughtful watch.
Carl Sagan was an astrophysist too. So, they must cooperated. Maybe if Sagan didn't die, he would get the nobel prize with Thorne
One of my favourite science fiction movie of all time.
This movie is a masterpiece. 💯
Remember when I first watched in 1998 on HBO Brazil, and it was love at first sight this movie. Just rewatched today on HBO Max (despite have it in dvd and blu-ray: huge difference when you see in letterbox and in high definition).
By the way, the intro showing the radio signals through the space is epic... and the sound of the Vega signal: my subwoofer jumped LOL
This isn't far away from what I went thorough in my life, except that I experience it everyday since childhood
My absolute favorite sci-fi movie ever
Just watched this for the first time
Wow......Speechless
So good. So so good.
damn
samy is my hero
I literally never heard of this movie before, I am so looking forward to watching it. Tnx for the review.
oh hey sammy
Pause
Never knew about this film, only after joe rogan talking to Matthew mcconaughey about it.
wtf, same here
Same lol
its interesting that he starred in interstaller which is another fantastic space sci-fi movie.
One of the best scifi classic
This is the definitive alien contact movie. Next up I would place "Arrival" by Denis Villeneuve. 99% of movies in the genre are: Aliens are coming to wreck us but a miracle happens and we defeat them.
I love this movie, and for me , the movie's intro is the best of all i have watched.
This is the best alien 1st contact movie ever. I have watched every single one of them and this is by far better
I’m literally here because Katya is a queen & she said we NEED to watch this.
This movie is the ancestor of Arrival & Interstellar, greatest sci friction movie ever
I feel like it paved the way for films like that. When I was growing up, people hated on Contact. lol. Hated that we didn't see stereotypical aliens.
Here after watching JRE
This is one of the greatest films ever!
It has humor - James Woods - We poor saps build it and out pours the entire Vegan Army.
Touching moments - You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix, you’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares…😢
David Morse had me in tears 😭
Criminally underrated film in 3, 2, 1...
Amazing trailers DO exist in the 90s!
Anyone here after Arecibo collapse? Sad day.
My personal favorite movie of all time.
I haven't watched this since I was like 10 years old. It's great
Amo esta película. Extraordinaria!!!
I just go to see the trailer because in this Movie appears the big telescope of my island Puerto Rico and today its crash because of no maintenance and no federal funds for it. In 1997 was the biggest telescope in earth, so many memories of our childhood 😥
One of my all-time favorites since I was a kid.
BGM is really catchy...just as if we have really recieving such signals...ordered book now...will be reading this in few days.
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and I had no idea what the movie was and even the ending
This trailer gives away like... 90% of this movie. Goddamit 1997
Yeahhh no it doesn’t….
That still makes my hair stand STRAIGHT UP on my arm when I hear the alien broadcast.
Why is this film so underrated
Man, that ending.
I’m currently reading the book. God i hope the movie does it justice
And the intro to the movie? Damn! Gives me the chills to this day!
This is what Eastern Monks and Sages have been telling from ages that life is all about experience, you can't understand it unless you, yourself experience it. About the concept of the movie, the universe exists within you, not outside. It is not something you can touch or feel, it is something to experience.
But now you may ask, we can see, feel, and touch everything we do is physical. Yes, everything is physical because we are physical. But if we go a little deeper in it, then we will find, 'The basis of everything physical is experience". Now the question is where do you experience everything? Within yourself. Where do you see everything? Within yourself. It means, you see, feel, touch, everything which you call the universe, but where you experience it, "Within yourself". So, the last question would be, "Where is the universe? Within yourself. That's it.
🙂
Need to watch this. Anyone read The Sparrow? Really want that as a film but some parts of it would really hard to show in a movie theatre..
Beautiful movie. I absolutely love the "contact" on the planet. A must watch !!
I remember watching this when it came out.
It's one of those special movies that make you wonder what if, when it's all over. It's thought provoking and very memorable. My only concern is that it becomes a bit weird at the end, when he father turns up at the beach, but overall I adore this film it was years ahead of it's time. It still gives me a buzz watching it many years after its initial release.
Watched it coming back from America in 1999...Excellent movie
Jodie Foster starred in a lot of great movie classics.
So ahead of its time it’s still relevant in 2024. Jody Foster is a national treasure.
A soul on fire most beautiful and most enigmatic thing in the universe
Love this movie. And the book. And the author.
RIP Arecibo Observatory :(
I love the sound of the thing throughout the whole trailer
I CANT BELIEVE I NEVER WATCHED THIS, I LOVED IT SO FREAKING MUCH
OK so I'm here because of yekatrina Petrovna zamolodjikova this is absolutely not what I expected!!! /
I just love this movie so much.
I just finished reading the book and came on youtube to hear reviews. I had no idea it was a movie.
so many good 90's actors.
Back when movies were beautiful
watched this as a child, watched it again after don't look up, so many common themes, also with interstellar.
Should have watched this before interstellar
and why is that?i watched interstellar and now im thinking of this what do u think?
I'm here because of the jre
Just watched it bc of Joe, great movie!
My dad loved this movie apparently. I haven’t watched it yet.
Who's here after the Starliner pulse?
Me!
I remember my parents coming back from the theater deeply moved. They took us kids the following weekend. We loved it.
Before 3 Body Problem, there was Contact. A very underrated classic.
Anyone here after the Boeing Astronauts heard a strange signal?
THE Sci Fi movie of the 90's.
One of the best movies ever. Thanks Carl Sagan.
Just the music take u to another world . One of my best favorit movie