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  • @VerowakReacts
    @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +22

    Another sci-fi movie!!! 🤩🤩Do you think that there is life somewhere else in the universe?
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    • @davidward9737
      @davidward9737 6 місяців тому +8

      Absolutely, we would be arrogant to think that there isnt life out there in the galaxy among 10 billion trillion planets. Look at how much different life there is on earth. Between humans other mammals, fish, animals and birds

    • @crisdekker8223
      @crisdekker8223 6 місяців тому +7

      Be an awful waste of space if there weren't😀

    • @DrewAnti1960
      @DrewAnti1960 6 місяців тому +5

      Yes and they think they have seen seven different stars with Dyson Spheres around them. I heard some scientists talking about it. They’re not sure but what if it were true? Awesome ❤

    • @Stogie2112
      @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +2

      Is there Life elsewhere in the Universe?
      The best, most honest answer we can give is, "We don't know."
      We have no way of knowing if there is or isn't Life elsewhere. We simply don't have enough information.
      All we can do is speculate and give our opinions. We have no facts.
      Do I believe that Life exists elsewhere in the Universe? Yes, but we may never discover it. The Universe is Vast to the Nth degree!

    • @rexwilliams7643
      @rexwilliams7643 6 місяців тому +2

      The shear size of just the known Universe means the probability is high but it also that size means we are unlikely to ever find out.

  • @555smo
    @555smo 6 місяців тому +61

    My dad was in this movie. He plays one of the many faceless spectators in the courtroom at the end. RIP pops ❤

    • @PlagueXKill3R
      @PlagueXKill3R 6 місяців тому +6

      Very coool! RIP ❤❤

    • @cookiemonster2299
      @cookiemonster2299 3 місяці тому +2

      That's cool, one of my favourite films ❤️🇬🇧

    • @1BrknHrtdRomeo
      @1BrknHrtdRomeo 2 місяці тому +2

      My condolences =( Give my thanks to your pops

  • @LukeLovesRose
    @LukeLovesRose 6 місяців тому +109

    Contact is a great and underrated sci-fi classic, and more proof that the 1990s is one of the greatest decades in film history

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +12

      I do really love the 90s movies that I've seen! Makes me excited to see more

    • @danzthename
      @danzthename 6 місяців тому +8

      that's for dang sure

    • @曾志海-c4z
      @曾志海-c4z 6 місяців тому +4

      Totally agree.

    • @ReinersBlauerHoden
      @ReinersBlauerHoden 6 місяців тому

      Its great until it turns to this absolute trash with her father

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 6 місяців тому

      @@ReinersBlauerHoden The ending is a little anticlimactic. But that makes it unique. It could be worse. It could be like the ending to Mission to Mars

  • @NoOne-so7jt
    @NoOne-so7jt 6 місяців тому +14

    43:40 Don't forget Ellie's retort: "Funny, I've always believed the world is what we make of it." In other words, the world doesn't have to be that way if we strive to behave morally, instead of being Machiavellian like Drumlin.

    • @gnericgnome4214
      @gnericgnome4214 3 місяці тому +1

      Ellie's retort is almost a maxim of science fiction fandom; in "Fallen Angels", one of the main characters asserts that the future is something you _build_ .
      I was going to chastise you for invoking Machiavellian, because most people, having never read his writing, just attribute it to "dishonest and evil"... but I think you used it correctly, here. Machiavelli was a pragmatist, I think; in "The Prince" he was explaining to a potential employer how politics in the real world works. He wasn't endorsing it. Another reference would be like in "Back to School" when Rodney Dangerfield, a self-made millionaire, is taking business class, and he "corrects" the teacher on how setting up a business works in the real world, versus the idealized version the teacher was describing.
      Drumlin's behavior might have been unethical, but I don't really see where it's immoral.

  • @januskaminsky5399
    @januskaminsky5399 6 місяців тому +20

    Glad to have been a part of making this movie. It's well directed and enjoyed contributing to the visual effects part. I was entrusted with the "Pensacola in space" scene at the end not telling my boss that I'm partially color blind. When he found out he almost tore all his hair out but it was too late, the stock has already gone to lab and we were on a tight deadline...I laugh my ass off every time I watch that scene....

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for sharing that! That must feel pretty awesome seeing your work in a movie like that. Always best to ask for forgiveness than permission! Have you done some of the visual effects in other movies?

    • @januskaminsky5399
      @januskaminsky5399 6 місяців тому +7

      @@VerowakReacts Yes, of course, Spiderman, Matrix Revolutions, Lord of the Rings: Two towers, Stealth, Aeon Flux, Bad Boys 2, The Ghost and the Darkness and many more. I was in that business between 1996 and 2005

    • @BradSimsCPT
      @BradSimsCPT 6 місяців тому +5

      Januz Kaminski historically has worked with Steven Spielberg on most of his movies. Safe to say he's done some serious work!❤ Thank you Sir​@@VerowakReacts

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +3

      @@januskaminsky5399 It's time for me to look at what you've worked on and check out the movies that I haven't seen!!

    • @CallOfCutie69
      @CallOfCutie69 2 місяці тому

      @@januskaminsky5399 So, over saturated colors are not artistic decision, to hint the viewer and the protagonist diegetically that it’s not real, and aliens reconstructed it, but because you were partially color blind?

  • @scoot-f5y
    @scoot-f5y 6 місяців тому +134

    Damn! If you've never seen Jodie Foster in a movie, then you HAVE to watch 'Silence Of The Lambs', starring her and Anthony Hopkins. One of the greatest suspense movies of all time.

    • @watts18269
      @watts18269 6 місяців тому +12

      Hard AGREE!

    • @Stogie2112
      @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +10

      "The Accused" (1988) with Kelly McGillis. Foster won four awards for Best Actress, including the Oscar.

    • @windsorkid7069
      @windsorkid7069 6 місяців тому +8

      Panic room. Another good one.

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 6 місяців тому +7

      Maybe risk "Taxi Driver"?

    • @scoot-f5y
      @scoot-f5y 6 місяців тому +3

      @@jamesalexander5623 Also a very good one. Then again, I can't really think of any movies she's done that she hasn't passed all expectations. Even in movies where she only has a very limited bit part, such as in the movie 'The Inside Man', she shines.

  • @andrewcorlett5954
    @andrewcorlett5954 6 місяців тому +62

    Forrest Gump, 12 Angry Men, Sixth Sense and now Contact. Verowak has been on a tear of late with some excellent movies.

  • @mikedignum1868
    @mikedignum1868 2 місяці тому +4

    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying” - Arthur C. Clarke

  • @TallBob1962
    @TallBob1962 6 місяців тому +63

    When little Ellie talked to the priest she was not blaming herself. She was looking to science as an explanation as rejection of the priest's supernatural explanation.

    • @zammmerjammer
      @zammmerjammer 6 місяців тому +7

      Which ultimately means she was blaming herself. She should have kept a bottle of medicine in the downstairs bathroom -- that's why her father died. Not because of fate or God. Because she didn't get the medicine fast enough.

    • @Stogie2112
      @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +9

      @@zammmerjammer ... Being a child, she couldn't help but blame herself to some degree. If she had brought him the medicine faster, he may have lived or he may have died anyway.
      The important part of that scene was that Ellie dismissed the priest's explanation, as it was not based on facts and logic. The look she gave the priest was great. Her face said, "Get your superstitions away from me."

    • @ChrisCTurner10
      @ChrisCTurner10 6 місяців тому +3

      @@Stogie2112From my experience adults blame themselves in these situations at least as much as children- probably more so. It is a way to feel some control when there is none.

    • @BradSimsCPT
      @BradSimsCPT 6 місяців тому

      Yes,and I love that there's layers to her reaction.

  • @tc71
    @tc71 6 місяців тому +36

    Her disgust with Drumlin was funny to watch. 😄

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +16

      I love dislikable characters in movies, but they make me so mad! 🤣

    • @BonniBarlow-fn6oj
      @BonniBarlow-fn6oj 6 місяців тому +4

      She wanted him to die - I thought, just wait.

  • @kinokind293
    @kinokind293 6 місяців тому +35

    Some actors should keep away from aliens altogether. Drumlin is Tom Skerritt, who was the spaceship captain in "Alien", and John Hurt, who plays H. R. Haddon, was the first to die in "Alien".

    • @Stogie2112
      @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +6

      John Hurt was the last to die in "Spaceballs". 😉

    • @sntxrrr
      @sntxrrr 6 місяців тому +1

      We should have put them in more movies with aliens, they'd bound to have been good ones.

  • @Pixelologist
    @Pixelologist 6 місяців тому +16

    Dr. Carl Sagan was heavily involved in this production but sadly passed away approximately six months before the film was released.

  • @DanielRichards644
    @DanielRichards644 3 місяці тому +1

    3:27 RIP Arecibo, the dish suffered catastrophic damage a few years back and is not getting repaired, it was also featured in another Alien movie with Charlie Sheen called The Arrival (not to be confused with "Arrival" the 2016 Amy Adams movie).

    • @theapocalex
      @theapocalex Місяць тому +1

      Also in the season 2 premier of the x files

  • @dumy187
    @dumy187 6 місяців тому +28

    The "waste of space" thing is a Carl Sagan quote.

    • @jackcade68
      @jackcade68 Місяць тому

      He wrote the book that the movie was based on

  • @cshubs
    @cshubs 6 місяців тому +10

    I live in NM and have visited the Very Large Array a couple times, once during the 2012 eclipse. It's a wonderful place in the middle of nowhere, 3 hours from Abq. I recommend a visit if you can. Each dish is the size of a pro baseball infield.
    We got a tour of the control room, which about 1/4 the size of the one in the movie. There's a signed photo of Jodie Foster.

  • @charleshartley9597
    @charleshartley9597 6 місяців тому +16

    As a lifelong scifi nerd, the wonder and hope in this story makes me cry every damn time. There are plenty of scifi movies that show humanity coming together because of an alien threat. This story takes the more awe-filled perspective and is so beautiful for it.
    Also, Corridor Crew has an episode where they go through how they did the mirror scene Vero! Check it out 😁

    • @seanmcmurphy4744
      @seanmcmurphy4744 6 місяців тому

      Same! Alien contact stories are a barometer of how we feel about the Other. The earlier shows from the 1960s - 80s, _E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001, Contact, Starman, Star Trek: the Original Series, Cocoon_ portrayed contact with aliens as a wonderful adventure, promising advancement for the human race. These were from a time when America was more confident, optimistic, idealistic, adventurous, humanitarian. Today America is meaner, more self centered, scared, tribal, racist, and nativist. Current alien SF shows reflect these attitudes: _Independence Day, Aliens, Predator, Annihilation, Oblivion, Star Trek: Discovery_ , Signs, Starship Troopers.

    • @Embur12
      @Embur12 6 місяців тому

      Arrival, and The Abyss the aliens were helpful. America was healing the racial divide until the most decisive President in our lifetime split the nation. The year was 2009, and Hussien Obama told us colonialism was all that set us apart from the rest of the world, that and a lot of of leftist /communist tripe. Obamas third term is a cess pool of high crime, inflation,, and turmoil caused by a wide open southern border. If Nationalist pride means shutting the border, no more funding for new wars in Europe, law and order, energy independence, and an end to runaway spending and inflation... sign me up!

  • @rijlqanturis625
    @rijlqanturis625 6 місяців тому +59

    Goddamn, "For Carl" always makes me tear up. Love this movie.

    • @chanceneck8072
      @chanceneck8072 6 місяців тому +2

      Carl Sagan.

    • @fakereality96
      @fakereality96 6 місяців тому +1

      @@chanceneck8072 Carl's Jr. 🌟

    • @chanceneck8072
      @chanceneck8072 6 місяців тому

      @@fakereality96 Idk what that means.

    • @mikekay3313
      @mikekay3313 6 місяців тому +6

      When I was growing up I watched/listened to his narration of "The Cosmos" series. I was LOCKED In and in awe at 9 years old grasping how huge and amazing the universe really is. 100% it shaped my future. Carl was a gift to our planet and species.

    • @MatthewPettyST1300
      @MatthewPettyST1300 6 місяців тому +3

      @@mikekay3313 If a science guy, late teens can have an Idol to be proud of,.......it would be him. I'm now 69 !

  • @mikefox6172
    @mikefox6172 6 місяців тому +13

    "Funny, I always thought that the world is what we make of it."
    Amen.

  • @MagusNotre
    @MagusNotre 6 місяців тому +5

    What was cool about this movie, was that Carl was pretty much on his death bed after this movie was made, and before he passed, he got to see it in a closed setting, and he appreciated how it was directed. very good movie.

  • @Stogie2112
    @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +51

    The main theme of Carl Sagan's novel, "Contact", was the conflict between scientific inquiry and religious belief. Ellie built her life on "knowing" things rather than "believing in" things. One of Sagan's goals in his too short life was to teach us all that we MUST base our understanding of Life, the Universe and Everything on what we KNOW and not on what we believe.

    • @bobbolondz2701
      @bobbolondz2701 6 місяців тому +1

      Sounds like scientism.

    • @jeffmansfield914
      @jeffmansfield914 6 місяців тому +10

      But oddly, the movie kinda does the opposite. Ellie didn’t believe in God like Palmer did because he could provide no “proof”… only his personal experience and belief.
      Once Ellie went on her journey, nobody believed her because she could offer no “proof” other than her personal experience and belief that it was real.
      If we are frustrated that other characters don’t believe Ellie’s story without concrete evidence, we should be open to believing Palmer’s.
      To me, the movie makes a decent case for faith.

    • @NZBigfoot
      @NZBigfoot 6 місяців тому +6

      @@jeffmansfield914 I like to quote Babylon 5 on this sort of thing, as one character says "Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one"... and given Babylon 5 was written pretty much all by one guy whos an atheist but with a respect to the concept of religion, and as an agnostic myself... each side offers a person something different, it just goes bad when either side thinks the other is irrelevant (especially when at their core they dont step on each others toes at all).
      Theres so much we dont know, and we wont know until we eventually know it... fighting just slows down getting to the knowing. Carl Sagan was also an Agnostic from what i gather and the movie to me at least sits that middle ground until the 'reveal' at the end.

    • @mattrismatt
      @mattrismatt 6 місяців тому +1

      @@NZBigfoot The thing is, if you wait until the 'reveal' at the end, it might be too late.

    • @neil2444
      @neil2444 6 місяців тому +3

      @@NZBigfoot Well put. To say Carl Sagan was against religion would be like saying Albert Einstein was against religion, and he was famously known for saying that god does not play dice with the universe. I think the truth is that science doesn't consider nor attempt to disprove the existence of god. It means you can be a scientist and a believer, so long as you're not deriving conclusions on the basis of belief.

  • @miller-joel
    @miller-joel 6 місяців тому +8

    41:26 The sparkling dirt is the same pattern seen on the popcorn on the floor when her father dies, the poster on her wall at Arecibo, the star system when she goes through the wormhole.

    • @pistonburner6448
      @pistonburner6448 6 місяців тому +1

      She doesn't see clearly because she loses a contact lens at some point before she wakes up and sees her father/the alien. That's why the film's name is "Contact".

    • @miller-joel
      @miller-joel 6 місяців тому +1

      @@pistonburner6448 Spoilers!!!

    • @ronbeck201
      @ronbeck201 6 місяців тому

      That shape looks like the constellation Corona Borealis, never figured out the meaning of it. Wonder if it is in the book.

    • @miller-joel
      @miller-joel 6 місяців тому +1

      @@ronbeck201 The repeating pattern is there to suggest a higher intelligence or design at work, which is funny considering Sagan was an atheist. In the book, he does it by finding a pattern in the number Pi.

  • @samuelbutterworth4303
    @samuelbutterworth4303 6 місяців тому +13

    Similar to the opening sequence of the movie, Carl Sagan did some PBS specials, in one he started a camera a meter above a couple on a picnic, then kept pulling away different distances until he was at the end of the universe. Then went into one of the people going down to the sub-atomic level. Showing the huge range of everything in the universe.

    • @charlie.on.youtube
      @charlie.on.youtube 24 дні тому

      I believe you're talking about "Powers of Ten" and released in 1977. It was by Charles and Ray Eames, not Carl Sagan.

  • @TheYakusoku
    @TheYakusoku 6 місяців тому +5

    23:00 - There's a saying that "Some people prefer a comforting lie over an uncomfortable truth."

  • @woeshaling6421
    @woeshaling6421 6 місяців тому +13

    i've watched this on repeat for a long time. The opening radio scene stayed with me to this day

    • @gnericgnome4214
      @gnericgnome4214 3 місяці тому

      This film is linked inextricably, and unbearably painfully in my mind with the movie "Frequency".
      (there's a movie she should watch!). Even though the stories are massively different, some of the themes are parallel.

  • @cjmacq-vg8um
    @cjmacq-vg8um 6 місяців тому +3

    "contact" is so good i added the dvd to my dvd collection. and i have films from every year from 1896 to 2007. my only criticisms of the film would be her little space excursion is way too short and the film has 3 false endings. i think that's gotta be some kind of record. thanks for the video smiley.

    • @cjmacq-vg8um
      @cjmacq-vg8um 6 місяців тому

      i can suggest many excellent sci-fi films. don't put too much faith in silly on-line polls. some people just have horrible taste. "colossus: the forbin project" (1970) is a perfect example of sci-fi predicting the dystopian future in which we now find ourselves. check it out. its EXCELLENT!

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому

      I'm amazed that you have films from every year from 1896 to 2007, that's very impressive! Do you have a favourite decade for movies?

    • @cjmacq-vg8um
      @cjmacq-vg8um 6 місяців тому +2

      @@VerowakReacts ... i have more films from 1939 and 1967 than any other single years. so i guess the 30s and the 60s would be my favorite decades for film.
      hitchcock, spielberg, capra and ford are the directors, in order, of whom i have the most films. bogart is the actor of whom i have the most films and jimmy stewart is a close 2nd.
      i try to promote older films as much as i can. sadly silent films are never viewed by reactors and there's some GREAT, absolutely remarkable silent films out there. some are EPICS and some are "small," charming films.
      all my dvds from 1896 to about 1912 are from one film maker named georges méliès. i have his complete works. his films range in length from 10 to 30 minutes. he created some fantastic special effects techniques still used today.
      sorry for the length of my reply.

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому

      @@cjmacq-vg8um Some movies are also hard to come by, and usually buying a dvd of every movie isn't feasible for reactors. The older movies that I have seen have mostly been really enjoyable! No need to be sorry at all, I love seeing people be passionate about something!

  • @CribNotes
    @CribNotes 5 місяців тому +2

    I only found out recently the recurring letter C shape in the popcorn spilled on the floor, in Ellie's hand full of dirt at the end, etc....is a tribute to Carl.

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  5 місяців тому

      Oh that's a subtle but very nice tribute!

  • @carm3d
    @carm3d 6 місяців тому +5

    If you watch this again, look for a symbol that keeps appearing throughout the film. A crescent-shaped constellation. It was in the spilled popcorn when her father collapsed.
    At the very start when the camera pulls out of young Ellie's eye, you can see a reflection of the machine in her eye, minus the rings.
    When Ellie first got the signal and was rushing into the building, there was a hidden cut, splitting two different takes at two different locations. They used video morphing to make it pretty seamless.
    In the space pull-out intro sequence, look closely at Mars, the famous Mars "face" structure is visible.

    • @rickharms1
      @rickharms1 6 місяців тому

      The movie does not do justice to the book. Originally there were six people on the trip. Having only one person justifies people’s skepticism.

  • @Stogie2112
    @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +32

    "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
    -- Douglas Adams

    • @gnericgnome4214
      @gnericgnome4214 3 місяці тому

      I was listening to HHGTTG at work last night...

  • @havok6280
    @havok6280 6 місяців тому +13

    It's between this and Silence of the Lambs for my favorite Jodi Foster film.

  • @t0dd000
    @t0dd000 6 місяців тому +13

    "It'd be an awful waste of space."
    That's a famous phrase coined and popularized by Carl Sagan, the author.

  • @cshubs
    @cshubs 6 місяців тому +16

    When you think about it, this is another version of, "If you build, he will come."

    • @dallesamllhals9161
      @dallesamllhals9161 6 місяців тому

      Baseball. really? You 'muricans 😛

    • @Stogie2112
      @Stogie2112 6 місяців тому +4

      @@dallesamllhals9161 ... Not baseball. The main character dealing with his/her past and missing Dad.

  • @Browncoat66
    @Browncoat66 6 місяців тому +10

    One of the flight controllers in this film was Gerry Griffen a real life Flight Controller from the Apollo project at NASA..

  • @1979video
    @1979video 6 місяців тому +7

    One of my all time favorite movies. It also has one of the most amazing camera shots of all time. AKA the mirror shot.

    • @token1371
      @token1371 6 місяців тому +2

      At that time that fantastic shot had never been filmed.

  • @dorivalcamargojr2953
    @dorivalcamargojr2953 6 місяців тому +4

    SETI project really existed. I would say it was the first form of cloud computing, as anyone could join and allow them to use your PC capabilities to process signals received by radiotelescops around the world.

  • @matthewmarcinko9157
    @matthewmarcinko9157 6 місяців тому +4

    This is my favorite of all Jodie Foster's films. I can't get through the ending without crying my eyes out. Thank you for reacting to this, Ms. Verowak...

  • @bluegizmo1983
    @bluegizmo1983 6 місяців тому +1

    3:27 Not anymore! That radio telescope (Arecibo) was destroyed in December 2020 when the overhead part collapsed due to a lack of maintenance and repairs. It will not be rebuilt.

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 6 місяців тому +2

    7:14 This film came out when I was in film school and we studied this scene.

  • @dedcowbowee
    @dedcowbowee 6 місяців тому +2

    I read this book after buying for my late mother when she was recovering from a serous back surgery. After she was done with it of course. I took her to the theater when this came out, we both thought They did a great job making the movie and your reaction has been excellent!

  • @OldMan_PJ
    @OldMan_PJ 6 місяців тому +4

    Favorite Jodie Foster movie hands down is "Panic Room" (2002), she stars alongside an 11 year old Kristen Stewart. Hopefully it will be getting a 4K release in the next 12 months, it's been rumored for so long.

  • @BennyHarveyBigMan
    @BennyHarveyBigMan 3 місяці тому

    7:18 so glad you pointed out how amazing that shot was. So easily goes unappreciated.

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  3 місяці тому +1

      I loved being amazed at what people come up with in terms of cinematography

    • @BennyHarveyBigMan
      @BennyHarveyBigMan 3 місяці тому +1

      @@VerowakReacts Then you simply must watch the Haunting of Hill House, which has an episode with a 20 minute long single take which moves around sets and changes cast.
      And Atonement, which has a 3 minute long take with thousands of extras and moving parts.
      You won't regret either!

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  3 місяці тому +1

      @@BennyHarveyBigMan Those sound amazing! 🤩

  • @FlightCAL
    @FlightCAL 3 дні тому

    13:16 in the audio commentary on the DVD Jodie Foster said she always had the urge to respond “Ghostbusters!” to the question “Who are we gonna call now?”

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 5 місяців тому

    18:44 _This_ is why, even though they tried millions of permutations, they could never get more than three of them to fit. They were trying to make it work in _two_ dimensions and it was designed to work in _three._ _That's_ why no more than three of them fit. If you're working in three dimensions, three is all you _need_ to fit.

  • @doctaflo
    @doctaflo 6 місяців тому +2

    28:45 - “it also makes sense that they have hexagons cuz they’re the bestagons” ~some CGP fan

  • @herbertkeithmiller
    @herbertkeithmiller 4 місяці тому +1

    A wormhole opens into a point in space-time. You can with super advanced technology select the the spatial coordinates and the time coordinates. The return wormhole was simply set to return her to a point in space and time a moment after she left.

  • @flippert0
    @flippert0 6 місяців тому +3

    22:07 you are not wrong about "Forrest Gump". Composer for Contact is Alan Silvestri and he created the OST for "Forrest Gump" as well (and for many more movies)

  • @Realcriticondemand
    @Realcriticondemand 2 місяці тому +2

    Hi! Contact is my favorite film, period. Love your reactions and here is a new subscriber from Guatemala. 🤗😇🙌🏼

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  2 місяці тому

      Welcome!! I'm glad that I watched your favourite film!! It's a great one!!!

  • @dabe1971
    @dabe1971 6 місяців тому +3

    7:31 Love waiting for the mirror shot reaction every time !

  • @The1Music2MyEars
    @The1Music2MyEars 6 місяців тому

    27:07 this is why score is sooo important in movies. The score here gives off a sense of wonderment and a hint of cosmic horror as she is both joyful for hope not being lost but scared since she knows she has to take the trip herself after previous incidents and into another reality.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 5 місяців тому

    30:03 Oh. There's nothing hexagonal about that shape. That's one of the five platonic solids called the dodecahedron because it has 12 faces.

  • @alalcoolj216
    @alalcoolj216 6 місяців тому +1

    A cool extra bit of detail on that mirror shot is that the set with the stairway was built twice - mirror images of each other (why have one set when you can have two at twice the cost). They used the mirror-image reversed version for the mirror shot, so that everything in the mirror is correctly backwards from how it is seen at other times.

  • @jt-ph1ox
    @jt-ph1ox 6 місяців тому

    Hey Verowak. This is the first time seeing a reaction from you........Well done. U r the first person I've seen to make the connection between Robert Zemekis and Alan Silvestri. I started my love and interest in movie soundtracks when I saw Romancing the Stone in 1984. To keep a long story short, I talked twice on the phone with Alan because of that movie. It turns out we are the same age. He was very generous and told me that his next project soon to be released was a movie called Back to the Future. He went into the studio and made a tape for me along with a note. I cherish it to this day. He went on to have a brilliant career. I love the guy's music. Thanks for making that connection. Bravo!

  • @InfoRanker
    @InfoRanker 5 місяців тому +2

    Brilliant movie, written by one of my favorite people of all time. Carl Sagan

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  5 місяців тому

      I sadly haven't read or seen much that Carl Sagan has done. I'll have to fix that

  • @canadianicedragon2412
    @canadianicedragon2412 6 місяців тому +2

    "This is a risk, the occupant could die?"
    Do you know how many people "almost" dying to reach the moon? Even on Earth.
    This movie is... very surreal in the best ways.

  • @larrybremer4930
    @larrybremer4930 6 місяців тому +3

    I cannot imagine any actress other than Jodie Foster being able to pull this role off, especially the senate testimony part. Some world class acting on display there.

    • @pistonburner6448
      @pistonburner6448 6 місяців тому

      It seems Jodie is a terrible mother: all her children are in Foster care.

  • @danmcdonald3723
    @danmcdonald3723 6 місяців тому

    You just barely miss the scene in this edited reaction, but just before the shot shown in this video at 34:18 if you look closely, the movie seems to show Ellie lying in a reclined position and she looks like she's seeing the aliens around her, and the look in her eye is terror, or overwhelmed bewilderment. You have to look really carefully because it's only on-screen for a quick moment, but it seems to say so much about her and the story. All her life she's been looking for aliens, and feels like she's prepared for it, and here she is, IN THE ROOM with actual aliens, and her brain is melting down. It also kind of syncs up with the alien telling her "We thought this would make things easier for you." They probably get a lot of completely blitzed creatures popping up at Grand Central Station, what they call her destination in the book. (Loved your reaction!!)

  • @BonniBarlow-fn6oj
    @BonniBarlow-fn6oj 6 місяців тому +1

    There's a behind the scenes video - or it may be commentary on a separate track of the movie with Jodie talking about how they did many of those scenes - the one where she's running into the office with that long shot was filmed in several different locations. The real "contact" happened at the end with Ellie and Joss touching each other's hands in the limo.

  • @sisterdebmac
    @sisterdebmac 6 місяців тому +1

    You just watched my favorite Jodie Foster movie. And I grew up on her. She's 2 years older than me and was always on my TV. She's done a lot of great stuff. Others will give you suggestions. This one perfectly captures her intelligence and her acting chops. And she's beautiful in it too. No wigs, no accents, no gimmicks at all. Just a fierce, driven woman playing a fierce, driven woman. It's one of my all time favorite movies, period.

  • @jamesalexander5623
    @jamesalexander5623 6 місяців тому

    I've been to the VLA. I ran into it by accident driving from New Mexico back to Arizona! You can actually tour it and see where they filmed!

  • @ThistleAndSea
    @ThistleAndSea 6 місяців тому +1

    Love this one. Thanks for sharing it, Verowak. 🙂

  • @manic6030
    @manic6030 6 місяців тому +3

    Masterpiece! (the movie, the music and your reaction!)

  • @fortunatus1
    @fortunatus1 6 місяців тому +6

    There is one hole in addition to the static in the idea that the trip is all in Ellie's mind. She was strapped into the seat when the capsule fell and the seat was smashed to pieces in what they believe was a split second fall - massive gravitational effect. Could she have gotten out of the seat in that time when the camera blinked out and the capsule was released? Seems unlikely. Should they have detected such a massive gravitational effect?

  • @colinafobe2152
    @colinafobe2152 6 місяців тому +1

    absolutely adore this film. kudos to Jodie Foster and Tom Skerritt for brilliant acting

  • @BradSimsCPT
    @BradSimsCPT 6 місяців тому +2

    I'm amazed at how the CGI in this held up over the years..I consider the quality above average, if not outstanding ❤ also my favorite opening of any movie ever..the sheer scale of seeing galaxies upon galaxies is mind blowing!

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +1

      The opening is just beautiful! I love space and the universe so I'm perhaps biased

  • @ChrisCTurner10
    @ChrisCTurner10 6 місяців тому +1

    26:19 bless your little Canadian heart

  • @t0dd000
    @t0dd000 6 місяців тому +2

    The scene where young Eleanor (Jena Malone-man, she was good in this) races to get the medicine is a really famous cinematography shot. There's a great UA-cam video on how they did it.

  • @devins5134
    @devins5134 6 місяців тому

    This is among my favorite films, glad you enjoyed it. I always loved the line of dialog from the alien of their perception of humanity.

  • @WilliamScavengerFish
    @WilliamScavengerFish 6 місяців тому +1

    40:28 the fact that interests me is why wasn’t the fact that the chair was broken was not in the confidential report. Why didn’t Palmer Joss speak up?

  • @hoboogre8023
    @hoboogre8023 6 місяців тому

    Absolutely love your disgust with Drumlin. Well placed

  • @echobucket
    @echobucket 6 місяців тому +2

    The other shot which people sometimes don't notice because I think shows have imitated it a lot nowadays, but when Ellie is on the radio after her dad dies, it slow pulls back and suddenly we are outside the window as if we just went through the glass.

    • @DB-zp9un
      @DB-zp9un 6 місяців тому

      And when the signal is discovered and she runs from outside to the control room

  • @Kevonutube303
    @Kevonutube303 6 місяців тому

    What a fabulous watch!!! Knew this would be a great source of fascination, interest, and belief for you. Excellent reaction. Thank you so much, for being you and allowing me, (us) to view this wonderful movie for the first time, again. Can't wait for the next one. Oh yeah, you did ask..... "Silence of the Lambs" is a phenomenal movie that Jodi Foster stars along with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Just one of her amazing accomplishments.

  • @DB-zp9un
    @DB-zp9un 6 місяців тому +1

    Your reaction to "the shot" was perfect. And I saw a documentary on how the shot was made, and it was much more in depth than they made it sound.. I watched it and my brain was still broken lol

  • @edselroad
    @edselroad 6 місяців тому

    Vega was actually the first, blue star system the pod stopped at (where she saw the rails of the transport system); she was then moved to another system

  • @memnarch129
    @memnarch129 6 місяців тому +1

    The saddest thing about this movie now, if no one has mentioned, is you can no longer visit the Arecibo telescope. About 2 or 3 years ago one of the cables anchoring the receiver to one of the pillars snaped, after that the weight was too much and a second one snapped and the whole receiver array fell down through the dish. It was figured it would be too expensive to repair and so Arecibo was decomissioned.

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому +1

      That is so unfortunate and sad 😭

  • @zatornagirroc7175
    @zatornagirroc7175 6 місяців тому +5

    The Science and Faith juxtaposition in this movie is one of my favorite things about it. I am in the minority, but I believe that science leads to faith, and that faith leads to science. I think there is room for both in this wide universe. One does not cancel out the other, but rather enhances it. I believe that when we find a way to truly bring these two ideas together, it's going to lead us to more truth.

  • @Snowman29101963
    @Snowman29101963 6 місяців тому +1

    I love your reactions, they are both intellectual and emotional at the same time. 😄

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому

      Thank you! It's a mix of everything 😂

  • @jonathanross149
    @jonathanross149 6 місяців тому +1

    There are a few changes in the book and of course more details.

  • @Darkstar72SR
    @Darkstar72SR 6 місяців тому +1

    I haven’t gone through your whole backlog of videos yet to see if you’ve reacted to a video called “How the universe is way bigger than you think” but if you haven’t you should definitely check it out.

    • @VerowakReacts
      @VerowakReacts  6 місяців тому

      I haven't checked it out. Only heard about it from the comments on this video :D

  • @liamatsutv
    @liamatsutv 6 місяців тому

    This is the first of your videos I ever watched… and I was already loving your reaction… but the very instant you said “hexagons are the bestagons” I rushed to subscribe! 😂 thank you for reacting to my favourite movie 😊

  • @jackcade68
    @jackcade68 Місяць тому

    I. Sagan's book, the dad at the beach scene never happened. She only saw the star Vega close up and that huge construction of some sort, then she was sent back.

  • @calanor4130
    @calanor4130 6 місяців тому

    To quote Freeman Dyson: _"Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete."_ Thanks for reacting to this excellent film!

  • @kennyteeology3526
    @kennyteeology3526 6 місяців тому +1

    You got it! Same composer as Forrest Gump. Alan Silvestri

  • @NativeNewMexican
    @NativeNewMexican 6 місяців тому +1

    YES! Finally a reactor that catches how awesome it was to have a camera going backwards, up stairs, turning a corner, then into and then facing the mirror that Ellie runs to.
    IIRC Carl Sagan and CS Lewis would have discussions about religion and science which led to things like "do you love your father, prove it" and other faith/science questions written in the source for the movie. For other Science theory adaptations into art, you might listen to The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish which takes Dawkins' writings and puts them into song form.

  • @Ultracity6060
    @Ultracity6060 6 місяців тому +1

    7:45 Looks like she's about to become a...
    **puts on sunglasses**
    ...Foster child.
    _YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!_

  • @asmrhead1560
    @asmrhead1560 6 місяців тому

    Can I just say I love that you picked up on the start of the movie with the radio "time travel" at the speed of light? A surprising number of reactors totally miss it.

  • @davidolden971
    @davidolden971 6 місяців тому +1

    ‘…not a hexagon…” The geometric form wrapped around the spherical core of the machine, was a dodecahedron, which has 12 faces, and each face is a regular pentagon.

  • @sntxrrr
    @sntxrrr 6 місяців тому +1

    Still the best first contact movie ever made. Epic and reasonably scientifically plausible.
    That medicine cabinet shot is legendary. Robert Zemeckis did a lot to advance SFX, not always successfully but often right on the edge of what was possible.

  • @t0dd000
    @t0dd000 6 місяців тому +1

    This novel and film has so much heart.

  • @FrancisXLord
    @FrancisXLord 6 місяців тому +2

    Robert Zemeckis had an unblemished reputation as a director between Romancing The Stone (1984) and The Polar Express (2004) - every film he directed was a hit during those two decades. He also contributed so much to the development of visual effects during that period. Often he includes what I would call 'thankless effects shots', as in the audience is entirely oblivious that there is a visual effect.
    For instance, did you notice when Ellie runs into the observatory going right from the street to what was actually a set all in one shot? I'll bet you missed that. His films also pioneered composited crowd scenes - before Forrest Gump if you wanted a gazillion people on screen you had to hire a gazillion extras. The impossible shots in What Lies Beneath (2000) were also very innovative and impressive for the time. I notice you haven't reacted to that Zemeckis film. Might I suggest you check it out at some point.

    • @larrybremer4930
      @larrybremer4930 6 місяців тому +1

      Forrest Gump had the most SFX shots in a movie at the time, and its so seamless that its completely unnoticed.

  • @kenrobins6262
    @kenrobins6262 6 місяців тому

    "I'm ready to tell you my secret now." Nice! You're really good at doing that on the fly.

  • @dragonhawkeclouse2264
    @dragonhawkeclouse2264 6 місяців тому

    another great movie is Frequency with Dennis Quaid......her wanting to contact her mother and father through the radio reminded me of that movie

  • @ChrisCTurner10
    @ChrisCTurner10 6 місяців тому

    41:11 you were right, they are telescopes- just using radio waves instead of visual light

  • @arthurcamargo8416
    @arthurcamargo8416 6 місяців тому

    A Krasnikov Tube can do exactly what the device did in this movie. It constructs a wormhole and brings you back through the same tunnel to the very moment you started the tunnel or entered it. In reality, though, the tunnel needs to be constructed as you go, which means it could only go at the speed of the ship that is creating it.... Many people like sci fi for the possibilities. But the best stories are set in sci fi worlds, while the human conditions are explored within those settings. That is what made Twilight Zone so compelling, for example, or even Black Mirror. They were not necessarily about the tech or science, but about the humans within the context of that! The best fantasy stories as well! Great reaction! Fun!

  • @srahhh
    @srahhh 6 місяців тому

    I forgot how beautiful this movie is :'( Carl Sagan writing about an alien species trying so hard to communicate with us in the same way he tried to communicate with them, throwing out signals to anything that might be intelligent enough to understand the basic laws of the universe (prime numbers)

  • @seantlewis376
    @seantlewis376 6 місяців тому +1

    Carl Sagan was a Cosomologist, a studier of everything, though his focus was on astrophysics. One thing that bugs me about every introduction to this movie is that everyone says the book was written by Carl Sagan without mentioning Ann Druyan, his co-author and wife. The credit on the book is "Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan".
    In addition to being an essay on what may happen, it is a representation of how women in science are treated by their peers. It has always been true, and is true today.
    I am a member of SETI. Not an active scientist, but part of the crowdsourcing who will download a screensaver program to take up the extra cycles of their personal computer to help process the mountains of data provided by the project.

  • @HammershotSGD
    @HammershotSGD 6 місяців тому +4

    “The world is what we make it”

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise 6 місяців тому

    39:06 This is phenomenal acting on Jodie Foster's part. It ALWAYS puts a lump in my throat, and most of the time causes the tears to flow down my cheeks.

  • @THEvagabond29
    @THEvagabond29 6 місяців тому

    This is another i read the book first then watched the movie my first year in college. It was Mann Theatres boulder, CO and the line went around the building. Great film and im in the same seat as ellie, a person of science among religion.

  • @stackels97
    @stackels97 6 місяців тому

    'Anna and the King' is a crazy underappreciated Jodi Foster film. She and Chow Yun-Fat are incredible in it and there's a baby Tom Felton tagging along too.
    It's so rare that modern remakes and adaptations do some justice to the previous versions but that one was such a pleasant surprise. 😊

  • @zhollamychalis4252
    @zhollamychalis4252 6 місяців тому +1

    might I suggest,,,soundtrack wise...Silvestri at the end of :the movie Shattered: with Tom Berenger...as the helicopter begins to move away.. Probably my single fav Silvestri moment. Movie's good too. Cheers!

  • @chrismillington2729
    @chrismillington2729 6 місяців тому

    Beautiful Verowak, thank you again, kind reagrds, and love Chris, (UK) As always take care....