Contact 1997 123movies

Watch: Contact 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway (David Morse), who died when she was nine-years-old, leaving her orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (N.S.F.) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her N.S.F. superior David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders, and other scientists, such as Drumlin, try to take over her work. When the messages received from space are decoded, the project takes on a whole new dimension, which strengthens for Ellie the quest for the truth. Thrown into the mix are the unknown person who has up until now funded most of Ellie’s work and what his motivations are, and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a renowned author and theologian, who despite their fundamental differences in outlook, is mutually attracted to Ellie, that attraction based in part on intellect and their common goal of wanting to know the truth..
Plot: A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 276,165
	68% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3725 Popularity: 21.716 | TMDB

Reviews:

Random viewing but decided to finally watch after its been in my to-do bin for a while now. It didn’t strike an emotional cord that I thought it would but Jodie Foster was quite good as were a respectable supporting cast. Never quite bought into the relationship between Foster and McConaughey though in fairness, probably due to the lack of screen time together (felt like maybe 15 minutes in a 2.5 hour movie). Some of the effects were alright for its time including integrating Clinton footage with the cast and the sci-fi specific visuals were alright. In the end, never was bored and found it to be entertaining. **4.0/5**

I would readily admit this is one of my favourite science fiction films from the 90’s. It’s intelligent, well-acted and directed, and the special effects it has HELPS the story rather than IMPEDES it. Though she hasn’t done much lately, either in the director’s chair or acting, Jodie Foster is one of my favourite contemporary American actresses, and it’s intriguing how her great talent’s been utilized of late (ie., ‘Elysium’, and I’m still very mad at Spike Lee for having Christopher Plummer call her a ‘cunt’ in ‘Inside Man’).

Personally, I must admit that I myself have worried what other worlds’ inhabitants would think of our civilization from the messages it might get from Earth. Though I thankfully haven’t lost any sleep over it (I have ‘Thumper’ in the apartment above me to thank for that), as Led Zeppelin would say in the classic ‘Stairway to Heaven’, ‘…and it makes me wonder’.

As what happens in most of these movies, it’s rather anticlimactic once the different cultures meet. I’ll say to my dying day that the most difficult thing to do in cinema is end a film. Here (unlike perfect sci-fi masterpieces, like ‘2001: A Space odyssey’ or the more recent ‘Children of Men’) the decent but otherwise unspectacular ending makes me avoid a perfect rating here. But it’s awfully close, worth both owning and rewatching, and provides fairly early evidence (which would come to bold fruition in ‘Killer Joe’) that Matthew McConaughey could actually act. It’s also a tossup between this, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Back to the Future’ for my favourite Zemeckis moment.

Films are rarely as good as the book but there are exceptions to the rule
This remains true for this very good adaptation of the classic book by Carl Sagan. Sagans’ idea was to make science and the elite commandeering of information available to the majority, he wrote his books for a wide audience and I think the film shows this as was intended by its author.

The Film is roughly about Dr Arroway, Ellie, and how she handles being alone in a world without family or close friends. It is metaphorically able to make us all think about how isolated we as a race, and as people can feel.

Ellie, a brilliant young scientist working on the mistrusted SETI program discovers a message sent to earth from distant star system Vega. On its discovery Ellie must battle with the Military, Pentagon, and Male Dominated scientific world to keep her cards on the table and her discovery that of her team. Ellie is constantly kept in the game by he benefactor, a rich technological industrialist mogul who has a vested interest in her participation of the programme to reach this alien culture.

I don’t wish to go on any further and spoil this movie as I rate it as a fantastic exploration of Science Vs Religion and the entire subsequent human spectrum in between. As a film there were several alterations from the book that I felt could have been included, for example not just one traveler but a range of them, philosophers, theologists, scientists, poets and Dr Arroway.

I have watched this film a number of times and still find it a joy to watch the fifth, eighth and tenth time. Jody foster playing a not so dissimilar to her role in Silence of the lambs (attractive, clever, young, successful woman battling in a male world) is exceptional and delivers feeling and intellect alongside an impressive script.

I would give this film an 8.5 and recommend it to anybody, but if you are a sci-fi fan and haven’t seen this film then you’re in for a treat.

Religion. Science. Politics
Robert Zemeckis’ “Contact” can be a very flawed movie if you want it to be. Yet it avoids accruing any critics from my side because of how daring it is. It finds itself at the universal crossroads between science, religion and politics. Other movies have been there as well but no other has put the question so bluntly: “Do you believe in God?”–if yes, why and if not why not?

It is ambitious, pretentious, it engages existential questions without worrying too much about how logically absurd it is. This is why most people would hate it, but it is exactly why I love it so much. It contains many panoramic frames, but unlike other movies is not trying to show just how small we are, but rather it wants to contain everything–from a field of radars, to a sci-fi machine and space itself.

Movies like “Contact” rarely succeed, but when they do their due is usually great. Zemeckis knew that Carl Sagan’s novel takes place in almost a parallel universe so he has no issues with adapting logic to its own benefit. If the message is insightful and powerful enough, the result is a masterpiece, if not, is a laughable dud. Luckily, “Contact” insists on many taboo themes and does them well enough to come out on top.

Each character is well-defined and have very flushed out principles. From Doctor Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) the secular scientist who makes finding life on other planets an obsession more than a job to religious author Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) carrying the flag of belief and able to appear almost everywhere for some reason and to opportunist David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt) who is a good guy, but doesn’t flinch when the moment arises. In a way, he wants the same thing that Ellie does, yet he lacks Ellie’s emotional wisdom. Her love for the stars is perhaps a result of her mother’s early death; deep down is her she is really searching for.

In the end, “Contact” doesn’t answer any questions about life on another planets, but that is because Sagan’s reliance on science and its lack of facts regarding spacefaring–any answers who could’ve been given are hypothetical at best. Instead, “Contact” focuses on emotional reactions, reactionary beliefs and both rational and spiritual experiences. The love Sagan shows to both secularism and faith is what made this movie earn my respect.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 30 min (150 min)
Budget 90000000
Revenue 171120329
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director Robert Zemeckis
Writer James V. Hart, Michael Goldenberg, Carl Sagan
Actors Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 32 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex System 65 Studio Camera, Panavision System 65 Lenses, Beaumont VistaVision Camera, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo and C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA (65 mm footage), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (35 mm footage) (color) (prints)
Film Length 4,101 m (Sweden), 4,206 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, EXR 200T 5293), 65 mm (composite shots), 8 mm (childhood film scenes), Video (TV scenes)
Cinematographic Process Betacam SP (TV scenes), Panavision (anamorphic), Spherical (Cape Canaveral TV interview footage), Super 8 (8 mm footage), VistaVision (special effects) (steadycam)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 2386)