Contact (1997) ♦Movie Reaction♦ First Time Watching!

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• ME

  @menotyou8369 · 2 years ago

  RIP Carl, and Arecibo.

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• BI

  @bigdream_dreambig · 2 years ago

  "That's the end??? I HAVE QUESTIONS!!!" I think that's the point! 😆

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• LA

  @lawrencewestby9229 · 2 years ago

  &quot;I have questions!&quot;<br><br>Somewhere, Carl is smiling. &nbsp;Having questions and striving to find the answers to those questions is what Carl was about as a scientist and as an educator.

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• GE

  @geezz99 · 2 years ago

  The only thing that makes the emptiness bearable is etch other . &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Beautiful line.

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• GL

  @GlizzyTrefoil · 2 years ago

  &quot;Pale blue dot&quot; is probably the best speech i ever heard. The world isn&apos;t so big.

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• KI

  @kilroy987 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m glad to see reactors giving this movie so much attention. &nbsp;It&apos;s one of my favorite return to movies.

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• DR

  @drogynbattlebrand5229 · 2 years ago

  I love that history has vindicated Contact. I thought it was great when it first came out but it felt like no one else did. Now I see it come up in a lot of reaction videos and everyone loves it.

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• KI

  @killiansalah · 2 years ago

  “I hate seeing how big the world is.”<br><br>That is such an interesting statement.

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• ST

  @Stogie2112 · 2 years ago

  “Space is big. You just won&apos;t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it&apos;s long way down the road to the chemist&apos;s, but that&apos;s just peanuts to space.” <br><br>— The late, very great Douglas Adams

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• CS

  @cshubs · 2 years ago (edited)

  I live in New Mexico and have visited the Very Large Array a couple of times, including during the 2012 eclipse (which was the perfect place to be). Each of the 27 dishes is as big as a pro baseball diamond. They move them around on train tracks. They act as one dish that&apos;s miles wide. During the 2012 eclipse the staff gave rare tours of the main building and control room, which is small. They made it about 5x bigger for the movie. There was a signed picture of Jodie Foster on the wall.<br>The two local villages don&apos;t have microwave ovens to help keep the signal clean. <br>The road that goes through the valley is the longest, straightest road I&apos;ve been on.<br>The place is about 3 hours from Albuquerque.

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• AK

  @akw141-yy3rz · 2 years ago

  zemeckis is known for using stock footage in his films, as he did in Forrest Gump. The Clinton speech is actually from the Mars discovery of possible microorganisms, I believe, inserted pretty seamlessly into the film. He also has some very interesting camera shots, like the continuous shot of young Ellie running towards a mirror. There&apos;s a whole commentary track that explains what went into that. There&apos;s also a 360 panning shot, which looks continuous but can&apos;t be because you&apos;d see the cameras. The long tracking shot of her racing back to the VLA command center, and running into the control room, was several different locations all edited together so it looks unbroken. He&apos;s one of those directors that can actually use green screens and clever editing properly. I like Contact as a movie and a story, but it&apos;s also a go to for me in terms of cinematography and visual spectacle.

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• MA

  @MarijnvdSterre · 2 years ago

  &quot;That is interesting, isn&apos;t it&quot; <br>That guy knew, the sneaky bastard!

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