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Contact [Blu-ray]

Contact [Blu-ray]

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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 449 reviews
Sales Rank: 1548

Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 149 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5

MPN: 1000092338
UPC: 883929064144
EAN: 0883929064144
ASIN: B001AQT0RC

Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Release Date: October 6, 2009
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  • Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this visionary drama based on Carl Sagan's novel about human kind's first encounter with extraterrestial life, directed by another Oscar winner, Robert Zemeckis. Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: PG Age: 883929064144 UPC: 883929064144 Manufacturer No: 1000092338
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/06/2009 Run time: 153 minutes Rating: Pg

Amazon.com
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson

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5 out of 5 stars Love this movie   November 22, 2009
Benjamin L. Boruchowitz (Ohio)
Contact is one of the most well-done sci-fi movies I have ever seen. Stays away from exaggerated technological explanations for things and focuses on how things would be if another Alien specie contacted us. More about Humanity.


4 out of 5 stars great movie   November 14, 2009
William L. Wensel (indiana)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I LOVE THIS MOVIE,I THINK ITS ONE OF THE BEST SI-FI MOVIES EVER MADE,I HAVE THE DVD,BUT WHEN IT CAME OUT ON BLU RAY I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT!!!!


4 out of 5 stars Excellent Blu Ray transfer   October 26, 2009
A B
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Excellent high definition transfer- major upgrade over the standard definition DVD.

Recommended.




4 out of 5 stars Secret messages   October 22, 2009
Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

An exceptional looking Blu-ray, "Contact" tells the story of Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster)and the impact that her discovery of a message from an alien race impacts society. In essence "Contact" acts as both a literal title and a pun--the film is about contact between science and faith, between a woman who loses her family at a young age trying to reconnect in some little way with what's she lost and her unending faith that she will discover there IS life out there.

Working with authors Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan director Robert Zemeckis has refashioned the tale adding the character of David Drumlin (Tom Skerrit)as an adversary who dogs Ellie every step of the way pushing her further and further away from her opportunity to embrace her discovery. Featuring a terrific supporting cast "Contact" focuses more on the humanity rather than the hardware but deals with a number of complex themes in the process. Rather than focusing on a team that goes to meet the Vegans Zemeckis and screenwriters James V. Hart & Michael Goldberg elect to make one person go throwing the finale into question--again, it comes down to a matter of faith and Ellie believes.

The Blu-ray has all of the original extras that were on the 1997 DVD. While the transfer looks extremely good with nice detail, color and clarity. It appears to be digitally scrubbed though with a bit too much digital noise reduction used reducing the level of the detail in the process. Nevertheless, it does blow away the original DVD by leaps and bounds particularly the opening sequence as we look at the Earth following the radio waves as they leave our planet moving further and further away from our solar system.

"Contact" is a very good if flawed film. The faith vs. science themes that were so prevelent in Sagan's book are still here but presented in a bit of a muddled fashion. There's zero chemistry on screen between Foster and McConaughey. David Morse brings a strong, quiet presence to his role as Ellie's father. The ending although it is touching and does provide a sense of closure (and while it does make sense in many respects) may feel like a cheat to some. I thought it worked quite well within the context of the film. Some of the story elements like the subplot involving a terrorist attack on the "Machine" and NASA are deftly handled--they could have been blown up (pardon the pun)into soap opera spectacle but Zemeckis plays it low-key. The other flaw is the time compression from discovery to execution; while it was essential to keeping the film moving forward it also makes everything seem as it it happens rather quickly.

Over all this is a exceptionally good looking Blu-ray and the fact that Warner has ported over all the DVD extras (something that many studios have chosen not to do)is a big plus as well. Highly recommended.


5 out of 5 stars The best BluRay movie experience   October 20, 2009
Said
I have been a fan of this movie for a long time.....it's the best. Now I got it on BluRay - I was blown out - great job in convertining Contact to hi-deffinicion standard! Great Job! Highly recomend!

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