Contact [Blu-ray]

Contact [Blu-ray]
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After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from deep space, she leads an international team in deciphering the message and building a myste
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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

Reviews


I have Always Enjoyed This Movie
Review date: 2010-07-25 Rating: 10 out of 10

I have always enjoyed Contact and when I decently upgraded my DVD copy to Blu-Ray I was not disappointed. I continue to enjoy this movie, only now in Blu-Ray.

Consciousness
Review date: 2010-07-06 Rating: 10 out of 10

Fantastic Movie. If you watch it again, Jodie Foster's experience passing through the wormhole and her testimony before Congress about her "trip" is an uncanny description of a classic Ayahuasca/ DMT experience. You don't need the trillion dollar machine, just some DMT or 5meoDMT. " It's so beautiful. I never knew," etc. Listen to Foster as she "comes on to the drug," or falls through the machine. Even her visitation with her father is common interpersonal psychology being played out under the influence of DMT, mescaline or even psilocybin. It's all about multi dimensional consciousness as experienced through these drugs/plants. The questions posed by the congressional committee are questions you'd pose about some of these shamanic experiences. Interesting.

A top notch Bluray release!
Review date: 2010-07-04 Rating: 10 out of 10

As others have stated, it would have been nice to have this in 16:9 widescreen format. But that is minor and does not decrease my rating of this Bluray release of Contact at all. This is by far the best this film has ever looked. A masterful transfer by Warner Brothers and another quality release that deserves to be in your movie library. 5 solid stars.

CONTACT Blu Ray
Review date: 2010-05-22 Rating: 8 out of 10

I love the movie, I have the DVD version but I wanted the Blu ray.. No question is an upgrade.. the images are much better.. but still, IS NOT 16:9... is LETTERBOX 2:40 aspect ratio... That is my only reason why is only 4 starts..

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Jodie Foster
Matthew McConaughey
James Woods
John Hurt
Tom Skerritt

Director(s):

Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 0883929064144
Binding: Blu-ray
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen,
Release date: 2009-10-06
Universal product code (UPC): 883929064144
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Audience rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running time: 149 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2009
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: German (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Subtitled)
Language: Norwegian (Subtitled)
Language: Portuguese (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Brand: Warner Brothers

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