I couldn't really get into it despite loving Interstellar

I love this film, though flawed and disliked Interstellar mainly because it was overhyped and weak character development as opposed to Contact.

Was just watching "Through the Wormhole", universe, and discovery documentary:- The Science of Interstellar, and those who seem to praise Interstellar for its scientific accuracy, then should understand, first the film is entirely on theories that have never been proven. There has never been prove that wormhole exist, and so is black hole. To be very honest "Interstellar" wasn't a great movie. Chris did pretty good in advertising it. Anyone who has watched documentaries on space it felt so predictable. On the hand Contact is so unpredictable. The twist, the "realities", that is implication of space travel to entire globe.Contact 9/10, Interstellar 6/10. Other Moves I can recommend:- Europa Report, Moon, Prometheus.

I really wanted to like this movie as well as Interstellar but both were disappointments. The petty bit first: MM is not a sci-fi actor. Contact disappoints because we get all the build up and no real 'Contact'. I felt like the film makers were talking down to the viewer by assuming humanity would not understand alien contact. They should have been bold enough to try and create a believable alien contact scenario. Tom Skerritt's character is one-dimensional and mean spirited for the sake of it. Taking situations on faith is a cop-out (especially for a so-called scientific based movie). I don't mind the slow build up but there has to be a pay-off.

They are quite two different movies in many aspects, one could argue like another post in here that todays youth doesnt find contact intressting beacuse of the todays standard in movies but that is far from the truth.

Contact is according to me, a movie lover one of the best movies ever made. im 31 years old
and I watch all kinds of movies, and I love all kinds of movies. Matrix, interstellar, romantic movies, kung fu movies etcetc.

The reason you dont like the movie is beacuse you just dont like that type of movie.

Contact is the best type of movie there is but some people get bored beacuse its quite slow evolving. To me however this is sci-fi at its best, no rushing trough with random cuts.

Let me explain.

Contact is about searching answers, exploring different paths and researching the smallest amount of evidence so convincing that you just have to find out where the evidence leads and where it comes from. If you want action, nudity or Motiongraphics then sci-fi movies like this is not something for you. With minimal information in as a realistic as possible world are we entering this journey about something sent to mankind from an alien civilisation, we need to find out where it came from and why it was sent here and that is basically one of the most intressting ground storys for a good sci fi, in my oppinion ofc.

This movie does that and ALOT more, exploring situations that are actually very realistic in many ways that most people have not tought about.

Dont get me wrong, the ending in interstellar when cooper tries to fit the pod into the broken spaceship is one of the best scenes ever made and it gives me goosebumps when they manage to connect the music and picture in such a way.

Still, Contact to me is a far better movie and a movie I enjoyed more.
You enjoyed interstellar alot more and nothing is wrong with that.

However I think you should have waited 10 years before watching contact, its a classic in many peoples lives and can be hard to grasp sometimes, most people do not even understand the absolute truth about it tbh.

Movies like contact doesnt get made very often, there are alot of good sci fi out there but lately many of them goes far beyond realistic porportions and ruin alot of brilliant ideas by tryharding to be as mindbending as possible.


If Interstellar had a life changing affect on you, maybe Matrix will to if you havent seen it. One of the best movies ever made.

Your life was changed by Interstellar?! How so?! Please explain.

In my opinion, that movie was crap. You can barely understand anything Matthew says all movie along. The fact that both he and Amelia try to sobatoge the mission numerous times because of the people they love is an insult to anyone who loves sciene or the pursuit of knowledge. They try and MIckie Mouse the end by saying Love trancends all dimensions? WTF?!

If you want to talk about a life changing movie, see Cloud Atlas. That, is a masterpiece. Oh and Contact is amazing. It's Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite Science Fiction movie. Small minds have a hard time paying attention unless shiny and bright things are involved- that's probably why you didn't like Contact.

Maybe it's because I watched contact a hundred times (it reruns regularly on tv here in Germany), but I love the movie. Everything about it (maybe not entirely everything. The religious aspect is kinda forced and for whatever reason wasn't the length of the audio recording brought up in the court?)
I watched Interstellar once and wanted to leave the cinema so bad. So many plot holes, so many cringeworthy dialogues and the worst offenders were the library of hell and love-does-not-know-any-boundaries bullcrap.
But I give you that: Interstellar had some beautiful scenes.

But I take an intelligent movie over a beautiful-but-empty one any day.

the answer is simple: you didn't see the movie when you should have. If you would have seen the movie at 10 you would have loved it as I did.
For me, Interstellar is just another Hollywood magic. But Contact has everything as an SF movie.
Give it another try. :)

I'm a great fan of Interstellar, but I still love this movie. Why? Because, in a sense, I feel this movies is sort of a prequel to the movies that play with the idea of interstellar travel. Since this movie was made from a book by carl sagan, I cherish it even more. Of course, the special effects in Interstellar were made way better, and they lasted longer, that's probably why you feel that way. But this movie is deep in a philosophical way just as Interstellar. Both movies carry the same message. The power of love is the strongest