Interstellar...

"since Contact is arguably one of the best science fiction movies in cinema history"

- So Foster being hurt or crying 60% of the time and McConaughey being a useless character is not a problem?

I could dive into these two movies for a long time, but i'm going to leave it at this:

Both films have phenomenal performances, direction, score, visuals.

Both films are very well written with a fine balancing act of real vs pseudo science to keep the audience engaged and entertained while simultaneously exposing them to real theories/science/ideas

Love em both, but if I could only take one it would have to be contact. It just felt slightly more grounded to me as a movie. Nolan needs to be reeled in a bit with his writing, editing and story decisions.

Bottom line is the world needs more of both of these kinds of movies. This is the kind of science fiction I really really wish hollywood made more of. Movies like these and Gravity. Yes...their not always scientifically sound...but their scientifically grounded. We need to get audiences and children more excited about discovery, exploration and what's possible.

they are my 2 favorite sci-fi movies

Interstellar 9/10
Contact 8/10

Interstellar made me feel a wider range of emotions that's why i rate it higher

Very interesting for me was the strong father daughter relationship in both movies

Trying to have a debate with a Nolan or Tarantino fanboy on here is almost impossible. They are all idiots.

You posted this over a year ago and the condition of the Interstellar board is even worse today.

There are a few obvious connections between the two films. In Contact, there's no immediate threat to our species, but I think it touches on just about everything else: the spirituality, the wormhole, contact with an advanced species perhaps not in our dimension, time dilation, etc.

One thing Contact did was to keep the science more theoretical and less controversial. I personally didn't have a problem with the way the science was portrayed in Interstellar, but there's a lot of blow-hards that like to think that we already know everything about all of these fantastic things that are so far beyond our current reach.

It's interesting to note that real science has learned a few new things about black holes after Interstellar was released.

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I did not find Interstellar that similar to this film, but I LOVE both. I like Interstellar better, but I think Contact is a better overall movie. Interstellar was so immersed in its awesome scientifically accurate plot that it didn't have enough character development or themes. Contact was way more emotionally driven, and didn't need all the legendary visuals, like Interstellar did, to make it a good movie. Contact had serious religious overtones, Interstellar had blight. Both movies are excellent, but as far as their similarities, only Kip Thorne and Matthew McConaughey and Lynda Obst were involved with the production.

My opinions on both movies
Contact
+++controversial yet powerful ideas
++simple yet great story, the build up is impeccably done
+good acting
+good writing
-everything after jodie foster goes through the wormhole is disappointing due to the amount of buildup
-dated special effects
-bad score
--some things don't make sense (why wasnt the 18 hours of static used in court case, why didn't they send another person through the machine)

Interstellar
+++great visuals
+++great soundtrack
+++extreme thematic depth (every time i watch it i notice a new idea)
+++great acting
++good story
+good writing
-more explanation (science-wise) than necessary
--plotholes (who would Lazarus's captain be if coop didnt show up, how could coop know how to captain a spaceship without much training)
--much of the story is based off of a flawed idea (love binds us, the only thing that travels dimensions is love, bla bla bla). The movie essentially says that love drew Brand to Edmund's planet, and that it drew coop to murph in the tesseract

Interstellar is my favorite movie of all time so I might've been a little biased
I liked Interstellar because I love movies that are emotionally, visually, and musically beautiful.
I didn't like Contact as much because the acting wasn't noteworthy (compared to interstellar), the visual effects were dated, the score was bad, and I'm not religious so the theme didn't resonate with me.

Just because both movies are theme-heavy sci-fi films doesn't mean they are the same.
The beauty of Interstellar is to aid and contrast the ideas shown; Contact honestly could have gone without any special effects and it would have had a near-identical impact.

The two best scifi movies out there. The Martian is also on my top list but Interstellar and Contact are No.1 right now. Hopefully, we will get more of those because that's what real hard scifi should be...An exciting story that is thought provoking and philosophical in nature with good physics to back it up within an emotional framework that tries to expand our understanding of the universe.

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