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Frequency + Contact: 2 most underrated/underhyped movies ever...

posted 16 years ago by VirginOnPromNight
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and thats all i have to say about that

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[–] dannyvazmon1 16 years ago

Contact was not "underrated/underhyped". If I remember correctly Contact was a very hyped and promoted movie when it came out. It was supposed to be a big blockbuster.

[–] jimmymack7 16 years ago

I thought Contact was an okay movie, but I really liked Frequency. It was well paced, creative, suspenseful, with a feel good happy ending. I thought the acting was great, it had a well thought out plot, and the sets were excellent. This is definitly a diamond in the rough type of film.

"Lo fa, ne-ko shi-ma, de va-ja blade, BLADE RUNNER."

[–] martin_66 16 years ago

Frequency is one of my favourite films of all time. The acting and storyline are all first rate, it being an excellent thriller and father/son relationship story, with a little bit of science fiction thrown in, but not too much to make the whole thing unbelievable.

Contact, on the other hand, is a steaming turd of a movie. The whole premise is potentially interesting but completely ruined by the ending when the aliens are revealed, and clearly show that the writer and director/producer had absolutely no idea where to go with that idea. I felt genuinely cheated at the end of Contact and almost felt like asking the cinema for my money back. It is one of the worst films ever made.

[–] puirt-a-beul 15 years ago

Hi martin_66,
While I wouldn't go as far as you in calling Contact "one of the worst films ever made" (for me that's overstating it), I agree that the ending seems to compromise the whole film. It's a real pity that it caved in to sentimentality, but it seems to me Zemeckis pretty much always does. I can't speak for him, of course, but I somehow doubt Sagan would have enjoyed the "blind faith is more important/reliable/valuable than intellect" message the ending gave off, and I didn't either.

As for "Frequency", I saw it when it was first released at the cinema, and then frankly forgot it. But I'm doing a kind of retrospective revisit of Gregory Hoblit movies ("Primal Fear" and "Fallen", then "Frequency", with "Fracture" and "Untraceable" still to come), and it reminded me all over again how much I like it. (And, honestly, how much I like Gregory Hoblit as a director; he can convey an awesome amount visually, without losing pace or losing focus on the story.) I'm a little bit uneasy with "Frequency" still, because to my tastes it strays a bit close to not knowing what kind of story it's trying to tell, but it's very well put-together and the plot and acting stand up well.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.