Is there anybody out there?
What an excellent year this was for Science Fiction! After several years in which all the semi-SF movies that we saw were incredibly junky, and weren't even good enough to be bad, this year we had a load of good Sci-Fi movies, and even - unbelievable - a few serious ones. We had The Fifth Element and Men In Black, which were both much fun, and Starship Troopers, which tried to be serious and succeeded in being utterly ridiculous, but had great special effects and an excellent driver. Then there was the too-stupid-to-write-about Mars Attacks, The next step in the excellent Alien saga, and Event Horizon which we haven't yet seen, but seems promising. And there was Contact.

there was contact. it's a sci-fi movie that comes from someplace else and talks about other stuff. it's a movie that if it wasn't made in hollywood probably become a movie that everybody will talk about in years to come and learn all about it.

Problem is, it was made in hollywood. Which means it can't get too smart, or nobody will see it.

that is what they think. but i think that it's been proved more then one time that the people who go to the movies aren't that stupid, and if a movie is good it doesn't really matter who made it. but this thought is exactly what make this a good movie instead of an excellent one. and even this is probably cause of jody that can make almost any movie great.

Well, maybe all those people just came to see Jody. And all this Hollywoodish stuff was only put in to gives it a chance at the Oscars, I'm sure. And then what happens? Titanic comes along and doesn't leave it a chance. The nerve of some people!!

duh! maybe, and maybe it's cause the people in hollywood sank into the swamp they made and can't make a movie without all the schmalz even if they want to, and i think that they did in this movie. but from all this talking one can think that i didn't like this movie, but i did! a lot even.

And they succeeded in not losing the smart stuff. It still has a smart, unpredictable plot and can maybe even toggle a few brain reactions in the more educated viewers. Only the ones who read the book didn't like it.

something about that book though. the script was before the book but no one wanted it, so carl made a book out of it and all of the sudden he had found a buyer and they made a movie that he didn't see cause he died. so was the movie based on book or the book based on the movie?

I don't know. I always say the book was better, no matter if I read it or not.

racist!