What pisses me off about Contact is: >whoa we have an extra multi-billion dollar wormhole thingey
That would be like having an extra CERN particle accelerator that no one knows about.
The problem with contact is it abandons hard sci fi to have a touchy feel good moment of the Alien posing as her dead dad.
All these movies in op have the Star Trek movie 1 problem of not trusting sci fi premises enough and defaulting to a weird ass emotional soup opera trips bits,
The only good sci-fi is in books these days.
I think I blame 2001 and Kubrick for this,
Personally I liked Contact the most probably because I'm a millennial born in the 80's and Contact is nostalgic for me and was my favorite movie growing up. Just rewatched Intersteller again for the first time and it was way better than I remember. Will have to rewarch Arrival this week
I remember watching Contact in the theatres with my friends as a kid. After the movie ended my mind was completely blown. My friends hated it and thought it was the most boring thing they've ever seen
Contact is a great movie when you're a kid. Rewatching it as an adult, you realise how badly paced it is, that MM was miscast entirely and that it is directed with pure schmaltz. It's still a good movie and the point where she enters the machine to the end of the film is pure kino. But it isn't on the same level as Interstellar or Arrival for me.
>Odyssey
This sounds fun right? No, there is no fun. It's dull and self-indulgent. Kubrick sucked all the fun out of what should have been an exciting story. It's beyond overrated.
>serious art film
It's not that serious. It has actors in monkey costumes dicking around for a full 30 minutes in the beginning. Kubrick is such a c**t that he thought that was interesting enough to be filmed even though it adds nothing to the story.
>it should be experienced and carefully analyzed
Very hard because it was extremely boring and almost no dramatic action throughout. Every scene is a chore to get through. It's not as interesting as Kubrick thinks it is.
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How does it feel knowing that it would always be known as the greatest sci-fi movie of all time brainlet?
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Anonymous
It's not. What's even good about it to make it great?
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It is moron. Wil always be.
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If they can move a piece of shit like Mulholland Drive to the top of critic lists in 20 years then they can move them down. 2001 is already terribly outdated aside from being boring.
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>then they can move them down.
But they won't 🙂 Keep seething
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>still hasn't said anything good about 2001
See even you don't really like it.
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>Very hard because it was extremely boring and almost no dramatic action throughout. Every scene is a chore to get through. It's not as interesting as Kubrick thinks it is.
Spot on, everything you said.
Btw the movie was mostly hated when it came out too, it got a extended release or rerelease (those used to be a lot more common before vhs) where they pushed the hippy “drop acid and watch this” angle with a new tag line “the ultimate trip”
The only decent part of 2001 is the Hal 9000 plot, and that’s more like a short story within the chore
Well then: Interstellar > Contact > arrival. Arrival is boring and forgettable and i'm putting contact behind Interstellar because it had almost no Deep Space/candy eye shots and because the reason for time travel had a more relatable personal impact to Cooper.
Wow, this is like asking me which of my three balls I'd like to cut off. Arrival and Interstellar have god tier music. Interstellar and Contact have god tier cinematography (no, shut the frick up, Contact did fricking amazing for the era and the budget - Interstellar had an enormous budget and huge technological leaps that enabled them to blow Contact out of the water on an apples-to-apples comparison). Arrival and contact have god tier depictions of aliens and amazing explorations of how a complete paradigm shift but a simple change in perspective can unlock something amazing.
Interstellar was at times self-indulgent (if that fricking geezer read that fricking poem one more fricking time I would have walked out of the theater) and should have reigned in MM from doing the quiet "all right all right all right" voice just a tiny bit; it's okay for the audience to hear the main actors). Arrival was a bit too magicky in the end (like I could have done without the time prescience thing and just the language would have been enough), but oh my god the reveal scene with Shang threw me for a loop and that was a blast. Contact could have cut down the God shit by like 20% and it would have been cool - but Carl Sagan was pretty hung up on that in the end so I understand why they dove into it.
Arrival>Contact>Interstellar >Arrival we need to recognize how complex languages are, we don't even know how to communicate between us, how could be communicate with aliens? >Contact alien tech are like magic for human civilization >Interestellar nothing can escape from a black hole...except love
I enjoyed contact way back when I watched it. Rewatching it now, It's obvious it has some severe flaws.
It's obvious that the people who made the movie weren't in line with the thought process of someone who originally wrote the script. It's most evident with the treatment of Eleanor. I'm assuming the statement the filmmakers want to make is that not everything can be explained by science and there's nothing wrong having a bit of faith. However, how they accomplish it is borderline mean spirited, the movie/writers essentially beat down on Eleanor as though they were saying "this uppity scientist needs to learn some humility and the importance of faith" with contempt. This makes the final message of "science and faith/religion should co-exist kumbaya" feel like a one sided sermon.
As for the rest, Arrival is just interstellar but with more character focus. Yet, the characters end up being more forgettable than interstellar. So I'll have to go with Interstellar on this one.
arrival > interstellar > contact
Contact by far is the best of the 3. Arrival is instatrash with the china dick sucking, and interstellar with the love daddy bullshit is derivative of contact.
interstellar is most accessible to normies because it's mostly just an emotional adventure movie wrapped in a sci-fi packaging
contact was the most exciting and engaging of the three, powered by a strong cast and a compelling story of discovery and perseverance. loses normie audiences in the end who didn't understand the ending
arrival is intriguing but bland, bogged down by a very drab cast and poor world-building. failing to establish a solid narrative footing, the non-linear story-telling makes for more of a mess than it had to. laudable for what it does at a 'meta' level but fails as a story
I enjoyed them all but objectively the only possible ranking for a proper kinophile is >contact > interstellar > arrival
Ranking stuff is for rubes so i'll just talk about each one.
Interstellar - great first hour or so, then matt damon shows up and looks right at the camera and starts literally reading the exposition notes from the script. At the end it turns into an anime with the power of love/friendship bullshit. Nolan has always stolen shit from anime, and for this i'm pretty sure he was watching a lot of Makoto Shinkai movies.
Contact - Complete garbage and a complete insult to Sagan and to science fiction as a genre. It felt like it was made for the Independance Day crowd.
Arrival - Really enjoyed it. Loved the linguistic approach they took to communication. Ending went a bit stupid but i'll forgive it. Great sound design too.
Contact is probably the best overall film, the buildup is masterful and very creepy. Interstellar reaches greater heights but dips in quality just as far in the opposite direction. Arrival is just forgettable.
Wow, this is like asking me which of my three balls I'd like to cut off. Arrival and Interstellar have god tier music. Interstellar and Contact have god tier cinematography (no, shut the frick up, Contact did fricking amazing for the era and the budget - Interstellar had an enormous budget and huge technological leaps that enabled them to blow Contact out of the water on an apples-to-apples comparison). Arrival and contact have god tier depictions of aliens and amazing explorations of how a complete paradigm shift but a simple change in perspective can unlock something amazing.
Interstellar was at times self-indulgent (if that fricking geezer read that fricking poem one more fricking time I would have walked out of the theater) and should have reigned in MM from doing the quiet "all right all right all right" voice just a tiny bit; it's okay for the audience to hear the main actors). Arrival was a bit too magicky in the end (like I could have done without the time prescience thing and just the language would have been enough), but oh my god the reveal scene with Shang threw me for a loop and that was a blast. Contact could have cut down the God shit by like 20% and it would have been cool - but Carl Sagan was pretty hung up on that in the end so I understand why they dove into it.
Arrival>Contact>Interstellar >Arrival we need to recognize how complex languages are, we don't even know how to communicate between us, how could be communicate with aliens? >Contact alien tech are like magic for human civilization >Interestellar nothing can escape from a black hole...except love
we need to recognize how complex languages are, we don't even know how to communicate between us, how could be communicate with aliens? >Iam14andthisisdeep
I'm not sure what's more dumb, languages that make you time travel or black holes you can fly into that teleport you into bookshelves
These are serious movies that people praise
I enjoyed contact way back when I watched it. Rewatching it now, It's obvious it has some severe flaws.
It's obvious that the people who made the movie weren't in line with the thought process of someone who originally wrote the script. It's most evident with the treatment of Eleanor. I'm assuming the statement the filmmakers want to make is that not everything can be explained by science and there's nothing wrong having a bit of faith. However, how they accomplish it is borderline mean spirited, the movie/writers essentially beat down on Eleanor as though they were saying "this uppity scientist needs to learn some humility and the importance of faith" with contempt. This makes the final message of "science and faith/religion should co-exist kumbaya" feel like a one sided sermon.
As for the rest, Arrival is just interstellar but with more character focus. Yet, the characters end up being more forgettable than interstellar. So I'll have to go with Interstellar on this one.
This. >aliens in arrival the movie: "we would need your help in the future, humans strong, so take this insane alien tech" >aliens in arrival the book: "why we came? just sightseeing, you are kind of like monkeys in the zoo for us, here's some useless tech that you would have discovered in 2 weeks anyway, k cya bye"
Arrival is better than Interstellar but honestly the time travel language thing is so fricking stupid it really harms the movie. It's not that much better than black hole bookshelves
arrival > interstellar > contact
fpbp
zoom zoom
arrival is absolutely moronic anc cliche
>arrival
>contact not first
holy zoomer
Objectively True and Final Ranking where all subsequent rankings are Objectively False and Dishonest:
Contact > Arrival > Interstellar
Loved Arrival
What pisses me off about Contact is:
>whoa we have an extra multi-billion dollar wormhole thingey
That would be like having an extra CERN particle accelerator that no one knows about.
true, but it was written in the 90s so I give it more slack. Also when we find that out in the movie it was a pretty redeeming and awesome twist
The problem with contact is it abandons hard sci fi to have a touchy feel good moment of the Alien posing as her dead dad.
All these movies in op have the Star Trek movie 1 problem of not trusting sci fi premises enough and defaulting to a weird ass emotional soup opera trips bits,
The only good sci-fi is in books these days.
I think I blame 2001 and Kubrick for this,
>The only good sci-fi is in books these days
Care to recommend me a couple, champ? 'Preciate ya.
>The only good sci-fi is in books these days
LOL, forget about modern sci-fi
What's this graph about satan?
Recent hugo awards winners
>He cares about awards
have a nice day
Interstellar > Arrival
They're both pretty bad.
Haven't seen Contact.
Zoom zoom amiright?
Personally I liked Contact the most probably because I'm a millennial born in the 80's and Contact is nostalgic for me and was my favorite movie growing up. Just rewatched Intersteller again for the first time and it was way better than I remember. Will have to rewarch Arrival this week
I remember watching Contact in the theatres with my friends as a kid. After the movie ended my mind was completely blown. My friends hated it and thought it was the most boring thing they've ever seen
Contact is a great movie when you're a kid. Rewatching it as an adult, you realise how badly paced it is, that MM was miscast entirely and that it is directed with pure schmaltz. It's still a good movie and the point where she enters the machine to the end of the film is pure kino. But it isn't on the same level as Interstellar or Arrival for me.
i don't remember what the plot mechanism was for arrival
None of the above
2001
Most predictable and pretentious answer
space baby
>Odyssey
This sounds fun right? No, there is no fun. It's dull and self-indulgent. Kubrick sucked all the fun out of what should have been an exciting story. It's beyond overrated.
Serious art films aren't supposed to be "fun". They're supposed to be experienced and carefully analyzed. Grow up.
>serious art film
It's not that serious. It has actors in monkey costumes dicking around for a full 30 minutes in the beginning. Kubrick is such a c**t that he thought that was interesting enough to be filmed even though it adds nothing to the story.
>it should be experienced and carefully analyzed
Very hard because it was extremely boring and almost no dramatic action throughout. Every scene is a chore to get through. It's not as interesting as Kubrick thinks it is.
How does it feel knowing that it would always be known as the greatest sci-fi movie of all time brainlet?
It's not. What's even good about it to make it great?
It is moron. Wil always be.
If they can move a piece of shit like Mulholland Drive to the top of critic lists in 20 years then they can move them down. 2001 is already terribly outdated aside from being boring.
>then they can move them down.
But they won't 🙂 Keep seething
>still hasn't said anything good about 2001
See even you don't really like it.
>Very hard because it was extremely boring and almost no dramatic action throughout. Every scene is a chore to get through. It's not as interesting as Kubrick thinks it is.
Spot on, everything you said.
Btw the movie was mostly hated when it came out too, it got a extended release or rerelease (those used to be a lot more common before vhs) where they pushed the hippy “drop acid and watch this” angle with a new tag line “the ultimate trip”
The only decent part of 2001 is the Hal 9000 plot, and that’s more like a short story within the chore
>2001
I just watched it the other day. I've never been more disappointed in a movie. Just a waste.
The 3 movies in the the OP are more similar and share a more similar theme of time than 2001 imo is why I didn't include it in the question
Well then: Interstellar > Contact > arrival. Arrival is boring and forgettable and i'm putting contact behind Interstellar because it had almost no Deep Space/candy eye shots and because the reason for time travel had a more relatable personal impact to Cooper.
Contact by far is the best of the 3. Arrival is instatrash with the china dick sucking, and interstellar with the love daddy bullshit is derivative of contact.
Stop being a manchild fanboy.
I’m 23. Saw contact when I was like 18
23 is manchild age.
I though it was 30+
>I am so cool and enlightened
2001 space oddysey
Mauler has a 19 hour breakdown of Arrival
it proved to me that he was a total brainlet
>Mauler
Who?
kubrick mogs all of them because he didnt pretend to have emotions unlike this trifecta of cringe science sentimentality
>autist
Okay.
interstellar is most accessible to normies because it's mostly just an emotional adventure movie wrapped in a sci-fi packaging
contact was the most exciting and engaging of the three, powered by a strong cast and a compelling story of discovery and perseverance. loses normie audiences in the end who didn't understand the ending
arrival is intriguing but bland, bogged down by a very drab cast and poor world-building. failing to establish a solid narrative footing, the non-linear story-telling makes for more of a mess than it had to. laudable for what it does at a 'meta' level but fails as a story
I enjoyed them all but objectively the only possible ranking for a proper kinophile is
>contact > interstellar > arrival
I just wanted to say that Arrival is fricking terrible.
you got to be in your 20s to have shit taste like this
big domino simp
Tks for telling us you have shit taste anon. Now go watch capeshit.
Moon
Ranking stuff is for rubes so i'll just talk about each one.
Interstellar - great first hour or so, then matt damon shows up and looks right at the camera and starts literally reading the exposition notes from the script. At the end it turns into an anime with the power of love/friendship bullshit. Nolan has always stolen shit from anime, and for this i'm pretty sure he was watching a lot of Makoto Shinkai movies.
Contact - Complete garbage and a complete insult to Sagan and to science fiction as a genre. It felt like it was made for the Independance Day crowd.
Arrival - Really enjoyed it. Loved the linguistic approach they took to communication. Ending went a bit stupid but i'll forgive it. Great sound design too.
Amazing movies
Solaris
Arrival > Contact > Interstellar
Contact is probably the best overall film, the buildup is masterful and very creepy. Interstellar reaches greater heights but dips in quality just as far in the opposite direction. Arrival is just forgettable.
Interstellar > Arrival > Contact >>>>>> 2001
Wow, this is like asking me which of my three balls I'd like to cut off. Arrival and Interstellar have god tier music. Interstellar and Contact have god tier cinematography (no, shut the frick up, Contact did fricking amazing for the era and the budget - Interstellar had an enormous budget and huge technological leaps that enabled them to blow Contact out of the water on an apples-to-apples comparison). Arrival and contact have god tier depictions of aliens and amazing explorations of how a complete paradigm shift but a simple change in perspective can unlock something amazing.
Interstellar was at times self-indulgent (if that fricking geezer read that fricking poem one more fricking time I would have walked out of the theater) and should have reigned in MM from doing the quiet "all right all right all right" voice just a tiny bit; it's okay for the audience to hear the main actors). Arrival was a bit too magicky in the end (like I could have done without the time prescience thing and just the language would have been enough), but oh my god the reveal scene with Shang threw me for a loop and that was a blast. Contact could have cut down the God shit by like 20% and it would have been cool - but Carl Sagan was pretty hung up on that in the end so I understand why they dove into it.
Arrival>Contact>Interstellar
>Arrival we need to recognize how complex languages are, we don't even know how to communicate between us, how could be communicate with aliens?
>Contact alien tech are like magic for human civilization
>Interestellar nothing can escape from a black hole...except love
we need to recognize how complex languages are, we don't even know how to communicate between us, how could be communicate with aliens?
>Iam14andthisisdeep
I'm not sure what's more dumb, languages that make you time travel or black holes you can fly into that teleport you into bookshelves
These are serious movies that people praise
Go back to gaygit
I enjoyed contact way back when I watched it. Rewatching it now, It's obvious it has some severe flaws.
It's obvious that the people who made the movie weren't in line with the thought process of someone who originally wrote the script. It's most evident with the treatment of Eleanor. I'm assuming the statement the filmmakers want to make is that not everything can be explained by science and there's nothing wrong having a bit of faith. However, how they accomplish it is borderline mean spirited, the movie/writers essentially beat down on Eleanor as though they were saying "this uppity scientist needs to learn some humility and the importance of faith" with contempt. This makes the final message of "science and faith/religion should co-exist kumbaya" feel like a one sided sermon.
As for the rest, Arrival is just interstellar but with more character focus. Yet, the characters end up being more forgettable than interstellar. So I'll have to go with Interstellar on this one.
Source material:
>arrival
>contact
>interstellar
as a movie:
>interstellar
>contact
>arrival
This.
>aliens in arrival the movie: "we would need your help in the future, humans strong, so take this insane alien tech"
>aliens in arrival the book: "why we came? just sightseeing, you are kind of like monkeys in the zoo for us, here's some useless tech that you would have discovered in 2 weeks anyway, k cya bye"
Haven't seen arrival.
The other two were interesting, until near the end when they got all weird.
oh yeah baby I can feel that nostalgia washing over me like a gentle wave
Contact > first half of interstellar > dog shit
Contact and it's not even close, the other two movies aren't even on the same plane of existence
Cope. Interstellar is better and no I won’t elaborate.
Of course you won't, you literally can't, that movie is indefensible
I am pleasantly surprised that Contact is rated so highly on here
Jodie Foster > Amy Adams > Anne Hathaway
Matthew McConaughey > Matthew McConaughey > Hawkeye
Amy Adams > Jodie Foster > Anne hathaway
2001: A Space Odyssey
arrival for real men
Would you like to see the ruins, my friend?
I need another Contact viewing under my belt, but I wanna go with Interstellar > Contact > Arrival.
You should give contact that rewatch followed by Interstellar so you can correct your wrong opinion
Arrival = contact
Interstellar not even deserving of mention in the same conversation. Absolute slop for little piggies
Arrival is Interstellar for plebbit midwits who think more boring == smarter movie.
Arrival is better than Interstellar but honestly the time travel language thing is so fricking stupid it really harms the movie. It's not that much better than black hole bookshelves
contact
It would be Arrival if not for the terrible soundtrack those 'movie music' swelling shit string parts, man so Contact.
contact > interstellar > arrival.
Why did they put in a scene of anne hathaway shitting for interstellar
>time
I love them all
All three are disappointing. I like Contact the most I guess.
Contact had SOUL whereas the other two were too preoccupied with cinematography to tell a compelling story
I didn't much care for Arrival nor Interstellar. I haven't seen Contact.
Contact >> arrival >>>> shite > interstellar
for me its THE arrival 1996