my wife and I so loved this movie when we saw it in the theater

I didn't like this ending.

..and you didn't downvote! Thanks ant! What part didn't you like?

i can't recommend the book enough. carl sagan changed my life.

I enjoyed the movie, until the moronic ending where scientific knowledge was equated with religious belief. And they utterly stacked the deck to make that seem rational. The best review was Penn's - http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penn-n-teller/excite/contact.html

The best bit:

The movie was rocking along. Even though it was fiction, it was just like Carl -- pro-science to the bone.

Then it all started falling apart. Why didn't Jodie permanently lose the newage -- rhymes with "sewage" -- hippie after he tried to keep her from fulfilling her dreams for his own short-sighted horniness? That started to bum me, but it was the ending that finally broke my heart. The end of "Contact" asserted that belief in something tangible by a single person is equivalent to belief in god, and that the reality imagined by saints is the same as scientists understanding something they can't explain to lay people.

That is evil, utterly evil.

Evil, huh? careful... them's religious sounding words if ever I heard. Seems to me that there are many more things in the world that are more deserving of such a title, the misrepresentation of one man's ideas, not being one of them. It was a wise person on the sift who reminded me about how ideas are not sacred afterall...

> I enjoyed the movie, until the moronic ending

Yes, it is ridiculously implausible that the USA government would act to deceive the public. Now, as to why she didn't ditch the retarded Palmer Joss, I believe she thought she could change him... or it was the sex.. I recall that Ellie had only one boyfriend before her stint at Arecibo, it was Lester Sikes who was a nerdy ham radio operator from several counties away. Compare with Matthew McConaughey who is quite fit and probably didn't even know what a morse code sex chat room is. Ellie felt guilty for years of tapping her buzzer, Joss forgave her for her sins.

LOL. Luv ya, Deathcow. Yeh, a girl's buzzer can get tapped-out...

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