Contact - 8/10
I really enjoyed this. I had never seen it before and everyone told me I should if I liked Interstellar and they were right. Definitely recommended.
If I had to choose a flaw though it'd be that the characters were rather dull. For example, they had just discovered a message from another civilization and people are just casually asking 'oh... what does it mean then?' as if they hadn't just witnessed the greatest thing in all of history. Everyone just seemed so underwhelmed by it all.
The whole religion thing was stupid as well. Most of the world is religious, so let's nominate a Christian to go up there. I'm sure that'd go well with certain other religions... It should be none of them. Someone with an actual open mind should have the opportunity.
It certainly got me thinking though. Imagine if we really received a message like that. The thought of all the religious nuts going mental over it, either thinking it was God, or the apocalypse or something equally as ridiculous. I felt myself getting annoyed during the film (especially at the hard time Ellie was getting over being atheist), so I don't even want to think about it happening for real.
