I loved Contact :/
Forest Whitaker
Don't understand why some people hate the ending to Contact? Maybe it's the religious undertone? Personally I found the part where she meets the aliens in the form of her father, beautiful. It made perfect sense to me that such an advanced civilisation would have also mastered their empathic abilities too.
As for Jodie Foster, hmm, she does seem a bit rigid at times but far from bad.
Contact is awesome until...
"NOOO WORRDSSS.... SHOULD'VE....SENNTT...A POETT *sob sob*...... noooo .... worrdss.,.......*
lol
She annoys the hell out of me, her face is almost constantly void of expression, only one of confusion.