522: Burning Man for Aliens

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

They should have sent a poet, but instead we sent ourselves to celebrate the 23rd (it’s a prime number, as any alien would know) anniversary of the Robert Zemeckis film “Contact”, starring Jodie Foster in an adaptation of the novel by Carl Sagan. How do we reconcile the film’s debate about science and religion? Is this really two movies in one? How showy are the film’s set pieces and special effects? We’re ok to go—otherwise this podcast would be an awful waste of space.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 522, July 2020.
0:11.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.6	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.7	This episode is about a movie.
0:16.3	It's a movie called Contact.
0:17.7	It was released in 1997.
0:19.0	It's directed by Robert Zemeckis. Before he started
0:23.2	directing increasingly weirder movies, this is starring Jody Foster, and I guess, yeah,
0:30.8	Matthew McConaughey is also, it's really starring Jody Foster and a lot of radio telescopes. And it's based on Carl Sagan's novel.
0:41.6	So, I like this movie, although actually I didn't like it that much when I watched it in the
0:47.9	movie theater, but somehow I watched it again and I've grown to like it more every time I watch it
0:51.9	since then. And I've gathered some people to talk
0:54.4	about this. It's not an anniversary or anything. I've been doing a lot of movies lately from
0:58.1	like 20 years ago or 25 years ago. It's some anniversary of something. This is not an
1:03.4	anniversary of anything. It came out 23 years ago. But joining me to talk on the on the occasion
1:08.9	of the 23rd anniversary of contact being released.
1:11.8	It's a big one.
1:12.6	It's the radio telescope anniversary.
1:14.5	Are the following people, David J. Lohar is here.
1:16.3	Hello.
1:18.7	Okay, a little radio static from David J. Lour.
1:21.3	Glenn Fleischman is also here.
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