The bar is set pretty high

That's why we've secretly built a backup.

God bless the Japanese

a white blonde Christian extremist suicide bomber Hollywood really nailed it with this one

If anyone has a copy of the contact edit where Jodie gets to meet Hitler I'd be very grateful if you reposted it for me.

@grok find this edit asap

14 year old me made a joke to my friends dad after we watched this way back when about it not being a muslim that blew something up with a vest on for once and he lost his mind at me about it. I hate boomers.

The ending of this movie was pure cringe. "Should...have sent...a poet." Shut the fuck up lol.

Oh man... I forgot about this stupid movie... Lucky thing the Japanese were building an identical one at the same time... without ANYONE noticing... hardly NO time was wasted...

Who knew Gary Buseys kid would cause so much trouble. At least he redeemed himself in the war against the bugs

nah, this is when some effective altruists and AI safety fortunetellers take a few overweight essayists seriously

Contact is one of the strangest movies with a blockbuster budget ever made

They stopped inviting Jake Busey to launches after this. I hear @elonmusk is trying to get him back for some SpaceX stuff, but that might be a rumor.

Grok refuses to relent and tell me what this clip is from, insisting that it’s a “tightly edited montage” of various space movies.

One of the best movies from my childhood.

I had to look this up on you tube as I was convinced something this stupid must be some kind of deceptive mashup.

Ah yes, “Nell in Space”, quite forgettable flick.

My favourite part of this movie is how they cut together Bill Clinton press clips to make it look like he was talking about aliens

Where's Jake Busey when you need him?

I just wish they'd launch two so we could get footage of the rocket in space.

First rule in government spending, why build one when you can have two at twice the price? I kid you not I was a GS13 at Interior doing oil and gas leasing and people would seriously talk like that when we funded something industry wanted.

I've been thinking of this scene a lot lately with the sudden growth of anti-datacenter luddites.

We did our honeymoon at the same motel in Panguitch

The astronauts are all DEI hires. Mid-air disaster is pretty much in the bag.

One of my Fav movie.. CONTACT

We call that an overcooked ham.

I remember that, such a tragic event. 😒

What movie/show is that?

Get outta my head I was gonna watch this later.

Just another crazy day in the life of Gary Busey. Right on brand.

First rule of Government spending...

CONTACT APPRECIATION ON MY TL 🥹

literally top 10 films

I need to know what this is so bad

Contact 1997 I believe

It’s not very good

Oh yeah, that cringe plot. So stupid.

Such a great movie

If the rocket exploded on the pad, or during take off, there is a 99.8% chance the crew would survive. The launch escape system they use has had 60 years of testing and reliability.