Contact [Blu-ray]

Contact [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

Condition: New. The opening and shutting seconds of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly sees in films these days--each is an expression of the heroine's existencelong quest (both non secular and scientific) to discover the that means of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial existence. The film begins by way of hovering a approachs out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the flicker in one little girl's eye. It finishs with that same girl as an grownup (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to positions past her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact hints the journey between these two visible epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is primarily considerate and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction image, with elements that keep in mind the whole lot from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some actually improbable alien hardware) preserve viewers interested, even when the story skips and implyders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is the entirese factors and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but no matter conclusions one ultimately attracts, Contact deserves reputation as a uncommon piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a non-public scale.. Read more Contact [Blu-ray]

Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]

Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

FORBIDDEN PLANET BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC). On the DVDs On disc 1 of the colorfully designed 2-disc fiftieth Anniversary Edition of Forbidden Planet (also to be had in a collector's box), the movie is introduced with a new digital switch from restored image and audio parts, with soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, offering substantial improvement over the film's previous DVD release. A number of deleted scenes had been taken from a light and scratchy 16-millimeter "work print" that had originally been seen by using composers Louis and Bebe Barron as they were developing the film's distinctive digital score; they include full or partial scenes lower from the ultimate film-- largely for good purpose, however collectors (and individuals who first saw this rare subject matter on the authentic Criterion Collection laserdisc) will welcome their inclusion right here. The "lost pictures" is crude unique-effects check pictures, primarily of hobby to sci-fi historians and aficionados. Given the fact that the unique "Robby the Robot" value over $100,000 to construct in 1955, it can be simple to see why MGM wanted to get their money's worth: An excerpt from the Fifties TV sequence "MGM Parade" displays Forbidden Planet famous person Walter Pigeon appearing briefly with Robby, and the well-liked robotic will get much more consideration as a visitor big name in "The Robot Client," an episode of the Thin Man TV series (starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk) that at the celebrityt aired on Feb. 28, 1958. Disc 1 additionally includes a gallery of seven science-fiction film trailers courting from 1953 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) to 1960's The Time Machine. Disc 2 begins with 1957's The Invisible Boy, a still-enjoyable B-movie that served as Robby's post-Forbidden Planet show off. Here, filmdom's favourite automaton performs sidekick to a younger boy (Richard Eyer) who flips invisible when he gets caught up in a super-computer's scheme of world domination. Also included are three documentaries, ranging from excellent to excellent: In addition to reuniting the surviving solid members of the '56 basic (including Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Richard Anderson, Warren Stevens, and Earl Holliman), "Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet" is an appreciative tribute to Forbidden Planet with some of Hollywood's premiere sci-fi lovers including special effects masters Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, SF movie professional Bill Warren, and differents. "Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon" is a featurette in regards to the robotic's design, creation and pop-cultural history, featuring unique "Robby" designer Robert Kinoshita, Bill Malone (current proprietor of the original Robby), and Fred "The Robot Man" Barton, a lifelong robotic fanatic who now promotes fully licensed, full-scale replicas of Robby for sci-fi enthusiasts with deep pockets. Closing out disc 2 is "Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the Nineteen Fifties and Us," a 2005 documentary from Turner Classic Movies, written and directed with the help of Time journal critic Richard Schickel.. Read more Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]