Sphere / 2010: The Year We Made Contact / Contact

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Jitendar Canth

Three Spectacular Sci-fi Movies of the Best Kinds
Certificate: M
Running Time: 400 mins
Retail Price: AU$ 19.95
Release Date: 2012
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
SPHERE: 1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere Will they survive the mysterious 'manifestations' Who or what is creating these They may never live to find out.

2010: THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT: In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Among the mysteries the expedition must explain are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L., the Discovery's sentient computer.

CONTACT: Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her NSF superior David Drumlin, as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders and other scientists such as Drumlin.

Special Features:
2010: The Year We Make Contact

2010: The Odyssey Continues featurette
Trailer


Contact

Commentary by Jodie Foster
Commentary by Robert Zemeckis and Steve Starkey
Commentary by Ken Ralston and Stephen Rosenbaum
Making of Featurettes
CGI comparisons
5.1 Music Only track
Trailers


Sphere

Commentary by Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson
Special Effects featurette
Theatrical Trailer
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