[darkhorse13]

Contact (1997) is one of my favorite films of all time. I watched it as a teenager for the first time, so that would be my recommendation.

[gonehome]

This is one where Sagan’s book has the opposite conclusion.

In the book a team of international people are selected to go (rather than just one) and it ends with them doing science to gather evidence to prove their story (whereas the movie ends with an emotional speech about accepting her story “on faith”)

[mcphage]

> If people continue to abuse these terms, they are watering down important terms for something that is really, really harmful.

The book has a lot of characters with weak connections together. The movie has fewer characters, more strongly connected. I think it's one of the few cases where the movie is better than the book—they're still both excellent, however.