While I’m ranting about Contact here’s another purported sci-fi movie that made me want to SELF-HARM. I remember watching this pseudo-intellectual reel of NONSENSE and groaning so hard when all the “hard” Hollywood science was reduced to LOVE IS THE FIFTH DIMENSION. This movie took at least 2 years off my life span from suffering an endless series of RAGE STROKES. How on earth was this movie in any way laudable?? NEVER FORGIVE

I will never forget being like 10 years old and expecting a cool sci-fi movie only to be VIOLENTLY disappointed by Contact. WTF CARL SAGAN YOU SADIST. Instead of cool alien stuff you give me Jodie Foster with SPACE DADDY ISSUES?!?!? If I wanted to spend two hours on that crap I could just stare in the MIRROR!! I remember being so young and so angry and wanting to roll up and down the aisles screaming in protest. NEVER FORGIVE

Today Helen McCory died and it’s gutting news. What’s even more depressing is that her legacy is being defined by Harry Potter shit and I can’t deal. I think this mini-series is the best performance I’ve seen by Helen on film. She is sublime.