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Spielberg, ET, and BS

Come on folks. Skeptics like us ain't the intended audience. It's for sheeple who want to believe.
I didn't see anything in the trailer that I haven't seen before. So he had to make promisses he can't keep.
You know a movie is in trouble when the trailer interviews the test screening audience. (in this case the director).
The trailer was boring. It relys too much on Spielberg's name as the only draw.
 
Well, I think one thing we can agree on is the trailer. with clips of his interview, does not paint a clear, full picture of what Spielberg believes regarding aliens here on (or coming to) Earth. I tried to find the full, uncut interview that the trailer clips came from with the hope of getting more context, but no luck. I did find another interview he did a few years ago with Colbert about UFO's etc that clarifies a little better what his thoughts are on these topics. Its pretty mainstream, and I don't find it to be tin foil hat material or worthy of ridicule or dismisal. He's a little speculative regarding the UAPs being time traveling Earthlings coming back to visit, but he's not hanging his hat on that theory.

 
pood said:
I’m a big fan of fictive literature but not so much sci-fi, because so much of it is so bad
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Someone may remember this more acurately:
Decades ago on a latenight interview a wrighter was told '90% of sci-fi is shit'.
The wrighter responded '90% of everything is shit.'
The things I like are because I am willing to put up with more shit from them.
pood said:
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful for people to know?”

Know what?

Then:

“They’re coming.”

They are? How does he know?

Then, finally:

“All of this is true.”
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In the 'final' trailer i just watched, it went like this:

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful for people to know ...
(pause for filmclip)
... all of this is true?”

It's not a statement. It's a question.
The power of editing.
 
Bomb#20 said:
pood said:
So, while this is a movie, I thought I’d drop it in this forum so we can discuss whether there is any actual evidence that we are being visited by intelligent aliens
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Here ya go...

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If they are intelligent, they wouldn't visit Earth.:)
On a serious note, it is quite plausible that if they are capable of interstellar travel, that ETIs could have visited Earth many times during the past millions of years.
 
From the article:
The backstory gets wilder from there. Buchanan reportedly learned about this alleged campaign after being approached at a diner by three individuals who identified themselves as Nordics—tall, blond, blue-eyed beings from another world who are supposedly living among us in small mountain towns in Colorado, passing as Scandinavian. They asked for his help avoiding CIA detection. They had, apparently, been running an intergalactic underground railroad of sorts, fleeing a tyrannical home government and secretly building a half-human family tree on American soil.

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“They said, ‘Look, our children, especially our grandchildren, have no idea where they’re from,’” Jorjani said, relaying the encounter. “We just want them to have lives of peace and liberty here in America.”
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I guess there's a lot more Spielberg could have done.
 
bilby said:
steve_bank said:
The first Star Wars movie was a western in the future. Bang bang shoot em up with futuristic 'blaster' pistols carried in a holster. In the end the guy gets the girl.
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No it wasn't. It was a fairytale set in space. Farm boy discovers he is really an heroic swordsman, destined to rescue the princess from the evil lord in his impregnable fortress.

And it even comes right out and says so right at the beginning - it's not set in the future, it's set "A long time ago, in a land galaxy far away..."

Of course, lots of Westerns similarly stole their plots from fairytales. There really aren't that many stories, and this is one of the most popular.
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Technically those are journey man archetypal epics, which are older than Joe Biden! :eek:
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
bilby said:
steve_bank said:
The first Star Wars movie was a western in the future. Bang bang shoot em up with futuristic 'blaster' pistols carried in a holster. In the end the guy gets the girl.
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:hysterical:

No it wasn't. It was a fairytale set in space. Farm boy discovers he is really an heroic swordsman, destined to rescue the princess from the evil lord in his impregnable fortress.

And it even comes right out and says so right at the beginning - it's not set in the future, it's set "A long time ago, in a land galaxy far away..."

Of course, lots of Westerns similarly stole their plots from fairytales. There really aren't that many stories, and this is one of the most popular.
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Technically those are journey man archetypal epics, which are older than Joe Biden! :eek:
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Yep, the origin of it goes back to ancient times, but has been popularized and modernized by Joseph Campbell in the form of The Hero's Journey.
 
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