Sean Fennessey

That was like all the programming from the radio stuff in the 30s and 40s. The movie shows in the 50s and 60s. And it was all like, watch out, they're coming. And this movie just flipped it. And they're like, what if they're not coming? What if they're just really interested in finding out more about us? Which now seems like the easiest flip to make, but back then was like a crazy movie.

Well, but think about 20 years later, we're in Armageddon Independence Day mode, where it's like, the aliens are coming, they're gonna fucking get us again. Yeah. And that's kind of the generational response to whatever was going on here, where it was way more hope in outer space, I think.

Well, but think about 20 years later, we're in Armageddon Independence Day mode, where it's like, the aliens are coming, they're gonna fucking get us again. Yeah. And that's kind of the generational response to whatever was going on here, where it was way more hope in outer space, I think.

Well, but think about 20 years later, we're in Armageddon Independence Day mode, where it's like, the aliens are coming, they're gonna fucking get us again. Yeah. And that's kind of the generational response to whatever was going on here, where it was way more hope in outer space, I think.

Well, you talk about the paranoid seventies. which we've discussed in the past here, but this is a whole genre that I love, by the way. This should be a 2B category. Conversation, All the President's Men, Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Cap Corp 1, China Syndrome, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. All of it's a response to Watergate and Vietnam and not trusting government.

Well, you talk about the paranoid seventies. which we've discussed in the past here, but this is a whole genre that I love, by the way. This should be a 2B category. Conversation, All the President's Men, Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Cap Corp 1, China Syndrome, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. All of it's a response to Watergate and Vietnam and not trusting government.

Well, you talk about the paranoid seventies. which we've discussed in the past here, but this is a whole genre that I love, by the way. This should be a 2B category. Conversation, All the President's Men, Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Cap Corp 1, China Syndrome, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. All of it's a response to Watergate and Vietnam and not trusting government.

By the way, there's 20 more movies, but those are the headliners. So it feels like this is part of that era.

By the way, there's 20 more movies, but those are the headliners. So it feels like this is part of that era.

By the way, there's 20 more movies, but those are the headliners. So it feels like this is part of that era.

But I agree with you. It feels like Spielberg also lost interest in something along the course of it. Cause they start making this in 73 and that's right around the time you would have started thinking like, what's the government hiding? What else are they doing? JFK assassinations previous decade. But it also like starts this whole sci-fi era. That's like the modern sci-fi or with star Wars.

But I agree with you. It feels like Spielberg also lost interest in something along the course of it. Cause they start making this in 73 and that's right around the time you would have started thinking like, what's the government hiding? What else are they doing? JFK assassinations previous decade. But it also like starts this whole sci-fi era. That's like the modern sci-fi or with star Wars.

But I agree with you. It feels like Spielberg also lost interest in something along the course of it. Cause they start making this in 73 and that's right around the time you would have started thinking like, what's the government hiding? What else are they doing? JFK assassinations previous decade. But it also like starts this whole sci-fi era. That's like the modern sci-fi or with star Wars.

Cause we get those two, we get Superman and Star Trek and, In 1881, we get Alien, Empire, Superman II, and Flash Gordon. We get E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II, and The Thing just in 1982. So something flips, and it's like modern sci-fi all of a sudden, but I think it starts with Star Wars in this movie.

Cause we get those two, we get Superman and Star Trek and, In 1881, we get Alien, Empire, Superman II, and Flash Gordon. We get E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II, and The Thing just in 1982. So something flips, and it's like modern sci-fi all of a sudden, but I think it starts with Star Wars in this movie.

Cause we get those two, we get Superman and Star Trek and, In 1881, we get Alien, Empire, Superman II, and Flash Gordon. We get E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II, and The Thing just in 1982. So something flips, and it's like modern sci-fi all of a sudden, but I think it starts with Star Wars in this movie.

Yeah, there's like a six-year window where this movie could have come out. Because to me, E.T. and this movie are pretty close, but there's a five-year difference when those came out.

Yeah, there's like a six-year window where this movie could have come out. Because to me, E.T. and this movie are pretty close, but there's a five-year difference when those came out.

Yeah, there's like a six-year window where this movie could have come out. Because to me, E.T. and this movie are pretty close, but there's a five-year difference when those came out.

It's the same kind of...