I will keep this short and sweet.
The film itself is good in part. The fact that a lot of it was played out like a docudrama (JFK) gives it a somewhat believable veneer.
This drove us nuts in the 90s. Me and my family w were UFO nuts. Just like many others, thanks to Spielberg, X-Files and pretty much every other thing you could swing a cat at.
As for the subject matter. Hmmm. Well in 2022, it really hasn't aged well.
The Roswell incident was no doubt an event of some magnitude. However, whether it was a crashed ufo or not is still up for question.
Yet ask the basic questions and you get a case of Occam's Razor.
It happened at a time after two World Wars, after War of the World's and at a time when Hollywood was lapping this stuff up and UFOs were a convenient zeitgeist that will have been something akin to the Internet of its time. Big business.
Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, astrology nut, avid film goer and combat photographer finds what this movie states as being remnants of a ufo crash. He takes some home for his son.
In a family of three, with access and knowhow of cameras and intelligence, don't think once to take a picture... In fact, a media savvy military town has an event this big, and no-one thought it may be a good idea to take a single picture?
I mean, it is a great convenience that the aliens decided to visit earth at this time and head to one of the remotest towns in New Mexico. And before you say they were scoping the military base, why Roswell? Because of the bomb? OK. Sure.
It all adds up to a populace searching for answers and cashing in on big business. It is clearly stated that 3000 dollars was the going rate for anything ufo related. Whether this figure is true or not is moot. It does in fact show that it was big business.
Then we have the military. UFOs are a convenient cover story and distraction for a tensely paranoid military wrapped in a cold war. It is not only a perfect cover for their own experimental avionics service, but it is fun right? I mean, Hollywood and the military had been hand in fist for years before this.
Then there's the press. Again, UFOs are biiiiig business for the press and they'll have wanted anything to get away from the droll of two world wars.
Roswell and UFOs are now a billion dollar industry that keeps needing to reinvent itself for a newfangled audience.
Do UFOs exist? Yes, they probably do. But I'd say there is more likelihood that they are unidentified man-made machinery than visitors from the cosmos.
I mean, only a civil society who invented something as insipid as religion, santa and the tooth fairy could craft antithesis' surrounding visitors from another planet. I mean, are we really that interesting...
Whatever. Go watch this for entertainment value, but always keep in mind that EVERYONE gains from the lore of UFOs and extra terrestrials.
Even the late Jesse Marcel himself I would wager.
The film itself is good in part. The fact that a lot of it was played out like a docudrama (JFK) gives it a somewhat believable veneer.
This drove us nuts in the 90s. Me and my family w were UFO nuts. Just like many others, thanks to Spielberg, X-Files and pretty much every other thing you could swing a cat at.
As for the subject matter. Hmmm. Well in 2022, it really hasn't aged well.
The Roswell incident was no doubt an event of some magnitude. However, whether it was a crashed ufo or not is still up for question.
Yet ask the basic questions and you get a case of Occam's Razor.
It happened at a time after two World Wars, after War of the World's and at a time when Hollywood was lapping this stuff up and UFOs were a convenient zeitgeist that will have been something akin to the Internet of its time. Big business.
Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, astrology nut, avid film goer and combat photographer finds what this movie states as being remnants of a ufo crash. He takes some home for his son.
In a family of three, with access and knowhow of cameras and intelligence, don't think once to take a picture... In fact, a media savvy military town has an event this big, and no-one thought it may be a good idea to take a single picture?
I mean, it is a great convenience that the aliens decided to visit earth at this time and head to one of the remotest towns in New Mexico. And before you say they were scoping the military base, why Roswell? Because of the bomb? OK. Sure.
It all adds up to a populace searching for answers and cashing in on big business. It is clearly stated that 3000 dollars was the going rate for anything ufo related. Whether this figure is true or not is moot. It does in fact show that it was big business.
Then we have the military. UFOs are a convenient cover story and distraction for a tensely paranoid military wrapped in a cold war. It is not only a perfect cover for their own experimental avionics service, but it is fun right? I mean, Hollywood and the military had been hand in fist for years before this.
Then there's the press. Again, UFOs are biiiiig business for the press and they'll have wanted anything to get away from the droll of two world wars.
Roswell and UFOs are now a billion dollar industry that keeps needing to reinvent itself for a newfangled audience.
Do UFOs exist? Yes, they probably do. But I'd say there is more likelihood that they are unidentified man-made machinery than visitors from the cosmos.
I mean, only a civil society who invented something as insipid as religion, santa and the tooth fairy could craft antithesis' surrounding visitors from another planet. I mean, are we really that interesting...
Whatever. Go watch this for entertainment value, but always keep in mind that EVERYONE gains from the lore of UFOs and extra terrestrials.
Even the late Jesse Marcel himself I would wager.