I'd like to believe ... I want to believe ... but ...
The worldwide culture surrounding the UFO phenomenon has made the subject just way too embarassing to even want to investigate and explore. I mean, I've tried viewing some of those old UFO shows Jonathan Frakes hosted and the so-called "evidence" is utter shite. Even on an entertainment level, I've tried giving CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the THIRD KIND a go and it was ... bad. Terri Garr looks beautiful, but her performance is hampered by these out of control brats running around and screaming all the time. There were instances where I couldn't even hear her dialogue, because of it.
The aliens don't want her kids, though, they try to take another blonde lady's and they do seem keen! They come down the chimney ... run around her upstairs ... crawl up her vents and unscrew the cover, whilst mum screams her bloody balls off. They finally have a tug of war over the kid through the bottom of the door, where her cat comes through! They don't take a hint, do they? And when they bother returning other stuff they've stolen, like a cruise-liner, they make sure it's a pain in everyone's ass by dumping it not in the water, but in the sands of the Mexican desert. And at the end, I'm meant to be in awe when the aliens rush out of their UFO, buck-naked, and release their many unwilling hostages after a jam session with Mission Control. And this was sold to me as the greatest UFO movie, like ... ever.
