Henry, Eddie, and Jackie are back for another round of Movie Stories! And this time, in preparation for Contact in the Desert 2025 - we’re talking Alien Movies! From Alien Abductions - to Alien Invasions - to Alien Contact - Recent Streaming hits to forgotten classics… we’re getting into them all in this 3rd installment of Movie Stories! For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
Chapter 1: What makes Alien Movies unique?
Why not you?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, no, E.T., but yeah, they re-released it, but now you can watch the older version if you get your hands on it, I believe. But E.T. is like, I still very much, obviously, I like things. E.T. is an unbelievable film. Now, how about this? E.T. or Close Encounters? Close Encounters. Close Encounters. Every time. Yeah. I think I go E.T. actually. Really?
I think Close Encounters is like if you're like Henry and you're a bigger fan of aliens in general, it's got the lore. All of it. It's got the research. Also the idea that maybe Spielberg, like this is where I love the conspiracy edge too because Spielberg At the time, he had government consultants working on that movie.
Jacques Vallée, who was obviously one of my favorite theoreticians, my favorite alien thinkers, he was also a consultant on the movie. He's portrayed as a character within the movie. The French guy in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is based off of that guy. And so Spielberg technically was told many times that this was like, that's why there's a lot of conspiracy theories.
Was the ship in the desert something that actually happened? No, but the idea of the U.S. government coming up with a communication protocol to talk with something that doesn't speak is actually, I guess, like part of the government research he got. that he slipped into the movie.
I'm sorry, you mean like Arrival?
Like what happens in Arrival that that's what... Basically, the idea of using tones, like when he does the whole talking to the aliens, that came from a government concept of if we are approached by another species or something from outer space, how do we communicate? And so that is what's awesome. That's what's awesome.
And then I feel like that's almost Steven Spielberg's crowning achievement is Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And it's just, the end's beautiful. It's wonderful. It is.
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Chapter 3: What are some classic Alien Movies?
One of John Goodman's greatest roles. Tragedy, he didn't get nominated. He puts on a display of acting in that film. I love 10. It's one of the movies on my list. I think it's one of my favorite Alien films.
I love that movie.
Yeah, it's terrifying. It's three different genres in one. You know, it's like a capture, what would you call that? A kidnapping film, I guess?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would put it as a, you know what's funny? It's in the be quiet movie category.
Yes, it is. And we're saving it for that episode.
It's in the be quiet movie category. Unfortunately, that's a whole other thing. Everybody's got to be quiet.
So how do you feel about... Can I let out of the bag who we're going to interview at Contact in the Desert? Of course. We're going to interview Whitley Schreber at Contact in the Desert. Very excited. So I'm like, once I found out last night that Communion is actually about him, written by him, wrote the screenplay and the book. Yes.
I got halfway through it. I'm enjoying it, but it is a little silly. It's dated for sure. The Christopher Walken thing, it is quite dated. The aliens are definitely puppets. There is a weird thing with Christopher Walken.
I like puppets. Christopher Walken's really given a very amorphous... I think these are behind the scenes. This is from the movie. This is from the movie? I didn't get to this part. He dances like this in the movie? He can't help it.
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