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Hangar 18 (1980)
this one has aged well
After 38 years, you might think that everything will ring false in the depiction of an ET encounter. But actually, the film stands very well together. I was expecting a campy ET suit with an obvious human shape not too well hidden - but instead, there is a logical explanation why the ET looks almost human (spoilers...).
This is one of these old movies where there was a scenario and special effects were just a support of the scenario.
I also like how they portray the investigators... and how the actors portray their reactions in very realistic ways.
Worth watching!
Les mécréants (2011)
hard to watch, but necessary movie
What to say? an impossible situation, that forces the people to think about what they want to have been once dead. It's a horrible theme horrible but a needed one, because one day or another we might all be targets of terrorists so we might better be ready. As noted the other commentator, it's also a reflection about the power of doubt. Could it be THEY are right? How to make progress when stuck with our ideological total opposite? Paradoxically, it would seem the best reaction to fanaticism is not to raise against it but to doubt! And at least in one case, that strategy seems to work. This is really "reality TV" - much more so than anything I've seen in a long while. It is hard to see, but one cannot remain indifferent, and in the end, just like the characters, we do not know what to think!... in the end I only could think, "what a movie"... and "it had to be done to make up people about the real world we live in".