Tuesday, June 16, 2026

I Know Nothing About Spielberg's New Movie Other Than He Apparently Is Remilking The ET Teat That He'd Already Milked When He Made That Tearjerker

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE MOVIES especially not sci-fi-adventure movies.  

If it's true that, on the basis of a movie script which, or so I understand, is based on a treatment by Spielberg, himself, him making any kind of speculative declarations of what a scenario he imagines would do to Christianity are based on an even greater level of ignorance than my almost total nescience about his movie.   What if the "ETs" turn out to be highly religious in a monotheistic way compatible with the Abrahamic religions?   What if they convert to Christianity?   If so, I'm hoping it's one of the peace churches or we might be in big trouble. 

Spielberg is one of those whose movies of the mid-1970s onward buried the attempt at Hollywood to make movies for adults in favor of adolescents who would go see the same movie over and over again in one month.   Which helped me to come to the conclusion that I really don't care about the movies, prefering the cheap, cheap, close to the author's intent form of radio drama - though, again, I generally don't care for the sci-fi and fantasy genres, too easy, too stupid.  

That's a problem for any kind of theater but especially for the movies.  Going back and looking at some of the classic movies I enjoyed when I saw them,  the stories are largely absurd, the acting looks contrived and old fashioned and while some of them are visually striking and even to some extent artistic, that doesn't make up for the stories and the acting.   

I suspect that whatever might happen if "contact" is made,  it won't have much of an impact on those of us who really believe the Gospel of Jesus.   It's not as if the Bible was the last word in that,  though it certainly must inform any genuine understanding of the Gospel.   When I imagine "ETs" who manage to have technology powerful enough for them to get here,  I imagine they learned such things as "the meek will inherit their planet,"  "do to others what you'd have them do to you," sharing food and drink is to share in the very substance of God.   Any species that developed technology that didn't share those truths of the Gospel probably end up destroying themselves like the materialists in the human species are doing right now.  If Spielberg doesn't have that as a theme in the movie, it's bullshit. 

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