Why won't they release this on DVD? It's too good!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of those rare, and virtually unknown, movies that really makes your brain fire on all cylinders. A fantastic cast that gives stunning performances, very well directed, an eerie but realistic atmosphere, and special effects that don't make you wince. Plus, it's a "true" story that portrays both sides most convincingly. This movie will please those who believe in extraterrestrial life and those who don't. Put all these elements together and you've got one helluva flick! Why the studio won't release this on DVD blows my mind. I've got an old VHS copy of it that I taped off TV...and it's nearly been played to oblivion. SEE THIS MOVIE IF YOU CAN!!!!
ROSWELL FLYING SAUCER CRASH. This is a good movie to watch but one thing that I found odd is that the actor who plays the son of JESSE MARCEL in the movie seems to have an angry attitude toward his father's continued insistance that the Roswell saucer crash really happened and was covered up. In real interviews with the real JESSE MARCEL JR, the man seems to be very supportive of his father's continued insistance of the crash. In a way it seems as if this film was made by someone who wanted to support the idea that nothing happened rather than the idea that it did. I liked the true story alien adbuction movie FIRE IN THE SKY a little better than this one.
Great movie! I thought this movie was very well done. I bought the DVD and was very pleased with how the subject matter was handled. Highly recommended.
StarAngel The fact that this movie even got made is a miracle. It's not perfect, but you have to realise how the US Gov't "intelligence" services (which we fund w/ our taxes) tried amazing disinformation, threats and lies to keep not only the honest folks of Roswell doubting their sanity, but all of America as well. Kyle Mac does a really fine job as Jesse Marcel who had to 'smile and lie' and at the same time either let others think he was crazy (couldn't tell the difference from indestructible unearthly 'living' metals from a weather balloon!?) or a big fat liar (collected boxes of this amazing stuff, then had to deny it). And the man had attained the rank of Major at the world's (then) ONLY heavy Bomb Army Air Force base in the world! The fine supporting cast via flashbacks add drama and accuracy to all of what the authors had for testimony...at that time. Since the July '47 Roswell was the final straw for the government and the oil industry- the covering up of Truth that we have galactic neighbors (who are smarter than us, but haven't destroyed us!), the CIA, DIA, NSA were all created to smother ALL future UFO sightings and truth. Go read some of the books on this as well as the other coverups. Welcome to the Future. And go see www.DisclosureProject.org too. Mindblowing, the covering up is still going on! You kids under 40 (ha,ha!) have to expose this now.
Like a Missile!!! This DVD could use a few more features, like language options and widescreen for starters. So expect just a basic DVD when you get it.
Personally I don't believe in aliens but it's fun to speculate. I think what's difficult to believe is that they travel millions and millions of miles safely and then just lose control and crash on Earth. Maybe the cruise control was on and they just dozed off.
BUT let's look at the story of Roswell; one that has been revisted many times. Our hero is Major Jesse Marcel (Kyle Maclachlan) who is asked to investigate some sort of crashed aerial vehicle at the ranch of Mac Brasel (country star Dwight Yoakum - actually better than I would have imagined).
Possibly due to budget constraints, the film has the look of a made-for-TV movie and maybe that was the intended target. However, it does have a nice feel of the "coverup" and "misdirection" as we watch an ailing Marcel flashback and review the events of 1947 with his former associates and family. Now, nobody doubts that the real Major Jesse Marcel would not know a weather balloon, so obviously something was afoot. The question is "what?". Evidently something was amiss and from the obscurity the legend has only grown.
There are some beautiful airplanes in the film, including a pristine Boeing B-29 bomber and a beautiful Northrup P-61 "Black Widow" (only partially seen). For those who don't know, the P-61 was a night fighter, radar-equipped, similar in concept to the high-performance Lockheed P-38 "Lightning". It also shot down some German V-1 buzz bombs (the crude but terrifying cruise missiles of their day).
The cast is pretty good with Martin Sheen as "Townsend", the official gov't disinformation specialist. Others include Xander Berkeley as the cagey gov't intelligence liason. There are a host of others you'll recognize from several films. Definitely an all-star cast.
This film is an overview of the events and doesn't examine them critically, but presents the rumors and speculations as generally associated with the infamous incident. For that, it's good entertainment and halfway decent science fiction.
I'd give it 3.5 stars but there's no 1/2 rating so it gets 4 stars. Don't expect your questions to be resolved but you'll have fun with the film. Someday it would be fun to take a trip to Roswell, New Mexico and see all the sights. Until then, here's the DVD.
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