The Aliens Won’t Come Visit Us (Unacknowledged Review)
Kat and Ryley try to remember all of the points mentioned in Steven M. Greer's whistleblowing documentary "Unacknowledged"
Review Overview: Take the whole documentary with a grain of salt. If you already believe in aliens, you'll enjoy it more than a skeptic. If you have strong opinions about aliens not existing, you probably won't enjoy it.
It's overstuffed with evidence and interviews. So much so that it was hard to recall everything they talked about. There are also some moments where the documentary skews the evidence they show (like Buzz Aldrin's interview clip being cut off and context being left out to support their claims.)
It's entertaining, though, and an interesting enough watch, especially if you are not interested in whether aliens exist. At times it seems like it's more about distrust in the government than extraterrestrials, so if you're interested in that, you'll probably enjoy it.
Kat and Ryley: 3/5
kat 0:18
Hello and welcome to Easy Bake Oven the podcast I'm Kat
ryley 0:21
and I Riley.
kat 0:22
We both watched the documentary unacknowledged. It was released in 2017. It has an hour and 40 minute runtime and a quick plot summary for this documentary is Disclosure Project founder Dr. Steven M. Greer offers evidence of extraterrestrial contact, including top secret testimonials documents and never before seeing UFO footage. What did you think of this documentary?
ryley 0:44
It was okay. So I was thinking it. So first off, it's on Hulu. So I'm thinking okay, this could be fun because like the last thing like creature mythical creature wise I watched was like Bigfoot murdered some people so they're doing your investigations on that.
kat 0:59
And it was actually just like the pot farm. Yeah, yeah.
gangs.
ryley 1:04
Yeah,
kat 1:04
Killing each other. But people
ryley 1:06
There's a bunch of documentaries on that, like, go watch one is called Murder mountain. That's a good one.
kat 1:11
Yes.
ryley 1:11
We should watch that one.
kat 1:12
i Yes. Yes. I think I should watch that one. Yeah.
ryley 1:15
It's good. But to go back with it. So I'm thinking like, Okay, this is gonna be you know, your typical alien documentary is gonna be like, I saw this, and I saw this I'm like, Okay, this thing goes hard. This thing opens with JFKs head being blown off
kat 1:33
and a monk burning himself alive while they play what a wonderful world in the background.
ryley 1:40
Oh, well and to me that like it. It's really focusing on like, I love how it was about aliens, but that's all the shit we did. All the fucked up we did. Yeah, and also like the, you know, the planets dying and like, there's so much corruption. There's people dying everywhere. They show Teneman square and just, it's it's a dark. What do you credit scene like
kat 2:04
Opening
ryley 2:04
The big opening, but it's opening No one's even saying anything about aliens. It's just showing the fucked up ness of the world. I'm like, Oh,
kat 2:10
And playing what a wonderful world in the background because irony.
ryley 2:14
And like I'm saying this for people who are planning to watch this like it's graphic. I would careful if you don't
kat 2:21
if you're not comfortable watching someone's head getting shot and exploding on his wife. A monk getting burned alive,
ryley 2:29
Also that baby.
kat 2:30
Yeah, you can skip the opening.
ryley 2:33
You can skip the opening.
kat 2:34
The basic thing is just like humans have done a lot of fucked up shit. And a lot of bad things have happened and a lot of like stuff that's caused by humans. Like has happened-
ryley 2:45
That's why the aliens won't come visit us they're scared of us, we're really fucked up down here.
kat 2:50
I think they tried. I feel like they put that in the beginning because later on, they talk about how the aliens came and visited us because of our atomic bombs.
ryley 2:59
Yeah, no, I remember that part. Yeah.
kat 3:01
yeah. Any other thoughts that you have on this?
ryley 3:04
It's good. If if you're like it, despite like, if you don't believe in aliens. That's okay. Like,
kat 3:11
it's entertaining.
ryley 3:12
It's very entertaining. But also like this, this documentary will make you angry because despite whether you believe it's the government is spending trillions of dollars on this alien thing. Whether that you believe that or not, there is missing money in our government that they can't account for.
kat 3:29
Yeah,
ryley 3:29
what is it like trillions of dollars?
kat 3:31
Yeah. Yeah.
ryley 3:33
If anything, it's just gonna make you hate their government.
kat 3:36
Yeah.
ryley 3:37
They really do focus on the US. They always do an alien documentary. I don't understand why
kat 3:41
they like touched on how like they sent like, Air Force pilots to intercept a UFO that was like, around stone henge or something .
ryley 3:50
Yeah. Like just the one thing I'm like,
kat 3:54
okay, so you have like a whole alien task force that we don't know about. Okay. But what I thought about it, I do think it's really entertaining to watch. I don't think that like the people that already like hardcore believe that these theories that they put out there are true or you're just going to find more evidence to like, support your theories. But if you don't believe in them, you know, it's just a very entertaining thing to watch. It's, there's a lot going on. Like it's a lot to learn from it. And then they made some bold claims
ryley 4:24
Bold, bold claims.
kat 4:24
The Marilyn Monroe claim that yeah, was she really sleeping with both Kennedy's?
ryley 4:29
I knew she was like, I know she slept with JFK. I didn't know she was sleeping with the brother. Yeah, believe it.
kat 4:38
You know, she was apparently she was also sleeping with Bobby Kennedy. And they were saying, yeah, they're saying like,
ryley 4:46
The same time
kat 4:47
They say she got killed because she was about to come out and speak on like, the stuff that the government's hiding about UFOs or whatever. And like, you know, I don't rule that out. Like, I think that maybe not necessarily the UFOs but maybe she knew some government stuff that she wasn't supposed to know. You know, I wouldn't put it past the government.
ryley 5:06
And that's like another example of like, it's, uh, you know, you can take out the aliens in this documentary. And you can just like think about like, what are government's willing to hide from us where government's willing to sacrifice to keep stuff hidden from us make things disappear or silencing to make sure secrets are hidden. But that's just like it. It talks a lot about government. There's also a documents that they bring up this I'm like, how, where are these documents? Can I read them?
kat 5:31
But another thing with like, along the lines of the government stuff that I wrote down in my like, initial thoughts about it was the part about technology. And like, anytime anyone comes up with something that's like, more sustainable for the planet or anything like the guy Stan Meyer, who made the water powered car? Do you know what his final words were? You know what this man's final words? Were they were they poisoned to me. He said that right? He was in a diner with his brother and like a few other people. And like the waiter brought him food he started eating and then he like collapsed over said, They poisoned me and died. I don't know if that's 100% True. I didn't do like a full facts search. But like.
ryley 6:09
well, it's the same thing with the guy, the journalist who exposed that the government was, what were they doing? They were they were bringing in crack cocaine into the country and planting it around. Like they did that the CIA did that. And that journalists die by suicide with two gun bullets in his head.
kat 6:28
How do you double shoot your head?
ryley 6:30
That Well, that's the whole thing. I hate when there's murders out there. Where they they're claiming their suicides, but there's two gunshots in the head. How does that happen? That doesn't happen. That doesn't happen.
kat 6:40
There was there was this true crime case, Sorry to go off for a second. But like, there's the true crime case that my sister was telling me about. That it was this woman who got stabbed a bunch of times in the back of her head, and they ruled it a suicide.
ryley 6:53
Seriously?
kat 6:54
Yeah.
ryley 6:55
God. Yeah.
kat 6:56
But okay, just a one last other thought. Other than the fact that like, I don't really agree or disagree with anything that's being said.
ryley 7:03
It's just like, these are things you watch and you think about it does it will make you angry about government that I will claim
kat 7:10
They do slander Dick Cheney, and I'm always here for that.
ryley 7:14
Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. Oh, yeah. We're like, they're not like, yeah, like, I'm not against any of the people in this.
kat 7:22
Yeah.
ryley 7:23
I don't think they do anything that like, they're just talking about the government what they do and like, stuff they hide and like.
kat 7:29
yeah, I will say that, like, there's I think there's a review later on that we'll get to from like an audience member about, like, people were upset that they brought Carl Sagan into it. And we're saying that like, he believed in Aliens until people started ridiculing him and his, like, credibility was being taken away. And then he started like, going against the belief that there are aliens. I like I think at this point, like, I think Neil deGrasse Tyson did it to where he was like, No, aliens are real. And like Bill Nye kind of like it. I don't think in like, educational science community, you're allowed to acknowledge that at like, a certain time, but I think now you definitely can. Like, I think it's possible to be like, I feel like you sound stupid. If you think that aliens don't exist.
ryley 8:14
No, that's the whole point. And they did explain it. Like they someone I forgot who it was, but they were on the talk shows. Oh, yeah, it was Bill Clinton, he was explaining how they found like, what was it like? 20 different planets that are exactly
kat 8:28
habitable.
ryley 8:28
Yes, perfectly habitable that are outside our solar system or something like that. And it's like, Well, how could you? And like, it's one of those things where like, how, how much of the ego do you have to have to think that we're the only planet that could have absolutely could sustain life? Like, no, the universe is so big, like, there has to be something else out there. I'm not saying it's aliens coming to earth and flying saucer. I'm not saying that.
kat 8:51
Yeah,
ryley 8:52
but like, No, we can't be the only we can't be the only lucky thing to have happened.
kat 8:56
Yeah, and like to assume that we are like it if there are more like civilizations out there on other planets, and I believe that there are, there are also like, It's so insane to me that if anyone thinks that we are more advanced than any other, like possible civilization out there. Like obviously, if there's another civilization And like, we've gotten hints that there might be aliens, even if like, you know, I've never had an alien encounter. And like
ryley 9:25
I feel like they're hard to come by.
kat 9:26
They are. I never really am out there looking.
ryley 9:30
I'm not outside that often.
kat 9:32
I don't sit out in the cow field staring at the stars.
ryley 9:36
Like abduction my alien abduction levels are low. Regular abduction is pretty high.
kat 9:43
I feel like you know, they probably have like, specific areas they go to but like from the from the And the anywhere that's like deserty like
Yeah.
New Mexico, and like Arizona Vegas like not Vegas, Nevada. I just got to Vegas walked down the strip, no one even notices them.
ryley 10:06
I bet not
kat 10:06
Okay, but now we're gonna move on to like who, who was involved in making this because I feel like with documentaries especially like, it's important to know about the people who made these documentaries and who was contributing information to these. So the director of this was Michael Mazola. He also wrote it with Stephen Peak, who founded with his wife, the production company, Aurorus media that produced this documentary. The people who like starred in it because like, I'm not going to sit and list every single person they interviewed, but like the main people in it, Steven M. Greer, who was the expert, quote, unquote, whatever, for this documentary, and who had collected all these interviews, and started the Disclosure Project to collect all these interviews, and then Jean Carlo Esposito is the voiceover person for it. And he was in the Mandalorian, Breaking Bad, the usual subjects, it's not subjects usual suspects, and do the right thing. And then, yeah, I thought it was like at first when I like first heard his voice. I thought it was Neil deGrasse Tyson. And then
ryley 11:06
yeah,
kat 11:07
looked at the, the IMDB and I was like, Oh, that is not him.
ryley 11:10
Yeah.
kat 11:12
And I'm gonna give a little bit of background information on Steve- Steven Greer, just because he's the main face of this documentary. And he has made other documentaries about or he's been involved in other documentaries about like aliens. So he's born in 1955. He claims that he saw a UFO at close range when he was eight. He trained as a transcendental meditation teacher. And if you don't know what Transcendental Meditation is, it's a technique for detaching oneself from anxiety and promoting harmony and self realization by meditation, repetition of a mantra, and other yoga yogic practices promulgated by an international organization founded by Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. So it's basically just like, you know, mindfulness, I guess,
ryley 12:01
Which is so on par with people who like love UFOs and stuff.
kat 12:05
Yeah, that's like that, like,
ryley 12:06
the hippie leg kind of thing.
kat 12:07
Yeah. Because like, I think especially now, people who would like be equivalent to hippies were back then it's like, they, they're thinking about space.
ryley 12:18
Yeah.
kat 12:18
Like, it used to be more like connection with the earth. But now it's more like connection with the universe. You know,
ryley 12:24
it's bigger.
kat 12:25
It's bigger than just being connected to Mother Nature now. And so he received a BS Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1982. He got his medical degree in 1987. And he received a medical license in 1989. And then he retired as a physician in 1998. To like, study you ufology activities
ryley 12:48
and to make that committee in like 2001.
kat 12:52
Yeah, so after he stopped being a doctor, he founded the Center for the Study of extraterrestrial intelligence, CSETI. In 1992, create diplomatic research, diplomatic and research based initiative to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. And this organization has claimed to have 3000 confirmed reports of UFO sightings by pilots and over 4000 proofs of what they describe as landing traces. He also founded the Disclosure Project which seeks the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information. And it was founded in an effort to grant amnesty to government whistleblowers willing to violate their security old spy sharing insider knowledge about UFOs. And then on his Wikipedia page, that's where I got this information about his background from he- there's like a one little section that's just conspiracy theories. And he claims, this is his conspiracy theory. He claims that a covert transnational mostly corporate group that has no oversight from any governments and which possesses anti gravity technology and craft has had a plan since the 1950s to hoax an alien attack. So like they're like faking, they faked an alien attack or something or they hid an alien. It's like, I'm not sure which, which one he means.
ryley 14:16
I bet it's the one you just said like, cover up like he- Cuz like he, I mean, he built it. He knows about UFOs Yeah, I that's probably what he meant, I don't want to assume, but.
kat 14:32
so we're gonna move on to the critical reviews of this there aren't there weren't a whole lot to choose from. And they were kind of all all over the place a little. There's one that's real aggressive.
ryley 14:46
Why? This one's fun. Oh, it's not really fun. It does get like kind of like
kat 14:52
Yeah. So there were a few from like, articles and like people There's like writing the reviews on like, websites that, you know, are like, I don't know how to describe it. You know, it's like It's a website where like, like a magazine or like a, you know, newspaper where it's just like people, a bunch of people writing things. And the other ones were from people's personal websites where they write reviews about things. So there will be a bit of a difference in how they talk about this documentary. So the first review is from pop culture thought thoughts, and it's written by Julian Howell. And they gave it a three out of five stars. And this is what they say, quote, "this is the type of UFO Documentary that directly appeals to its core demographic without succumbing to egregious manipulation with an emphasis on government policy and bureaucratic interviews. There's an effective balance between talking head interviews with gravitas and a virtual cornucopia of alleged film evidence that makes it over long running time feel less padded. As with most of these types of documentaries, there's a dearth of on the record sources. But there's enough to keep even a skeptic intrigued if only passively."
ryley 16:10
That's a fair review.
kat 16:12
That's like they, you know, they had they had all the pieces, and it does the very least just keep you entertained, if you don't believe what they're saying.
ryley 16:21
And that's the thing like they, that's the thing about making this type of documentary, too, is like, you're gonna have polar opposites of opinions.
kat 16:27
Oh, yeah. And the people that are setting their opinions aren't going to like, because most of the five star reviews on like, from audience members were just people who, like already believed that all this stuff is happening.
ryley 16:38
Right.
kat 16:39
And all the negative ones are people who are like, aliens are not real for the most part.
ryley 16:44
Dummies.
kat 16:44
Yeah.
ryley 16:45
Which just sounds like lame. Like, who? Why does it hurt to believe? Yeah, also, you might be wrong.
kat 16:52
Yes.
ryley 16:52
Gonna say it
kat 16:53
could be entirely wrong.
ryley 16:54
Really wrong.
kat 16:55
I feel like it's just like a very wrong view to have these days. That aliens don't.
ryley 17:00
I mean, that's the thing. You don't have to believe in flying saucers and all that. But like, You got to acknowledge that like, we can't be the only planet with life.
kat 17:08
No, we cannot.
ryley 17:09
Like it's just it's not possible.
kat 17:11
Yeah. So the next review, is it just their websites and movie reviews. i The whole website was in Portuguese, so I had to translate it. So if I in any way mistranslated any of his thoughts, like Google translated it for me, like on the it has like a function where it'll just translate the whole webpage. But like, they could be wrong. Okay, so this is movie reviews by Valdinar della Nogare Neto. He gave it a seven or 10. And they highlight the fact that Greer does not impose that his vision is the sole or absolute truth. And then says that the documentary is interesting, even for those who don't believe anything that was exposed. So kind of the same as the last one, except they added that like, you know, he's not talking about it like he's the only person who has the correct information. I get that he didn't seem like cocky about it or anything.
ryley 18:08
No, he had his evidence. And he had his points. But yeah,
kat 18:13
So the next one, this one's- this one goes in on him.
ryley 18:19
All right, can't wait.
kat 18:21
This is from culture crypt, and was written by Ian Sadecki, and he gave it a 40 out of 100. It's like, he gave it the meta score I've ever seen that like the meta score, where it's like a number out of 100. Well, he gave it like a 40. That's pretty low.
ryley 18:36
Yeah, it's like a 40 on a paper.
kat 18:38
Yeah, he failed.
ryley 18:39
He failed, he definitely failed.
kat 18:41
So he says, quote, "unacknowledged puts up an appearance of being a technically competent documentary, can't help but expose itself as a dubious collection of crackpot conspiracy theories backed by highly speed, specious evidence, if it can even be called evidence at all?"
ryley 18:58
Well, that's the whole thing, like you gotta take, you do have to take what they what they provide as evidence as a grain of salt, but also like those those documents exists. I mean, they have to be open to the public for readings, I don't know, I can't, I'm not gonna say they're fake.
kat 19:13
Hold on, he gets into what he thinks about these documents in a second. So Sidensky cites that "if you were to pause the documentary and actually read any of the documents shown on screen, you will most likely not find any context explaining the documents relevance." So the documents they were showing it, you know, the documentary didn't necessarily show if they were, like relevant to anything they were saying,
ryley 19:35
Oh, okay.
kat 19:36
and also, I think at one point, Greer talks about how he talked to like the head of the CIA or something or somebody involved somebody high up for Obama. And the person he was talking about that he like, gave this briefing to denies that he ever gave that briefing. But also, you know, you got to look at it from like, either the government's lying, or this guy's lying like.
ryley 19:58
Well, also what didn't did So Greer- Greer said that in the thing, but he had the briefing that they would have the meeting or something like that.
kat 20:08
Yeah, like an in an invitation to have the meeting or something.
ryley 20:11
Yeah, he said he had it. But I don't know. If you know, you have evidence for that you can always say you're gonna have me but you know.
kat 20:17
You can type any letter you want.
ryley 20:19
Yeah, that's true.
kat 20:20
Yeah. So you know, I that's like, when I watched this, I wasn't taking every single thing this man was saying as fact.
ryley 20:26
Well also, like, there's a lot he was saying a lot. There was a lot of information,
kat 20:30
So much information.
ryley 20:32
It was overwhelming a little bit at times.
kat 20:34
Yeah, it is kind of because they just kept cutting to all these other like, like, former military people who like just are saying things.
ryley 20:42
There's so many names, there's no way you're gonna remember.
kat 20:44
Yeah, that's why I didn't write all of them down. Because I was like, I have
ryley 20:47
Too many. There's too many. And they're always like pulling quotes from people. It's a lot. There's a lot they're throwing a lot at you. I think that's a little bit purposeful.
kat 20:55
Yeah.
ryley 20:56
It's, like, go, it's gonna go like, well, it has to be true, then, if all these peoples have
kat 21:00
Look at all these people who are talking about it,
ryley 21:02
it's like at least 10 people it has to be.
kat 21:06
So next he talks about that he's not a fan of
ryley 21:12
Oh I couldn't tell.
kat 21:12
Of, no of the drastic jump that Greer makes about Marilyn Monroe's assassination being because of UFOs.
ryley 21:18
Yeah.
kat 21:18
You know, I get that.
ryley 21:19
I get that.
kat 21:20
Yeah. And then he says that the documentary continually undermines its own credibility, and he lists some, like, small discrepancies in it, that just like, take away the credibility, such as, and I think they're kind of like a stretch. But, you know, there's a lot of other things you could have been saying about the credibility of this, but he chose these. GREER SAYS area 51 isn't actually called that. And then a military vet refers to it as area 51, later on, which whatever. And then another thing he was like, some people said that the aliens were three feet tall. And then other people said that the aliens were four feet tall. So it's like who the fuck? and then he just didn't like that. They were showing the tabloid headlines. And then having someone who they're interviewing being like, in those stories, some of them were actually true, which I guess because like, I understand, like, Yes, oh, yeah, let the tabloids say whatever they want about it. So no one believes it. But like, also, you think I'm gonna believe that anything that a tabloid says is true, like true? No, that's the whole thing. Like it's, it was also just like, kind of silly. It's just like, really, really silly. Because some people believe those, uh, you know, like, they have people buying their magazines. Okay, so Sadenscki also talks about how there's a lack of physical evidence shown, because like, there's a video and like the video we've all seen, like, you know, the stuff in the sky, and pilots being like, What the fuck is that? Like, I don't like when it comes to things like this, where you need physical evidence, it's one of those things where it's like, you probably think that you need to see it in person, you're gonna have to see it in person and see it happen before your eyes before you believe that it happened, and you know, whatever.
ryley 23:03
Yeah, I mean, and that's all they and, and, okay, I'm gonna say for this person to be upset about the documentary about aliens that they just watched. I'm sorry, you knew what you were about to watch.
kat 23:14
Yeah. And this is your personal website. This is your
ryley 23:16
No kidding. You chose to you chose to read what that documentary was? Watch it and then go and complain about like, I'm sorry, you spent your time on that.
kat 23:26
Yeah. Okay, so the last review is from Decider, and is written by Kayla Cobb. So Cobb highlights the film's inclusion of an extensive list of subjects rather than just focusing on a few key figures. Also that most of the subjects are former military than rather than civilians. And Cobb believes that the testimonies and footage from former presidents talking about aliens helps the documentary to quote "toe the line of possibly believable" but adds that quote, and "if it's not that then it's at least entertaining." And then Cobb also adds that no alien documentary is worth watching without wild conspiracy theories and like acknowledges the Marilyn Monroe theory.
ryley 24:08
I mean, that's I mean, that's why it's entertaining because at least you heard that thrown out there it's offensive but it's thrown out there
kat 24:15
and then goes on to say, quote, "unacknowledged is nothing if not an interesting watch, even if you don't believe it's otherworldly claims." And then notes that this documentary has a much higher budget than most documentaries on this topic, which I agree with it's a pretty like high budget documentary about aliens.
ryley 24:32
Yeah.
kat 24:33
And then ends the review by saying that this documentary most likely won't change your mind and that quote, "it's definitely worth pouring yourself a drink and pressing play."
ryley 24:42
It's so that opening credit scene that was so dark so just be careful about that. Other than that, you can just like get angry and yeah, maybe there is aliens.
kat 24:51
I didn't save this review because I got some so I got reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb and letterboxd because I was I forgot that letterboxed existed and people really just give their full opinion on Letterboxd. But like someone was like, What the Why the fuck was there like footage of JFK being shot and a monk setting themselves on fire in the beginning of this?
ryley 25:13
That's the thing, and they talked a lot about him to, like, like I get it, you're talking about like government, the President and what they know. But like, it was, it was a big, it was just like, he was just like, his name was mentioned more than any other presidents probably.
kat 25:28
Yeah. And that Yeah, cuz like the whole thing with JFK. And this one was like, he got assassinated, because he was gonna try to look into your UFO stuff more, or something, or like he was going to speak out on it more.
ryley 25:41
That's just, I mean, him being assassinated is already like a huge conspiracy theory. And just for someone to go, it's about aliens. Like,
kat 25:49
it's just so wild. It's like out of left field.
ryley 25:52
It's one of the things we're like, All right, put it in, put it out there and just let people go.
kat 25:57
My thought about it is like, there were a lot of things going on in the world, too, that might warrant somebody to shoot him. But you know, I so many things. I try to keep my hands off of JFK conspiracies.
ryley 26:09
I don't know anything, I don't know anything to say anything about it.
kat 26:13
Yeah, like we are literally from where he got shot. And we-
ryley 26:16
Yes, literally.
kat 26:17
We don't fucking know. We don't look into it. It was an embarrassment for our, for our state and our cities. No.
ryley 26:27
It's, it's a wild thing. Yeah.
kat 26:28
It is. And so we're gonna move on to audience reviews, which is where it gets really fun.
ryley 26:34
Yeah.
kat 26:34
And so I'm going to start off
ryley 26:36
People lost their minds.
kat 26:38
They do, I'm going to start off with a positive one as usual, and end with the positive one. So this first one has four and a half stars, and it's from this year in October, and they say "since I have seen UFOs many times when I lived in Hawaii, I'm already a believer. I thought it was really informative and well worth watching. I've always wondered about Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson," because "because they seem so fake and hard to believe. How could they be so unaware? And it turns out they are not. The doc goes into some detail about the cover ups and how they manipulate the people to believe it's all a hoax or a conspiracy theory. You can see how it all works. People who are undecided should watch the stock people who don't want to believe might think it's a bit differently too." I don't think it's going to change any minds.
ryley 27:22
I mean,
kat 27:23
About aliens, at least.
ryley 27:24
Not drastically, not like on a large scale.
kat 27:28
Yeah.
ryley 27:29
Like I don't think it's like, the thing that changes everyone's mind is like,
kat 27:34
like if there's someone who hardcore doesn't believe aliens exist this is not gonna be-
ryley 27:37
unless like, literally what you were saying just a few minutes ago, lesson alien touches down and they're there to see it
kat 27:43
And looks them in the fucking eyes, you know?
ryley 27:45
Yeah, exactly. They are not gonna believe it. And that's fine. I don't think it's a big deal if you do or don't believe in it. You know, as long as you're gonna hurry, as long as you're not hurting anyone over it, you're fine. Like it's okay.
kat 27:56
Also, I just, I just hate that if it is true that aliens exist, I hate that they're, like, their description is actually little green men. Like I hate to hate little green guys, you know, I want them to look cooler than
ryley 28:12
Well it's so 1950s. Like, it's it looks so like generic too.
kat 28:17
Maybe that's what they, you know, conspiracy theory. Maybe it's what they think like they're looking at us from so far away that they think we look like that. So they try to make themselves look like
ryley 28:29
OH
kat 28:30
Once they get here, they're like, oh shit, they don't look like that.
ryley 28:33
I just love the idea that they have like a spaceship to fly light years away to see us but they don't have a good enough telescope to see when we actually look like.
kat 28:44
Yeah, so this next review is one of the best reviews I've ever read.
ryley 28:50
I can't wait. Okay.
kat 28:51
and I don't mean to oversell it.
ryley 28:52
Okay, we've read some good ones. So I'm ready.
kat 28:56
So this one is a one out of 10 star review from around the time that this documentary first came out. Okay. Keep in mind, this is 2017. So this person had some ideas people who are on their side of the political standing might not agree with now. So starts out "sci fi equals little science. Lots of fiction. Oh no, ET is real. Lots of" spacecrafts, "spacecrafts have crashed on planet Earth. Yeah, right. You fly across the universe and a high tech spaceship make it here and then you crash. lol What a pisser."
ryley 29:36
Are they wrong?
kat 29:38
They go on though.
ryley 29:39
Oh, okay, hold on.
kat 29:40
They're still going
ryley 29:41
Okay.
kat 29:42
"Follow the money trail with most things and it leads to greedy, corrupt people. Look at all the names and faces in this fantasy show all are criminals at best all are in it for money." Which you know, I think most people are probably a little corrupt. So.
ryley 29:56
yeah, well, especially if you're government, so.
kat 29:59
and this is where you might stop agreeing with them.
ryley 30:01
Okay, I- That's what I was scared of so yeah.
kat 30:05
Okay, ready?
ryley 30:06
Yeah.
kat 30:07
"I am a Christian and have predicted"
ryley 30:12
There it is. There it is.
kat 30:12
"I am a Christian and have predicted in the late 80s that governments will fake an ET landing of some sort and Hollywood has been real busy feeding the masses with their sci fi shows and films, as it would be the perfect way to undermine Christianity."
ryley 30:28
Okay, all right.
kat 30:30
"The flip side to accepting there's only the one God is you are a being that came from monkeys stuck with a whole lot of other monkeys on a planet hurtling through outer space with no real purpose but to sleep, eat, defecate and breed bar monkeys. Well, I have made my choice for not coming from monkeys. You make that choice and all this sort of make believe is all make believe simple. And then-"
ryley 30:55
You're right, this is the best one. This is so fucking funny.
kat 30:58
"And then there is no proof in this show of ET of any kind besides film and pictures of the poorest quality. Sure lots of people say they saw this and that. But it is all part of the lie to string the taxpayer along and for the elite to undermine Christianity. NASA is just one of many of these organizations that feeds off the this taxpayer pit of money. All these people in this show feed off the same pit of taxpayers cash, no proof that can be taken into a court of law that would stand up. It is all hearsay." I don't think they're trying to take this to court.
ryley 31:32
I lost focus on what their point was, because it kind of got they got like offended. They were like this, this thing offended them. Which is so funny, because they knew what they were about to watch. And it they knew, like, I It's what?
kat 31:50
Hold on. There's one last sentence
ryley 31:51
Oh, God
kat 31:52
That just puts a bow on this whole thing. Okay. "I watched this with a huge grin on my face and reminded me when I used to watch The X Files on my tell aversion." That's how they spelled it tele-aversion because it averts you from Christ. it averts you from Christ. And then they say "all make believe, and then it's over." Wait, no, there's one more part. "big fat zero out of 10."
ryley 32:16
They Wow.
kat 32:18
They're really
ryley 32:19
They had opinions
kat 32:20
They really put all their opinions out on the internet
ryley 32:22
They did.
kat 32:22
and said Fuck Off.
ryley 32:24
Well, like it was like the beginning. Like, what are they saying?
kat 32:28
They're saying that like, most people are greedy and corrupt. And
ryley 32:32
I get that.
kat 32:33
In it for the money.
ryley 32:34
Like, I get that, like I get having that pain because like, that's the thing. How many of these people are really telling you the truth, but oh my god, this guy. Just wait. I'm sorry. He went on, he went off.
kat 32:43
This could be a lady too. Or
ryley 32:45
It could be a lady.
kat 32:46
This person. This person went hard.
ryley 32:49
This person went hard.
kat 32:51
Yeah, they really did. And I just have to note, there was like one person in the entire documentary that wanted their identity hidden. They did not do a very good job.
ryley 33:01
No, okay-
kat 33:01
You could see half of his fucking face.
ryley 33:03
Like Austin literally turns to me and goes "I can see his face." Like they're not doing a good job.
kat 33:08
I think I could fill in the rest of his face from just my own brain.
ryley 33:12
Like it's only one half. Yeah, exactly.
kat 33:16
I wonder what the other half looks like
ryley 33:16
Yeah, exactly. Unless he's just so not symmetrical on the other side.
kat 33:21
This man's like, extended family is watching it. And they're like, is that Jerry?
ryley 33:26
That's Jerry.
kat 33:27
That's Jerry. He talks about this stuff all the time. Why is he hiding his face?
ryley 33:31
They always do that in like, alien or like,
kat 33:36
They like modulated his voice to a little.
ryley 33:37
did they? that's funny.
kat 33:38
I think so. They might not have so they didn't want if they
ryley 33:41
If they hit his face, they have to like hide. They're gonna do that. But my point is like, they're always doing this and like Alien documentaries, or something that has to do with the government's because like, they got to put that edge in of like, Oh, this guy's covered his face. You know what? Oh, the government's gonna be like mad. Like, I know who he is. It's got to be real. No, I think this guy was because like, they didn't really cover so well. So if he dissapears it's on this documentary, like, whoever, whoever did lighting that day, it's on you.
kat 34:11
I meant to like look in, like, look at the names of the people and see if they're, like, still alive. But I forgot to do that. And I was like, that'd be a lot of work. There's so many people in this thing.
ryley 34:20
Yeah, there's a ton of people. There's like a new person every five minutes, who has like something to talk about. And that's a whole thing. Like, you got to you're the source. Like I'm not saying I'm not saying that people were lying but like, you gotta wonder how many were telling the truth. You know, they are like, I was even thinking like, they would tell us like the roles that they had, like whatever government or military they were doing.
kat 34:48
Some of them kind of did.
ryley 34:50
They did yeah. But like, you gotta wonder like, are they exaggerated how much they saw or did or?
kat 34:58
yeah.
ryley 34:59
Just depending on their role. I don't know, I don't know what the government positions are military, but like.
kat 35:03
Yeah, can I even prove that they were in the like the military and they were stationed somewhere like area 51?
ryley 35:10
are the documents that they were there at least?
kat 35:12
Also something that I think is a little glazed over. I didn't know that the government itself like outside of the military had its own Air Force. That's like they brought up at one point like they have a separate Air Force from like the military air force. And those were the people that were going to like divert the UFO or whatever.
ryley 35:30
That I don't understand that I've never heard of that. I don't actually remember that from the documentary I bet I bet it was in there. I just I probably missed it.
kat 35:36
It was like a blip of information.
ryley 35:38
Most facts of this are just like, here it is. And then we're not going to talk about it. Like I actually
kat 35:43
Information information.
ryley 35:44
The main dude Dr. Greer, he. So he was a trauma doctor. And then he goes to talk like to the government officials talking about like, UFOs I'm like, where? I'm sure he said how I just missed it. Because I again I don't know.
kat 36:02
I don't think he ever says I don't think he ever says.
ryley 36:05
How he went from literally just being a doctor to telling he's like telling government officials like being the guy going like this is what you don't know. This is what the government's hiding from you. This is what
kat 36:19
Yeah,
ryley 36:19
and it's like, how did that happen?
kat 36:21
Like who approached who approached you? Like, do they just pop up and they were like, heard you've been thinking about aliens?
ryley 36:28
Because I guess like you like just okay not even like alien-wise just like documentary making wise. They did not do a concise job of probably like detailing his story or at lest in a way where like, I can absorb it.
kat 36:43
Yeah, they put they didn't focus on anything specific. They just kind of
ryley 36:47
oh, it was just-
kat 36:50
Here's all this.
ryley 36:51
It was it was like a vomit of information.
kat 36:53
Yeah. So this next review is titled sensationalist claptrap.
ryley 37:01
That's the name?
kat 37:02
I don't know what that means, but but they said. It is it's from February of this year. And "they say absolutely dreadful and hammy documentary so unprofessional made, and with an with awful music playing throughout which further degrades the effect," laughing "laughable titles given to interviewees, like Esquire that's supposed to add credibility to what they're saying stick to Roswell and more entertaining accounts, but don't bother with this, I'd suggest." So the title Esquire is given to lawyers who are practicing attorneys. I asked my sister, because she's a lawyer. I was like, What the? How does the lawyer get the title, Esquire? She's like, if they're a practicing attorney. So it's not like just some title that they added on it's like, genuinely the title that this guy has. That's- that point.
ryley 37:52
They didn't know.
kat 37:53
Yeah.
ryley 37:54
They don't know what they're talking about.
kat 37:55
I didn't know what the fuck Esquire meant for a long time. I just knew it had to do with lawyers.
ryley 37:58
I thought it was another tabloid.
kat 38:01
It- there's a magazine called Esquire. I think.
ryley 38:03
Okay, that's where I'm confused from.
kat 38:06
Yeah, okay, so this next one is from 2018 and it's titled by crackpots for crackpots.
ryley 38:14
Okay.
kat 38:15
"Really dumb documentary hosted by a man who claims to be an ER doctor. His teeth look like they have been neglected for decades, and they keep protruding from his scarred face as he makes one wild assertion after another."
ryley 38:27
Yeah, they didn't have to do that.
kat 38:27
That's just mean
ryley 38:28
They didn't have to do any of that.
kat 38:29
No, that's just mean
ryley 38:30
That was a little much.
kat 38:32
And then they go on to say, "At one point, this nut made himself cry. Some of the crazy claims put forth. There are as many earth like planets in the universe as there are grains of sand on the beach. There have been over 100 UFO crashes in New Mexico, the amount of energy contained in an empty coffee cup can boil the water and all the oceans. JFK was killed because he knew too much about UFOs, et cetera. And then there's this claim that Hitler," had to fly a military, "had military flying saucers and we see photoshopped pics of Nazi officers standing in front of them with swastikas painted on them. Then we have various oddballs telling tales of UFOs really stupid crazy stuff."
I actually don't remember that Hiller part.
I don't I
I don't remember that one.
I don't remember that at all.
I think I would have turned it off.
Yeah, maybe maybe he's made that claim in another documentary.
Yeah, he's just
I didn't I didn't see that.
I don't I just don't remember it I don't-
Or know maybe it was like something else and they just assumed.
ryley 39:36
Again it might just be one of things where they said it for 5 seconds and moved on to the next thing. I don't know I just don't remember it. That's crazy though. What was the other thing? So he's saying those are all crazy claims, there's these planets that are earth like. That's all true, scientists have found those.
kat 39:36
I don't- I think maybe they were saying its not true that there are as many planets as grains of sand on a beach.
ryley 39:36
Oh okay. That's an exaggeration. I would assume
kat 39:36
That's another thing I don't remember them saying that.
ryley 39:36
I don't remember
kat 39:36
There was a beach at one point.
ryley 39:36
There was a beach and I remember them saying something about sand. I don't remember the details but I do remember Bill Clinton was on the Jimmy Kimmel show and they showed this little bit in the documentary and he- and I mean this was in news articles, I remember reading it they have found many many planets that are very earth like and can possibly contain life. I remember seeing that, that's not a crazy idea. They have found that. I think this person just kind of got confused, they got a little confused, or were very confused there.
kat 40:55
They got confused and also made some assumptions.
ryley 40:58
I think so too. Yeah.
kat 40:59
But you know, whatever, take whatever you need from this documentary.
ryley 41:01
Exactly.
kat 41:03
The next one is a one and a half star review from 2020. And they say "fake conspiracy theory propaganda to entice the proclivity of Americans to listen to the theory critical of the establishment in mainstream media," that participants, "the participants are likely mentally ill themselves." So this person is calling them mentally ill for criticizing the government and mainstream media.
ryley 41:24
Oh, dude. Yikes.
kat 41:27
I think I think it's perfectly fine to criticize the government and media.
ryley 41:30
I think it's necessary to criticize the government
kat 41:34
if we didn't-
ryley 41:35
It's very necessary.
kat 41:35
Yeah, like if we didn't we we'd be in like some sort of dictatorship.
ryley 41:40
Yeah.
kat 41:41
So yeah, that one, some people take it a little too to heart.
ryley 41:47
Yeah, they do.
kat 41:48
Yeah. This next one's a three star review. There were like ones that were like anything below five. They didn't always have like positive things to say, you know? So this person says, "some interesting ideas were put forth. Sadly, these were overshadowed by disingenuous misquotes, notably leaving the final sentence off Buzz Aldrin's comments to purposefully remove context. The water powered car was clearly a scam and should not be mentioned in a video that is claiming to show evidence. All in all, they did make some good points, but when you are trying to present facts, you do yourself no favors when you present half truths and Miss quotes. It just drains the credibility away from any real proof that you have." I do agree with the Buzz Aldrin part because it did feel really out of place like it didn't feel like he was making the point that they were trying to make his,
ryley 42:38
yeah
kat 42:39
that clip make. But the waterpowered car part, like I think that's just you denying that the government could ever do anything bad to anyone.
ryley 42:44
Exactly, like that's your little brain not accepting that
kat 42:50
My little pea brain rattling around in my head.
ryley 42:52
But I was yeah, it's not to say like that had to be like a real thing where they show like news clip because I don't know. I'm- I'm getting a lot of this. I'm giving this document in law credit that I don't know if it deserves
kat 43:02
Yeah.
ryley 43:02
Because a lot of guys saying like, there's a lot of fake stuff, but then again, these people are also making really
kat 43:07
bold claims
ryley 43:08
very bold claims as well. So I feel like it's one of those things where just sit back and enjoy it.
kat 43:13
Yeah.
ryley 43:14
Do do research. Do your own research to see if these things are real.
kat 43:17
Yeah.
ryley 43:19
I'm gonna look up and see the water power guys real.
kat 43:22
Pretty sure that it actually worked because why the fuck would he say they poisoned me when he died?
ryley 43:29
I mean, well, I just know that that that journalist guy. I mean, if they do it to him, they've done it to, God, 1000s of people probably.
kat 43:38
Okay, so the next review is a two out of 10 from 2017. "Bought this in a weak moment. Waste of money. Sorry."
ryley 43:48
You bought it?
kat 43:50
Yeah I think when it first came out, you had to like you have to buy it. Yeah. "Had a dental surgery and was searching Amazon for something to take my mind off my mouth. No choice to rent it. So bought digital for 19.95," based on IMDb based on based on
ryley 44:08
19.95 Dude.
kat 44:10
yeah.
ryley 44:11
What are you buying from?
kat 44:13
Amazon.
ryley 44:14
Oh, okay.
kat 44:15
Like if based on when this review was written it must have just came out.
ryley 44:20
Okay.
kat 44:20
So like when stuff first comes out, it's really expensive to buy or rent.
ryley 44:23
Yeah, yeah.
kat 44:25
So they bought this based on good IMDb reviews, "Duh, I figured at the very least, would be a decent history of UFO reports and conspiracy, etc. Might as well have just put on YouTube. $20 Ouch. In no time at all the film jumps into ridiculous ideas that the cover up is," because of aliens "Because aliens gave us the secret of unlimited energy and the rich elite don't want to lose power and control. Now I hate the greedy power mad NWO creeps as much as the next person. But taking conspiracy to this level is idiotic. The film has zero credibility." They made points, you know, like, I
ryley 45:05
Whats NWO?
kat 45:07
I don't know.
ryley 45:08
No, they made points.
kat 45:08
Oh new world New World Order.
ryley 45:11
Oh, okay.
kat 45:11
like the kind of they're kind of like the Illuminati kind of thing.
ryley 45:16
Oh okay. It did have that vibe. Not gonna lie. I mean the people in this like, I don't know their love old- just a lot of old men. Just a bunch of old dudes going like
kat 45:25
Bet some of them are Freemasons, too.
ryley 45:27
Oh, that's another thing. I remember that they got into that a little bit. I was like, oh, gosh.
kat 45:32
But like I get what this person saying like, I think they they took the theories, like farther than they should like, like it just to make the point that, you know, the government's greedy and powerful, rich people are greedy and awful. And they'll do terrible things. Yes, we can agree to disagree on that.
ryley 45:48
Definitely. Definitely.
kat 45:50
But it's like some of them a little too far.
ryley 45:53
Don't bring Marilyn into this.
kat 45:54
You leave her out of this. She's been through enough.
ryley 45:55
You leave her alone.
kat 45:57
Yeah.
ryley 45:57
Let that woman rest.
kat 46:00
So the next one is just titled Why.
ryley 46:05
All right.
kat 46:06
And they say "do people actually believe what he says he has no proof of anything like literally zero proof. I couldn't get through it all. And judging by some reviews, I made the right decision when I stopped watching it. One out of 10 stars or more accurately, 10 trash cans out of 10."
ryley 46:24
All right.
kat 46:26
So it was garbage.
ryley 46:27
Garbage, okay. I mean It's a documentary movie about aliens. What? What do you want? What are you expecting?
kat 46:37
God forbid anyone ever disagree with this person? That's what I'm getting from these.
ryley 46:43
No like many of these people are going crazy. Like going this movie is garbage.
kat 46:46
Yeah.
ryley 46:47
And I get okay, maybe they know some stuff that we don't like maybe they're this documentary isn't that credible. It's like, I'm not saying it's great. But like, I'm a I'm a reasonable person. I'm not gonna go well, we got to, like we gotta do something, like, No, it's like, you know,
kat 47:04
just acknowledging the fact that it like,
ryley 47:06
Enjoy it.
kat 47:06
Corruption. Just acknowledge corruption.
ryley 47:08
Corruption exists.
kat 47:09
Enjoy the entertaining documentary about aliens.
ryley 47:13
Yeah.
kat 47:13
Yeah. And like another thing. It's like, the only reason that I've ever like turned off a documentary out of like, other than like, maybe it just wasn't interesting. Was like, room 237.
ryley 47:26
Oh, my God, it's just so obnoxious. It's just obnoxious.
kat 47:30
At first you're like, Okay.
ryley 47:32
Getting into.
kat 47:33
like, some stuff in here's a little a lot of off the wall, whatever. It takes it into like a different realm.
ryley 47:42
It just makes it almost like childish.
kat 47:45
Yeah.
ryley 47:45
Because like, we turn it off at the point where the guy is like, and he has.
kat 47:50
Yeah, he's like, it's like the paper tray thing.
ryley 47:53
Yeah.
kat 47:53
It's a penis, he has a boner.
ryley 47:55
He has a boner.
kat 47:57
No, it's just.
ryley 47:58
I was like turn it off.
kat 47:59
Like do you really think like, sure Stanley Kubrick very detail oriented, took a lot of takes. You think you gave him Fuck about a fucking paper tray lining up in a way that might look like suggestive?
Do you think he just would purposely put a penis? is he was
he was already doing other fucked up shit. He was not worried about a paper tray looking like a dick.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
It doesn't- It takes a lot for me to turn some turn a documentary off because I disagree with it.
ryley 48:28
Exactly. The other the only other reason I would turn it off. It's because it's boring.
kat 48:33
Yeah, exactly. Like it.
ryley 48:35
Or like, there's some documentaries are like, okay, I get the point. What more could you say? And like, it lines up with the there was a review saying like, there's no padding in it. I don't know.
kat 48:46
Like, it didn't feel overly padded, I think
ryley 48:49
okay, yeah, there's some where I'm like, It's okay, we get it.
kat 48:53
Like you're repeating the same points like over and over again.
ryley 48:55
I forgot what documentary it was, but if I remember I'll blurt it out. But it was like-
kat 49:02
Okay, so the next review says nothing new. That's the title.
ryley 49:05
Okay.
kat 49:07
"Being a fan of UFO and watching many kinds of many documentaries of this kind, but this one's just a replication," so like they didn't didn't get anything new out of it.
Okay, they're like I've seen this.
Been been there done that. Like Pitbull. Okay, so this, this next review is the only like, really negative one that I could, you know, get something out of that wasn't just one sentence from letterboxed. It's from October of this year, they gave it a half star, and they say,
Not even a full one.
Just a half. "To call this documentary to call this a documentary is offensive to all other documentaries. It is told in testimonials exclusively from old white men and does not base itself in truth or facts, but rather," in a very flimsy, "in very flimsy anecdotes from unreliable sources. A waste of an hour In 40 minutes this feels like what I would have made as a teenager with access to envato elements if I were an American who had the gall to believe that the United States is literally the center of the universe. And also,"
ryley 50:13
literally
kat 50:14
"and also had a healthy dose of far right distrust in institutions. A terrible edit," hard to, "hard to follow, and overall absolute garbage just to be clear," I do get like if you're not from the US, you were probably annoyed with us making shit about us.
ryley 50:30
I literally brought that up because like they didn't talk about any part of the world it was so like they wouldn't even Canada.
kat 50:37
They like touched on Europe for like a second. And that was it.
ryley 50:39
Yeah, for a second they didn't even talk about like Mexico they didn't talk about Canada.
kat 50:43
Yeah.
They don't even talk about what we're close to they just like the US and it is only, it's only white men in that old white men in the documentary that's it it's crazy.
So like yeah, I get it because like you can only take so much from testimonials from people. Yeah.
ryley 51:00
Oh, they made great points in that one.
kat 51:02
Yeah, they did. This next one is titled bloody awful.
ryley 51:08
I wonder where they're from?
kat 51:10
Let's see so they just they describe the plot okay, I'm just skipping past where they used to describe the plot again. "Absolutely idiotic garbage," filled with zero speculate with, "filled with speculation and zero proof. The film relies on verbal accounts of BS. It's really for morons. How this got such a high number rating is beyond me. By the way, the due diligence and fact checking is so bad in this movie. They actually claim Marilyn Monroe was murdered," because of, "because she knew about UFO. And they say some stuff about Dorothy Kilgallen and show a picture of Arlene Francis. How do you make that mistake? The dregs of moviemaking? It sucks." That's a fair point that they put the wrong person on the screen.
ryley 51:57
Yeah, that's really bad.
kat 51:59
That's pretty that's pretty bad.
ryley 52:01
That's pretty bad. Like, come on, guys.
kat 52:04
Yeah.
ryley 52:05
I do think they made some good points.
kat 52:07
I you know, i i There are definitely things that I've seen and watched and feel strongly about that I would call it idiotic garbage. But like I you know, I don't I wouldn't consider this idiotic garbage. I think it's just people making-
ryley 52:22
I don't take it so seriously, where I would call it video garbage. It's not supposed to be taken this seriously.
kat 52:29
Yeah, it's not that deep
ryley 52:29
It's a documentary about aliens. It's not that deep. I mean, they tried to make a deep, they do but like you, you are a person. Take it with a grain of salt.
kat 52:39
Yeah, it's like you, you have the you the ability to turn it off at any point, unless someone's forcing you to watch it or like you went to like a movie theater to see something and you walk out or like your friends put it on,
ryley 52:51
At a party, like I don't want to switch the channel when everyone else is invested.
kat 52:54
You're too high to reach the remote. Watching it, we've all been there. So now we're going to end with a positive review that was from that's from 2021. From September, and this person says "anyone willing to give this a harsh review already had their mind made up before watching."
ryley 53:12
Yeah, exactly.
kat 53:13
"The film presents compelling testimony from highly credible sources and outlines a cogent argument with far reaching implications. They definitely made a few mistakes stretching too far at times and falling short in their editorial process. But the end result is nonetheless a mind blowing experience."
ryley 53:29
Oh, oh, okay. All right.
kat 53:31
You know, so they acknowledged that the faults in the film so like, I think a lot of the high reviews, they acknowledged that, like,
ryley 53:38
It's not a perfect movie or documentary.
kat 53:40
This is not absolute fact, like they are not, they- we cannot take everything they say as hard truth. And, you know, I don't think it was mind blowing. But also, this was from like, four years ago, like the documentaries from four years ago. Like there's a lot of stuff that we've learned since then, that are kind of just like they've they've become more of like, common knowledge things. So it's like, I'm not necessarily learning and the stuff that's like, not necessarily fact is just conspiracy theories.
ryley 54:11
Exactly. It's to shocky of things, you know, to like, for only this documentary to come out and say about, you know,
kat 54:19
yeah.
ryley 54:21
So remember that.
kat 54:23
Yeah. So after hearing everything what do you what are you what do you think of it now? Like, what are you?
ryley 54:31
after you like hear it, like people made some really great points about this. But again, it's one it's an alien document. Documentary. Take it with- if you don't believe in it, just enjoy it. If you do believe it. Again, take things with a grain of salt.
kat 54:47
Yeah.
ryley 54:47
Also like it, but this I mean, it goes it doesn't change the fact that the document does like try to be like, this is out of this world.
kat 54:56
Yeah.
ryley 54:57
Crazy and like yeah, it's just like, I'm not mad at the documentary. I just, you know, I think it makes some good points.
kat 55:07
Yeah, there's, there's stuff to take away from it.
ryley 55:11
Yeah. Like all the stuff the government does that's not good.
kat 55:14
Yeah. It I feel like it was more of a fuck the government documentary with-
ryley 55:21
Yeah.
kat 55:22
aliens as the focus of why.
ryley 55:24
yeah.
kat 55:24
But you know, in the end, it's like, if you just need more reason to be angry at the government. It's a good watch.
ryley 55:32
You know, what, honestly, that's as fair as I think that's as far as it can br, really.
kat 55:37
And, like, overall, it's an interesting watch, if nothing. Like it, it's entertaining, a lot of information gets thrown at you. So that is a little bit of like a what will I remember at the end of this kind of thing?
Not much.
Not much. No.
ryley 55:51
You'll remember chunks, but, not like every detail.
kat 55:54
Like the stuff that sticks out. Like Marilyn Monroe.
ryley 55:56
Yeah, that one.
kat 55:58
And like JFK, like all like those things. Also, like I forgot that Hillary Clinton had something to do with it. Like she had like a foundation where she was like, trying to look into.
ryley 56:09
She did?
kat 56:10
Yeah, they like mentioned to her when they like a little bit after they mentioned Bill, it was like in that it was very short. It was like another one of those things where it was like very random short.
ryley 56:17
I remember her being on what was it like Kimmel? Like they showed her Kimmel again. Kimmel was all over in this Movie or Documentary for no reason other than just interviewing presidents or Hillary and yeah, I remember her talking. I didn't I didn't know she had a whole foundation.
kat 56:35
Yeah, it was something I don't think I don't know if it's necessarily for like UFO stuff. But like they mentioned her foundation.
ryley 56:41
Again, it's like she she's probably- it's a probably a foundation, if I had to guess is like, Oh, if information that not-
kat 56:48
Yeah.
ryley 56:49
-Given the needs to be given or made aware of.
kat 56:53
Yeah, I think it was when she was like running for president too. So it was like, another one of her little campaign points.
ryley 57:00
Yeah.
kat 57:01
But we don't talk about that election.
ryley 57:03
No, no, it should be forgotten.
kat 57:05
Let's just start wiping that for my brain.
ryley 57:08
Yeah.
kat 57:10
But overall, interesting to watch. Whether or not you believe in aliens, which you know whatever, like-
ryley 57:19
I don't care.
kat 57:20
Like if you have a strong opinion about aliens, not existing. Don't watch it because you're gonna hate it.
ryley 57:26
Oh, you'll hate it. You'll just, you'll just make yourself mad. But here's the thing that's probably what you want to do anyway.
kat 57:32
If anything watch this for fun. Don't go into it thinking you're going to learn anything important or factual.
ryley 57:39
Yeah.
kat 57:39
Watch it for the sheer entertainment of it.
ryley 57:41
Grain of salt.
kat 57:42
Yes. Huge. Like a whole beach of salt. What would you give it out of five?
ryley 57:50
I would give it like an average thing. Like I get
kat 57:54
Like a three?
ryley 57:56
out of five?
kat 57:56
Yeah.
ryley 57:57
Like a three a solid three.
kat 57:58
Yeah, I think it's I think the same.
ryley 57:59
I deserve anything higher. It doesn't serve anything lower. It's it's it's a it's an alien documentary. It's as good as it gets.
kat 58:07
You will be entertained at the very least.
ryley 58:09
Exactly. I can't emphasize that more than enough.
kat 58:12
Seriously. All right. So after hearing everything that the critics and the audience and us and hearing the background info about Steven Greer, go watch this documentary for yourself. And remember, you don't have to watch things to tear them apart, you can just watch them to entertain- like to entertain yourself sometimes.
ryley 58:30
No kidding.
kat 58:30
So thank you so much for listening. I'm Kat
ryley 58:34
And I'm Ryley.
kat 58:34
This has been Easy Bake Takes. Easy listening out there.