★★★

For some reason I had never seen this before but a lot of other movies make more sense in retrospect. I think this would be a 4-5 star movie in 1977 because it’s basically perfect. But I think the way that the government operates in this movie is so unlike how they exist today that I felt very detached from the whole experience. I think this speaks to the fears and beliefs that people had in that time and I think if it took place in 2022 there’d be a lot more people shooting rifles at the space ships.