no audience

These days there is no reason to drop a serious film into local theatres. The audience that attends those venues just wouldn’t understand.

you're welcome to it

As bad as we are to one another as fellow human inhabitants of this world and the more we degrade the planet that sustains us, the more we believe, if our movies are any gauge, that aliens want to take it all from us. To echo the old comic’s gag line “Take my earth, please.”

scene scheme

The trailer was a gloss for the whole film.