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Ready for a close encounter of THE FOURTH KIND trailer?
Hey folks, Harry here - After sleeping through my alarm - I received a phone call from Father Geek just 15 minutes prior to a screening I had of this film this morning and -- ya know. To go from restful sleep, to sitting in a theater in 8 minutes (new Harry record, btw) is a very unsettling experience.
Now I come home and I see UNIVERSAL has put out a very spoiler-esque trailer for this film.
Here is what I received in my email:
A UFO sighting is referred to as an encounter of the first kind…
When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind…
Contact with extraterrestrials, is an encounter of the third kind…
The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document...
Until now.
I am not going to review the film at this time. It's the sort of film that once you see, you'll spend hours searching online to see if there's any truth at all. And the more you dig... the more you'll kinda be freaked out. But my inner-cynic wants to put the director in front of one of those GILDA lights and sweat the truth out of him. Because, seriously fucked up weird shit in this flick that purports and seems possibly real. Inquiring minds like mine wants to know more... Feels like a film adaptation of the Weekly World News... and that's kinda cool.
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Shit balls, I've never gotten close to doing that before.
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HELL'S YEAH BIOY
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...to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS.
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Looks okay. I do love alien movies. Fire in the Sky and Communion, for all their faults, really capture my interest. This will be another one of those, faulted, thought provoking, vaguely frightening on a conceptual level. And Milla is always a welcome sight.
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Your home theater doesn't count... or do you live above that Drafthouse place? That wouldn't suck, actually.
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...this movie out-creeps the abduction scene in Fire In The Sky. That was one serious case of "pants, meet shit."
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1st being a dedicated website.2nd is Wiki entries.3rd is Comic-Con4th is a video pretending to be real.
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...peaked ten years ago with The Blair Witch Project. No campaign will ever be as cool or as effective as that.
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Carl Sagan debunked all this nonsense ages ago. There are no aliens abducting people. And there's no god and no Santa Claus, either (sorry to be the bearer of such bad news).
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What the fuck?
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...the more you will only find a synopsis for this work of fiction, as well as showtimes. Yawn.
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And I can't wait to be like, "Ha i told you so!" to my wife while we watch ufos and huge alien walkers torching the planet with laser beams. She'll listen to me then!
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This looks somewhat interesting. but the owl eye-morph ting looked silly . Could just be the out-of-context nature of the clip tough...Milla J still glowing. Yeah, I´ll see it. Why not.
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My spelling is fucked tonight. I'll just post in my native language from now. Hope you all read norwegian.
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Looks derivative but fun/creepy...very "Mothman", though.
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I was terrified this was going to be infringing on my sacred fandom territory (CE3K).
Not related. Good. But it looks well made for a standard chiller thriller. Can it beat the scare in Communion with the little guy peeking out from behind the furniture (or was it a tv?) Can it beat the abstract dread conjured up by Mothman Prophecies? -
...even if it bore very little resemblance to the book. I've been to Point Pleasant numerous times too, and it's much dingier and scruffier than in the movie. I think having Will Patton in this movie adds to the Mothman vibe, even if I think Pellington's movie is probably better than this one.
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This is why you put these fuckers in District 9
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Then this would be kick ass. Right now, I think I could watch scarier shit on discovery channel. of course, that's what they want us to think!!
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Nothing like that can ever happen. Ever ever.
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... but from this movie I get the same vibe I got from "The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan", and that's not a good thing. Not at all.
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And this looks good and creepy enough.
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we need to start showing alien civilizations more. like why do the alien vs predator films have to take place on earth?
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meaning the names of the towns are probably the only thing that are real.
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Pretty much every single case of alien abduction boils down to "suppressed memories" that are recovered under hypnosis. You can make pretty much anyone believe anything with a few leading questions under those conditions...
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What's next? A film about Chemtrails?
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Just review the shit, damnit!
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...as long as we keep in mind (as many here thankfully do, so it seems) that pretty much the whole "alien abduction" mythology is just that. Mythology. AKA: Bunk. Hoo-ha. Fake. Performance art. Right up there with the "we never landed on the Moon" crap. Not bad looking for entertainingly spooky escapist fare, though.
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Aug 13, 2009 5:49:58 PM CDT
Right, cause Aliens are controlling the Owl population
by industrykiller!
They would use animal harbingers to monitor us. Cause they would really need something so arcane and weird. And the supposedly "real" footage in that trailer are CLEARLY actors. Come on now Harry, I get you wanna help the filmmaker but no need to try to perpetrate Blair Witch style stuff, its a bit played.
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Once.
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Aug 13, 2009 5:53:03 PM CDT
Is Will Patton reprising his role from The Mothman Chronicles?
by industrykiller!
Just askin'
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I like!
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because that was shit.
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So this has a more amped up terrifying feel to that Walken movie Communion based off that semi-real
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Alien Anal sex?
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Or was that pixellated face really freaky? This trailer has piqued my interest
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There is a man in a smiling bag.You will require medical attention.
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I've never watched any of these retard fest bullshit films.. never will. ANYONE who watches these with any sense of authenticity or realism deserves my scorn and utter contempt.
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and though I like a good alien movie like the above ones people have mentioned, the whole way this is presented looks kind of tacky. I sometimes have a look at those conspiracy/ufo sites bored in work and I don't recall any abductee footage or stories from alaska, I'm sure I would have.
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Avatar's about an alien civilization, and people here are already saying it's over-hyped and will bomb. Some people will shit on an idea, no matter what it is.
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We are the Kings of the Universe. We humans are the only intelligent lifeforms.... EVER. The concept that there is someone else out there, in that vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast universe, who is just as intelligent and technologically more advanced than us is utterly preposterous.
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especially since it has Mila Jovavich. But then I watched it. The sun set right during the middle of the trailer, and the room suddenly darkened. I am pretty spooked right now.
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Really, that gave me child. I remember reading Whitley Strieber's Communion and having the same reaction.
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about half way through when I realized all the camera tricks were to obscure the lack of budget, effects and all that jazz.
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his bed is in the men's room, yuk yuk har har.
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Harry not Harry's, damn
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However, if even .01% are true, then everything we THINK we know IS B.S.
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Read up bro...this is as real as 'The Blair Witch Project'. It was manufactured based on the umpteen (bullshit) reports of alien abductions.
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I will watch this.
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I've seen it with my OWN EEYES! :'@
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That scared the crap out of me and I'll bet it will be like "Contact." Two and half hours and not one alien. Then again I'm a sucker for this stuff. Despite the logical nightmare that it is, "Signs" still freaks me out.
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I saw this at my bedroom window ... I thought it was an owl ... But then I looked closer ... Oh my god ... it wasn't an owl ... It was:
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Maybe she'll play Scully!
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...cool. I'll watch that. Throw in Milla and it's date night.
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...CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Thank you Cheese-us!
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Whatever happened to that guy who claimed he had footage of an alien on camera? Did he get laughed into obscurity?
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I adore her.
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Alien abduction. I love how they got that hot piece of ass, Milla, to try and sell us on this being real or factual. However, I will rent it on DVD. Should be out on DVD really soon.
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Not necessarily *your* dick? What does your wife look like? I might be available.
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For starters, when a trailer needs an "actress" to WARN you about how disturbing things are going to get, rest assured that they most certainly are not.
I can't fully judge the movie by the trailer since the trailer appears to have been crafted using Adobe's Trailer Maker CS4 in auto-build mode.
Same wanky build-ups, bass booms, fast cuts, blah blah blah. Watching trailers of the 90s (oops! I mean of the early 21st century!) 50 years from now is going to be a fun, kitchy nostalgia kick. -
She was the Fifth Element supreme being - now a welfare case. Lots of shaky cam and screaming substituting for no movie budget. This will be awful. But people will watch it anyway.
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She'll take any job, no matter the quality of a film for money.As for the issue of UFOs--they are real. Who iis flying and controlling them, I can only guess, but I think at this point it is pretty obvious--everything is directly related to beings referred to in all the main holy books.
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sagan was a douche
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a famous hollywood actress is in it. its not news or a big shocker that this is a fictional movie. duh. oh, and aliens are totally real. and they are going to probe your ass!
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... The aliens are going to get you! Buga Buga Buga! And they're out of focus! Help Me! Hahahaha!
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http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/bryan-singer-boards-battlestar-galactica-for-universal
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... show her tits again? I love those mosquito bites!
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Aug 13, 2009 7:19:29 PM CDT
It's not fiction- it's a "fictionalized account of a true story"
by flim springfield
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But right now we have a more pressing matter gentlemen! We must band together to KILL ALL THE OWLS!!! I propose a method whereby we get the hawks and the vultures to fight them!
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Indeed, and I can't take a film seriously with Milla in the lead role.
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milla gets probed for an hour and a half
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and would pay to see any movie that casts owls as villains
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I'd watch it on cable.
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wtb time machine to Fifth Element era when Mila wasn't in every bad movie on the planet.
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There's a clue at Leo's house.
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seriously
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Agreed. She has very nice niplets. I could suck on them alllllll night. In the words of Will Smith...Awe Hell Yeah!
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couldn't resist.
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All this laughing at alien abductions reminds me of the good ol' days when Freudians laughed off rape as penis envy. Good times, you wrong assholes, good times.
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Get reduced to a series of "shock cuts", thumps and stings. God, it's so fucking tired by now. It's become the NEW cliche replacing "In A World..."
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Im not completely opposed to this.
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Sounds like someone has been abducted...Valiens, tell us your story. Did they probe your sphincter? Tell us the truth.
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When I was 14 - too old to be a child and too sober and drug free to be inebriated. This thing, whatever it was, hovered silently above the car I was riding in and then banked away. It had all the concrete realness of a flying wall. The really strange part was that I said nothing until after it went away. I have no clue what it was, but I do know I did not imagine it. That's kind of disturbing.
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THE OWLS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD!
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You'd be surprised what your brain can do. I suffer from Sleep Paralysis. Where I wake up and can't open my eyes or move, but I'm a awake. It always feels like someone or something is watching me or standing next to my bed. It's just your brain playing tricks on you. Those that can't explain it, come to the conclusion that it's aliens. I also noticed that location has something to do with Sleep Paralysis. I've moved a lot in my life, different towns, houses. The last house or location where my bed was, I had at least 150 sleep paralysis moments a year. Then I moved and I had maybe 10 a year. That location in Alaska is obliviously effecting their brains in some manner, be it the energy in the air or the aurora borealis.
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...weren't you abducted by aliens or some shit?
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I used to live in Juneau, AK. It's in the southern most part. I remember the summer days being long. I mean it didn't get dark until 10pm. The winter days were very dark. Dawn didn't crack until noon. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, I know if fucked up my sleep patterns. No aliens though. The movie "Insomnia" touches on this subject. I guess "30 days of Night" does to, come to think of it. ; D
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First BSG, now this?
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I had a couple of miles to go. I looked up and saw a glowing orange object in the sky. It was moving irregularly. Suddenly, there was intense light all around. And when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me?
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the famous purple stuffed worm from Flapjaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hiri-Kiri Rock, I need scissors 61!
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When pruning them, it's a good idea to wear gloves.
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.. and I know, because I'm a freakin' owl EXPERT!
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...because I've never seen one. And lets put an end to this delusional nonsense about "vaginas," too... With those indisputably true facts out of the way, this movie looks like it could be decent, though I'm with everyone who said there's no way it can be as effective as Fire in the Sky. Anymore, when I see Milla in a movie, I expect all the dramatic realism and tension of a Loony Toons short.
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of the Brown Kind...in my pants
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and that ain't good.
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... it just might be worth watching
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... I'm afraid of birds in general. Especially big birds. Like Big Bird.
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If I was an alien, I would much rather abduct Angelina Jolie, or Megan Fox, or Beyonce
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No high expectations on this one...
The director's last movie was worse than nails on a blackboard....who the heck would give this guy a project like this?
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by the 'true story' shit, it's just a storytelling device. Looks like it could be good.
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Sometimes a white owl is just a white owl.
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unless it is true, and then holy shit, what next, a documentary with proof of sasquatches?
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SUCK IT. Where the hell is Scully and Mulder?
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Annnnnnd... it sorta scared me.
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BUT WHAT!!!
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Not since "Close Encounters" in 1977 has there be a movie that dealt properly with any facet of the UFO issue. Even the seemingly loved "Fire In The Sky", while indeed terrifying in its "alien sequence", had serious flaws (like deviating so much from Walton's own account of his abduction). But this movie with Milla is filled with details in the lore often overlooked by mainstream media. The owls in particular. Oh, and since it seems to be the standard of this thread to debate the reality of UFOs as opposed to, say, the quality of the movie, let me say this: Aliens are real. I've dealt with them my entire life. I've seen them multiple times and in various capacities (and no, abduction was not one of them), plus I am a level-headed, intelligent, sober, drug-free, mature grad student who does debunk a lot of myths, but aliens just have too much evidence. Those who deny them are, well, in denial. And Carl Segan didn't "disprove" anything. He was such a government puppet it was a crime against science. So, in the end, we have a potentially good UFO movie with Milla. Hot damn!
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Here is how I see it:
Hot Actress...Check
Aliens...Check
Scary Quick Cuts Trailer...Check
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This thing reminds me of that Jonathan Frakes autopsy video.
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Want proof that deep down people are afraid they have been wrong for five thousand years? That all our institutions are bullshit? That aliens are real? Just look at the talkbacks here. Even for AICN, there is a ridiculous amount of attacks on the subject matter rather than judging the trailer and by extension the movie itself. I'd say aliens are just like ghosts -- Most people believe in them but won't admit it, and cover up the disturbing thought that their religion or other foundation of thought is BS by launching needless and bullying attacks on the lore. Why can't aliens be real? Seriously, what do YOU KNOW that absolutely precludes the possibility? Arrogance and ignorance, nothing more.
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that the footage of the man "floating" off his bed is archival and, thus, real? If so...scrap the movie, make the footage public and make money off of that...duh?
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We need more input....
Some People are ACTUALLY taking this seriously...
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As Whitley Strieber once said, "Making fun of alien abductees is like poking fun at rape victims."
And, to those who say alien abductees are just crazies dealing with mental illnesses: the same thing was once said about menstruation cycles.
As for the movie, I don't know if it really is based on a real account, or if it's a Blair Witch-style "real" account.
I hope this movie does well, just so it lends more credence to another X-Files movie.
For a REAL account, with REAL photos that have yet to be disproven, read up on Stan Romanek's "Messages" book. Most documented case of alien abductions. That stuff will have you shitting your pants:
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Aug 13, 2009 9:16:03 PM CDT
"hooters are assholes"...imagine an alien with two giant...
by flickapoo
...sphincters on its chest instead of nipples? And imagine if they were pink and puckered...and tightened and loosened a bit while it was abducting the shit out of you? I'd be kind of scared of that. And that would be a badass looking alien...you heard it here first...
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Ever wondered what happens when Police cars do stuff? Let's find out in.....
WHEN POLICE CARS DO STUFF."
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most likely, someone was touched by an uncle and doesn't want to face that so there subconscious mind replaces the offender with a vague, generic person with no sex organs. Having said that, it's very effective as the new modern myth. To me, they represent our fear of living in an increasingly technological world. It's about our fears of losing our humanity to science. losing our passion, love, hate etc. and having it replaced by cold logic with scientific curiosity being the only emotion left to us. That's a scary jumping off point for a post modern fairy tale.
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I am a crazy dealing with a mental illness ! Just for a second I thought I was ovulating...
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Some people believe the Holocaust a hoax.And then there are people that will actually believeTHIS SHIT!
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but it won't matter. Has she ever been in a single good film except for Dazed and Confused?
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...if the rest of it looked like Milla....I'd still ask it to dinner and a movie.
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Let's blame my menstrual cycle shall we?
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...if Milla turned out to be the alien...would you let her probe you?...look deep inside where it's dark. Would you?
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One of the best ever. "This means something!"
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Aug 13, 2009 9:37:53 PM CDT
actually, there is a God, but aliens? pfft. I need proof of alie
by ironic_name
like I have proof of God: the universe
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Aug 13, 2009 9:39:23 PM CDT
this trailer got Pooty pregnant! tha's some strong stuff!
by ironic_name
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Ohh yeah... an X-Files reboot is around the corner... a little gray man told me this.
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Aug 13, 2009 9:48:14 PM CDT
Maybe up North, just past Alaska, you know nothing...
by stereotypical evil archer
And to the tune of a billion dollars, I supplied to the D.O.E.
Some tasty little nuggets of alien technology.
And as one might expect, I’ve been harassed for years.
The Men In Black have been bending my ear.
As a matter of fact, they were just here today,
But I escaped them through a secret passageway.
Once I lived there for one thousand days.
Get out.
Eject.
Escape From the Prison Planet.
Get out.
Eject.
Escape From the Prison Planet.
I have plans for the future, guess they’re futuristic plans.
Move out west and buy some desert lands.
Maybe up North, just past Alaska.
You know nothing of this if they ask ya.
Red Rover, Red Rover, Bob Lazar’s coming over.
So honey clear the airstrip and light up that stove.
By Jove, I think it’s started. Oh yeah,
Escape From the Prison Planet.
Billion people harvest on Mars.
Rebuild the remnants of the obelisk,
One mile from the pyramid.
Escape From the Planet of the Apes.
Go forth, ad infinitum.
Return the relics to the Elephant.
And Atlantis rises.
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It came out in the 70s, but I remember renting it. It was really funny. There was a lone where they say. "I am the famous French Scientist sent here to figure out the problem", It was funny.
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They bring pictures TO YOU now?
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Seriously hope for the big guy that they finally hit it out of the park with a film. Doubt it, but we can hope. Be lying if didn't say the trailer gave me the chills.... hey, I'm here by myself. So is there any legitimacy to the "case studies"?
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Alien peeking around wardrobe corner fucked me up as a kid.
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these fuckos who seriously believe the new health care plan would have a death panel selecting euthanasia for grandma. You don't believe in alien abduction? Look at the whacked out right wing fuckadoos who show up in front of the cameras at these town hall meetings yelling at the top of their lungs. Crazy mofos, every last one of them.
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Aug 13, 2009 10:35:56 PM CDT
$8.4T in Fed bailout money redirected to off-planet banks
by brandloyalist
How do you feel knowing your tax dollars are going to banks on Orion and the Reptiloid homeworld to cover the losses of greedy terraforming speculators -- while whole colonies are allowed to choke on poisonous levels of methane gas and be forced evacuate? With the amount of money that's been printed up and handed out to these gambling addicts, you could have paid off the balances on all of these atmosphere reactors that are underwater, even the underwater ones, not to mention all of the colonies' other construction and supply debts too, and end up with hundreds of healthy colonies contributing to interstellar commerce.
But instead they just institute galactic socialism for the hyper-rich. I think it was Senator Durbin who recently lamented: "The [Reptiloid] banks own this place" (ed. clarification added). At least there's reformed options trader Max Keiser to reveal the truth about this stuff. I don't know if he covers activities of the off-planet banks much actually, but he's at http://maxkeiser.com/ -
Is that why the lady had her birth certificate in a ziploc bag? To keep it away from the aliens?
Oh, and charabicharabia: There are quite a few people here who have posted that those who have claimed to suffer from alien abductions were most likely just molested or suffering from mental illnesses. You may have not suggested it, but others have, and that's where my comment was directed. -
Aug 13, 2009 10:49:21 PM CDT
I was abducted by aliens a few times, it was weird
by the_ender_smites_foes_returns_in_force
The alien was dressed like a priest. He would come into my room at night. Sit on the edge of my bed. "Rest easy my child, this is only a dream." So I'd relax. Usually he'd so some weird dance that he called his alien dance. During which, he would disrobe, leaving only a strange looking object wrapped around his waist. He called it a loincloth, I affectionately called it Alienwear (I was a kid, I thought Alien and underwear mixed was funny!). Anyway, he'd disrobe dance (like disco dancing, but with an alien dressed like a priest). Anyway...back to the story. He'd usually sit on the bed again, this time closer, and stroke the outside of his Alienwear while he stroked the outside of my underwear, usually around my cock. "You do realize, that good little boys like you, really please God.. And to please God, you need to help me return to my planet. Its very far away, and Im tired. You see, to get there, I must have all my energy. And to get that energy, I need special little boys like you, so put my alien cock in their mouth and asshole." The first 8 times I was a hard sell. Usually duct tape, lotion, and hardcore ass fucking and mouthfucking were standard quo. Eventually though, after my Dad came in and told me that he too was an Alien priest, and needed to molest my asshole and fuck my mouth, I just accepted that God had a plan for me. I was helping an Alien species get back tot heir home planet so they could spread his word about buttfucking children back to their people. Needless to say I happily obliged from then on. To this day, I've helped 47 Alien priests return to their planet. PRAISE JESUS!
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such as, sarah palin. Actually she comes out looking relatively normal if these are the kind of mental defectives typical of that region.
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It was a city founded around 884 B.C. in northern Israel by King Omri. There were civilizations that existed before Samaria. This right here is a dead give-away that the film is fiction.
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Okay, that trailer scared me a bit. I'll see this!
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You know you are.
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the love dance
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martian style
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fanboys? They should be jumping all over this one.
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That's the only possible explanation as to how he got from his bed to the theatre in 8 mins...
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The mentally ill and morons.
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Milla Jovovich couldn't act her way out of an Ultraviolet...
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Found this link on another blog?
http://www.rlnn.com/ArtNov05/UnsolvedCasesNomeAttractFBI.html
Seems legit? or am I just buying int the conspiracty crap??
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She's not George Lucas. She didn't rape anything of yours, that's for certain...
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Aug 14, 2009 1:49:23 AM CDT
I'm not anhry, just disappointed. she needs a spanking. by me.
by ironic_name
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...than you can be guaranteed its a stinker! im jus kiddin by the way,i wanna see this.
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Me telling people I'm Batman when I get drunk and naked. Haven't people learned by now from the recent horror movies/scams like "The Haunting in Conneticut
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... spoken in Southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC
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That is all.
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What about the'69th Kind'?
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nice i say.
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Milla is a big fan of Greggs pasties!! – Not that it shows much! But Its true!!!
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That was a a proper shit-me-up trailer. I'm glad I watched it this morning and not just before bed last night lol
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Yup,I was 17 messed up one night and woke in my friends log cabin JUST after watching Communion .. pitch black, didnt know where the light switches were .. I aged about 3 years that night .. still scares the crap out of me to this day .. I drove home in the snow at 4am just to get away from that damned place. It was SOOO close to that damned cabin in the flick .. ugh ...
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Good chances Itll sit next to Mothman Prophecies and Communion if it gives me the willies as good as those 2 did.
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...than what this movie is probably going to be. A shitty alien "are they here?" movie.
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Cartman Gets an Anal Probe. Nuff said.
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John Keel was a legend. Loved his books. Hated the boring Mothman richard gere movie. Keel's books are way more kooky and interesting and paranoid and fun. I cannot recomment Mothman prophesies and Operation Trojan Horse highly enough... Brilliant books. Pre-alien abduction stuff so sorry not that relevant, but a nice alternative point of view to the Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis and lots of brilliant forteanna to be found in his books. If still read books they are well worth seeking out.
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Aug 14, 2009 7:06:36 AM CDT
isn't the 4th kind when you make the beast with two backs with a
by potatino
ahem!
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...Also, "That gum you like is back in style."
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... (wait for it)... the Palin family! (Roll on snare drum, cymbal crash)
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... I believe you, but are you saying the damn thing looked like it was MADE OF concrete? 'Cause that would actually be sorta cool.
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...uh... i'm guessing... old Grant Morrison dialogue from the Doom Patrol???
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It 3was Sarah Palin (cue the sound of screaming and shattering glass)
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...those who purport to have had "abduction" experiences have mostly, if not all, been sexually abused as children. Aliens don't exist. Sorry folks. Makes for interesting/scary/fun books, movies and TV but we are alone in the universe.
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Papillon, Outlaw Josey Wales, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, and more 80s tv appearances than you can shake a stick at. Get on it before the Black Widows come for you. Hit it LordofHell.
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Papillon, Outlaw Josey Wales, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, and more 80s tv appearances than you can shake a stick at. Get on it before the Black Widows come for you. Hit it LordofHell.
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...I woke up at 3 in the AM to a loud thump on my roof and an eerie blue light shining under my bedroom door. I got out of bed and opened the door to find 3 alien entities in my hallway. They looked somewhat like the classic grays, but with elongated skulls, rubbery, jointless "Ub Iwerks-era Mickey Mouse" arms and legs, and glowing discs on their chests. "Look man," I told them, "I am NOT dealing with this shit right now." Then, they looked up and silently floated through the ceiling and out of the house. Then I woke up. Pretty sure it was just a dream, but a very realistic one. It was definitely some f'd up shit.
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the mothman prophesies. nope, didn't like it.
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...what about that scene in the upcoming 3D The Final Destination where a chick gets caught in the sunroof of her car in an automatic carwash and heads right into the whirling brush thing? I mean, wouldn't that just sting a little and maybe leave some light scratches? They're not going to have anything in a carwash that will take the paint off your car... it's not like that brush device is gonna that the chick's head off or grind off her skin or anything! Dumbass Final Destination franchise! (Sorry, I know, off topic, but that trailer really grinds my gears!)
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http://tinyurl.com/ls7xnk
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"cartman gets an anal probe."
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There are no fucking alien abductions.
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Aug 14, 2009 10:05:56 AM CDT
The trailer reminds me of that Micheal Keaton fiasco...
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I think it was called "Voices" . The only think that was interesting about it was the trailer, the movie not so much.
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It's from 'Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty' which doesn't really have anything to do with aliens...
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about a year ago the VATICAN released a press statement saying its ok to believe in Aliens, as they are also part of god's creation. Wonder what they know?
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Although hypnotic regression therapy (which appears to be what they're doing here) is pretty much completely discredited, the movie looks to have some cool, intense scary moments. I'm opened minded about the possibility of aliens etc but Abductions in particular seem more likely to represent unusual but natural brain activity (take a look at a few studies which have successfully replicated the "abduction experience" in a lab). On the other hand, a few specific experiences seem to actually defy easy explanation.
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I'm not at all saying that whatever this is is aliens. Certainly it's an inkblot test and we all see what our cultural/psychological filters allow. But there is still the fact of the inkblot itself. What exactly is it we're struggling to describe? Sleep paralysis? That doesn't even begin to explain it. How does that account for multiple-witness encounters? How does it account for when...say... you're not asleep? The brain does do many amazing things but this is not reducible to brain mechanics. That said, hypnosis is a piss-poor tool for extracting memory for a number of reasons too long to describe here. Suffice to say it's easy to confabulate a story under hypnosis--or have we learned nothing from the bogus satanic ritual abuse "cases" of the 80s? No, so-called "abductions" are far more complex than tiny space doctors shoving a microphone up your ass. The word "abduction" actually is meaningless. The whole doctor story was concocted by researchers who treat any other testimony from their clients as outlier data so that there would be a story palatable to the researcher personally and the media at large. Space doctors we can understand. Try tacking on all the high strangeness shit that goes with it. Not soundbyte-friend, no sir. TO SUBTLETY: Those experiments you're talking about do not reproduce abductions. They reproduce the eerie feeling that people are in the room. Conclusion?--so what. A movie of people in the room reproduces seeing people in the room, that doesn't mean people don't exist. I'm all for skeptical thinking but not the dogmatic junk skeptical organizations promote in their fear that life may actually be richer than material science. (Any of 'em ever picked up a book on theoretical physics???)
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lots of people on this talkback stating definitively that there are no aliens or aliens abductions. do you have some sort of proof that i don't know about. have we explored the entire universe and determined that there are no other intelligent life forms in the entire universe? we keep finding new life/species on this planet even today. christian dogma does not equal scientific fact... just sayin'
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a peach white owl.
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I can't remember who first posited this theory, but it's the best evidence I've ever heard why aliens have NOT visited Earth:
"If we had any evidence at all that aliens had visited Earth, there is no way the United States military would cover it up. If there is one thing the US military loves, it's an enemy. Alien invaders would be the best way for US generals and admirals to get a blank cheque from Congress. The fact that they have never done so proves that aliens have never visited the Earth." -
From The Kids in the Hall:
"We've been performing anal probes on these humans for 50 years now, and all we've learned so far is that about 10 per cent of them seem to enjoy it!" -
.... Because alien invaders would turn us upside down. Everything we think and know about history, about reality, would be tossed out the window. Invaders or not, simply knowing for a fact aliens are here would do to humans on the whole what Europeans did to indigenous peoples. We would wither in the face of them. Of course you could also argue that we have a secret space weapons program that they don't tell Congress about and that's where the 2.3 TRILLION dollars in Pentagon money "disappeared" to. (This is what Rumsfeld testified to before Congress in 2001.) But like I said earlier, it doesn't have to be aliens. There are theories galore. It could be interdimensional. It could be something that has been living here in hiding from the beginning. Who knows? If anyone gives a shit, check out this free podcast on this stuff: paratopia.net - I co-host the show with Jeff Ritzmann. We're both experiencers. We're both skeptical and can't stand the New Age airy-fairy shit. And we don't just talk to UFO researchers; we talk to NASA engineers, psychologists, sociologists, astrophysicists, etc. Having admitted this, don't ask me what my experiences are. I'm not your monkey! :)
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Still trying to figure out why it came out of nowhere? Anyone found anything else on the film's history or if there's any legitimacy to it? I'm out to like page 300-something in google. Arrgghh. Can anyone see the date on the video cameras in the trailer? Can't quite make em out.
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Who needs alien anal probes?
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I'm not going to debate whether or not abductions or real. Whatever is actually happening, I do think it's an interesting phenomenon and is good fodder for some creepy-ass movies and stories. BUT as far as this movie goes -- man, the trailer isn't exactly filling me with hope. The movie looks loud and obnoxious and overdone. A psuedo-doc about this subject matter should be quiet and eerie. Underplayed. Screaming patients under hypnosis knocking over lamps and tables, or floating above the bed while the camera shakes and fritzes out --- It's just fucking irritating. What's scary about abduction scenarios is the calm, quiet way that the little grey fuckers supposedly come into your room at night. Loud music swells and screaming overwrought actors are about as creepy as a 3 yr old kid banging on a kitchen pot with a spatula.
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Between him and Milla it would then have to be good.
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i think that might be my favorite episode! "i think our fearless leader is some kind of twisted ass freak!"
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i'd say it's very likely or at least likely that there other extraterrestrial species out there, possibly even intelligent ones, possibly even more intelligent than us. It is true that more of the universe is younger than us than older than us, but it is still possible the thing that gets me is that people kinda look at it out of perspective. people say 'look how fast our technology is advancing - imagine if they had a thousand year jump on us' a hundred years ago the fastest we could go was about 100km/per hour. now we can go thousands of ks per hours. in recent time we have figured out how to fly ect. why couldn't we increase a million fold over the next thousand years?the reason is that flight was not against the apparent laws of physics nor were cars of rail. we lacked the technology. saying 'that is impossible, we will never have the technology for that' is different from saying 'that defies all that we know about physics' it is not that we can build a ship fast enough, it is simply that einstien has given us an upper limit on our technical speed, and even going at that speed, we cant get very far. it is not enough for aliens to have vastly better tecnology than us, eistein's theory on physics must be wrong. hawkings has been looking into ways to cheat it, but recently all but gave up.
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You know, jest to liven it up, a bit.
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C'mon. This shit's been played out twice-over w/ the X-Files, Chariots of the Gods and Streiber. I mean-fucking NOME?! what, these guys are Garden Gnomes in rocket-ships who take people away and probe their Butts for a living?! and speak Sumerian, too? Fuck this shit. It makes for a neat-o boogie man story, but PLEASE-it's about as realistic as Big Robots Hitting Each Other (Once Again), and then some.
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I love alien abduction stuff, but I've become a total UFO skeptic over the years. The owl face is effectively creepy, but methinks this is just cornball nonsense.
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you know who else is SUmerian?
Gozer the Gozerian
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Try sumarian rather than samarian. Or were you joking?
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seriously, for thousands of years Mankind had ONE explanation for all the freaky shit going on around him that he couldn't explain...
the like-clockwork flooding of the Nile, Auroras, eclipses, lightning, Britney Spears - all the stuff that Science has slowly been figuring out... before we HAD an explanation, it was GODS - more recently just the one "true" God...
Nowadays people who see freaky shit turn to the Gods explanation less and less - now it's all about Aliens
soon it will be the One True Alien -
"Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind"!!!
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I MEANT "Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind"!
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..Sarah Palin can see Uranus.
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Curious minds want to know!
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If you're still around... That's EXACTLY what I'm saying. Imagine looking up from a car window and seeing something that looks as heavy and real as the side of a building "floating" about 60 feet above you, absolutely silent and keeping pace with your car. And then it banks effortlessly away without a sound. That was my experience. Again, I have no idea what it was, but I can find no explanation or excuse for it.
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Can anyone find anything about this? All I'm getting is malware.
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I like Mila Jovovich and the production looked pretty good for "The Fourth Kind," but I don't know. It's darkly intriguing, yet inner-skeptic provoking.
Maybe I shouldn't look at it that way. Maybe I should just watch it as "Fire in the Sky"-ish entertainment? Which, by the way, DocPazuzu, indeed DID show the most frighteningly intense abduction sequence ever put on film.
I hope "The Fourth Kind" will be good. Looks like it could be. But it won't answer any larger questions for me. -
I like it! The One True Alien.
All bow down. -
he'll tell you all about his 'alien abduction' while on peyote.
Royston, how do you know that the military hasn't gotten a blank cheque to fight the alien menace? -
Found it posted. looks like same person in film. http://alaskapsychiatryjournal.org/entries/6-1997-American-Journal-of-Psychiatry-Light-Exposure-Effects.html
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