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Just got back home from watching The Fourth Kind. Granted, it was somewhat over-dramatized in some parts, but it's impossible to deny the alien abduction phenomenon without making it obvious that you're just scared to accept the overwhelming evidence.

Where you one of thoe people that believed it was based on true events? Cause it wasnt it was all taped.

Wiki wrote:The film's trailer states that the story is based on "actual case studies," but does not specify which cases. As a result, much speculation has arisen regarding the search for documented evidence from the actual cases and whether Dr. Abigail Tyler is a real person or a fictional character for use in an internet viral marketing campaign.

Yeah... what is more likely? Without discounting the subtle presence of E.T., I can firmly believe in the likelihood of the latter.

warpcrafter wrote:it's impossible to deny the alien abduction phenomenon without making it obvious that you're just scared to accept the overwhelming evidence.

Wikpedia wrote:
However, there still remains a mystery surrounding the deaths of many of Nome's residents, though the consensus is that the high rate of alcoholism combined with the harsh landscape surrounding Nome may account for a majority of the disappearances.

May?

dogma wrote:

Wikpedia wrote:
However, there still remains a mystery surrounding the deaths of many of Nome's residents, though the consensus is that the high rate of alcoholism combined with the harsh landscape surrounding Nome may account for a majority of the disappearances.

May?

No, most of it happens in April though... Silly humans.

My trusted movie reviewer hated it as a movie and as a fraud. His statement was, if you like snuff films, this is your movie. Otherwise throw your money in the toilet before you waste on this.

What, is it a documentary?

I thought it was some kind of an SF/Horror flick.

Kilkrazy wrote:What, is it a documentary?

I thought it was some kind of an SF/Horror flick.

Its fiction billed as real. Its stupid and sick.

Wow I think I just described Congress...

Frazzled wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:What, is it a documentary?

I thought it was some kind of an SF/Horror flick.

Its fiction billed as real. Its stupid and sick.

Wow I think I just described Congress...

Like the Da Vinci code... it has enough bits of half truths to make people belive its real.

Envy89 wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:What, is it a documentary?

I thought it was some kind of an SF/Horror flick.

Its fiction billed as real. Its stupid and sick.

Wow I think I just described Congress...

Like the Da Vinci code... it has enough bits of half truths to make people belive its real.

Except, the Da Vinci Codes was never billed as real. Dan Brown always stated it was fiction. You're thinking of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the book Brown stole it from.

Frazzled wrote:My trusted movie reviewer hated it as a movie and as a fraud. His statement was, if you like snuff films, this is your movie. Otherwise throw your money in the toilet before you waste on this.

Sounds like you just described a Saw movie, lol...my trusted movie reviewer didn't like it either, but he didn't make mention of any excessive gore or anything like that.

I heard it was all crap, that everything that Paranormal Activity did right The Fourth Kind did wrong. It takes forever for them to piece it together and figure out that it's aliens, you never actually see the aliens, all the "scares" in the film are those annoying fething jump scares, and the actors chew the scenery hardcore. That and I don't like how the aliens entire reason for being here is apparently just to be dicks and anally probe the monkeys...

Needless to say I'm not a big believer in abduction theory. The whole thing used to scare me as a kid, but seriously? I'm not saying aliens don't exist, it's a big galaxy after all, but why in the feth would they come all this way just to act like fething donkey-caves and pretend they're god, and do fethed up gak to random people? They don't really have any scientific reason to be probing your ass, they just want to screw with your head. I mean they seriously have nothing better to do?

warpcrafter wrote:Granted, it was somewhat over-dramatized in some parts, but it's impossible to deny the alien abduction phenomenon without making it obvious that you're just scared to accept the overwhelming evidence.

...ugh...I'm too tired. I second Orkeosaurus, and I'm going to bed, lol.

Sidstyler wrote:That and I don't like how the aliens entire reason for being here is apparently just to be dicks and anally probe the monkeys...

Simply said, the idea that aliens, which would have to be highly advanced space-faring beings, would come down to Earth to give us a few jump scares makes any alien movie in that vein just stupid in my mind. What's the point? For this reason (amongst others), I hate the movie Signs. With a passion.

Maybe they are using us as psychological testing grounds? I guess, but why deal with it? Simply said, if aliens decided to drop in on us, they are either going to present themselves as allies/beneficiaries, or see us as animals, wipe us off the face of the earth, and take whatever they need, or something. Unless they are a race full of space-traveling pranksters.

Just carry a bottle of water around though and you'll be fine.

I just realized. In signs all humans are like acid spitting aliens. Defeat the alien-hawk a loogie at 'em!

I guy with a supersoaker would be like a marine terminator...

Unless they are a race full of space-traveling pranksters.

Maybe this is what teenagers from other planets do on the weekend when they're bored. Get drunk, steal daddy's spaceship and go feth with a primitive species minding its own business.

I think the emphasis on anal probes and other sexual type shenanigans is evidence more of the human participants' mental outlook than the supposed aliens'.

Sidstyler wrote: I'm not saying aliens don't exist, it's a big galaxy after all, but why in the feth would they come all this way just to act like fething donkey-caves and pretend they're god, and do fethed up gak to random people? They don't really have any scientific reason to be probing your ass, they just want to screw with your head. I mean they seriously have nothing better to do?

I can't imagine aliens would be any different. Well, I can, but I doubt the aliens we perceive as aliens would be any different. Not that it strengthens the plot of the movie, or abduction theory.

was there techno comuacations?
you know, like in close encounter with the forth kind?

Maybe aliens really like anal loving, I mean really love it. But since they have no anus of thier own, they must ply the space ways for other races to anally get thier jollies off. It's what I would do if I had a spaceship....and no anus.

dogma wrote:

...I see...point taken.