I stopped watching movies starring Milla Jovovich since “Extinction”

I know first hand that alien abductions are real.

I saw this last night and thought it was terrible. It’s even worse when a quick look at the internet shows that the “real” footage was fake.

spoony and carl sagan are right. beware of anthropocentrism. some semi-religious message in the disguise of science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism

“I saw this last night and thought it was terrible. It’s even worse when a quick look at the internet shows that the “real” footage was fake.”

- Epic Cardboard

So it’s like the Spinal Tap of bad UFO movies? I thought they couldn’t get any worse than that Canuxploitation flick “Starship Invasions.”

Spoony if you really want to see a scary, off putting fake documentary, rent Peter Watkins’ “The War Game.” Made for BBC TV but considered too strong for the tube, it was shown in US theaters and got an Academy Award nod for its stark realism. If you can’t get it through Netflix, I think it’s still in six or seven chunks on YouTube.

Ugh, I hate reenactments. It’s my number one beef with the History and Military channels. They’re talking about something awesome and interesting and then they ruin it with some cheap footage.

Was going to see this movie but looking at the reviews I knew it was bad so I decided to see Precious instead.
If you want to see a good movie out this week, watch Precious in my opinion one of the best films this year.

But yeah now I have no intent on wasting my time on this movie.

Was going to see this movie but looking at the reviews I knew it was bad so I decided to see Precious instead.
If you want to see a good movie out this week, watch Precious in my opinion one of the best films this year.

But yeah now I have no intent on wasting my time on this movie.

It sounds like the aliens are nothing more than a bunch of douchebags with a magnifying glass, standing and looking to down on a anthill that is Earth; “Hurr hurr, the sun is really bright today! Let’s fry some ants!”

Also, I really enjoyed the very cliché scenes with the owls! “An owl you say….? Hm…”

:D

lol owls

I remember watching Fire In The Sky as a kid myself, and my God was that fucking horrifying. Seeing how cruel and evil the aliens were and the feeling of helplessness the main character had as they covered him in that weird film which then went solid, made him suffocate. Then they poked a hole to breathe before drilling and cutting into him. Jesus. I think that scarred me too.

I have to admit though, I would really be interested to see you review it and see if looking back, it really is just bad. But man…I still get shivers thinking about it now.

I remember watching Fire In The Sky as a kid myself, and my God was that fucking horrifying. Seeing how cruel and evil the aliens were and the feeling of helplessness the main character had as they covered him in that weird film which then went solid, made him suffocate. Then they poked a hole to breathe before drilling and cutting into him. Jesus. I think that scarred me too.

I have to admit though, I would really be interested to see you review it and see if looking back, it really is just bad. But man…I still get shivers thinking about it now.

Good stuff Spoony. Love the Hitchhikers Guide reference. Digital watches are a neat idea :P

thats disappointing I guess Ill be going to see Men who stare at goats

A close encounter of the fifth kind is communication with an alien. :P

Anyway, great video. I loved the Hitchhiker’s Guide reference, and the “An owl, you say?” bit.

But digital watches are cool! And little green pieces of paper.

Hey spoony, I was just curious about how good of a computer you own to be able to run Dragon Age Origins. I was interested in picking it up myself, however am skeptical of getting it on a console. Im just worried that my computer wont run the game, so i wanted to use yours as a base.

I remember Fire In The Sky… I too am scarred for life.

Fallout 3 does crash alot.. but for me its like 1-2 times a day at max.. and that usualy only days when i play for a longer period of time.. But glad to hear you are back at ripper ^_^ ..

Good Vlog btw :D..

I believe in Aliens when I was a kid I think I saw one. Then again I was small and very tired…

Great vlog spoony! Crappy movie!

I believe in Aliens when I was a kid I think I saw one. Then again I was small and very tired…

Great vlog spoony! Crappy movie!

About the blood on Dragon Age Spoony, if you don’t like all the blood you can turn off the ‘Persistent Gore’ option and it goes away shortly. Well, on the PC version anyways.

I hate movies like this. I believe that aliens may be real but they don’t abduct us. That’s just stupid.

“Look at these guys on this planet, they still think digital watches are really neat.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reference?

“Look at these guys on this planet, they still think digital watches are really neat.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reference?

as i understand it in Dragon Age there are two modes for your character’s skins, either gore or no gore, there is just 1 level of “gore” it makes no difference if you someone explodes in front of you or if you were barely scratched with a dagger, you are covered in blood from top to bottom, i think its hilarious to watch them talking like normal (sometimes even flirting, eww) while they are covered with guts with flaming weapons on their backs, im always thinking “dude at least clean your freaking face, you are licking orc guts” or “hey, your hair is on fire!”

I have that same problem with Fallout 3 and so as a friend of mine…one time I was in his house and he was trying to show me something in the game but it was impossible…the game crashed, friezed, etc… all the time

Aliens with a God complex, sees humans as underlings, and severely, physically, as well as psychologically, damages them for the sake of shits and giggles…

SpoonyOne, did you just compare the aliens to Kefka, of Final Fantasy VI!? …

HEY! There’s your money shot right there! At the end, they first show his shadow, followed by his iconic laughter, and then, finally, but only for a split second, they show him in his ultimate God Form, as he prepares his final assault on humanity with his alien minions!

If you’ve got Borderlands on PC, both me and a friend of mine demand for you to join us!

Please? =)

I really love your movie vlog’s. You should do them more often

I think I also find the idea that a demon is messing with humans for the lulz, because it’s a demon, much more plausible then a bunch of aliens being assholes for no other reason then to be assholes.
I might see the movie anyway because I hate being of the opinion that something sucks without having seen it, at least I wont have high expectations.
Also because then I could really rip into the people on youtube that proffered this to Paranormal Activity XP

meltdown2insanity: sounds like Brilliance!

Yeah I was disappointed to find out that this movie sucked because I wanted to see it. Oh well I still have Paranormal Activity.

Glad to hear the name Fire in the Sky again. That movie freaked me the fuck out as a kid. Though it was a bad movie I think it illustrated alien abduction maybe a little too well. And with that I will leave you with probably one of the scariest clips in movie history. Sleep tight everyone :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FEHP7JGego

“They still think digital watches are neat.”

So the aliens are asshole Hitchhikers, huh? :D

go see the imaginarium of dr parnassus it’s a very interesting film

Windows 7, that’s probably your problem with game crashes, apparently Nvidia has been half assin’ the Windows Vista/7 drivers for gforce cards 8xxx and down, I am not 100% sure if my system is stable for gaming yet, will fire up Borderlands for a test drive, but I had to remove the Nvidia drivers and just go along with the ones that come with Windows, better than having to hard reboot your pc every 10 minutes.

If your card isn’t Nvidia, then disregard :).

The fifth kind is communicating with an alien through something like a radio signal, like the movie Contact.

There was another alien abduction movie from 1993 called “Fire in the sky” and it was about this trucker (I think) getting abducted. I recall the commercials for the movie disturbing me, what with the guy on this slab covered head to foot in this latex stuff similar to the Rovers from The Prisoner.

Am I the only one who remembers this movie?

I love it, “I’m going to spoil the shit out of this movie!” You should do that for more shitty flicks.

Unless I’m mistaken, the Fifth Kind is going to the alien’s planet.

The alien abduction stuff kind of became less popular after the 90′s anyway. Looks like it was better off left to gather dust. As for Borderlands I agree if you can play multiplayer its amusing but as a normal game experience its really lacking. So single player is not a good idea. I have not got to try Dragon Age but it looks good. Sounds like its the real new fantasy rpg we have been waiting for since Morrowind got old. Since Oblivion was kind of well dumbed down like a console game.

The alien abduction stuff kind of became less popular after the 90′s anyway. Looks like it was better off left to gather dust. As for Borderlands I agree if you can play multiplayer its amusing but as a normal game experience its really lacking. So single player is not a good idea. I have not got to try Dragon Age but it looks good. Sounds like its the real new fantasy rpg we have been waiting for since Morrowind got old. Since Oblivion was kind of well dumbed down like a console game.

@Paranormal Rob

Fire in the Sky was a good movie. The best alien film I think was Roswell though.

I think the whole alien story was a cover story for the US government to test new aircraft which they could spin as UFO’s and MK Ultra experiments as abduction stories.

The scariest alien I remember was on the cover of the book Communion by Whitely Strieber http://www.abduct.com/books/b03.php

Im not sure where I go for this but justed wanted to say that your review on D&D 4th Edition isnt working. It plays an advertiment (sorry for SP) and once thats finish it goes to the screen at the end of videos that shows you other videos by this person. The screen that says “You just watched BLA BLA”

Just informing you guys of this problem. Hopefully this gets noticed

Spooney you should check out the poughkeepsie tapes it works like its real i don’t really know if its real or not so they play that point off pretty well imo, i think you should check it out you might like it

Ah, Spoony mentioned “Fire in the Sky”. My mistake.

Ah, I knew it would bomb. The trailer scared me, but it’s good to hear your opinion on it. And I agree, “Close Encounters” got pretty damn scary at parts.

And the thing is, the whole movie is about reenactments about fake footage. ._.

funniest fucking video yet. awesome

GOT IT!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/DCKantel/MixedMessages.jpg
By The way, I agree with Spoony on Unsolved Mysteries. There is a new version of the show on SpikeTV with the same name hosted by Fontana from Law & Order. Not Nearly as scary as Robert Stack though.

I just love your movie reviews… your opinion is usually complete opposite to the opinion that most of Poles share – and in most of the times, you’re the person who’s right :)

About the PC Fallout 3 problem, couldn’t it be a heating thing? If it works for a while and then it locks in, it could be that. Then again, if Dragon Age works fine maybe it isn’t a over heating problem. (Just remembered having a similar problem myself). Oh well, hope you fix that :)

Holy crap! Fire In The Sky! I’ve had vague memories of a movie about alien abductions that really freaked me out as a kid. I had no idea what it was and gave up hope of ever finding out. You mentioning details from that movie lead me to check out clips on youtube and lo and behold that is the movie. Thank you.

P.S. the scene ingrained in my memory is when the guy is on the ship, which is all organic and disturbing, and he inadvertently sticks his hands in the liquidated torso of a fellow abductee. Gave me fucking nightmares man.

Here’s the very scene I mentioned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWVv_98qdGQ&NR=1

You should check out Disney’s A Christmas Carol instead though I don’t know if that’s your thing. However, I plan on seeing it in IMAX 3D!

I’m not saying I’m a total believer in all things alien abductions related, but I don’t think the, “Why would they come all that way just to ass rape us?” argument is a very good one. Humans build submarines just so they can go down to the ocean floor and poke foot long tube worms. I don’t see much reason in doing that but it still happens.
Just because some hypothetical alien race has better technology doesn’t mean they have a rational system of logic to their thinking. Their way of thinking would be very alien because they’re just that, aliens.
Hell, for all we know they could be some sort of alien cult of ass rapers and it’s what we would think of as a monthly club meeting.

On a more movie related note did Milla Jovovich manage to keep her clothes on through the entire thing?

I’m not saying I’m a total believer in all things alien abductions related, but I don’t think the, “Why would they come all that way just to ass rape us?” argument is a very good one. Humans build submarines just so they can go down to the ocean floor and poke foot long tube worms. I don’t see much reason in doing that but it still happens.
Just because some hypothetical alien race has better technology doesn’t mean they have a rational system of logic to their thinking. Their way of thinking would be very alien because they’re just that, aliens.
Hell, for all we know they could be some sort of alien cult of ass rapers and it’s what we would think of as a monthly club meeting.

On a more movie related note did Milla Jovovich manage to keep her clothes on through the entire thing?

“Funny how he says how boring this movie is and how nothing happens in this movie but praises Paranormal Activity.”

Because Paranormal Activity was BETTER than this crap. Which is sad, because PA sucked ass too

This movie sucked, not because it deals with alien abductions (which I somewhat belive in), but it’s the fact that they’re trying to pass this shit off as real when it’s so clearly faked.

This movie sucked, not because it deals with alien abductions (which I somewhat belive in), but it’s the fact that they’re trying to pass this shit off as real when it’s so clearly faked.

Think you’re up for a review of Dragon Age Origins and Borderlands?

I’ve been thinking about getting them.

I love your game reviews!

Teaches me to comment without finishing the video ;) Nevermind!

Borderlands was great. I kinda ran out of money so I was only able to mooch of my friend, but it was very fun with 2 people. I played a berserker, and while it was fun to run around punching the shit out of people in a game about guns, his weapon focus, rockets, seemed kind of weak. My friend, a sniper, was killing enemies so much faster.

I don’t get to choose which movies I review each week. This time I got The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Box.

Linked video reviews on my site, just click the name on this post.

I just recently saw a made for TV movie made in 1975 based on the Hill’s abduction. It’s basically the same as fire in the sky or this, but cheaply made. Seeing a hysterical James Earl Jones makes up for it though.

If you haven’t seen “The men who stare at goats”, see it. now.
Best movie this month.
good thing that I saw that instead of “fourth kind”.

It does suck that Dragon Age doesnt have multi-player at all, I think it would be fun to have spoony as a team member.

I just saw The Fourth Kind and as Spoony said, I also had high hopes for this movie and they slowly melted away as it did take friggin 70 minutes for them to even mention abductions. The video footage conveniently going out and going fuzzy at ‘would be’ money shot moments, like during almost every scene that was archive and the police footage of the spacecraft, that apparently doesn’t have any lights and looks like a big circular shadow for about 1/2 second before cutting out to only audio.

Another thing about this story is why is this the first time i’ve heard of it? Wouldn’t some other documentaries want to obtain supposed aliens speaking Sumerian in a audio recorder? That’s like having Big Foot leave a note saying he’s sorry for tearing apart the hikers’ camp but he was really interested in all their energy bars, here’s a photograph of me and a tuft of fir as payment for repairs.

fire in the sky scared the shit out of me when i was a kid, it is the only movie to ever give me nightmares.

When I was little, I saw commercials for Fire in the Sky and got freaked out.

I added it to Netflix with a bunch of other crap I was too scared to watch as a kid. After thinking about it for a night, I deleted it from the list. I’m 24 now and I’m still scared just by those damn trailers.

But I would be interested to see you review it, Spoony. And hopefully it would not actually be scary.

fire in the sky scared the shit out of me when i was a kid, it is the only movie to ever give me nightmares.

Look up the movie “Communion”. It’s stars Christopher Walken playing the role of Whitley Strieber being abducted by aliens. I remember seeing this movie when I was about 10 and that terrified the shit out of me. Walken’s performance is sublime. This is, in my opinion (speaking as a bit of a UFOlogy geek who is also a hardcore skeptic) the best movie on the subject of the abduction phenomenon. Not only that but it will scare the shit out of you. If your skin does not crawl when you see the money shot of this movie (which is the first time you see the alien and it’s fairly early in the film) then you are not human.

Look up the movie “Communion”. It’s stars Christopher Walken playing the role of Whitley Strieber being abducted by aliens. I remember seeing this movie when I was about 10 and that terrified the shit out of me. Walken’s performance is sublime. This is, in my opinion (speaking as a bit of a UFOlogy geek who is also a hardcore skeptic) the best movie on the subject of the abduction phenomenon. Not only that but it will scare the shit out of you. If your skin does not crawl when you see the money shot of this movie (which is the first time you see the alien and it’s fairly early in the film) then you are not human.

i’m somewhat suprised that someone who can buy into ghosts just can’t by aliens coming here. i mean i get your reasoning and all but it guess it’s my problem with christians and there who deal where they believe in the holy ghost right but they don’t beleieve in ghosts because a person is suppsoed to die and then go to judgement never gettign stuck inbetween blah blah blah bullshit.

my mothers an abductee but it’s not why i’d even slightly defend the phenomenon at all. it’s the statisitics. out of all investigated u.f.o. sightings by the u.s. government 95% can be easily explained away…that leaves 10% that can’t be credibily discounted or disproven and leaves the door open.

and it’s slightly laughable that because people have seen different shaped craft it must automaticaly mean it’s bullshit. wow that’s scientific thought there. ever think that there maybe different species that they don’t all come to some intergelactic meeting and agree on saucers as being the shape of choice.

you also discount entire towns who see things that could not be disproven either. it doesn’t mean it’s alien in orgin but there are mass sightings that can’t be discounted so easily as just being mass hysteria.

but whatever it’s your beliefs and i’ve never been one to take one on for their core ideals because my ideals could be bullshit as much as yours no one truely knows for sure what lies beyond anything. but i’ve seen some shit in my life and i’ve never seen other shit people say is out there. by i am younge yet who knows where my life will lead me.

Fire in the Sky was a great flick, but I had the bejezuz scared out of me when I saw Communion. This film is one of my favourite performances by Christopher Walken, or maybe just the one I remember the most because of the nightmares I had for years about this movie. I appreciate the heads up on this cinematic abortion, I was actually looking forward to seeing it… guess I dodged a bullet there.

Fire in the Sky was a great flick, but I had the bejezuz scared out of me when I saw Communion. This film is one of my favourite performances by Christopher Walken, or maybe just the one I remember the most because of the nightmares I had for years about this movie. I appreciate the heads up on this cinematic abortion, I was actually looking forward to seeing it… guess I dodged a bullet there.

All those owls reminded me of Futurama…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApFB-GylZNQ

They really just needed some OWL exterminators.

I think it’s funny you compare the poor abduction victims to the actors performances.
But the aliens I met were very nice, they even gave me the secret to eternal happiness but I told them that most humans stop coloring after the age of 6, so they gave me a stick instead.

The only question I have is why did the space ship look like the back of my friend’s barn?

I think it’s funny you compare the poor abduction victims to the actors performances.
But the aliens I met were very nice, they even gave me the secret to eternal happiness but I told them that most humans stop coloring after the age of 6, so they gave me a stick instead.

The only question I have is why did the space ship look like the back of my friend’s barn?

I really would like to hear what you have to say about Diary of the Dead. I did not like that movie, although I can’t really give a reason why I didn’t like it but did like Land of the Dead. Often times what you say is so spot on to what I’ve been thinking but couldn’t verbalize that I really would like to know the reason I don’t like Diary, if that makes any sense at all. I actually completely hated everything about Diary, and it’s pretty similiar to Land.

YES! fire in the sky!

YES! fire in the sky!

Call me cynical, but I can’t help but think that all of these “alien abductions” are just a cover for closet homosexuality. Why? Think about it. All these “abductions” take place in remote areas and it always seems to involve anal probing. What else is Billy Bob going to tell someone when they notice that a certain cavity of his body is perhaps a bit wider than it should be?

Now, I’m not saying that everyone who has claimed to have been abducted is like this, but I’m guessing that’s how it started out.

One of the best alien tv shows I ever saw was Taken. It was made I think by Steven Spielberg and was a really good show. Each episode showed like different years, going from Roswell to sort of modern day as it follows three generations of the main characters. It was a really good idea and was effective at not cramping the show up so that aliens had to appear every few days. It does have it’s issues but still enjoyable, check it out if you can track it down.

One of the best alien tv shows I ever saw was Taken. It was made I think by Steven Spielberg and was a really good show. Each episode showed like different years, going from Roswell to sort of modern day as it follows three generations of the main characters. It was a really good idea and was effective at not cramping the show up so that aliens had to appear every few days. It does have it’s issues but still enjoyable, check it out if you can track it down.

Hey Spoony,

Just wanted to say that I love the vblog,
f.y.i. persistent blood can be turned off in the game. Funny as my husband is playing it while watching the vblog.

I just want to add that I watched the new V and it’s just not the same as the original they better make it more interesting for me in the later episodes.

Fire In the Sky…I heard about that film for years from friends who had also seen it as kids, too. I eventually checked it out, it’s a mediocre straight-to-video alien movie, not terrible, but not great. The third act is actually pretty disturbing, but yeah you can tell it’s one of those things that is pretty ridiculous for adults, but fucking terrifying for kids.

Fire In the Sky…I heard about that film for years from friends who had also seen it as kids, too. I eventually checked it out, it’s a mediocre straight-to-video alien movie, not terrible, but not great. The third act is actually pretty disturbing, but yeah you can tell it’s one of those things that is pretty ridiculous for adults, but fucking terrifying for kids.

@aaron deneau
“95% can be easily explained away…that leaves 10%”

Got a little math problem there champ.

how is the ps3 version of dragon age if u have played it let me know pls at haydendon666@gmail.com ty and thanks for starting to do more ripper i loved those vids :P

how is the ps3 version of dragon age if u have played it let me know pls at haydendon666@gmail.com ty and thanks for starting to do more ripper i loved those vids :P

I am a Millia Jovavich fan n all but I have 0 interest in this movie.
I was hopeing to see CHRISTMAS CARROL with the family but since we’re all sick we wound up doing THOSE WHO STARE AT GOATS which I thought was a good movie and had a good cast with EWAN MCGREGOR, GEORGE CLOONEY, JEFF BRIDGES, ROBERT PATRICK, and KEVIN SPACEY.

Babylon 5 ripped off the torture sequence from Fire In The Sky verbatim in the second season. The equipment was identical.

I think it’s just about the only race in the show that only showed up for one episode, Streib if I recall correctly.

Babylon 5 ripped off the torture sequence from Fire In The Sky verbatim in the second season. The equipment was identical.

I think it’s just about the only race in the show that only showed up for one episode, Streib if I recall correctly.

If you liked Paranormal Activity you should check out a movie called Ghost Watch. It was done by the BBC in the 80′s, apparently when it was first aired people freaked because they thought it was real because the people playing the hosts/interviewers in the program are the real people who had those jobs at the time.

Give Demon’s Souls a try (preferably with a strategy guide). It’s the best *action* RPG of this console generation.

Give Demon’s Souls a try (preferably with a strategy guide). It’s the best *action* RPG of this console generation.

U should go watch REC 2 and make a vlog about it ;)

Abductions?
You mean abductions by…. OWLS?

Abductions?
You mean abductions by…. OWLS?

I’ve tried Dragon Age both ways, the HUD is very different on the console. And it does work well, but the PC is still way more fluid and faster.

Lol I don’t understand the game’s blood fetish either. I mean okay, sure, fair enough getting covered in blood. But do your map and loading screens have to be bloody too?

Spoony, I seem to recall reading that Fallout 3 suffered from many problems ranging from memory leaks to issues with the DLC on the Xbox and PS3. Now since most of my friends played it on the xbox and they only had major issues with the DLC being not quite playable until patched, perhaps the PC version suffered from similar issues? Do you have any of the expansions installed, and are you playing them? Perhaps removing the expansion areas (if possible) might remove the issue since its seems you didn’t have this problem originally.

Spoony, I seem to recall reading that Fallout 3 suffered from many problems ranging from memory leaks to issues with the DLC on the Xbox and PS3. Now since most of my friends played it on the xbox and they only had major issues with the DLC being not quite playable until patched, perhaps the PC version suffered from similar issues? Do you have any of the expansions installed, and are you playing them? Perhaps removing the expansion areas (if possible) might remove the issue since its seems you didn’t have this problem originally.

“out of all investigated u.f.o. sightings by the u.s. government 95% can be easily explained away…that leaves 10% that can’t be credibily discounted”

That adds up to 105%… is this alien math?

Fire in the Sky was a great movie, the bits on the alien ship were very well done. Not just visually, but intelligently too – for example when the abductee guy is exploring the ship (through filthy corridors with minimal gravity, where old spectacles and such like spin slowly in gutters) he finds that the famous ‘grey’ alien look are spacesuits. Really clever that, sort of obvious but never done anywhere else as far as I know. The torture/experimentation scene is genuinely unpleasant, and the aliens look very ‘real’ and very nasty.

Of course, the thing to understand though is the movie’s depiction of that guy’s abduction experience is total artistic licence, it bears almost no similarity to the actual guys, actual (hypno-induced) memories of the event – I expect you can find his account online somewhere, and it’s much more hokey 50′s scifi seeming, with shining silver metal rooms and tall men in white robes etc. The movie makers clearly looked at it and thought noone would buy that, so set about thinking up what a credible ‘abduction/experimentation ship’ might be like.

Fire in the Sky was a great movie, the bits on the alien ship were very well done. Not just visually, but intelligently too – for example when the abductee guy is exploring the ship (through filthy corridors with minimal gravity, where old spectacles and such like spin slowly in gutters) he finds that the famous ‘grey’ alien look are spacesuits. Really clever that, sort of obvious but never done anywhere else as far as I know. The torture/experimentation scene is genuinely unpleasant, and the aliens look very ‘real’ and very nasty.

Of course, the thing to understand though is the movie’s depiction of that guy’s abduction experience is total artistic licence, it bears almost no similarity to the actual guys, actual (hypno-induced) memories of the event – I expect you can find his account online somewhere, and it’s much more hokey 50′s scifi seeming, with shining silver metal rooms and tall men in white robes etc. The movie makers clearly looked at it and thought noone would buy that, so set about thinking up what a credible ‘abduction/experimentation ship’ might be like.

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msmit118 November 7, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Babylon 5 ripped off the torture sequence from Fire In The Sky verbatim in the second season. The equipment was identical.

I think it’s just about the only race in the show that only showed up for one episode, Streib if I recall correctly.>>>>>

B5 also had a first season episode that featured ‘greys’, some human guy was suing them in the B5 court for abducting his ancestor or something. The grey spoke with cards marked with crop circle like symbols.

Pretty funny. :-)

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Rankaratar November 7, 2009 at 10:25 pm
One of the best alien tv shows I ever saw was Taken. It was made I think by Steven Spielberg and was a really good show. Each episode showed like different years, going from Roswell to sort of modern day as it follows three generations of the main characters. It was a really good idea and was effective at not cramping the show up so that aliens had to appear every few days. It does have it’s issues but still enjoyable, check it out if you can track it down.<<<<

I must admit I found Taken to be a guilty pleasure. It was very well done visually, had some great characters and scenes, and I loved the generational storytelling … but the alien plot was total bollocks. Shame.

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Rankaratar November 7, 2009 at 10:25 pm
One of the best alien tv shows I ever saw was Taken. It was made I think by Steven Spielberg and was a really good show. Each episode showed like different years, going from Roswell to sort of modern day as it follows three generations of the main characters. It was a really good idea and was effective at not cramping the show up so that aliens had to appear every few days. It does have it’s issues but still enjoyable, check it out if you can track it down.<<<<

I must admit I found Taken to be a guilty pleasure. It was very well done visually, had some great characters and scenes, and I loved the generational storytelling … but the alien plot was total bollocks. Shame.

Yeah the movie was pretty heard as I herd from you Spoony and the Cinema Snob. Not even going to bother with it because I don’t want to associate it to one of my favorite movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Better said I’m going to see again that 1977 masterpiece and also re-see Blair Witch Project and also search a copy for Fire in the Sky to see if is scary although I didn’t find Paranormal Activity.

And here is were I wanted to get. You say that The 4thKind used the horror cliche of the abducts never got out of Alaska well that’s why Pranormal Activity didn’t seem that scary for me. The horror cliche in that movie was the door. All the scares started with the door from the first to the last. I mean yeah there were some pretty good scare like the one with the deafening sound and the one were the girl gets dragged by the demon, but that was my problem. I know the demon could probably get through the door but the chick couldn’t. I mean the sheer stupidity after the boyfriend saw that the girl could sleepwalk because the door was open, he should have close/locked the door so at least he could hear her when trying to open the door and that plot hole would of made the movie ending null. That plot hole makes the movie lose it’s credibility because a sane person or a person that’s not an actor would’ve just closed the door.

Still glad you are enjoying Borderlands, Spoony. I’ve played the game alone because no gamer friends and it was much cooler that way because you got to choose all the loot and it was more challenging, that why I chose Mordecai because I had Bloodwing. Oh and if I remember well on the PC version there is the option to turn off the blood splatter on your party.

Can’t wait for your Ripper Let’s Play and maybe SWAT 4.

About Fallout 3 there could be 3 problems: heating from the power supply or processor, the settings cranked to too high for your PC or Windows 7 has some or allot of compatibility issues with games.

About Fallout 3 there could be 3 problems: heating from the power supply or processor, the settings cranked to too high for your PC or Windows 7 has some or allot of compatibility issues with games.

I too spent a little too much of my childhood watching ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ type stuff and getting the holy hell scared out of me. I do have to disagree with Spoony on the money shot. Sure, when they started selling plush grey dolls back in the late 90′s, that kinda killed their image, but they can still be horrifying when done well. There was a CBS mini-series called “Intruders” that really pulled this off.

For anyone one else who gets off on this stuff, I’d recommend a great, skeptical documentary called “The Aliens Have Landed” which studies UFO culture as a social phenomenon.

Also, check this out: http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v11n4_alien_faces.html

@Spoony: people have tried leaving their houses, the experiences didn’t stop. There’s no running away. They either track you or it’s all in your head, either way you can’t hide.

The most famous example being Whitley Strieber.

@Spoony: people have tried leaving their houses, the experiences didn’t stop. There’s no running away. They either track you or it’s all in your head, either way you can’t hide.

The most famous example being Whitley Strieber.

Have you tried installing the new games for windows live for fallout 3 as i had the same problem.

Dude i have the same problem with Fallout 3, this game is just like GTA San Andreas if you chat to muche or if the download gives you some shit the game get’s like scard and shit

Dude i have the same problem with Fallout 3, this game is just like GTA San Andreas if you chat to muche or if the download gives you some shit the game get’s like scard and shit

Yeap, it was called “Fire in the Sky”, based on the most famous alleged alien abduction in the world that happened in Arizona; “The Travis Walton” case.

Phillip Klass, a prominent UFO skeptic, presented a case that the whole affair is the biggest UFO abduction hoax in the world; unable to complete the contract for the Forestry Service, the loggers, one of them being Travis Walton, concocted a UFO abduction story to invoke an act of god clause. None of them could predict it will grow as big as it got and the rest is now a staple of UFO history.

hahaha! hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference :P

hahaha! hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference :P

Well Spoony, the Aliens might have better things to do than screwing with people’s life but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t study human anatomy at all. I like to think that humans are superior to insects but that doesn’t stop the hundreds of etymologists from making trips to the jungle, poking insects and fucking with their everyday life.

I mean, hypotethically speaking. The aliens might have something to learn from foreign creatures that have no relation to them and have taken a totally different evolutionary route. You can’t really say that it’s silly to travel this far to do just that since — if they could travel here — you wouldn’t know how easy it is for them.

What people don’t realize about “Abductions” is that they are mainly suffering from a condition called, Sleep Paralysis. The patients who have this condition discribe everything with an abduction and truly believe that they have been abducted by aliens. But when given the medication, they are all of a sudden saved and have no men in their rooms returning to take them away.

What Sleep Paralysis is; it’s your mind and body trapped in deep REM sleep, but your a small amout of your body is awake, your able to see, but can’t move. Basically it’s like your dreaming, but your actually awake. Scary trip huh.

As for aliens, like any other beings that may have found life, your not going to go down and say hello if you think that planet will fire every one of thier nukes at you.

Love to hear your thoughts

What people don’t realize about “Abductions” is that they are mainly suffering from a condition called, Sleep Paralysis. The patients who have this condition discribe everything with an abduction and truly believe that they have been abducted by aliens. But when given the medication, they are all of a sudden saved and have no men in their rooms returning to take them away.

What Sleep Paralysis is; it’s your mind and body trapped in deep REM sleep, but your a small amout of your body is awake, your able to see, but can’t move. Basically it’s like your dreaming, but your actually awake. Scary trip huh.

As for aliens, like any other beings that may have found life, your not going to go down and say hello if you think that planet will fire every one of thier nukes at you.

Love to hear your thoughts

Just wanted to say that comment #1 is so fucking epic !

Also, maybe a movie you wanted to go and see was The Box. Please go see that movie, I’d be interested to hear your take on it. Somehow, I find it similar to Close Encouters of the Third Kind. I think you might like it. But the promos are quite shitty, and lots of people are not tempted to go and see it.

Anyway, it’s the first time I post a comment here, I’ve only been following you for a few weeks, but I wanted to say : great job at doing what you do ! And thank you, because somehow it motivates me to work on my own stuff. So yeah : keep it up, and I hope the stress wears off.

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I actually saw this movie a couple weeks ago at a university preview screening. And despite it’s flaws I enjoyed it and I find your review flat out wrong at a couple points.
A: Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t recall anything even close to resembling an “ass-drill”
B: You over exaggerated severely how long they took to get to “Oh it’s aliens” I think they jumped to that conclusion too quickly. “Oh hey, this guy is freaking out” “Yeah, so?” “Well, it has to be aliens”
Where the hell did that even come from?

Some things I found wrong with the movie
-Dear lord that was bad acting, not only do you have the fucking sheriff (why didn’t anyone show him the fucking tape?) but you have the other psychologist that is trying to act like fucking Robert DeNiro.
-Severe jumps in audio level. When I could tell some shit was gonna happen, I covered my ears just so they wouldn’t pop when it got “scary”
-Assuming that the real footage is real, could they really not get ANYONE that actually resembled those on the tapes? You’d think they would have tried to have the reenactments look more like the footage.

Reasons I may have liked it and why Spoony didn’t
-Yeah, I’m interested in aliens, not sure if I would say I believe in them, but it could be easier for me to suspend my disbelief for it
- I saw this movie without seeing any of the trailers. None of the real footage (ie: the good parts) was spoiled for me. Seeing that fucker levitate with his mouth as big as a playstation was first seen in the film, not on a trailer on TV. And really, if you’ve seen the trailer, that really is pretty much all the movie is, I just got to have a longer look at it.
- I haven’t seen paranormal activity or Blair witch, so I have nothing to compare this sort of movie to. Unless you count Cloverfield. :/
- Being at school with no money sucks. So this was probably the first new movie I’ve been able to see since the summer. With that kind of desperation, anything can be considered good.

I actually saw this movie a couple weeks ago at a university preview screening. And despite it’s flaws I enjoyed it and I find your review flat out wrong at a couple points.
A: Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t recall anything even close to resembling an “ass-drill”
B: You over exaggerated severely how long they took to get to “Oh it’s aliens” I think they jumped to that conclusion too quickly. “Oh hey, this guy is freaking out” “Yeah, so?” “Well, it has to be aliens”
Where the hell did that even come from?

Some things I found wrong with the movie
-Dear lord that was bad acting, not only do you have the fucking sheriff (why didn’t anyone show him the fucking tape?) but you have the other psychologist that is trying to act like fucking Robert DeNiro.
-Severe jumps in audio level. When I could tell some shit was gonna happen, I covered my ears just so they wouldn’t pop when it got “scary”
-Assuming that the real footage is real, could they really not get ANYONE that actually resembled those on the tapes? You’d think they would have tried to have the reenactments look more like the footage.

Reasons I may have liked it and why Spoony didn’t
-Yeah, I’m interested in aliens, not sure if I would say I believe in them, but it could be easier for me to suspend my disbelief for it
- I saw this movie without seeing any of the trailers. None of the real footage (ie: the good parts) was spoiled for me. Seeing that fucker levitate with his mouth as big as a playstation was first seen in the film, not on a trailer on TV. And really, if you’ve seen the trailer, that really is pretty much all the movie is, I just got to have a longer look at it.
- I haven’t seen paranormal activity or Blair witch, so I have nothing to compare this sort of movie to. Unless you count Cloverfield. :/
- Being at school with no money sucks. So this was probably the first new movie I’ve been able to see since the summer. With that kind of desperation, anything can be considered good.

Welcome to atop the fourth kind where this bad movie burns.

I haven’t thought about Fire in the Sky for ages, it scared me too, i must track down a copy.

About fallout spoony, check out this link http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=278421 , also you could try windowed mode, that helped for me…

And for DA:Origins, the blood is quite funny, but I play as a mage and it is started to be boring, I just run in and spam Lightning and Blizzard.. ^^

About fallout spoony, check out this link http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=278421 , also you could try windowed mode, that helped for me…

And for DA:Origins, the blood is quite funny, but I play as a mage and it is started to be boring, I just run in and spam Lightning and Blizzard.. ^^

I don’t know man, I thought it was pretty cool despite the fact that it may or may not be true.
It’s a good movie even though the actors were overacting. It got me pretty scared.

You know, I have the PC version of Fallout 3. It crashed on me every once in a while but over all it was very stable. Also it was before I upgraded my machine.

Anyway, always good to hear from you. I’ll probably go check it out anyway though.

You know, I have the PC version of Fallout 3. It crashed on me every once in a while but over all it was very stable. Also it was before I upgraded my machine.

Anyway, always good to hear from you. I’ll probably go check it out anyway though.

Fire in the Sky left me pretty freaking traumatised as a kid too. I couldnt sleep… and its still a pretty good flick I must say, Stan Winston did the effects, and ya have friggin Robert Patrick, you cant go wrong with that.

Aliens as assholes doing it for the lulz was something you hadn’t thought of? Mars Attacks did that.

Aliens as assholes doing it for the lulz was something you hadn’t thought of? Mars Attacks did that.

please do a review of Black Dynamite

<3 Borderlands and Dragon Age.

The only thing I don't get from all the reviews of Borderlands is why don't they compare it to Hellgate: London? A FPS Diablo has been done before, but Borderlands simply polishes what Hellgate: London did. The only problem is that Borderlands is extremely bland. The same bandits, the same scenery, the same metal sheet siding… Yeah, we're playing in a desert world, and Hellgate: London was no different (different scenario, maybe) but at least it had variety.

<3 Borderlands and Dragon Age.

The only thing I don't get from all the reviews of Borderlands is why don't they compare it to Hellgate: London? A FPS Diablo has been done before, but Borderlands simply polishes what Hellgate: London did. The only problem is that Borderlands is extremely bland. The same bandits, the same scenery, the same metal sheet siding… Yeah, we're playing in a desert world, and Hellgate: London was no different (different scenario, maybe) but at least it had variety.

Good morning Spoony and fellow Spooners.

Full disclosure: belief in aliens = yes; belief in alien abductions = don’t know.

I remember watching a documentary on alien abductions several years ago (I used to be MUCH more interested in this subject), and they had an interesting piece on how you could allegedly create alien abduction experiences by hitting the brain with magnetic fields in a specific way. Not sure how that would explain ALL the people who’ve had such experiences, but it was an interesting angle.

I would like to note, though, that the disturbing thing about the alien abduction theory is that the alleged aliens would be willing to experiment on us scientifically while knowing what that would do to us psychologically. I don’t think it’s the equivalent of humans experimenting on monkeys and such, as they’re WAY less sophisticated than us mentally…and thus feel more alien to our psychology. It’s more like an American scientist going to a rainforest, snatching some native from a tribe that still hunts with blowguns, and experimenting on it. Except that the native would probably be better able to incorporate the experience into its local mythology, whereas a modern American abducted by aliens would just freak out.

So apparently scientific ethics go out the door once a species gets warp-drive.

People just sitting around talking is not necessarily boring, take for example: The man from earth

People just sitting around talking is not necessarily boring, take for example: The man from earth

Best alien movie based on a true account: The Man Who Fell to Earth.

It’s the true story of David Bowie, and how he gained his superpowers (the proportional strength of a Bowie of equal size).

same thing with twilight…………
which i didnt watch yeah
i took so long to find out edward was a ‘vampire’ before u could get on with the ‘story’

same thing with twilight…………
which i didnt watch yeah
i took so long to find out edward was a ‘vampire’ before u could get on with the ‘story’

@ Megamonmon

wait… Edward was a vampire!?

I had the severe misfortune to have time to kill last night and Fourth Kind was the only movie play that would fit the allotted time. Needless to say, I will never make such a stupid, stupid mistake again. This movie is ever bit as boring as Spoony makes it sound, if not more. I do not understand what the director was trying to do with the “reenactments” mixed with “archival footage” but I doubt if the film had the desired effect. I suppose mixing reenactments with archival footage could have worked, but the director decided to put both on the screen at the same time. The effect is fucking stupid because I don’t buy for a second that this case is at all real. If I did, it might have been chilling the way christians say they can feel the presence of god when they real the bible. But I didn’t so the effect was just puzzling that they would film the same scene twice.

But overall, the entire experience felt pointless. We’re never given any insight about the aliens and what they’re up to aside from the god complex stuff which is so hokey it makes my taint hurt. Seriously. It’s a spoiler, but this movie already stinks, so nothing could spoil it. But the line “I am … god.” is like this big reveal. That the aliens are gods or something and this marries the pseudo-scientific alien abduction theory to religion. But that’s not anything profound. It just puts all the crazy in one basket.

Frankly, I cannot believe just how awful this movie is. The ham-handed use of the “skeptic” characters was particularly formulaic and insulting. They were skeptical the way John Cleese was in the argument sketch.

but at the end of the day, it was largely pointless. They tried to make a point of telling this woman’s story, but I don’t believe for a second it is a true story. I will not waste the time googling it.

The owls reminded me of I Know Who Killed Me. That’s pretty sad.

Also, notice the usual details of abduction stories. They get taken to a white room full of light. They’re physically helpless and/or unable to move. There are humanoid beings there although there are no details except for the eyes. And often the beings stick something in their ass.

Now think about what happens when we’re born in a hospital. It’s a white room full of light. The doctors and nurses are all wearing gowns, masks and caps so they look like their whole body is the same color with just their eyes showing. And they take the infant’s temperature rectally.

There is a theory that the similarities here are not a co-incident.

I had the severe misfortune to have time to kill last night and Fourth Kind was the only movie play that would fit the allotted time. Needless to say, I will never make such a stupid, stupid mistake again. This movie is ever bit as boring as Spoony makes it sound, if not more. I do not understand what the director was trying to do with the “reenactments” mixed with “archival footage” but I doubt if the film had the desired effect. I suppose mixing reenactments with archival footage could have worked, but the director decided to put both on the screen at the same time. The effect is fucking stupid because I don’t buy for a second that this case is at all real. If I did, it might have been chilling the way christians say they can feel the presence of god when they real the bible. But I didn’t so the effect was just puzzling that they would film the same scene twice.

But overall, the entire experience felt pointless. We’re never given any insight about the aliens and what they’re up to aside from the god complex stuff which is so hokey it makes my taint hurt. Seriously. It’s a spoiler, but this movie already stinks, so nothing could spoil it. But the line “I am … god.” is like this big reveal. That the aliens are gods or something and this marries the pseudo-scientific alien abduction theory to religion. But that’s not anything profound. It just puts all the crazy in one basket.

Frankly, I cannot believe just how awful this movie is. The ham-handed use of the “skeptic” characters was particularly formulaic and insulting. They were skeptical the way John Cleese was in the argument sketch.

but at the end of the day, it was largely pointless. They tried to make a point of telling this woman’s story, but I don’t believe for a second it is a true story. I will not waste the time googling it.

The owls reminded me of I Know Who Killed Me. That’s pretty sad.

Also, notice the usual details of abduction stories. They get taken to a white room full of light. They’re physically helpless and/or unable to move. There are humanoid beings there although there are no details except for the eyes. And often the beings stick something in their ass.

Now think about what happens when we’re born in a hospital. It’s a white room full of light. The doctors and nurses are all wearing gowns, masks and caps so they look like their whole body is the same color with just their eyes showing. And they take the infant’s temperature rectally.

There is a theory that the similarities here are not a co-incident.

I agree with you 100%.

Skip this shitty movie and go watch the X-Files if you want crap about aliens.

You’re making way too big deal out of anal probing. Anal probing just makes aliens weird. What makes them assholes is the fact that they don’t call you afterwards

You’re making way too big deal out of anal probing. Anal probing just makes aliens weird. What makes them assholes is the fact that they don’t call you afterwards

Best abduction films. Communion and Intruders. Communion has genuinely creepy moments and some quite silly rubber aliens. Walken is in it, so that’s a huge PLUS. Everyone that hasn’t read Communion needs to before they die.

Intruders is a TV movie that is way better than you think it would be. Not sure if Intruders is on DVD, but you can just STEAL that shit off th’ internet.

Well bethesda is a very shitty company so it is not surprising that you are having problems with fallout 3. They did manage to fix a lot of the problems from when they released it though, but kind of just left it alone to release terrible dlc. I really want you to play this game all the way through in order to review it. It’s not final fantasy 8 bad, but pretty bad. Sure the landscapes are beautiful to look at and is some of their best work but at the same time they have some of the same copy and past houses and objects scattered all around not to mention that this is 200 years in the future and these wooden houses look perfectly fine. The acting is decent to bad. The dialogue is all around terrible. The main storyline is god awful and very very linear, the ending is just stupid, the game animations are terrible especially in third person mode, and there are very few memorable side quests. The only memorable characters are annoying as fuck too.

It is possible you might like it, but you would really have to turn off the stupid meter I think.

Well bethesda is a very shitty company so it is not surprising that you are having problems with fallout 3. They did manage to fix a lot of the problems from when they released it though, but kind of just left it alone to release terrible dlc. I really want you to play this game all the way through in order to review it. It’s not final fantasy 8 bad, but pretty bad. Sure the landscapes are beautiful to look at and is some of their best work but at the same time they have some of the same copy and past houses and objects scattered all around not to mention that this is 200 years in the future and these wooden houses look perfectly fine. The acting is decent to bad. The dialogue is all around terrible. The main storyline is god awful and very very linear, the ending is just stupid, the game animations are terrible especially in third person mode, and there are very few memorable side quests. The only memorable characters are annoying as fuck too.

It is possible you might like it, but you would really have to turn off the stupid meter I think.

I used to spend fourtunes on movie review magazines,but no more! Spoony is my guide and his word helps me avoid shit movies.

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“don’t think it’s the equivalent of humans experimenting on monkeys and such, as they’re WAY less sophisticated than us mentally…and thus feel more alien to our psychology. It’s more like an American scientist going to a rainforest, snatching some native from a tribe that still hunts with blowguns, and experimenting on it.”

You’re overestimating humanity. A species that is visiting from another star would be much more advanced, and thus look upon humans with the same thought of them being “WAY less sophisticated than us mentally”, “I mean c’mon, they still think you can’t travel between stars in a meaningful time frame? Pfft”. Kinda arrogant, no? We’re all just animals, even beings from other planets. Humans ARE sentient and ARE self-aware, and that’s the key here. Of course are we sure how sentient and self-aware the other animals are? And even if they’re not, does that give us the right to harm/traumatize them?

Great review, by the way.

“don’t think it’s the equivalent of humans experimenting on monkeys and such, as they’re WAY less sophisticated than us mentally…and thus feel more alien to our psychology. It’s more like an American scientist going to a rainforest, snatching some native from a tribe that still hunts with blowguns, and experimenting on it.”

You’re overestimating humanity. A species that is visiting from another star would be much more advanced, and thus look upon humans with the same thought of them being “WAY less sophisticated than us mentally”, “I mean c’mon, they still think you can’t travel between stars in a meaningful time frame? Pfft”. Kinda arrogant, no? We’re all just animals, even beings from other planets. Humans ARE sentient and ARE self-aware, and that’s the key here. Of course are we sure how sentient and self-aware the other animals are? And even if they’re not, does that give us the right to harm/traumatize them?

Great review, by the way.

I’m in the same boat as Spoony in the alien concept. There are likely other life forms, but by every means, it doesn’t mean that they’re several centuries into the future as far as technology goes compared to us, just as the fact stands that they may very well be BENEATH us in technological advances.

Taking a look at the theory of evolution – which mind you, if you have any alien belief, you can’t hold creationism AT ALL – If our evolutionary chain happened because it happened, because of the survivable climate, the size of the planet, and the closeness to the sun; ANY alien species will have HAD to go through similar scenarios as earth has gone. Now, obviously another planet such as ours would go far differently, but things stand the exact same.

Largely you see alien species with a very reptilian look, and this would generally be assuming their “Dinosaur Age” never came to an abrupt halt, as ours had. However, ANY number of evolutionary differences could happen even up to and beyond that point in their planetary history, so really, any alien life would very well look very much the same as us humans do, if not exactly alike.

However, for every animal that exists, there is the possibility that that animal would have evolved to be the intelligent species for the planet. There may very well be avian humanoids, just as we had evolved from monkeys. Just take a look at any humanoid fantasy character – elves, mermen, centaurs – and really, any one of them may very well exist on another planet.

The finicky part is determining how abouts evolution would take place on other planets. As far as adaptation goes, I say “Humanoid” to be the likely dominant for what we are as human beings right now. Somewhere along the lines of evolution, something predetermined us to develop an intelligent mind, and the ability to use it, and survive up until now, and for many centuries beyond now. But the general consent is that the ever-popular “Alien” design we see – the thin bony body, and the large black eyes – really, how would that survive to be the dominant species? How would they hunt or fish, or survive weather?

Just as well, as with “Planet 51″ ‘s concept, we may very well become the aliens to another planet. Would we fuck around with them, should they be a hundred years behind us? I certainly hope we grow beyond being assholes by then.

So I just saw Fire in the Sky. Pretty good 1993 movie. It was like seeing:

Stand By Me at the beginning of the movie when they presented the 6 characters although they were only 4 main developed characters and they presented their life with the harsh and the fun parts of living in Snowflake.

An X-files episode when they show the saucer, although the red sky part was pretty cool, when he was abducted it was pretty disappointing. I really wanted to see the scene like in the poster

Mystic River when the Sheriff or the City Cop believed that the guys actually killed the co-worker and here I think opinions diverge were the movie could have gone. Some people would say they could have made it into an killing accident movie and the UFO to be a story and for a moment I really would have wanted that> I think they could have really pulled it off and make the audience really think it was an UFO but by the end of the movie they find the body killed and packed under the car. The others would say to continue to be an UFO abduction movie and I prefer that because we wouldn’t have gotten the last part.

The last part or the Third act is by far the best part of the movie is when Travis remembers how he was abducted and yeah there were some really disturbing parts and I kind of get why it would scare the shit out of some people. I think even Spoony would still feel better seeing this movie then 4th Kind especially for the experiment scene.

My conclusion a pretty good movie with a brilliant third act that gives you the feel of what would be like to be abducted by aliens. You can clearly see there are some plot elements that demonstrate that the book that the movie was based off could actually have been a scam seeing that the protagonist was in a dead end job and wanted to start his own business and get married. He could have planned everything with the co-workers but who knows what really happened.

So I just saw Fire in the Sky. Pretty good 1993 movie. It was like seeing:

Stand By Me at the beginning of the movie when they presented the 6 characters although they were only 4 main developed characters and they presented their life with the harsh and the fun parts of living in Snowflake.

An X-files episode when they show the saucer, although the red sky part was pretty cool, when he was abducted it was pretty disappointing. I really wanted to see the scene like in the poster

Mystic River when the Sheriff or the City Cop believed that the guys actually killed the co-worker and here I think opinions diverge were the movie could have gone. Some people would say they could have made it into an killing accident movie and the UFO to be a story and for a moment I really would have wanted that> I think they could have really pulled it off and make the audience really think it was an UFO but by the end of the movie they find the body killed and packed under the car. The others would say to continue to be an UFO abduction movie and I prefer that because we wouldn’t have gotten the last part.

The last part or the Third act is by far the best part of the movie is when Travis remembers how he was abducted and yeah there were some really disturbing parts and I kind of get why it would scare the shit out of some people. I think even Spoony would still feel better seeing this movie then 4th Kind especially for the experiment scene.

My conclusion a pretty good movie with a brilliant third act that gives you the feel of what would be like to be abducted by aliens. You can clearly see there are some plot elements that demonstrate that the book that the movie was based off could actually have been a scam seeing that the protagonist was in a dead end job and wanted to start his own business and get married. He could have planned everything with the co-workers but who knows what really happened.

I was going to see that movie, but I decided to wait and rent it when it comes out on DVD. They don’t make alien movies like they use to I guess.

Spoony, if you thought that movie was bad and didn’t get to the point, then see “Where the Wild Things Are”.I knew it wasn’t gonna be good because it’s based on a 5 page book, and how do you get two hours out of that? But I saw the movie anyway with a couple friends, and we just ripped on it the whole time. They screwed up the story, the book was more upbeat and was about a kid’s imagination, but this movie twisted the story into the kid Max having a depressing childhood life, and uses this place to escape reality. Speaking of depressed, EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE was emo,they were either really sad or really angry. And the main monster in the movie, who’s name is Carol, came off as REALLY gay, and seemed like a pedophile.And to top that off,they didn’t explain how Max got to where the wild things were! In the book, he had a dream, in this movie, it doesn’t show any transition at all, so did he hit his head? Did he smoke a joint and just pass out? Was he having an acid trip? I don’t know, and the movie doesn’t seem to either. Also, the ending of the movie changed, instead of being angry at Max for leaving, they’re sad that he has to go, WHAT’S UP WITH THAT!? So does the movie have a deeper meaning? Is it supposed to contrast something in life? I don’t know, because the movie was a poor adaptation of the book, and is targeted to the emo crowd, and most people will take their kids to see it because it’s based on a children’s book,but is more serious. This movie might has well been an adaptation of “Everyone Poops”,because this movie was sh*t.

Spoony, if you thought that movie was bad and didn’t get to the point, then see “Where the Wild Things Are”.I knew it wasn’t gonna be good because it’s based on a 5 page book, and how do you get two hours out of that? But I saw the movie anyway with a couple friends, and we just ripped on it the whole time. They screwed up the story, the book was more upbeat and was about a kid’s imagination, but this movie twisted the story into the kid Max having a depressing childhood life, and uses this place to escape reality. Speaking of depressed, EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE was emo,they were either really sad or really angry. And the main monster in the movie, who’s name is Carol, came off as REALLY gay, and seemed like a pedophile.And to top that off,they didn’t explain how Max got to where the wild things were! In the book, he had a dream, in this movie, it doesn’t show any transition at all, so did he hit his head? Did he smoke a joint and just pass out? Was he having an acid trip? I don’t know, and the movie doesn’t seem to either. Also, the ending of the movie changed, instead of being angry at Max for leaving, they’re sad that he has to go, WHAT’S UP WITH THAT!? So does the movie have a deeper meaning? Is it supposed to contrast something in life? I don’t know, because the movie was a poor adaptation of the book, and is targeted to the emo crowd, and most people will take their kids to see it because it’s based on a children’s book,but is more serious. This movie might has well been an adaptation of “Everyone Poops”,because this movie was sh*t.

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Allow me to elaborate on my earlier point…

An alien that experiments on a modern American would, I’d imagine, see us as having the potential to be as technologically advanced as them someday. It’s just that we haven’t developed that potential yet because our minds haven’t accepted certain ideas yet. But unless I’m missing something, a gorilla isn’t going to be inventing the automobile in the next few millennia. It’s not just a matter of mental evolution, but physical evolution as well.

So the separation between a modern human and an advanced alien wouldn’t be as fundamental as the separation between a modern human and a modern gorilla.

While it’s possible to encounter a John Travolta-like alien race that truly sees us as “man animals”, my thinking is that it’s likelier that they’d just see us as less advanced versions of themselves. Hence why I’d imagine they should, but not necessarily will, be seen as wrong for treating us like we treat things like gorillas.

“Largely you see alien species with a very reptilian look, and this would generally be assuming their “Dinosaur Age” never came to an abrupt halt, as ours had. However, ANY number of evolutionary differences could happen even up to and beyond that point in their planetary history, so really, any alien life would very well look very much the same as us humans do, if not exactly alike.”
There’s no reason to assume an alien ecology would even have a dinosaur age.

“Largely you see alien species with a very reptilian look, and this would generally be assuming their “Dinosaur Age” never came to an abrupt halt, as ours had. However, ANY number of evolutionary differences could happen even up to and beyond that point in their planetary history, so really, any alien life would very well look very much the same as us humans do, if not exactly alike.”
There’s no reason to assume an alien ecology would even have a dinosaur age.

I got fallout 3 on pc too, but for me, it runs fine with the only crashes are occasionally when i quit the game. Have you downloaded any of the patches spoony?

http://sunnclassicpicturesinc.com/Pinocchio2a.html NEW REB BROWN movie !!! Lets the train wreck begin ;D

http://sunnclassicpicturesinc.com/Pinocchio2a.html NEW REB BROWN movie !!! Lets the train wreck begin ;D

Fire In the Sky is violently boring. I saw it when I was a kid on HBO and in the post x-files era it was kind of awesome. I dug the vhs I recorded it on out of a box not too long ago and watched it again. Well, I watched half of it and then fast forwarded to the recording of MST3K “Prince of Space” a little farther down. Enjoyed that much more.

If your gonna see 2012 its longer than Transformers 2

If your gonna see 2012 its longer than Transformers 2

Wow, lots of long comments on this one… gonna have to say alot or else I’ll look stupid…

Spoony, the digital watches? You really do like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, don’t you?

I haven’t seen this movie, nor do I plan to, but not because of Spoony. I hate horror mockumentary movies. Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Quarantine, Paranormal Activity, screw them all. I don’t know why, but a documentary just doesn’t lend itself to the horror genre, in my opinion. I mean, how do you progress the story? Am I really expected to believe that, after being chased for a mile by some ungodly hellspawn, killing it with a lucky shotgun shot, and barricading themselves in a house to fend off the next attack, the first thing they all think of is ‘hey, let’s go give interviews!’? because it’s either that or the god-awful, oft-lampooned Blair Witch shots in which they shove their nose in the camera and gobble some gabble in a high-pitched, hysteric manner.

Now, I’m not saying that these movies aren’t scary (although some of them aren’t), I’m just saying horror is the wrong genre. Comedy is more its bag; This Is Spinal Tap showed us that. Bottom line, if I’m going to watch legions of zombies advance on a plywood shack, I want to see it at the best camera angle possible, not whatever angle the cameraman happens to select. And the same goes for demons, ghosts, and in light of this vlog, aliens.

Nice job, Spoony. I’m looking forward to more Ripper. By the way, that thing about Fallout? I’m playing the fucker on PS3, and I can’t fast-travel ANYWHERE without the game locking up for a good five minutes. My game’s never crashed, but still it’s annoying.

I was hoping this movie would be something like a H.P. Lovecraft movie. The therapy on the teasers felt like it was an entrancement of Call of Cthulhu.

Spoony! I’m slight disappointed, you actually had high hopes for this crap? Ah well, least you know it’s not good now.

Generally I tend to take everything with a pinch of salt, be it established scientific fact or wacky pseudoscientific quackery. Only way to be sure! One of my favourite mockumentaries involving aliens (though not abductions) was Without Warning, I remember it utterly terrified me.

Your comment about the extreme gore in Dragon Age reminds me of a Harold Lamb quote, made during the filming of a Cecille B. de Mille film:

Harold Lamb was constantly present during the shooting of the siege [of Acre], dodging arrows and narrowly avoiding being crushed by the siege tower. “Is that realistic enough, Mr. Lamb?” the director asked him at the end of the first exhausting rehearsal of the conflict. “Not nearly,” Lamb replied, wiping his spectacles. “Those soldiers seemed almost fond of each other. Medieval warriors were infinitely more sanguinary, let me assure you. What you need is a thousand battle axes red with blood.”

Saturn: Actually, Paranormal Activity does that VERY WELL and almost hangs a lampshade on it. The girlfriend gets pissed off when the boyfriend grabs the camera before checking on her. Actually, the camera is half the point. They want evidence of it. Also, since it’s a slow burn plot, there’s no moment of having been chased and barricading and giving interviews. It gradually works up until the point where they are actually so scared that the boyfriend does not grab the camera first thing. That is why Paranormal Activity worked for me. Otherwise, I totally agree with you.

Saturn: Actually, Paranormal Activity does that VERY WELL and almost hangs a lampshade on it. The girlfriend gets pissed off when the boyfriend grabs the camera before checking on her. Actually, the camera is half the point. They want evidence of it. Also, since it’s a slow burn plot, there’s no moment of having been chased and barricading and giving interviews. It gradually works up until the point where they are actually so scared that the boyfriend does not grab the camera first thing. That is why Paranormal Activity worked for me. Otherwise, I totally agree with you.

The ironic thing about saying aliens have better things to do then travel all the way to our planet to probe our anus’s, is that if we knew aliens existed, i have a feeling we’d travel all the way to their planet just to probe their anus’s.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-dragon-age/58517 Review of Dragon Age: Origin

It is different on the Console and due to that they made it simpler but removed Friendly fire.

Btw you should try the Torchlight game if you haven’t done it. It’s pretty good for a SP game and plays like Diablo 2.

For aliens, my believes are pretty much the same as Spoony and has been for quite some time. Aliens showing up here at earth just to do things to human and then dump them? Highly doubt that.

Unless now the Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy is completely true.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-dragon-age/58517 Review of Dragon Age: Origin

It is different on the Console and due to that they made it simpler but removed Friendly fire.

Btw you should try the Torchlight game if you haven’t done it. It’s pretty good for a SP game and plays like Diablo 2.

For aliens, my believes are pretty much the same as Spoony and has been for quite some time. Aliens showing up here at earth just to do things to human and then dump them? Highly doubt that.

Unless now the Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy is completely true.

My dad hated this movie. Kinda glad I didn’t waste my money going to see it.

Oh and you should consider a Diceless Rpg called Amber. Its a paper rpg where you make up characters but you use a point system. Plus It mixes being able to go off to any world and adventure along side politics. The game is based off a novel series. Basicly, the main characters are near immortals and either a&&holes or b*tches. Novels start off with guy named Corwin who has to regain his memories. He comes off and admits he’s a prick but he only does what he thinks is for the best. Though the novels go through a whole throne war… in the game itself you can have your own throne war or use the novel characters npcs who use or direct the characters.

Sorry for the long post.

i loled hard.

in school, we had to read a short story, it was about a boy the devil and some bees, in the story we were suppose to understand true evil, absolute evil, or something.

I am of the argument if there is no absolute good or evil. so I came up with the idea that the devil was just fucking with him, you know doing it because it’s funny. I mean honestly the devil lives for all of eternity, he has to get bored so why not come up to earth and fuck with someone. so the devil doing it because its funny if only to himself made the act of fucking with him not totally evil. granted a dick move but not absolute evil.

the way this movie is described makes me remember those short stories and i thought it was hilarious that someone made a movie where someone is being a dick for the soul purpose of its funny to them. have to imagine the aliens just found this hick of world and decided to fuck with them. like you would if someone lived in the woods there whole life, you would tell them that there are little people in the box put there by magic.

and also with dragon age, Jesus Christ what i wouldn’t give for keyboard and mouse support on the console, playing it on the console sucks, but sadly its the only way i can play it, my processor is no where near minimum though my graphics card is 2 steps above minimum. have to get by with what you got.

but what im most concerned about is later in the game. i preordered it because i knew i would love it, and i do, so i also got the preorder bonuses, which include blood dragon armor. that armor is orgasmic compared to what i am finding right now, and im hopeing that within maybe the 1/3 mark i start to find better. i mean i would really hate to have that armor now and find out that it is close to if not the best armor in the game

i loled hard.

in school, we had to read a short story, it was about a boy the devil and some bees, in the story we were suppose to understand true evil, absolute evil, or something.

I am of the argument if there is no absolute good or evil. so I came up with the idea that the devil was just fucking with him, you know doing it because it’s funny. I mean honestly the devil lives for all of eternity, he has to get bored so why not come up to earth and fuck with someone. so the devil doing it because its funny if only to himself made the act of fucking with him not totally evil. granted a dick move but not absolute evil.

the way this movie is described makes me remember those short stories and i thought it was hilarious that someone made a movie where someone is being a dick for the soul purpose of its funny to them. have to imagine the aliens just found this hick of world and decided to fuck with them. like you would if someone lived in the woods there whole life, you would tell them that there are little people in the box put there by magic.

and also with dragon age, Jesus Christ what i wouldn’t give for keyboard and mouse support on the console, playing it on the console sucks, but sadly its the only way i can play it, my processor is no where near minimum though my graphics card is 2 steps above minimum. have to get by with what you got.

but what im most concerned about is later in the game. i preordered it because i knew i would love it, and i do, so i also got the preorder bonuses, which include blood dragon armor. that armor is orgasmic compared to what i am finding right now, and im hopeing that within maybe the 1/3 mark i start to find better. i mean i would really hate to have that armor now and find out that it is close to if not the best armor in the game

I admit that I was pretty much sold to the idea of alien abductions when I was 15-16 years old (X Files was my favorite show back in the day), but later I simply considered all the Alien Conspiracy as an interesting plot rather than a plausible reality.

I have seen the trailers for this movie and I thought that it was kinda cool, guess that I will wait for the pirate DVD release…

From now on I’m listening to your reviews before I see a damn movie. God damn this movie was terrible. It should have been a special on the discovery channel or something. Or it should have been a movie based on those events.

From now on I’m listening to your reviews before I see a damn movie. God damn this movie was terrible. It should have been a special on the discovery channel or something. Or it should have been a movie based on those events.

In response to Jussi, how would the aliens find us? And why would they bother taking the time to? haha!

It’s my birthday on Monday, I insist that you do something to commemorate.

It’s my birthday on Monday, I insist that you do something to commemorate.

Yeah? Well I think we are an alien equivalent of an ant farm.

Well? It sounds as good as any other theory! lol.

I watched this documentary/informative video called Monkey Blood. Check that one out.

Woot, hitchhiker’s reference!

Woot, hitchhiker’s reference!

btw spoony another movie where the actors get up and say that they are actors portraying real people and w/e is the movie Nanking which i highly recommend to anyone

Damn, I was hoping this would be a movie worth seeing and getting a good scare out of. :(

But thank you, thank you for bringing up Unsolved Mysteries and Fire in the Sky!

When I was a kid, Unsolved Mysteries was great. Plus on Friday nights was Sightings and X-Files. Turn the lights off for those shows and it was awesome.

And Fire in the Sky freaked me out. I’ve still only ever watched it the one time when I was a kid. The part in the UFO where I think he’s pulling himself out of the hole he was sleeping in and realizes he’s put his hands inside the gory remains of a dead guy’s abdomen…I almost threw up. That’s definitely one you should review and see how it’s held up over time.

Damn, I was hoping this would be a movie worth seeing and getting a good scare out of. :(

But thank you, thank you for bringing up Unsolved Mysteries and Fire in the Sky!

When I was a kid, Unsolved Mysteries was great. Plus on Friday nights was Sightings and X-Files. Turn the lights off for those shows and it was awesome.

And Fire in the Sky freaked me out. I’ve still only ever watched it the one time when I was a kid. The part in the UFO where I think he’s pulling himself out of the hole he was sleeping in and realizes he’s put his hands inside the gory remains of a dead guy’s abdomen…I almost threw up. That’s definitely one you should review and see how it’s held up over time.

Great review. Yeah I checked metacritic and Fourth Kind got a 34. Pretty bad, but it didnt do as bad as boondock saints II which got a 26 lol.

Noah dont worry about fallout 3. If you’ve got the game of the year edition it crashes on all systems. I had it for the ps3 and it freezes every 20 minutes or so making it almost unplayable. I’m never buying a game from bethesda again until i watch a review on its performance.

Spoony, if you get a dog, the dog can lick up the blood and goreon the other party members

Spoony, if you get a dog, the dog can lick up the blood and goreon the other party members

I have to disagree this once with you Spoony,
I found The Fourth Kind to be an excelent movie. Yes you’re true that most of the time the Archive Evidence made for a better watch and was much more effective but I must point out that without the actors the movie couldn’t have been. You had to fill the gaps in between the recordings with more than just Abby talking and saying “So then I went over to my friends house…” so on… without any actual footage to back it up.
But on a whole I thought the movie was very effective in it’s scares as you knew what was coming and yet you didn’t want it to. Not unlike Paranormal Activity I would guess from your review.

You should’ve seen The Box. That was probably a better “horror” film than The 4th Kind.

As a kid I never saw the movies you mentioned like Fire in the Sky or Close Encounters, but I do remember being scared watching Unsolved Mysteries.

I too, liked the Hitchhikers reference.

Did you mean Svengali when you said “Svengoolie.” However if you did mean that wonderful horror host, thank you.

As a kid I never saw the movies you mentioned like Fire in the Sky or Close Encounters, but I do remember being scared watching Unsolved Mysteries.

I too, liked the Hitchhikers reference.

Did you mean Svengali when you said “Svengoolie.” However if you did mean that wonderful horror host, thank you.

if you’re looking for a good movie you should totally see “A Christmas Carol” I know it seems like it’s some kid movie, but it’s actually really creepy at points. If you ever read the novel you know they typically leave things out to make the movie less creepy, well this version has EVERYTHING. If you can see it in 3D it’s even creepier than paranormal activity at points.

Spoony,
I think I love you for watching Unsolved Mysteries. Robert Stack is the best. R.I.P Stack, I loved you in Airplane.

Spoony,
I think I love you for watching Unsolved Mysteries. Robert Stack is the best. R.I.P Stack, I loved you in Airplane.

Well… that sounds like a bucket of crap.

For the record, I believe the 5th kind is telepathic communication between the aliens and their victims over large distance (if memory serves).

Ah, well, crap movies, good games.

Borderlands is awesome, Dragonage is awesome, but fucking hard.

Ah, well, crap movies, good games.

Borderlands is awesome, Dragonage is awesome, but fucking hard.

Heh I always thought that if an alien race is capable of interstellar travel than they would be likely of finding out their information on a planet like earth remotely or through machines…like how we do with radio telescopes and remote control probes.

Therefore most abduction storeys are likely utter crap.

Spoony, man, that was some of the best intentionally hammy acting I’ve ever seen.

“You mean like… KIDNAPPINGS?”

Spot on, spot on.

Also, I was afraid of Fire in the Sky too when I was younger. I went out of my way not to see it because the whole idea that I could disappear, get molested by extraterrestrials and then be dropped back before I knew what the diddly happened was spooky. Although the idea of having my memory erased DOES sound tempting. I don’t have enough in common with Wolverine.

Spoony, man, that was some of the best intentionally hammy acting I’ve ever seen.

“You mean like… KIDNAPPINGS?”

Spot on, spot on.

Also, I was afraid of Fire in the Sky too when I was younger. I went out of my way not to see it because the whole idea that I could disappear, get molested by extraterrestrials and then be dropped back before I knew what the diddly happened was spooky. Although the idea of having my memory erased DOES sound tempting. I don’t have enough in common with Wolverine.

glad to hear that you haven’t dropped ripper. those videos are really funny

“Thinking digital watches are a pretty neat idea”

Read the Hitchhiker’s guide I’m guessing. Respect.

“Thinking digital watches are a pretty neat idea”

Read the Hitchhiker’s guide I’m guessing. Respect.

See, now I actually kind of DO want to see an alien abduction movie where the whole point of the abductions is that the aliens are bored assholes reduced to playing their equivalent of our Sims or Simcity. xD It has potential.

about the lack of “money shot” where you see the alien…
man, i haven’t seen this movie since it hasn’t been released on Spain yet, but i think that kind of shot is what killed the fear on mel gibson’s Signals, so probably don’t having it in the movie u’re talking about was a good decision from the director.

anyway, i think i won’t watch it. this movie seems way too stupid 4 me.

about the lack of “money shot” where you see the alien…
man, i haven’t seen this movie since it hasn’t been released on Spain yet, but i think that kind of shot is what killed the fear on mel gibson’s Signals, so probably don’t having it in the movie u’re talking about was a good decision from the director.

anyway, i think i won’t watch it. this movie seems way too stupid 4 me.

about dragon age: origins… ok it’s elaborate i take that but i think it’s too similar to another game called Drakensang: The Dark Eye. It fucking looks like the same freakin game!

You can pretty much know everything about the entire human race from one drop of blood with DNA. If a race had the tech to be able to traverse MILLIONS of light years worth of space, do you think they would care where my colon starts and ends? It’s a fair question. What do you need to know that you can only find in my poop shoot?

The idea that they do it just because they are jerks is actually pretty funny. How great would it be if they landed at the White House, got on TV and were like, “We have come to inflict pain and torture the human race…..cause we really can’t stand you ass holes with your loud music and obnoxious hair styles!” Now THERE’S a plot for a great movie….NO you CAN’T have it! I thought of it first!

You can pretty much know everything about the entire human race from one drop of blood with DNA. If a race had the tech to be able to traverse MILLIONS of light years worth of space, do you think they would care where my colon starts and ends? It’s a fair question. What do you need to know that you can only find in my poop shoot?

The idea that they do it just because they are jerks is actually pretty funny. How great would it be if they landed at the White House, got on TV and were like, “We have come to inflict pain and torture the human race…..cause we really can’t stand you ass holes with your loud music and obnoxious hair styles!” Now THERE’S a plot for a great movie….NO you CAN’T have it! I thought of it first!

Who broke the copier copier copier copier

You say “Like” a lot.

You say “Like” a lot.

Another thing about the gore in Dragon Age Origins that I find hilarious is when your party members are covered by it and you’re all just standing around talking like it’s no big deal, seemingly oblivious to the blood spatter all over your face. Couldn’t they just wipe it off with a sleeve? Haha. Really though I love this game and the way they do the blood only contributes to my enjoyment of it.

As soon as I saw the trailer for 4th kind I said, “That’s gonna suck” apparently I was right.

I’ve gotten about halfway (I think) through Dragon Age. Its the best game I’ve played so far this year. If you have a hound he can lick the blood off of you; among other useful tasks hounds have. I think it has just the right amount of gore tho. I was excited after my first decapitation. I rented it so I couldn’t finish it before it had to go back. I went into the game not knowing anything about it. I was pleasantly surprised. I’m playing it on the PS3 and I find the controls are quite simple. Very similar system to Knights of the Old Republic. Of course games that give you the chance to be good and evil are always awesome. But The fact that you have several choices for character is a huge plus. It’s not just a generic origin, depending on how you create your character changes how you traverse the game. I played an Elf Rogue and many characters are racist towards me, but I teach them who’s boss. Yeas! But I’m rambling.
In Short it is awesome, I’m planning on adding it to my game library.
Spoony is tha man! Looking forward to the next vid.

As soon as I saw the trailer for 4th kind I said, “That’s gonna suck” apparently I was right.

I’ve gotten about halfway (I think) through Dragon Age. Its the best game I’ve played so far this year. If you have a hound he can lick the blood off of you; among other useful tasks hounds have. I think it has just the right amount of gore tho. I was excited after my first decapitation. I rented it so I couldn’t finish it before it had to go back. I went into the game not knowing anything about it. I was pleasantly surprised. I’m playing it on the PS3 and I find the controls are quite simple. Very similar system to Knights of the Old Republic. Of course games that give you the chance to be good and evil are always awesome. But The fact that you have several choices for character is a huge plus. It’s not just a generic origin, depending on how you create your character changes how you traverse the game. I played an Elf Rogue and many characters are racist towards me, but I teach them who’s boss. Yeas! But I’m rambling.
In Short it is awesome, I’m planning on adding it to my game library.
Spoony is tha man! Looking forward to the next vid.

I don’t know if anyone has suggested the game “Demon’s Souls” to you yet, but I’d highly recommend it. It’s a Diablo-like dungeon crawler on the PS3 with a fair challenge and it’s also highly addictive. A little hard to find but well worth it, I think…you should give it a try.

Thanks for the review; I try to stay away from Milla Jovovich just because she tends to be in horrible movies (“Resident Evil” trilogy and “Ultraviolet”, to name a few), with the tenuous exception of “The Fifth Element.”

Hope you can get Fallout 3 working at some point, I love that game (as evidenced here: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/blog/11363). Have you been trying to use it after installing Win7? I have little to no problems with it on XP, so it may be a Win7 issue.

Thanks for the review; I try to stay away from Milla Jovovich just because she tends to be in horrible movies (“Resident Evil” trilogy and “Ultraviolet”, to name a few), with the tenuous exception of “The Fifth Element.”

Hope you can get Fallout 3 working at some point, I love that game (as evidenced here: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/blog/11363). Have you been trying to use it after installing Win7? I have little to no problems with it on XP, so it may be a Win7 issue.

I dont know your level of expertise with computers spooney one, I have the feeling your very proficient, but if you need any help with anything I work at a computer repair service. Getting my old game to run on my computer is a hobby of mine. More so then actully playing the game even. Just send me a message on your boards.

Anyway i love Borderlands. i am at the point now where the x4 elemental wepons are the only ones worth having, well except the elephant gun. 0_0

sounds like a film I’d probably watch just for a laugh. I personally believe in abductions, but not the anal ones as you referenced.

Also, why upgrade to Windows 7? I’ve heard it’s very buggy, then again same I heard about Vista.

sounds like a film I’d probably watch just for a laugh. I personally believe in abductions, but not the anal ones as you referenced.

Also, why upgrade to Windows 7? I’ve heard it’s very buggy, then again same I heard about Vista.

It’s cool to see you review a movie that I already know it’s going to suck terribly, I’m quite new to ‘The Spoony Experiment’ well.. sorta I guess you can say I am a fan, your vids make me laugh in a good way obviously.. keep up the good work. Cheers Spoonyman.

>>The idea that they do it just because they are jerks is actually pretty funny. How great would it be if they landed >>at the White House, got on TV and were like, “We have come to inflict pain and torture the human race…..cause >>we really can’t stand you ass holes with your loud music and obnoxious hair styles!” Now THERE’S a plot for a >>great movie….NO you CAN’T have it! I thought of it first!

Mars Attacks! got to it like 10 years before you did,bro. Now that’s a good alien movie right there.

>>The idea that they do it just because they are jerks is actually pretty funny. How great would it be if they landed >>at the White House, got on TV and were like, “We have come to inflict pain and torture the human race…..cause >>we really can’t stand you ass holes with your loud music and obnoxious hair styles!” Now THERE’S a plot for a >>great movie….NO you CAN’T have it! I thought of it first!

Mars Attacks! got to it like 10 years before you did,bro. Now that’s a good alien movie right there.

I love Fallout 3, and didn’t have any problems once I downloaded the patches. Have you done that?
Also, I’d recommend changing the video card settings for that game. I did that and it started working better, as well.

Wow….nothing surprising here, except…you hated Last Broadcast? I can understand not loving it(to say the ending was a bit pretentious is putting it mildly)…but hating it? I mean, it very much was the inspiration for Blair Witch….which you tend to bibble on about and praise a bit more than you probably should.

Movie of the year it ain’t, but I tend to think of it as at least on par with Blair Witch–what’s amazing is that it had a budget of less than 900 bucks.

Wow….nothing surprising here, except…you hated Last Broadcast? I can understand not loving it(to say the ending was a bit pretentious is putting it mildly)…but hating it? I mean, it very much was the inspiration for Blair Witch….which you tend to bibble on about and praise a bit more than you probably should.

Movie of the year it ain’t, but I tend to think of it as at least on par with Blair Witch–what’s amazing is that it had a budget of less than 900 bucks.

Only scary Alien Abduction movie I’ve ever seen was Communion…which people seem to be forgetting exists. Fire in the Sky didn’t do much for me…and to be honest, neither did Close Encounters.

i think it would be cool if spoony reviewed the box. but otherwise good review 8D

i think it would be cool if spoony reviewed the box. but otherwise good review 8D

hell yea Noah, Dragon Age Origins is AWESOME! i’m totally addicted to it. soooo good…i’m playing the 360 version. :D

Go see The BOX and wash the stink of the fourth kind from you.

Go see The BOX and wash the stink of the fourth kind from you.

Fallout 3 is broken to heck for me…now. I can’t even get out of Vault 101 anymore… Its kinda depressing. x.x

yeah, i cant play Fallout 3 too, it freezes like madman,
i was trying to fix it, there is some conflict this game has with fddshow drivers,
but it still didnt work for me, it just doesnt want to work with quad core CPUs
(if you dont have quad core – you have a shot in fixin it)

yeah, i cant play Fallout 3 too, it freezes like madman,
i was trying to fix it, there is some conflict this game has with fddshow drivers,
but it still didnt work for me, it just doesnt want to work with quad core CPUs
(if you dont have quad core – you have a shot in fixin it)

Hey Spoony,

Just like Aufbruch mentioned, Communion is a definite “must-see”, you get a good bit of Christopher Walken playing his normal (read weird) self and some messed up aliens and weird imagery to boot! I believe it was based on a book and Walken plays the author who (if memory serves) was visited quite a few times and wrote of his experiences.

I saw this film when I was about 8 or 9 and it scared the crap outta me, I also saw Fire in the Sky at around the same age and it really unsettled me too. Communion is something else though, there is a giant group of people who have been affected by this film (I’m sure there is a link on the films IMDB page) and I must admit I’m one of them!
There are also quite a few people who don’t seem to have a reaction to this film, it’s strange really that there is such an extreme polarisation. I personally think that the reason I had a problem with it was down to the film having quite a lot of weird scenes that, at the time, I couldn’t comprehend.

For me, I think it was the atmosphere that did it, I don;t think I was able to sleep for about 2 days straight after seeing this one! I know many people say this but this is the only time I have ever had such a reaction to a film. I even remember burning the cassette to make sure it wouldn’t (or couldn’t!) come back to get me!

I know that there is only a tiny chance that you might read this and / or go out of your way to find this film but I really think it would be a great review… can’t say that I’ll be able to watch it though or it might bring back the nightmares :-)

Even if you don’t review it. Please, please try and track it down and give it a look!

Cheers,
Harv

Don’t know if anyone mentioned this or not, but you can take out all of the blood in DA:O from the in options. I took them out from the beginning, almost forgot about them

Don’t know if anyone mentioned this or not, but you can take out all of the blood in DA:O from the in options. I took them out from the beginning, almost forgot about them

lol thanks spoony, i watched A Fire In The Sky last night because of you and im still fucking terrified, first, i saw communion a few years back and the imagery must mean something to strieber, but it had no effect on me. personally, i kind of agree with you. the last thing an alien humanoid civilization would want is to study humans. interstellar travel seems so sci-fi even to this day. the universe is so uncomprehensibley massive that we’re seeing the closest star system to earth almost 5 light years in the past. if we cant even observe our closest binary neighbor in the same time frame that we’re actually looking at it than what hope does any life out there have of traveling that far to another inhabited planet.
anyway, that being said, i saw the symbolism much more clear and effective in a fire in the sky.
what i got out of it was a message about humans experimenting on animals. we dont pick and choose based on specifics, still to this day researchers randomly choose a test subject, we’re usually bigger and always “smarter” than the creature that we test on. its kinda like that bjork song “human behaviour”

please though spoony, do a review on Fire In The Sky! scariest movie ive seen so far.

Dragon age origins is awesome.. i waited something like that after baldur’s gate 2 throne of bhaal..
and yes i agree the blood on characters and armors is kinda over the border i mean i kill a ghost or shade or skeleton (the creature that technicaly has no blood) and there is still blood what the hell.. ah and funny thing when you covered all in blood go to talk to people or shop or something like that they never freek out run away or show any reaction, well i gues its usual in town to see people walking all covered in gore..
other thing in dragon age it is party size limit in baldur’s gate it was 6 slots now we have 4. it’s hard to have balanced team on top of that to fit characters you like in that team.
and if there would be multiplayer version of this IMHO it’ll lose half of the fun.. because party npc’s have their own opinions/dialogues/affairs etc..

Dragon age origins is awesome.. i waited something like that after baldur’s gate 2 throne of bhaal..
and yes i agree the blood on characters and armors is kinda over the border i mean i kill a ghost or shade or skeleton (the creature that technicaly has no blood) and there is still blood what the hell.. ah and funny thing when you covered all in blood go to talk to people or shop or something like that they never freek out run away or show any reaction, well i gues its usual in town to see people walking all covered in gore..
other thing in dragon age it is party size limit in baldur’s gate it was 6 slots now we have 4. it’s hard to have balanced team on top of that to fit characters you like in that team.
and if there would be multiplayer version of this IMHO it’ll lose half of the fun.. because party npc’s have their own opinions/dialogues/affairs etc..

Yeah I remember Fire in the sky. I was traumatized by the huge needle advancing sloooowly into the main character’s eye (well, I think it was him, it’s been a while).
Brrrr!

speaking of aliens, have you seen that new show “V” Spoony?its actually not half bad. and the special effects don’t blow ass too,so that’s a plus!

speaking of aliens, have you seen that new show “V” Spoony?its actually not half bad. and the special effects don’t blow ass too,so that’s a plus!

I remember being scared of the trailer for Fire In The Sky when I was a child. I would cringe everything the commercials would start in fear of seeing that trailer. I should actually watch that now, I’d like to hear what Spoony thinks about it now to

Yaaaaaaaay! you’re working on the ripper! I can’t wait!

and uh… that alien movie seems to suck pretty bad, i guess i won’t be seeing it in the cinema then, thanks for the review!

(btw, please do a uwe boll movie-review as “the three schmucks” with the critic and linkara again! that was so awesome)

Yaaaaaaaay! you’re working on the ripper! I can’t wait!

and uh… that alien movie seems to suck pretty bad, i guess i won’t be seeing it in the cinema then, thanks for the review!

(btw, please do a uwe boll movie-review as “the three schmucks” with the critic and linkara again! that was so awesome)

Dragon Age Origins works great on the console as well. ill agree the PC is far superior but the way they made the battle system work was unique and very usable. id actually like to hear your opinion on it, if you have a chance to play both versions. Considering i usually steer far far away from console games that are ment for PC’s such as C&C etc….i was very pleasantly surprised with Dragon Ages translation to console format.

oh and on another note all you should look into Bill Hicks the Comedian if you already have not. he has some very interesting things to say about other forms of life in this vast universe. he may come off as sarcastic at times after all the main purpose of his performance is to entertain and fill the role of comedian, but the way he tries to weave truth and personal experience into something comical while still keeping you intellectually active is something most comedians have long since forgotten how to do.

oh and on another note all you should look into Bill Hicks the Comedian if you already have not. he has some very interesting things to say about other forms of life in this vast universe. he may come off as sarcastic at times after all the main purpose of his performance is to entertain and fill the role of comedian, but the way he tries to weave truth and personal experience into something comical while still keeping you intellectually active is something most comedians have long since forgotten how to do.

You’re commentary is the ultimate diatribes of the internet. I don’t know if you intended it but you made me laugh consistently, Spoony.

And what was that word? “Spangoolie”?

A few other people have said this, but it bears repeating: Give Demon’s Souls a spin. Highly addictive western style RPG on the PS3. Outstanding game.

A few other people have said this, but it bears repeating: Give Demon’s Souls a spin. Highly addictive western style RPG on the PS3. Outstanding game.

OMG SPOONY! Loved the “Owls” segment, keeping me amused with every video. Keep at it!

Im having a blast playing Dragon Age Origons…but sometimes it gets a little hard with the handycaps on our team…luckly there are some bugs that gave us a good advantage xD

I could go into some buildings during a battle and could attack the oponnents xD

Im having a blast playing Dragon Age Origons…but sometimes it gets a little hard with the handycaps on our team…luckly there are some bugs that gave us a good advantage xD

I could go into some buildings during a battle and could attack the oponnents xD

I believe in UFOs/ETs strongly, and going into this I really wanted this movie to end up being good. I agree with Spoony. It sucked ass. Spoilers.

I kinda had to look at this two ways: Concerning UFO phenomena, and as a piece of cinema.

Firstly, UFOs- This movie fucks everything up. Seriously. You would think the directors would actually like do research instead of throwing every cliche scary movie thing in and mixing it with stereotypical UFO media stuff. Like, nothing coincides at all, in any way, with any UFO reports, or abduction phenomena, in any way. Seriously, they even had the whole beam thing. No one fucking freaks out during regression, assuming that’s actually effective, no one gets abducted by tractor beams, no one sees fucking owls, no one gets screamed at by goddam Sumerian aliens, no one ever levitates and scream ancient alien talk, and no one every is able to fight back. It contradicts and is such a poor example of abduction phenomena, it’s just feeding more stereotypes and BS. They also try to throw a completely different topic in- ancient aliens, trying to link them to the Sumerians and whatnot, but it’s like making a movie about WWII and then throwing in a whole side element about the Russian Revolution in 1917.

As a movie, it also sucked. The approach they went with was bollocks. As Spoony said, it mixed and switched between the ‘real’ footage and the ‘reenactment’. If they had just stuck with one or the other, ok, movie would have been better. You can easily get away with showing the ‘camera view’ type movies and say it’s real and make it believable. You can make a ‘reenactment’ or ‘based on true events’ type film and make that entertaining. You cannot, however, get away with, as Spoony said, reminding everyone these are actors, and make the film entertaining when both versions are absolutely fake as hell. The ‘real’ stuff was fake, and to make it worse they added in some extra distortion at the most interesting parts to make it seem even fake-er. the ‘reenactments’ were badly acted and unnecessary in some parts, sometimes even annoying and inconsistent. And not to mention, the whole owl thing lasted for about a quarter of the movie. They had it in the commercials, they were building up this huge symbolism, and then they dropped it completely. It also got its ideas confused. It started out as a ‘here’s how it went’ turned into a ‘dramatic scary movie’ and then ended as a ‘believe this shit, do it now’. They could have accomplished each thing better off in a different style. Horror movie, documentary, or ‘anti-movie’ would have been better for each meaning. And then it contradicted itself- it even showed,a s part of the plot,t hat hypnosis can be BS, and that the woman had mental problems and was crazy. :/

I was hoping this would be entertaining and scary if it was your typical horror movie, which it should have been. I was hoping it would be eye opening and interesting, if it was truly based on real events, which it wasn’t. I was hoping it could pull off a Paranormal-type movie. It couldn’t. It was a failure. It’s another stereotypical load of crap that people will throw infront of believers actually trying to do some form or real research.

Sorry for the long ass comment. tl;dr- Spoony’s review.

I guess I’ll be skipping this one, maybe watch “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” instead. Speaking of aliens and whatnot, have you seen the pilot for the new show “V”. I was wondering what you thought about it and if you might do a review of that?

I guess I’ll be skipping this one, maybe watch “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” instead. Speaking of aliens and whatnot, have you seen the pilot for the new show “V”. I was wondering what you thought about it and if you might do a review of that?

hey spoony one in your next Vlog can you share with us your beauty tips please? you look amazing. thanks

Dude, S, The Cinema Snob just DESTROYED the fourth wall… i mean, The Fourth Kind, you know, the movie, on his website. You should totally do something together some time.

Dude, S, The Cinema Snob just DESTROYED the fourth wall… i mean, The Fourth Kind, you know, the movie, on his website. You should totally do something together some time.

Oh god, I loved the Hitchhokier’s Guide reference you made.

when I Saw the Trailer for This movie I got excited at first because I instantly thought “Oh WOW! A bunch of Giant Demonic Owls have come to tell me about the end of the world!” then when I found out it was aliens I was pissed off.

…..They should have made a movie about giant Demonic Owls.

when I Saw the Trailer for This movie I got excited at first because I instantly thought “Oh WOW! A bunch of Giant Demonic Owls have come to tell me about the end of the world!” then when I found out it was aliens I was pissed off.

…..They should have made a movie about giant Demonic Owls.

Yeah, Sun Devils! I’m going to Barrett’s, the ASU Honors College, possibly, next year. :D

I had to explain to a number of people in my classes that Paranormal Activity is *not* real. I felt incredibly stupid for being in the same level of math and english as they were. No, I’m not that misanthropic.

I had to follow the link into the separate page for this post because when I tried to play the video, all I got was the goddamn hipster ad for whatever-the-hell trendy alcohol they’re mass-producing nowadays. Aaaang-GEEER!

Fire in the Sky may hold up for you. It may not be quite as bad as you think.

Fire in the Sky may hold up for you. It may not be quite as bad as you think.

Your comments about needing the reenactments to avoid having just a camera focused on a tape recorder got me to thinking, what if they just had all of this be part of an investigation into alien activity? It would require very little extra plot (and most decent actors could probably ad-lib what little dialogue there would be), and then they could have the regression sessions be from the investigation, and the recordings be one or two people sitting around a tape recorder. Plenty of movies do that, and they focus the camera on the actors to get the characters’ reactions to what’s on the tape, rather than just stare at a recorder.

And if I can think of that, why can’t the professionals?

this movie makes other alien movies suck. the only good one was in fact fire int he sky. a review of that would be awseome although the movei is pretty old so i dont know how people would react to seeing it now.

this movie makes other alien movies suck. the only good one was in fact fire int he sky. a review of that would be awseome although the movei is pretty old so i dont know how people would react to seeing it now.

you can turn off the blood in dragon age from the option menu :)

This movie SUCKED!!!! It was possibly the worst movie of 2009. I just hated it, it was boring, dull, dry, and didn’t scare or make me question the existence of aliens. Not to mention the laughs I got when I found out on Yahoo! news that the footage they used was fake! Check out wikipedia and look it up on a search engine, it was a guerrilla marketing scam, which even if I did like it, ruined the entire movie’s concept and story.

This movie SUCKED!!!! It was possibly the worst movie of 2009. I just hated it, it was boring, dull, dry, and didn’t scare or make me question the existence of aliens. Not to mention the laughs I got when I found out on Yahoo! news that the footage they used was fake! Check out wikipedia and look it up on a search engine, it was a guerrilla marketing scam, which even if I did like it, ruined the entire movie’s concept and story.

Your movie is broken.

aliens probe man to see what we eat… which is why they stoped doing it around popeye's

and america

In case you read this, Spoony, this particular video hasn't worked for I'd say around a month. Maybe if you've got a few, you might consider looking into it? No rush or anything, just whenever you've got time. Thanks.

dragon age is actually pretty good on the xbox, don't know about the other consels, but it is easier on the pc. and this was actually on of those movies that I knew going into it that it was going to be shit.

DOOUUGLAAS AADAAMSSSS!!!!! ♥

Sounds a lot like Communion with Christopher Walken just not as unintentionally hilarious or maybe it is? I haven't seen this but now I'm not so sure if I want to now. Yea…Fire in the Sky was a little screwed up…

This is probably one of the few reviews I disagree with. This movie was f*cking SCARY!

and lol Spoony she does try to leave Alaska but that hardass cop stops her.

I don’t know, I have my opinion these guys have theirs. Movie’s like this one only scare you if the subject matter is your phobia. These guys are entertaining although a lot of the stuff they say I feel the opposite but it’s always fun to watch.