The Fourth Kind Review (11-7-09)

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

Your movie is broken.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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"?

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.

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.

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)

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

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!

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!

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..

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.

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

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