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