tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post4780306056424090727..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: THE FOURTH KIND: Take us to your Benzos!Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-17264471631660134392010-08-19T19:45:26.033-05:002010-08-19T19:45:26.033-05:00I'm struck by how in the late 19th century, ey...I'm struck by how in the late 19th century, eyewitnesses were seeing airships. In the 1950s, it was all flying saucers, most likely from Mars or Venus. UFOs suddenly got lights and became more angelic in the 1970s while in the '90s, the sinister edge of alien abduction took root.<br /><br />So, either the aliens are altering their approach or we're altering our own myths to suit the times. However, I agree with your thesis that even if 99.9% of the accounts are false, that leaves 0.1% of truth which makes our universe very interesting.Joe Valdezhttp://thisdistractedglobe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-49162674087844784972010-08-18T16:17:04.304-05:002010-08-18T16:17:04.304-05:00Great essay; I'm glad this is (sort of) next o...Great essay; I'm glad this is (sort of) next on my Netflix list. <br />Have you seen Eduardo Sánchez's Altered (2006)? It sounds like it should be on a double-feature with The Fourth Kind. Not only because of Sánchez's connection with Blair Witch, but because it's about some post-post-adolescents who get revenge on the aliens who probed them. It's like an extra-gory mash-up of The X-Files and an old Outer Limits episode, but thankfully without any "figures of responsibility and reason" (like a Fox Mulder or other boring cop/doctor stand-in). The movie jumps the rails, but it's so intense (and gory), I didn't care.<br />Keep up the great work!<br />--IvanIvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16443946766217092846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-35641063150042874372010-08-18T16:01:19.535-05:002010-08-18T16:01:19.535-05:00I didnt love this movie, but I have to admit it di...I didnt love this movie, but I have to admit it did have its moments. Was it just me or was the movie trying to say that these guys might be contacting something close to the idea of god? That whole thing was ultra freaky, but it plays with the same themes that KNOWING played around with, that what many subscribe a biblical meaning to, is actually alien in origin. <br /><br />I liked what you said about loosing that sense of childlike wonderment. It seems to be that when I watch movies, Im simply trying to recapture that feeling all the time.Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-55063452123783473412010-08-18T16:00:59.437-05:002010-08-18T16:00:59.437-05:00Wasn't the whole point of the reenactment bull...Wasn't the whole point of the reenactment bullshit to make the 'real' footage more believable? This isn't a bad technique, I guess.<br /><br />I thought this was pretty good, if you didn't think about it too much...like the suspicious lack of narcotics, as we all know shrinks love giving them out...I mean, I don't know whether I should be ashamed or not that I jumped a couple times.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085105568601878075noreply@blogger.com