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August 31, 2009

Finally, A Laramie Project About Aliens

The Fourth Kind trailer, you guys:

That looks...weird. It combines actors portraying real people mixed in with actual video footage of real people? Maybe. It could also combine famous actors portraying fake people with actual video footage of unknown actors playing the same fake people. It is always hard to tell with these things. Blair Alien Project. There's also the complicating factor of aliens not being real. So that at the end, when the movie reveals that aliens actually DO exist and ARE abducting people, you're like, oh, well, no they aren't. Still, Sumerian dictaphones are the scariest dictaphones. YIKES.

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You know, I love her, but Mila Jovovich often looks scarier than any monsters she's ever fighting. Still lurve her though.

Posted by: inglorius basTURD profile link at 08/31/09 1:50 PM  | Reply
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I guess there is no significant evidence for the existence of alien life Gabels, but it seems pretty arrogant to assume we're all that's cropped up in the ol' universe.

Posted by: John Ham profile link at 08/31/09 1:51 PM  | Reply
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Oh, them alien owls. Always with the staring and sitting by windows. "Hoot."

Posted by: Mr. Tribbles profile link at 08/31/09 1:51 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, I hate to get all Bill Nye the Science Guy on you Gabe, but life outside of earth exists, it would be statistically impossible for it not to. (Unless of course they've all been eaten by Galactus.)


The question that this movie is raising is if extraterrestrials have visited earth and interacted with human beings but who cares because it looks fucking awful.

Posted by: moonmaster profile link at 08/31/09 2:00 PM  | Reply
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Aliens are clearly [url=http://www.tattletart.com/wp-content/2008/11/anna-wintour.jpg]real[/url] Gabe, but they'd DIE before they go to Nome Alaska. Gawd.

Posted by: Gmarley profile link at 08/31/09 2:00 PM  | Reply
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DAMMIT. I can never get that stupid HTML thing right... go-go gadget downvotes!

Posted by: Gmarley profile link  in reply to  Gmarley's comment at 08/31/09 2:01 PM  | Reply
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It's 3:33! That means something. Or something.

*waits for non-registered commenters to flood Videogum with conspiracy theories and tales of abduction*

Posted by: Becca profile link at 08/31/09 2:09 PM  | Reply
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The clock in my bedroom is usually about ten minutes fast. So, if the aliens were going to come visit me at 3:33, I think the question I hope this movie answers is: MY 3:33 or the aliens'? Eastern Standard? Do aliens have Daylight Savings Time to make use of that extra hour of daylight to get in some extra anal probing?

Posted by: Trevor profile link  in reply to  Becca's comment at 08/31/09 2:20 PM  | Reply
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Martians were behind 9/11. Martians with turbans.

And Obama. Him too.

Posted by: EtWB profile link  in reply to  Becca's comment at 08/31/09 2:20 PM  | Reply
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Not gonna lie, this trailer gave me the heebie jeebies. It probably would have been better off as a documentary or something, though.

Posted by: Bob Loblaw profile link at 08/31/09 2:12 PM  | Reply
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I had serious nightmares for weeks after I saw "Fire In the Sky". As a masochist, I feel compelled to see this. Also, Milla Jovovich was in "Fifth Element". The 90's are back!

Posted by: Mcluskyist profile link at 08/31/09 2:14 PM  | Reply
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I never saw Fire in the Sky. Is it worth putting on my Netflix?


I feel like aliens have to exist, but I don't understand why people are so batshit crazy about them or think the aliens would be batshit crazy or whatever. I feel like they'd probably be equal parts awesome and fucking retarded like us. They likely have their own Glenn Becks and whatever.

Posted by: Max the King of All Wild Things profile link  in reply to  Mcluskyist's comment at 08/31/09 9:46 PM  | Reply
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Pretty cruel of the aliens to pixelate that lady's face and then return her to earth without changing it back.

Posted by: jimjbollocks profile link at 08/31/09 2:16 PM  | Reply
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Is Milla Jovovich ever going to get a chance to act in a non-horror movie? How about a rom com? "Hi! This is Milla Jovovich. In this movie I will be portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler, who falls in love with a hunky, but obstinate alien portrayed by Gerard Butler. This film is a dramatization of events that occurred on February 14, 2009. Every scene is this movie is inspired by Hallmark Valentine's Day cards. What you're about to see is extremely contrived but undeniably heartwarming."

Posted by: Ron Jenkins profile link at 08/31/09 2:26 PM  | Reply
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Plus, Milla Jovovich is a really good actress.

Posted by: Wern profile link  in reply to  Ron Jenkins's comment at 08/31/09 2:56 PM  | Reply
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The idea that they have and use "archival footage" but hire actors to play out the story, is a little too 'Paranormal State' for me. I call bullshit.

Posted by: Detroit Dutchgirl profile link at 08/31/09 2:27 PM  | Reply
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What is this? Skepticgum? Aliens totally exist, they just exist far away from Sarah Palin's homestate.

Posted by: tibmalian profile link at 08/31/09 2:28 PM  | Reply
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A movie about sleep-paralysis-induced halucinations.


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

Posted by: ThatSpencerGuy profile link at 08/31/09 2:51 PM  | Reply
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Posted by: Elliot profile link  in reply to  ThatSpencerGuy's comment at 08/31/09 3:32 PM  | Reply
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A google search on Abigail Tyler shows that it's all fake. I know that's probably obvious but it just seems cruel to actually say it's true and trick an audience. yadda yadda yadda the worst

Posted by: McJake profile link at 08/31/09 2:53 PM  | Reply
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I think the concept looks fascinating, but the execution leaves something to be desired.

Posted by: Ashley profile link at 08/31/09 3:18 PM  | Reply
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I liked this movie better when it was called Communion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQqcdG_VQc

Posted by: Gary Meadows profile link at 08/31/09 3:36 PM  | Reply
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You liked that movie?

Posted by: hlebtastic profile link  in reply to  Gary Meadows's comment at 09/01/09 12:28 AM  | Reply
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No, I actually just read about it in More Information Than You Require. But it looks very funny.

Posted by: Gary Meadows profile link  in reply to  hlebtastic's comment at 09/01/09 9:06 PM  | Reply
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And I mean funny in a weird 80s special effects/Christopher Walken/anal-probe kind of way.

Posted by: Gary Meadows profile link  in reply to  Gary Meadows's comment at 09/01/09 9:23 PM  | Reply
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Posted by: Brother Justin profile link at 08/31/09 3:36 PM  | Reply
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Do you yell "FIRE IN THE SKY!" when getting space-raped?

Posted by: thugalowdown profile link at 08/31/09 3:51 PM  | Reply
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This is a really interesting debate for me as I was actually abducted up the ass by a Sumerian owl a few years back. He also kept leaving messages. No evidence of him being extraterrestrial though.

Posted by: Jonabler profile link at 08/31/09 4:30 PM  | Reply
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the most shocking thing i learned from this trailer is that it's a soft "J". "Yovovitch." Who knew? right now i feel like the gentleman who fell: embarrassed.

Posted by: sc at 08/31/09 4:42 PM  | Reply
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Can't they just make and Independence Day 2. That's the only alien movie I might even consider watching. Okay probably not even that.

Posted by: jneslo profile link at 08/31/09 5:08 PM  | Reply
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Sarah Palin can see Mars from her house.

Posted by: Jeb profile link at 08/31/09 6:47 PM  | Reply
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Sarah Palin can see Mars from her house.

Posted by: Jeb profile link at 08/31/09 6:49 PM  | Reply
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I watched all the Resident Evil Movies....she's hot....I'll watch this one. Fuck, how pathetic is THAT...

Posted by: table at 08/31/09 9:04 PM  | Reply
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The owls, obviously, are not what they seem.

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