On Sunday my local UFO Group will be seeing The Fourth Kind. Frankly, the more I read about it the less I want to see it. First, contrary to what the marketers want you to believe, it is not based on a real case, at least I couldn't find any real case that it seemed to be based on. There were some disappearances in Nome, Alaska one winter, but not any evidence that they had anything to do with aliens or UFOs. Right now I am thinking this will turn out to be just another horror film, with no real depth to it. Still, I will likely see it and report back whether I end up being right or wrong. I do hope it doesn't turn out to be as boring as the review link I posted today makes it sound. :)
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Don't know why anyone thought this was based on "real" life and not just "real" Hollywood. It couldn't be any more obvious in the trailer that the "real" disguised footage of Dr. Tyler is an actress interpreting a script. Hollywood does this all the time . . . from Blair Witch Project to A Beautiful Mind (which was a highly fictionalized and untrue version of someone's life), and now, Parnormal Activity. Why shouldn't they do it with alien abductions, too? If someone wants a Hollywood take on a "real" abduction, there's always Fire in the Sky based on the Travis Walton case.
I'm more dismayed that the film might be boring after the trailers were so truly scary. I, for one, don't care that it's not based on reality, but I'll be pissed if it's just a run of the mill bad movie.
In the early previews they kept saying it was based on "real events." I suppose they just mean that people have had abduction experiences, but it made it sound like it was based on an actual case. There was even something put out that some of the regression was from "real taped sessions."
I hated the Blair Witch Project, so hopefully it is at least better than that.
You're right, everything is fictionalized to a point, even Fire in the Sky was. I just don't want it to be boring or silly.
My opinion is that the writers read Communion and some of Zecharia Sitchin's stuff, combined the two and threw in a dose of the Exorcist. At least that is what I got from the trailer.
As for the "based on real events" stuff, they probably tossed in the unexplained Nome disappearances to add some "reality" to try and bring in an audience.
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