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Dave Ball
11/05/09

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The film may not work, but that pixelated pic near the beginning of the article is creepy as anything. #fourthkind
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squidink
11/05/09

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I may have to multi-pass on this one... #fourthkind
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Plague
11/05/09

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I think this movie was just marketed all wrong. Just like Jennifer's Body.
HA! SEE WHAT I DID THERE?! #fourthkind
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Annalee Newitz
11/05/09

@Plague: Your cleverness has defeated my evil rhetorical mastermind plans. #fourthkind
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armyofchuckness
11/05/09

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It does succeed in playing on my childhood fear of barn owls. #fourthkind
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MISS MERCY STREET
11/05/09

@armyofchuckness: #fourthkind
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aubreyf
11/05/09

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It's okay to lie about a movie being "real" if the movie is good. For example, see Fargo. #fourthkind
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eknapp
11/05/09

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I’m an Alaskan and I knew this movie would be a mess when I first saw the trailer and they set Nome in a mountainous forested area. Nome has hills, but no mountains and it is 90 miles from the nearest tree. I thought if they can’t even get facts like that right what hope is there for them.

And Nome’s current population is about 3,600 so hundreds of missing people would defiantly be noticed and reported on, unless it is a conspiracy of course.

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firstanointed
11/05/09

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Maybe Osunsanmi was actually mocking both the alien abductee film and the film-that-lives-vicariously-thru-alternate-reality-game-advertising.

So fake that it's real?

I dunno...

At least they didn't have Milla's character screaming "THIS IS NOT HAPPENINGGGG!!!" #fourthkind
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acrobatic rabbit
11/05/09

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I had small hopes for this movie. I liked the premise. Doesn't surprise me that it would fail though. Their whole marketing for this movie was poorly done and it's no surprise that uncredited actors in the "archival footage", i.e. fake footage, would be crap. For one, it came on the heels of Paranormal Activity, which I thought was really well done and freaked me out. Therefore it was destined to be compared to that. And in the comparison of acting, marketing, and good ol' word-of-mouth, this movie has failed miserably. It's been awhile since we've had a good alien movie. District 9 is excluded because that was more of socioeconomic satire than a genuine alien movie. sigh. #fourthkind
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Pants McCracky
11/05/09

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The thing that bugs me about fake-documentary movies (even the good ones) is that they're never completely convincing. There's always some bit of obvious acting or something over the top that spoils the illusion. Even Spinal Tap, the greatest mockumentary -- sorry, rockumentary -- of all time, falls victim to that tendency. Maybe the problem is that these movies aren't made by actual documentarians. But I would love to see a fake-documentary flick that truly looked and felt like the real thing, and not a parody or half-assed emulation. #fourthkind
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Jonny_eh
11/05/09

@Pants McCracky: It would probably be unwatchable though. Real life is pretty boring. As soon as something interesting happens, it's no longer realistic. #fourthkind
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Pants McCracky
11/05/09

@Jonny_eh: But documentaries (well, many of them) aren't boring! I mean, look at Helvetica -- someone actually made a fascinating, accessible documentary about a typeface. Can we not bring this same level of craft to fake alien-abduction documentaries?

Maybe it's like what you're saying, though -- these filmmakers, deep down, don't really think their subject is interesting enough for anyone to have made a genuine documentary about, so they feel a subconscious need to juice things up and add drama, which translates to a sense of wrongness in the finished product. If even the filmmakers don't actually believe in what they're making, why would we? #fourthkind
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Klebert L. Hall
11/05/09

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"But this footage is so poorly faked that it insults the audience's intelligence. So why are people still calling this movie scary?"

Because the target audience is UFO believers, who are already highly trained to assert the authenticity of poorly faked footage that insults the audience's intelligence?
-Kle. #fourthkind
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Jackie Yoshi
11/05/09

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To be honest, I don't care. I just want to see what happens to make the guy open his mouth in fear and levitate off the bed from the ad. #fourthkind
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gorehound
11/05/09

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Aliens tried to steal my Welsh corgi but he nips people so he gave that alien a mouthful #fourthkind
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pure46
11/05/09

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I am reminded of a high court judge who once said " a blind moron in a hurry could not make that mistake" #fourthkind
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limber
11/05/09

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I'm pretty sure no one ever actually thought hundreds of people had inexplicably vanished from Nome over the last 50 years. I mean, Nome's got a current population of 10k.

I'm more disappointed that the marketers didn't give skeptics a run for their money creating an alternate universe-type campaign than irked that anyone might've been fooled into thinking it was real. An AU web presence would at least have been fun to play with and created a buzz, and it feels like maybe they intended to do it, but then went half-assed and ended up where they are now: looking like they were outright trying to dupe people by lying in adverts.
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fatetwister64
11/05/09

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What's with the Chapman university logo? My Ex went there. I know they have a film school. #fourthkind
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