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If this film is going to be as profound as to 'change people's opinions on UFOs', I SURE AS HELL HOPE that it's for the better. But since this movie is backed with supposed actual events that appear to be extremely frightening and harmful, it also has the power to induce a heavy subconscious fear of aliens in movie-goers.
When the Blair Witch Project came out it was extremely well done (considering the budget and concept) and innovative for it's time. Not to mention it succeeded in scaring half the country into ever going into the woods again. I know every kid my age was petrified of the woods. These are the kinds of subconscious fears the movies can instill in our minds. For people who don't know right from wrong regarding UFOs, 'The Fourth Kind' could be pretty detrimental for the time being.
Originally posted by drac88
I guess I should've added a 5th Disclaimer.
DISCLAIMER 5: When I say this film may be 'disinformation' I fully acknowledge that the creators are doing it innocently and with no intention of anything more than making an interesting film. I'm not trying to argue any conspiracies there, there really is nothing to argue. People do it without knowing what they're even doing - Innocently.
All I wanted to discuss is the current situation regarding the public's view and how it's subconscious is being set up for fear from a subject where no fear has been proven to even attribute to.
Yes, Skeptical Ed I know it's a hollywood movie and what I mean by disinformation, clearly refers to that which is 'accidental' and innocent.
Originally posted by Skeptical Ed
Any way, I don't think that there is any setting up by anyone for anything except to try and produce a feature film that won't be considered schlock and get panned by the critics and, hopefully, they'll be wearing tuxedos at the next Academy Awards.
Originally posted by bluestreak53
Originally posted by Skeptical Ed
Any way, I don't think that there is any setting up by anyone for anything except to try and produce a feature film that won't be considered schlock and get panned by the critics and, hopefully, they'll be wearing tuxedos at the next Academy Awards.
Are you serious or is this meant as a joke? I mean the previews I have seen look like the worst kind of schlock to me - I mean this qualifies as an 11 on the schlock scale. Academy award material? Have you even seen the movie? Maybe we should hold the accolades and praise until the movie has been released?
I'm sure this is nothing more than an effort to make money by playing on the ruse that this is "based on reality" when it looks like there is no connection with any real abduction incidents that has been revealed so far. As someone said, it is horror created out of the imagination of a scriptwriter after maybe reading something about an alien abduction. They are just promoting it to make some people believe it is based on "real incidents". And as so many entertainment promoters know, there is a sucker born every minute.
Originally posted by Lazyninja
Regardless, it's good at least that Sci-fi is going a little bit more mainstream, keeping the public consciousness on the ET subject is good for exposure I guess.
I don't swim much anymore, but the subconscious fear would still be there if I did.
Originally posted by Skeptical Ed
However, the movie may be well made but the material is the problem for us who feel different about it and I sort-of agree with you. I didn't mean that I think it's going to be Academy Award material. I meant to say that perhaps the producers are already thinking so.
I'm definitely going to see it because I'm curious as to see what either 'garbage' or 'gold' these filmmakers have created.
Originally posted by tristar
reply to post by drac88
ordered structure of the human species
Originally posted by drac88
Originally posted by tristar
reply to post by drac88
ordered structure of the human species
What ordered structure? Look at the crisis our planet is in and then see how that might look from a higher beings' point of view. WE are the hostile ones, not them.
Am I comfortable dismissing experiments we do? Whatever you mean by that, you're coming at me from the wrong direction. You have to remember one thing here: We're talking about extra terrestrials, not human beings. I'm dismissing nothing, I'm just not talking about the aliens as if they're primates like we are. I don't know why you're coming at this subject from such an anthropocentric view.
What you need to recognize is that our planet must seem like a real life 'hell' to advanced civilizations. Hostility, tribalism, and racism are things that we embody because of our short-comings in peace and spirituality. The ETs embody this spirituality on such a grand level that most human beings wouldn't even understand.
So basically you can't look at the ETs with an anthropocentric view. Or better yet, you simply can't judge them by what WE have done as human beings, because they're not human. If they're human then we're monkies, you see? They know way better than we do. The "experiments" that one would experience in a real ET abduction are probably nothing more than a check-up or a tissue/seamen extraction. (They need our genetic material to help their race, I could elaborate on that if necessary)
The check-up however would be simply to see how our race is doing - make sure we're healthy, physically, mentally, biologically, chemically, check out or fertility and infertility - it's their way on checking up on the human race. After all they are watching over us making sure we head in the right direction. The whole reason they came here in the first place was because we started using nuclear weapons the same time we started going into space. To them, we became a possible threat to the cosmic order by having our technology evolve faster than our intelligence and social acceptance. That's why they decided to stop by and see what's going on.
Anyway I'm getting a bit off topic I think, but I hope that answered your question.
I guess nobody reads full posts anymore because I stated in the first post that I didn't want to argue about Good ETs VS Bad ETs. But whatever. I guess this is just something else to talk about.
Originally posted by drac88
reply to post by Daisy-Lola
This thread is pointless? Did you read any of my posts? Do you know why I'm discussing the movie? Read them and then tell me there's no point in discussing this.
If you read my first post you'd know that I couldn't care less about the movie itself. What I do care about is what movies like this do to the public. And on the topic of extra terrestrials, our current time is very crucial to the embracing of truth on this matter.
Originally posted by drac88
You've inputted nothing with your post, and if that's what you want to do then please don't post in my thread.