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Moooksta Muppet
Joined: 26 May 2006 Total posts: 900 Location: Muppet Labs Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 02-09-2009 12:57 Post subject: The Fourth Kind |
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| Quote: | | 1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document…until now. Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is a provocative thriller set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where—mysteriously since the 1960s—a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. Using never-before-seen archival footage that is integrated into the film, The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film. |
Trailer
According to a Google search this is all fake and it's being marketed ala "Blair Witch".
From this Yahoo Answer
| Quote: | | No. Its straight up PR bull@#$%. Kinda like the Blair Witch Project. Just because they say its true, doesn't make it true. I've lived in Nome, there's nothing very exciting that happens there, not a lot of murders, definitely no serial killers, and there sure as **** aren't any alien abductions. The funniest thing about the trailer, is that everyone in the film is white (definitely the minority in Nome), there aren't too many black guys around, and in the trailer, there are mountains surrounding the town (Nome is pretty much flat as far as the eye can see). I'm going to give this movie about as much credibility as 30 days of night. |
Although other pages from the same search seem to buy into it's reality. Anyone know if Nome, Alaska is an "abduction hot spot"? Is there any truth to the opening statements of the trailer?
mooks out |
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| xAbix Grey Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Total posts: 7 Location: Manchester, UK Age: 19 Gender: Female |
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| Moooksta Muppet
Joined: 26 May 2006 Total posts: 900 Location: Muppet Labs Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 02-09-2009 22:53 Post subject: |
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| xAbix wrote: | http://fightforjustice.blogspot.com/2006/07/fbi-no-serial-killer-in-nome-alaska.html
quite interesting, apparently the fbi did get involved with the case and the disappearances but nothing can be proven from the blog. |
Thanks for that xAbix. Seems to be based on fact of the disappearances which are been linked to alcohol but the locals don't want to talk to the authorities about it. Wow!
mooks out |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 585 Gender: Male |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 585 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 07-11-2009 17:32 Post subject: |
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| Saw this yesterday... it was okay... trouble was, the "found footage" was so obviously "acted" as to make it redundant. Still, it did produce one or two scares late on... |
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| merriman_weir Great Old One Joined: 07 May 2009 Total posts: 114 Location: Merry England Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 07-11-2009 18:33 Post subject: |
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I wonder what the creators of this were actually thinking? I mean, were they hoping to somehow piggy-back off CEof3K in some way? Is this one of those 'one better' things, like turning an amp to 11?
The most 'Fortean' thing about the place appears to be the origin of the city's name! |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 0 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-11-2009 20:47 Post subject: |
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We've just been to see it. Great fun.  |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 585 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-11-2009 23:15 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Alaska newspapers, movie studio reach settlement over 'Fourth Kind'
by Jeff Richardson
FAIRBANKS — Universal Pictures has reached a settlement with a handful of Alaska newspapers, including the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, for using fabricated “news archives” to promote a recently released movie.
Universal agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club, along with a $2,500 contribution to a scholarship fund for the Bethel-based Calista Corp. Anchorage attorney John McKay, who negotiated the settlement on behalf of the seven media organizations, said an emergency shelter in Nome also will receive an unspecified amount of money, although it wasn’t listed as a recipient in the settlement agreement.
Universal created an elaborate series of online news articles in the promotion for its movie, “The Fourth Kind.” The movie claims to be a true story about a plague of alien abductions in Nome a decade ago.
To bolster that claim, articles were posted that professed to be from real Alaska publications, but were actually created to bolster the movie’s storyline.
The articles included an obituary and news story about the death of a character in the movie, Dr. William Tyler, that supposedly were from the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Neither the story nor the obituary ever appeared in the newspaper.
Fake articles were listed from other newspapers in Alaska, including The Nome Nugget, alongside authentic news stories. Part of the settlement also requires Universal to remove the fake “news articles” promoting the movie from the internet.
McKay said that attributing false stories to real publications undermines those newspapers’ credibility.
“If people can’t rely on the fact that when they look at a news article on the Web that it’s from the newspaper it appears to be, or is written by the reporter it appears to be, it erodes confidence in the world of journalism,” McKay said.
McKay said it didn’t appear that the advertising campaign was cleared by attorneys at Universal Pictures, and he praised the company for responding quickly to the complaints.
“I think they were embarrassed by it and acted very promptly,” he said.
The settlement comes as an unexpected boon for the Alaska Press Club, which is an independent journalism organization in the state. Club President Kathleen McCoy said the $20,000 received from Universal roughly doubles the organization’s annual revenues.
“We’ll spread this around and try to put this toward training for journalists around the state,” McCoy said.
The Alaska Press Club wasn’t part of the complaint against Universal, but John McKay suggested they receive settlement money as part of a compromise that would benefit Alaska journalism. |
One LINK of many. |
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| MsPix Great Old One Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Total posts: 209 Location: Somewhere in the distance Age: 53 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 14-11-2009 17:05 Post subject: |
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Too late! Those stories have probably found their way onto some of less rigorous UFO sites and in future any attempts to point out they're fiction will be dismissed as party of the conspiracy because THEY don't want you to know the truth....  |
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| stuneville Quite decent really...
Joined: 09 Mar 2002 Total posts: 8289 Location: skulking in the shadows, just to the left of Jet Harris Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-11-2009 17:16 Post subject: |
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One of our local freebies the other week described "The Blair Witch Project" as a documentary - not a film, not a docudrama, not even documentary-style. OK, so most people know it's a movie whether they're into our kind of stuff or not, but I bet some thought it legit.
As Ms Pix said, many sites don't care about provenance, they just want stuff to convince themselves and others that their beliefs are right. |
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| Twin_Star Profane, Harsh, Unharmonious
Yeti Joined: 05 May 2009 Total posts: 50 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 19-11-2009 02:55 Post subject: |
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On average, it takes me 3 minutes to defecate, once im on the bowl y'know. My stool is usually a pleasant nutty colour, occasionally dark brown, or more unusually, an obsidian black. It floats more often than not, sometimes i have a [ur#=http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/jinx/399//jokes/Toilet_Humour/Types_of_Poo.html] ghost poo[/ur#]*.
The fourth kind is a bad film. suspend me in your disbelief. break down the 4th wall between us. just don't be in internally incoherent, badly acted, rubbish scripted, parody of a viral. i can't even bring myself to list the numerous points i took deep and personal exception to. Less than 30 minutes in, i was rooting for the sumerian elder gods. you'll have to believe i havent spoiled anything in that little disclosure.
After the best part of 33 shits, i will have spent the same amount of time as watching this movie. please dont make the same mistake i have, albeit on Orange Wednesday.
Twin_Star gives this movie 2/10. and thats for 2 of the hypnosis sessions. AVOID
*Edit: Direct link disabled.
McAfee Site Advisor warns that the joke site linked to above has been red flagged as a possible 'hijack' site, which could hijack your computer to steal data, or leave viruses and trojans. P_M |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 3894 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-11-2009 11:26 Post subject: |
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| Moooksta wrote: | | Seems to be based on fact of the disappearances which are been linked to alcohol but the locals don't want to talk to the authorities about it. Wow! |
Yesterday I saw a greetings card with a picture of Tommy Cooper on it. He's saying:
"I'm on a whisky diet.
And it's working...
I've already lost three days!" |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 0 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 19-11-2009 12:08 Post subject: |
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We enjoyed it, on the basis that it was all made-up, like any other fillum. 
I liked the sense of 'place' - looked like Alaska to me. Except that it was actually filmed in eastern Europe somewhere.  |
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