For lack of something better to write about for this blog entry, I will tell you moviegoers about another scary movie I went to see this weekend, The Fourth Kind. And I will tell you now, DO NOT go to see this movie. It was terrible. I payed to see something I could have watched on TV. 

Basically, the movie circulates around a psychiatrist who has patients going through odd paranormal encounters with something they can't really explain or remember. They all have the same sleeping problems, triggered by an owl who always seems to be standing by their bed when the wake up for no apparent reason. Turns out, the owls are really aliens and they are all being abducted by aliens without knowing it. 

The movie is supposedly based on a true story, and an actual study that this psychiatrist was undergoing. Real footage and tape recordings are used all throughout the movie even though the reenactments by Mila Jovovich, playing Dr. Abigail Tyler, are also included, sometimes being played splitscreen with the "real" footage. As if the real footage wasn't enough. This movie is in the same family tree as Paranormal Activity. It blurs the line between what are real facts and what is fiction. i went online and did research to find out who this Dr. Abigail Tyler is, and it turns out, she doesn't really exist! I was not surprised at all because even during the movie, I was almost laughing out loud at how ridiculous everything seemed. I wanted to believe it was all real, but I couldn't make myself believe what I was watching was worth my money and time. The events that are recreated are so blown out of proportion that to believe it makes one as gullible as a two year old. Because the "realness" of the facts presented of the movie is emphasized over and over again, its more than obvious that the facts are not actually real. The movie is a documentary wannabe and it does a poor job at even that. At the end of the movie, I just wanted to go home and look up the facts of the movie, which I did, only to find out it was all a hoax. It is pointless for Hollywood to make these "based on real life" movies because although they will make millions off them, in the end we lose all trust in all the "real life" movie madness that seems to have erupted in the past couple of months. Hollywood needs to realize that its audience has technological mediums readily available through which they can find out the facts behind phony movie like The Fourth Kind.

Personally, I'm tired of the sci-fi. I want my romantic comedies back, or something thats actually more believable than the borscht coming out in theaters nowadays.