I went on a little outing with my dad a little while ago. It was pretty fun - we got shakes at Jack in the Box, and then we went to go rent some movies. My dad pointed a movie out and said, "Hey this was an awesome movie". So I got it. Do you want to know what it was??? Huh?? Oh wait. Well you obviously know already. That was kind of a give away. But for those of you that are too dumb to read the title, I rented The Fourth Kind (italicized for effect). It was a pretty good movie, I have to say*. This is when the spoiler part comes in, by the way*. The movie is about aliens. The acting is pretty good. A lot of screaming was involved, so that's why I thought it was good acting. I guess if I were the actress, I would've been all like, "Heck noooo. I am not going to scream like that in front of the entire world", and then storm off the set. All in all, I'd give the acting 4.2 stars. There were some parts though, that the actors probably had to retake at least 30 times because they kept laughing when they were supposed to be dead serious. I know I would've....
Here's the whole storyline: A psychiatrist/therapist/psychologist (whatever she is) has some patients that are having trouble sleeping, which affects their daytime habits and activities. She interviews them, records their meetings, whatnot. She thinks it all links to something, which really gets you thinking. Meanwhile, the doctor has some problems herself. Her husband was murdered one night, while they were both sleeping. To add to the hopelessness she felt, her freaking daughter went blind. Yeah. That's right. IN ADDITION, her son (he's like 10 or something) starts acting like a jerk for no reason. So now she has to care for her blind daughter and jerk son, while mourning for her husband.What a bummer. Everyday, the patients she interviews all say the same thing: they all see a white owl outside their window. If I ever saw a window outside my window, I would open my window and try to get the letter from its leg..... heh heh heh**. Seriously now, if I ever saw a creepy white owl that stares at me at night, I would open the window and shove that thing away from me! The stupid people in the story claim to be "too scared to move" or something. I don't even know. If you saw a freakish owl pressing its face to your window, you would be like, "Retarded owl. Get away from me!" and hopefully CLOSE THE STUPID CURTAINS. That really really bugged me. So much. The retarded patients were like, "Ooohh the owl is so scary! It just looks at me all night!". Then why don't you DO something about it? Like, sleep in a different room or close the blinds??? That bugs me so much in scary movies. If you see something "weird" at your window, you close the window, shut your blinds, lock your doors and CALL SOMEONE. I've never seen 'The Strangers', but I have seen the preview. It does seem quite frightening, to be honest. But seriously people. If you see some creep looking at your house, you get the freak out of there. You don't stay in the house, running nervously from one room to another. You leave......FOOLS!
Oh. Back to the movie. So these people see the owls, they're scared, they ask what to do, the psychiatrist lady doesn't know what to do, she films the interviews, the patients/victims have seizure type things, thenherdaughtergetsfreakingabducted. By the aliens, I suppose. It's weird. A couple scenes before that, the therapist lady gets possessed or something by the aliens and they try to send her a message. I seem to recall this as the message: "We...took..daughter...No..return....I...AM...GOD...". I kind of chuckled at that scene. Really though. Why did they take her daughter?? Stupid aliens. At least be smart about abducting. The girl was BLIND! She had no idea what was happening! I'm outraged. Of all the people to abduct, you choose a little girl? Dang, I would choose the president...if I was an alien. You know. Then go for the other leaders of other countries...world domination...total control of the universe, that sort of thing. Whoever made the "real" account of the story should've made the storyline better....oops. I meant...the aliens should've been smarter? Hmmm. What I'm saying is that this story is so tacky, I could stick a Jonas Brothers band poster to my wall with it. And then all that stuff about God....the lady in the story said, "Whatever it was, it pretended to be God". Pretty straightforward. I guess the aliens were all sitting in their UFOs like,
F2479: "How can we mess with these earthlings even more?"
G2981: "Oh, let's take that woman's daughter and tell her that we're God."
F2479: "Perfect! Then we can convince the whole town of Nome, Alaska into saying that the lady's crazy!"
G2981: "I don't know how this could get any better. Pass me that human heroin, will ya?"***
If you look at the big picture (lol. big picture. movie. movie theater...get it?....ahh fine), it was a cool movie. I know I kind of said some things I didn't like about it, but it was a pretty good movie all together. I suppose it was a cool thriller movie.
*Rhyming really rocks. So does alliteration.
**Creepiest laugh ever.
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