I’m not sure I buy broader objectives for it, like orchestrating cultural chauvinism or preparing civilization for contact with extraterrestrials. I specifically don’t think there’s much of a “big picture”, as opposed to a sort of authoritarian clique playing with psi-ops “toys”, and developing new ones, for ends that…

I think it spreads wider than that. I think the government has been “curating” the whole UFO believer, as well as other “strange phenomena”, subcultures since the end of WWII, f0r a wide range of benefits, like:

The title alone has a certain profundity to it.

Just possibly. But I think the voice was part of it too.

Good Lord, yes! It’s a wonder you had time to notice what he was doing.

In fairness to the old man, Jane Seymour is pretty stunning in that one.

I first saw that a couple years ago on You Tube. I found pretty entertaining in a ‘70s Hammer movie kind of way (it’s not technically a Hammer movie, but the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing pairing tends to make one assume that).

The creepiest thing about that scene is the weird pseudo-deja vu effect it pulls off. It might just be overflow from all the other toons dimly remembered from childhood, but I’ve met quite a few people who agree that the “unmasked” Judge Doom seems familiar somehow, but can’t quite place it.

Some of my friends saw it soon after it opened — in a dying shopping mall, in an otherwise empty theater with out-of-control air conditioning. Really made the Antarctic isolation come to life...

A mashup of the two sounds like it would be a gritty, tense reboot of Osmosis Jones.

Indeed. Any time I see a negative take on a comic book movie, and skim it to find it’s all about the changes they made from the source material, I know I need read no deeper.

I had had some vague awareness of it too, though I don’t remember whether the “true story” marketing had been tipped in advance.

Sort of a meta-take on Cannibal Holocaust?

But I am glad I had 1960s MAD MAGAZINE

Reshooting the season with “competent writers” would only be addressing part of the problem. They’d already long painted themselves into, if not a corner, at least a place where a single 8 episode season (even with longer episodes) wasn’t sufficient to wrap things up. I was fine with Dani’s heel turn in concept, but…

So, the Third Kind (the “highest” defined by Hynek) is supposed to mean an alien creature is present, and the Fourth Kind (as in the Milla Jovovich movie) refers to an abduction. Wikipedia lists further encounter-types including (5) direct communication, (6) resultant death of a human or animal, and (7) resultant…

And the shark dies when it gets impaled on the bowsprit of a boat.

I should try to track down any “making of” videos on the Blob remake, ‘cause I’m now very curious about the thought processes that led to the decision to film a movie set in a northern California ski town in the bayous of south Louisiana.

Straight guy here, and I thought the same. Though I am kind of old, so maybe that accounts for it.

Just a Blob of Guys.