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Silver Screen Saucers has a nice post on the zealous promotion of the ancient alien fantasy that seems to be guiding the soon-to-be-released Prometheus, the prequel to the Alien film franchise. Here’s a short excerpt:

Just as you thought the Ancient-Astronaut-inspired Prometheus couldn’t get any more ‘UFOey,’ a new featurette for the movie reveals that the alien planet to which the human characters travel to meet their makers is none other than Zeta(2) Reticuli.

The link in the quotation leads to another SSS post about Prometheus that features the opinions of Alex Jones (“the high priest of the conspiracy community”).  For those who don’t know Alex Jones, he’s also famous for being the guy who saw Charlie Sheen’s hernia.

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I wasn’t aware that the Mirage Men, a book I reviewed here some months ago, was being made into  documentary film. I liked the book, so hopefully the film will be well done. Here’s a look at the recently released teaser-trailer.

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Hollywood’s shallow-but-incessant swipes at Christianity are of course nothing new. But now we’re treated to using a grey alien as the vehicle for humorous backhanding of the faith. And this time we get a bonus: the mirage of science and Christianity being incompatible. Now there’s up-to-date thinking. But I’ll grant it’s easy to mislead viewers into thinking Christian thought can’t address tired old arguments against a theistic worldview.  Honestly, though, what can you expect from an industry that has produced a panoply of movies that, fifteen years ago, would have gone straight to Mystery Science Theater 3000 for the mockfest they deserve?  Does it really take any intelligence to give us movies  like Gnomeo and Juliet, Rango, Hoodwinked, and the Smurfs. Talk about a brain drain.

But it isn’t about brains; it’s about making their own religious statement (poorly, but widely).

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Gary Bates has written a lengthy review of The Fourth Kind. If you haven’t seen the movie yet amd care about reading spoilers, you may want to defer reading the review. If you have no time at all for a spiritual explanation for alien abduction, you won’t want to read it, either. Whether you think “alien abduction” is a synonym for demonic activity or not, it’s hard not to put such deliberate trauma (whether events in the movie are real or not) in the category of evil.

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I know — where’s the news in that?  Well, it’s being promoted as based on a true story, but it isn’t, at least as far as the investigative journalists who’ve looked into it can determine.  Details are in this review.

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