V: Second Generation Alienation

I haven't read the book yet, and so I can't say for myself what this book is or isn't, but reading the reviews on Amazon, it doesn't look good.

Apparently, entire plot lines have vanished from the original story.

Aside from characters in the 'bastardized' V:Final Battle (that's Johnson's word not mine) not present because they weren't in the original Miniseries show...

The "Anne Frank" character and family are reportedly missing from this 'sequel.' Along with many other characters which should probably be in this book, or at least referenced, or whose stories should be told in reflection. The reviews say they are not.

V was a cool show, I watched every single episode, the Final Battle, etc. It wasn't the best show on TV, and neither is Earth Final Conflict, but there are things in them which, besides the B-Movie cheesyness, are fascinating.

Earth Final Conflict went downhill when they got rid of the main character(never a good move).
They turned away completely from a conspiracy of bad aliens, to this whole rediculous Star Trek weirdness, and eventually making the first two seasons pointless to have watched, which is perhaps why they never came out with them on DVD, even though you have to watch them to see where many of the later characters come from. The show started out as a kind of anti-fascist premise, with a dark conspiracy, but later turned villains into heroes, with a kind of neo-fascist spin. Neonazi Runes were explained to be ancient alien religious symbols of power, and blah blah blah, [the concept of having two fascist villains 'connect romantically over a nazi symbol is well, abominable] it gets really bad, and kind of disturbing in a sick way. It veers far from the first season which was really quite awesome. Somebody got control of the show, even Gene Roddenberry's son said he stopped watching the show after the second season, and said it was total crap...but watch the first season and it resonates with the immediate aftermath of 9-11, in which America turns vicious, adopting policies the nazis could only dream of.

From the reviews I've read, this new V Novel sounds a lot like he's barrowed heavily from Star Trek and Earth Final Conflict, adding lesbian scenes(like Star Trek) and new races of aliens (Earth Final Conflict) and even more crap from Alien Nation. This with ignoring or writing out favorite characters is seriously a bad move.

Perhaps its a good thing Johnson didn't get control of V:The Final Battle, who knows what idiocy from Alien Nation would have showed up. I look back at the Series, and Star Child notwithstanding, it really wasn't so bad, and it ended better than Earth Final Conflict.

Maybe when writing a science fiction series about alien invaders(as opposed to a one shot film like "They Live") there is a tendency to start making the aliens "more human" instead of straight villains because they get bored with the 'black and white' good vs. evil narrative. This is a big mistake. Once you introduce them as fascists, even if a few of them are reluctant to follow their fascist leaders, as soon as you make them go back and forth, so you can try to avoid making them seem totally wooden and hollow, you lose your original subtext.

The 'fifth column' rebels act as redeemers of the villainous class of aliens, and they either die or end up going their own way, totally away. (In Strange Invaders for example, the mother of their 'Star Child' sacrifices herself to save them). Once you cross the line and start making these villains more human, you miss the point of having "aliens" as your villains in the first place. This is why I don't like Star Trek. There are some good episodes in the original series when aliens represent different types of "us," but they aren't introduced as demons.

The idea of having aliens, mysterious creatures invade us, is to personify evil, we slowly may begin to recognize traits in the aliens as our own traits, but we must be distanced initially and repulsed, the 'alien' repulses us first and foremost, and acts on our subconscious. Going too far by making these mysterious aliens with powers beyond our imagination, like ordinary people, with ordinary relationship problems, and mundane political dilemmas is completely ridiculous, and is why these things fail.

This is what happened to Earth Final Conflict, only it got really bad, it started to appeal to the latent fascism of the audience...a sad direction, when the original premise was quite clear, but this is simply a case of advertisers and studio executives taking over the show.

Here we have the original creator of V, messing up his own story (possibly, I haven't read it yet), and no matter how cheesy the TV series got, it stayed with the original premise that the Reptiles were pretty much evil, and while there were a few lizards who wanted out, and rebelled, it maintained the resistance movement, and the storyline of the underground and the political drama of its maneuvering. The 'Star Child' was B-movie cheesy, but still maintained a distance within the drama of the human beings...she goes away at the end. The aliens are not imagined to 'make nice' and stay in the end...their destiny isn't ours, they aren't 'us.'

Alien Nation didn't interest me because its 'racial' subtext was almost insulting. To present aliens as 'another race' which needs to be tolerated by 'us' as some sort of allegory to racial problems in America is kind of, well, icky and juvenile. The movie was funny, but the series was lame as hell. (Sad to say, Earth Final Conflict barrowed the 'alien mutation into a demon' crap from Alien Nation.)

I say Alien Nation is fine, it can be humorous, entertaining, but really really bad, especially when it really goes over the top by trying to deal with race relations...its bordering on mental illness...sorry Ken Johnson... You can make a film like that, but why bother? Take "Enemy Mine" where we have Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset Jr. A human and a reptile-alien played by a black guy. Somewhat disturbing once again to try to deal with racial issues by portraying them as 'white guys' and 'aliens.' The problem with this movie is that not only is it a remake of a much better, and truly Great film starring Tochiro Mifune and Lee Marvin, "HELL IN THE PACIFIC," but the original film dealt with the same issues without aliens. It was WWII, and it was American vs. Japanese, true blue. It was better because it was truer to life. No aliens were needed to replace the Japanese soldier. No aliens were necessary, and the choice to make it an alien movie was really kind of disturbing. Tochiro Mifune is not an ugly animalistic 'jap,' he's quite a fine looking man, who has been raised in a different culture...Louis Gossett Jr, is also a fine looking man, who does not need to be represented as an ulgy alien fiend with 'a heart of gold.' Is this how we are supposed to deal with race and cultural differences? I don't see non-white people as 'ugly monsters whom I just need to understand, and tolerate,' and to represent this situation as this is terrible.

This is why the new Star Trek series is abominable. After the first Star Trek Series, all the Star Treks were operating in this same realm as I just described above. Fascist Klingons were to be respected as 'warriors' and Romulans (Roman Fascist aliens) became some sort of asian-like 'misguided racial mutants of vulcans.' Some weird shit.

George Lucas shows his own latent racism and we almost don't even need to include his outrageous stereotypes of chinese aliens in Phantom Menace with chinese accents, and 'stepinfetchit' rastafarian aliens like Jar Jar Binks. He doesn't ask us to tolerate these baffoonish stereotypes, he wants us to see them as 'pathetic life forms,' even though in all reality every character in Star Wars is a person, he promotes racism within a ridiculous framework of asking us to have tolerance towards characters who are persecuted for what they are, like C3P0 in the bar. He's got problems.

In "V" the aliens do not represent another race of humans. They are a side of us that is supposed to be evil, always evil. They're reptiles, they're bad, they eat us, they're fascists, they are the worst of us, all races of us, no races of us, because there is only us: THE HUMAN RACE.

The reptiles are repulsive because they're mean and evil, the repulsive side of us, our potential. It has nothing to do with different races, but once you go there, you've gotten into a mess. To turn and make it about 'good races' and 'bad races' is another mess, just as bad as making it about races at all. If you venture away from the 'science fiction' allegory and into other alleys that will never integrate with your original allegorical premise, you're screwed, and you start creating madness. (Earth Final Conflict).

The importance in maintaining your allegorical origin with this kind of sci-fi is lost to almost every television series since V. Battlestar Galactica the Remake is a total travesty, and all these other space shows are the same. They're boring and functionless because they can't focus on any reason for them being science fiction in the first place. (Unless they are nothing but total PROPAGANDA)If you want to do dramas about racism, do it in a non-science fiction way, like any one of the courtroom legal dramas that exist. Do it in a standard action adventure show that has nothing to do with sci-fi.

Play games with racial problems in intergalactic fiction, and you're playing with fire. There are no alien races, we never met any, UFO-nut arguments aside, there are no intergalactic federations, there is only US, and WE need to get along here without all this other shit making us believe people in this world are ALIEN races.

Heinrich Himmler believed that Jews were an alien race(no shit, he really did, he wrote about it), and look what the hell he and his kind did.

"Aliens" should never stand in for representing real human ethnicities, ever. If we can't deal with our differences without resorting to outlandish metaphors, then we've got some real sick problems. If we can't look at Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Arabs, Indians, Whites, etc without thinking of aliens, or weird creatures, and then force ourselves to watch science fiction in order to deal with it, we have more serious problems than I can even tell you.

Alien creatures, like any kind of pre-UFO science fiction, monsters, etc, can easily represent human beings, but its what represents our INSIDE, not our outside. A diabolical alien fiend may in fact stand in for any one of us, and especially our potential, but let us cease this association with cultures. "Alien cultures" perhaps when contemplated by Carl Sagan when he was alive might be interesting, but no culture on earth is truly alien, because in the end we are all from earth. We're not going to be able to hide from every culture that is here, and ultimately when viewed there is something commonly human about all of them.

Yeah we're different, we certainly are, but hell, we're not THAT different.

The aliens in us, is when we are INHUMAN. That's the point folks, and how inhuman we ALL can be, to eachother, no matter where we come from or what we look like. We truly can become monsters, and it has nothing to do with what language we speak. Monsters from the blackness of space is an eeire and mysterious and perfect way of depicting evil, there is a dark side to all of us, and evil IS alien, it is nonhuman, it is not good potential for us, it is something we must ward off like giant monster bugs, something we must be vigilant about, something we must all join together in defeating, and by associating and allocating a monster's face to a jackbooted thug, we might recognize it in the future, because the nazi of this kind may not always be German in a future time, he could be anybody...anywhere...even HERE.

The ARRIVAL!

Sometimes its time to reach back into the old bag of tricks and pull out another cool B-movie!

If you've not seen The Arrival starring Charlie Sheen, then you're in luck, you can now get it along with its crappy sequel on one DVD!

Okay, this movie ain't the greatest, but, like Strange Invaders, there is just something still cool about it. Watching this again reminds me of "They Live" with Global Warming being some sort of alien conspiracy, and you know how much we love alien conspiracies.

Check out the trailer, and check out the flick, it goes somewhere, and isn't a total disappointment, actually not a disappointment at all.

Robot Resistance Front

You're invited to check out the RobotResistanceFront! A new sister-blog to the Alien Resistance Front. More fun sci-fi stuff about robots, computers, terminators, etc.

Power to the PEOPLE!

Roy Scheider Dies at 75

Roy Scheider November 10, 1932–February 10, 2008.

I'm going to miss Roy Scheider, a great actor.

Some favorite titles, besides "Jaws" are:

BLUE THUNDER
SORCERER
NAKED LUNCH
THE RAINMAKER
SEAQUEST
2010

He also narrated numerous documentaries, and was talented enough to play a wide range of characters, although his heroic 'flight suit' characters stick out in my sci-fi fan's mind. I will always remember him in his blue flight suits, whether it be Frank Murphy, Nathan Bridger, or Heywood Floyd.

Goodbye Chief Brody, you will be missed.


Captain Bridger vs. The Aliens: (In SEAQUEST DSV)

"The ship[Seaquest] had been forcibly abducted from Earth by the KrayTaks from the planet Hyperion in the second season finale, who used Bridger's friendship with Scott Keller to lure the boat into their clutches. While on Hyperion, the seaQuest was apparently destroyed and Bridger's away team completely cut off. With no choice, Bridger chose to sacrifice himself and his crew to destroy the Hyperion mothership and lead the rebels to victory."


In Blue Thunder, as "Frank Murphy" (the 1st Frank Murphy before Peter Weller's Robocop), we are introduced to the now infamous "Black Helecopter."

A super surveillance helecopter developed by conspiratorial forces within the United States government. Frank is to test the copter, but realizes that "Big Brother" is going to use it to spy on and kill dissidents.

A true classic with real death-defying stunts and NO CGI!

Roy, you're now riding with the angel sweetheart...

Catch ya later.

The Two Dubyas

George W. Lucas and George W. Bush
(Write your own caption)

Repo Man

Strangely enough, even though it came out in 1984, quite a while before Unsolved Mysteries and the X-Files, REPO MAN 'prophetically' delved into the pre-mainstream UFO conspiracy craze.

At that time there wasn't even a Roswell Museum.

There was the film "HANGAR 18" but essentially, the UFO Conspiracy craze was an underground movement building momentum, and didn't quite reach its peak until 1992.

Repo Man is a classic, and an unusual film in that it involves a whole lot of bizarre action and ideas, and not necessarily focused on UFOs, its inclusion of the 'myths' of the 'captured dead aliens' is a curious one. Steven Schpielberg may have re-introduced to the mainstream, the subject of UFOs and 'happy aliens' in his "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," but he forgot to examine the government conspiracy aspect of it.

No aliens appear in REPO MAN, but I bring it up because strangely enough, this film stands the test of time, and could just as well be a film that came out in 1992. Damn, if only Chris Carter had realized it at the time, a brilliant take-off comedic X-Files episode could have been written as an homage.

THE HIDDEN Beginning

Do you remember that classic, THE HIDDEN?

Geoff Willmets at computercrowsnest.com has a nice review of this classic.

With Kyle MacLachlan, you know, 'Agent Cooper?'

For me this began the era of what I call the 90's conspiracy dramas. No this movie is from the 80's, yes, but I'll explain.

1987. The Hidden is released. Yes, there were classic conspiracy films previously, like 3 Days of the Condor, Hangar 18, The Parallax View, and others...but we're talking about a 'new phase.' The HIDDEN isn't responsible for this new era, but begins it in a way.

Kyle MacLachlan ironically plays an FBI agent (sort of) in the Hidden, who would later then play FBI Agent Cooper, in David Lynch's Twin Peaks, who will uncover conspiracies about Black Lodges, possible alien abductions in that series. In 1988, THEY LIVE is released. Another fun yarn about aliens pretending to be people. Again, nothing new here, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, V, even Buckaroo Banzai came out in 1984.

No, now were into a new phase. A more up front, detective show, close and personal. In 1990, FBI agent Cooper attempts to solve a murder in a small Washington town, and finds demonic possession, secret societies and possibly aliens. David Duchovny enters this new phase, as a cross-dressing agent. MacLachlan's Cooper is not too far from Lloyd Gallagher in the Hidden. (Only we find out, he's not quite an FBI Agent.)

Here's the deal, in 1987, "Unsolved Mysteries" really catches on. Popular episodes include The Black Dahlia, The Roswell Incident, and others which rotate between missing persons and paranormal themes. In 1989, Whitley Strieber's "Communion" is adapted to the screen starring Christopher Walken.

Twin Peaks runs from 1990 to 1991, and we have the birth of FBI Agent Starling in "Silence of the Lambs." Oliver Stone releases his movie, "JFK." Also in 1991, Steven Soderbergh's KAFKA is released, a conspiracy film which takes place earlier in the 20th Century, but offers up a conspiracy theme that will be revisited again and again. Stephen King's "Golden Years" miniseries is broadcast, in which government agents attempt to cover-up and kill a man who was accidentally exposed to a secret experiment. Bill Cooper releases his famous "Behold a Pale Horse."

In 1992, a new UFO craze was sweeping the country. One effect of the craze was the widespread and growing belief in government conspiracies that involved AREA 51, 'Black Helecopters' and "Black Projects." This is a new phase, the era of Watergate and JFK Assasination conspiracies take a new turn. The "Art Bell" Show becomes popular.

This all of course inspires Chris Carter who develops "THE X-FILES." David Duchovny is back. The show essentially takes after a movie called "HANGAR 18" starring Darren McGavin, star of the television series "Nightstalker," who Chris Carter admits he got his inspiration. Clearly the X-Files follows in the wake of the ongoing mystery soap opera, "Twin Peaks," without which I would argue, there would be no X-Files. Darren McGavin will make two appearances in the X-Files, as the first FBI Agent to uncover them. The year is 1993.

In 1993, Kyle MacLachlan stars in the Kafka conspiracy, "THE TRIAL."

In 1994, Kyle MacLachlan returns in "Roswell." Stephen King's THE STAND appears on television, a miniseries where the government creates a SuperFlu virus which they attempt to cover-up, but fail, and it decimates the earth, and viewers watch "Martial Law" declared in America, on a TV Drama.

All of this is a new kind of science fiction. Detective-Conspiracy-Alien Invasion-Cover-Ups. (Now referred to simply as 'something like the X-Files.)

In 1995, Bruce Greenwood stars in a total conspiracy show called NOWHERE MAN. Scott Bakula stars in a new alien conspiracy mini-series, "INVADERS." Fox Network premieres it's 'legendary' (and phony) "Alien Autopsty" Special.

The X-Files continued to outlast all of them, and what essentially built up to the X-Files, and all its weirdness, will also be henceforth referred to as 'from the X-Files,' or 'like the X-Files.'

Stephen King, William Gibson go on to write episodes for the X-Files, but Kyle MacLachlan fails to make an appearance. Perhaps in a decade, the next generation, when they look back, he'll be known as their own "Darren McGavin."

This era of conspiracy entertainment broke new ground in mainstreaming 'conspiracy theories,' and 'conspiracy dramas.' Black Helecopters made their debut in the early 80s as "Blue Thunder" but became part of the language by the time Mel Gibson's "CONSPIRACY THEORY" came out in 1997. Now there are few who haven't heard the term.

I mark this period, "The Hidden Beginning, " as this movie in its time period (1987) conjures up the time of innocence, before all this, the time I recall, even in the film's environment, setting, as the time just before everything changed.

1987 was the year of the Iran-Contra Scandal. America has yet to recover.

Star Trek vs. Star Wars: A Phony Shell Game

So there's this feud between Star Trek and Star Wars fans that has been going on for years. Both sides seem to think that the entirety of all science fiction comes from two perspectives: Star Wars or Star Trek. I have a totally different opinion on this matter.

Ask a Star Wars fan what he thinks about the world, and you might get some mystical bullshit about hokey mysterious forces that rule the cosmos, and super powers, and revolutions that must be fought in order to 'restore balance.'

Ask a Star Trek fan what he thinks about the world, and you might get this bullshit answer about boldly going somewhere, developing better spaceships, and discovering answers that are somewhere out there in the cosmos, and 'joining the galactic community.'

Okay, one side is all dewey-eyed about inner mystical shit, and how we must become enlightened and find this 'great power' inside ourselves. Something along the lines of maybe Scientology or Transcendental Meditation. (There are of course weirder fans who entertain the idea of building an intergalactic empire and dressing up in black, but this is not the majority.) The concept of men in robes who can't get married running the government, and sometimes 'voting' for queens, is a bit disturbing to me.

This other side, with their baby-blue flag of the galaxy, and this phony 'tolerance' campaign about how we must accept bloodthirsty alien klingons into our political systems, and that life is all about wandering around living in a tin can, eating synthetic foods, and leaving your families back home to die alone while you galavant around in the name of some United Federation, meddling in the lives of other planets, hoping they'll join your secular crusade, COUNT ME OUT!

I offer to you, that these far out and somewhat esoteric shows are a pile of shit, and both sides are really a shell game designed to keep you from reading and watching REAL science fiction. They follow these shows like a cult, a massive cult, with little 3 1/2 inch idols that fill their rooms and all sort of other bizarre ritual accoutriments like phallic glowing wands, fake ears, strange hand gestures, and coded conversations, as well as redundant phrases.

They don't want you to know about Harlan Ellison, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, H.P.Lovecraft, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury or even George Orwell.

The idea of human beings being normal, in the midst of a science fiction story, how silly, they say. We must find the 'uber-man' inside us, join secret societies of Jedi, whose initiation is a special blood test, OR, we must erase our sovereignty and our 'isolationist' egos and join the big happy blue-flagged fleet of everyone wearing the same uniforms, ditching our cultural heritages for the sake of the exploration of the big empty black vacuum that is space.

I say, screw this two sided world of phaser vs. blaster, and their idiotic alien contrivances. We live on earth baby, and there's plenty of science fiction happening right here, and when science fiction was once allegory, it was the shit. When it becomes mysticism to influence you to become what it is, instead of a cautionary tale, its propaganda. Sick propaganda.

Give me my Fox Mulder and my Joe Nada, and the rest of the regular Joe Blows who inhabit real sci-fi, and lets be done with these veiled Wagnerian cryptofascist globalist fairytales.

THEY

Politics

My take on politics...

















Who's human and who's not?

Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Script Revealed

Alien Resistance spies have stolen a copy of the new script for Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, formerly titled "Indiana Jones: Close Encounters of the Third Reich."

We present to you here an extensive synopsis, play-by-play if you will of the entire movie from beginning to end.

We know that the original story by Frank Darabont had nazis, Sallah, and no aliens...but once George Lucas got a hold of it, he added Jones, Jr., aliens, and Area 51. Here it is:

Our story begins at the university where Indiana Jones teaches. There are plenty of in-jokes and references to girls writing on their eyelids, the old Denholm Elliot who's dead, Indy's nicknacks in his office, continuously reminding us, "hey this IS an Indiana Jones movie."

Indy's life has become boring, and he parouses old books on the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, and Shankara Stones, while trying to locate a book in the library, which turns into a series of gaffs and silly jokes about how one can have an adventure in a university library, with ridiculous look-alikes of Nazis from the first film.

Okay, so he runs into "Mutt" who is really Jones, Jr. Shia Labeouf. This kid is in the library looking for every book written by Abner Ravenwood. Most of which are in archives not for public viewing. Dr.Jones approaches him and is insulted by Labeouf who says that stuffy old college professors know nothing of the experience of the real world, and that they spend too much time dreaming while reading dusty old books. Before Indy has anything to say about it, winking to the camera, Labeouf spots Abner Ravenwood's "Temple of the Crystal Skull" treatise, and grabs it, and runs out the door, gets on his motorcycle and speeds off. The librarian gives Indy a stern look, and Indy's off to retrieve this priceless artifact.

He follows him to a coffee shop, and for the first time we see an American town in an Indiana Jones film. Shia is kicking back reading the book, and 50's rock and roll music is heard in the background...noticeably, a theme from American Graffitti. This will not be the last time. As Indy drives past, we see his truck has the license plate THX 1138. Shia sees him, gets up and goes inside the coffee shop. A peculiar beatnik girl follows him, and Indy watches, unnoticed. Shia is followed all the way to the back door, when two trenchcoat men grab him and hand the book to the beatnik girl, who now has pulled out a very large pistol. They throw Shia in the back of their car and drive off, and Indy follows.

They arrive at a warehouse, and drive inside. Indy parks just outside on the street. He then notices two men in fedoras parked just on the other side. They see him, and get out and move towards him. Indy opens the glove-box and pulls out his trust pistol which just happens to be in there, but before he can lean back and see if its loaded, "FBI, step out of the car please."

The agents inform Dr. Jones that Soviet spies are inside the warehouse, Indy tells them he's from the University and they've stolen University property. Just then, the car the soviet agents were driving comes flying out of the warehouse, guns ablazing. Shia is gagged in the back of the car. The two FBI agents are crushed and Indy must persue them. They enter a populated part of town, where it would seem American Graffitti has been recreated with cruisers, greasers and boppers galore, getting in the way of the chase. More ridiculous jokes are to be had, until they get to an airport. Indy manages to latch himself to the soviet spies' plane as it takes off, they still have Shia tied up. He makes his way into the luggage compartment, and the plane heads for Peru. Indy pulls some cables and the luggage goes flying out, the soviets notice something's up and start shooting the floor of the plane, one guy hits something important, and Indy fires a shot which goes through the plane's inside and hits an engine. There goes the plane! Into the ocean.

The plane crashes into the ocean, and Indy, the beatnick girl and Shia Labeouf survive, and soon enough they are surrounded by sharks. Richard Dreyfuss arrives in a boat to save the day, with some cheesy dialogue about the 'Jaws of Doom' or something or other. The three troublemakers, make it to the coast, and meet up with more trenchcoat men, the beatnick girl runs away, and Indy and Shia are taken into a hotel by the gruff men in fedoras. They get inside and there they meet Marion Ravenwood, who has made some deal with the government to find her father, Abner who is suspected of working with the Russians.

A worthless and unfunny exchange occurs between Marion, Indy, and Shia Labeouf, who we find out is Marion's son. There information is conveyed about the Crystal Skull, and the Lost Temple in which it is supposedly hidden. I'll skip ahead to more exciting moments, they make their way into the jungle based on information in the book, which tells of the Kingdom of the Skull. They find that russians have been slashing and burning the jungles to get to this lost city. We never actually discover why the hell communists are interested in lost religious idols and supernatural hocus pocus, but because George Lucas didn't want Nazis to be badguys this time around, essentially what we have is low-grade B-movie nonsense.

So they find the Temple, go inside, and discover it has something to do with aliens, and after a series of boobytraps, bad jokes and loud John Williams music Indy finds Abner, Aliens who have Speak N' Spells that are rigged to their strange Mayan technology fitted inside a pyramid. Shia offers them Reese's Pieces and they only respond that they want to talk to Richard Dreyfuss, the shark guy.

Needless to say, the movie is so packed with idiotic references to old Spielberg and George Lucas films that either remind you that its being made by these two jerks, or there's the bad jokes that keep telling you "remember this IS an Indiana Jones film!"

Hey, here's a tidbit about George Lucas' Negative Energy.

Earth Final Conflict Videos

Stage6.Com has posted some Earth Final Conflict Videos...

Retrieve them here.

Marc Singer Talks V

UndergroundOnline has the interview:

"UGO: Are you looking forward to reuniting with your co-stars?

MARC: Very much so. I think one of the things we assume when we see people on television is somewhat like what we think when we see our parents: that they are complete, whole, and unchanging, now and forever. We were younger in those days, and for us all to be able to get together and continue the life in this new chapter would be good for all of us."

V Second Generation Finally to Be Released?

According to Ken Johnson's site, his new V Novel will be released next week, February 5th.

(Bloody likely...)

"It is being published in hardcover
by Tor Books, which has finally
reached contractual agreement
with Warners. Though the
annoying delay was not Kenny's
fault, he apologizes for the wait.
He hopes his many friends who
have eagerly looked forward to
the novel will enjoy it."

They Live Movie: Google Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9005367754264973286

Somebody posted the entire movie!

Joseph Cambell Sucks

I love it! "Eight Reasons Why the Hero's Journey Sucks" is an article on i09.com read it here.

"Riding on the track Campbell laid down will get you a cheesy story about the most specialest guy in the universe, who saves everybody with a little help from his companions and who gains a wonderful spiritual "boon" that enriches everybody along the way. Save it for high fantasy. We'd rather have a variety of messy stories in our science fiction."

Yes, AlienResistanceNews hates George Lucas and the Bantha he rode in on. I suppose because we love the classical B-movies, and the rich-in-subtext alien invasion stories, because as outlandish as they all are: they are grounded here on earth.

You may argue that Lucas and his Star Wars filth is all about American politics, but I think its just meant to appear that way.

George Lucas sucks

Why the hell would a director(this is not the first time for George Lucas) tell everyone 'they' are going to hate his movie?

FROM:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=199029320&p=y99xz99xx

'Indiana Jones' creator George Lucas is dreading the character's return to the silver screen - because he is convinced everyone is going to hate the new movie.


...However, Lucas fears the movie could be a major box office disappointment as he believes reviewers won't give it a fair chance - because fans of the original trilogy are already upset at the decision to make a fourth installment.

He says: "I know the critics are going to hate it. So there's nothing we can do about that. They hate the idea of making another one. They've already made up their minds.

"The fans are all upset. They're always going to be upset - 'Why did he do it like this?' So you just have to stand by for the bricks and custard pies."

Alright GEORGE, first of all, you're an idiot for saying any of this to the public, second of all, it isn't because its 'another sequel,' or because its not 'what we want,' its because its another 'Lucas' crappy sequel, and we've been burned before. Also, its because its everything we DON'T want. It is because it doesn't make sense... Aliens man? In INDIANA JONES? What the hell is that? A perfectly good script by award-winner Frank Darabont scrapped, because YOU want russians instead of Nazis, and an Indiana Jones KID?

This is crap that is usual fare for the muck you've been churning out Georgie...we've seen it all before. I'm just surprised Indy,Jr. isn't a 12 year old who says crappy lines like "this is tense."

Its because we KNOW its going to suck, not because we've already decided that. Its because we've seen what can happen when you try to change and fix what wasn't broken, like a Darabont script, or old movies you made with new CGI.

Its because you can't stop fucking with shit, and making it worse. Its because you suck. Its because you've destroyed so much that we loved, and because you keep whining about it. You said this about Phantom Menace, you said this about Revenge of the Sith...first you say they're kids movies, then you say, no, "Revenge" is not a kids movie. First you say Indiana Jones is fun-action fare, now you say, 'Indiana Jones were never action films.' Bullshit. We know this means that you didn't put a lot of action in the new one. So what? But is the rest of it cool? Not likely when you put aliens and giant tree-cutting tanks, and Russians.

It sounds like crap because it sounds like crap, and if you can't figure out why, its because you never must have known what you were doing in the first place, or because the formula you made, is not the one we know...nazis, not commies, artifacts, not aliens, Indiana Jones, not sidekicks is what WE know, and we know now, your formula is about making as much money as possible no matter how crappy this makes the movie.

I haven't so much as DECIDED its crap, I'll say it looks like crap, but I'm not going to pay to see it jack, and that's that.

Alien Resistance Movement Rant

Perhaps I love THEY LIVE, V, BUCKAROO BANZAI and EARTH FINAL CONFLICT for many reasons, but one is possibly that they aren't from George Lucas.

Yes, I hate George Lucas, more than I hate the Star Trek Saga, or E.T.

I loved Star Wars when I was a kid, along with Indiana Jones and almost anything George Lucas did. THX 1138, is a personal favorite, until it also was re-envisioned with new CGI crap.

George Lucas is the enemy of cinema. As much an enemy to cinema as aliens are to Mike Donovan.

George Lucas is an alien within the world of cinema, and his disruption of it began with Star Wars.

The "blockbuster" wasn't invented by Lucas, this term dates back to the movies when George Lucas was still picking his nose in Modesto, California.

George Lucas invaded the realm of science fiction, after tricking us with his THX-1138 faux-orwellian dystopia. We bought it, we thought, 'hey, this guy's got something to say, let's let him in here.' We were all wrong. George Lucas came to destroy science fiction, and movies.

He co-opted the 'special effects' industry, called it his own, and turned it into a factory of spectacular crap. Sure, the special effects in Star Wars were groundbreaking, but not because of George Lucas at all. He takes the credit, buys the companies after he uses them, but he is in no way responsible for the creativity within them. Ralph McqUarrie created 'Boba Fett,' and everything we see visually as Star Wars. This fact may interfere with the mythology he has created around himself--that he's some cinematic genius, or the next Frank Herbert or J.R.R. Tolkien, but this is the biggest load of crap. George Lucas nothing but a fairly clever narcissistic thief.

I won't stand for it. I don't care what this turd produces. Its tainted, and its stolen, and it isn't even seductive any more.

I don't care how bad people say "THEY LIVE" or "V" or "EARTH FINAL CONFLICT" is.

I don't care if the effects aren't as good as Star Wars. These films have a heart of gold, and even though Earth Final Conflict turned to shit after the second season, the original first two seasons are still better than anything George Lucas could have ever crapped out of Skywalker Ranch. They have meaning, and they have something to say. Something beyond a formula of mystical crap, a formula cast stolen from Japanese films, and regurgitation of science fiction sagas into one cram packed fast-edited mindnumbing spectacle of sewage.

THEY LIVE is true science fiction. V is both science fiction and social commentary. Earth Final Conflict is very much like V, and Buckaroo Banzai is more than a flashy 80s new-wave B-movie with some silly twists. They all have something deeper to say, that is much more interesting than sci-fi-ized new-age philosophies and total plagiarism of Akira Kurosawa movies.

Perhaps these alien invasion films, and TV shows, including the X-Files are all very similar, and not exactly totally new, the originality in them shines in each individual show, and the creators are clearly trying to do something important. Their dreams for these films are more than selling action figures and T-shirts.

They Live had virtually no merchandise, if any at all. You'd be hard pressed to find V mechandise beyond a clever Lizard-Face doll, and some spin off novels. Earth Final Conflict? Not so much as an action figure. Buckaroo Banzai would appear to be made to sell dolls...there was a comic book, and that is as far as they went.

These 'Hollywood' sci-fi B shows weren't made to sell toys and create a vast empire of money-making schemes spun from a pilot-movie project. STAR WARS and LUCASFILM was.

In several documentaries and biographies of Lucas, it is told that he was busy trying to get merchandizing, toy, and comic book deals before he had even filmed ONE SINGLE FRAME of Star Wars.

Star Wars wasn't some independant film, or dream of some visionary, it was intended to be nothing but a multimillion dollar merchandizing franchise, and anybody who believes differently is a sad stupid easy mark...a victim.

"...you're not the only one to wake up out of their dream."
--Joe Nada

George Lucas and his Crap: Sallah Written Out

George Lucas is a son of a bitch. Indiana Jones is really pissing me off. He tore up Frank Darabont's script, had it re-written, and wrote out SALLAH.

From this Dark Horizon's article, it seems SALLAH was in it originally, along with nazis, no junior indiana jones kid, no aliens, and no other retarded crap. All in favor of a younger cast and presumably 'audience.' Screw this bastard. I have had it to here with Lucas and his crap, from Star Wars the prequel-crap, to the revisions of the old Star Wars, and everything else. I am going to boycott this film. Oh, I will see it, but in the tradition of the old anti-phantom-menace activists, who are heroes in my book, I will pay for a ticket to a competing film, and go check this crap-fest out, and write about all the alien stupidity that takes place in it. I RESIST Lucasfilm, and its evil incarnations, Indy 4, after all I've seen, is no exception. I had hoped for the best, but it is simply more fuel for my disgust with George Lucas and his stupidity.

From DARK HORIZONS.COM:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070416c.php

By Garth FranklinMonday April 16th 2007 7:15am

"Seems he has not been asked to be in Indy 4 or even approached about it.

From the little information he had about the film he had been told through a third party that the character of Salah had been written out of Indy 4 in favour of a younger cast."

Damn, that just...well sucks. Davies, better known as Gimli from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, played the lovable rascal Sallah in both the original "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the second sequel "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

Lone Gunmen: Back From the Dead

Bruce Harwood...Dean Haglund...Tom Braidwood

BACK FROM THE DEAD? To return to their roles in a PARODY/SATIRE of the Original LONE GUNMEN Television series...

Yes...it is true. It is not a rumor.

Dean Haglund is preparing to make the film, "BACK FROM THE DEAD," and return the original actors to a humorous throwback to the three characters who made the LONE GUNMEN famous.

Set to be financed and produced in 2008, Haglund discussed the plans on his Podcast show, "From the Heart of Hollywood."

Is this awesome news or what?

George Lucas Now to Rip off the X-Files...

I say screw INDIANA JONES. Yes, the new Indiana Jones, and George Lucas.

Lucas tells Vanity Fair:

"Besides possibly giving Indy more of a family, the movie also gives our hero more supernatural material than ever before. "Indiana Jones [movies] aren't action movies," Lucas tells the mag. "They're primarily mysteries with a supernatural object. So it's kind of like 'X-Files.' 'X-Files' came out of this idea — instead of taking archaeological objects, they took Bigfoot and aliens and psychological mythology instead of the physical — but it amounts to the same thing."

No, you asshole, the X-Files DIDN'T come from your ideas, not from Indiana Jones, or Star Wars, or anything your juvenile feeble and uncreative mind could ever possibly comprehend.

Indiana Jones movies ARE action movies, and if you try to turn them into the X-Files, you're insane, the X-FILES Sequel is coming out this summer, and I'll see it ten times just to piss you off you bastard.

I hope when you rip off scenes from X-Files (as is traditional for Lucas to literally lift scenes, props, and characters from other science fiction films), Chris Carter sues your worthless ass for enough money to make 20 more X-Files movies, which will most likely be better than your Star Wars crap, and Indiana Jones sequels.

And there could be more overlap than ever before — especially when it comes to those pesky aliens. Combining the movie's time frame (1957) with one of the flick's shooting locations (New Mexico) seems to indicate an Area 51 theme.

"It's important for us that there's a real supernatural mystery going on," Lucas said. "Only Indiana Jones movies are supernatural-mystery movies. They're always going after some supernatural object. It's not a pretend object. It's not something that we made up. It's something that actually exists, or people believe exists — whether it does or not is in dispute. But for every person who says, 'I don't believe that,' there's another person who says, 'Well, I believe it. I heard about it, and I saw it and there's stories.' "

Well, yes, it WAS about this, until the Crystal Skulls, or should we go back to the Temple of Doom, the most adolescent view of Hinduism ever conceived. If Lucas thinks his films are based in any sort of reality, he is further deluded. Yes, Lucas you "made up" that crap with the Shankara Stones, and completely misunderstood the foundational basis for the crap you wrote. You're a bad filmmaker, and you're a thief. And by the way, aliens are not fitting for an Indiana Jones movie, in any way, shape or form, and I guarantee you that no Indiana Jones fan wants to see aliens at the end of the Temple of the Crystal Skulls. I believe I am going to pull a 'Phantom Menace' on this movie, and do what the star-wars-purists did in protest, and buy a ticket for another film coming out at the same time, and check out this pile of dung so I can rail on it here on my blog.

I am so sick of George Lucas and his lies, ENOUGH!

STRANGE INVADERS ON IFC!

Get your TIVOs ready, STRANGE INVADERS is airing on IFC channel, January 7th! Click on the links for more info!

Super cool.

http://ifc.bside.com/schedule/?_view=_filmdetails&_template=ifc&filmId=4438127&timezone=America/New_York