What happened to alien/UFO movies? There hasn't been a decent one in 25 years
He's back baby!
I'm more interested in what happened in the 90s that made there be a boom in aliens and other Forteana like cryptids n' shit. Did X-Files cause it or was X-Files another symptom? I kinda miss it, to be honest. It was all over TV, movies, and even video games. You'd see Weird tabloids with stories like "I gave birth to Bigfoot's child" at the checkout counter in the grocery store.
There's one coming out this year retard
>>217440505It was conditioning to get people ready for project blue beam
>>217440401Same thing all media does. At first they spam the shit out of it to normalize it as a Hollywood fiction. Then they memoryhole it to get it out of public conscious. Now they are slowly reintroducing it, testing the waters to see if people are ready to learn the truth that our species has been interacting with aliens on and off for tens of thousands of years now.
>>217440401I guess they (the greys) became so commonplace in media, that people don't find them scary or interesting anymore.>>217440438Rumour has it that this movie is where they introduce interdimensional aliens to the public. The discourse is shifting. Aliens no longer come from "outer space", but are instead already here, just in a different "phase"...
>>217440401>zeig heil
>>217440505No more communists and no clear enemy for the United States, people had to be afraid of something. That’s why cryptids mostly went away after 9/11 amd were replaced with terrorists.
>>217440566im afraid of americans
>>217440401There hasn't been a decent sci fi in ages.Dead genre
>>217441912I thought SLINGSHOT (2024) was kino, check it out
>>217442376I can already tell by images that it's greyslop with no colors, which I hate.Sell it to me
>>217442445I would just watch it and not judge a book by it's cover. I'm as critical as they come and I really liked it, maybe even loved it.
>>217442445Nigga it's primarily set on a space station in space, you think it's gonna be colorful? Lmao this fucking board man, you all just hate and judge everything.
>>217440505The internet helped a lot. Thought it's been 30 years since the internet went mainstream and none of this stuff turned out to be true.
>>217442476Things in space don't have gray shit filter in front of it.Humans still look pink on a starship.Yeah, I expect it to have colors>>217442461>not judge a book by it's coverImplying something as fundamental as that is comparable as judging the book by the cover.
>>217442560I thought it was good, I'd recommend it, but it seems to me that you're the kind of person to get caught up on the smallest thing in a film, and since that thing is not exactly to your specifications, you'll let it ruin everything else, as you call the production crew incompetent and bemkan the downfall of cinema. so you probably won't like it, or anything, for that matter.
>>217440401the horror trend shifted over the 21st century from aliens to zombies to ghosts / demons
>>217440505X-Files lit the fuse by heavily linking ayys with the government. I mean it was always there since Roswell and people saying the government was denying things. But a show that actually grounded it in a lot of reality, with the lead characters being government agents themselves, it really made it more believable. There were other shows in the past that had done similar things, but they were usually zany. The aliens would attack out the open. The main characters were part of some government organization wearing bright colored uniforms. It was comical. X-Files brought home the conspiracy aspect. They wanted to keep that shit in the dark. And it helped that Mulder would reference real life events and cases. You could look it up and say "Whoa, that unexplained thing actually occurred?" It was all enough to revitalize interest in aliens. Everyone wanted to make money off them once they saw how well X-Files was doing. When your coworkers would cancel plans so they could get home and watch it as it aired you knew it was a phenomenon
>>217440505Probably because it sold well. The alien craze of the 90s certainly predated the x-files, the x-files was literally pitched to executives on because of the potential market they saw. The show mainstreamed some more obscure parts of it, certainly. But aliens have always been a fixture of popular culture in the west, the reason you think it went crazy in the 90s is that either you lived through the 90s or you’re just very familiar with its culture. If you were familiar with other periods you would find a similar fascination with aliens. Consider that ‘modern’ alien abduction stories are all predated by science fiction alien abduction stories that are identical in nature to the ‘real’ ones. The only reason UFO phenomena exists at all is that it is predated by culture.
>>217442589>movie looking like gray shit>small thinglmao
>>217440505The MK Ultra era was open to freedom of information requests, so they had to flood the cultural zeitgeist with misinformation.
>>217440401I miss this too. Growing up in the 80's with LGMs, grey ayys, and flying saucers was fun shit:https://youtu.be/CJfCeAWdwO4?t=810The car stopping, the power going out, and the radio station shit in this one really nailed the whole thing really well.
>>217440556It's sieg heil, dumb mutt.
>>217440534When? Another 30 years?
>>217442724The government alien conspiracy angle was done in film at TV decades before the x-files. Look at the invaders
>>217440534Again, 330m+ pissed off their dollars are worth much less is hard to control. Hence all the bs chaos. Spielberg given the Trojan horse project is lel
>>217440505I feel the big foot footage was to diffuse the attention on zapruder 4yrs earlier
>>217440401People grew up and realised how ridiculous it is.
Ufo movies are boring and gay. Alien invasion movies are kino and forgotten.
>Kate... I solved the alien problem.
>>217440401they became movies about terrorizers and sniper chads
•Signs (2002) is a science fiction thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.•The War of the Worlds 2005 Spielberg version.•The Invasion 2007 with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel•District 9 (2009) dir. Neill Blomkamp.•Under the Skin (2013) with Scarlett Johansson. Director: Jonathan Glazer.•Arrival (2016), directed by Denis Villeneuve.
>>217440401No One Will Save You was at least decent.
>>217443656Was pretty good.
>>217443220Fucking Himler.
>>217440401I agree OP. I guess they'be down it all.Nothing left to be done.No more stories to tell.What a bummer.
>>217440401We gave up on the dream of exploring deep space and finding aliens in the far future because interstellar medium has enough radiation to slightly elevate the risk of cancer. They'll show up and try to conquer earth and they'll all have lymphoma or something, and I don't know if you've ever tried to fight someone with cancer but they go down pretty quick.
>>217444045Mildly amusing.
