Alien Abduction (2014): Nonsense Stereotype

I love movies and documentaries about aliens. After I’ve seen the trailer of Alien Abduction, it quite convinced me that I should watch it. And yes I did. I did it with full enthusiasm and excitement. But at the end, it was disappointing.

I love how the beginning of the movies, the first half I guess. It gives me more excitement and I want to dig in more about the story. I have questions in my mind like why these aliens abduct people and what are they are going to do with them. Unfortunately, these questions are not answered. The plot is too simple and nonsense.

There was a family hiking in the mountains, they got lost, found a tunnel where their first encounter happen. Of course they try to escape but they were not able to do that. They meet someone living in the woods, and they vanished one by one. That is the whole story. And for me, it was nonsense and stereotype for an alien movie. I bet I can do that story on my own.

The movie might be able to give me the shock, because some scenes are really intended to shock you, but it fails to leave a mark. It was forgettable. The concept is nice but it fails to elaborate and give more depth to the story. The ending is also hilarious. So, the last family member (the youngest child I guess) were abducted and brought to the spaceship. The aliens find his camera and throw it back to earth. The funny thing is that the spaceship is already in the outer space but the cam lands on earth and still recording. Even grade-schoolers will find this WTF? Maybe the writers doesn’t know much about science.

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Antisocial (2013): Hilarious, but it isn't Comedy

This movie is so hilarious. I actually laugh several times while I’m watching it. But the problem is it is not really made to be a comedy. It supposed to be under the Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genre. For that, it an epic fail for me.

The concept is crazy, but not crazy good. It is about the apocalypse where people are transformed to zombies by the virus transmitted via the social media “The Social Redroom.” How pathetic. This is not really effective. The use of social media in this movie fails so bad that it wasn’t worth the try.

I don’t know what gone in the heads of the writers of this movie. Are they desperate enough to discourage people from using social media? Scare them off to make sure that people will get paranoid about their Facebook or Twitter account? That might be right. They use something that everyone uses daily, turn it to something terrifying for the hope that people will talk about it, so the movie will be viral. That sounds a good idea, but that is not just effective at all.

People get paranoid with the movie The Truman show. Everyone thinks that they might be in a reality show and there are cameras everywhere. That movie is really effective. But Antisocial, a big NO NO! I’m glad it is antisocial because I will not really talk to it if we’re in a party.

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Earth to Echo (2014): Amazing Adventure Movie

Most of the alien movies I’ve seen are about abduction and invasion. Some were great and some are not. These are usually horror or thriller movies, but what I’ve seen last night was far beyond the stereotype alien movies most of us known. The Earth to Echo is like the movie ET were it focuses on the friendship developed between a human and an extra-terrestrial. This is the same concept of the movie Earth to Echo.

I’ve seen posters of Earth to Echo roaming Manila during its showing, but I wasn’t able to see it in the cinema or even view its trailer. So, I really don’t have any idea what it is all about. My theory after I saw the trailer is that it is a sci-fi movie about a robot. And that’s it.

To my surprise, it was way beyond what I’m thinking. It is one of greatest adventure movies I’ve seen yet. The concept is great, the story line is great, the actors are great, and the movie itself is really great.

The story is about a three best friends who goes to an adventure to discover something in the dessert miles away from their home that may be causing strange things with their phones. This is their last night together, one of them will be leaving and soon all of them will be. The area where they are leaving will be demolished because it will be used to construct a “freeway”. But they discover something that is out of this world, literally. They discover an alien and it needs their help to be fixed and create his spaceship to go back home.

Sounds exciting right? Yes it really is. While I’m watching the movie, I feel like I’m in the adventure as well. My heart beats faster with excitement and my smile is automatic every time they find some of the parts. I was very engage in the movie and I feel so much younger again. 

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