SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN "The Fourth Kind" YET READ NO FURTHER!
The Fourth Kind
We watched The Fourth Kind recently and after having the crap (almost literally) scarred out of me I decided to use it as a Brewvie Review. Let me say that I had seen the trailers but had done no further rsearch, so I was under the impression that this was movie in fact based on "real events."
Unfortunately, in this day and age of instant portable knowledge, movies like The Fourth Kind can't succeed like they once could. Remember the hoopla surrounding The Blair Witch Project? That was released in 1999 - a full 11 years ago, back when the Internet was still in its infancy and wasn't accessible by every single person on the planet carrying Star Trek gizmos. Everyone thought that movie was real. And for those of you who say: "Didn't scare me." "I never thought it was real." Quit lying. Most of us can't remember what happened yesterday, don't lie by pretending to think you remember exactly what you were feeling 11 years ago about a movie. You were just as transfixed as the rest of us.
So as I sat there watching The Fourth Kind I was convinced it was actually using "real" archival footage of Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist investing the abductions of a disproportionate number of Nome, Alaska's population. During her investigation she videotapes sessions with traumatized patients and discovers "some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented." It looks real. It feels real. But it's not real. I didn't know that it wasn't real while watching the movie, so it worked! If you knew before hand that it was all fake "real" I'm sure it wouldn't be as effective. It was an entertaining flick and I came away with some interesting tidbits for my ever-in-production novel.
The Fourth Kind gets a score of:
Beer suggestion for TFK
Two things immediately sprang to mind. First, The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, a string of fantastic beer bars throughout the south/southwest. Rumor has it there's one coming to Colorado. We'll see.
However, there's really only one clear beer choice that steps up and shouts: "Abduct me!" I mean, "Drink me!" The line of UFO Hefeweizen beers from Harpoon Brewery: UFO Hefeweizen, UFO White, UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen, and UFO Pale. These beers will kidnap your taste buds and never give 'em back. Plus, they're so incredibly sessionable that you can drink a ton of them. Which might just come in handy because I'm sure aliens don't want to conduct horrifying experiments on beer saturated body parts. Heck, for all we know craft beer might be the equivalent of garlic to vampires... or Kryptonite to Superman.
Until next time... keep the lights on and the beer cold!
