I did not like this movie. If it wasn’t for the class, there is no way I'd have even watched it. Tell me that somebody is tying Aliens to ancient cites and that they are serious and I'll have a hard time thinking they are sane.
To be fair, I went into it with the same mindset that was used when I watched The Last Airbender. I left room for error and maintained low expectations. Sadly, it had similar results, complete annoyance. The "evidence" Von Daniken uses is moronic if it is even presented. A groggy six year old can come up with better, more plausible conclusions.
While the film was going, it took maybe 20 minutes before I was finally sure this was being presented as non-fiction, and that was only because in fiction, there is more thought put into making the story seem believable. The entire time, the narrator is just shot gunning loaded questions on a backdrop of archaeological sites. In Ancient Egypt, for example, it’s too complex for stupid primitive humans to have built so aliens did it, no? This painting about an ambiguous drawing, that's an alien right? The narration became insulting too. Daniken insists that people are simply not capable of anything extraordinary.
It became painful to watch. Instead of the old archaeological saying "When in doubt, Ritual!" it became "There is doubt? ALIENS!" It’s not science. Not in any sense. It is reworking facts rather than utilizing them. Every question an archaeologist should ask is asked. "Who built X and how did they do it?" Then it jumps right to aliens...all the time. When it comes to aliens and earth, even people who are "abducted" would agree to the anomalistic nature of such events.
This movie and all who agree with it sincerely are frightening. Coupled with massive accusations and Von Daniken's own admissions of fraud, it’s somehow all the more disturbing. As Detective Emerson Cob from the show Pushing Daisies once stated "Oh look, a dumb idea just found a friend." Except that "just" is 1970 and that dumb idea has more than one friend.
To be fair, I went into it with the same mindset that was used when I watched The Last Airbender. I left room for error and maintained low expectations. Sadly, it had similar results, complete annoyance. The "evidence" Von Daniken uses is moronic if it is even presented. A groggy six year old can come up with better, more plausible conclusions.
While the film was going, it took maybe 20 minutes before I was finally sure this was being presented as non-fiction, and that was only because in fiction, there is more thought put into making the story seem believable. The entire time, the narrator is just shot gunning loaded questions on a backdrop of archaeological sites. In Ancient Egypt, for example, it’s too complex for stupid primitive humans to have built so aliens did it, no? This painting about an ambiguous drawing, that's an alien right? The narration became insulting too. Daniken insists that people are simply not capable of anything extraordinary.
It became painful to watch. Instead of the old archaeological saying "When in doubt, Ritual!" it became "There is doubt? ALIENS!" It’s not science. Not in any sense. It is reworking facts rather than utilizing them. Every question an archaeologist should ask is asked. "Who built X and how did they do it?" Then it jumps right to aliens...all the time. When it comes to aliens and earth, even people who are "abducted" would agree to the anomalistic nature of such events.
This movie and all who agree with it sincerely are frightening. Coupled with massive accusations and Von Daniken's own admissions of fraud, it’s somehow all the more disturbing. As Detective Emerson Cob from the show Pushing Daisies once stated "Oh look, a dumb idea just found a friend." Except that "just" is 1970 and that dumb idea has more than one friend.
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