Wow!  What utter bunk!
I was impressed by how BAD this was.
For those of you who didn't see this let me TRY to get across what
this was -
UPN ran this special about the "McPherson Family" who were supposively
missing since November 27th 1997.  They then said there was a video
tape the family left behind and they would show excerpts.  Immediately
it was obvious this was a fake.  First there is a big difference between
acting and natural beahviour in front of a camera, this was acting.
Second there is a big leap in video quality between a simple camcorder
and studio grade video that is fit for broadcast, even though this
claimed to be the former it was latter and that showed.  There is a
difference between bad computery effects and real objects, and bad
computery effects abound here.  The video snow faded in and out between
shots this does not happen with camcorders and the snow was also an effect.
I think the ONE thing that points out more than ANYTHING that this couldn't
be real is the CAST LIST!!   Yes the ending credits give a full cast list
for the production.  And yet they still ask "Was it a REAL alien??
What happened to the McPhersons??"
I mean what did they do track down the Grey and find out his name was
Bob Higelman so they could give him credit at the end??  And did
Greg Pherson decide he couldn't be himself that day and hired an
actor to play him?
It's a rather sad end to a bad cliche production.  I mean this had
the story begin with "I got it working" as the young good looking
teen boy gets the camcorder going for the first time only a minute
before the alien encounter!   And it had red laser toting Greys who
spent a lot of time cutting up cows, according someone on the tape
"it's cutting up or cows!! OH GOD!"   Odd because I didn't see any
cows..oh well.  i could point out some weird and rather lame
inconsistancies within the production but there wouldn't be much
point, i think my basic ideas on this subject have already been
covered.
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