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Simply Perfect

From my favorite movies..

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Real or Fake? Does it matter? The best scientists in the world say that there is life on other planets..so it's real. But they also say that we will never be able to make contact...so its fake. Unless the Fermi Paradox is true, then it could have never been real in the first place...that is unless the zoo theory is true and they are already here and then, it could be real.real or fake, real or fake, real or fake? I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream.It doesn't matter, most of us don't watch anything involving aliens because we think it could be real...we watch it because it's entertaining.And Fire in the Sky is entertaining...the exact same way that the X-Files was entertaining. In fact, the movie feels like an extended stand alone episode. It looks like an X-Files episode. It, well, it's an X-Files episode sans Mulder and Scully. That's perfectly fine by me...even if it did have Doggart Bottom line is it's dark, sorta scary fun. Scary in that paranoid cold chill up your spine sorta way...So honestly, the entertainment is real, and that's all that matters. Let the tinfoil hat crowd argue about Travis Walton, I just want more movies like this one.

In his life and that's still ongoing Travis Walton has proved to be the poster boy for UFOs. If you believe him this film is an account of this rather ordinary life who had an extraordinary experience.Walton who is played here by D.W. Moffett is a member of a logging crew that is run by his brother-in-law Robert Patrick and one fine day after leaving the job he is whisked up in one of those UFOs and disappears.The folks in the Arizona small town where he comes from are rather skeptical and the sheriff who is played by Noble Willingham knows when he's over his head. He brings in the Arizona State Police's chief investigator James Garner when Moffett goes missing and for five days Garner makes life miserable for the rest of the crew as he doesn't believe some big spaceship whisked Moffett away.But that's nothing compared to the fuss when a naked Moffett telephones from a deserted gas station and his family goes and picks him up. He's one frightened dude as you can imagine and when we see what these aliens look like it's understandable.What's so frightening about them is that they just see us as lab rats to be experimented with. It's the recurring theme that people like Walton tell. But no one like Travis Walton ever got so much public attention.The problem of telling stories about true people is that the story isn't ended. Films like Close Encounters Of The Third Kind by their nature can be better structured because an author does the structure. We don't know whether Walton will eventually be a human cultural icon or be branded a phony as was the case of Anna Anderson claiming to be the Russian crown princess Anastasia.In any event the cast playing several very average people acquits themselves well in a decent knockoff of Close Encounters.

This movie must have been approved by the participants in the "true story," because this movie spends an inordinate amount of time - most of its time, actually - telling us what ordinary, folksy, down-home, nuclear-family-breeding good old boys these characters are. I expected to see them photographed in front of a giant flag like Patton. After a friend disappears during a trip, the town tries to determine whether it was an actual alien abduction as the men claim. This, in itself, could have been compelling, courtroom drama type stuff, but it is dreadfully dull. We are at about the eighty minute mark before we see any aliens, and they are indeed scary, and the scene is frightening. Fans of the movie must remember these four minutes, which can probably now be seen on YouTube. This is the only portion of the movie worth viewing. For the remainder of the movie, you'd be far more entertained hanging out in a truck stop.

The centerpiece of this movie, the ten to fifteen minutes of Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney) inside the UFO, is so fantastic that it's a crushing disappointment that the rest of the film is completely worthless. Most of the film is made up of endless scenes of the other five guys who were in Walton's logging crew either bitching at each other or loudly declaring their innocence. Who cares about these guys? But, seriously, how friggin' horrifying is that sequence with the aliens? Gorgeously shot and directed, with great art direction and excellent special effects and puppetry. Robert Patrick and James Garner also co-star, but don't really need to be there at all.