with James Arness as the monster.

for the most part.

My favorite scene was when they showed on TV the video taken at the birthday party in Mexico,

I like most alien movies , its humans I don't like

Very good movie!

My first thought before even clicking on the thread..."Plan 9."



"The saucers are up there. And the cemetery's out there. But I'll be locked up in there. Now off to your wild blue yonders."

Plan 9 From Outer Space is now option # 1

I loved those all of those cheesy Ed Wood-directed films; and Plan 9 is probably my favorite
Ed Wood movie.

Speaking of Ed Wood, I thought Johnny Depp was great as Ed Wood in the Tim Burton film,
"Ed Wood" (1994) and so was Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi
Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette & Bill Murray (who played the gay friend of Ed Wood)
were also great.

Roger Ebert said of Ed Wood:
"He never directed a shot he didn't like"

Currently watching Village of the Damned.

It's got aliens AND Nazis:

starring Charlie Sheen. I just try to forget he's a dirtbag.

...of when those "Globes" were introduced and would create something like a black-hole in the room and swallow everything.
Plus, when Charlie was in the Alien building and had to work his way out.
Good film.

but Barbarella has The Great Tyrant, Dildano, and Pygar as some interesting aliens!

Alien was really good.

and some XFiles

I really thought the sequel to "Alien" was better than the original. After that, however, the franchise totally sucked.

but I love them all, including every movie mentioned in this thread. I've been a nut for S F, fantasy, and horror ever since I was three years old in the 1950s and my mom took me to see It Came From Outer Space (I wore the 3D glasses in the theater) and Invaders From Mars. I loved Fire In The Sky.

I liked the remake too but the B &W version made it creepier...

were both great.

I, too, wore those 3D glasses in the theater.

Fire in the Sky is just a superb film, with a very good script & outstanding acting by all, especially the guy who played "Mike" the crew chief, the guy who played Travis Walton,
and the guy who played "Dallas", the trouble-maker.

played in our local theater, and for weeks after seeing it I was afraid my parents and my sisters were aliens. Great movie!

I was in high school when I saw the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but that got me too.

I love ET alien movies, including all the ones mentioned in this thread. :-D

Though it's not your typical outerspace-alien film.

I also loved both versions of Bodysnatchers. The image of Donald Sutherland pointing and screaming still gives me chills.

But I think my all-time favourite is still Tarkovsky's Solaris. That is a mesmerizing and haunting film.

I can't pick just one so I'll throw Cloverfield in there too.

Borg and Vulcans

When "Close Encounters" came out when I was in high school I was obsessed with it and had the biggest crush on Francois Truffaut. Then the first Star Trek movie -- the Indian actress with the bald head was so beautiful.

An underrated John Carpenter flick.

Lol @ planet 9.

"Laugha while you can, a monkey boy!"

Where are we going?

That movie is hilarious.

...but I like several others including Independence Day, Contact and It; Terror from Beyond Space. A description of that last one to a friend prompted him to say...
There's a fungus among us. (That was the first time I heard the expression and I sprayed a mouthful of Coke)



Trivia: Joel Hynek, a special effects supervisor who directed the design of the alien (in the movie Predator) camouflage effect, is the son of J. Allen Hynek PhD, who originated the "Close Encounter" hierarchy for categorizing interactions with aliens. Dr. Hynek was a Professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University.

and have been for many years.

I've read several of his books.

He started the Center For UFO Studies

"One of the last investigations that Dr. Hynek conducted was of the so-called
'Westchester boomerang'..a silent, large boomerang-shaped object that was seen by literally thousands of witnesses just north of New York City in the early 1980s.
He wrote his last book, "Night Siege" about these sightings with Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt"
http://www.cufos.org/hynek_prefix.html

I'll have to get that book.

...Estelle Parsons as Betty Hill. Perfect casting. Perfect acting. Pretty near perfect storytelling, based on the true to life story of a couple who in 1961 experienced a close encounter in northern New Hampshire and later went to Dr. Benjamin Simon, a Boston psychiatrist, for relief from shared nightmares about alien abduction. Undergoing hypnosis separately, they reported similar experiences. "The Interrupted Journey" by John G. Fuller is the seminal work, although Stanton Friedman and others have added much to what is known.



If you see "The UFO Incident" look out for James Earl Jones as Barney describing the feeling he got when observing the UFO that had been following their car through binoculars. "I feel like a rabbit."

It was, as you say, "perfect casting & perfect acting"

I read the book, "Interrupted Journey" when it came out in 1966 and it was great as well.

Betty, who unlike her husband, remained conscious during the abduction, was allowed to see a "star chart" and was told that she could copy it if she wanted to.

She did; and although may skeptics say it was bullshit (including Carl Sagan), others thought it was real, including David Saunders, a statistician on the "Condon UFO Study"

Another good book about Betty & Barney Hill is:
"Captured: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience".
written by Betty's niece, Kathleen Marden with help from UFO researcher Stanton Friedman/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill

Somewhere in the dim past I got a chance to hear some of Dr. Simon's recordings. The one where Barney describes feeling like that little rabbit as the aliens (or "aliens" or whomever or whatever) watch him was particularly chilling. The poor man, even under hypnosis, was able to convey a most elemental fear and powerlessness through his voice and intonations, which sounded like a now-scared kid speaking through the voice of his youth.

James Earl Jones hit the mark in the performance. Both portrayed the confusion of experiencing something for which the mind holds no real framework or experience.

If you enjoy the field, red dog 1, you might like reading about "The Night an Occupant Was Shot" from the book, "The Edge of Reality" by J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee. It still gets me when I visit farms and far from the city.

Vallee wrote he'd be disappointed if the phenomenon were mere visitors from another world. He thinks it may be a representation -- taking forms which the people of the present day can somewhat relate (winged disks during Babylonian days, ships in the sky during the 15th century, Buck Rogers during the 20th) that act to speed (or restrain) human evolution. He fears humanity will get the visitors we deserve.

I'll check out "The Night an Occupant was Shot"

She's the best looking super hero I've ever seen.
(except for "Catwoman" played by Julie Newmar..who was more of a "super villain&quot

Melissa Benoist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2552034/

https://twitter.com/MelissaBenoist

I watch it probably once a year after working outdoors for weeks on end in the most inhospitable and bleak weather. I feel a kinship with the hopeless characters, knowing that tomorrow is only going to get worse. I find it strangely comforting.

But as far as the poll options, gotta go with Plan 9!

The original was my dad's favourite, so of course quickly became mine as a kid. He loved pointing out Sheriff Matt Dillon as The Thing.

When I was a kid I thought it would be cool as all damned git to get abducted by aliens.

and then I watched Fire in the Sky.

FUCK THAT.
=)it was a badass movie tho=)

Especially the extend version with all the male nudity.

For the ass-kickin' sfx if nothing else.

Ridley Scott rulez!