Found Footage February Day 22 Phoenix Forgotten!!

Day 22

Phoenix Forgotten

Well this was, a surprise. I didn’t think we’d be hitting another UFO film right after having gone to the mother of all UFO subjects. But here we are. I rolled the dice, and here we are.

I highly doubt this one will be a fun romp like the last alien adventure.

But as we learned in An American Tail, never say never!

But yeah it looks like this ones going to be a super serious scarefest alien film.

WHICH is using the all to famous amongst fans of UFO’s even, the Phoenix lights incident of 1997.

Though the movie I’ve no doubt will cover it, essentially what happened was one day in Arizona, dozens upon dozens of people saw and took photos of odd lights populating the skies. They were moving in odd patterns across the sky, some spotted one light that would split off into three lights, Some said the lights covered an area the size of an aircraft carrier. They even saw as many as 20 or so lights in formation. Look it up and you’ll find a crap ton of photos, video and it is pretty interesting to look at.

It was even funnier that the military said what people saw was flares from the base being tested, which…sure. But you can’t have flares in perfect lined formation and moving the way they did, or staying perfectly still. Let alone blinking red and orange lights. A drone? Sure, but we didn’t really have those available back then. Widely…

It’s one of the largest sighting of unidentified lights and objects in the sky and depending how far down the rabbit hole you go, and I do mean how far you go. You either hear people talk about events where contact was made with alien life that day, that this was a day they had planned to make contact with earth, via the military base. Others…hold onto your butts. Others, believe this event was an invasion. There are ‘reports’ of military vehicles being called out, troops going out to certain areas and ‘engaging’ unknown enemies.

It's just.

Yeah.

One of those!

So lets get on it and step back into 1997, and see what we can see. Please be entertaining movie, please.

The Film

So right off the bat, we are told the best thing in a long time. We have missing teens!

It’s not realistically the best thing, no. But it is refreshing for us since the past few films we’ve covered had lacked that opening piece letting us know what we’re here for. They’ve just been films using the format to tell their horror story. This is an actual found footage film so, yay on us!

I did not know Ridley Scott’s company produced this that…is something, indeed. But I digress.

This is a film following Sophie.

Sophie is the younger sister of Josh. Someone, who went missing while attempting to investigate the phoenix lights incident. The family is happy seeing Sophie return home to see everyone, though her reasons for being there are, less than welcome. Their dad still doesn’t really want to talk about it and doesn’t want to leave the car when Sophie is driven back to her childhood home and her mom greets her, leading her into what was her brothers room. She ask her mom for a shoebox with every recording her brother made with his camcorder and thus, our journey begins.

Which as Sophie narrates for us, begins with her 6th birthday. The night of the Phoenix lights incident. It’s a pretty fun birthday honestly. And outdoors which at 6 makes it even cooler. Because food stuff happens indoors, anytime you eat outdoors, that is an event. So birthday time outdoors? Hell yeah brother!

Sorry, I just. Yeah. Childhood was a fun time. And it STILL feels like outdoor stuff at your family home is where the cool people hang out.

So her party gets interrupted by those strange lights, and everyone is mesmerized as they should be by the display. But no one aside from Josh is wanting to call them UFO’s. His grandpa and father believe it’s the military. Because why not.

I mean I’ve said before where I live out in the sticks, we get helicopters and jets running night ops all the time. It’s cool at first when you hear Blackhawk helicopters and the large troop transports fly over head. But after a while you just grumble about it. Especially when they do low fly overs.

BUT this is obviously NOT the military, or at least our military. This is extra terrestrial flight show spectacular people. Though the military does show up soon after as two jets zoom over the house scaring the shit out of the local residents as they take off after the ‘flare lights’

Sophie of course, is extremely excited. I mean hell man, I’d consider my birthday radical if UFO’s flew over head on it. Then I could tell everyone “I must leave you now, my people need me.”, then scream and flail as I try not to get taken.

But I digress.

So as news stories begin to fill the screen, filling us in on the details of that night, but the real fun begins once Sophie begins playing her brothers short film, where he attempted to interview people on the street about the incident. Which he’s rather completely unsuccessful at. UNTIL. He finds a fun lady, who actually helps him with his documentary film. Ashley. A cute fun girl who had aspirations of being a journalist and Josh couldn’t help but form a crush on her. BUT he is keeping their relationship totally professional. It’s a cute thing honestly because they both seem to like each other and get along well enough. But more so they both seem to have an eye for, and talent for filmmaking. She senses an opportunity to test out being the voice of the documentary and seeing if she’s got the moxy for it, and Josh absolutely is open and willing to accepting the help. Now our solo project has a producer and voice to go with its camera man, and the two are going to the most ancient of ancient places one would go in search of knowledge.

The library!

The house of books. The place that we forgot. The building that smells of…words.

Well these two are well on their way to producing something fun and I am all for it. You go team library. Argue me if you wish, but doing reports and reading through books makes for a report that won’t put others to sleep, like reading a copy and pasted sheet of wiki pages. Seriously, having to hear people stand up and read off their ‘research’ reports that they did NOT copy off of wiki, when they absolutely did, it was a test of wills to stay awake.

Now, researching is one thing, that shows you can talk about the subject and come off knowing a bit about it, it’s a good foundation, sure. But FIELD research. That’s where the money is. That’s where the real gold is at. So Josh is trying to convince the brains of the operation, Ashley. To go on a spiritual journey with him to investigate the lights further. She absolutely should have and does have reservations. But ultimately, the possibility of a documentary you are a part of, filming evidence of UFO’s? That does sound pretty sweet. So she’s on board.

All this group needs is the one thing all teenagers with a dream and a camcorder need.

A driver.

So as it would be super deluxe awkward for Josh to possibly try getting closer to his producer if his mom was driving them, and she’d also be a super safety freak with concerns over anywhere they went, obviously she can’t join them on this outing. They need someone who lives on the edge of danger, who will take them to the edge of madness and over the falls of insanity, straight onto the victory road of genius.

For that, we get Mark.

Mark is.

Well, Mark.

Seriously. That’s his name. That’s who he is, and his one main contribution to this story, is he has a drivers license, and a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is his own and not his parents. So they’ll totally not sweat it if he takes it out for a road trip.

If you want more character for Mark well, he enjoys hitting on Josh’s mom, because she’s got it going on. So there, that’s character, right? A milf hunter?

Moving along…

Well fortune has struck our filmmakers it seems. As Josh is hanging out at Mikes pad, where the magic happens. The news pops on and we hear about another case of lights in the sky, this time over Mesa. Which just so happens to be close by. So Josh and Mike hit the road and the two are chasing after the lights!

But not really. They just head out to Mesa up into the hills looking for the lights. Unfortunately the only lights in the sky, are human. Well. The one light I should say, is human. A search light. Beamed directly up into the sky from the ground.

How INTERESTING!!

So Josh is on the case, he’s commanding Mike to follow him into the hills of the unknown, into snake country. At night. Because what could possibly go wrong.

Do they find aliens having a galactic kegger? No. They instead find, of all things. Sheriffs cars parked outside by the light source. Along with several cars with no license plates. Well that’s interesting.

With those unmarked cars, there are people with sunglasses, and flashlights. They are out and about searching for E.T. obviously. However all they find instead are two teenage boys with a camera. Who both announce in the best way possible to GTFO as they vacate the premises. They’ve seen enough 80’s movies to know kids and the government don’t mix, and without a bicycle they are fucked, because these men in black are packing pistols, not walkie talkies.

So having escaped the clutches of what would’ve been nothing more than just an actual “What are you kids doing out here”, event. The two are not thwarted from their plans what so ever. Nor is Ashley. In fact. Josh is hedging his bets on possibly mapping out where a potential third sighting may occur. I don’t know what science he is pulling out of his ass for this, but he has decided the area of flight for these. Lights. Seems to be heading south east, judging from the distance and hours it took for them to appear first in Phoenix and now over Mesa, he believe he has found a pretty exact location for the trio to go on a road trip and confront their destiny!

Which ends up being a horrible fate! Since we KNOW they all end up missing.

And the film thankfully is ready to remind us of that fact as well. It hasn’t forgotten Sophie. She pops back in with her own documentary footage and is interviewing Mike’s friends, Ashley’s family, and even private investigators involved with the search for the three.

We even get what apparently is the last known footage of Mike the night the trio vanished, as he visited a convenient store, got some chips and salsa for the road and…and then we get dash cam of the officer who found the Jeep abandoned.  Sophie is hot on the trail following the path her brother and his two friendo’s traveled.

We discover that inside the abandoned jeep. It appears it wasn’t abandoned, but just parked to the side of a long stretch of highway. The doors were locked, there were dusty hand prints all over the window and hood. But no sign of anything questionable. Inside the jeep however, they find three empty beer cans, and on the floor of the driver’s side, we have spots of blood which belong to Mike.

So obviously this does not bode well for those searching at the time for the group. Sophie includes clips of news programs and investigations that were done about her brother and friends vanishing. How police and locals set up wide search parameters and even used planes to get a look over the landscape for the group, but turned up nothing. Which they find even weirder as every piece of film they recovered, and recorded video from gas stations and witness accounts before they vanished. Suggested they all were wearing brightly colored clothing that should’ve stood out in someway, and given there were three of them, there should have been some sign of the three, or even one of the three. Or at worse, a single body part. But nope! Apparently no one bothered to question the police officers with large grey heads and fake mustaches under their large oval black eyes.

The movie is honestly, unexpectedly pretty good. I am liking the mix of past video, edited in with current video. The interviews that Sophie is doing and tying it together with the film we are finding from Josh’s camera. It’s doing a better job than another film we covered here did, about Grady’s farm. This film actually makes sense, you can follow the story, and more importantly. It plays off as fairly believable.

It’s actually sad hearing from Sophie as she interviews her own parents how her brothers disappearance became something eventually that neither could recover from and was the cause of their separation. It’s really well done when she interviews her dad and he struggled with having to tell his daughter that, he honestly believes his son, her brother is dead. That because of no evidence, no bodies, and the bit of blood. He can only conclude they were killed. How or by who, no one knows. Maybe they came across drug dealers, maybe a random psycho found the group, or wild animals got them. But he couldn’t hold onto hope like his wife was. She feels he likely is gone, but she still hopes he’s alive and it’s a good, believable contract between the two parents. It also explains more as to why the dad couldn’t bring himself to go inside when he drove Sophie to his wife’s home, so Sophie could gather her brothers video tapes.

What’s interesting about the films story, is the development Sophie goes through along the way. The more she gets into the story and uncovering what she can, finding one tape after the other, from Josh as well as Ashley. Coupled with news reports from the Mayor 20 years ago when Josh went missing compared to current interviews where the mayor admits to seeing these lights and believing they were UFO’s, where as 20 years ago he held a press conference where he told the public it was fake. She begins wondering if Josh was on to something. Thinking perhaps he stumbled onto the truth of what happened with the Phoenix lights, and possibly was killed or black bagged by the men in black.

Even as she views the last tape from that night recovered from the camera in the jeep. She isn’t ready to let it go. She wants to keep going. So she’s packing up all of her brothers things she needs, and is taking it all home with her. It appears her documentary for the moment is over, as her parents say goodbye to her, and her father drives her to the airport.

Once she arrives safely back home, she gets a surprise call. From of all people, a school teacher she interviewed about the possibility of Ashley having checked out a school camera for the documentary. The teacher at the time had told her she had no idea about anything like that as it was before her time. However the teacher alerts her that while cleaning out some of the school storage. She located of all things. A box, with not only a camera that had belonged to the school 20 years ago, but indeed had been checked out by Ashley, and even more disturbing. The camera was put in a cardboard box!!

No of course that’s not disturbing to YOU. But it is for those of us who take care of our cameras and equipment. Shit’s expensive man. You don’t toss them in boxes like that.

But no, the disturbing thing, is that the camera has been warped. By extreme heat apparently. It’s also a bit torn apart and covered completely in dirt. With the help of Sophie’s cameraman they are able to open up the camera and discover low and behold. A tape inside! With Ashley’s handwriting on it.

Sophie can’t wait to watch this and hopefully uncover what happened to these three, However it isn’t filmed as she watched the video, and her camera man leaves her to watch the video alone, feeling this is something she needs to do for herself.

All we get after, is her reaction. Which is not very, happy. Or upsetting.

She genuinely looks shocked and unsure what to believe. She’s obviously seen something on the tape and whatever it was, has her unsure and scared, possibly.

Next we know she is headed off to an airfield base and, requesting to meet with a colonel. Who agrees to meet with her apparently. Who he is and why she went to him? We do not know. Yet. But the two are talking as a helicopter passes overhead and we can’t hear them. She returns looking upset and we discover that, this person knew about the footage apparently, she asked him if he’d watched it or not, and his only response to her before parting ways was, don’t let that tape get out.

SO OBVIOUSLY SHE’S GOING TO GET THE TAPE OUT ON ALL THE PLATFORMS!!

So here we go, the meat and potatoes of this film. We are getting to see, unedited and uninterrupted, the last tape of the trio as they attempt to film UFO’s the night of their disappearance.

Buckle up!

The group video starts with the three trekking through the mountains, discovering what Josh believes to be alien sign, as he points out a nearby coyote corpse which, seems to have been burnt on one side of its body, missing its eyes and other various bits. He tells us how people have reported such things being found when UFO’s have been in the area. However Mark believes it’s far simpler and just a case of “It died and the sun baked it.”

They also happen to find of all things, though it is believable given the area. Hieroglyphics, Which honestly is pretty cool, I found an arrowhead and thought that was the coolest thing in the world. So cool beans on them!

However, there is something not so cool they capture. The seeds of a Jelly belly.

Jelly Belly is of course the scientific name for Jealousy.

We begin to see Mark is getting a little too charming with Ashley for Josh’s liking. In fact he is rather grumpy butt about her laughing and talking with him, and him being the one left behind filming. Which was something the police thought could have lead to the three having trouble. Believing perhaps Josh and Mark may have gotten into a fight over Ashley that turned deadly.

But that’s not what we’re here for damnit! Even with the most jelly of belly’s from Josh, nothing gets out of hand. In the end it seems their trip out into the mountains was just a cool road trip, including snacks, beers, smokes and good friends.

BORING!!!

Of course there is more. MUCH more.

As Josh is filming the horizon near a local air force base. The three catch glimpse of an odd flashing light in the sky. As they go back and fourth trying to identify it, the light suddenly breaks off into several lights. Before exploding into a dozen more.

However, for some stupid ass reason. And I do mean that genuinely.

Josh.

The camera man.

The man who dragged these three out there, into the desert.

The man who wanted to film UFO’s

The man who wanted a documentary film investigating these lights.

Finally has his moment.

He finally see’s these lights, in front of them. IN THE SKY…

And the sum bitch is filming everything BUT the damn lights!

Seriously! This dumbass is filming the reactions of his friends, their shirts, the ground. The sky opposite the burning lights, and then FINALLY settles the camera on the lights.

AFTER THE FACT!!!

Seriously dude what the hell bro! You go all that way just to capture approximately 2 full seconds of lights exploding, out of 13 seconds of UFO activity, and you proclaim yourself the king of the world.

This, This is why you use tripods. You leave the camera mounted, you find your focus, and you let it film. Boom. Won and done.

Even a stoner would’ve filmed the damn thing! Even the damn military would’ve been filming it!

Anyway…

Once things are recorded and the light show has ended. Mark is properly freaked the fuck out and doesn’t want to show it, risking losing his cool guy card. He instead opts to tell the group it’s time to get the hell back to the Jeep, and get back to civilization. Which he is in a big damn hurry to do. Almost leaving them behind. In fact he does leave them behind! The group becomes separated as they attempt making their way through the mountains and desert in the dark.

In the middle of all this, the best thing possibly happens.

Well at least for Josh.

They have an up close and personal encounter with a UFO!

They hear wind whooshing like mad around them, an odd mechanical sound like trumpets, and a bright blinding light all around the area. Josh and Ashley hold on to one another as rocks and debris fly around the two, nearly picking them both up off the ground. But they thankfully managed to survive.

As for Mark? Mark is having a moment. He ran back and found his two friendo’s. But mark is a new man. A changed man. He is sweating like a junky in a police evidence locker, he looks a bit more tanned and the guy is just. Out of it.

The trio are rushing to keep up with Mark as he makes way to the car and just as Josh is wanting to celebrate his rise to stardom with all of 2 seconds recorded of lights exploding, AND recording nearly being sucked up by a UFO. He is surely not going to be doubted by the internet when he post the video.

Which he can’t yet as that wouldn’t come until far later in time, so he’d have to release the video to the news. And get black bagged.

But Mark is not here for celebrating, He warns Josh if he doesn’t get his rudy poo, candy ass in that car, he is leaving him there. Mark is very sensitive right now.

Which only Ashley seems to take notice of once they are inside the car. I mean to be fair it is rather hard not to notice a man with glazed eyes staring off into nothing while driving, face drenched in sweat as he chugs a gallon of water effortlessly.

All signs point to Mark having been visited by life forms not of our own, and possibly boarded a ship for a lil bit.

Even worse though, the radio is now deciding is a good time to stop playing old country music. Which I can understand. I like country but not ‘that’ much country. Gotta change it up, but they did not have Sirius XM, let alone Liquid Metal back then.

More important than losing the music though, is the fact there is someone following behind them. Which just so happens to have one headlight. A very BRIGHT. Very SINGULAR. Light.

OF COURSE IT’S A DAMN UFO!!

They begin racing with the UFO, in what likely was just a case of the UFO wanting to tell them their blinker was out, or ask for directions. But now it’s a high speed chase. At least until the Aliens kill the cars power. Forcing them to, yes. Abandon the car on the side of the road. Pushing it off the blacktop.

Mark, is not doing well. He’s looking sicker, and he had a bit of a nosebleed in the car. But he’s playing it cool in front of the lady. He might be losing his mind, and freshly probed. But he is not going to stop looking cool for Ashley.

Actually yes, yes he is going to stop. He’s lost his damn mind in fact.

He believes there is someone out in the desert near them, and he takes off running…away from the road. Shouting at this unseen person WHILE, also calling out to his friends to follow him.

I may not have many friends, or any friends……………BUT. If I suspected a friend of mine had been boarded by Aliens and explored where no man has gone before, and they start telling me to follow them out into the desert, after a UFO chased us? I’m following the man.

OF COURSE I’M NOT!! NO ONE SHOULD!

You don’t need Admiral Ackbar to tell you “It’s a trap mother fuckers!”

Because you KNOW it has to be!

But the group follows him, and as they do. Just as sure as you’ll cleanse your colon after eating taco Bell, lights appear in the area and a vacuum is formed once more. Mark is sucked up and off screen, leaving Ashley and Josh. FINALLY he has some alone time with her.

Unfortunately for Josh, Ashley is hysterical and screaming for Mark because she too is losing her last straws of sanity. She did not sign up for this man! It’s game over pal. Game over!

But Josh is giving her a Hulk Hogan speech about God, finding strength in yourself, and dropping the biggest pythons in the world down on some Aliens. So Ashley gets up, and the two take off! They take off toward a light off in the distance. Obviously it must be a trailer or street light.

OBVIOUSLY!

Well, following what could ONLY be a helpful light, Ashley ends up losing her flashlight, because of hysterics, well and nerves. I mean she did just have three encounters with Alien life and is not handling it well. So they have the light of their camera left, and one hour of video to help them through the night to find their way back to civilization.

Which can only go well.

Until Ashley gets a really bad nose bleed.

Until they hear a large group of coyotes howling out in mass.

Until they find the large group of howling coyotes laying in circles now dead and scorched by intense heat.

Until Ashley starts sweating like a fat kid locked in a locker full of cakes.

UNTIL SHE STARTS HEARING NOISES NO ONE ELSE CAN HEAR! CALLING HER OUT INTO THE DESERT!

So obviously yes, things are not going well at all. Ashley runs off, screaming how she hears her dad. Her dad is out there calling to her. As she runs off we see lights. Flashing lights, circles of lights. We also see some genuinely creepy UFO footage. Also some original stuff for a change.

As Josh fumbles around staggered, trying to rush to Ashley. We see bolts of electricity striking the ground, lights flashing and Ashley vanishes. Josh drops to the ground and for just a few perfect moments, we see three spinning rings, with a bright light at its core.

Josh now on his own takes off and. Holy shit the peckerwood was right. There IS a trailer out in the middle of the damn desert!

Without concern for whatever meth heads could be inside cooking up their next batch, he rushes inside. Taking a quick look at himself he realizes things are. Not looking good for the Josh man. He now has a nose blood, and as he spots this. We get the best scene from this film. The entire trailer starts to shake and bake. Bright light is pouring in from the windows, and as Josh stairs at the sink he just washed his face at. We see the water from the faucet now traveling up the walls of the trailer. It really is pretty damn cool, and rightfully creepy. The television inside the trailer ignites into a tower of flames, Sparks shoot out all around, and the last thing we see inside the trailer, is Josh getting sucked outside of the trailer. The camera cuts to blue, and the next thing we get. Again, a great shot. Is the camera as it shows us just the brink of earths atmosphere and falls back down to the ground, spiraling through the air. We get a quick blink and you miss it shot of the UFO, and the camera crashes down to the ground, cracking the lens, and waiting to be recovered.

With that the text on screen appears, reminding us how thousands of people reported triangular formation of lights in the sky spanning several hundred miles, and not just lights mind you, but even spotting black crafts in the sky, back in March 1997 on the 13th.  We are told at the end text by Ashley how to this day the lights have never been explained, and how authorities deny any direct correlation between the Phoenix Light incident and the disappearance of Josh, Mark, and Ashley.

Roll Credits baby!

The End

Okay that was a lot better than I’d thought it would be. I mean I knew from the trailer this would be a much more serious film, especially in comparison with Area 51. I also really like that the movie, even with its budget and Ridley producing. It still showed restraint.

I mean they could’ve gone off the deep end as other films I’ve seen did and just went full wet hog with it.

I can’t recall the movies name, but it was a found footage film about people camping in a remote cabin, they end up taken aboard a UFO, and the last shots of the film include the camera guy being dragged along the hallway of the UFO, filming his friends as they’re being stripped, probed and operated on. An alien picks up his camera and tosses it out the ship. It was just too much man. Another film did similar but worse, they had an entire truck get taken by aliens, and then we see not one, but three aliens pick up the camera and look curiously at this ‘primitive’ recording device.

Scenes like that, compared to this. Are the main difference between a money shot, and bukkake. I….don’t feel I should explain bukkake to anyone, but let’s just say one is simple, cleaner to shoot, and gets the point across, where as the other is 20 middle aged guys whakin off onto your face one after the other.

The point here is excess. Just because you can show a thing. Doesn’t mean you need to.

This was a pretty well told story. I like that we got a conclusion on Sophies side, she uncovered what happened to her brother. She visited the air force base from the video, was told to act like she didn’t have that video and leave things alone. In stead she put it out there for the world to see and gave closure to her family and the family of Mark and Ashley. It actually reminded me a lot of Terror on the High Desert. Where we had the family documentary about their missing friend/son, and ending the documentary with his unfortunate encounter with a mutated person in hiding.

It plays very much the same and is, well yeah. Very well told and structured.

We got enough character out of everyone to get a feel for who they were and why we should care for them. They weren’t just meat sacks. The only person we didn’t really hear much about was Mark. But they interviewed his best friend who told us a bit about the guy, and Josh filled in some of the gaps along the way as well. The families were believable in their parts and I really find myself calling back to Sophie’s dad when he was having to tell her, and himself in a way that he believed his son was dead. It’s a short but strong scene and seeing him struggle with that and, essentially looking and sounding like someone who had to say the samething aloud in grief counselling, it just hit as very believable.

I still don’t buy that Josh would NOT record the UFO lights once they appeared. I honestly feel it was done to cover up having to show more of it. Which I kind of hate. Because it would’ve been something neat to have played around with in the over all plot of the story.

Like the way the lights broke off from one another? It honestly looked like, and I felt it was even suggesting. That the base had attacked the saucer. The way the lights separated at first seemed to fit with what they reported earlier and other people saw. But the second looked a hell of a lot more like an explosion. So what if the base did attack the craft and explode it? Perhaps that’s why the other craft followed those three while searching for the remains of the other ship. It just feels like something that could have really added on to what we were seeing play out, or could serve as a good point as to why the ship would just suddenly decide to suck the three up, other than just ‘We were passing through and saw three humans and I mean you can’t NOT pickup humans when you visit earth, I mean why go there if not for the humans, right?”

But I get it. I may not entirely agree with it, but I get it.

Honestly, I think I can safely submit to the approval of any reading this. That if you were to show this film, and Area 51 together? This would make for a fun double feature night with pizza, drinks and friends.

I’d legit do so for a birthday, if I were in my 20’s still. Which I am far removed from. Unfortunately.

But it’d still be pretty cool and a fun night. Hats off to the director Justin Barber, Florence Hartigan as Sophie, Chelsea Lopez as Ashley, Justin Mathews and Luke Roberts as Mark and Josh. They all did great, and even though Mark looked like a douchebag I used to know in High School who I hope ended up a crackhead. Mark was a pretty cool dude in this. Hope the aliens find him cool too.

So until tomorrow folks, I implore you, when encountering a UFO, strip naked and present yourself. Shout “MY BODY IS READY!”, and they will either leave you alone, or make you ruler of some planet somewhere. Or you know, act like Rock Sanchez and let the aliens tare you apart. Make the right choice.