Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
Paynbob
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
cjhalcaidesa
I am sorry but I cannot watch this show for more than 10 minutes without shouting at the screen. It is worse now, I now find that I am getting annoyed at all TV documentaries after watch some of this show. They still talk about things as mysteries when they were solved years before, that things are fact when they aren't. They use lines like "Many People" and "Some scientists believe" never giving facts and figures.
I find the main presenter patronising. Sorry I just can't watch any more of this show. Where has the Science and actual history gone. Where is the balanced reporting.
How can someone look at a camera and state something to be a mystery when the facts are well known.
ccrocker-44567
Regarding : Mr. Erich "con" Daniken: Doesn't any reasonable , logical human being have the right to question the "theory's" put forth by a convicted FRAUD? Or is that just an out-dated way of thinking?? Personally , I'm a big fan of the show , but mostly for its presentation of ancient Sites , Structures , and Cultures . But when the Presenters try to take every strange,unexplained thing in History and say "ALIENS"!! that is pure conjectural Nonsense.I would not label a Race that survived the last Ice Age(not to mention Plagues,etc,etc) as "idiots" as EvD has. Also , the disturbing habit a few of the more radical(and irritatingly self-serving)people on there have of stating conjecture and "hypothesis" as FACT. And some of them DO just That. This show throws the whole credibility of the History Channel into question.
kols
Read a review that gave this series a ten not because it was being taken seriously but because it is well produced, entertaining and really good for laughs.I agree, up to a point. But what really bothers me about shows like this and many others that belong to the 'Pandering to the Lunatic Fringe' department of Discovery is how closely they adhere to the principle of the Scam: the viewers are marks and their only reason for being is to be fleeced.So, what's the point? As with lone wolf con-and-scam artists, why put so much energy into proving that the gullible, obsessed or just plain dumb are gullible, obsessed and just plain stupid? The economic return, the most obvious answer, doesn't cut it. The same amount of energy expended in more traditional economic, academic or curiosity based endeavors would yield a much higher return, either monetarily or in the satisfaction of a job well done.Scam and con-artists, individually, can be explained in various psychological ways: pathologies stemming from everything from childhood trauma to the pure joy of putting something over, enriching your ego by making a fool of someone else.The producers of shows like this, what are their motives? The same? If so, they're final reward will be ashes.Which resumee would any normal person choose: one listing positive benefits to yourself and others or one reading "Hey, I fooled a lot of people and made them look like idiots".As for the Ancients: they did very well on their own, from the monumental statues created by good old hunter-gathers unearthed at Tell Gobeki Tepe to the Pyramids to the Colossus of Rhodes with no need for assistance, divine or alien.
By-TorX-1
Of course Tesla was guided by aliens. It is totally obvious. Or, perhaps, just reaching here, he was an absolute scientific genius who should be celebrated for his extraordinary achievements and vision? Not according to Ancient Aliens. I watched the Tesla episode last night and wished they had just produced an informative profile of Tesla, but it is the History Channel, so why would they do that when they can have a motley crew of 'experts' to claim (sans evidence) that a mere human could never come up with alternating current and must have been in the employ of extra-terrestrials. At one level Ancient Aliens works well as high comedy, but it is supposed to be a history show and the disclaimer given endlessly by the narrator of "ancient astronaut theorists believe" gives the show license to say anything it likes. And it does! Sure, a fig leaf of propriety is given with the odd PhD-bearing physicist and biologist (who possibly do not know how their contributions will be 'contextualised'), but most of the 'experts' simply intone wild and baseless speculation ("Could it be?" "You have to wonder") as fact with no competing objective voices allowed. Thus, all references to 'flying chariots' in religious texts mean alien spacecraft, objects in the sky in medieval art are depictions of UFOs, fortuitous rainstorms in the American War of Independence were E.T. interventions to steer the course of the nation, and Tesla, paltry human that he was, could not possibly have had the scientific vision he had without alien communication and guidance. Even CCTV and the iCloud eventually get linked with Watcher angels who were, of course, actually aliens. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, the Sphinx in Egypt is not only an ancient teleportation device to Orion's Belt, but it has a twin structure on Mars AND is the repository for the ancient wisdom of Atlantis. Indeed, a Mars episode begins with scientifically-based arguments positing that life might have come from the red planet via bacteria riding on meteorites, and this is interesting. However, from such fascinating material Ancient Aliens then turns on the proverbial dime and suddenly re-describes this with accounts (cue lurid OTT CGI 'recreations') of Martian craft dramatically terraforming the ancient Earth, only to then succumb to their own tragic nuclear war on Mars (leaving lots of half-smashed and conveniently indistinct 'monuments' for the Mars Rover to photograph which serve as 'proof'). Moreover, we also get crystal skulls containing great wisdom when brought together uncritically thrown into the mix, and even poor Bigfoot is outed as being an alien. However, I did find the claim that an alien, cleverly disguised as George Washington at a crossroads, helped to secure victory for the Union in the American Civil War by pointing out the correct way to go to a platoon of Northern soldiers to be totally plausible. Who wouldn't?
