Synopsis --  Crop circles turn out to be the result of a love affair between an English farmer with a penchant for geometry and an alien with a big nuclear-powered lawn mower. Just kidding, kids! This is a documentary that examines the crop circle phenomenon in England. Scary larry...

Short declaratory phrase in an attempt to get quoted in TV trailer, ad, or cover box --

"Holy shit, the English are crazy!  And so are the aliens."

Nate's review:

I actually enjoyed this documentary quite a bit, and I think others will too.  This is not the type of convoluted "report" on crop circles that you might see on A&E that would only appeal to alien lovers and that tries to pack so much info into forty minutes that you're not sure what you just watched, except you know that it was narrated by Lt. Worf from Star Trek.  I liked Academy Award-nominated filmmaker William Gazecki's approach to telling this story -- it followed a simple temporal timeline and interviewed people with direct experience to the phenomenon.  It was less a newspaperish-journalistic look at these people and more of a cinematic/narrative storytelling piece, which was quite refreshing for a documentary on such a subject (are you listening, Errol Morris? Ha ha).  Basically, if you liked M. Knight's "Signs," then you should see this.  Also by viewing the film it becomes evident that not all of these things could possibly be hoaxes.  I mean it would take one hell of a lawn tractor to do some of this shit, and even then, doing it in one night?  No fucking way!  Also of interest is the "balls of light" phenomenon.  You have to check this thing out.  I know Tim's balls probably give off light at this point (radical VD treatments these days), but it cannot possibly be anything like this.  These things appear to float around in mid-air and examine stuff, and there is video of this in the movie! Thank God Tim's balls lack that capability.  I'll just leave it at that to spare you, my dear readers.  Another plus with getting this on DVD: the deleted interviews!  Holy fuck, the guy with the supposed CIA contact freaked me out like the scene in "Communion" when the alien sticks his head out from behind the door....  gives me the shakes, yo.  Sometimes I wonder what is up the aliens' asses.  They fly around abducting folks from trailer parks and stick shit up their asses, then go vandalize wheat fields with huge laser cannons or whatever and we shit ourselves with fear.  Fuck 'em!  I'm calling for a war against the aliens!  But I digress...  See this film, you yahoos!  It's worth it!

Rating: 9 out of 10 times Ryan and I had to watch "The Thin Blue Line" and that crazy weird Chris Marker documentary about traveling in Asia in various film classes...  this is way better...

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