Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story (2013) User Reviews

Good grief, Starseed.

[nkalmbach-94559 · 1/10 · 9 July 2017]

So I DO believe it is more likely than not that intelligent life does exist on planets other than our own. Whether or not they have visited earth is a topic I am undecided on. However, I can GUARANTEE they DO NOT travel from lightyears away just to tell this dude Stan (aka "Starseed") how "special" and "unique" he is. I think superior life forms would have better things to do than come all the way to earth to peek though this this guy's window, pet his cat and play peek-a-boo around around the corner in his kitchen. And apparently the same highly-advanced species of beings that is capable of transforming into a shadowy state, making sound come out of a stereo that is turned off (and many other impressive feats) is not able to take a decent selfie on a basic digital camera??? And notice how he had all this quality technology at his disposal, such as night vision cameras, surveillance equipment galore,etc. but when there is a supposed REAL LiVE ET only several feet away from him in the kitchen, he just happened to grab the crappy camcorder with a grainy image. Seriously, if you want a good laugh though, there is some real comedic value here. I mean, I want to believe. I really do. But after watching this I am certain that there is not even intelligent life in his household.

A cry for help

[OtisLovesUs · 1/10 · 9 July 2017]

Or maybe a cry for attention.

At about the 15-minute mark I tried to just pretend it was a mockumentary and enjoy it for a laugh, but a few more minutes in and the "evidence" became so crushingly insulting to my intelligence that I just had to stop.

If I had to guess, I'd say Stan saw something that legitimately freaked him out years ago, but others either didn't believe him or didn't care. So he began fabricating a narrative to try and bolster the original story. Things got out of hand. Stan went off the rails. He couldn't stop lying, or making the lies bigger and more outrageous.

Maybe if Stan wasn't such a terrible actor (the scene at 22 min. is the worst in filmed history) I could have played along for fun, but… just, no. No mas, Stan

Unintentional Comedy Gold

[johngreenfield · 1/10 · 4 July 2017]

I am quite honestly gobsmacked that this is listed as a documentary and not a comedy. I was prepared for some rather convincing video evidence and instead I'm presented with blatant toy aliens propped up against fences, red light bulbs being swung around a yard and a hilarious appearance of "Boo" (Stan's alien buddy). Memorising the Drake Equation and adding "x 100" is evidence of nothing. I'm truly lost for words here, maybe you just need to watch it for yourself.

A Disturbed Individual

[nbrumb · 1/10 · 8 July 2017]

I actually believe that there are other intelligent forms of life in the vast universe; yet there are no signs of intelligence in this 'documentary'. At first, the movie was comical; the videos and images obviously fabricated. I thought that this must be a clever mockumentary, very creative for it's content; yet, the longer the movie goes on, it becomes more obvious that its intended to be serious and that it is all centered around a man with some very serious issues.

Expecting us believe that he fought off some "black ops looking guys" who knew some "kung fu and karate moves" and who were talking about "alien stuff", he goes on to talk about his seven space children who call him on the telephone (you know, from space) speaking perfect English, his name is starseed and he thinks differently from all the other 7billion people on the planet and hes been chosen because he has a miraculous, never before seen way of looking at humanity.

Ultimately, this is either a very sick man or a long term hoax that hasn't been planned very carefully.

Total waste of time.

[dainturner-1 · 1/10 · 25 April 2017]

Poorly made hoax documentary of some dude that seems to have a real problem, mentally. It's an a-hole like this that make the UFO community look foolish. Do not waste your time or money watching this complete nonsense. The other reviewers that gave this a 10 star rating are either a family member or a complete dunce.

If you already believe, then go ahead, if not, this wont be the one to change your mind.

[galactictarantula · 2/10 · 15 April 2017]

Plays like UFO fan-fiction, and not even good fan-fiction at that. If there's just the littlest, tiniest, microscopic, skeptical bone in your body, you will hate it, as this seems to be aimed ("aimed" is even giving them too much credit) at the most credulous among us. On top of all of this, the whole "documentary" seems to be a looooooong (seriously an hour and forty-five minutes of this junk?!) work of self promotion for this "Stan" fellow. It seems to be about how "interesting," "smart," and "exceptional" he is; constant, but subtle pats on the back. Kind of gives the vibe of "please like me!" Cant help but to feel a tiny bit sorry for the guy, however, Im sure he is killing it at the UFO conventions.

I've never laughed so hard!!

[susanmj · 10/10 · 27 January 2018]

Lots of chuckles at the fake footage and easily explainable things, but this guy goes even further, he even maims himself to just to try and get people to believe this corny crap, and I swear around 22 minutes in I nearly fell out my chair howling w laughter I had to pause, I got tears. If you smoke weed, make sure you have some when you watch this, youll thank me, LOL

I'm a believer, but I don't believe this!

[emsky333 · 4/10 · 4 July 2017]

I really struggled with how to rate this, so firstly lets concentrate on this "true" story, for the first part I was like "wow, this is actually quiet amazing, however the more it went on, the more skeptical I became. My skeptical brain was asking why? Why for example would aliens move his knee brace outside and leave it strewn across the garden?

Then at nineteen minutes is where it lost all credibility for me... C'mon a peeping Tom alien, if aliens came into the house no problems, abduct people from their beds, can send light orbs in to look around then why would it need to pop up at the window and peep through? And the way it dropped down... And then the other "alien visit" where he was stood filming it in his kitchen as it unnaturally leaned around a corner (almost like someone was holding a puppet), apparently they can float too because the way it moved back around the corner. The biggest deciding factor on those two incidents being fakery rubbish is the guys reactions, lordy there is better acting at a second grade drama club.

Aliens are obviously in on the selfie craze too, as reportedly he found a camera with extraterrestrial selfies on. *eyeroll* Yet somehow other photos magically erased.

This guy is just someone who feels very unspecial and has created this imaginary life of being special, alien visits, alien children, mystery phone-calls calling him Starseed.

I am a believer in UFO's and extraterrestrials but this was just fake, I'm not saying I don't 100% not believe this guy was abducted or experienced something, I just think when you use fakery to back up claims that's when you lose credibility.

The documentary was well done though, which is why I struggle with how to rate it, I want to give it a BS rating but feel it's unfair to the documentary makers as it was a well done and difficult topic. I would have liked to see some objective psychology experts views on this, I felt the one they used, who based his evaluation off how calm he was was amateur at best.

The Sad Reality

[akashicsoldier · 1/10 · 9 July 2017]

Stan Romanek is a sex offender who was convicted of possessing child pornography. He is a deceiver and a charlatan. That said, like most charlatans he is a great storyteller. So, if you're looking for some cheap thrills you might enjoy this, but make no mistake. This is Fake News. :)

I am a full believer and I thought this was embarrassing

[carryn-40433 · 1/10 · 7 July 2017]

When I saw this on Netflix, I didn't understand, after the amount of time I have spent researching extraterrestrials, why I have never come across this guys name. Then I pressed play and realized why. Firstly, do you really think the USA would allow one of their citizens to make a documentary like this if it were actually true? And why would alien life target this one man and leave so much evidence when the rest of us search and search and never really find anything? This fake documentary starts off without explaining much, just showing a bunch of UFO clips and sightings, etc. I didn't think it was too ridiculous until I saw the clip of the "alien"looking at him through his window and his reaction to it. It's a clip I've seen a thousand times on the internet and I just shut it off after that. Embarrassing. Are you trying to make people believe less in aliens? Because well done if you are.

Oh dear.

[intj-13857 · 1/10 · 10 July 2017]

I'm afraid I couldn't make it more than 20 or so minutes in to this. Even so early in to this 'documentary', there were many issues:

• The sound design is so awful that it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that it was intended to be as grating as possible. It was so jarring at points that I found myself grimacing in faux-agony

• Much of the 'photographic evidence' has quite clearly been photoshopped. At one point they show a picture of a young girl with large eyes, staring at Stan through the spindles of his deck's banister. Good lord. Even my 80+ year old grandparents could tell it was a fake.

• People apparently losing their minds over what were very clearly Chinese lanterns / balloons.

• An allegedly 'mysterious' caller leaving messages for Stan in which Stan is referred to as a "Starseed", regularly reminded of how special and unique he is... this is a manifestation of a very real problem - an individual who is not only completely deluded but also suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. Sincerely, I feel pity for him and hope that he makes a recovery soon.

Don't get me started on the '''alien''' peering through his window.

Avoid this. It's an absolute travesty, and yet another fine example of some dolt robbing credibility from what is a fairly interesting field worthy of further investigation (UFOs, that is - not little green men).

This must be a joke.

[burtayari-94549 · 1/10 · 6 July 2017]

Actually i was very excited when i have started to watching this documentary. At the beginning you start to get his story and develop an interest to what he is telling but at the moment when he shows that cheap alien video i almost died from laughing. This guy shows an alien in his Video which looks 100times faker then the alien from E.T and tells us that these videos are the evidence of what he experienced. After that bullshit i have stopped watching it and my lost was 15 minutes of my life.

Horrible, Stan should be ashamed.

[jon_hsieh · 1/10 · 7 July 2017]

I love films and believe in other beings, its only logical. This film is absolute garbage praying on the gullible. This man should be ashamed, taking advantage of a serious topic. But hes probably not, trying to gain exactly what hes getting...money.

Watch it for yourself...its amazing how he has HD still pics and the worst video quality known to man. Im horrible at photoshop and I could do way better on his still photos.

If you're gonna fake it...be good at it.

Waste of time and the dude is into kiddie porn

[b_tight · 1/10 · 20 July 2017]

Literally the worst thing I've ever seen on Netflix. Only got through about 20 min and had to stop. Googled Stan Romanek and found this...http://www.snopes.com/2017/07/11/stan-romanek/

The guy is into kiddie porn and is using government trying to frame him to shut him up as an excuse. Pathetic

Obviously a scam

[onefreakinword · 1/10 · 14 July 2017]

I like watching documentaries about aliens, because a part of me truly wants aliens to be real, visitations to be real, and even abductions to be real, as scary as they sound. But this "documentary" is so obviously a self-indulgent, amateurish scam that I'm scratching my head over Netflix presenting it as a serious documentary. Most of this movie features Stan Romanek talking and talking and talking about himself. A lot more of it consists of his family and friends also talking, about him, of course. Romanek presents himself as someone who's basically being stalked by aliens who view him as a threat, other aliens who see him as the savior of the world, and shadowy human agents out to prevent by him by any means necessary from revealing the truth to the world. He vociferously denies believing in aliens until all is revealed to him. This epiphany as artificial as everything else in this sideshow. Of course, this "documentary" has the obligatory home videos. The "aliens" peeking into his window are clearly fake. They look like puppets or masks worn by some colluding human. He also receives multiple telephone calls featuring an artificial-sounding "British" woman that reminded me of one of those YouTube videos with the computerized voice overs instead of an actual narrator. The recorded calls of his supposed alien hybrid children were pure camp. The unmitigated conceit of having these voices call him "Starseed" is so ludicrous, it's more contemptuous than amusing. He isn't a good actor, so his videos of himself catching an alien peeping tom are so badly acted, they're not even funny in a "so bad, it's good" kind of way. I had such a negative reaction to this sad little show that I went to my computer and Googled "Stan Romanek scam." Imagine my surprise when a screen chock full of stories about his pending child pornography charges and then imagine my complete lack of surprise about his claim that nefarious forces planted it all on his computers to keep the truth from coming out. Yeah, right. Netflix, get this POS off your network. It's an embarrassment.

THIS is a documentary??

[elizaco12 · 1/10 · 6 July 2017]

This was the worst piece of propaganda garbage I have seen in a long time. For those who believe aliens have landed on earth, and abduct humans for experimentation, this is NOT evidence of that. I am a critical thinker. However, That does not mean I'm closed minded. When alleged "evidence" does not pass muster, I reject it. There is ZERO valid evidence in this film. It's all based on the word of these people, and it doesn't stand up. The videos of the supposed "aliens" makes it even worse. And the not so veiled compliments to this guys superiority is so obvious, I LOL'd. This poor guy has serious mental health issues. He obviously lacks self esteem and is unsatisfied with his normal everyday life, so he makes up this garbage. Look at all the attention he's getting! And the gullible masses eat it up like candy. Ugh. I agree with a previous reviewer, it should be classified as a dark comedy, not a documentary. As far as a film goes, it's not poorly made, with the exception of those tiny typewriter sized captions littered throughout the film. I have a 42" TV and I had to sit 2 feet away to read any of it. It's as if you were watching a subtitled movie and all they provided were tiny white typewriter font words. BAD.

Its obvious no one here watched until the end.......

[thebakingslave · 4/10 · 13 July 2017]

It's very obvious no one here watched until the end because EVERYONE who reviewed this film left out one very important detail on this dudes credibility.....at the very end of the film, text pop up that says that in 2014 Stan was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography of children as young as 5 years old. He claims the FBI planted this evidence to shut him up. When I saw this I was disgusted and any LITTLE, teeny, bit of belief I had in SOME of what he said (there were parts where there were police reports and also the injuries which he had medical records of would shock me if they were self-inflicted) all went out the window.

This dude is sick, TONS of child porn were found all over a bunch of USB sticks so its not like it was just on the computer. If FBI was going to "plant evidence" to frame him, they wouldn't bother downloading child porn all over a bunch of random USB sticks and stash them all over the house when you wouldn't need to do all that to convict someone of child porn. Just it being on the comp is enough. This dude is so effing sick in the head and when I read that these poor babies were as young as 5, I wanted to reach through my computer screen and strangle him. He is a fraud, even if he is telling the truth about SOME stuff, it doesn't matter, he is a disgusting human being. The only reason I am giving it a 4 is because the actual documentary is well made, I loved the format of it.

All those small paycheques speaking at UFO conferences really add up

[cathalokane-98749 · 1/10 · 7 July 2017]

When Stan relates the story of how he got jumped on way to work, by three guys in an black SUV, whom were obviously 'special ops' types. Well he handled one of them, and put him to the ground, cos he 'grew up in Denver'.

Right there, nothing more needs to be said...

The Stan Romanek Comedy.

[yorkscotta · 2/10 · 6 July 2017]

Very interesting I was watching this by myself expecting to get creep ed out. I laughed the whole entire time. You have to at least watch 20 minutes of it because at 19 minutes in, I couldn't stop laughing. I'm hurting so much from all the laughing. So if you want to watch this documentary feel free. This was just something totally different from what I was expecting.

Don't waste a single minute of your life watching this

[lilcarlos93 · 1/10 · 7 July 2017]

Complete trash. How this made it to Netflix completely blows my mind. I'm honestly mad at myself for wasting time that I will never get back to watch this hot stinking pile of trash ! Like come on, I'm no doubter about aliens or life in space but this.... this does nothing to prove alien life. This just proves any nut job can make a movie now and days. PURE TRASH

What The * beep *

[roland-rockerfella · 1/10 · 17 July 2017]

This kind of garbage damages serious UFO research in a major way. I'm not sure what the worst part was of all this " evidence " he was showing us, someone running about his backyard with a flashlight, the shaky cam UFO footage that literally could be anything or that absurd rubber headed alien looking in his window. I turned it off after 20 minutes. I was hoping to see a serious piece of UFO research instead i got a pile of fake garbage that should never have made it onto Netflix in the first place.

Is this the ravings of a madman?

[mzaristocatt · 1/10 · 18 July 2017]

I really was excited when I found out about this purported "documentary" and know some people who have had historically recorded encounters here in Oz. I'm very open minded, I was hoping this documentary would give more credence to evidence and the possibility we're not alone in the universe. This show however, was amateur at best and I was seriously creeped out more by the personality of the main player Mr Romanek and his deluded wife who seems to support his narcissistic journey. I've seen better photo-shop produced by preschool children and anything that remotely had credence was destroyed by silly puppetry! Seriously, "Starseed" you are only special in your own mind-No where in the documentary did it reveal anything special about you, other than you needing some serious mental health intervention.

A web of lies that spiraled out of control.

[cgold-40334 · 2/10 · 11 July 2017]

I was genuinely interested in this film when it showed up on my Netflix recommended list. I went in with skepticism like anyone should with these kinds of "documentary" and in order to enjoy or buy most of what this guy says you need to through suspension of disbelief out the window and back up over it with a truck. The film presents evidence to make the case of Stan's claims and as the film progresses the evidence begins to go from plausible to outright sci-fi level of insanity. I believe Stan has probably seen a UFO and the first video presented as evidence seems to be fairly real minus the shaking camera. Even some of the videos of the "orbs" seems fairly real.

However everything presented after these videos is an insult to anyone with a mental capacity of a middle school child. The lies Stan has told over the years slowly begin to come out and anyone can clearly see he's in over his head. He is clearly someone who after receiving attention for his stories has been on a 10 year ego trip that has made him money by obviously scamming everyone around him. The video of the alien playing peekaboo is a joke and Stans reaction to an alien in front of him is so badly acted and unnatural that it is a blatant hoax. The story of his supposed "7 children" and the one little girl who apparently can get four bar cell service while flying around in an alien UFO is laughable at first but if you tolerate this film until the end it becomes out right disturbing. Stan was arrested for possession of child pornography after the filming of this documentary and when you consider his obsession with his "daughter " who by his description sounds to be around he age of five and these charges it paints a disgusting picture. Of course Stan has denied the charges and the documentary even shows news articles that suggest that the government, shadow groups, or even neighbors will hack your wi-fi routers and install child pornography in order to get someone arrested however these sources include websites like info wars so I would take this with a grain of salt as well.

If you want a solid laugh and have a lot of time to kill (the run time is 1:45 min) watch it but only do so on Netflix do not buy the actual DVD unless you plan on using the disc as a drink coaster after viewing this film.

Completely a Hoax!!!

[edifyeg · 1/10 · 27 December 2017]

Oh my word! I wish there was truly a 0 rating. 1 Star is too much to give for this obviously fake documentary. Throughout the film some woman with the worse robotic voice keeps telling him "he does not know who he is," and refers to him as "Star seed." All Lies! I believe in UFOs and aliens, but this is nothing but garbage!

Review of Stan Romanek documentary

[ccorrine-38313 · 23 July 2017]

Ridiculous is all I can say. The aliens peeking up over window, and the one that slowly peeks around door.....reminded me of a SNL sketch. My immediate reaction was "laughing", not fear! And then they show the little girl aliens peeking thru the fence. Lol. OMG, they look like paper cutouts propped up against the fence. So do the little aliens in the woods. The phone calls from the supposed alien children sounded like a script from a 1960's B sci-fi flick; B for (Bad).