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Post by saintturgeon on Dec 13, 2009 21:13:17 GMT -5
I'm voting for Independence Day. So how is an untrained human pilot able to fly an alien space craft to the mother ship in outer space and successfully fly back to the same air base he took off from? And how once they got to the mother ship a human computer virus presumably from Windows can infect alien computers, and bring down their entire network of shields?
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 13, 2009 21:17:15 GMT -5
I'm voting for Independence Day. So how is an untrained human pilot able to fly an alien space craft to the mother ship in outer space and successfully fly back to the same air base he took off from? And how once they got to the mother ship a human computer virus presumably from Windows can infect alien computers, and bring down their entire network of shields? Alien mothership was obviously a Mac. |
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Post by Mr. Backlund on Dec 13, 2009 21:18:56 GMT -5
Dues Ex Machina bothers me more than outlandish plot elements.
War of the Worlds.
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Post by saintturgeon on Dec 13, 2009 21:21:49 GMT -5
Dues Ex Machina bothers me more than outlandish plot elements. War of the Worlds. One thing that was mind boggling was, during the scene where the Army was fighting the aliens, where the annoying son goes, "I have to see this" people were running TOWARDS the battlefield. |
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Post by spec on Dec 13, 2009 21:44:55 GMT -5
What bothered me most about that version of War of the Worlds was how the aliens had buried the tripods underground before human civilisation. So they were invading with technology that was thousands of years outdated from their point of view. Okay it was still superior to anything humans had, but still it's an illogical strategy. It would be like arming today's troops with spears.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Dec 13, 2009 21:55:14 GMT -5
The Alien Invasion Story is filled with loopholes. Take V, water is the most common element in the universe, and the rodents eaten by the visitors are easily bred. Or the Cthuluh Mythos, where the Old Ones have supposedly been around for billions of years, but most are just trying to shag humans and Nyarlathotep seems to want to build pyramids. Or the X-Files, where the aliens stopped making sense a while ago. I vote ID4. I can see martians on their first voyage from home to another planet in the system fall victim to decay bacteria. That's understandable. With ID4, I don't actually see how the alien mission was profitable. I mean, the resources needed to invade earth, such as, a massive space fleet that can travel over intersteller distance and can watch you for 50 years, seem much more than what we have here. So, one little planet trying to invade another little planet is much more realistic, than massive space fleets.
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Post by Grendel on Dec 13, 2009 22:23:01 GMT -5
Even though I want to believe in such things (and I've seen a UFO), I find most of the alien abduction stories to not add up. Okay, we have an advanced race who has nothing better to do than travel long distances and to what, carve up cows and stick metal tubes up people's asses? That's not an advanced race, that's young teenagers out having a good time.
But both films are fairly illogical. Too bad Spock isn't around to tell us which is the most illogical.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Dec 14, 2009 1:13:38 GMT -5
One of my first memories is a giant UFO flying over me, so I feel qualified in answering this:
I'm pretty sure they use the cow hearts as an aphrodisiac before the metal tubes. The aliens that visit Earth are nothing more than the extremely horny members of their race who have a pervy human fetish.
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 14, 2009 2:08:00 GMT -5
What part of War of the Worlds are we deeming illogical? That viruses killed them? Because that actually made perfect sense in the original, just much less so if you have them on earth all along.
But uploading a virus? There's no reason why that should work, ever.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 14, 2009 2:21:18 GMT -5
Can you imagine the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a P.C' commercials if the events in ID4 were a reality.
PC: Hi I'm a PC.
Mac: And I'm a Mac.
PC: Windows 7 is out and....
Mac: Well I saved the World from an Alien invasion MotherF*****!
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Post by Triple Kelly on Dec 14, 2009 4:06:44 GMT -5
No choice for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's Signs?? {Spoiler}Water? Seriously? You'd think the supposedly super intelligent life forms would do some reconaissance to find a planet that doesn't have H2O |
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 14, 2009 4:40:45 GMT -5
Can you imagine the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a P.C' commercials if the events in ID4 were a reality. PC: Hi I'm a PC. Mac: And I'm a Mac. PC: Windows 7 is out and.... Mac: Well I saved the World from an Alien invasion MotherF*****! Look at the vid I posted earlier and you shall find the answer~ |
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Post by Dee. on Dec 14, 2009 5:13:29 GMT -5
No choice for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's Signs?? {Spoiler}Water? Seriously? You'd think the supposedly super intelligent life forms would do some reconaissance to find a planet that doesn't have H2O You answered your own question there: M. Night Shyamalan. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 14, 2009 5:36:50 GMT -5
No choice for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's Signs?? {Spoiler}Water? Seriously? You'd think the supposedly super intelligent life forms would do some reconaissance to find a planet that doesn't have H2O {Spoiler}True. My guess would be they had not predicted what kind of reaction their biology could have with elements they had not encountered before. In which case, they are stupid for not wearing space suits.
Either that, or he just stole it from Invader Zim. |
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Dec 14, 2009 6:36:07 GMT -5
I've never seen War of the Worlds. I boycott it because of the way the movie crew treated the 10th Mountain soldiers used in the movie on set. These guy had just gotten back from a year long deployment, and have the "joy" of getting picked to be in the movie..and end up having to sit around for hours on end, outside in the cold around fire barrels, and not get fed but once a day. Screw that.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Dec 14, 2009 7:04:45 GMT -5
{Spoiler}True. My guess would be they had not predicted what kind of reaction their biology could have with elements they had not encountered before. In which case, they are stupid for not wearing space suits.
Either that, or he just stole it from Invader Zim. Good thing they didn't wrap bacon around their bars of soap. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 14, 2009 8:11:15 GMT -5
{Spoiler}True. My guess would be they had not predicted what kind of reaction their biology could have with elements they had not encountered before. In which case, they are stupid for not wearing space suits.
Either that, or he just stole it from Invader Zim. Good thing they didn't wrap bacon around their bars of soap. Beatles fan, Marx Brothers fan, and now she knows Zim. You know you make other girls look like such lameasses by comparison, right? |
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 14, 2009 9:18:42 GMT -5
No choice for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's Signs?? {Spoiler}Water? Seriously? You'd think the supposedly super intelligent life forms would do some reconaissance to find a planet that doesn't have H2O {Spoiler}True. My guess would be they had not predicted what kind of reaction their biology could have with elements they had not encountered before. In which case, they are stupid for not wearing space suits.
Either that, or he just stole it from Invader Zim. {Spoiler}To be fair, I think it was just stale water somehow and not regular water. That's why they needed the contrived plot point of leaving glasses of water all around the home. |
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Post by Triple Kelly on Dec 14, 2009 10:44:06 GMT -5
Good thing they didn't wrap bacon around their bars of soap. Beatles fan, Marx Brothers fan, and now she knows Zim. You know you make other girls look like such lameasses by comparison, right? All I have to say to that is... |
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Post by bibboid on Dec 14, 2009 15:04:08 GMT -5
When all the major cities are being levelled by the aliens, why should Tom Cruise insist on going to Boston?
Shouldn't it be a glowing cinder just like all the other cities?
I guess the aliens didn't bother attacking the rich neighborhoods.
Stupid aliens.
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