[Ravenholme]

Why isn't there a topic for this yet?  I was pleasantly surprised by the movie.  Much, much, better than Skyline.  I think what made it good was that it was less a pure sci-fi movie, and more a war movie that happened to have aliens.  Said aliens were more realistic than most, they still used projectiles, and were not immune to bullets themselves.  They also used reasonable tactics, as did the humans.  The only wall banger for me was their reason for invading, but then again any society with the capability to travel the stars should not need anything of ours anyway.  All in all I found it a movie that I might even see again in theaters.

Those star drives dont power themselves, and they likely have an expanding population that needs new planets to settle. Our planet is one that is within their heat tolerances, so therefore they do very much need what we have, if not just to settle.

That might make sense if the movie hadn't given a totally different reason for the invasion

The reason given was our plentiful surface supply of liquid water.

Which is a perfectly good reason for aliens to invadafppffffffffffffthahahahaha

That said I think I'd maybe like this movie.

Yeah, that was my reaction to the reason the aliens invaded.

However, go in expecting Blackhawk Down with Aliens, don't expect much strength in it's plot abs, and you will not be disappointed, and overall will enjoy it.

[Kosh]

You know come to think of it they didn't actually bring enough of a ground force for occupation, they seemed to bring just enough to invade most of the major cities, which makes me think what we saw was not the main invasion force per se, but rather the vanguard of one.

[Ravenholme]

You know come to think of it they didn't actually bring enough of a ground force for occupation, they seemed to bring just enough to invade most of the major cities, which makes me think what we saw was not the main invasion force per se, but rather the vanguard of one.

I think the same thing is postulated somewhere in the film, if I remember correctly.

[Fearless Leader]

I really loved the part where they were in the police station, and the SSgt was trying to figure out how to one shot kill the captured alien. He just kept stabbing it, everything was going to #### and he is totally focused on just stabbing it over and over again 

[redsniper]

One of the highlights of the movie IMO. Just keep stabbing things until you find the part that makes it die when stabbed.

Also memorable was the first up-close kill. Shoot it, then shoot it again, then drop a grenade on it just to be sure.

[Retsof]

Also memorable was the first up-close kill. Shoot it, then shoot it again, then drop a grenade on it just to be sure.

Heh, or when they dropped the grenade down the tunnel and the alien caught it.  He was all like "Whu? OHSH-"

[JGZinv]

The reason given was our plentiful surface supply of liquid water.

Then we should have struck a deal with the aliens to refine Neptune and Uranus... plenty of raw material there
to process into liquid water. Could have been profitable...

Not that I've seen the movie or plan to mind you... just thinking out loud...

[Ravenholme]

The reason given was our plentiful surface supply of liquid water.

Then we should have struck a deal with the aliens to refine Neptune and Uranus... plenty of raw material there
to process into liquid water. Could have been profitable...

Not that I've seen the movie or plan to mind you... just thinking out loud...

I know, right?

I think what was more amusing was that I'm sure they had some talking head in the film saying that the composition of Earth's water was unique in the known galaxy (as humans see it). It's about there I decided I was going to tune out all their science crap, because our Water exists in the normal polar molecule state of Water (As any high school chemistry student could tell you)

[mxlm]

However, go in expecting Blackhawk Down with Aliens, don't expect much strength in it's plot abs, and you will not be disappointed, and overall will enjoy it.

Funny, that's exactly how I went in. You may have gathered my feelings by now . Black Hawk Down was directed by Ridley Scott. This was directed by a guy whose three previous films hold 8%, 13%, and 67% on the tomatometer.

Although, that reminds me. My favorite thing about this movie is the way certain conservatives want it to be a culture war thing; the critics hate it because it's pro-military! Ebert hates it because he hates the military! Which explains why Ebert gave BHD four stars, right guys? Right?

[watsisname]

I guess mining water from Europa was too easy.  No sense in sucking up free resources if you can't kill off an entire civilization in the process!

[Kosh]

There's a big difference between simple resource extraction and actual colonization. If they are aquatic then most certainly this is the only viable planet in Sol for them to have a significant colony.

But if you think about it this way,  if they attack us now while we are still weak and complacent they essentially have a free run at the rest of Sol. If they wait then they run the risk of us developing real space travel of our own and becoming a potential threat.

[General Battuta]

There's a big difference between simple resource extraction and actual colonization. If they are aquatic then most certainly this is the only viable planet in Sol for them to have a significant colony.

Don't think so.

But if you think about it this way,  if they attack us now while we are still weak and complacent they essentially have a free run at the rest of Sol. If they wait then they run the risk of us developing real space travel of our own and becoming a potential threat.

step 1: drop rock

step 2: have free run at the rest of Sol

[Ravenholme]

There's a big difference between simple resource extraction and actual colonization. If they are aquatic then most certainly this is the only viable planet in Sol for them to have a significant colony.

They mention in the middle of the film that the sea level was already decreasing because they had structures sucking up the water, so I doubt that they're Aquatic.

[Dilmah G]

Oh yeah. I personally liked the film. Wasn't 'oo inception 2011 maaaaayte!' material, but nonetheless, the movie sold itself to me as a good 'ol war flick about soldiers being soldiers, and I (not having seen the trailers) was absolutely fine with that. The beginning is one huge cliche and it gets marginally better as it goes on, but I didn't want to rip its head off like other people did.

[Luis Dias]

Yeah, drop the rock is the obvious strategy.

I mean, even Spaceship Troopers knew that, sending asteroids from the other corner of the galaxy towards earth.... wait what?

[MR_T3D]

Maybe these were aliens on a spring break trying to party in LA, and their guns were just alien supersoakers?

no one else?

[Mikes]

step 1: drop rock

step 2: have free run at the rest of Sol

Step 1: Insert love to story to fill up screen time
Step 2: Drop Rock
Step 3: The End

I'm waiting for James Cameron to do it