Why aren't there more alien invasions films, and why are

>>83344564
Because (((they))) don't like them

>we will never get a WotWs movie based off the book

They always end up fucking it up

There's been a few over the last couple of years and they haven't really done that well have they

edge of tomorrow was great
independence day 2 bombed
avengers 1 was basically an alien invasion movie and did very well

>>83344675
Honestly WotW 2005 was good until they get to the farm house, then it's shit until the military destroyes the tripod at the end

>>83344626
Basically this. We're fast approaching peak civilization, and a lot of people are starting to wake up to the notion that mass immigration REALLY isn't doing us any favors.

A film about ANY kind of invasion is almost impossible to not draw comparisons to. (((They))) really, really don't want people to remember what an invasion even is, let alone be able to draw comparisons.

>>83344737
Edge of tomorrow was post invasion. I want to see the actual invasion
Avengers doesn't count because it's a super hero movie. I want to see the worlds armies fight.

>>83344564

War of the Worlds is a masterpiece. Only plebs disagree.

>>83344787
>because you can compare an advanced civilization destroying humanity with advanced weaponry to a few Mexicans jumping the border or Muslim refugees.
Give me a break

>>83344564

was battle LA good?

I just remember the trailer being really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKC_ORM0vpo

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>>83344903
>was battle LA good?

It is equal parts watchable and forgettable. I recommend watching it while drunk. Battleship was better.

>>83344990
>dat scene where it is based on the boardgame

kek kino

>>83344809
*runs away from your post

>>83344564
>Why aren't there more alien invasions films
>why are almost none of them good?
you answered you own question you idiot

>>83344564
Because the alien invasion is a tired plot.

>>83344884
You got that destroying civilization part right at least.

>>83344564

>it's a neil degrasse tyson ends up tweeting about how aliens would just use chemical weapons to kill us

>>83344990
battle la is good. great alien design.

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>>83344884
Oh boy, you got me there, certainly I was foolhardy to ever think anything more than a few mexicans jumping the border was what was going on!

oh wait lol

>>83344564
>Why aren't there more alien invasions films

Hollywood doesn't want to normalize the concept of closed borders and undesirable migration.

They are all bad because the initial idea is bad and boring and done to death. Make a movie about future people invading an alien homeworld for once.

>>83345414

we already have that in starship troopers

>>83344564
The battle of Los Angeles was one of the biggest pieces of shit I have ever seen.

>>83344737
I like ID4 enough
But Independence Day 2 was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

OP, try Skyline, it's really weird.

>>83345414
and avatar

>>83344737
>independence day 2 bombed
I couldn't believe how bad it was, they couldn't just make a fun movie, worthless faggots

>>83345414

>alien covenant

>>83345492

is avatar 2 ever going to come? it seems like a dank meme that only exists on 4chan

>>83345586
>dank meme
fuck off reddit

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>>83344564
I think we felt overloaded after the late 90's/early 2000's
>fifth element
>independence day
>signs
>arrival
>MIB
and those are just the invasion ones don't forget
>pitch black
>starship troopers
>alien:resurrection
>mimic
>sphere
>supernova
>mission to mars

I guess people aren't as into blowing up weird looking Aliens as we used to kinda sad

>>83345216
>aliens invade for the actual humans, so chemical weapons would defeate the purpose

>>83345632
>arrival
>early 2000's
nigger what

>>83345302
>>83345198
>>83345363
>Because Mexicans and Muslims evicerate cities and turn armies to ash
Give me a break /pol/

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>>83345659
>Arrival came out 12 years ago

>>83345721

The ash part is true anon. Much of suburban San Diego is ashland like Morrowind. Except there are no awesome adventures, just poor brown people. Which, I guess is as close to dunmer as we will ever get.

>>83344675
>The part were the Thunder Child heroicly fucks up two-three tripods will never be adapted.

>>83345632
Fifth element isn't an alien invasion movie at all
MIB wasn't really an invasion movie, they were trying the prevent one.
Signs was stupid.

>>83345747

>>tfw learned the alien language, Arrival came out yesterday and 1000 years ago simultaneously.

>>83345794
The Dunmer are Imperial Japanese, you faggot

>>83345659
>late 90's/early 2000's
did you even read my post?

>>83345846

fuck you n'wa piece of shit. why don't you go suck tiber septims dick?

>>83345851
You included arrival in a bunch of 90's 2000's alien movies you dingus

>>83345800
Explain? Was this in the original book?

>>83344737
i dunno who thought that taking one of the most america fuck yeah movies and turning it into chink circlejerkery would pay off but it really didn't

>>83344564
These things were frightening and the noises that issued forth from them made them twice as intimidating.

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>>83346080
Yes, honestly the design for the tripods is incredible, graceful and elegant while at the same time intimidating and able to instil great fear.
>you don't know the horror of waking up in the middle of the night to flashing lights and hearing the tripod horn pierce your soul

>>83345486
>>83345516
This

>>83345220
"ONLY PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE THAT HAS WATER"

The movie's plot was fucking retarded.

>>83344799
Battle: Los Angeles was okay

>>83346382
I wish the effects were better, then it would have been memorable

>>83346170
The birds! Look at the damn birds!

>>83346010
Yeah. A bunch of ferries are evacuating civilians when three tripods show up. It seems like everyone is fucked, but an iron clad breaks formation with the other escort vessels.

The aliens are confused and try to gas the ironclad, to no avail. It rams one tripod then broadsides another. It gets heat beamed before ramming the 3rd, leaving the fate of the final tripod ambigious, but the ferries and other naval vessels get away.

>>83345807
The plot of fifth element is stopping a space over Lord from taking over everything

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How about we get a good War of the Worlds adaptation that's actually true to the book? Tripods are a lot scarier in the Victorian English countryside then generic american city

>>83346683
It's stopping the invasion, not actually showing and invasion
>still love the flying cars though

>>83346008

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>>83345659
>>83346008

Are you stupid?

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>>83346801
Most of WotW 05 takes place in the country side. Yeah, tripods in Victorian England has a lot of potential, but then again, I want to see what was over that hill

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>>83347031
>>83346008
>>83345659

>>83346008
Arrival was released in 1996 about humans making radio contact with aliens and I think that kinda implies potential invasion even if the movie doesn't show it

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IMO pic related is seriously underrated.

>ayy lmao attack takes place in Russia, rather than U.S (though it's confirmed they fucked up the rest of the world too)
>they're invisible floating spheres about 2 meters wide, make all electronics stop working, and make people disintegrate when they touch them
>during initial attack, main characters hide in the supply closet in a Moscow nightclub
>2 days later they emerge to find the ground covered in the ashes of millions of people they ayys disintegrated
>eventually team up with Russian soldiers with microwave guns that can kill the ayys so they can board a submarine heading for a survivor's camp

Though, when they finally do turn visible, the ayys look like shit.

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>>83346801

How about a gritty war of the worlds survival video game set in 1898 England?

>>83346170
I love WotW 05, saw it in the cinema and it's been a firm favourite of mine for years.

The scene where Cruise throws half a peanut butter sandwich at the window is kino.

>>83346425
>>83346382
Everything before they dump a grenade in the pool is good, they should've stuck with the claustrophobic element of street to street fighting with an unknown enemy.

I was on board with it for awhile, then it became generic action flick shit and I lost interest.

>>83347372
It was an amazing kino until they get to the farm house, then it's just bad until the army btfo's the tripods

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Because Star Wars makes better summer movies every summer

Why bother fighting flying saucers with F/A-18

When you can make movies of flying saucers fighting flying saucers

>>83346055
>implying ID42's problem is not too much America fuck yeah

I don't know what exactly is its problem. But it didn't shortchange the patriotism part

>>83345026
>drifting your battleship into a full broadside

shit was so fun to watch

>>83348240
>I don't know what exactly is its problem.
it was fucking retarded

>>83345800
>Spielberg wouldn't let the military seem too heroic because that would make him look pro-gun

I tell you why alien invasion movies are never done well
It's because the anti gun laws and activism. The only way to do it is to make a proper war movie. The "twists" and "creative way to defeat aliens" are all added when the producers decided the problems must not be solved with guns

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>>83345632

>fifth element
>alien invasion

>>83348429
did you forget the scene where the only way tom cruise saves his daughter is by having a gun?
did you forget the scene where they can't be defeated with guns because of the shield?
did you forget the scene where the military kills a tripod?

you're reaching, /polk/

>>83348442
>>83344787
I never thought about this, but you guys are probably onto something here.

>>83348558
Do you know they spent millions to make a scene of military downing a tripod then deleted it ?

>>83348643
Link?

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Anno, since you have revived the Godzilla, can you also remake a alien invasion movie?

Without involving Ultraman or any giant robot OFC

>>83344990
This movie was fucking garbage

>>83348643
>>83348823
I think it's a fake rumor about a deleted scene in wotw

How about "Day of the Triffids"?

I love alien invasion movies, Battle LA was good except you barely even really get a look at the aliens, and you have no idea if the aliens win or we do. ID2 was fucking terrible

>>83348823
>>83349303
I don't know I saw it on 4chan and didn't verify it
I guess I should apologize for spreading it

>>83345632
>signs
>aliens

found the degenerate

>>83349819
Nah, it's ok. Sad though. It's a credible story and I just wanted a confirmation so I could laugh at it.

>>83347072
>>83347036
This is a good movie

>>83344675
>>83344753
I think the movie was overal just good.

I enjoyed it and the special effects were great for a 2005 movie

The drama was also done great

Only the little girl was so fucking annoying and the boy should learn some manors too

>>83346491
NOO SHIELDDD!!!

>>83348643
Milfags get enough ass kissing as is, especially this time of year. Let it go.

>>83350115
I unironically love this scene.

>>83345632
Friendly reminder that Signs is about a demonic invasion not an alien one :^)

>>83344564
I liked Attack the Block
You probably mean big serious epics though

>>83350260
>coming of age kino
>alien invasion

>>83350260
The is a Russian movie that is like a serious version of Attack the Block.
Attack the Block is shit btw.

>>83350058
>Only the little girl was so fucking annoying
it was intentional, it added tension via audio like phonecalls in a lumet film

>>83347263
Holy dicks, I'd love that. No weapons, just having to try and hide and scavenge for food and water. Imagine squatting in an abandoned house, peeking out of the window while you hear tripods howling in the night.

>>83350809
I thought it was a pretty good adolescent movie, aside from those overtones justifying youth crime.

>>83351254
>aside from those overtones justifying youth crime
its cool yo

>>83344564
I'm sure if Trump gets his wall built there will be a sudden surge of alien invasion movies, where, in a turn of events, the humans are the bad guus

If you think about a monster/alien invading film that's good, there's a 90 pct chance the creature has long thin limbs compared to its body.

>>83346080
and then all the movies started using it.
BWAUMMM

>>83348048
Star Wars is a Christmas time franchise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdOGJi5Sne4

Skyline was awesome to me when it came out but i think it turned into a flop.
still a good invasion flick.

>>83350115
THE JAVELIN IS THE KEY!!!

>>83344564
>Why aren't there more films, and why are almost none of them good?
ftfy

But seriously, most films are bad. Why would the alien invasion genre be safe from that?

I liked the first Avengers and first Transformers, if you count either of those as alien invasion.
Mars Attacks! is a satire so up to you whether that's any good. Same deal with The World's End, the Edgar Wright one.
I enjoyed Cloverfield a lot, but it's unclear as to whether that's an alien life-form or not.
Edge of Tomorrow, Man of Steel and Signs are all fairly well-received but I wasn't really a fan of any of them. They all feature alien invasions, though.

There's also Dreamcatcher, which isn't very good but has some really cool concepts going on with some very enjoyable bits. Based on a Stephen King book, but I haven't read it.

>>83353032
holy shit there's a sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9slK-tukA

>>83344675
I'd go see a period-accurate WotW in a split second.

they could pull off a really creepy industrial look that stands just as strong as the 05's like sleek biomech? tripods.

could be even creepier in that in the book they attack with chemical weapons as well as the heat rays.

>>83353032
Effects where good (for its budget), but there there was no character

Alien invasion movies are a dumb concept. Any species capable of interstellar travel would have technology so beyond what humanity is capable of that it wouldn't even be a fight. They could nuke us from orbit, drop self replicating nanomachines to cleanse the surface, infect the population with superviruses. It'd be over before we even knew it.

>>83353329
Define industrial, because if it's steam punk, then I think it will flop.

>>83353384
>implying the aliens aren't here for the humans themselves, so creating a super virus, sending and asteroid, or nuking the whole planet would defeat the purpose.

>>83353314
I'm mainly talking about where the invasion actually happens on screen and is the main focus, with the exception of Mars Attacks, none of them are really alien invasions

>>83353476
For what purpose?

>>83353032
Only thing i remember from that movie was the dude from scrubs was in it.

>>83353384
>implying the ayys would spend that much effort in conquering worlds.
Just throw some grunts at it, should be OK.

>why would the US bother sending soldiers in when they could just nuke the middle east?

>>83344990
They had ONE job and didn't.

>>83353314
The first part of Dreamcatcher was amazing.

>>83353565
Well like in WotW, they could want humans for their blood

Why would they invade? If they can Travel faster than light they can create whatever they want, why would they go for all that trouble if they can make water, slaves, ore, etc in their replicating machines.

>>83353975
Why do people hunt?
They can go to store and buy any food they want, already prepared for them and with less time/effort.

Hunting people is fun anon.
This was the only thing I liked about Independence Day 2
>They like to get the landmarks...

>>83348853
THis

>>83353780
Aliens would also either be superintelligent AIs or already have them. Effort would be a non-issue. And nukes are way easier than invasion.

And if the US went around dropping nukes it could destabilize the world and trigger full scale nuclear war. Instead it wanted to set up puppet governments as leverage against the rogue states in the region.

>>83353907
They could mass produce blood far more easily through genetic engineering.

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how the fuck has this not been mentioned
blows the absolute shit out of everything else ITT
disappointing thread

>>83344564
Because the idea is fundamentally flawed.

If aliens somehow managed to traverse the cosmos and reach our planet, it means they are much much more advanced than us. They would have mastered faster-than-light travel or quantum tunneling. We would literally be ants to them.

>>83354044
That's a dumb reason. And they'd have virtual realities where they could live out these scenarios.

>>83354044
>Why do people hunt?
Hunting is cheaper and healthier than processed or factory farmed food and populations of certain wild animals need to be controlled somehow while the food in the store still needed to be hunted or farmed by someone else.

>>8335397
That isn't necessarily true. Developing technology that could generate wormholes doesn't mean they'd be advanced in other ways.

Also it could just as easily be an aggressive species that stole the technology from a long dead hyper-advanced species for the purpose of conquest.

>>83354235
>That's a dumb reason. And they'd have virtual realities where they could live out these scenarios.
Maybe, but reasons don't have to be clever.
VR and hunting vidya exist, people still hunt.

>independence day
okay

>war of the worlds
overhyped garbage

>battle LA
>marine recruitment video

>>83354293
>Also it could just as easily be an aggressive species that stole the technology from a long dead hyper-advanced species for the purpose of conquest.

t. Footfall

>>83354303
VR doesn't actually exist, yet, modern attempts at VR are still basically virtua boy levels of poor reconstruction.

>>83346683

actually its to stop pure evil from obliterating the universe, but whatever man

>>83354293
Can you give one historical example of a primitive civilization mastering a more advanced civilization's technology to conquer it?

>>83354325
>WotW
>over hyped
Wat?

>>83354355
Possibly irrelevant.

This is an old philosophical discussion.
>Why doesn't everyone on Star Trek spend their life in a holodeck?
>Redpill or bluepill in the Matrix? muh steak

They could have perfect simmlatons that not only use AI to generate alien worlds for them to pillage, but could recreate actual worlds based on observations from remote space probes, and yet, some aliens might still choose to kill humans for real regardless.

>>83353319
oh snap with muh raid nigga!

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This remake now!!

>>83353384
>>83354214
sadly this. any halfway realistic invasion movie would be over within 10 minutes and would end with us losing.
they wouldn't even need guns to kill us. just accelerate a ship to relativistic speeds and drop some trash on the planet and you get the job done.

the only way to do it right is making the movie as silly as possible i.e. mars attacks

>>83354576
Why is this movie so good, and the sequels so terrible?

>>83354635
>sequels so terrible?
direct to video, no verhoeven

>>83344564
>that scene in WotW where the military is sacrificing itself in vain to let civilians escape

not even gonna argue the retardation of the civilians running towards the battle. cool scene visually, but the premise of the military sacrificing itself against an enemy they cannot currently defeat triggered me.

i want to see a version where the military realizes that they are actually more valuable than the civilians, as the personnel/equipment will be needed when a weakness is found. i want to see one where the military basically fucks off into hiding and leaves the civilians to fend for themselves.

>>83354634
What if they were just barely capable of interstellar travel?

Like they reached Earth via generational ships that used nuclear bombs for propulsion, or solar sails. Or if their species was naturally able to induce hibernation for any length of time?

>>83354506
>Why doesn't everyone on Star Trek spend their life in a holodeck?
There is only one holodeck on the ship, if it were that easy to make and didn't require massive resources to operate, every cabin would be a holodeck, but it isn't due to scarcity.

People seek pleasure and avoid pain, but the thresholds are different for each individual, so to some the pain of being tricked into the vr and the hard limits still set on its operation outweighs the pleasure of simulated happiness.

>>83354390
>To conquer it
Not it, it is dead
To conquer other stuff.

>>83354708
>nuclear propulsion
threaten to nuke every major city from orbit, recieve terms of surrender within 10 minutes

>solar sail
there isn't enough light to cross interstellar space just with a solar sail alone. you'd need a big ass laser to push it and then you might as well point it on a planet to cook its inhabitants alive.

>hibernation
go somewhere else because time is not an issue and ressources like water, hydrogen and metals can be found plentyful elsewhere.

any malevolent species that goes through the hassle of getting here would be able to absolutely crush us like an ant.

>>83344564
battle Los Angeles was fucking dreadful

>>83355062
>threaten to nuke every major city from orbit, recieve terms of surrender within 10 minutes

Battlefield Earth did this.

>>83345846
They're mesopotamians.

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>>83345220
>space chimps
>good alien design

>>83355142
looked like it was going to be really cool, but man...poor acting (for the most part), bad cliches, shit dialogue, shit story.
>>83355202
was this in the book? i remember some travolta dialogue in the movie about there being like a 9 minute battle in which all of mankind's warriors were merked

>>83344675
Probably because WotW is half alien invasion, half hiding-in-a-church-with-a-crazy-guy.

It's a giant parallel of WW1 and what the invaded peoples felt like, which doesn't work in America at all.

>>83345450
Can we have an HBO Band of Brother-style produced series based on Starship Troopers?

>>83355450
the guy they hid with is /pol/

>>83355571
...This makes too much sense.

>>83355564
oh fuck yes please

>>83355450
Didn't the book come out before WW1? Still makes sense though, books where England went to war with Germany were like capeshit back then, it was everywhere

>>83346801

Straight adaptation of the book would be pretty boring as a movie.

>>83344675
There is going to a BBC series adapting the books set during the Victorian era

>>83355588
We'll dig tunnels anon..come up beneath them and fight guerrilla style in the woods. The libs, sjws, and jews will never see it comin if we go underground.

We need a continuation of the Space Odyssey series, I'd love to see someone adapt 2061 or 3001

>>83355649
Great so everyone's going to be black and the ladies that the dude's brother meets are going to get un needed exposition... Not even /pol/ here but I can feel this is gonna be one big let down

Am I the only one who liked Falling Skies?

>>83355713
That would be nice, I think the time is right for that kind of sci-fi, it's regaining some popularity.

>>83355740
yes

>>83355604
> Book came out at least 17 years before WW1 started.

Oh, well fuck me then. That's so weird since it REALLY feels like an analogy for invasions in that era with all the 'advanced' technology going on then. HG Wells was ahead.

>>83355732
Yep and because its the BBC the visuals will be fucking crap

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4475496/BBC-War-Worlds-TV.html

honestly would love a big budget practical effects version of this set during the Victorian era

>>83355740
>living in a mall in Charleston SC
>ayy removes hood and reveals identity
>i-it's one of them aliens!
No shit, who else do you know that is 12 feet tall?

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>>83355713
This, or Rendevous with Rama or basically ANY of Clarke's novels that haven't been adapted yet. There is such a rich lore and mythology awaiting to be put on the big screen but instead all we fucking get it dull, monotonous capeshit. Even if this thread the capeshitters can't help themselves

>Avengers Assemble was a hella f*ckin epic alien invasion film dude

>>83355777
I don't remember the name because I'm drunk as fuck, but there was a whole genre of fiction from about the 1890s to WW1 where England would get invaded and have to fight for survival
I think they called it Invasion Literature or something like that. The normies of the day ate it all up

>>83354491

it was overhyped.

it was made out to be a movie of the world vs the aliens

it was about 30 seconds of tanks shooting at the aliens and then an hour and a half of tom cruise and dakota running around looking scared

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>>83345220
IT'S THE WORST FUCKING MOVIE EVER MADE. FUCK OF YOU LITTLE CUNT

>>83355990
Yeah, a modern setting didn't really do the source material justice.

Shit, I'd rather take the 1930s American version over it

>>83356037
We just ate breakfast

>>83355564
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffzjWJDWtkc
Roughnecks was way better than it should have been.

>>83355990
The tank scene was the shit tough. AF always gets to have all the fun fighting aliens, it was nice to see the army attempt.

>>83345220

>call of dooty the movie

kys

>>83356037
Did they ever take back LA?
Last I checked the marines got their asses kicked in that movie.

>>83356162
I dont remember, I think they dropped a nuke over LA or something. When I saw it in theaters I was too busy wondering what would happen to all the gang bangers in Watts and Compton if ayyys suddenly invaded

>>83356245
That was Skyline, it is in Top Ten Nuke scenes vid on YouTube

>>83356275
Oh yeah! Fuck, that movie was even worse... The nuke scene was GOAT though

>>83344564

The problem with all alien invasion movies is the fact we should get fucked by a race so much more advanced.

So they are always shit because writer must come up with some bullshit reason why humans won in the end.

It's not even a problem with just the movies. Mass Effect suffered from the same problem.

>>83356162
yeah, marines tracked down the thing controlling all the ayyys, and turns out all the aliens were actually just remote controlled drones.

>>83356343
It was a unique Alien Invasion story -stupid but unique.

>>83354144
>>83353384
>implying we couldn't have pooled our resources together in 1960 to build an invasion fleet if we knew where to point it
>implying we couldn't have dropped savage cannibal descendants of our intrepid astronauts, armed with Enfield rifles and F-86s, to try to conquer whatever's out there
>implying there couldn't be ayylmaos dumb enough to try that on us
adding to that
>implying there couldn't be aliens that dehydrate for easier travel
>implying there couldn't be aliens with an instinctual need to fight somebody, that clashes with a cultural need not to fight each other
>implying there couldn't be aliens that want to go mano a mano with primitives for a lark

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>>83354390
Mongols using Chinese siege engineers. New Zealand Gunpowder Wars. Bougainville Conflict.

>>83354339
You're pretty cool.

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>>83354506
>Why doesn't everyone on Star Trek spend their life in a holodeck?
>implying they aren't

>>83356747
>>83356521
>>83354634
There's a super autist on Youtube that makes really great videos about this stuff.

He has one called "Stupid Aliens" the vids are like 30 min long, very detailed and technical, creator has a lisp.

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>>83355873
>anything written by clarke
>not dull and monotonous

>>83356853
Isaac Arthur

because humanity winning is fucking stupid. we'd get curbstomped

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>>83356853
you mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWe8g0zziw

gonna watch it now

>>83356853
>mastery in one subject means they must have mastery in all subjects
Have you ever been to Atomic Rockets? Half of it's good SF speculation and half of it's
>stealth in space is impossible don't even try
>nope, attempting to reduce your heat signature is worthless, everyone will always know where every spaceship is
>no, a solar system with a big enough economy to where you worry about finding spaceships won't ever have enough traffic so you can confuse one heat signature for another
>everyone would have perfect records to track every heat signature to its origin every time
like nigga if everyone were always rational the battle of Karansebes wouldn't have happened

>>83344809

the opening is.

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>>83356942
not if the aliens
>were using tech developed by more advanced aliens on their homeworld that had died out
>were only invading because of political pressure back home and because they're too stupid and lazy to terraform
>had nonhuman psychology that we could exploit to trigger their surrender condition
>were bad at dogfighting Space Shuttles

>>83356973
Yes. I've wasted too much time watching his videos.

>>83356973

>45 seconds in
>i have a speech impediwent
>giggling like crazy

i can't i just can't

>>83355314
>chimps
What? They were ninja turtle squid things

>>83357085
" I do not have an accent"
People are fucking stupid, what sort of accent did they think it was? polish?

>>83357071
Is it automated ? I don't see any room for the crew.

>>83357283

There's a Gemini capsule in the back half. Some poor bastard/brave hero gets to pilot that thing.

>>83354390
Gunpowder
Euros stole it from the chinks and used it better for warfare

>>83354293
Also it was what the Saiyans did in early DBZ

>>83344990
Someone posted all of Rihanna's lines from this.
Not one of her lines is in any way connected to the plot.

>>83355777
Dude was miles ahead. He wrote a war in the air in 1908. Predicted the way being able to strike deep into the enemy's territory through long range bombing would effect WW2

>>83344787
Look at speilberg when he directed saving private ryan and look at war of the worlfs with tom cruise. You know which one the cia told him to tank and ehich one to make the greatest american ww2 propaganda film of all time.

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Best alien invasion film ever is Mars Attacks.

>>83357962
Over 200 posts and someone finally posts it. Step up /tv/

>>83357962
actually any invasion would lead to Earth fuckup. and this is only possible in black comedies as Mars Attack

>>83357962
>>83358298
meme movie

>>83357962

ACK ACK ACK
>does the universal donut sign

NOT MY BLOOD

>>83357962
>>83358298
nigga that movie sucked

>>83355649
its gonna be shit

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>>83353319
>Frank Grillo
>Iko Uwais

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The invasion is not shown, but I like that they tried the super AI idea

>>83355777
It was an analogy to the British Empire. Basically what if the most powerful invasive force on Earth (at the time)was itself invaded by forced immeasurably superior in firepower and technology, much like the Brits were to African tribes or the like.

It's why I think a modern adaption in America actually works really well because at the moment, America is in a similar position to the British Empire in terms of size and technological advantage over their enemies. I think the commentary is the core to War of the Worlds so you have to adapt it to fit modern times. So instead of the Martians colonizing earth with the red weed in Imperial Britain, you could have the Martians simply harvesting Earth's resources (oil if you want to make it really on the nose)

>>83344675
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCAphdQPck
the only good adaptation

>>83344564
darkest hour (2011)
skyline (2010)
in both of these the alien invaders are unkilalble god beings and humans dont stand a chance

>>83347051
I get physically mad when I think back to that scene, I wanted to see that battle so bad.

Can't i just have one Alien invasion movie just following the whole military fighting the aliens and not turn into the bullshit last 2-5 people single handily saving the day at the end of the movie that literally every single one turns into?

>>83344753
>>83350058
I thought it was good up until after they spend the night at their mom's house. Then it just got repetitive and dumb. Robbie's character arc was fucking retarded and the part where they're inside the tripod made me want to kill myself.

The scene near the end with the birds was pretty cool tho I guess..

>>83348558
>did you forget the scene where the only way tom cruise saves his daughter is by having a gun?
He saves her and like a dozen other people (with their help) who were into the tripod.

With grenades.

>>83356973
>invading alien worlds must be a logical undertaking
well, no

>>83356903
"Earthlight" could make a great movie. Civil war between humans in space, fairly new concept.

>>83347072
>>83347036
>what are articles

>>83357962
Still cant get over the fact that Ray Jay was in this fucking movie

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>>83357608
"What's wrong with you, drama queen?
"Get up, princess! Come on!"
"Typical"
"Shut up. Shut up."
"Oh, this gon' be sweet. He hates the man."
"You go mess with him and see what happens!"
"Chicken!"
"Kentucky Fried Chicken!"
"You look like Colonel Sanders, actually."
"Yo, Saunders, ever been in a department run by some kind of Donald Trump/Mike Tyson mutant combo?"
"Nothing, sir."
"If you did, it was only in reference to the fact the you both project great physical intensity, sir."
"I got something, sir, on my camera."
"I don’t know."
"Is this some kind of exercise?"
"You ever seen anything like this?"
"Weird, man."
"Real bad idea, Lieutenant."
"Lieutenant, get up."
"Lieutenant."
"Come on, you with me?"
"Come on, squared away?"
"What the hell is that?"
"Ahhhhhhh!"
"Ahhhhhhh!"
"What happened?"
"What?"
"Who’s in charge?"
"Fire control’s offline. I need three minutes."
"(Heavy sigh)"

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>>83360932
>>83357608

"No, sir!"
"Nothing, sir, nothing."
"Yo, hey!"
"Come on, come on, come on."
"Mahalo, motherfu—"
"What the hell is that?"
"Sir."
"Roger, Echo 1-1."
"Box 24. Ready to fire."
"India 3-7, locked."
"Sir, we’re hot over here. We’re good to go, let’s light ‘em up."
"Tango 1-9, loaded."
"Whiskey 2-5."
"Negative, sir, it’s moving all over the place. I can’t get a line on it."
"Sucker’s really jumping around."
"40 minutes sir."
"Contact is seven minutes out and closing fast."
"Contact two miles out."
"Contact ETA 21 seconds."
"Boom."
"Yeah!"
"Get up!"
"Let’s go!"
"Go, go, go!"
"Yes, sir."
"Oh yes sir."
"Awesome."
"Sir, we’ll be in weapons range in five minutes."
"Aimed at target."
"Sir, that’s the wrong direction!"
"Sir."
"Coordinates."
"Elevation."
"Come on, take the picture, Beast."
"Navy!"
"Come on, Hopper!"
"Look dapper!"

>>83355873
So long as we continue to assert that there were NO sequels to Rendezvous with Rama.

>>83346170

But that tripod has at least 4, if not 5 legs we can see, its a quadpod.

WHERE IS MY WAR OF THE WORLD REMAKE SET IN THE ORIGINAL TIME PERIOD WITH JEFF WAYNE SOUNDTRACK???

>>83355873
The City and the Stars would be good adventure kino

>>83359629
How would it not.
Either the invading specie is logical enough to understand the plan makes little sense, either it's not logical and wouldn't have make this far spacefaring.

>>83354698
They were running towards the battle field to see what was going on and/or of the military stood a chance. Once they got to the top of the hill, a lot of people started running back. Very few actually joined the fight like robbie.

>>83355450
That kind of happened anyway in the 05 movie, and the movie suffered because of it.

>>83344787
Wow. Wooow. This is way too many redpills at once man, go easy with them. Don't display your power level so openly, or else ((((((((((((they)))))))))))) will notice something's going on.

>>83355990
>>83356045
>>83356086
The movie was supposed to be a somewhat realistic look at a single father trying to survive and alien invasion and protect his kids, not saving private Ryan with tripods.
>despite how cool that could have been

I want a Jeff Wayne Musical movie.

day of the triffids
invasion of the body snatchers

why can't we get reboots that would actually be interesting rather than the garbage 20 year rule we have at the moment?

>>83349828
>>83350195
>they're demons they just behave exactly like extraterrestrial aliens

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>>83346588
>>83346010
>>83345800

>>83361631
It's the tentacles, 3 legs, 2 tentacles.

I have a soft spot for Skyline. The dialogue is terrible and it's cliched as fuck, but the invasion is brilliant. They're just harvesters milking the planet for all that it has as efficiently as possible. It's pretty much how I imagined a realistic alien invasion would be. We wouldn't stand a chance and they would have the harvesting down to a fine art from plenty of experience.

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>>83351247
>>83347263


You should probably get weapons but they'd be babby tier against a tripod. You use them against psychos who lost all of their morality, and against the occasional martian bold enough to fuck around outside its tripod.

Also, there are different tripod classes suited for different roles.

And the martians themselves should look absolutely grotesque, like borderline make-you-puke-just-by-looking-at-them nasty.

>>83344564
Alien Invasion films arent made because the directors cant come with hacked ways as to why humans would win the war.

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>>83344564

Post yfw that scene where the aliens put people in cages and they get sucked into the tripod's anuses.

>>83354634

So Battlefield Earth?

Germs are just as stupid as virus from Independence Day.

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>>83368457

Or Colony.

The first half of Independence Day was god-tier then quickly turned to shit

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>>83356017

I liked Battleship desu

I enjoyed that the aliens weren't just mindless drones programmed for murder, they were soldiers on an advance mission, they exercised discretion, they went in to save their buddy. It's not something you usually get in these movies.

And overall it was just a fun movie.

its a conspiracy OP

Pacific Rim is GOAT desu

>>83368889

It really wasn't bad as far as mindless action movies go.

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>no blindsight adaptation ever
>no echopraxia adaptation either

>>83344753
Dude WotW 2005 was fine, fuck off. That ending though but whatever.

>>83344884
You are like a little baby.

I still want a 2005 WOTW version from the militaries perspective. Maybe even from Ferriers son after splitting up with his senpai.

>>83367864
>And the martians themselves should look absolutely grotesque, like borderline make-you-puke-just-by-looking-at-them nasty.
I like your attitude. It sucks that no one can go balls to the wall like this because of marketing and having to turn profits from normies etc.

>>83344990
I actually really liked this.

The trick to enjoying it is considering humanity the bad guys.

>homeworld is invaded and destroyed by war
>flee
>drifting through space
>yo we found a habitable planet
>crash into satellite
>FUC SENPAITACHI OUR COMMS ARAY GOT BUSTED
>get shot at by fucking faggot primates
>only disable direct threats
>still get fucked up by the monkeys

>>83367373
COME ON THUNDERCHILD

>>83370346
War?

>>83370407
This