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The problem with this movie...

posted 11 years ago by ydobon-1
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the film for what it was, but it has the same problem as most low-budget 50's SciFi movies; The aliens are automatically evil.

Nyah comes to Earth, traps the locals and announces that she's going to kidnap some of the men and forcibly take them back to Mars with her. What did that get her? It pissed off the locals and her ship gets blown up in the end.

Now imagine if she had landed and said "I'm from Mars, which is full of women. We need men to come to our planet and breed with us. Any volunteers?" She would have had to call for more ships.

It's hard to take a movie seriously when a supposedly advanced race is so blatantly stupid. If they'd spent even a couple days studying the Earth, they'd have known that all they needed to do was ask for volunteers and men would be lining up for a shot at making the trip.

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[–] persen1 11 years ago

Heh, look at the majority of todays sci-fi movies where aliens comes to Earth, they are still evil.
People obviously wants that kind of stuff, instead of movies such as Close Encounters, E.T or Cocoon, where they are friendly.

[–] ydobon-1 11 years ago

Heh, look at the majority of todays sci-fi movies where aliens comes to Earth, they are still evil.

Yes, but movies should at least have a good reason for making the aliens evil. I mean if they want the planet or the resources for themselves, then it makes sense to just wipe out the human race. However, when humans are what they want, and it's for a purpose that not only doesn't harm us, but which many people would find desirable, it makes much more sense to simply ask for help.

You come up with a delicious new food recipe and you want to get some other people's opinions. Do you simply invite people over for a free meal, or do you go out, kidnap a bunch of people and force them to eat your food?

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[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

It was the 50's. There were Reds under beds every where.🐭

[–] Wuchak (8081) 4 years ago

it has the same problem as most low-budget 50's SciFi movies; The aliens are automatically evil... It's hard to take a movie seriously when a supposedly advanced race is so blatantly stupid.

Nyah's problem was that she was arrogant, which means she had a chronic case of superiority complex. She felt it was beneath her to kindly work with humans, even though it would've made her mission successful.

The film's a denouncement of the folly of hubris. It's a great moral.