I enjoyed "Without Warning" and watch whenever I can but I have a question after we "saved" Moscow Washington and Bejing from destruction where do all those astroieds come from that start raining down on Earth ? if Aliens were peacful why do they start sending all the asteroids raining down on Earth ?
sharebecause we angered them
shareThe aliens loved trick or treat as much as the humans. So they're coming in peace was a trick and them smashing our planet to bits with many asteroids was a treat for them. They probably got the asteroids all the way from the asteroid belt.
shareYes, the alien equivalent of "TP your house" is apparently "asteroid your planet".
"*beep* Mickey Mouse. *beep* him in the *beep* with a big rubber dick!"
I believe this was intentionally left unexplained, as a mystery Earth would never discover because it was destroyed. We never learned War of the Worlds (the inspiration for this film) why the aliens chose to invade earth, either - at least not in the original novel, 1950s movie, or the Orson Welles radio play.
Because "they" (the meteors were ufo's) came in peace and we stupid humans blew them to kingdom come. It pissed them off so they send a whole army of them crashing toward earth.
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I couldn't agree more. I have already contributed my review of this movie several years back expressing the same sentiments, and what I noted at the time was that this just fit into a standard Hollywood cliched way of thinking that goes all the way back to "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (a very overrated film and no less pompous) in which ALWAYS, aliens visiting Earth who get a suspicious reaction are the good guys and if we show any hostile response then that shows how evil and barbaric humanity is and why we supposedly "deserved it." But come off, it suppose you wrote a Star Trek episode where Kirk sent an unmanned probe to an alien planet (because after all aliens weren't living on these rocks, were they????) and then after the planet's worried populace destroyed this, Kirk decided to teach them a lesson by destroying the planet? Well naturally Kirk would be the barbarian mass murderer, and that in effect is EXACTLY what these aliens are in this movie, but the writers of this movie are too dumb and dense to realize this because they're so full of the stupid cliche of other films about paranoid Earthlings in the military ignoring the long-haired scientists who supposedly know better.
That said, as much as I hate this movie's sermonizing, it's still hard to avoid revisiting from time to time just because of the novelty of the format. But always, deliver a giant razzberry or a simple "BULLS---!" at the top of your voice the instant Sandy Vanocur finishes with his inappropriate Shakespeare quote.
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The aliens sent the final wave of asteroids to kill us all because we fired on their second and third waves of asteroids. If the US Government had checked out what the scientists and the two who were affected by the crash sites then the message that was being sent back to earth may have shown extra terrestrial life. But same as always the US Government used their tactic of shoot first ask questions later and therefore plunged the earth into the catastrophe that happens at the end of the movie.
I love Without Warning and have seen it several times. I hope this helps you.
Don't trust the Government!!!!!
Seems to me the aliens were the ones who decided to "shoot first and ask questions later" when they decided destroying their asteroids that had no sentinent life on them (they were the equivalent of a probe) was a justification to committ mass genocide on a grand scale.
Sorry bub, the real killers in this movie were the aliens. And the morons who wrote this film were too dense to realize that elementary bit of common sense.
I would be pissed being an alien who has travelled a long way to earth(on invitation:the Voyager message) and then having my probes nuked out of the sky. The earth people are the morons here, not the aliens.
The only thing i don't get is why the people in that town were kidnapped...
If you're an alien and you're pissed because the people who live in the area you chose to trespass on with unmanned probes shot them down, and decided to then kill all the people to teach them a lesson, then that not only makes you the alien a moron but a genocidal maniac of the first order.
Again, just transpose that scenario to one of Captain Kirk doing the *same* thing to the people of an alien planet, and the point becomes all the more clear.
i didnt think to see it from this POV. why? probably because ive been accustomed to the idea that: people bad....aliens good...US evil...the rest of the world kum-bay-aye.
i agree with your comment. further, one might ask: if this alien civilization had the technical knowledge to pull this off, you would think they might consider the response to their actions...and would say "woah! they just blew up our probes...lets go about this differently". nope. because like you imply, the burden is always on, well, us.
I think you're the only one so far to mention the Voyager message. Basically Earth sent out an invite and they answered with the three original asteroids which, if I remember right fell in sparsely populated areas. Unfortunately their message of quoting our message got broken up into syllables instead of words and we only got two-thirds of it. (China refused to release details of their probe.) So in essence, we sent the invitation, they knocked on our door, and we punched them in the head. When they tried again with the second wave of asteroids/probes, we blew those out of the sky, proving that we were the violent threat, hence the thousands of astroid hit that followed. At least that's the way I saw it.
shareThe fourth meteor was not simply a rock. It was ship.
Inside was either their leader or envoy. We killed one of their own, someone important. The resulting fall out was their retaliation.
There was no indication it was a ship. And if it was, wouldn't it have been prudent to send a radio signal (preferably in one of our languages, remember they had the Voyager record, they could have simply broadcasted the recording back to us...we would have gotten the hint) instead of dropping by unannounced?
shareBecause, obviously, the aliens weren't all that peaceful. An advanced civilization sophisticated enough to travel parsecs to visit our little backwater should have more elan than to fling 3 2.5km chunks of rock at a planet, even if they landed in low density areas and aligned themselves as the bottom of a geometric shape. Hell of a way to say "hi." The "Avram Mandel" character was a nice "chicken little" touch. Yes, slick production, and when I was younger, it left some chills in my stomach, but with maturity, the basic flaw of the script shows...it's all humans fault, because we took offence at someone pelting us with huge rocks.
Perhaps the aliens real angle was that they were testing our planetary defenses, and found them wanting, and took advantage.
AVRAM: What if this was Jesus? Or Buddah? Or a prophet of old?
Well, Avi, they must be throwing a temper tantrum.
Oh Good Heavens. The character of Avram Mandel was painful to watch. Talk about a guy who never had a girlfriend in his whole life. Him and that other guy who sat at his computer saying, "Now if you'll notice, the meteorites landed in the shape of a triangle...And there was a triangle in the probe that we sent into outer space!! Viola!!"
I had to snort and giggle at the Military guy who in response said something like, "You know, pal, this isn't a Star Trek convention".
I hope to see the movie again after many, many years, tomorrow twice on max prime east and west latin america
it was a great movie, about the ending, remember the final quote, we where the problem
the only thing that I didn´t like was the people dissapearing on that little town
I fell like slapping Avram. Annoying whiny bitch.
shareA civilisation that can hurl asteroids at a planet, and break them up at a distance; can telepathically communicate through people; and can magicaly abduct the population of an entire town, has basically unlimited powers. So why throw an asteroid at earth? Aren't there more sophisticated ways to show your powers, or to communicate?
The answer would be by analogy with Soviet and American bombers constantly probing at each others borders during the Cold War. The purpose is to test defences, not to communicate or destroy.
They wanted to see whether we would or could react to the first asteroids. We didn't or couldn't. So to make sure they tried with a second asteroid. When we did destroy that they sent more. When they found we could defeat those too, they sent more. But by that time they realised that the enemy could only be neutralised with overwhelming force. They meant to wipe us out from the beginning. The attempts at communication were just a red herring.
Because when the 2nd "Asteroid" was coming they United States Air Force blew it up with nuclear weapons. The 2nd asteroid I am thinking was some sort of spaceship.
shareThe people who vanished were from a religious community called faith. Maybe it was aliens, maybe it was God. Sounds like the rapture, all the faithful being taken before the end of the world..............
Just a thought on what the writers were thinking
thats very strange to me, since most people that I know who are believers in an impending "rapture" are the most coarse, rude, and elitist chaps.
shareEnding? Earth was Destroyed by Aliens because we fired upon them and they thought we started a war and they destroyed the earth with asterroids !!
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