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Unintentionally Hilarious!


"Invader" (AKA "Lifeform") has got to be the most comedic sci-fi thriller I have EVER seen. The litany of dumb behaviors of the scientists and the cheesiness of the whole production, including the acting is just too much!



Here, I'll start the ball rolling:


1. The woman scientist, while wearing a fully functional contamination suit, asks one of the unprotected soldiers to help her lift up and bring an obviously diseased and contagious fellow soldier into the lab room.

2. The woman scientist blames the military head of the department of defense for allowing the alien larva escape from the containment room when it was her irresponsible action of locking herself in there with the spacecraft in defiance of an executive order that forced him to break down the containment door.

3. The woman scientist uses protective latex gloves to reach inside an alien life form , but the rest of her arms are unprotected and exposed, within less of an inch , of the gooey alien flesh.


An inventory of the silliness of this movie could fill up a book.






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ALIEN POD
Though every function of the Lander - which always remained the only realistic part of the movie - was detailed by an expert in it, okay it took half a day to notice the strange tacked-on alien pod, but only to sort of casually ignore Earth's first alien evidence after!

LOOSE ALIEN
Just like when the alien runs amok, they hang around talking some more like people off the street who had no clue, because no official reality existed in the unnamed building for rent, err compound, which was always unclear if military, or scientific, or hilarious? Or neither.

BIG ALIEN
Just as it was always unclear was the alien from ALIEN (that grew in 24 hours again). INDEPENDENCE DAY (at least it's head had a heat shield), ET (those touchy feely arms and hands were so cute), or The BLOB (the dumb-cracking Army guy)? So better to be all just to be safe? It wasn't a strong individual, and had a bad alien identity crisis of maximum split personality disorder.

VIKING LIFT OFF
Though fitted with engines, I doubt the Viking - the lander part designed only for landing, not spaceflight - would have had power or fuel or even ability to take off from Mars, let alone be steered or programmed for Earth.

TOTAL SUSPENSION OF BELIEF
I just can't understand why they make this stuff and don't bother to lay the essential foundation of reality because belief goes out the window after the first scene and the film is ruined. As much as I wanted to like this movie.
They also had to address how and why the Viking didn't burn up.

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