Don't get the hate


6.6 seems really low for this kind of movie. I thought it was hilarious and thrilling. I like how they didn't make the aliens impossible to kill like in most movies, but still strong enough to be a match against baseball bats and fireworks. I'd give it a solid 8 or so.

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People don't like the movie because the protagonists are "good for nothing thugs" and they don't see the arc/message of the movie.

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Agreed. Totally despicable characters. Had the aliens been slightly more anthropomorphic I would have been rooting for them. As it was I just didn't care either way.

"Never eat yellow snow" 

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What made them despicable exactly? They robbed ONE person and they were more scared than she was. They were raised in an environment where the only successful person was a drug kingpin. They thought that that was the only way to stay alive. However, when you give them a chance to be good, they saved the planet

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All the kids in the film were not "thugs", so stop exaggerating. You're only saying that because they're black----you wouldn't even be calling them "thugs" if they were white.

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I agree. I would give it a 7.3 at least.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.

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It's a solid 7. I always assumed it was much-loved cult film. I'm surprised by the amount of hate it gets. My only critism is the little dog died at the beginning. I hate it when that happens.

You keep on reminding me of a darkness only I can see

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I didn't like it because A) the protagonists were lowlifes, and I had no sympathy or empathy for them because of it, and B) the aliens were so weak as to be almost completely non-threatening. A five-year-old could have killed them.

I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke.

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The protagonists were young, immature kids who did something stupid--robbing that one lady, but she is the only person they do that to in the film, and those aliens were growling, dangerous-as-hell monsters. Just admit you hated the characters because they were black. Funny how I don't usually see this much hate directed at white characters who do even worse things in the movies.

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