you do know thats what sci-fi is, and always has been? its merely a modern visual and plot aid to explore human emotions...star wars is a love story & good vs evil, the terminator was essentially star crossed lovers in kyle reese and sarah connor, wall-e and eve etc etc...
Completely different. Not only were those better movies, but they MAINTAINED the sci-fi element throughout the entire story.
Yes, I get that (good) sci-fi can be used to explore the human condition, but this film doesn't. The sci-fi element in this film is unnecessary and isn't explored the way it could have or should have been. Watch The Quiet Earth. That's a better version of this kind of film.
of course there are those who only see the surface veneer of hi-tech and big budget sci fi flicks and take them as just that, and thats fine, but dont try and claim that reasoning as your own and the only one, others are delivered the nuances of human intricacies through such vehicles
I just felt a little cheated. It would be like watching a movie called "Ghost House" and there are no ghosts, or people just talk about ghosts, or the ghost just hangs out in the background and goes away after 30 minutes and never has any real effect on the plot.
Don't try to cash in love, that check will always bounce.
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guillermo-valverde-mk2
11 years ago
The sci-fi element in this film is unnecessary and isn't explored the way it could have or should have been.
What are you talking about. The presence of the alien spacecraft is essential for the story to happen. Its just that the writer did not want to explore the story of the alien invasion. Many films have already done that. Instead the writer wanted to tell a different story about the effect of the UFO on some unimportant characters in the grand scale of things.
I appreciate that the film is not for you and I understand why some people might not like it. But the sci-fi elements are essential for the story to unfold as it does.
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C.S.Wood
11 years ago
What are you talking about. The presence of the alien spacecraft is essential for the story to happen. Its just that the writer did not want to explore the story of the alien invasion. Many films have already done that. Instead the writer wanted to tell a different story about the effect of the UFO on some unimportant characters in the grand scale of things.
I appreciate that the film is not for you and I understand why some people might not like it. But the sci-fi elements are essential for the story to unfold as it does.
I realize it's been a while since I've seen this but the alien spaceship could have literally been almost anything else. It could have been a giant floating statue or a huge bagel or something.
But my main complaint about the movie has more to do with false advertising. The title and the cover suggests it's a story about aliens and it's not and that bummed me out because I haven't seen too many Spanish films featuring aliens.
It would be like if the movie Snakes on a Plane only showed the actual plane with snakes from a distance and the entire film was about people discussing this barely scene plane with snakes on it without actually being on the plane or seeing the snakes.
I didn't hate the movie but I was expecting one kind of movie and got a (let's face it) less interesting movie instead.
Don't try to cash in love, that check will always bounce.
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guillermo-valverde-mk2
11 years ago
The sci-fi element in this film is unnecessary and isn't explored the way it could have or should have been.
What are you talking about. The presence of the alien spacecraft is essential for the story to happen. Its just that the writer did not want to explore the story of the alien invasion. Many films have already done that. Instead the writer wanted to tell a different story about the effect of the UFO on some unimportant characters in the grand scale of things.
I appreciate that the film is not for you and I understand why some people might not like it. But the sci-fi elements are essential for the story to unfold as it does.
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emvan
9 years ago
The sci-fi premise here is brilliant and essential.
Aliens invade. There are many, many versions of that story where the alien ships simply appear above major cities and do, for a while, nothing ... because all of those stories are ripping off Arthur C. Clarke's classic Childhood's End.
That raises the question: how does the mere mysterious presence of the alien ships effect people's behavior, in the days (maybe a week or so) before their purpose is revealed?
Well, this is a hilarious take on that. In that period where the alien purposes and methodology remain unknown, paranoia blooms. Without the alien ship, there is no suspicion (or feigned suspicion) among the characters that one of them may be an alien in disguise, and that drives the entire plot. At no point does that become unimportant. Sure, the couple in a one-night stand might make up some crazy lies to tell the cheated-on boyfriend, but they wouldn't remotely resemble these lies, all of which intimately involve the alien invasion. And they wouldn't be anywhere as funny.
Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.
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