They've pretty much boiled it down to a science. As the film opens, they've long since infiltrated every facet of human society, subliminally coaxing their hapless slaves to consume and obey while the aliens themselves plunder Earth for all her precious, precious natural resources. The Aliens from They Live (1988) The aliens in this 1988 John Carpenter classic might just be the most successful invaders in the history of cinema. Result? The tripods crash and burn with a serious bout of flu, leaving a glib Tom Cruise to gloat another day. some bright spark in the Martian Attack Force forgot to add vaccination to the mission itinerary. Towering over cities like evil Robin Reliants, the Tripods reduce a panicked mankind to piles of ash with their patented death rays (leaving the lesser Martian race of Dustbusters to tidy up) and generally stomp their way to total domination. Paaaarrrrp! That sound? The people of Earth crapping their collective pants. The Tripods from War of the Worlds (2005) Hooooonnnnk! That sound you just heard is the war cry of the Martian Tripods: giant, three-legged alien ships buried deep beneath the Earth's crust. Only by abandoning his puny human body and embracing his inner Na'vi did Jake Sully save his new home world. The humans spent this movie strip-mining the lush world of Pandora and bombing all the Na'vi's favorite trees. James Cameron flipped that formula on its head by making humans the greedy, imperialist enemy and the noble, peaceful Na'vi the heroes of this epic sci-fi adventure. Play Most alien invasion movies cast humanity as the underdog. You know what ruins a perfectly good night out on the town? How about everyone you know being killed and replaced by a legion of biomechanical androids who are controlled by a super intelligent, possibly artificial, alien hivemind? The Network, as it’s called in The World’s End, may sound nice (it is, after all, voiced by legendary British actor Bill Nighy), but make no mistake, its intentions are as dark and misguided as any other alien race on this list. Thankfully for humanity’s sake, a pre-Star Wars John Boyega and his gang of street ruffians were there to give the hairy hellions a nice earthly welcome. Dark, densely populated, and not exactly a hotbed of military activity, is what we're saying. Not only were these giant, gorilla-like monsters brutally efficient in their task, traveling and breeding more like spores than mammals - they also chose to make South London the staging ground for their bloody takeover of Earth. The aliens in Attack the Block packed a double whammy.
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