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01-17-2009, 10:23 PM
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ROT Minister of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Old School, Texas
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Someone Please explain...
...why in the Sci-Fi movies we always try and kill/capture the Alien...Starman and TDTESS still come to mind...If they have the Technology/Intelligence to reach Earth...Why do we think they would be the only one coming...or could come...?...And what makes us think by taking them out would reduce the threat from their Civilization rather than increasing it...?...I don't get it... 
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01-17-2009, 10:34 PM
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If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Nuff
...why in the Sci-Fi movies we always try and kill/capture the Alien...Starman and TDTESS still come to mind...If they have the Technology/Intelligence to reach Earth...Why do we think they would be the only one coming...or could come...?...And what makes us think by taking them out would reduce the threat from their Civilization rather than increasing it...?...I don't get it... |
My guess would be that Hollywood likes to portray us as dumb as possible? 
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01-17-2009, 10:35 PM
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
Join Date: May 2007
Location: the girl who waited....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Nuff
...why in the Sci-Fi movies we always try and kill/capture the Alien...Starman and TDTESS still come to mind...If they have the Technology/Intelligence to reach Earth...Why do we think they would be the only one coming...or could come...?...And what makes us think by taking them out would reduce the threat from their Civilization rather than increasing it...?...I don't get it... |
as my mother would say " Its Entertainment" LOL
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01-17-2009, 10:42 PM
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
Join Date: Feb 2006
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if the aliens were smart they would just land in mexico then come across the border to america so they would be accepted with open arms
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01-17-2009, 10:44 PM
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ROT Minister of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Old School, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hawkeyethearcher
if the aliens were smart they would just land in mexico then come across the border to america so they would be accepted with open arms
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And get all of the benefits without paying for them...Why didn't I think of that...?...
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01-18-2009, 02:50 AM
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Explain SciFi movies? Shh... Shh... Don't even try... They don't make sense! 
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01-18-2009, 03:29 AM
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You got red on you
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia
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Because humans are stupid.
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01-18-2009, 06:32 AM
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Statue Forum MacDaddy
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Because who would watch a 2 hour movie where aliens land and then we all just sit around a table chatting about how a faster than light drive actually works and that no we can't build one because one of the required parts doesn't exist on Earth.
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01-18-2009, 10:36 AM
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The Flash
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
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I would say because most movies aren't trying to predict what will happen with our actual first contact with an intelligent alien life form.
They are trying to entertain.
They are using a sci-fi setting to explore our own xenophobia and our willingness to believe that all of our problems are the fault of someone else.
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01-18-2009, 12:46 PM
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan_Lebou
Because who would watch a 2 hour movie where aliens land and then we all just sit around a table chatting about how a faster than light drive actually works and that no we can't build one because one of the required parts doesn't exist on Earth.
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Sounds like a summer blockbuster. lol
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