Sci-fi Movies
Sci-fi Movies (Classics, Bombs, Upcoming Releases) posted in General Zone forum comment posted by derek_holland Alien Invasion: SUM1 is a deeply stupid movie, but it allowed me to realize why I have such a dislike for these films.
- The premise is flawed. The soldier suffers paranoia for no good reason. The aliens exist and there should be recordings and carcasses of them that should be required viewing for the entire military and most of the civilian population.
- The aliens, called Nonsuch, are monsters. They are massive things that look like plant/squid hybrids that have no technology. Without technology, how do they move between worlds?
- The reaction to the field going down is pointless and stupid. The military strikes are random and we do not see any Nonsuch being hit. In fact the hits we do see are no where near any of them.
The frustrating thing is there is some money invested in this turkey and the cast is decent. I could get it if it was a high school project with newbies doing everything, but it is far from that.
That all being said, such stupid films are good in one way- we can rail against them and figure out how to avoid those flaws in our games. Show the aliens using tech*, having the human military act intelligently, give good reasons why obvious flaws in plans exist. This isn't rocket science people!
* Oddly, the other alien invasion film I watched was Gamera 2: Legion and that one does not show them using tech but it does infer they may be bio-tech and gave them a nasty method of traveling between planets. It is also the opposite of SUM1 in almost every way (in terms of story).
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