There always seems to be a trend in alien movies, that rather than try to come up with a logical, sensible, or at least practical scenario in which aliens would invade, with a set of rules of what the aliens are and are not capable of, instead of just cherry picking what "sci-fi" ability you want and treating it like magic instead of like there's an establish code of physics. Granted, there are major problems with most alien movies, such as, why are they here in the first place, and why would they invade us? If they can travel across the galaxy they likely have fusion and those no need for our meager resources, since Jupiter would have 300 times our earth's mass worth of hydrogen anyways, and they could probably go to other areas for dark energy or what have you to power a hyper drive and sustain a wormhole.
The question other than "why earth"; "why attack" which are more obvious.
Why are Aliens always naked?
From my experience, aliens in movies always seem to show up naked. You've got these brilliant, super intelligent beings from another planet coming towards us, but they can't quite figure out the hard pressed science of making clothes. I mean, you'd think at least if they're entering another atmosphere or space or something they would have at least considered the benefit of wearing a spacesuit or something similar. Instead nooo, we always get invaded by the nudist colonies. Think about the ramifications of that; is this some kind of weird sick pervy thing among alien conquerors, or do they just not give a shit. "I'll invade their country, risk being killed by nukes and advanced technology that we aren't aware they have, murder billions in genocide, but I'm not gonna do it out of my underwear God damn it!" Is it some kind of big "fuck you" to those being conquered, and if so why?
I think we all know signs suffers significantly from that problem. Although in District 9 and Independence day they do at least have mecha suits (which they're strangely naked inside of) and some clothing, although nothing that would pass for someone other than a stripper. Why do we always get the nudist aliens? "Thank you! No thank you! ...God, how come we get all these people keep coming to our door all the time, and where do they keep coming from? Are they from the same group or what? I think this is illegal..."</p>
They can travel MILLIONS of miles just to get here... But!
They seem to have trouble with pantry doors, being insufficiently advanced aliens. Why is it that aliens can master space travel, but they can't seem to fight humans; and why are the battles over in like a week? The war in Iraq has taken like 26 years, but I'm supposed ot believe that by some magic shit, whether by throwing water at them with bacteriums or what have in them, that they'll just whiter and die? Millions of miles, hyper drives, advanced technology that explodes people into dust, and it's over in like a week or two. What is up with that? Independence day, War of the World's, basically any movie and the aliens seem to be so bad at being the conquerors they supposedly are. Signs is the epitome of this problem.
Like, for them to even be able to get over here, they would require a degree of capabilities that implies the ability to make the said weapons they would use to conquer us; perquisite precursor technology to the next advancements which they apparently have. Like, nuclear power required for spaceflight, or a type of weapon other than something similar to a gun which can be operated by human hands. I mean, just makes it fantasy if you don't want to involve science at all or think about things.
3. How come in all the alien movies, they always end up looking like us?
Edited by Manoka, 03 September 2014 - 02:27 PM.