it would honestly be hard to sell a movie with an alien invasion plotline today because can you imagine an alien occupation worse than how we're governed right now? i say we let the aliens from Independence Day try their best
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Also, imagine the Trump administration trying to handle an alien encounter?
They would definitely shoot first and bring devastation upon the earth.
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I reckon they’d do the telepathy thing with the tentacles, realize certain folks have doo-doo (or worms) upstairs, and prob pack up shop post-haste as our “resources” would literally poison their hive-mind and lead to apoptosis.
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How about the Borg? At least we'd all be working together for mutual benefit.
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In normal world, aliens invade humanity. In Trumpian America, humanity invades aliens
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Hey, at least the Goa'uld know how to party.
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I am absolutely convinced intelligent life has looked at Earth and just decided to pass on by in disgust.
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That would be a great sci fi premise, the aliens invade and actually govern fairly, promote democracy and support human rights and technology for health and environment. Half the planet loves this and the other half fights them because aliens.
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We'll see when they complete the Three Body Problem show...
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I need to reread War of the Worlds because I can't remember if the tripods destroy Westminster. I hope so.
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"Come. We cannot save ourselves. I will help you conquer this world." - Ye Wenjie, Three Body Problem
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Kind of funny that in ID4 they felt get had to explain the alien villains as locusts to get across to the audience when now the concept of an alien just wanting to drain everything is so common now that there is never a need for an explanation.
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Posadist sci-fi, your time has come.
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Isn’t this the plot from Battle Los Angeles?
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If any aliens come to America today, it won’t be an invasion. It’ll be a fucking rescue mission.
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Comedian Trae Crowder has that bit (to paraphrase) where the aliens land and everyone rushes towards them, put the barrels of their ray guns to their own heads and holler: "Just FUCKING DO IT!" 😆
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Two quotes came to mind. "I picked a hell of a day to quit drinking," and "Hello, boys! I'm BAAAAAACK!"
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I have had an idea for a story called something like 'Traitor'. It's about a guy the alien invaders put in charge of Earth after they destroy all our weapons and force us to start cleaning up the planet while ending poverty and disease. He has to contend with terrorists trying to expel the aliens.
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This is essentially the plot to The Three Body Problem
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Hell, xenomorphs and predators seem like a pretty decent bet right now. As long as they start with the billionaires and politicians I say go for it.
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"We have a problem with this 'Earth' planet. They've achieved all the social requirements for Federation membership in record time..."
"Sounds great!"
"....by slaughtering their leaders in a vast and brutal crusade."
"Ah."
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Mars Attacks? Sounds good to me
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i think the 2016 series "colony" did a pretty good job of offering aliens that are both sinister and inscrutable. also their quisling human police forces all wore red helmets...
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Its easy to imagine something worse, a third-world client state of the US. Or how about Palestine? Gringos please stop.
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Nuke ‘em. Let’s nuke the bastards.
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honestly you could make a movie about aliens invading no to occupy us but to liberate us from our shitty government(s) out of pity and people would eat it up
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It would just be a different kind of movie, as the president orders our F-16s to provide a military escort to the saucers as they destroy our nation's high density population centers.
"Today is our Independence Day, From the threat of Blue voters!"
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I don’t ask for much. Can we have the aliens just blow up the White House ballroom?
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If only the Martians from War of the World's weren't anti vaxxers.
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Aliens would be so pissed that we put up no resistance. They geared up for an occupation only to be unwillingly thrust into a liberation. Galactic war whiplash.
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In the last decade disaster movies are out, superhero movies and sequels are in. The entertainment industry decided audiences wanted to feel safe and also not challenged intellectually in any way.
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Reality is looking more and more "They Live" www.imdb.com/title/tt0096...
They were raiding homeless encampments in it, too.
They Live (1988) ⭐ 7.2 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
1h 34m | R
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What about Chairman Meow?
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'They're gonna eat us!' 'Refreshing, honestly.
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reminds me of that season 1 rick and morty thing where Earth got occupied by an alien force and most americans just shrugged and went back to work saying "oh, we're being paid in WorkHarder drugs and this new space money? this feels like an upgrade"
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Earth: Final Conflict a 90's sci-fi show from the late Gene Roddenberry. That will have you covered. It starts right with " good, we've been taken care off" and goes to "nah rather not being shocktroops in an interstellar war" Its so 90's.
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Alien invasion as a feel good movie
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Feel-good "Alien: Earth" vibes
Alien: Earth | FINAL TRAILER 'Species 37' | 4K
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"no, we said take us to your LEADER, I don't know who this clown is but he's clearly not someone you'd put in charge of a coffee run, let alone the world's largest military"
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The Combine is still a pretty hellish and terrifying alien occupying force, but that's also basically worldwide fascism.
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"It's a cookbook!" was a happy ending, actually
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I for one welcome our new alien overlords
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What did they want anyway?
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That's why THEY LIVE is the perfect alien invasion movie, because it already happened and those that know sold humanity out for wealth and power.
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What about an alien invasion, but they are capitalists too?
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I want the yogurt people to appear from the Love, Death, and Robots animation. 😅
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I would actually like to see this play out. The aliens invade but they actually get strong human support and it completely changes their plans. What would that look like politically? Culturally? How would our world turn out when they aliens don't just kill us all?
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that's why I voted for Kodos
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Good idea.
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Good post, interesting comments in the thread. From another angle, we have all these movies and video games where there is heroic resistance to authoritarianism (alien or human) but really most people want to sit around and whinge about it.
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ship me off to Area X buckaroo, i'm ready to become a whole new ecosystem
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Aliens: ‘People of earth, we are here to take over and kill your leaders!’
Us: ‘Oh thank gawd!!’
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We deserve Skynet.
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i was typing out a post about how the aliens are only interested in our natural resources and would leave the earth barren but then remembered "oh right. capitalism."
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I would welcome Mars Attacks. Disintegrate me while Tom Jones sings me off.
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They may squash you underfoot with one of their tripod war machines and it’s never pleasant when one of your friends becomes a pod person but on the upside they don’t seem to care what bathroom people use and honestly they’re quite keen on the “viable stock”staying healthy with vaccines and medicine
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the bugs from Starship Troopers? we should be so lucky.
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I'd be the dumb bitch on top of a skyscraper with a poster
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Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
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#pedopotus
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Escape from New York is just "Awwww, so cute" nowadays.
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Peace? No peace
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I'd be that girl on the roof
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We're always told to vote for the lesser evil, right? Any of these would win a landslide
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The Vulcan landing in Star Trek is basically a subversion of an alien invasion story. They show up and basically just hanging out in San Francisco and tell us to chill the fuck out as Earth rebuilds and after a century everything is fine.
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You could easily come up with something like the Combine from Half Life 2. Just imagine an authoritarian government that suppresses biology and tortures its victims worse than AM.
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It could be fun to do a movie where most people are like, "yeah, Team Aliens over here!"
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Say what you will about the Killer Klowns, at least they were entertaining about it.
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Peace? No peace
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The V aliens might as well be the Trump administration.
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Will Smith not punching the alien: "welcome to Earth!"
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Kang v Kodos still stands up youtu.be/AuYsZUMuj0M?...
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The aliens from battle field earth
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This is by far the best scene
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Or the idea that we’d cooperate and fight back LOL
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Broadcasting the right websites into the void so the Imperial Fleet deletes our world for Heresy
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Foolish humans we are here to kill your leaders and bring you into the Kallathenlen Empire!!! That's them over there boss.
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They at least blew up the White House that’s gotta count for something
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Zombie movies are unrealistic now since we know a death plague isn’t what the global public deems a deal-breaker.
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Only time I ever get depressed now is when they announce the asteroid won't hit us.
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You watch most Hollywood movies from the second half of the 20th century and a crucial underlying "truth" that they hinge upon is America as a force of good and a moral North Star. That might never have been true, but seems laughable now
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What if they made movies to reflect on what's going on already and different ways to see it and cope with it and therefore connect with other people over it and make friends instead of boring slop that just tries to surprise people too stupid to remember what just happened 3 seconds ago.
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I remember reading some image board poats that played with this exact concept but with the awakening of some ancient fantasy Dark Lord a la Sauron.
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Time to watch the original '80's version of V. It's literally an adaptation of It Couldn't Happen Here that they turned into an alien show.
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I say we try letting the aliens run the government. They can’t do any worse than the current administration.
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The Vogons had the right idea. Invade, nope. Earth's in the way. Just blow it up and construct a space superhighway. The End. #HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy
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Mars attacks but they just give everyone good lives
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Those scenes where the aliens destroy the White House and DC just hit differently now.
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Ack
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The bar for dystopia is so low that even a full-scale alien occupation sounds like a lateral move
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Could hope it was a rescue mission?
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We're basically making a beeline for the scenario in COLONY.
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Robert is this just because they blew up the White House, be honest now.
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Closest we get is a reverse District 9.
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I think they explored that with "Colony"
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Difficult to think of the White House explosion scene and not get just a little hard
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No, no mars attacks - if earth is gonna go, make it dystopian.
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I’m ready for it. Something like Kiln from Alien Clay would be ideal but I’ll take anything at this point.
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I’m pretty sure the Texas GOP wishes they could nuke Houston.
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OK Imagine ICE getting attacked by flying saucers would be pretty funny.
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Just watch the 80s miniseries and accompanying movies V. That's pretty much how it will go- infiltration, collaborators, etc etc
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The Posadists were onto something
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I just got done reading three body problem trilogy. I was sold on it and how they imagined the response to it seems really relevant to today.
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Mars Attacks! comes to mind
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mars attacks! aliens would make it much funnier
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[the aliens invade causing wide spread destruction of political centres of power] "oh thank fuck you're here."
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We need a Mars Attacks! style invasion.
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tyranids? at least it's over quick. dark eldar? they seem to have their shit halfway together. orks? they're just living life.
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A Yautja comes down to earth to hunt the most dangerous predator on the planet and everybody points at the white house
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What about those nice aliens from "To Serve Man" (Twilight Zone)
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"Take us to your leader."
"Only if you promise to take him back with you!"
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Something about it reminds me of the original V, I just can't put my finger on what 🤔
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Mars Attacks is the best case scenario
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Alien invasion? I think you mean we're getting liberated by Reverse Posadists?
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Knowing our luck we’d end up with Coneheads
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I will gladly take our alien oppressors to our leader.
