1. The performance was pretty good
2. I like science fiction, but the alien invasion plot in this one can really be replaced by any other disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons, or humans fighting themselves. If it is to reflect the resistance and mutual love of ordinary people in the disaster. . . I really don’t like the attitude and practice of those filmmakers who formally design horror characters, scenes, and shots in order to scare people, satisfy their own pleasure and the strange mentality of certain audiences enjoying being scared. From a certain perspective, I even think that obsessive addiction to this kind of dark things is pathological, even evil. I am not opposed to pure entertaining, purely funny, purely aesthetic, etc., at least it is pleasant or positive. If the film is straight and straight, there is nothing surprising, all points are to make you be scared, be very scared, I think it's almost insulting.
But from another angle, thinking that this story was written 100 years ago, the science fiction plot inside is worth admiring. We watched so many aliens, monsters, and sci-fi movies, and our eyesight was sloppy. In contrast, the imagination and special effects in this one are not very good, but 100 years ago, this plot was really good. X's. Maybe, it’s just that I shouldn’t be making such a film with no new ideas 100 years later? Or, should I work hard to add fresh elements to the original? My requirements for the old Spielberg are not too high, right? . .
If it is more harsh, there are some flaws in the original work, and there are also jokes that were not taken into consideration when filming. For example, the EMP at the beginning of the film caused all electronic equipment to be paralyzed, mobile phones, TVs, and cars all died. As a result, in the blink of an eye, onlookers used DV to shoot hard. . . Although this person was killed by an alien weapon immediately.
I saw a lot of bad reviews about this film on yahoo, this one is quite funny:
Dear Alien High-council President.
by jogurt200 (movies profile) Jul 1, 2005
992 of 1052 people found this review helpful
Dear Alien High Council President,
I am a lowly pilot that was deployed to "Earth" via the lightning to get rid of the humans.
However, I found that my deadliest ray guns failed on cotton clothing but suprisingly melted steel and humans with high accuracy. Despite being bullet-resistant, I think our tentacles should be made axe-proof. Just slightly more, sir.
Also we seem to have some difficulties with our human suction device as a few people apparently figured out a way to defeat one, by simply "holding on" to each other. I propose we execute humans on mass instead of individually killing them with our mightiest "anal probing tentacles."
Also I request we re-calibrate our targeting mechanisms as one human easily seemed to dodge every single death ray at him.
Perhaps we should also make our 120 feet tripod walks outpace a 2 legged 6-foot tall human. We seem to have great difficulty catching people.
From captured earthlings, we found out these creatures have a procedure called a "Vaccination" before sending them to war. I highly recommend we assimilate these procedures before we are sent to war.
I also recommend we stop the practice of our sickened soldiers coughing on every other soldier because apparently we all got sick at the SAME EXACT time and shut down simulataneously.
I hope this letter reaches you, High-council President.
Also please re-configure our shields so that it suddenly doesn't turn off when the pilot gets ill.
Yours dearly,
Alien # 135-SZ35.
3. It is also against the background of alien invasion, and the perspective is focused on the survival of an ordinary family. I recommend another film, Signs. Compared with this story, the purpose is clearly to make you nervous, fear, excitement, sadness and despair, signs at least have an implicit meaning. In the plot, there is a planned dark line, and at the end, it is a bit mysterious but quite interesting. It makes you feel that at least it's over if you get scared enough. And when I think about it, the plot of Signs is really similar to this movie. I won't say anything, anyone who is interested can take a look.
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