[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Not to defend the director, but just to touch upon something that I see in a lot of movies with aliens


It seems as if it's very tough to get aliens right, especially when they aren't being ported from long running book or tv series. A lot of that seems to come from having to figure out a way that they can be beaten back by humans, who are pretty much guaranteed to be the lesser race in these encounter movies.

Death by a cold
Death by water
Death by a drunk who flies a dud missile up into the big weapon
Death because killing one means killing them all
and so on

So creatures who are far enough advanced that they can conquer the problem of interstellar travel conveniently forget to vaccinate, have computers that can be hacked by people who've never seen them before (on any level), keep leaving obvious weak points of super weapons exposed, refuse to wear appropriate protective suits, don't max out their DNA potential through genetic engineering, and the like.

And that nonsense arrives from the more honest alternative, which is that aliens who are advanced enough to cross the void are almost certainly going to be advanced enough to take us out with little effort required on their part.

Yep. You'd at least think they'd be bright enough to bring ray guns and umbrellas.