Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Alienating the Aliens

So the debate continues, do you believe in Aliens/Extraterrestrial/Martians who quite simply can't get enough of hovering around our skies in their mundanely disc shaped ships we fondly call UFOs. The thing is we are so convinced that anything funny found in the sky is being flown/driven/controlled by Aliens that calling them UFOs makes the whole "Unidentified Flying Objects" totally obsolete if not stupid....yes I used the words Aliens, UFO and stupid in one line, god forbid I ever make it to Comic con and get caught among the alien loving nerds, that would be the end of me if they get the lightsaber working that is.
The thing is though, that however much we may try to prove or disapprove the theory of the whole life in outer space, and them wanting to come here and probe us in places...lets leave it to the probe us shall we, the whole Alien invasion remains one of the Piece De Resistance when we bring on-screen in cinema. There is the whole good vs Evil Alien thing happening there too but our fascination with the green creatures still stays strong either ways. We had the friendly ET who just wanted to go home and more recently had Paul (yes we gave the Alien a name too) trying to do the same thing except this time make it more of a comedy than drama. On the flip-side we had bad-ass human killing Aliens, with the whole Aliens series and Species and then some. We all remember Will Smith blowing up the mother-ship in "Judgement Day" and then having a cigar to celebrate the victory. We even got outer space robots fighting it out on our planet and turning into cars, trucks, tanks, fighter jets and even mobile phones in Transformer all because their ship had crashed on Planet Earth.
All this would not have been an issue but for the humans trying to mix the world of fantasy with the reality, and I am not joking when I mention that there are kids out there today who actually believe that vampire and werewolves are real, so much for the folks having a hard time explaining who Santa is. We have watched so much of these alien flicks that we actually believe that eventually we are going to be invaded by green monsters in flashy space-ships with gadgets that are out of this world (literally :P). So the next time you see something abnormal in the sky, don't worry, unless it starts beaming light near you, you're okay and if its round and white and shines, its probably the moon!

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