Alien Apocalypse
Movie: Alien Apocalypse (2005)
Watched with: Angelo and John
Renting this was kind of a compromise, cause while I like the movie Starship Troopers, I feared if we rented the cartoon based on it, we'd have to seriously re-evaluate our lifestyle.
Alien Apocalypse was a TV movie made by the Scifi Channel, about Bruce Campbell and a crew of astronauts landing back on Earth after 40 years in space (while, due to relativity or whatever, remaining the same age), only to find the planet ruled by CGI insects who want to mine all the wood and ship it back to their planet (their planet doesn't have wood).
My favorite part of the movie was when the crew first meets the aliens. Human guards bring them into a weird insect hut, and some kind of alien bureaucrat asks which district they're from. The captain says he's from Michigan. The alien says something like, "That's a long way from this district! We are in Ore-gon!" They explain that they were astronauts in a space probe. The alien says something like, "We saw that probe when we were coming to your planet but did not check its message!" Then the captain gets belligerant and the alien eats his head.
I enjoyed that the alien was excited to know what probe they were talking about. It was like he'd realized they had the same friend in high school or something.
Other than that, the movie was really dopey, but was kind of better than I expected, so I can't complain.
What I found strange about it was that it was clearly influenced by some socially conscious (or at least wannabe socially conscious) movies, most notably Planet of the Apes, yet had no politics of its own whatsoever.
In a story where a deposed US president is a central character, you'd think some kind of political viewpoint would be inevitable, but you wouldn't be the writers of Alien Apocalypse.
All around, I don't regret watching it.
And you can put that on the box, Scifi Channel.
Watched with: Angelo and John
Renting this was kind of a compromise, cause while I like the movie Starship Troopers, I feared if we rented the cartoon based on it, we'd have to seriously re-evaluate our lifestyle.
Alien Apocalypse was a TV movie made by the Scifi Channel, about Bruce Campbell and a crew of astronauts landing back on Earth after 40 years in space (while, due to relativity or whatever, remaining the same age), only to find the planet ruled by CGI insects who want to mine all the wood and ship it back to their planet (their planet doesn't have wood).
My favorite part of the movie was when the crew first meets the aliens. Human guards bring them into a weird insect hut, and some kind of alien bureaucrat asks which district they're from. The captain says he's from Michigan. The alien says something like, "That's a long way from this district! We are in Ore-gon!" They explain that they were astronauts in a space probe. The alien says something like, "We saw that probe when we were coming to your planet but did not check its message!" Then the captain gets belligerant and the alien eats his head.
I enjoyed that the alien was excited to know what probe they were talking about. It was like he'd realized they had the same friend in high school or something.
Other than that, the movie was really dopey, but was kind of better than I expected, so I can't complain.
What I found strange about it was that it was clearly influenced by some socially conscious (or at least wannabe socially conscious) movies, most notably Planet of the Apes, yet had no politics of its own whatsoever.
In a story where a deposed US president is a central character, you'd think some kind of political viewpoint would be inevitable, but you wouldn't be the writers of Alien Apocalypse.
All around, I don't regret watching it.
And you can put that on the box, Scifi Channel.
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