The 10 Best Alien Films Ever Made

PJ Media ^ | 12 Apr 2018 | Lauren Spagnoletti

[TexasM1A]

I always liked Event Horizon.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I liked The Invaders. At times it was silly that the aliens used a lot of 1960s technology mixed in with their stuff."

I loved "The Invaders," but a lot of the stuff the aliens did, made no sense. For example, in one episode they installed a "hurricane control machine" right in the sanctuary of an active Catholic church, instead of in some hidden, obscure place like an old warehouse or barn.

[Garth Tater]

The Thirteen Floor - scientists create a computer generated environment so realistic that the artificial beings they've populated their virtual world with think that they are real people living in the real world - which leads to the discovery that we...

[Steve_Seattle]

I loved “Target Earth.” It terrified me when I was about seven or eight years old, but - by today’s special-effects standards - the robot was laughable.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I had such a crush on Moon Bloodgood, who played Anne, the doctor."

Ditto.

[Chances Are]

How about “Fiend Without A Face”? Great Friday night flick when you have absolutely nothing to do and feel like getting mindlessly drunk!

Boy, back then they sure knew how to make ‘em!

CA....

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess Spock doesn't count as an alien?

-PJ

[Bernard Marx]

Yes he was — you have a good memory.

[eddie willers]

Last night I finished a two binge on Season 4 of “Bosch” on Amazon. It was great, 10 episodes was just not enough.

I've episodes 9 and 10 to go.

That's what I hate about bingeing. The darn thing only came out Friday and I will be finished tomorrow.

And then a l-o-o-o-n-g wait for season 5.

[Bikkuri]

You mean.. no Scaceballs!? :o

;^)

[Bikkuri]

Seriously?! The Liberal PC crap is STRONG in this one :/
I think feminazis would love it though :p
not to mention the DNA mismatching for one of the ‘kids’.

[Bikkuri]

***Spaceballs***

[YogicCowboy]

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Forbidden Planet.

Yep and yep.

[YogicCowboy]

I grew up reading the original comic book, Space Family Robinson, by Gold Key Comics.

It was good. The enormous roving space station with small shuttle-craft foreshadowed the Enterprise battle-cruiser with its shuttle-craft.

I was excited to watch Lost In Space by Irwin Allen, but only really liked the first two episodes (although I enjoyed “The Robotoid” episode with Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet and The Invisible Boy).

[YogicCowboy]

Good movie. No actual aliens, though, right?

[YogicCowboy]

Yes. I had forgotten that. Good note.

[YogicCowboy]

The War of the Worlds (1953). I realize the remake was more true to the book in some aspects, but the first version was amazing, and cemented the genre. It still satnds up, as far as I am concerned.

The special effects, visual and audio, are exceptional. They got the machines about right, and the sound effects were the sort that got recycled by techies in Hollywood: I think the Meson (not Heat) ray effect was the one used in Star Trek for photon torpedoes.

I saw a special on FX in the 1960s, where the Hollywood experts talked about all their favorite sound effects, especially gunshots, and how they got reused in film after film.

[YogicCowboy]

I found Independence Day enjoyable but somewhat disappointing. I wish they had gone for a more straight dramatic effect, like War of the Worlds.

The ending, where everyone was unambiguously jovial, after the major cities have been destroyed, played very false to me.

It had many good concepts in it though, and I rewatch it from time to time.

[YogicCowboy]

Starship Troopers! Yes!

“Here’s a tip: Aim for the brain-stem.”

The book is semi-hated by the Left as being pro-fascism. They overreact, as usual.

[YogicCowboy]

My favorite lines:

General: “Is that possible?”

Scientist: “If they do it, it is.”

There speaks an actual scientist.