Independence Day “I gave it a virus”
Yeah, nothing like plug-and-play hacking an Alien mothership to ruin the suspension of disbelief.
Hey, who's to say a super advanced alien civilization wouldn't be using C++ programing code.
(Game over. Lock the thread.)
It's possible
Think the Japanese in WWII. One reason the Americans beat them is because we prepared for and practiced damage control while they didn't. Damage Control to them was a foreign and dishonorable concept. Likewise the German's never conceived their enigma codes could and were being broken.
The same could happen with an alien civilization, they just might never have encountered a computer virus and thus couldn't conceive of one which is why they were so vulnerable.
The dumb parts of ID4 is if you could make a virus, why just take out shields, disable weapons and propulsion also. Plus why attack with on F-15s, where were the B-52s, A10s, B1, F-16s, cruise missiles, etc?
lol, Independence Day was an entertaining, yet unbelievably stupid, movie.
Arrival
Prometheus
Actually, picking nits, the proper quote was: “I gave it a cold...I gave it a virus. A computer virus.”
And that wasn't at the end of the movie. But you're correct. The whole premise was beyond stupid. Just the sort of slop that the youngsters who were the target audience would eat up.
So, you don't think an alien race can have their own Podesta manning the computers?
-PJ