Posted on 07/27/2006 4:42:31 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
ISRAEL'S Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu today compared the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon to the Hollywood movie Alien.
The 1979 science-fiction thriller starring Sigourney Weaver depicted "alien ferocious bodies that plant themselves in a host and lurch out, burst through the chest, and attack the person next to the host and in doing so, kills the host", Mr Netanyahu told Canadian broadcaster CTV from Tel Aviv.
"Hezbollah is the alien body and Lebanon is the host," he said.
"And the mother alien, if you will, producing these poisoned eggs, is Iran, with its way station to Syria."
Israel would be the bystander struck by the alien monster, he implied.
"If we're going to have a future of peace and good neighbours, a future of tranquility, then this alien ... it's got to go," he said.
Bibi compares bad guys to the movie Alien! AWESOME!
They are more like the "aliens" in Independance Day, the ones who moved from "planet to planet" sucking the life out of everything that got in their way because they had already screwed up THEIR "planet."
But the roaches display more humanity than the Hezbos.
That would include the entire middle east
I think that line was from Aliens, (aka Alien 2).....
The first and second movies were good, Alien 3 SUCKED (IMO), and Alien Resurrection was fairly decent....
You've never seen Alien? Go out and rent it now --preferably in widescreen. Watch it late at night with the lights turned out --preferably alone.
The film is 27 years old and still stands up as one of the most terrifying movies ever made.
From John Hurt's cameo in Spaceballs...
Oh no, not again!
Preferable watch it during a thunderstorm...
[The drop-ship crashes]
Private Hudson:Well that's great, that's just ****in' great man, now what the **** are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty **** now man... That's it man, game over man, game over, man! Game over! What the **** are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
As well as one of the other best lines.
Private Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Private Vasquez: No, have you?
The sequal was pretty good. James Cameron did a great job making a big-budget sci-fi film. It was enjoyable, to be sure, but it didn't have the "terror" factor and uncomfortable sense of dread that Ridley Scott's first film did.
Alien was a horror film.
Aliens was a sci-fi film.
I've yet to see the last two.
Thanks all the same, but for real horror I only need to visit my mother-in-law!
You really should watch Alien. It's a fantastic movie. Top 25 of all time, for sure.
I'll correct myself here:
Aliens was an action film.
Now, I'm not against Netanyahu, but there are problems inherent in using *fiction* as such to influence real world decisions. Not only does this perform it's intended effect of slightly dehumanizing Hezzies, it also dehumanizes the Israeli military personnel on the ground fighting them.
This type of article is one of the truly on the mark criticisms of Bibi's personality and leadership abilities.
On that, I'd have used Tribbles, the furry little bastards that are relatively harmless cute bundles of unshaven hair, except for their prolific reproduction.
yep.. Aliens. and the Israelis are the Marines landing and kicking ass.
ALIEN vs PREDATOR with the Anglo-Saxon West as the Predators.
it grants the jihadis too much dignity and design elegance, but otherwise it is a good comparison.
Exactly. Alien Bump.
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers"
You do undertand that Starship Troopers was actually satire don't you?
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