Your favorite depiction of an alien in a sci fi movie?

Twilight Zone... Season 2 Episode 28
2 Aliens, 3 arms or 3 eyes, you pick

 

Nice. Mr Chambers......Mr. CHAMBERS!! We wouldn’t want you to....

 

Twilight Zone= genius

 

From Heavy Metal

 

Oh wow man. Love it

 

I own this movie and have watched it many times, yet I never thought of it that way. I just figured it was her father in heaven explain things to her. I will have to watch it again now.

 

Favorite aliens? Man, I go back and forth - I love the cold, pure drive to survive of the alien in Alien. It's also one hell of a movie monster, too.

On the "more-rational, but no less-malevolent" side of the alien equation, I like Michael Rennie's Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still. He's there to deliver a serious message, but still has a sense of wonder as he meets earthlings and tours Washington, D.C. with the kid. Klaatu's here on business though - and no kid or army is going to stop him from telling Earth "this is how it's gonna be"...

 

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, obviously.

 

Naw, the dialogue explains that the alien race took that form because it was comforting and familiar to her. I think it makes total sense in context. Religion is not the point of that movie at all. Writer Carl Sagan had some interesting theories trying to reconcile science with religion, but that wasn't part of Contact.

Longtime SF fans will recognize the invisible monster in Jonny Quest as a steal from Forbidden Planet: a monster you could only see when it went through a force field...

 

That sounds very familiar, I think I just forgot about that, but I will try and watch it again this weekend.

 

Sil/Species

 

I found Contact to be a profound and moving film, and that entire ending really hit me. I hope if we ever encounter real aliens, they're this thoughtful and compassionate.

 

I dunno, James Woods...? Scary! HE was probably the real alien!

 

That's the one I would pick too. Pretty bad ass.
I agree with a few already listed as well. I also enjoyed the aliens from Galaxy Quest.

 

Lordy did you see the latest The Predator ? Not the same class.

 

I know a lot of folks hated Prometheus, but the design and visuals (and score) were areas where there was universal praise. The appearance of the engineers was awesome, as was the more traditional Geigerish aliens.

 

I think those invisible id monster's from Forbidden Planet were pretty scary as a kid, and that was on B&W TV.

I think it was the electrical field and their abstractness that made them effective. Growing up we used to watch all of the early 1930's B&W horror movies and they were great. To me B&W makes for a scarier horror movie in general, because of the effective contrast ratio's that you can't achieve with color film.

At night, things are mostly B&W anyway and that is where monster's are at their scariest!

When the jump to color was made, there were some good monster remakes by Hammer Films, but without the B&W, things lost s scary edge the original's had.

Mel Brook's did well to use B&W as a medium. Imagine Young Frankenstein as a color movie? I hope not!



When things went to color, monster's in rubber suits looked really fake.

I think the suspense of not being able to see the monster's as they did their horrific deeds was more suspenseful that having some sort of monster in a rubber suit tearing at doors, etc.

I still think that Forbidden Planet is and remains an excellent science fiction movie all around, to this day. Special effects, sets and all.

 

It is funny seeing the alien's wearing space suits on Earth.

 

I guess our atmosphere doesn't agree with them...they're from Mars and it's a movie based on the 1962 Mars Attacks 55 Card Set...and that's how they looked....I was not happy what with Burton did to the wonderful card set making his movie a comedy...the card set back in 1962 was terrifying! It gave me nightmares when I was a kid!

 

I have a problem with Burton's adaptation's.

First, Edward Scissorhand's is an excellent movie all the way around and his use of darkness works perfectly there. They did have some nice daytime scenes and I di like the Florida pastel color schemes a lot.

I didn't care for Mars Attacks, I did not find really anything about the movie either amusing or enduring. Mostly stupid, yes.

When Burton did the remake of the Planet of the Apes, before I ever saw the movie (on DVD), I said to myself, I hope this is not going to be a "dark" movie to watch, and sure enough, it was "dark" all of the way through the movie. I thought this was completely unnecessary and made it a completely unwatchable movie for me.

After that movie, I never watched another of the remakes. The original series was well made and the first "apes" movie took place in the daylight and I didn't see any problem with that.

The Nightmare before Christmas was dark, but since it starts out in Halloween town, it makes sense for it to be dark.

Beetlejuice was dark, but here it fit in and worked perfectly, due to the nature of the movie.

Batman was dark, but then it should be The dark theme works well here. After all, Batman is The" Dark" Knight.

Sleepy Hollow, dark works well here too.

Dark Shadows, obviously a Tim Burton movie.

I have nothing against "dark" when the movie calls for it, but I don't like doing dark as a visual style, just for the sake of it.

I don't think he is not a very good Director/Producer, but there these things that he does to movies that are less than endearing, Like Chocolate Factory, which was pretty cold and sterile and had none of the warmth and character's of the original. Even Depp looked like he was made of plastic with a fixed expression.

 

I'm not a fan, but a few of his movies were watchable...

 

He is generally a good director and producer, but he will do a 180 at times and put out a product that just does not work at any level.

 

agreed...but I cannot forgive him for Mars Attacks!