Am I the only one who thinks this movie is hilariously bad?

You can say its bad, but the overall message is certainly within the realm of genius. It is a great flick. Short, sweet, silly, with some awesome points about society and conformity.

It is not that bad as you think. It's B-movie with some amazing commentary.

i guess people who grew up in the 00s or 90s mainly dont take old school cinema for granted. i have seen this plenty of times were people are complaining about this and that but give no real constructive criticism , instead of jabbering how terrible everything was give me a few movie suggestions from the same field , genre whatever where you think this or that point is captured better...its a movie forum afterall.

i for once loved the characters, the common man who is somehow caught up in this world conspiracy, at times completely dumbfounded and unable to plan things. the fight scene is also relevant because nada trusted frank. he wanted to help him, while frank just thought that this crazy fool wants to get at him. i do believe it was silly but i have seen such situations in real life were people were clobbering each other for even more trivial reasons. the social commentary is just carpenters little signature to give the movie an edge and also to voice his own opinion...and to say carpenter is the run out of the mill greedy hollywood director is utter nonsense, carpenter is a filmmaker that has passion for his work. his b movies outclass many a movies simply because he has a very unique style of filmmaking and he likes to choose borderline subjects in most of his movies, he aint a fellini or a scorsese but damn his movies do all have some something special even the bad ones. michael bay on the other hand doesnt even care about the source material and for the love of god never showed me any original idea since he has been working in hollywood. uninspired rubbish, just a wild collage of stolen ideas from other directors.

Little point in trying to engage with people whose idea of reasoned debate is to basically say "No, you're wrong, this is crap."

Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

He's one of them...."they"

Maybe you are. It was just bad. NOT hilariously.

I liked it - a LOT. This is one of the few movies that is different from the original, yet comes out the better for it. (Another one is "Only in America".)

The original had aliens farming humans as a food source, with the same mind-fogging apparatus.

It's a transparent anti-immigration fantasy. They want to kill the aliens, not because they are hurting people but because they are aliens and they look too much like us. A lot of bad science fiction hides its xenophobic and sometimes racist or nationalist philosophy in stories like this.

EVERYONE really should read The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad, which satirizes bad science fiction and fantasy stories like this one (of which there are far too many). The twist of that book is that when you open it up to the title page, it reads "Lord of the Swastika" by Adolph Hitler. In an alternate history, instead of becoming leader of Germany, Hitler moves to New York, where he becomes a pulp science fiction writer, and pens a story about heroic pure-bred humans struggling against the the impurities of mutants. But it's a metaphor for all similar science fiction and fantasy stories, where 'races' or 'peoples' or even 'species' are seen as evil as a whole, as a generalization, rather than as individuals. It's a brilliant book, really, and you won't look at another cheap fantasy or science fiction story in the same way again.