Primitive Aliens with the IQ of a hamster on crack invade earth...
...to consume human flesh? Really??? How did that get green lighted?
shareThose "white spikes" aliens were actually pretty impressive and one of the best predators on screen. They're strong, agile, can run fast, jump down from high above, swim, glide, attack in swarms, are hard to shoot and don't die easily, can take quite a few hits, and have built-in weapons (throw spikes).
The "smart" aliens who built the spaceships were different btw.
but they must have some kind of advanced transportation to travel to earth, which means they are technologically advanced, but the only resource they want is human flesh?
shareThat part is left vague; all we know is their ship crash landed on Earth a thousand years ago, while the "white spikes", which are "perfect for clearing a planet", were merely cargo.
shareIt wasn't vague at all. It was clearly shown in the film that the aliens were brought here by an advanced race.
shareWell, we don't know for sure why they crashlanded though; were they simply passing through the solar system, or are they conquerors, like the aliens from Independence Day?
shareI was responding more to Einstein than to you. But yes, it was not clear if they were headed for Earth and crashed upon arrival, or crashed en route to parts unknown.
shareThe film made it very clear the white spikes were cargo on the crashed ship. To me, they are a weapon to drop onto a planet to clear it of life. Perhaps it's a one size fits all alternative solution to developing a biological virus type weapon which might be challenging for an alien race needing to wipe out all life on a planet as some species might survive if they're not 100% sure of what sort of resistance various species might have.
Dropping a bunch of white spikes onto a planet and leaving them to procreate and consume seems like an OK way to wipe a planet's population out. You more or less leave infrastructure intact much like releasing a biological weapon. I suppose they would then spread some type of poison that rapidly spreads through the white spikes population leaving a planet ready to be the alien's new home, strip of resources or whatever their plans are.
Alternatively, they were being carried for use as prey in some type of alien hunting exercise. Though they seem far too dangerous to intentionally drop somewhere to hunt for sport.
Not really as good as you make it out to be, because the whitespikes don't leave the infrastructure intact at all. Did you not see the way they were ripping chunks out of buildings to get at people? The perfect bio-weapon to remove life would do so while leaving every non-living thing untouched. This assumption that they were intended to wipe a planet of all life is also flawed because it didn't appear that the whitespikes removed any of the vegetation from the planet. If you were trying to wipe all life from a planet you would want to remove vegetation as well because if you were an alien species some species of plant could be the toxin that spells doom to your kind that was trying to take over a planet.
The most plausible explanation would have been that the alien craft was simply transporting the whitespikes to a zoo or lab for study. I mean if you had a mission to eradicate life on earth why would you suddenly give up when one ship is lost? You're a alien civilization with space travel so surely you would have more than one ship when you decided to conquer planets.
Notice I said "more or less leave infrastructure intact". Ripping out chunks of random buildings is largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Consider what an actual war might be like against an intelligent alien race. Key infrastructure would most likely be targeted much like how Humans target strategic stuff like airfields, energy production and distribution etc with conventional weapons ie. explosives.
Though of course, what use would an intact Earth infrastructure be to an alien race if they did indeed want to come here to make Earth their home? They will surely have different ideas about living. Though I suppose if they can't bring any alien tech/or make use of alien tech on Earth, such as means of proving power they will need whatever we have left behind. Nuclear power etc. They will make use of that, improve on it.
I didn't really mean all life, to include vegetation etc. That is a bit of a stretch for an alien creature like the white spikes. Perhaps only Human life was targeted and any animals would just be collateral damage.
Yeah, transport to a zoo or lab is a viable theory. Though you'd think an intelligent alien race capable of space travel would want to transport such a dangerous cargo more intelligently. Like transporting the queen separately from the regular WSs. The aliens piloting the ship clearly knew a lot about them considering their advanced stasis system. I don't think it is akin to a bumbling Human discovering something and wanting to study it.
For all we know, the ship crash landing was considered a win for that alien race. Not ideal, but not a complete failure. There was power to the ship still. Who know if comms systems were still viable and if another planet could have confirmed the landing, even if it wasn't to plan. Then it's just a waiting game for them.
Also, I think when you consider the distances involved in space travel, it seems unlikely an alien would accidentally get near Earth to be able to crash. Add to that the WS's ability to breath oxygen just fine. What are the chances I wonder. It just seems intention was there.
shareWell, when you "consider the distances involved in space travel" then you pretty much have to fuck right off with 99% of science fiction movies.
Aliens transporting the White Spike (for whatever reason) crash on Earth. Simple as that.
The pre-hate and ignore-the-details haters are on a witch hunt. It is crazy. It is not a perfect movie but the complaints are bullshit 9 out of 10 times. The last 5 science fiction movies to come out have been full of way more problems but have waaaay less scrutiny. Why is that?
Well yeah. It's pointless to think too much into it really. It's just a film but it's fun to speculate.
I think it's just how negativity works on the Internet these days. Like how 10% or so of Twitter users create 80% of the tweets. And a lot of those Tweets come from a negative group of blue haired lunatics that attack stuff if it doesn't align with their dumb beliefs. Hence the hate from some people for this film due to Chris Pratt being in the film and he's a current target for the mob. So a small group are kicking up a fuss and they then amplify it in their sad little echo chamber.
Well said.
shareSay you are travelling with Hyperlightspeed and you notice, you have a problem with it - what would you do? Trying to reach the next inhabitant planet and land there, so you survive and find a solution to go on. We might not know anything about the advanced aliens, but they unlikely were concerned about the WS themselves. And if they were interested in conquering earth, they likely had come meanwhile again. Why? Because the space ship was clearly only a cargo, not an arch for the advanced aliens. It is very unlikely aliens would play such a long game to conquer any planet.
shareAgain, it's all just speculation but yeah, I suppose there is the possibility they could have been forced to pull out of whatever advanced form of space travel they were in and just happened to be near Earth and we able to crash land and it was all just a coincidental disaster. It begs the question though, why no recovery mission?
Who knows how another species would think. If they're playing the long game and not concerned about time, either by transfer of consciousness into clones or whatever, perhaps they're OK to just wait for the WS to do their thing eventually.
People who speculate along these lines always make the (erroneous) assumption that the alien race is homogenous.
When Columbus crash landed, did France have anything to do with it? Germany? Egypt?
These could've been big game hunters, explorers, criminals, arrogant scientists, idiot hijackers, etc, etc, etc. . .
Ascribing the motives of an entire species/civilization to ONE ship is deeply flawed thinking.
Well yeah. The speculation is based on a limited line of thought. Smugglers "gun running" a dangerous alien bio weapon in the form of WSs and then encountering technical issues with their ship resulting in a crash landing on Earth is an interesting idea. That would explain why no recovery mission. Much like how cartels write off numerous narco subs filled with millions of $ of drugs.
I like the theory that there is intelligent life out there but they have made an agreement to not visit Earth and compromise the natural development of man. Treating Earth like a wildlife reserve to be protected and not messed with until they observe we have reached a key point on whatever metric life is rated on to be in the space club.
It stands to reason that there might be individuals within that species of alien or an entirely different alien race that either don't agree with Earth being off limits and want to travel here anyway like we would go on a safari in Africa.
Yup.
The last Predator movie explored this idea a bit. . .essentially positing different tribes from the Predator homeworld, with differing motives/plans for earth, and battling it out once they got here.
Star Treks Prime Directive.
shareMost of the destruction was done by humans. You dont see whitespiles leveling highways. it was the human bombers that did that.
You do NOT want vegetation removed if you want to colonize the planet.
If you watch, you will learn that they are not advanced at all. They're like ants or bees, but were brought here by a more intelligent race.
shareDid you watch the film? The flesh-eating aliens were about as intelligent as ants or bees, and did not have any technology to speak of, much less the ability to build or pilot a spaceship.
shareNo. Two different species. The smart aliens with a ship crashed. The whitespikes were just cargo.
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