I learned that powerful class 2 civilization Alien's who need the core of a planet to power their ships will ignore all of the planets just in our solar system alone to fight with us humans for our planet core.
shareIt took 14 years to rebuild the World Trade Center, but the entire city of Washington is bigger and brighter and rebuilt in less than 20.
shareHumans had inherited alien technology among other things that learned to manipulate gravity. Please pay attention while in the theater and leave the popcorn aside.
shareIt's not a good idea to have Liam Helmsworth as the star of your movie, even if he is very good looking.
Stay Weird, Stay Different.
When keeping aliens as prisoners in Area 51, let them keep their combat exo-skeletons so that they can do more damage when they escape.
It makes sense to let the last remaining intact alien city destroyer ship sit unexamined in the middle of Africa for twenty years.
" unexamined in the middle of Africa for twenty years."
That bit really confused me, thought id missed something ...
Seems like the combined militarys of the world just thought
"Well we didnt blow that one up, it seems to done an emergency landing, probably with thousands of soldiers and guns inside .... .... we'll just leave that for the local tribes to sort out"
Yeap that's a huge plot hole, no first world country would let that ship intact
shareAlien queens will put their directives on hold just to chase after kids on buses.
It's very important to save your dog in scenarios where you'll probably both die very soon anyway.
School buses are really elusive to giant jumping alien queens who can travel twice the speed of them.
Going "AHHHHHH" while shooting at things helps.
Nerdy scientist types can become courageous soldiers at the click of a finger.
When you're dying and the world is at war, make your last comments some light whimsical jokes.
An advanced alien species still hasn't figured out how to prevent other species from using their own equipment against them.
If you're in charge of driving a school bus full of kids, don't bother driving it safely out of danger, drive up close to the danger so you get a good view.
When an unidentified orb appears, just destroy it, without figuring out anything about it, before and after.
- They never cut the hair of people in comas
- Entire regions leveled by tsunamis and massive waves of debris leave nice convenient paths that can still be driven through, especially by annoying teenagers
- Always put your president, top elected officials and commanders in the same, obviously important target. Especially at NORAD, which got leveled during the last invasion.
- Judd Hirsh is like a homing pigeon during epic, global disasters.
- You must ALWAYS save the damn dog.
- The same government that normally can't fill in a pot hole in 20 years can rebuild entire cities that were leveled to the ground with millions dead.
- You MUST have "cute" kids in your big budget sci-fi movie, no matter how F'n annoying they always are.
- People coming out of decades long comas do so all at once, with normal muscle strength, clear minds, and pop up like they're going to do the Michigan J Frog dance.
- Getting punched full force right in the face doesn't cause dizziness, bruising, swelling or bleeding.
- It takes the US government 20 years to get around to having a close look at the one giant alien craft that landed intact. Wait... I guess that's kind of believable...
- Dying people always are able to finish what they're saying and never mumble nonsense or die mid sentence, even with big bloody holes in their chests.
- Sure, blow up that unknown alien spacecraft which is totally different from the enemy and hasn't made any hostile moves. Hey, what could go wrong?
- Dig out planetary cores for fuel rather than derive energy from that massive star nearby
- The alien with technology capable of taking on the enemy will get its ass kicked by probably outdated weapons only recently figured out by the humans
I learned that if I ate the original ID4 script with lots of hot sauce and crapped it out it would be better than this movie and burn less!
The validity of my answers is highly dependent on the intelligence of the question..or lack thereof.