Yup, the plotholes were big enough for the mothership to travel through.
I'm hard-pressed to think of a movie that was as sloppily written as this one. Did the writers bother to read beyond the first draft?
I think I can articulate a few examples of the shoddy, predictable story/acting:
Aliens come back to our planet to harvest resources. Sigh. Been there done that. Tired old cliche, overused, overcooked, overdone. Please think up something new.
Aliens decide they want to drill to the Earth's core to retrieve materials. This is the setup for human extinction, which is silly. If the aliens were smart (AKA, the writers), they would target the humans first, blow the *beep* out of them, THEN start drilling. Stupid aliens!
3,000 square mile ship, which can cover most of the continental United States, has little effect on gravity, except for when "Tugger" (human spaceship) gets sucked into its gravity well, and an eye candy segment where everything gets sucked up into the atmosphere, then comes crashing down. It doesn't happen again. No science, just spectacle.
Mothership is impenetrable with missiles, firepower and nukes, but - GASP - it has an opening we can FLY INTO WITH EASE. Gasp, who would have thought. Why bother using nukes when you can just glide into the thing unopposed. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Utterly shallow, predictable characters who fail on the humor front. I feel like an alien went to see a bad comedian one time, took notes, and incorporated it into a movie script.
The dialogue was try-hard humor. I think I chuckled once at something Jeff Goldblum's character said. The rest was weakly written and delivered tripe. E.g. the prototypical "I'm going with you/No you're not!" garbage which is the staple of every mediocre movie. Pretty much every line is like that.
Ugh! Please, give this emotionless dynamic cliche a rest. It is not dramatic. It may have been effective in 1982, but not 9,800 movies later.
Characters are insipidly dumb. After they effortlessly fly into the mothership, the lead character gets out and thinks it's a great idea to start mouthing off to the aliens - all six of them. Yes, there were only a handful of aliens in this vast pancake in the sky. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
And of course, they "heroes" find more ships to fly right where they land in the mothership, and one of the flimsy characters excitedly exclaims "The technology is exactly the same!"
How convenient. Sloppy. Did I mention STUPID?
And then we have the old "we need to escape before the 2 inch per hour spaceship door closes!"
So they escape, of course, but only after the writers trick us into believing the main character dies! But he's still alive! Golly gee, wasn't expecting that one... !
Totally pointless sidestory with Jeff Goldblum's dad and a bunch of kids in a bus. Oh, forgot to mention, he survives a 19 Richter scale tsunami in his tiny little boat. And of course, against all odds, he just happens to find Jeff Goldblum in the middle of the desert hundreds of miles away.
Ugh...
I could go on and on with how poorly scripted this movie is, but you get the idea.
What other plotholes and idiocy did you notice?
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kbayless-1
9 years ago
Yep. How about the fact that despite their new found technology they couldn't detect a ship the size of a small planet until it was practically on top of them.
Despite the alien's superior technology, all you had to do was stab them in the back. Apparently only one person on earth knew this, but they dismissed him.
This was classic bad movie making at it's worst. It's too bad Mystery Science Theater 3000 is no longer in production. There was just so much for them to have had to work with. This movie was a prime example of my biggest criticism of Hollywood today. The art of writing is dead. They just figure that if they have enough CGI, who cares about the story?
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