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Reaction to seeing sentient alien life form? Shoot in the face.


That was hilarious, not like they could start a war or anything.
Sure aliens are shown to be evil, but that group didnt know it, they had no reason to try to kill it.
What a movie.

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That's the first thing that came to mind as well when I saw that scene. Why shoot the alien? ....but the more I thought about it, the more the girl's reaction made sense. These people were already on edge and panicking, not knowing what they were up against. Plus they were dealing with something outside our world. Why risk being killed to try and make friends with a being whose intentions are unclear?

I mean, when someone says the word alien, what's the first thing that comes to mind? E.T. the Extraterrestrial or little green men with big black eyes that want to abduct you and probe your butt? lol Pretty sure it's the second one.

I would have done the same. If the alien wants to make contact with me, then do it right. Don't sneak up on me in the dark while I am holding a loaded shotgun. Maybe they should study human behavior, too, and not just our butts. 😊

Anyway, yeah, it's just a movie. I liked it.

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Why risk being killed to try and make friends with a being whose intentions are unclear?

since
a) and race that is capable of space travel is obviously sentient and highly evolved
b) there is no reason to believe humans can even kill them
c) take one for the team, this might be the single most important discovery in human kind

The only reason they all react they way they do is since its a "horror" movie, so the alien must be a monster. They had no reason to be on edge, they just saw the most amazing and important thing in their life, they could be famous, rich.
Also the alien didnt sneak up on them, he was walking up the glass door and she just plain up shoot him while he did nothing at all.

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Eh, I don't agree with point a or b. But, really, we can only speculate. I don't believe there's a right or wrong on this particular subject. :)

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Oh we dont have to speculate.
Imagine it was a man, just someone who crashed his car looking for help.
And suddenly he gets shot in the face.

Now, does that sound logical ?

Also how can you disagree with my point a) and b). You want to tell me a race capable of space travel can not be sentient ? How the hell would they build and operate a space ship then.
Also they alien could have been made from some kind of liquid metal or be harder and denser than diamond, or even be made from dark matter or something even weirder with no way for us to interact with it. Plain up be bulletproof, or even immortal.

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Dude, I'm just not the person to have this conversation with. lol I love the idea of extraterrestrials. I mean, I believe in aliens. I do. And I have pondered about life outside Earth and what it could be like. But the topic is too science-fictiony for me. It's just not my cup of tea. :) I hope you don't take that the wrong way. I do get where you're coming from, I think. Some scientists say the chance of life and its diversity in space could possibly be infinite...so aliens made from liquid metal is within the realm of possibility if you think of it that way. And there's even an immortal jellyfish. So immortal aliens could exist. Who knows!

Also, I love how you just completely changed the story and everything else to get your point across. 😊 How is an alien scaring a bunch of teens, one of which is armed to the teeth with a shotgun, who just so happen to be in a remote cabin, enveloped in pitch-black, similar to a man whose car has broken down and is seeking help? lol No, shooting that poor man in the face is not logical.......unless...you suddenly recognize him as a mass murderer and HE STARTS RUNNING AT YOU WITH A KNIFE HE WAS HIDING UNDER HIS SHIRT! 😱 Sorry, I am tired. hehe

edit: *in space

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I'd be thinking that's the bastard that killed my dog. Except my dog wouldn't have been dead because I would have taken it to the basement with me!

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

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It's like Americans reacting to foreigners.

🐈 High Their!

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Hey sebaser, I'm with you all the way on this one – I was hoping this might contain a knowing parodic satire of dumb-as-a-bag-of-spanners, gun-toting, Yanqui xenophobia (shoot first, leave askin questions up to teh brainiacs), but no: 'Extraterrestrial' turns out to be just another humourless rehashing of tired old horror and Syfy (rather than science fiction) done-to-death tropes. Still, as trowaa0 demonstrates above, this obnoxious hate-&-fear fuelled approach to sentient extraterrestrial life really can be a money-spinner, because dumb-as-a-bag-of-spanners, gun-toting, Yanqui xenophobes just love to see their hate-&-fear fuelled prejudices (as well as their 'Big Government is our enemy!' anxieties) pandered to in low quality drek such as this.

Still, at least our more optimistic speculations about first contact are well represented in some of the finest films ever made, such as '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Contact', as well as in populist sci-fi like 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' – which stand in diametrical opposition to the cynical fear-&-loathing nonsense of 'Extraterrestrial'.

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