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Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands
What?! You didn't like Close encounters of the third kind? That movie was a good movie. What is it NOT to like about that movie? Have you ever seen the movie Contact, with Jodi Foster? I like movies about aliens coming to visit us or vice versa.
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Nah, neither. You have to remember, astronomy is the only interest I like more than animals/insects/arachnids... (and I love them A LOT!), so I'm going to have a different perspective on "life in the universe" than what you and others may have.
When it comes to aliens, I am consistently amazed by the film industry's lack of creativity, with maybe a few exceptions, Hollywood aliens look remarkably humanoid. No matter how ugly (or cute
) they are, nearly all of them have two eyes, a nose, a mouth, two ears, a head, a neck, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, a torso, two legs, two feet, and they can walk. To me, from an anatomical view, these creatures are practically indistinguishable from humans, yet they are supposed to have come from another planet.
I didn't like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", because in advance of the aliens arrival they beamed to Earth some mysterious sequence of repeated digits that encryption experts eventually decoded to be latitude and longitude of the aliens upcoming landing site. But Earth longitude has a completely arbitrary starting point. Plus, longitude and latitude are measured by degrees, 360 of which are in a circle. With this much knowledge of human culture, it seems to me that the aliens could have just learned English and beamed a message, --"We're going to land a little bit to the side of Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming. And since we're coming in a flying saucer full of lights, we won't be needing a runway of lights."
And don't get me started on "Contact".
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