Oh and who in the hell nominated D9 for a damn Oscar? I thought that movie was majorly 'middle of the road' material. Nothing ground breaking, no new concepts... pretty much just your standard 'aliens arrive on earth, get treated like shit, military want's them dead, but they prevail anyway' type movie.
It should be pretty much obvious to everyone by now the way Hollywood portrays aliens. If in the beginning of the movie the aliens attack earth, then you can expect by the end of the movie we shall annihilate them. But if in the beginning of the movie the aliens come to earth peacefully (or by accident as is the case 50% of the time), then throughout most of the movie our military (which will be completely riddled with the biggest assholes this planet has ever seen) will try their damndest to annihilate the visitors, but will ultimately fail because the aliens are just too darn cute.
If there has been an alien movie made that didn't follow one of these two formula's, I haven't seen it.
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For those of you who haven't seen D9, it falls into catagory 'B'.
