Actually, most alien movies are more along the lines of:

Big evil aliens try to take over/eat/destroy humanity. Hero with big guns comes in blazing and saves the day. Humanity triumphs.

D9 is good solid scifi. I thought that the movie was an accurate portrayal of the politics of crisis.

Fred

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Blujays1: Spending Fred's money one bottle at a time, no two... Oh crap!