We Come In Peace

[filkertom]

Okay, having tried to blow up Earth numerous times, now what are some of your favorite alien non-invasion films? Among the ones listed in comments in the previous thread:

• The Abyss
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (my personal favorite, and one of the best damn movies ever)
• The Day The Earth Stood Still (the original, dammit)
• Earth Girls Are Easy

ETA: ... and one of the ones I was holding onto for just this moment -- Superman w/Christopher Reeve. :)

Comments

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Well, it's more like we're invading them after they invaded us after we invaded their planet...but when it comes to aliens...I think Aliens.

And would The Thing From Another World count as an invasion film or not? That's my fave sci-fi film ever.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

"Thing" is definitely an invasion, albeit a very small one. And Aliens... yes, that's a masterwork, especially the extended director's cut!

And coming this year is a CGI film (not from Pixar) called Planet 51, about humans landing on a 1950-ish world of aliens. Looks like it could be funny...we'll see.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say a favorite, but I story that was different would be
The Brother From Another Planet (1984), starring Joe Morton.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

*Points in the direction of the subway*

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Um, hello, E.T.- The Extra-Terrestrial? Ok, it feels kinda sappy now almost 30 years later, but it was magic when I was a kid.

And one of my all time favorite movies: CONTACT.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

E.T. was the first movie I ever cried at. Great little film. And Contact rocks, despite having Matthew McConaughey (yet another one of those "actors" who I can't figure out why they have a career).

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

2001: A Space Odyssey comes directly to mind, though its sequels are forgettable, at best.

Earth Girls..., you betcha. Also RHPS, Star Wars [Eps 4 & 5, if you want to be technical], and Galaxy Quest are all on my watch-many-times list.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've got a fondness for 2010, although it's mostly because of Roy Schieder.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

Enemy Mine, definitely.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

Oh, and does Lilo and Stitch count? 'cause I love that movie.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

For sure silliness, "Spaced Invaders" is a great fun alien invasion.. highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.

and how can we forget "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".. 'YOU'RE NEXT!'

[bosswriter.livejournal.com]

Spaced Invaders - WooHoo!

jgaleckas and I love this movie. We watch it every Halloween - watch it and you will know why. It receives the TriNitroToluene award.

[westwind-mv.livejournal.com]

I would argue that Happy Feet is really an alien "first contact" story in disguise (penguins encounter humans), and thus would fit in your category of alien non-invasion films.

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

How about Alien Nation? Aliens trying to overtly integrate into our society?

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Hmmm . . . I need to get and re-watch The Man Who Fell to Earth

[skunktaur.livejournal.com]

Batteries not included.

As an edit, I wonder why nobody has mentioned 'Cocoon' yet, and its sequels.

[metafrantic.livejournal.com]

Gonna throw Lilo & Stitch out there. I know it was a disney movie, but still. Aliens aside, the dynamic of Lilo and her sister Nani as they try to cope with the loss of their parents is one of the most real and heartfelt things disney ever did. Plus, Stitch is programmed to "back up sewers, reverse street signs, and steal everyone's left shoe." Awesome!

Also, since we're talking about aliens, how about... um... Alien and Aliens? The first was a truly great horror film, the second, one of the best Sci-Fi Action films ever made.

And I will second skunktaur's Batteries Not Included. LOVE that movie!

[metafrantic.livejournal.com]

Whoops, and now I see that zellion already mentioned Lilo & Stitch. So I'll just second that.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I liked the MST3Ked Space Children starring the guy who played the professor on Gilligan's Island. He played an abusive stepfather which the aliens kill. The paramedics are carrying the body out on a stretcher.
Everyone: Hooray!
Crow: Wait are you sure he's dead?
Mike: Oh yeah.
Everyone: Hooray!
I'm not sure if it counts as an alien movie. The alien is a blob sent from heaven to destroy the world's nukes.

Would the Superman movies count as an alien movie?

[zellion.livejournal.com]

The alien is a blob sent from heaven to destroy the world's nukes.

Man I'm so disappointed. I always thought it was a little green bug-eyed monster who would come and destroy all the nukes.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Well okay, they weren't invading our planet, anyway!

[maikujaku.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! Great thinking!

[bosswriter.livejournal.com]

A few that come to mind are:

Cocoon
E.T
Enemy Mine
Lilo and Stitch

How's that for eclectic

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Technically, The Day The Earth Stood Still is an invasion story. It's just a small one. Klatuu was there to warn us about their decision to deliver Gort-grade military robots to stomp on anyone who displeased the Galactics.

Contact
2001
2010

[maikujaku.livejournal.com]

I love Earth Girls Are Easy, I sing Cause I'm A Blonde at Karaoke all the time.

[bardicwench.livejournal.com]

Earth Girls are Easy is definitely one of my favorite alien-non-invasion movies.

[janne.livejournal.com]

The Cat from Outer Space! (Well, it's probably not as good now as when I saw it as a child, but I'm carefully avoiding seeing it again so I can still declare it a favorite :D

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

The old Doctor Who films.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I will throw out Alien Nation. Great movie, and TV series to follow it up.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

Earth Girls are Easy and The Last Starfighter.