i laughed... i cringed !!! .... i cheered and i almost cried ...

what a great movie, give it a solid 4 out of 5 stars , not the typical hollywood alien shoot up i was expecting .

 

just saw it for the 3rd time. still great

 

i still friggin' love this movie. it was a refreshing change of pace from Hollywood rehashing old movies and lousy comic book movies.

 

This was a good movie. Not at all what I expected. Yeah, it was too heavy-handed to be considered a great movie. Is there a single sympathetic human to be found?

The FX were well integrated and never overwhelmed the scenes. I LOVED that gun that zaps a person into instant juice. Good squishy sound effect on it too. Yikes!

Cat food was a perfect trivial item. Just like "prawns."

When he's lying on the table and the docs are talking about taking out his heart and lungs first. Yeah, I'd freak out too!

The movie does leave some big questions, like why the aliens stopped here in the first place, why they were malnourished, why their command structure and leaders decided to do underground, why they have such bad-@ss weapons but made no fuss over D-9. Collecting alien juice? Isn't that more abundant on the mother ship itself...

 

i figured that they had run out of fuel on the mothership, hence their need to collect it, or they just needed to collect enough to get up to the mothership

 

I saw some interview w/ the director where he kind of went over the backstory... although it sounded a bit tentative because I think he wanted to leave things open for a sequel.

Anyway... the Prawns are out on some kind of mineral harvesting mission but on one of the planets they visit they end up picking up some kind of alien disease. The worker prawns are really tough so it doesn't kill them, but it kills all the weaker, but smarter, leadership prawns. The ship goes into a kind of emergency mode and finds the nearest habitable planet (Earth) and brings them there.

So, when all the leaders of a hive of prawns die out, some of the workers will undergo a biological change and their leadership caste DNA will become activated so that they can fill in the gap. That's what happened to Christopher Johnson. Once he became one of the leaders his goal was to collect enough fuel so he could get the command module back into the mothership so that he could evacuate the prawns from Earth.

 

they had to collect the juice from their technology that made it to the ground. hardly anything beyond the aliens made it to ground from the mother ship. no aliens were allowed to return to the mother ship. the only piece of their mother ship was that transport that broke off and fell to earth

it took them 20+years to get enough of the juice from their weapons and mecha to power the ship enough to make it back to the home world.

A lot of questions were not answered I agree....thats why we need another movies ASAP....I hope that dont lose it like the wajowski (spelling sux) bros did with the matrix though.......take your time and form a solid story, then shoot the movies....please

 

Now you see, how hard would it be to integrate Ahwa's backstory into it? The caste issues sort a' makes sense to me.

And as if we humans would not have drilled the mothership out like swiss cheese looking for hidden stuff after removing the aliens. Easy answer would be unobtanium walls or more of those bad-@ss drones defending it. But neither was shown. Yeah, we torched right through the outer wall...

 

i like Ahwa's explanation, i wanna find this interview.

i wish the aliens in the "Alive in Joburg" were the ones they used instead of the insectoid ones. however the little one was so sweet and innocent looking

 

Here's a link to the interview I was talking about. I think I stated his ideas better than he did though