ex cathedra: Mars Attacks!

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Mars Attacks!

This 1996 flick is one of my favorites.

Annette Benning is brilliant. I'm laffin' my butt off.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I've always found it humorous that people assume that technologically advanced alien races that come to Earth will be peaceful. Many of the greatest periods of technological progress were prompted by war.

Amazing to me that one media source consistently points out that aliens will not necessarily be peaceful: video games. Whether it is the confederation of alien species in Halo fighting an aggressive holy war against humanity (hmm...) or the varied species of Mass Effect complete with personal demons and inter-species prejudices based on past conflicts, video games seem to be the only medium that more-often-than-not portrays aliens as dangerous outsiders without fear of condemnation.

-Sean; 6:56 AM, July 11, 2013

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