IT'S ALL OVER: Pixels trailer

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I can't tell if this is so retarded it's funny, or just retarded. It'll make a good Rifftrax episode though.
Also, why is it that in every disaster movie aliens see to go for the monuments first? I mean, wouldn't that imply that they have some understanding of the cultural significance surrounding them, something that's been hard to invading human armies to understand, let alone...you know, fucking aliens. It seems like it would be more cost efficient to blow up factories, farmland, shipping hubs, and other vital infrastructure first to cripple human supply lines and military capability?
I mean, maybe it's because they want to use that infrastructure for themselves, and repairing it would be hard, but then again their aliens. Wouldn't they have technology making things like steel mills or ports obsolete? Well, maybe not. But it would be more effective to use biological weapons or neutron bombs to clear out strategically significant areas of human occupation if you wanted to take it yourself. In fact, why not just forgo the who "blowing up major cities" thing, send probes to the surface to gather information on human pathogens, use your superior knowledge of genetics to engineer a powerful disease that kills humans but can't spread to your forces, and unleash that. You'd take out a huge chunk of the population, the survivors would have even more difficulty putting up any resistance, and you'd get a bunch of nice power plants, cities, and mines ready to move into. Or better yet, just forgo invading Earth for resources (which seems to be aliens only motive in these movies) and just mine the Kupiter belt. It'd be much more resource rich than Earth, and no pesky humans to deal with. Unless they need a place to work those materials, and factories on Earth would be cheaper than space based refineries.
Back to monuments, yeah, it seems like blowing up major monuments doesn't really serve a purpose other than waste ammunition. Maybe it's intended to demoralize people? Like, if the aliens blow up the Statue of Liberty, all the humans go "well, shit, they blew up the statue, time to surrender."
But if they know enough about human culture and history to know the significance of major landmarks, then wouldn't they know that this would just get us even more pissed off, and cause us to fight them even harder?
Maybe the aliens are just flinging this shit from orbit and it just happens to hit major landmarks because they tend to be near cities? But most of these movies have the aliens do flybys on major landmarks, wasting fuel, ammo, time, and stealth.
tl;dr aliens blowing up major landmarks is a way for lazy scriptwriters to get cheap emotional reactions.
 
Randall Fragg said:
I can't tell if this is so retarded it's funny, or just retarded. It'll make a good Rifftrax episode though.
Also, why is it that in every disaster movie aliens see to go for the monuments first? I mean, wouldn't that imply that they have some understanding of the cultural significance surrounding them, something that's been hard to invading human armies to understand, let alone...you know, fucking aliens. It seems like it would be more cost efficient to blow up factories, farmland, shipping hubs, and other vital infrastructure first to cripple human supply lines and military capability?
I mean, maybe it's because they want to use that infrastructure for themselves, and repairing it would be hard, but then again their aliens. Wouldn't they have technology making things like steel mills or ports obsolete? Well, maybe not. But it would be more effective to use biological weapons or neutron bombs to clear out strategically significant areas of human occupation if you wanted to take it yourself. In fact, why not just forgo the who "blowing up major cities" thing, send probes to the surface to gather information on human pathogens, use your superior knowledge of genetics to engineer a powerful disease that kills humans but can't spread to your forces, and unleash that. You'd take out a huge chunk of the population, the survivors would have even more difficulty putting up any resistance, and you'd get a bunch of nice power plants, cities, and mines ready to move into. Or better yet, just forgo invading Earth for resources (which seems to be aliens only motive in these movies) and just mine the Kupiter belt. It'd be much more resource rich than Earth, and no pesky humans to deal with. Unless they need a place to work those materials, and factories on Earth would be cheaper than space based refineries.
Back to monuments, yeah, it seems like blowing up major monuments doesn't really serve a purpose other than waste ammunition. Maybe it's intended to demoralize people? Like, if the aliens blow up the Statue of Liberty, all the humans go "well, shit, they blew up the statue, time to surrender."
But if they know enough about human culture and history to know the significance of major landmarks, then wouldn't they know that this would just get us even more pissed off, and cause us to fight them even harder?
Maybe the aliens are just flinging this shit from orbit and it just happens to hit major landmarks because they tend to be near cities? But most of these movies have the aliens do flybys on major landmarks, wasting fuel, ammo, time, and stealth.
tl;dr aliens blowing up major landmarks is a way for lazy scriptwriters to get cheap emotional reactions.
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I've always seen aliens attacking monuments and other landmarks as a way to demoralize humanity as they're usually very significant to their history and cultures, but yeah it would make more sense to try to destroy military bases and the like first. But enough of that.

I honestly have nothing to say about this movie. On one hand it looks funny, but on the other hand, Adam Sandler movies have the reputation of being pretty bad or at most just okay. Plus I already seen the Futurama episode where they actually do get attacked by 8-bit styled ships and whatnot, so yeah.
 
Quijibo69 said:
Did I see a Futurama episode about the same crap? Weak.
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Yeah, Futurama did it first. If anything, this movie may as well in a way be copying that segment from Futurama.
 
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