Comments on: Alien movies make the usual error! http://connection-revolution.com/alien-movies-make-the-usual-error/ connect with spirit. connect with others. connect with yourself. change the world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Julia http://connection-revolution.com/alien-movies-make-the-usual-error/comment-page-1/#comment-947 Julia Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:11 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1070#comment-947 It's not a movie, but for a somewhat different perspective on aliens, try reading James White's Sector General novels. It’s not a movie, but for a somewhat different perspective on aliens, try reading James White’s Sector General novels.

]]> By: Adam http://connection-revolution.com/alien-movies-make-the-usual-error/comment-page-1/#comment-908 Adam Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:53:19 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1070#comment-908 At this point, who'd want to get to know us? Human kind is afraid of every new thing it learns. I think that's somewhat evolutionary, protecting the species and all, but it sure doesn't make you have much self esteem as a species. The alien movies are an example of that. "It's weird. Shoot it!" Like your other post, we can't just be fierce, we have to be bad. Of course the problem Sheila mentions is true, too. How can we write about aliens when we're the ones doing the writing? And then you'd have to sell it to a big movie studio. From there it's all downhill... Some days our humanity makes us very small. But whadda you gonna do? At this point, who’d want to get to know us? Human kind is afraid of every new thing it learns. I think that’s somewhat evolutionary, protecting the species and all, but it sure doesn’t make you have much self esteem as a species. The alien movies are an example of that. “It’s weird. Shoot it!” Like your other post, we can’t just be fierce, we have to be bad.

Of course the problem Sheila mentions is true, too. How can we write about aliens when we’re the ones doing the writing? And then you’d have to sell it to a big movie studio. From there it’s all downhill…

Some days our humanity makes us very small. But whadda you gonna do?

]]> By: Sheila http://connection-revolution.com/alien-movies-make-the-usual-error/comment-page-1/#comment-900 Sheila Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:01:15 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1070#comment-900 Well, think about it, there's no real way to write a truly 'alien' point of view, because all stories about aliens are written by human beings. The same thing happens, in a sense, when we write about 'superior' beings--we write about the things we want to become and wish we could be. This is not entirely a bad thing, unless you wind up doing that weird self-loathing thing whereby you feel 'inferior' in your mere 'humanity' to creatures that are products of human imagination. Well, think about it, there’s no real way to write a truly ‘alien’ point of view, because all stories about aliens are written by human beings.

The same thing happens, in a sense, when we write about ‘superior’ beings–we write about the things we want to become and wish we could be. This is not entirely a bad thing, unless you wind up doing that weird self-loathing thing whereby you feel ‘inferior’ in your mere ‘humanity’ to creatures that are products of human imagination.

]]> By: Green http://connection-revolution.com/alien-movies-make-the-usual-error/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Green Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:00:11 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1070#comment-893 It's very interesting (and a cool point that you made) that our great fear of aliens is based upon the assumption that they will be just like us. It’s very interesting (and a cool point that you made) that our great fear of aliens is based upon the assumption that they will be just like us.

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