Sentences with phrase «about aliens making»

The first episode went down a treat, it was about aliens making contact.

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The book is about aliens destroying the earth to make way for a hyperspace highway and features Marvin the Paranoid Android and a supercomputer designed to answer all the mysteries of the universe.

Icould make huge comments about why you need you need to respect Aliens from Mars and how they have been here before and are coming back... but that does not make it true, nor would I expect anyone to be «converted to my way of thinking by something I wrote on news web site.

They were attracted to what they saw of the faith and practices of early Christian communities; only later did they come to understand very much about the faith, after a prolonged program of catechesis made them proficient in an alien grammar and way of life.

You can play and make rockets and talk about the idea of aliens!

Say, not believing in large, well made studies about how the piramids had been made in favour of «the aliens did it» is not smart.

It made them same alien to the public worried about the economy, schools, hospitals etc..

I AM about to have my left leg paralysed, my arm taken over by an alien force and, quite possibly, be made blind.

We spoke with director Andrew Stanton (WALL - E, Finding Nemo) about his first foray into live action and how to make aliens seem real.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

One virtue of the scheme was that it made few assumptions about the aliens.

«You have to make some assumptions about what the aliens are doing in all these calculations, unfortunately, and the data set that we have with alien activity is fairly sparse,» says Shostak.

Silverman talked about how bacteria make light inside the inch - long luminescent squid that live in the shallow waters off the Hawaiian coast (see «Aliens of the Sea,» page 76).

«Someday soon we hope to be talking about weather reports for alien worlds not much bigger than Earth, and to be making comparisons with our home planet.»

One of Fermi's SETI - pioneering peers, the physicist Freeman Dyson, once summarized the situation thus: «Our imaginings about the ways that aliens might make themselves detectable are always like stories of black cats in a dark room.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

One of the few things we know about Proxima b, besides that it is a rocky planet with a mass 1.3 times that of Earth, is that its orbit is in the so - called «Goldilocks zone» of its sun: not too hot nor too cold for liquid water, making it a potential host for life — alien, human or both.

As I talked with Willoughby about the Webb's ability to detect alien biomarkers, he casually brought up a scenario that would make any self - respecting futurist's jaw drop.

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

Collateral Beauty is one of those cloying movies about learning to take the good with the bad that feels like it was made by aliens with little grasp of human life.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

Between the thick accents of Laura's potential victims and her own inability to understand humanity, Under The Skin becomes like a documentary, made by aliens, about life in Scottish cities and towns.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

In retrospect, it is a little hard to take Hackman all that seriously in this film, when he was about three years away from getting his butt kicked by a flying alien in tights, but make no mistake, in this film, he's a good deal more groovy than Queens» «Another Bites the Dust»... if not the term «groovy».

All of this is summed up in a montage of CG - laden imagery, making about as much sense as any spontaneously - derived legend derived from alien components.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Assaulted by all manner of killer machines and robots, the mercenaries must make their way through the tumultuous landscape, activate an inter-dimensional communication device, communicate with otherworldly aliens, and bring about a new age of enlightenment and prosperity for a dystopian galactic civilization.

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

Having made the more conventionally action packed «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» between «Hot Fuzz» and «The World's End» taught Wright a thing or two about action choreography, making the fight scenes between our drunken protagonists and the alien robots immensely satisfying and viscerally exciting; the bathroom fight is a highlight, but an outright pub brawl is terrific.

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

Scarlett Johnasson leads the pic as an alien who makes human men her prey, seducing them with her sexuality and then killing them, but she soon grows a conscience about her actions.

Back in September, Ridley Scott ruled out the possibility of the Xenomorph making an appearance in Prometheus 2, and now the filmmaker has been speaking a little more about the sci - fi sequel, stating that he intends on reintroducing «a fresher form of alien.»

Battle: Los Angeles, the alien invasion action flick that is about to begin shooting in Louisiana (not quite Los Angeles...) has added quite a few cast members, and on the eve of the shoot star Aaron Eckhart makes some promises about what sort of film we're likely to see when it's all said and done.

The Signs DVD features about five minutes of deleted scenes (no more spooky alien critters, alas), a lengthy making - of documentary with commentaries, and another stellar film from Night's youth — wherein a robot wearing a Halloween mask slowly chases Night through his living room.

B - The Duelists Rated PG Available on Blu - ray In 1977, two years before he released Alien, Director Ridley Scott made his debut with this indie about two French military officers in the time of Napoleon (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) who spend decades dueling each other over practically nothing.

Let's be honest with ourselves here: the earliest details about Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant made this film sound like a soft reboot, a way of continuing the series while dismissing as much of the divisive Prometheus as possible.

The London - born actor will star alongside Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Ron Perlman in the film about a battle between giant alien monsters who ravage Earth and giant man - made robots known as Jaegers.

As Cassie watches the methodical destruction of mankind, she makes some observations about the methods the aliens are using.

The filmmakers seem so happy and satisfied with the fact that they are making an Alien film that they don't bother about fleshing the plot, character and mood.

What does it say that most movies about making contact with an alien species inevitably devolve into a bloodbath?

This Adam Sandler film with a budget so badly wants to be Ghostbusters, but while the cast is decent, the writing makes as little sense as its plot about aliens attacking Earth with 80s Atari games.

The film is just as much about the ownership of women's bodies as it is about an alien invasion — ScarJo's blank face and slight, twitchy physicality are incredible to watch, as the men she encounters (many of them non-actors who were captured with hidden cameras) leer at her, make conversation, and eventually get sprung by the same trap they clearly wish to set for Scarlett.

Jon Favreau, who made the first two Iron Man movies, adapted a less established comic book for Cowboys & Aliens, which bombed, before rebounding with the smaller indie film Chef, which he also starred in (playing a frustrated cook in a barely veiled allegory about Favreau struggling to deal with criticism and creative interference).

Monsters vs. Aliens — from DreamWorks Animation vets Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2)-- isn't trying to be deep: that's just an unintended side effect (and one the audience can safely ignore, if it wants to) when you riff on just about every monster movie ever made and do it this cleverly, in ways that know you know way too much about the subject of cinematic apocalypse already.

Mother Nature six things you probably didn't know about It's a Wonderful Life Super Punch Robot Chicken makes an Alien funny: the dangers of acid blood.

What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star»)?

Like the Men in Black, the plot takes a backseat to the creation of funny - looking aliens and blow - you - away special effects, and once these elements are introduced, there's very little emphasis on making us care about the resolution of the plot, when it finally does appear.

Jeff Nichols, who directed the upcoming film Loving about the couple that inspired the fight to legalize interracial marriage, is making a deal with 20th Century Fox to write and direct an Alien Nation film.

Yeah, because this looks exactly like Munich, which was exactly like Jurassic Park, which was exactly like Indiana Jones which was almost a copy of Schindler's List which was the blueprint for Jaws and that film directly influenced Catch Me if you Can which led him to make Minority Report which seemed to be another telling of Saving Private Ryan which was loosely based on the character from The Terminal who was in some way based on Djimon Honsou's character in Amistad who was on a boat, just like the captain in Hook which had a black person in it like The Color Purple which is a film about aliens or E.T.s (Extra Terrestrials) who started a War of the Worlds after many Close Encounters in 1941 with the Empire of the Sun...