Sunday, April 24, 2011

Aliens are among us!!!


And no... i'm not talking about illegal immigrants! I mean actual ALIENS!!! There have been many UFO sightings throughout our history and there have even been movies made about alien abductions and such. The film and t.v industry have obviously used this to their advantage by making movies to illustrate this concept, most well known would perhaps be War of the Worlds, first written as a series of two books in 1898 by H. G. Wells.
It has had many adaptations since, perhaps the most prominent was the radio dramatization in 1938 by Orson Wells. Some people only heard part of the broadcast and, out of the six million listening, apparently 1.7 million believed it to be true and 1.2 million were genuinely frightened. The suicide rate that day went up 15%!

 The poster for the 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds

Aside from the many other remakes of War of the Worlds, other movies that interpret Aliens invading include other works such as "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Mars Attacks," "Alien vs Predator," and most recently coming out "Cowboys vs Aliens." That is just a few... there have been many movies based on this concept that I think all deserve our appreciation and induction into the Alien movie hall of fame! Let's face it, we humans are intrigued by outside forces... by seemingly impossible predicaments. We almost wish there would be an alien invasion so we can test our alien survival skills... much like my last blog about a possible Zombie Apocalypse. 

Mars Attacks (1996)

Cowboys vs Aliens (2011)

And Check this out!!! An Alien found in Russia!!! It's dead, granted... but have they found us? The Alien invasion is coming!





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