Battleship why aliens came

That call let them win the battle. Imagine if it was like Battle LA. There would have not been a call cause the scientist would have died right there!!! I liked the movie a lot. But I feel they did make it too easy. They have a lot of opportunities to cause a lot more damage, but refrain.

Given how heavily the movie leans on the idea of first contact with an alien civilisation being inherently dangerous, I am inclined towards the latter idea. I did not expect to enjoy this movie,I thought it would be nothing more than a generic action film.

It did have generic premise, but i Though the aliens were interesting and I like watching the crew work together to stop them, it was kinda like a Star Trek episode in that regard. As i watched this movie, I thought something similar. I thought that the machine aspect to there vision was most interesting.

It was almost like they we incapable of making decisions on there own. Not a bad idea. I would be interested in a sequel. From watching the movie more then 2 times I have noticed that the invaders have weaponry looks like it could be used for deep space mining. This could be relatable to the idea of deep space industries of mining for resourse on comet and asteroids. The longest Obama could have been in office, as it cleary shows him on a news broadcast after the arrival of the aliens. I like too think that maybe this aliens had been mining comets and such.

Thus, when we sent out the signal they had to have intercepted the signal some were inbetween our solorsystem and theirs. More over, knowing we had a way to communicate across intergalactic solar systems they believed they could come here and send a destress signal back home using our deep space satellite. Then the movie goes on from there with us war loving humans shooting the first shot. Nice summation. Which is kind of sad for the would-be audience. I think soemthing along the same lines, that somebody actually put a lot of thought into what was really intended as just a brainless blockbuster.

Certainly, compared to Transformers, Battleship has a lot of stuff going on under the hood. Then again, I suspect you and I are in the minority in felling this way.

I thought it was good although i could not stop laughing when the anchor turns the battleship around for the killer broadside lol,. These films are nonsense. The aliens with vastly superior technology. The technological ability millenia in the making to travel through galaxies. The intelligence needed etc etc.. Suddenly these technically advanced species turn into morons and are quickly defeated before the end credits.

To add: I can understand why the american audience likes it. They can fantasize about flag waving nationalism and all that. But for a sci fi film. Clever films are few and few between, , primer are the exception.

When the grabbed the suit case. Could have easily been a 9 or When they blew their horns naval , the aliens did the same.

But becusdd of different materials and bodies. The noise hurt our ERS and broke windows. That was an idea we explored early on, but it wasn't really as conducive to the big action kind of stuff. It was more of a horror movie. So at the end of the day, we thought that's a fun idea, but it's not going to be for this picture. But ultimately, they wanted a movie that allowed for lots of ship-on-ship combat action, and a certain amount of homage to the sort of war movies that used to be made in the s and s, which you don't see any more.

The notion of putting aliens into Battleship was director Peter Berg's idea. They worked much more closely with the director than they usually do with movie assignments, and he threw out the concept of an alien-invasion movie right when the brothers joined the film as writers.

And the reason why this movie needed aliens? That's simple. Explains Jon:. In reality, there's very few people in the world who would be a fair match for the U. Navy at this point in a sea battle. So I think part of it wa just the idea of making a big summer movie, and part of it is just [asking], "Who could these guys credibly fight?

Of course, you could have the Navy fight the Chinese, or Somalian pirates, or terrorists at sea, but then it becomes something more like Black Hawk Down on the water, which was never the goal. In order to create a fun action movie with believable stakes, you need a threat that is huge "but not absolutely dominating," and that's where these aliens come in. The brothers actually got to see the Navy up close, going on board some of their ships and interviewing lots of sailors. When aliens invade, you need to turn off your brain a bit.

In real life, if aliens were advanced enough to travel all the way to Earth, they would kick our ass. Stephen Hawking has commented on it, and it's hard to argue against that.

But it's also the case that we've been shouting into the jungle for a long time now — for about 70 years. Those signals are weak, but any society that could come to Earth could probably pick them up, so in some sense, we could give away our location. Shostak: We've had deliberate transmissions from Earth in the past, so the movie's premise is not unbelievable.

I don't know if it's believable that they'd come here and take on the U. Navy — that part is probably more for the fun of it, but there's no denying that signals could be picked up at any distance if you have a big enough receiver. If they're sufficiently advanced and have had radio for some time, they could pick up a whole bunch of stuff.

Shostak: I'm the chair of the International Academy of Astronautics, and we're trying to re-write protocols of what to do, but it's one of those very contentious things. Some people think we shouldn't broadcast because it would be too dangerous, but to me, that seems like kind of a funny thing to do because that means if you went out into your backyard, aimed a dish at Alpha Centauri, and sent them your poetry, that you're somehow violating some international agreement and could be thrown in the clink.

But the real reason why I think it's not necessarily relevant is because we have been, and will be, broadcasting. Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport? Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news.

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