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SNAAKE:

--- Quote from: shardian on September 21, 2009, 08:26:11 am ---
- The prawns: are they peaceful, passive, bloodthirsty...what? Why do they take the human's ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---? One scene they can rip a guy's arm off and send him flying 50 feet. The next, they are getting manhandled by a tiny human. If they're passive, why do they have all that frikkin crazy weaponry? If they're warlike, why are they ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?---? Why does Christopher tell Wikkus not to kill anyone when they hit the lab? Overall terrible execution on the motivations and actions of the prawns.


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the prawns are peaceful. thats the general idea. they dont show aggression unless threatened or whatever. lets say most are peaceful but some are crazy(stupid? lol) like the one chewing on tires and kicking random human for whatever reason. just like humans, they are not all EXACT same carbon copies. get the idea?? they are smart enough to know when they shouldnt become a problem and try not to get shot in the face. sure they could pick up their gun and start killing ppl but they are not here for a war. 

head ripping wasnt just random violence. they saw one of theirs(wikus apparently) in trouble and saved him. the "badass trigger happy human dude" had it coming.

oh and chris is the prawn and wikus is the human and he tells the prawn not the shoot as he probably thought they can do this without killing ppl but obviously that didnt work because they were getting shot at so they had to shoot back in order to stay alive and get that fluid back.


--- Quote from: DaOld Man on September 21, 2009, 08:57:09 pm ---I think that the fuel had genetic material of the aliens in it, since the weapons could only be activated by an alien, makes sense that the fuel would be tied to genetics too.
Could explain why it morphed the human when he got it on his skin.


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yeah at first it thought that part was kinda dumb but I agree with your post. that fluid probably contains genetic material. same as alien weapons. make sense kinda.


I dont agree with the "alien has been here for 20 years" part. I mean..NO ONE did anything about it by now? it would make a lot more sense if it was like only a year or two. yeah so humans didnt really have time to do anything about it yet. we are studying but no real progress(20 years is ridiculous)

ppl cheering when the alien ship was leaving didnt make ANY sense. earlier they show how ppl dont really like prawns and want them out of here. and ship that would take them home is......gone! whats so awesome about that and why you clowns cheering? sometimes I wonder how these things get past screeners. no one brought this up at all ???

protokatie:

--- Quote ---Also, I think I agree with a previous post, maybe most of these aliens were defective, maybe mentally retarded, perhaps they were sent here to get rid of them.
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According to Douglas Adams, this is how Humans began. You wouldn't happen to be a phone sanitizer class 3, would you?

*apol's for the HHGtTG ref

hypernova:

--- Quote ---pl cheering when the alien ship was leaving didnt make ANY sense. earlier they show how ppl dont really like prawns and want them out of here. and ship that would take them home is......gone! whats so awesome about that and why you clowns cheering?
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You realize the answer to your question is in the very question your raised?

SavannahLion:
I think the fact the aliens look an awful lot like a certain other alien COUGHVORTIGAUNTCOUGH taints my perceptions a little bit.


--- Quote from: DaOld Man on September 21, 2009, 08:57:09 pm ---Also, I think I agree with a previous post, maybe most of these aliens were defective, maybe mentally retarded, perhaps they were sent here to get rid of them.
Would explain why it only took one to fly the big ship home.
Only two or three of them acted like they were really intelligent.
But this doesnt explain why they brought so many sophisticated weapons.

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In the very first scene showing the aliens on the mothership, it looked to me more of a refugee situation. (My first thought was it was actually a prison ship, but the behavior of the aliens seem to point elsewhere.) I thought most of the aliens were civilians of some sort. Now that I think about it, they might even be "modified" aliens from yet a third planet.

The aliens seem to act like a bunch of civilians. Take this example. Take a group of 100b random adult people and ask them how many can drive a car, most will raise their hands. Ask that same group if they know how to drive a boat, you won't get nearly as many people (unless you're in a coastal town I guess). Then ask that same group if they know how to fly a helicopter, you'll be lucky to get a couple. Same goes for the aliens. They're on an alien world with no resources and no knowledge on how to fly the ship. If they knew how to control the ship, why where there camp fires and refuse inside? Stands to reason they would know how to manage the environmental controls at least.

As for the weapons and how they got down? Well... that's a bit tougher since it's a bit bizarre that the aliens don't seem to actually use the weapons they have except in the assault against MNU. Maybe they weren't originally meant as weapons? The movie kind of makes the whole issue a little hazy. It seems the MNU people knew exactly what the weapons did, but now how to use them. But the tests later in the film seem to imply they had no idea what the weapons actually do.  :dunno I was more interested in the reasoning behind the alien and human refuse the aliens kept digging through instead of how the aliens acquired their weapons. I think if one discovers the answer for one, the other will be discovered as well.

RayB:

--- Quote from: hypernova on September 22, 2009, 07:00:57 pm ---
--- Quote ---pl cheering when the alien ship was leaving didnt make ANY sense. earlier they show how ppl dont really like prawns and want them out of here. and ship that would take them home is......gone! whats so awesome about that and why you clowns cheering?
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You realize the answer to your question is in the very question your raised?

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Think about it. 1 million (or was it 2 million by then?)  aliens people want gone, and their means of leaving has just left without them.

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