What’s Up With All These Alien Invasion Movies?

Before I get to the trailer for Skyline, I would like to make a small plea to Hollywood: Please stop making alien invasion movies. We get it, they’re coming for us and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Earth is doomed. Humanity’s days are numbered. A future existing of mass death and perpetual slavery awaits us all. It’s not a matter of if, but when.

Off the top of my head, here’s a brief list of upcoming alien invasion plots: Monsters, Battle: Los Angeles, The Darkest Hour, Cowboys and Aliens, Battleship, Super 8 and the aforementioned Skyline. They’re all pretty much the same: extraterrestrials land on our lovely planet and go about their merry way annihilating all its inhabitants. In order to survive, folks gotta fight back. Been there, done that… again.

I’m actually looking forward to Monsters and Battle: Los Angeles looks like a keeper, but enough is enough already. Can we really expect any of these flicks to be all that different from Independence Day, War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cloverfield, District 9 and similar films I may have missed from the last twenty years?

Maybe it’s just alien invasions turn in the hot seat. I mean Hollywood is already well on its way to beating the superhero genre to death, so it only makes sense to have another tried and true narrative waiting in the wings. I wonder what will be next on the docket? I’m crossing my fingers it’s sophomoric sex romps in the vein of Porky’s and Revenge of the Nerds.

Anyway, here’s the trailer for Skyline, directed by the Brothers Grimm Strause. It reveals very little, but appears to have the endorsement of famed physicist Stephen Hawking, who has a major hard-on for human extinction.