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[lordhumungous]

Just watched a couple trailers, named Battle for LA and Cowboys Vs Aliens. I'll post a link here in a sec. The premise is basically the same, aliens/or robots come in and fuck shit up. The message came in clear all of a sudden

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Maybe it's Cathartic

[supiluliumas]

There was this great TV series by the late, great Satoshi Kon called 'Paranoia Agent' about a group of people who were hit in the head by a baseball bat carried by a mysterious roller-skating street punk the press dubs 'Little Slugger'. This sort of thing, on the surface, seems like a tragedy; but the episodes feature the lives of these people, who find themselves in more and more desperate circumstances until being smacked on the noggin by a juvenile delinquent, winding up in the hospital, getting sympathy from your friends, peers, etc, and ultimately being freed from your earthly responsibilities or traumas for a time becomes the solution to their problems.

Extend that to the movie-going audience. Here we are on Earth, trapped in our day-to-day existence that at least according to the media is becoming more desperate than ever before. Suddenly, ALIENS! Life on other planets! War! Destruction! Mayhem! The chance to rise to the occasion, to be heroic in the classical sense, to experience the extremes of human experience rather than punching a clock in an office building day after day and coming home to a screaming ungrateful family who you probably just can't afford. Aliens are just humanity's Little Slugger writ large - a chance to escape the prison they've made of their lives.

What I'd really like to see someday is a movie where aliens invade us because they have a REASON to. Not just 'oh, we've secretly kidnapped one of theirs, now they're coming to get him out', or even the Thanagarians in Justice League Unlimited, who admittedly had a pretty good reason. I mean, some sort of major existential reason (that we ourselves could comprehend) for aliens to actively want to invade us, specifically, and consider it worth the potential cost to their own well-being. That, once learned, the reason would not allow us to ESCAPE from our lives, but rather confront us with them, in stark, terrible relief.

Anyway that LA movie looks alright but Cowboys vs. Aliens looks AWESOME. *_* Though I'm way partial to genre-crushing.