Starfighter, phone home, navigator!

[eonen]

I've said it before, but I've got to say it again: I REALLY MISS the friendly-aliens movies from the 80s.

You know the ones I mean: aliens show up, turn out to be friendly, and go on rousing adventures with their new human pals. We're talkin' E.T., Flight of the Navigator, Explorers, The Last Starfighter, and Cocoon, here. Fuck, even Howard the

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[shortwings]

I know, right?

And then another thing I'm sick of is humanoid aliens. If I'm ever to write a sci-fi story, I'm going to make up an alien race of hyperintelligent creatures vaguely resembling some kind of fungoids. You know, like Mycon from SC2, but maybe a little more interactable.

Because aliens are supposed to be just that: alien.

[eonen]

The one alien race humanity has contacted in my webcomic is at least sort of humanoid: two arms, two legs, a head somewhere near the top of the middle...
But at least the Myanai don't walk like humans; they stand upright for a lot of things, but when they walk they do it on all-fours like a cat, kind of.

If/when humanity finds more species, they'll likely be quite a bit less humanoid, much like the Mycon or the Chenjesu or whatever...though I would need to find a way to have such alien creatures but ALSO make them likable or hateable enough to be heroes, villains, friends, etc...

[omnifarious]

District 9 came close. The aliens at least weren't hostile. And while they were sort of vaguely humanoid shaped, kinda, they mostly looked like big bugs and didn't act like humans at all.

I rather liked Contact

[omnifarious]

And the utterly inscrutable aliens who choose to appear to us as us in an attempt to avoid frightening us. Starman was good that way too.

Re: I rather liked Contact

[eonen]

Ehh...Contact had a lot of potential, but the aliens look like her damn dad and only show up at the end. It's just not quite right, that, not what I'm looking for. Hell, The Last Starfighter is barely what I'm looking for, actually.

But Starman is a good call; I recently re-watched that one, actually.

Re: I rather liked Contact

[omnifarious]

I have a Starman Halloween costume. :-) It consists of several large steel marbles. :-) I like aliens that have alien motives. Contact had aliens that had grand scale motives that were simply beyond us. Starman... I think I'd have to watch it again, but mostly the motive seemed to be survival, and that's not particularly alien.

Re: I rather liked Contact

[eonen]

No, but neither is E.T....or Cocoon, for that matter. This is actually what I want right now: 80s-style aliens.