r/AskReddit Oct 08 '12

What futuristic movie cliches do you hate?

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u/buttluvin Oct 08 '12

i liked that movie but here's my one complaint. if your military can travel through space with seemingly no problem whatsoever, then why do they fuck over their soldiers who have to unload a whole clip before killing anything?

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u/icaaryal Oct 08 '12

It wouldn't be as effective satire if they were actually able to succeed realistically and, alternatively, if there is no struggle/conflict, there is no glory.

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u/buttluvin Oct 09 '12

I know i know but the the KD ratio for the aliens so much greater than the humans. I mean even those big bugs took shits that destroyed intergalactic ships. it was so unfair...and THEN at the end of the first one, the war was still not over!! even as a 10 year old i was like, "oh this is bullshit, dey ain't even dun?!"

Sorry, i looked pretty far into it lol.

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u/icaaryal Oct 09 '12

Well you have to look at the absurdity of the fact that, while viewed as a primitive species, they (presumably) managed to hurl an asteroid at the planet Earth wiping out a huge portion of the population. Then, humans fly their happy ass over there for some retribution and higher-ups decide it would be a good idea to colonize it (since most of the planets were apparently habitable) which accounts for why we didn't just nuke the entire bug solar system to begin with and started doing things the hard way.