Why have movies been focusing on Aliens so much now?

From 2000 to 2011 there have been over 100 Alien invasion movies and about 5 which actually show they are good and not some kind of blood thirsty psychopathic monsters...some speculate it is a government tactic to get you to believe that Aliens are bad and will destroy you...i wonder how much they payed Stephen Hawking to tell that lie about aliens could attack us for no reason... if aliens wanted they would have attacked us 100 years ago why would they waste 100 years planning this?

Some say its just for entertainment "people want action and something cool" yeah it is a movie....BUT the programs on the Science channel and History channel and others suggest that aliens will attack us and they even re-created the scenarios....they say for our resources

Because people will watch it if it has aliens in it, leading to more money made.
Its just like how sex is used to sell everything.

It is because we are about to meet aliens, because movies seem to predate what we know.

So, we are about to meet aliens - I am meeting Jesus - who are you meeting?

Jesus, I hope.

Perhaps because ufos and aliens are the new biggest thing? it was like when we had all those zombie movies flooding in over the past 2-3 years.

I think right now, aliens sell. simples.

I dont think its anything to worry about.

For the last few years heartthrob baseball playing vampires were the in thing, but baseball remained boring and the backstreet boys did not return as vampires.

Originally posted by catwhoknowsplusone
It is because we are about to meet aliens, because movies seem to predate what we know.

So, we are about to meet aliens - I am meeting Jesus - who are you meeting?

Jesus, I hope.

Jebus is an alien. The biggest alien of all.

Originally posted by catwhoknowsplusone
So, we are about to meet aliens - I am meeting Jesus - who are you meeting?

Jesus, I hope.

He's not an extraterrestrial being, he's just a very naughty boy...

I dunno what to make of this to be fair, I mean films, like most things follow trends, War Movies, Pirates and Vampires have both had a resurgence in recent years but neither topic graced the silver screen with as much regularity as the current trend for Aliens. There is a lot of talk about Hollywood being controlled, at least in part, by the U.S government but could they really make the folks in Hollywood produce films the way they want and if they did would someone at Hollywood not find this strange enough to blow the whistle?

As an aside Prometheus is the big alien type movie I'm waiting for!

Because:

- Science fiction has always been popular.

- In the past alien films have been some of the highest grossing films ever made.

-Computers are getting more powerful every year so its getting less expensive to do CGI.

-Top notch CGI programs like Vue7 and Maya have made the whole process cheap.

-CGI character animation is a lot easier these days to by using cheap motion tracking programs.

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I remeber reading info someone put together, and I will try to find it and post it, that revolved around an analysis of the ET topic and movies.

Starting back in the 40's you had Roswell and the begining of the UFO topic....

In the 50's you get the B movies of alien invaders while at the same time lots of advancement in the Space program.

In the 60's we get Star trek and other tv shows that have the ET topic on a weekly basis instead of a movie basis. We also see humans portrayed as venturing out into space. Height of the space race occurs during this decade.

In the 70's you have blakes 7, Doctor who and several others that revolve around humanitys entrance as a leading species, technologiucally advanced than some of the aliens they come across, alternate realities etc. You have a winddown of NASA's moon missions. You have the startup of SETI as well as the wow signal. We have the first landing on mars for the US and at the time Soviet space agencies. You have the launch of the viking probes as well as voyager. We saw the first message from earth beamed into space as well as plaques on the probes denoting who we are and where our solar system is, along with a selection of earth sounds and music. We have skylab in orbit.

In the 1980's we have movies like V, Star trek the next generation, and other tv shows and movies that portray aliens again as hostile and friendly. In the later 1980s we have the first confirmed extra solar planet, and the Russians build Mir, their space station. You have the foundation laid for the creation of SETI.

In the 1990's we see more blockbuster space movies, an uptick in UFO sightings, crop circles, discovery of a lot more extra solar planets, plans for a permanent international space station and extended probe missions to points in our solar system, and new start trek tv shows that for the first time deal with a darker view of the universe and what me may find. SETI is offically formed and funded by the US government. We see major advances in military technology, the collapse of the Soviet Union, resulting in greater cooperation between Russia and the Us in outer psace.

In the 2000's we again see a major uptick in big budget movies dealing with outer space, the bulk of the population now beleive that we are not alone in the universe, and explosion of extra solar planets as well as the technology to detect planets the size of Earth. SETI refines technology, adds more telescopes and introduces seti at home. A massive uptick in the knowledge about our solar system as well as the challenge to the space programs in terms of photos that have items blurred out. Mars hits the center of attention with controversy over pyramids and cities, as well as its moons. Mainstream view on history and our origions are seriously challenged by professionals in the scientific field. Major archeological finds also start to challenge the commonly accepted history of our planet and people. You have governments around the world initiate disclosure program relating to UFO / unexplained phenomenon. For the first time ever the UN creates a position for outer space affairs (aka exepolitics) and the Vatican announces that the presence of ET does not contrradict their faith and beliefs.

These are just some of the major developments in this field, with many many more not listed. The article I was talking about viewed each decade in depth and pin pointed fundamental shifts in how humans in space and et contact is handeled. It also pointed out how the portrayal of ET's advanced to the point of the population not being scared of the topic. It also points out a fundamental shift in space exploration and world cooperation throughout the decades.

Its a good read, so I will try and find it and post it. It makes some very good analysis of the date that lends credence to the theory of slow ET disclosure and human accalamation to that concept.

I will have to meet the dentist soon, I fear. Hopefully they show some good movies with aliens in the meantime.

I love many of those, like Mars Attacks or the Alien films with Sigourney Weaver. Usually the films with bad aliens are better than those with good aliens. Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is one of my favourites with good aliens, or Enemy Mine, which was more a kind of parable how strangers get to know and like each others.

Telling stories about aliens gives us a lot of freedom of fantasy. We can invent human like people or horrific monsters, similar to the fairy tales and comics of our childhood. Somehow we never lose the need for such things. And I enjoy such stories very much.

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I don't want to spoil the party here,but since 2000 they have made over 300 movies with zombies.Does this means that we are looking forward for a zombie apocalypse?

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If you like Enemy Mine, check out Hunter Prey

Hunter Prey

It's better than the rating suggests.

ive noticed alot of adverts on the tv have been centred around aliens and spaceships too!
2nd

They are trying to make you not afraid of them. If your afriad your human instinct would normally fight back but due to the recent moves and music towards aliens most humans would accept aliens into there life but you should also be afraid of them. you should just bash there heads in if you see one lol .

reply to post by Phantom traveller

Since 2000, there have been about a million pornographic movies made.

That is all.

reply to post by FurvusRexCaeli


this does not relate to the question...do you have hard times sticking to the question?.

i know that porn sites are growing as an industry next thing you know there will be a mega shopping center for sex.

Originally posted by Phantom traveller
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I don't want to spoil the party here,but since 2000 they have made over 300 movies with zombies.Does this means that we are looking forward for a zombie apocalypse?

yes.

it's all predictive programming.. acclimating the collective subconscious into the coming reality.

and yes.. what people are saying here is true.. they make money also...
those are additional reasons why these movies are made.
there are not 300 movies about firefighters. there are not 300 movies in 10 yrs made about vampires. there are not 300 movies in 10 yrs made about frankenstein.. there are not 200 movies in 3 yrs made about nice aliens... and not 200 movies in 4 yrs made about unicorns.

it's zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies, zombies,

and evil aliens...

AND

SUPERHEROES.

these are part of revelations scientifically acted out via freemasonry like a playbook..
it also has other reasons other than simply "because it's in the bible" .. it's about how to cull the population (threshing the grain from the seed) ....
unite the world..
superheores ARE "the second coming of christ"..... they save us from bad aliens...
human evolution is embraced... darwinism and religion become merged...
world unites after being made small enough to manage.

these movies are just massaging the concepts into the mass-mind, as well as situations that arise over time within these 3 coming phenomena....

...any questions...

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Okay, I'll answer the question: Yes, we are heading towards a zombie apocalypse. But not until after the pornapocalypse.

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Probably because it gets bums on seats in the cinema, I wouldn't read too much into, there were loads of Flying Saucer movies in the 50's & 60's because it was a popular idea, it's just having a revival :-)

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I'm sorry prevenge but how do zombies fit in in this scenario?