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What's the one movie we should send into space for aliens to see?

Colodia
26-11-2004, 07:47
What movie do you think is the best to send out into space and hope that aliens would watch that is currently out?

Farenheit 9/11?
Fight Club?
Saving Private Ryan?
Scary Movie 3?
Dobbs Town
26-11-2004, 07:53
But none of the movies you've listed are currently 'out'.

I'd suggest:

Koyannisqatsi

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

and

12 Monkeys

or

Apocalypse Now.
Jebustan
26-11-2004, 07:54
Fight Club. That way, they'd think twice before trying to invade us. Would YOU invade a planet filled with violent schizophrenics? I don't think so.

Either that or a porno so they can see how we mate.
The Force Majeure
26-11-2004, 08:10
Supertroopers
Eutrusca
26-11-2004, 08:12
2001 A Space Oddesy and 2010.
Plaarna
26-11-2004, 08:58
Independance Day, only with the CG altered to have huge Coca Cola ads and the text, "THIS IS HUMANITY" written across the spaceships. Naturally those fleshbags on the planet would have to be edited out too.
New Granada
26-11-2004, 09:01
Battlefield earth so that they can know not to mess with us because even human CAVEMEN SAVAGES can BLOW UP THEIR WHOLE PLANET!
Yammo
26-11-2004, 09:02
Star Wars- so they can have a good laugh at how inaccurate our portryal of them is....hehe
Grays Hill
26-11-2004, 09:04
Definately Indepence Day, or Mars Attacks.
Liberated Hotelfians
26-11-2004, 09:11
the lord of the rings trilogy, mostly for orlando bloom, so's they can have the image of a perfect male specimen. also because it's the best movie ever made.
Kisarazu
26-11-2004, 09:15
send them a 87 hour tape of non-stop congressional dialogue. They will either realize that we are wayyyy to boring to take over, or it will kill them all. Either way, it works.
The Black Forrest
26-11-2004, 09:40
Casablanca
Cambridge Major
26-11-2004, 09:54
But, of course, everything that has ever been broadcast is finding its way across space already - and just think, one of the first programs that any alien species would receive would be that showing Hitler's speech at the Munich Olympics...
Kellarly
26-11-2004, 10:00
But, of course, everything that has ever been broadcast is finding its way across space already - and just think, one of the first programs that any alien species would receive would be that showing Hitler's speech at the Munich Olympics...


Yeah, caus Hitler was alive at the 1972 olympics. Me thinks you are thinking of the 1936 Berlin olympics....either that or the speech at the Nuremburg rallies....
Torching Witches
26-11-2004, 10:06
Blazing Saddles. That'll confuse the shit outta them
Lutton
26-11-2004, 10:07
Blazing Saddles. That'll confuse the shit outta them

hehehehe.

Steel Magnolias. That'll ensure they NEVER land on Planet Earth.
Bejita
26-11-2004, 10:17
Pirates of the Caribbean. That way, if they're the good kind of aliens, they'll know we're fun, reasonably intelligent people and come down here - and if they're the ungood kind of aliens, they won't like it and they'll stay away. Perfection, no?
Cambridge Major
26-11-2004, 10:22
Yeah, caus Hitler was alive at the 1972 olympics. Me thinks you are thinking of the 1936 Berlin olympics....either that or the speech at the Nuremburg rallies....
Oh dear - please do excuse my confusion. But whereever it was, it's not going to make a very good impression...
Kellarly
26-11-2004, 10:22
Oh dear - please do excuse my confusion. But whereever it was, it's not going to make a very good impression...

nope agreed! :D
Torching Witches
26-11-2004, 10:23
hehehehe.

Steel Magnolias. That'll ensure they NEVER land on Planet Earth.

Or the My Little Pony Movie.
Honey Badgers
26-11-2004, 10:26
My cousin Vinnie, of course.
Lutton
26-11-2004, 10:26
Or the My Little Pony Movie.


Or anything starring Claude van Damme.
Torching Witches
26-11-2004, 10:26
Or anything starring Claude van Damme.

The My Little Pony Movie, with a guest appearance by Jean Claude Van Damme, as the Universal Soldier.
Harlesburg
26-11-2004, 10:37
Yeah, caus Hitler was alive at the 1972 olympics. Me thinks you are thinking of the 1936 Berlin olympics....either that or the speech at the Nuremburg rallies....
Hey ease up their only a Cambridge Major not Oxford :p

it would have to be Baseketball ;)
Kellarly
26-11-2004, 10:40
Hey ease up their only a Cambridge Major not Oxford :p

it would have to be Baseketball ;)


Yeah, did kinda leap a bit quick there, apologies C.Major. Its kinda like a habit in some of the threads on here...damn trigger finger.
Lutton
26-11-2004, 10:40
Waterworld? :p
Lunatic Goofballs
26-11-2004, 10:44
Monty Python's 'The Meaning of Life'. SO they can get a good laugh at how screwed up our science is. :)
Cambridge Major
26-11-2004, 11:25
Hey ease up their only a Cambridge Major not Oxford :p

it would have to be Baseketball ;)
Oh dear. My name is not meant to imply that I am studying or have ever studied at Cambridge (for the record, I'm an Oxford reject, ain't it sad...)! It's actually the name of a ringing method. I'm not that arrogant! But I can see how it could cause confusion.
Refused Party Program
26-11-2004, 11:27
Send them something really crappy like Fight Club. It would tell them that Earth really wasn't worth visiting and save their time and effort.
Norticlass
26-11-2004, 11:28
its probabilly been said but i think we should send the paris hilton movie :D
Branin
26-11-2004, 11:29
Whatever movie happened to be on sale at Wal-Mart. NASA budget cuts and all....
Lunatic Goofballs
26-11-2004, 11:30
Whatever movie happened to be on sale at Wal-Mart. NASA budget cuts and all....

Major Payne?!? :eek:
Greedy Pig
26-11-2004, 11:42
We want to send them the right message that is truthfully describing all humans that we are a good bunch of people and we are your friends. Not gun waving cowboys.

Then they can come and subdue the human race and we would be slave workers to build their giant photon cannon on the earth to obliterate other alien races that do not submit to our masters.
Jordaxia
26-11-2004, 11:42
Hmmm... here's my list. It's definitive.

Aliens
Citizen Kane
The producers (to counter the Nuremberg speeches)
The Life of Brian
The Holy Grail


But the thread only asks for one movie, so my ultimate choice would be....
....
Can't think of one...
....
A not yet made but made specially for sending movie of Christopher Walken reading the Art of War, by Sun Tzu.

"War. Is of the Utmost. Importance.
Of the State, the road to. Survival. Or Ru.In."

(paraphrased, but you get the idea.)
Lutton
26-11-2004, 11:46
We want to send them the right message that is truthfully describing all humans that we are a good bunch of people and we are your friends. Not gun waving cowboys.

Then they can come and subdue the human race and we would be slave workers to build their giant photon cannon on the earth to obliterate other alien races that do not submit to our masters.

You know that Sci-Fi channel is poisoning your brain, don't you? :p ;)
Findecano Calaelen
26-11-2004, 13:20
I would say the original star wars so they think old men have special powers and cool glowy swords
Branin
26-11-2004, 13:29
bump
Von Witzleben
26-11-2004, 14:02
Earth girls are easy. :D
Xenasia
26-11-2004, 14:08
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
That oughta confuse em.
Superpower07
26-11-2004, 14:22
Blues Brothers

*in a Chicago accent*
"We're on a mission, a mission from God!"
Sean O Mac
26-11-2004, 14:46
What movie do you think is the best to send out into space...

I stopped at this point and thought "By God the Bridget Jones movies are so airborn!"
EricTheRed
26-11-2004, 14:47
"Reefer Madness"
Sgt Peppers LHCB
26-11-2004, 16:14
What movie do you think is the best to send out into space and hope that aliens would watch that is currently out?

Farenheit 9/11?
Fight Club?
Saving Private Ryan?
Scary Movie 3?

Farenheit 9/11! Farenheit 9/11! Than they could zap Bush Cheyney Rummy Wolfy and the others and replace with a super Democracy team! Would Include FDR (re-encarnated) HS Truman (Re-encarnated) JFK (Re-Encarnated) George Washington (Re-Encarnated) Thomas Jefferson (Re-encarnated) Bill Clinton... Hey wait! This guy wouldnt have to be re-encarnated! Woot! Go Clinton! Notice there are no Republicans? Oh and the aliens would re-encarnate all those god presidents, to make, the Super Presidents Bureau of Justice!!!
Demented Hamsters
26-11-2004, 17:14
Oh dear. My name is not meant to imply that I am studying or have ever studied at Cambridge ... I'm not that arrogant!
Maybe not arrogant, but you are guilty of plageurism. 'First Contact' had the bit about Hitler's speech being beamed back to Earth from the Aliens. ;)

How about 'Dr.Strangelove'? It would at least show them that regardless of the dangers our leaders' actions pose us, we don't take it too seriously.
Willamena
26-11-2004, 17:30
Mars Needs Women
Anglolia
26-11-2004, 18:07
'Blade Runner', so they have a fucked up idea of how advanced we are. That with all the copies of 'Chronicles of Riddick' purely to dispose of such a terrible movie.
Seosavists
26-11-2004, 18:23
Oh and the aliens would re-encarnate all those god presidents, to make, the Super Presidents Bureau of Justice!!!
I knew it. Ever since I heard "one nation under god" I knew what it really meant.
Joey P
26-11-2004, 18:23
How about a dvd of those Japanese robot cartoons that cause seizures.
Greedy Pig
26-11-2004, 19:14
How about a dvd of those Japanese robot cartoons that
cause seizures.

Lol. It was pokemon.
Drugopia
26-11-2004, 19:18
you all seem to forget, everything transmitted via sattelite/tv is already in space.

which means by the time your movie gets to them, they've already seen movies that came out in the 50s and 60s

but if i could stop them from seeing every movie other than the one i wanted to, i'd send "Independance day", just so they don't get any ideas about attacking us :P
Cheatanistan
26-11-2004, 19:23
:headbang: you guyzez is all wrong... We should send Uhf, starring Weird Al, the most awsomest person alive!
The Tribes Of Longton
26-11-2004, 19:44
:headbang: you guyzez is all wrong... We should send Uhf, starring Weird Al, the most awsomest person alive!
Ah, the man who created smells like nirvana, ahmish paradise, i'm an ugly girl, eat it (which was used asa backing track to a british news article), etc.

A man of many talent, I think you'll agree
Irrational Numbers
26-11-2004, 19:50
What movie do you think is the best to send out into space and hope that aliens would watch that is currently out?

Farenheit 9/11?
Fight Club?
Saving Private Ryan?
Scary Movie 3?

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The Tribes Of Longton
26-11-2004, 19:59
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
We demand...a shrubbery

Funny now, but may be an act of war over interstellar distances
Superpower07
26-11-2004, 20:04
How about a dvd of those Japanese robot cartoons that cause seizures.
Yes, I'm sure we could scare them off after a screening of Gundam
ProMonkians
26-11-2004, 20:13
Send them ET so that they think (some) humans are nice and friendly - lulling them into a false sense of security. When they land we steal their ships and technology, turn the aliens into household slaves/limited edition burgers, invade their homeworld, suck it dry of resources, then move on to the next set of aliens.
Remember kids, aliens do not have human rights, therefore we can do to them what we want. "Probe this mother f******!!!!"
Leetonia
26-11-2004, 20:27
Yes, I'm sure we could scare them off after a screening of Gundam
Naw, send them ALL of Evangelion. They'll be so scared of the crazy ass people with the giant robots that they'll A. Kill us all. B. Stay the fuck away C. Laugh their asses off at extension cord (I did) D. Name Gendo the ruler of the universe (because we know he is)
Faithfull-freedom
26-11-2004, 20:32
That amazon women from somewhere one comes to mind.
Seperatists for Trade
27-11-2004, 11:10
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Findecano Calaelen
27-11-2004, 11:50
futurama
they wouldnt know what to think
Husitania
27-11-2004, 12:05
I like the whole bore them to death theory.

Send them Manos: The hands of Fate
Adrian Barbeau-Bot
27-11-2004, 12:19
i am suprised that nobody has mentioned:

1) the big lebowski. bowling will then become their planets favorite sport. and if they are smart they will make it required viewing.

2) un chien andalou (i know i butchered the spelling, i just didnt feel like looking it up) see how many of them want to come see whats in our brains after watching that

3) any or all episodes of family guy. after watching that they will build an idol to Seth MacFarlane (assuming they have a sense of humor)

there are others that would be great im sure. im just far to tired to think of them at the moment

of course, as soon as they get our dvds, they will probably wonder what to do with them.. unless they somehow have invented a dvd player too. maybe we should bundle a dvd player with the movies? their on their own for a tv.
Sdaeriji
27-11-2004, 12:22
Shouldn't we send aliens Aliens?
Matalatataka
27-11-2004, 13:09
Shouldn't we send aliens Aliens?

Just DON'T send them the third one! What a waste of film.

But I agree that most anything by Monty Python (or Mel Brooks) would be a good test to see if their worth OUR time.
All I Survey
27-11-2004, 13:13
Shouldn't we send aliens Aliens?

close but not quite

I believe aliens if there are any are violent and greedy just like we are
what happend to the native americans when the europeans showed up, you guys want alien pox so i say we scare em off with the worst movie ever made AVP
The Tribes Of Longton
27-11-2004, 13:26
How about we send them some Ninja Scroll. Then they'll think that we have gods among men and proper hard japanese guys with rather large katanas.


Mmmmm.....Katana
Rasputin the Thief
27-11-2004, 13:27
Hmmm... here's my list. It's definitive.

Aliens
Citizen Kane
The producers (to counter the Nuremberg speeches)
The Life of Brian
The Holy Grail


But the thread only asks for one movie, so my ultimate choice would be....
....
Can't think of one...
....
A not yet made but made specially for sending movie of Christopher Walken reading the Art of War, by Sun Tzu.

"War. Is of the Utmost. Importance.
Of the State, the road to. Survival. Or Ru.In."

(paraphrased, but you get the idea.)

they wouldn't get the jokes from 'the holy grail", particularly the servants making the horses noises. They don't know what noise a horse makes :'(
Rasputin the Thief
27-11-2004, 13:31
I think we should show them dragon ball z (or matrix, same thing). They'll think we"re too strong for them :p
Shaed
27-11-2004, 13:32
This one:

http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bunny.php

I mean, duh.

Seriously? Gormenghast if we want to impress them, and Event Horizon if we want them to simultaneously under- and over-estimate our technological skill.
Lastinia
27-11-2004, 14:15
I think:

E.T.
Home Alone 3
A porno movie
and
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Utopio
27-11-2004, 14:34
http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bunny.php

BLOODY TUNE!! That got stuck in my head for days. Cute bunny, though.
Saxnot
27-11-2004, 14:46
Apocalypse Now.
Mapalgetia
27-11-2004, 14:58
Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2.

Or Big Trouble.
Shaed
27-11-2004, 16:03
BLOODY TUNE!! That got stuck in my head for days. Cute bunny, though.

Oh yeah? Could you give me any advice as to people's reactions to someone walking around singing "Everyone else... has had more sex than me"?
Even Newer Talgania
27-11-2004, 16:36
Dumb and Dumber
Harlesburg
18-12-2004, 03:00
Oh dear. My name is not meant to imply that I am studying or have ever studied at Cambridge (for the record, I'm an Oxford reject, ain't it sad...)! It's actually the name of a ringing method. I'm not that arrogant! But I can see how it could cause confusion.
oh he he :p
Colodia
18-12-2004, 03:47
Wow, this thread is still around?
La Terra di Liberta
18-12-2004, 03:55
I'd say a porno film but otherwise, oh what the hell, Scary Movie 3.
Kramers Intern
18-12-2004, 04:06
Farenheit 9/11! Farenheit 9/11! Than they could zap Bush Cheyney Rummy Wolfy and the others and replace with a super Democracy team! Would Include FDR (re-encarnated) HS Truman (Re-encarnated) JFK (Re-Encarnated) George Washington (Re-Encarnated) Thomas Jefferson (Re-encarnated) Bill Clinton... Hey wait! This guy wouldnt have to be re-encarnated! Woot! Go Clinton! Notice there are no Republicans? Oh and the aliens would re-encarnate all those god presidents, to make, the Super Presidents Bureau of Justice!!!

Did you mean good not god? If so you are so right! I might add Eisenhower though. But yes! Go Super President Bureau of Justice!!!!!!!!!!!
Kramers Intern
18-12-2004, 04:07
Dumb and Dumber

No way! Send them an even dumber film where everyone is an idiot, like Napoleon Dynamite! When they stop peeing there pants from laughter they will invade us thinking we are all really dumb like that, than we can kill them all and rape their bones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111oneoneone!!!!!!1
Marinanth
18-12-2004, 04:29
Mary Poppins ... ... ... or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

those would get the same message across.

or Tommy,
and Pod People (but not without the MST3k)
Valestel
18-12-2004, 04:32
Why not Glitter or Gigli?
Salamand
18-12-2004, 05:33
If we want the Aliens to love us: Slingblade
If you are a dangerous misanthropic lunatic who wants the earth to get annihalated: White Chicks
Red Sox Fanatics
18-12-2004, 06:39
Reefer Madness
Demons Passage
18-12-2004, 11:36
Earth Girls are Easy
PIcaRDMPCia
18-12-2004, 11:39
Definitely all of the Star Trek movies. Either those, or Independence Day.
Gawdly
18-12-2004, 12:12
Cheech & Chongs Up in Smoke
&
Reservoir Dogs
Johnified America
18-12-2004, 12:13
Starship Troopers!

they will be scared of us then!!!
Cannot think of a name
18-12-2004, 12:39
I thought for sure that this would come up:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's like a little instructional video for them on how to contact us through Richard Dreyfus.
Austrealite
18-12-2004, 12:58
Any movie that shows how great Human Civiliation is...but we all know there are no aliens.
The Plutonian Empire
18-12-2004, 13:28
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The Atreides Empire
18-12-2004, 13:28
Earth Girls are Easy
agreed :D
Siljhouettes
18-12-2004, 13:44
Alien, of course!

Or maybe Amelie.
Correction
18-12-2004, 14:45
The Untouchables.
Chess Squares
18-12-2004, 14:52
Mars Attacks
Gelfland
18-12-2004, 19:05
the tales of a paralell universe series would get them to leave us alone
mst3k:the motion picture to show our sense of humor
Monty python and the holy grail, so they stay away from our cute, fluffy bunnies
Gnostikos
18-12-2004, 21:22
Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Anarchy 92
18-12-2004, 22:10
Every episode Futuarma or the Simpsons... Futurama so they'll think they have already inavded us and the Simpsons so they'll be so confused when they see us unless they land in China...


I'm very sorry for that China joke, I know a lot of Chinese people and I did not mean to say that they are all Yellow.