Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen a sci-fi movie where an aggressive alien species invades the Earth, takes it over and either wipes out or enslaves humanity thus giving the movie a dark ending?


The only one I can think of is "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

The only other story I can think of that's remotely like that was "To Serve Man," and a few other television shows, but that's TV, not a movie.

Battlefield Earth has modern day humanity being basically wiped out by an alien invasion. Then of course 1000 years in the future the remnants of the species manage to come back and win despite having lived in the stone age for 10 generations.

Edit: I'm actually talking about the book. Dunno how they changed the plot for the (terrible) movie adaptation.

Skyline. Well, it ends before any real resolution happens. I can't recall how they end Battle: LA now either...

Oh, in a little nod to that classic SF ep, in Rage there's a book you find lying around called "To Serve Mutant".



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I actually managed to last one full hour before I turned off my dvd player in both shock and amusement (mostly stemming from John Travolta's over-acting). It was quite a feat now that I look back on it!

For one it ends early, sometime right after they send the bomb back through the portal and blow up the planet. For another, it was greatly simplified and stripped down. Oh, and the fact that the Psychlos aren't cat-like with full-face masks but Rastafarian basketball players with creepy contact lenses. However, I'd say the film is a study in how a screenplay can stay true to a book but still totally miss the boat. There's really not much I can point to and say "that was the problem"...it's more like just enough was left out and the stuff there was off by just enough to make nothing work.



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