To judge by some of the biggest blockbusters of the past few years -- and especially the past few weeks -- we're on the verge of an alien invasion.
Accounts of how they'll get here vary. Let's just focus on the movies of 2012. (Spoilers ahead!) If "The Avengers" is to be believed, the aliens will arrive via an interdimensional portal opened by a demigod named Loki using the power of a glowing blue cube called -- paging "A Wrinkle in Time" -- a tesseract. The aliens of "Battleship" -- like those of "Independence Day," "District 9" and countless others before them -- reach Earth in a gigantic, metal spacecraft. According to "Men in Black III," the aliens are already among us, posing in plain sight as extraordinary humans like Lady Gaga. And "Prometheus," being released Friday, claims we're the descendants of an alien race, although once we find that out,...
Accounts of how they'll get here vary. Let's just focus on the movies of 2012. (Spoilers ahead!) If "The Avengers" is to be believed, the aliens will arrive via an interdimensional portal opened by a demigod named Loki using the power of a glowing blue cube called -- paging "A Wrinkle in Time" -- a tesseract. The aliens of "Battleship" -- like those of "Independence Day," "District 9" and countless others before them -- reach Earth in a gigantic, metal spacecraft. According to "Men in Black III," the aliens are already among us, posing in plain sight as extraordinary humans like Lady Gaga. And "Prometheus," being released Friday, claims we're the descendants of an alien race, although once we find that out,...
- 6/7/2012
- by Joe Satran
- Huffington Post
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