The Day the Earth Stopped

" The Day the Earth Stopped"

"As Reported by Dollyforme"

Found this little Gem at my Redbox nest to my house – An Alien Invasion movie with a Naked hot girl in it! This takeoff on the 1950s sci-fi classic THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL posits a world in which mankind has to answer the ultimate question: is it worthy of existence? When alien robots park themselves in Earth's major cities, they demand that humans prove their worth, or else face extermination.

Sinead McCafferty is the Alien hottie – playing “Sky” in this little SF treat. Now, Alien invasions is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which an extraterrestrial society invades Earth with the intent to exterminate and replace human life, enslave it under a colonial system, to harvest humans for food, or sometimes to destroy the earth altogether.

Prospects of invasion tended to vary with the state of current affairs, and current perceptions of threat. Alien invasion was a common metaphor in US science fiction during the Cold War, illustrating the fears of foreign (e.g. Soviet Union) occupation and nuclear devastation of the American people. Examples of these stories include "The Liberation of Earth" by William Tenn and The Body Snatchers.

The most well-known alien invasion scenarios involve the aliens landing on Earth, destroying or abducting people, fighting and defeating Earth's military forces, and then destroying Earth's major cities. Usually, the bulk of the story follows the battles between the invaders and Earth's armies, as in The War of the Worlds. However, not all alien invasion stories follow this plot. In some accounts, the alien invaders will covertly subvert human society using disguises, shapechanging, creating conflict in humanity and let humans destroy themselves, or human allies. In other depictions, the aliens score an overwhelming victory over humanity and the bulk of the story occurs after the aliens have taken over. Sometimes, the aliens do not come from space, but from another dimension. And in some fiction, the invaders may not actually be aliens, but demonic creatures.

The classic treatment was The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, which was made into movies in 1953 and 2005, as well as numerous radio adaptations and a TV series. Another early version is The Germ Growers (1892), by Robert Potter. Other treatments have posited biological invasions (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), or cultural invasion (The Uplift Wars by David Brin).

Anyway, now that you are up on the Alien Invasion Genre, back to the yummy Sinead - who walks (that exagerrated porn star gait that involves crossing one foot way over the other in a sultry motion) everywhere, turns out to be an emissary from a distant planet sent to force mankind to prove its worth to this race who suspects that its development of nuclear weapons poses a threat to everyone else in the galaxy (somehow). So it’s up to a very tired looking C. Thomas Howell to sneak her away from the Vincent D’Onofrio lookalike contest winner in charge of the military task force and find a way to prove the value of human life before sundown when all the giant robots around the world will eradicate us all and then go home.

C. Thomas Howell and Judd Nelson also star in this cool little sci-fi thriller that finds the citizens of planet Earth forced to prove their worth or else suffer complete and total annihilation. The fun of the flick is the fact that the future of our civilization hinges on our ability to convince the invaders that our sole purpose in life isn't to spread suffering and misery while laying waste to the very planet that has nurtured our species - Earth.

A good time – Sinead as Sky is yummy – a buck well spent in my book.