![]() ![]() Think of all the cosmic creatures in the Mos Eisley Cantina in the original Star Wars. ANOTHER TOMORROW MOVIE MOVIEThe best aliens in cinema, including several from alien invasion movies, have designs and small details that suggest a whole world beyond the movie you’re watching. There’s never any suggestion that these aliens could exist as creatures aside from their exploits attacking Earthlings. Their entire design is built around tearing people in half, but what do creatures who just slaughter do on their days off? This seemingly throwaway thought speaks to a problem with both of these default design choices for modern blockbuster aliens. Watching a movie as uninvolving as The Tomorrow War, your mind might wander to amusingly ponder what these aliens must do when they’re not attacking humans. Modern CG technology that allows these types of aliens to always linger on-screen makes their shortcomings extra apparent. While a handful of good monsters have emerged through this approach, many aliens in this mold eschew unique design choices or any traces of personality. Films like Edge of Tomorrow, Captive State, and The Tomorrow War also employ their faux-Xenomorphs to make life nasty for humans on Earth. Covered in white coloring and looking like the Cloverfield monster had the size and all the tentacles of those Edge of Tomorrow beasties, they’re the quintessential example of this kind of alien.īut it isn’t just in this new Chris Pratt vehicle that one can find these kinds of aliens. This is where The Tomorrow War’s aliens come in. ![]() These are aliens covered in either black or grey hues who crawl around on all fours and don’t even bother having weapons, they just attack human adversaries with their teeth. More prominent in recent years has been another type of alien invader that emulates the Xenomorphs from the Alien movies. RELATED: ‘The Tomorrow War’ Review: A Story about Errant Fathers Gets Smothered by Bland Action ![]() Though they had green-and-yellow outfits in the comics, the Parademons in the live-action Justice League movie, with their drained-out coloring and interchangeable appearances, are clearly modeled more after this style of cinematic extraterrestrial. These kinds of aliens have become so omnipresent that they even infect adaptations of these creatures that used to look different. That’s not exactly the kind of otherworldly visitor that captures your imagination. Instead, all that these henchmen do is just point, shoot, and inevitably get slaughtered by live-action actors. These aliens are always just covered in drab grey coloring and there’s never any attempt to inject actual personality into the individual fighters. As seen in films like Battleship and Battle: Los Angeles, these creatures tend to look like they’re emulating the visual aesthetic of the Spartan soldiers from the Halo video games. The first is legions of bipedal foot-soldiers covered in armor. In this domain in the 21st-century, there are usually two types of alien invaders. ![]()
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