The Like/Hate Thread

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The Day the Earth Stood Still.

cons: a left-wing agenda that was so thick you could spread it on a piece of toast. aliens arrive unannounced, violate the US defense network, and their landing assaults unarmed and unsuspecting civilians, and then the alien has the balls to demand a gathering of all world leaders without explanation or preamble... and for some reason the narrative of the plot always cast the government and military officials as hopelessly incompetent boobs who are so needlessly aggressive that they can only squander humanity's final hope.

pros: unintentional hilarity. when the secretary of state said that the alien would probably be interrogated for information and one of the scientist characters replied with "as scientists, we can't consent to this" i just lost it. i would expect that kind of line coming from someone with a pole for a tail, and off the end of the pole a flag hangs depicting a screw and a ball. and then there's the fact that the alien is an environmentalist come to save planet earth from humanity. that was probably my favorite part. ;E