Aliens versus Engineers

For total movie satisfaction, sci-fi flicks are just not the ones for overly analytical, overly enthusiastic engineers.

I always watch movies with engineers… sometimes with just one engineer, sometimes with 2, or 3, or 4 of them... So part of the entertainment for me, apart from the cinematic thrill per se, are the series of comments, diatribes, mockeries and jokes that occur afterwards – compliments, of course, of my witty engineer friends.

Remembering all of them is tough, but here are some stuff picked from memory:

1. Independence Day
1. Do aliens use Windows as well? Bill Gates must be that popular hey? Tough to think that ALIEN systems can get infected by MAN-MADE computer virus as well.
2. Signs
1. Again, dumb aliens. Perhaps they have forgotten that water is deadly to them and so they go on mindlessly invading a planet with water covering 70% of its surface.
3. War of the Worlds
1. Obviously the aliens do not have a very good sensor technology with their super-duper robotics. Can't even snuff out three lives hiding in a dingy basement.
2. The aliens who have been monitoring Earth for MILLIONS of years failed to adapt, develop resistance, or have a counter for the bacteria that exist in the planet.
4. Aliens Versus Predators
1. Enough said! It’s a comedy.

Again, proving Murphy’s Law… if anything can go wrong, it will. Die you aliens!!!!! Engineers rule!!! But that’s another story.