What is the most plausible alien movie?

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Startide Rising was great--i remember it better than Sundiver. There was a sequel to Startide, too, The Uplift War, all of them about the "Uplift Universe." (I think a total of six novels were projected--but i only read the first three.) Someone else (Frank Herbert? i disremember) wrote a couple of novels about sentient stars, too. Not high quality literature, though--more in the "action/adventure" genre.

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@Setanta,

I read The Uplift War also, but things went downhill after Startide Rising, so I stopped after that.

Brin also wrote The Postman which I also enjoyed, but almost entirely for the few pages devoted to the conversations with the first AI machine.

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@rosborne979,

I enjoyed The Postman as one of the more plausible post-apocalyptic stories i'd read. Kevin Costner made an appallingly bad movie from it.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

Kevin Costner made an appallingly bad movie

say it isn't so

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

I enjoyed The Postman as one of the more plausible post-apocalyptic stories i'd read. Kevin Costner made an appallingly bad movie from it.

Yeh, the movie sucked. But the things that made the book good were far too subtle to get on film, especially for a big-budget hollywood Costner film, so they never really had a chance.

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@rosborne979,

My point here was that some alien race has allready built these machines with inteligence but than destroyed by their own creation. After that thet machines set to stars to expand. Typical sci-fi scenario bot plausible one. Interesthing here is that we are all machines but just biological ones.

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Jodie Foster starrer "Contact"

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Most plausible current-times humans-get-attacked-by-aliens-and-survive movie is obviously hands down War of the Worlds, I can't see that being even debatable.

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@tycoon,

tycoon wrote:

I watched a campy movie the other day where James Arness played a vegetative alien bent on foiling earthman progress at a North Pole scientific outpost. I thought this was very plausible, as he was covered in green cabbage-like foliage. He had already developed his Matt Dillon swagger.

that campy movie was The Thing, John Carpenter remade it in the 80's and i understand that another remake is in the works, or at least being pondered

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@djjd62,

Eraserhead.

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The least plausible, but my favorite is Vonnegut's Tralfamadorians...how I'd love to pass my days with Montana Wildhack in the Tralf. zoo

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