Earth Vs the Flying Saucers 1956 6 out of 10

Earth vs the Flying Saucers  1956   6 out of 10

The Aliens have been shooting down our rocket tests and after an attempted landing to have a talk where we immediately killed one of their silly looking Styrofoam suited spaceman they are now out to obliterate us.   This sci-fi film with effects by the master Ray Harryhausen is clearly one of the inspirations for Mar Attacks (also inspired by the Mars Attacks card set). Shoot at this aliens and they will vaporize you with lasers.

  The plot of this movie is standard alien invasion stuff.  It is the blue print for many of the alien invasion movies that followed and is a must see for that factor.  Being from the 1950's it doesn't hold up all that great watching the models of Flying Saucers take out models of the capitol, but it is an effective sci-fi story from that era.  

The trailer is great.

Independence Day Saster 2013 5 out of 10

Independence Day-Saster 2013  5 out of 10

Tom Everett Scott and Ryan Merriman star in this Independence Day rip off.   I guess putting that weird title on the movie was supposed to get people to want to watch it near July 4th....   In this Alien Invasion a bunch of Alien ships start digging their way out of the Earth and then send a bunch of drones around to take out world leaders and start terraforming the Earth for the big spaceship that is currently out in space.   The low budget feature spends most of its time following the President of the United States that was downed in a helicopter and his brother both trying to come up with a way to stop the Alien invaders with the help of some random tech geeks and a scientist from SETI.   We don't actual ever get to see any aliens in this alien invasion movie,  just  a bunch of CGI flying balls.  It was okay for a low budget rip off of Independence Day,  but nothing special.