Alien Invasion Movies Take Note: Apparently The Aliens Should Win

Even if you managed to get past the incoherent cinematography, stilted dialogue, non-existent characters and every other element that sunk Battle: Los Angeles, it turns out there was still one more glaring problem with the film. And given that this whole alien invasion revival trend isn't going away, aspiring screenwriters should probably take note: Apparently, if aliens actually invaded, we wouldn't win.

That's according to John Alexander, a retired Army colonel who seems like he has spent more time thinking about this sort of scenario than is probably healthy. Alexander said:

"The bottom line for a hostile engagement between aliens and humans is not a pretty picture, and there is no happy ending for us."

Bummer. Alexander goes on to say that aliens probably wouldn't immediately attack our military or say, blow up the empire state building, a la Independence Day. Instead, he notes that it would be much less of a risk for them if they simply destroyed "our infrastructure, power, communications, transportation and economic systems." I assume then, they would just float outside the earth's atmosphere and watch the show as the human race goes mostly extinct in a matter of weeks. Or, he notes, they could just introduce bio-organisms to wipe us out.

I suppose it was always kind of weird that humans are the only ones in movies who think to attack with some kind of bio-agent like the common cold.

But let's give Hollywood credit for getting it half right! Even Stephen Hawking thinks that if aliens exist they are probably hostile, which pretty much gels with most cinematic portrayals of the creatures. We all knew that E.T. and Close Encounters of a Third Kind were total B.S., right?

So anyway, an ex-military expert has thrown down the gauntlet: Who's going to step up and make the first realistic invasion movie where the aliens totally eradicate us?

· Military Expert: The World Could Never Survive a Real 'Battle: Los Angeles' [AOL Weird News]