Alien Invasion!!!!!!

Having a problem thinking of a creative way to start off. I'm personally tired of saying "Well I woke up, did this and that" so I think I'll start off with something exciting. I just got back from seeing Skyline which is an "aliens invade earth" sci-fi movie. It didn't do great in theatres which explains why it came out in November and it's already on net flicks. People say "oh it's like independence day and cloverfield!" Go figure!? How many different times can you have aliens invade? Should we put down war movies because We Were Soldiers was like Hamburger Hill because it was a big battle? Haha.

Anyways yea, it had aliens invade, a small band of people trying to survive it, one by one they die, the military helps out and you're not sure how it'll all end. It's the details in between that you have to look at, and I like alien movies. How do the aliens work? Is it a mothership situation where if it goes down do they all fall like drones? Does Will Smith have to fly an enemy ship into the mother ship and have Jeff Goldblum upload a virus and the whole world is safe? I think the situation has evolved and become more realistic. Cloverfield was good because it's just everyday people trying to survive, the military fights, the cast try to get away and in a real alien invasion not everyone get away to a deserted island. Sometimes the ending isn't all sunshine.

The aliens work like this: Beams of light are shot down, and they attract people, like moths to a flame. Then the people are sucked into the air and into a ship. People can only get away if someone stops them from going outside to the light. Those that stay inside have to be quiet as the mother ship sends out seekers to search for more humans, like in the new war of the worlds where that long metal snake thing with the big eye look for Tom Cruise and his kid. If found the people are grabbed and they're brain is removed but we don't know why yet. A few main characters die including one that was essential which I found odd. He was the reason the other main characters were there in the first place haha. Sadly, the cute brunette was killed with him, and the bitchy girl lived. It's suppose to be the other way around! Cute girls live, bitchy ones and ugly ones die! Maybe it's trying to change that, but why her :(

You hear aircraft fly over, and it's Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with sixteen hellfire missiles, but oddly enough they work in air-to-air situations which wouldn't work in real life, as they are laser homing which means the target always has to be painted accurately with a laser or else the missile will miss. Hey, it's just a movie I know. The seekers which are flying dudes fight the UAVs and there's a few new stealth UAVs in the mix. Big aerial fight with no humans being shot down but you'd like to see the UAVs do some damage. A stealth UAV makes it past the seekers, it's clipped and on fire but it opens it's bomb bay doors and fires something! It's some sort of aerial nuke launched at the mothership and blows that bitch down sadly taking out half of LA in the process! Or at least a neighbourhood or two. Everyone hugs with joy but it's only an hour into the movie so it can't be all good news or a super short movie and the mothership is regenerating and more seekers and big walking guys come out and they're mad! More cast is killed, US Navy Seahawk helicopters drop off a few Marines on the apartment roof with Anti-Tank missiles and .50cal anti-material sniper rifles, M82's . They should have had some of the new hi tech looking .50cal machine guns and set up a small position, as the M82 packs a punch but one at a time and ten in a mag. They run to the rooftop and they're just about to get picked up and the helicopter crashes, like at the end of Transformers with Sam and the cube. They give you hope and shoot it down. Somehow one of the big walking guys walks up a building  and takes out the Marines. I forgot to mention the seekers and big walking guys can regenerate too as long as they're brain is intact. It's just the cute couple left over, the Pacific fleet is just outside LA but for some reason no US Naval aircraft are in the fight, only US Air Force F-22's doing gun runs. Cool scene where the big guy that got the Marines is about to get the couple, and the F-22 is doing one last gun run (20mm vs. big thing that can regenerate :S) but the F-22 is winged, catches on fire, crashes on the roof, bounces over the couple in slow motion and knocks the big guy off the roof.

Things are grim and the alien ships are gaining ground, the Pacific fleet at sea is in flames. The couple hold tight, have one last kiss and are sucked up into the ship. Shows that all over the world cities are in flames but then shows what happens to the people who get sucked up. These arms scan each person and their brain is ripped out. The brains go up a tube and are implanted into new aliens and they jump out the ship into action to get more brains.

Now, interesting thing here. The main guy at the beginning saw the light and went towards it, but his buddy pulled him to safety. After seeing the light your veins get all visible through your skin and you kinda go blind from the light for a bit but return to normal. His girlfriend which before the crazy shit admitted she's late and probably pregnant, later goes through the same thing. The guy is aggressive, and wants to head out to the ocean as there's no ships over there, but another guy, some random survivor challenges him and they get into it. Main guy wants to go out trying to survive, random dude wants to sit and wait. Random dude is fat and main guy is average, but main guy dominates the fat random dude and picks him up, which normally he shouldn't be able to. After he mentions that when you first see the light you feel so powerful so that makes you think that since he survived seeing the light it gave him some ability. Later a seeker has his wife and he jumps on it and starts ripping it limb from limb which is cool. It does take him over but his wife hacks out its brain. So the couple get sucked up and into the ship, the main guy's brain is ripped out and put into a new alien dude, but something is wrong with him.

His wife is scanned and confirmed pregnant so she goes in a tube somewhere else. Now the directors did Alien vs. Predator: Requiem which involved a half-predator, half-xenomorph alien (yea I'm an AVP expert too) hybrid that instead of having a second set of teeth to chomp through skull (alien quality) he could jam a tube into females mouths and implant eggs directly instead of having to do the whole alien queen lay millions of eggs and wait for someone to walk by. Anyways I'm getting side tracked but I think most women, or at least the pregnant ones are forced to give life to new aliens in this movie. Just making the gross female bearing alien eggs connection. Maybe it turns the directors on, who knows. The main guy's brain now in an alien hears his wife, comes in and kills the aliens doing that to the women. His wife freaks out but he's passive with her and touched her the way he use to with a human body. She makes the connection and a big dude comes in to stop him. Credits roll but it shows the good alien kicking ass, so it's taken things is a cool and new direction which hasn't been done! It's been confirmed there will be a sequel and it's already in the works so I look forward to that.

Lessons: In hopeless situations like that, where there's waves of regenerating aliens, you're low on supplies, there's no more water and you know you're fucked, I'd want to spend one last good moment with someone I loved and execute her (with her knowing I'm going to do it for the benefit of a quick and painless death) and myself to be saved from limb ripping, bone gnawing, guts splattered all over the new wallpaper horrible death. Another benefit to this is that our brains would not be used in new aliens used to harvest more brains for aliens and give them more power. I also believe with all these alien invasion movies we need to start investing in the space arms race, but not for taking out Russian spaceships, but whatever is out there. Need to create a weapon that can generate a short lasting black-hole with limited range so that a mother-ship before it enters Earth's atmosphere it can be sent somewhere else and hopefully far away! Or, we can set up a base on the moon and have the moon as an observation outpost. We can stay low and when the mother-ship goes past earth, black-hole missile fired. Think of it as a giant black-hole claymore and Earth is the bait. Come on, if we can send people there and drive a friggen car on the moon forty years ago, why can't we set up a small outpost with a Space Marine Recon Element. Let's get super powers to donate a small fraction of there GDP towards this, so it's an Earth unit, and not like the US is claiming the moon as a sovereign state, although, there is a US flag still flying up there. I'm just saying to have an Earth force so that it's not just the US's responsibility, although we already know we'll leave it up to them. Maybe have it as a UN policy, as it's the United Nations. Have Chinese, Russian, US, Indian, Japanese, European Union and at least a few Canadian Space Marines up there, much like we all come together with supplying and maintaining the space station. I'm on to something, and you friggen know it! :P

Alright, less revolutionary events. What I did today muhaha. My morning was the same as usual, but I made it just in time to get free coffee at Bobby Brewers, home to my fruit salad haha. I was going to bring some stuff over to Phuoc's shop to get ready to ship but I wanted to hit Ben Thanh Market, get another work out shirt for dirt cheap and visit with Hanh before I left. I forgot when I sent in my N/75th Ranger patches in to be done, so I dropped in and they were ready. I picked them up but they didn't have my blue print and they looked good so I stuffed them in my pocket and off I went.

I hit the market and found the sport shirt aisle, I was grabbed into the usual booth, demanded my arm was released and once it was I checked out there stuff. In retrospect I should have told them off, maybe tomorrow. I checked out their shirts looking for a colour I liked. I went all through their colours and nothing stood out to me. The one girl said "why you come to market if you don't know what you want!?" I told her I knew exactly what I wanted, just in a colour that looked good. Yea, it'll be fun going back before I go home haha. Down the aisle I found something I liked. It's weird the things imprinted in your brain as a child. I had an F-14A Tomcat toy, and why I love the aircraft to this day (brainwashing), but it was from the Jolly Roger squadron who's colours are black, white and yellow. I picked up a black shirt, yellow stripes on the arms and some white tossed in haha. Used my same barter tactic and the girl wanted me to pay $18. I said $7 until I got $7 and left happy haha.

I saw Hanh and I didn't intend on staying long as I wanted to take everything to to Phuoc's and get that over with. I told him about the snowstorm, he wanted to know about the arctic, he had a map of the US and showing the populated parts of Canada and it had London on the map so I had to show him where I lived, showed him the 401 Highway, mentioned I was behind renaming 172km of it ;) showed him where people vacation in the US, you know, Idaho, New Jersey, Atlanta, all the places we drop everything and pack our bags for! We talked about 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, US history and driving in Canada compared to Vietnam. My ass got numb and turns out I spent three hours talking to him haha. Plus the fruit I ate four hours earlier left my stomach so I need something else. I said goodbye but if I had any free time I could come back to chat, but I am getting ready to leave the country haha.

After buying the shirt I was low on cash and broke, so I had to find a bank that will give me a cash advance. I trekked towards my usual place, SCB Bank. I had to walk back home, get my neck safe as it has my passport and visa in it, walk to SCB bank with a heavy pack and starving stomach and it was closed. Fuck. So I had to hit my #2 place, Dong Ha bank which was a few blocks the other way. They were open, I got my money and I trekked past SCB bank and chowed down on KFC haha, maybe a bit too much with a crispy chicken combo and a large popcorn chicken. Plus the Disney channel was showing "UP!", the movie about the old bastard that strings balloons to his house and goes to where his dead wife wanted to go, so i could at least digest and watch it haha.

I then hit Phuoc's and unloaded my kit but since it was 4:30pm and the shop closing at 5pm I couldn't bring over my box. He suggested I brought it Monday morning and they open at 8am so I want to get that all over with asap. I came back to my room and checked out the N/75 patches. I had to look for my blueprint and I have to go back and get them changed. They better be able to ship them to me too or else I'm getting my money back. I saw Skyline and already explained it. I honestly liked it, sure it wasn't the best movie ever, but provided new ideas to the genre and really isn't that what movies are suppose to do on top of letting us forget our lives for ninety minutes?

After this I might watch some American Dad or the third Universal Soldier movie, see how things can get much worse haha. Tomorrow I might hit the market again and I'm currently invited to see some Vietnam movies with Hien, one of the university students. I'm cool with him but ready to kill him if I have to muhaha. Hope it's war related and I can tell him how things really happened not being surrounded by strangers haha. We'll see what happens and obviously you'll hear about it. Take care.