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[color='red']Disappointingly, when the UK government released its real life 'X-files' last week, most of the UFO sightings in the dossier were kind of samey: crop circles, bright lights hovering over cornfields, the odd crash landing.
But what if our extraterrestrial cousins stepped it up a notch and turned nasty? A camera phone and a bunch of conspiracy theories won't be much use against a full scale alien invasion.
Luckily, thanks to dozens of alien invasion films released down the years (the latest - 'Battle: Los Angeles' - is out this week), the movie business is on hand to show us how to kick little green ass, Hollywood style.[/color]
1. How to stop an alien invasion: Men in Black (1997)
The alien threat: A giant bug, wearing Vincent D'Onofrio's skin, on a murderous search for a galaxy the size of a marble.
How do you stop them? The way Hollywood solves most problems: enlist an 'odd couple' of cops with contrasting personalities. In this case, Will Smith's the maverick loose cannon and Tommy Lee Jones is the straight-laced mentor. Together they save the day with a combination of wise-cracking, sunglasses and deceptively powerful firearms.
2. How to stop an alien invasion: War of the Worlds (2005)
The alien threat: Evil Martians in giant tripods. Killer death rays and force fields fitted as standard.
How do you stop them? Tom Cruise's plan involved trying in vain to keep his moody kids out of trouble and running into a scenery-chewing Tim Robbins. Luckily the aliens were simply exposed to earth's lethal atmosphere, and possibly wondered why such high-tech critters hadn't invented gas masks.
3. How to stop an alien invasion: District 9 (2009)
The alien threat: A dilapidated ship full of wretched, malnourished extra-terrestrials.
How do you stop them? Pretty easily. The residents of South Arica put them in wretched ghettos, got them addicted to cat food and gave them a disparaging nickname ("prawns"). They'll never turn nasty now... until the sequel. Any similarities to the country's racial problems are purely coincidental.
4. How to stop an alien invasion: Cloverfield (2008 )
The alien threat: A 25-storey high, four-legged beast covered in spider spore things that makes heads explode. Apparently only a baby, the alien destroys most of Manhattan in a confused rage.
How do you stop it? Secretly-in-love couple Rob and Beth, armed only with a camera with the world's longest lasting battery, spend 90 minutes running through New York. After recording the alien's every horrific act, the US army blows it up.
5. How to stop an alien invasion: Predator (1988 )
The alien threat: An 8-foot-tall killing machine with mandibles, cloaking device, thermal imaging and creepy voice recorder.
How do you stop it? Sign up Schwarzenegger. He didn't mess around; after seeing his elite killing squad bumped off by the creature, he doused himself in mud, built an explosive bow and arrow then fought the thing bare fisted mano a mano.
6. How to stop an alien invasion: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The alien threat: A mysterious fleet of UFOs with a fondness for that five tone musical phrase.
How do you stop them? They're not much of a threat admittedly. But who knows what might have happened had Richard Dreyfuss not spent every waking hour constructing crude sculptures of Devil's Tower out of mashed potato, then abandoned his family to join the aliens on their ship?
7. How to stop an alien invasion: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 )
The alien threat: The ultimate extraterrestrial good-cop, bad cop team. Klaatu's the mild mannered alien that wants peace on earth. Gort's his thuggish robot enforcer with a laser ray in his head.
How do you stop them? Klaatu warns humanity that the universe is (understandably) concerned about us using nuclear weapons, and that unless we change our ways, the human race will be destroyed by an army of indestructible robots. So basically we need to end all wars. Shouldn't be too difficult, right?
8. How to stop an alien invasion: The Thing (1982)
The alien threat: An extra-terrestrial parasite that's part-human, part-spider, part-dog, part-mass of fleshy horror.
How do you stop them? With difficulty. Not only is it disgusting, it's also a crafty little beggar and can assimilate human hosts. This means the first port of call for hero MacReady is shooting all his colleagues, before blowing up the entire Antarctic research station to kill it once and for all.
9. How to stop an alien invasion: Mars Attacks! (1996)
The alien threat: Pint-sized, practical joke loving Martians who arrive on earth, shoot a peace dove and blow up famous landmarks.
How do you stop them? With country music. A Kansas teenager stumbles on their only weakness while rescuing his grandma. She's listening to Slim Whitman's song 'Indian Love Call', which causes the jabbering extraterrestrials' heads to explode. We feel the same when we hear James Blunt.
10. How to stop an alien invasion: Independence Day (1996)
The alien threat: Whopping great flying saucers hell-bent on destroying landmarks and stripping the world of its natural resources.
How do you stop them? The force fields making them impervious to missiles proved a headache for much of the movie. Until brain box Jeff Goldblum plants a computer virus in the mothership that allows Will Smith to detonate a nuke. They should have invested in some decent firewall software.
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11. How to stop an alien invasion: E.T
The alien threat: None, he just heals people with his finger and rides bicycles in the sky.
How do you stop them? Let him call home
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