If an alien civilization were to visit Earth, what movie would you pick to show them in order to give them a summary of what mankind is all about?
If an alien civilization were to visit Earth, what movie would you pick to show them in order to give them a summary of what mankind is all about?
300
Let them think humanity is 99% buff oily badasses in speedos who will gladly fuck you up until their dying breath.
Don't Look Up - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021
Sort of summarizes the total shit-show that current politicians and billionaires are responsible for.
Idiocracy
Just the entire Cunk on Earth series.
100% factual information about human history.
Idiocracy.
Independence Day. Tell them it's a documentary.
You should show them my latest movie that I can't promote right now.
They would be so confused, it would be hilarious.
Orgasmo. The '97 one, not the '69 one. ... fuck it, also the '69 one. Make it a double-feature.
Shocked nobody's mentioned 'Mars Attacks.'
Not a movie exactly, creators asked some basic questions and invited people to submit footage from a single day in July 2010. Exciting or mundane, anything.
It’s really well put together and always gives me a refreshed perspective on my place in the world.
They did it again in 2020, during the pandemic.
Schindler's List
The Gods Must Be Crazy. I think it shows the absurdity of our modern civilization in a lighthearted way.
Spaceballs
Honestly, Contact.
Doctor Zhivago. And when they inevitably fall asleep. I’m jacking that Ufo.
Obviously the complete Stargate franchise. Humans don't put up with aliens tryin' to pull any shit.
Arrival I think would be a great choice.
Obviously the greatest documentary ever committed to film: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
I just came here to upvote every "Idiocracy" comment
The Invention of Lying
District 9
Napoleon dynamite pretty much sums it up. I intensely dislike the film but it's pretty indicative of the human condition.
Letting them know what mankind is all about seems like a terrible idea. We're jerks.
If I could get away with a miniseries, James Burke's Connections.
Or Cunk on Earth. It's a toss-up.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Literally telling aliens that we will fuck shit up.
Stalker (1979) - You can leave your garbage and we'll think it's treasure.
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) - Humanity is really just a bunch of idiots, stumbling through everything.
Wall-E. Sums it up pretty well
Hellraiser II
Earth Girls Are Easy
Shawshank Redemption
“The Final Member”
It’s a documentary about the worlds first penis museum in Iceland trying to finally secure a human specimen
Half Baked
Fellowship, two towers, return of the king. Tell them it's one movie showing how the littlest person can make the biggest difference.
Rocco's Animal Trainer #3.
Magnolia
Samsara
Nobody has mentioned porn. We try and say things in our great works of art but maybe they'd learn more from what we make when we're trying to say nothing at all.
Samsara
Schindler's list. Yeah aliens. It's like that. Go ahead and end us thx.
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson.
End of ze world.
Either point break or bad boys 2.
Salò.
Requiem for a dream
Fun fact: I have watched none of the movies listed here in the comments
Citizen Kane.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 100%.
Revenge of The Nerds
A certain sci fi movie from 1992
Scary Movie 3
If you know what i mean 😉
ET
Mars Attacks!
“American Movie”
Nothing summarizes the dream of freedom and creativity of the human species in the face of incompetency like “American Movie”
A documentary about a couple of regular dudes trying to make a horror movie
Silent night, deadly night 2
L'Arroseur Arrosé. That will show them not to block the sunlight with their ship.
(It would also show them our love for beauty, aour dependency on water, sense of humour and sense for justice.)
Mishima: A Life in Four Parts Playtime Aguirre, the Wrath of God Koyaanisqatsi Enter The Void Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Once Upon a Time in the West
And just for shits
Visitor Q
Predator
Something meaningful from Robin Williams. The Fisher King comes to mind.
Dark Waters
Apocalypse Now
Pacific
Maybe they’ll end us quick
zeitgeist
Mongolia
I mean best is USSR's 1965 Triumph Over Violence, directed by Romm
Under the Skin (2014)
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Clockwork Orange
Minority Report