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The Day the Earth Stood Still - (2008 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.foxmovies.com/movies/the-day-the-earth-stood-still
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/

Aliens return to Earth to save it.

Great pacing and straightforward plot. Features Keanu Reeves as himself.



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X-COM꞉ UFO Defense image

Entertainment > Games >

(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I'm not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

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Kin-dza-dza</th>
<th>- (1986 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/

Two strangers press a button and are whisked away to a capitalist dystopia.

It's alternately boring and stupid.



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Attraction - (2017 movie) image1

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4731148/
https://studio.art-pictures.ru/en/proekty/attraction.html

A small research vessel is knocked down by a meteor shower, triggering a panicked military response and causing hundreds of civilian casualties.

An endearing and distracting movie. Recommended, even though the dubbing is exaggerated and loud.



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