AWFUL Piece of Crap

Rating: 2/10 (29 July 2010)

OK, this isn't the worst movie ever made or that I've seen, there are plenty of other candidates out there. But nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture??? Give me a break.
Oh, that's right. Anything with the appearance of major originality always catches the minds of Academy voters. That's the only reason this piece of crap could get nominated.
And it does have the *appearance* of some serious originality. But where the hell is the story? Answer: There essentially is no story. This is a movie with a lot of visuals, but no substance, no plot, no characters you give a sh*t about. And PLOT HOLES galore.
Here's a few of the plot holes and unbelievable story points:
1) Alien ship is adrift over planet Earth, full of brainless aliens who act like cockroaches, eating garbage and stealing. So apparently they'll all stupid or of very low intelligence. Except for one alien, out of 1.8 Million. WHAT??? One alien is smart enough to be able to create some special fluid (that took him 20 years to create) that will get a craft/module back to the Mother Ship. But the other 1,799,999 aliens are dumb and act like cockroaches. Okaaaayyyy.
2) If this alien is the only smart one, how the hell did the ship even end up here? With a ship the size of a small city (based on the scale of helicopters that fly around it at the beginning of the movie, plus 1 Million aliens came here on it), it would take more than one smart alien to run that thing.
3) The special fluid Smart Alien creates to run the small craft is ALSO capable of turning a human into an alien. Give me a (expletive) break. Could the director/co-writer not come up with a better angle than that??? And something just a tad more believable?
Well, according to the behind-the-scenes footage, he and his co-writer came up with 10 story lines for their premise. I guess they settled on this one by default, and it shows.
4) Why are a band of Nigerian hustlers/hoodlums allowed to live within this quarantined place for the aliens?
There are probably more, but those are for starters. And one does not care about any of the characters, there's no development of them, and you just don't care if they live or die. The attempt near the end of the movie to have one or two of the aliens show emotion is ludicrous.
How so many IMDb users could rate this movie high enough to be in the top 250 films is just mind boggling.