I’ll watch just about any science fiction that doesn’t feature giant robots that turn into cars. Falling Skies from TNT and Steven Spielberg is the story of Earth after the fall of humankind to an alien invasion. The aliens are called Skidders and most closely resemble one of the twisted toys from the original Toy Story. They have an upper body with a head and two arms, but then have a lower body composed of several legs. We learn that the key to killing them is to disable as many legs as possible. Falling Skies is basically a post apocalyptic…
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Wall-e
Standard issue Pixar tear jerker that has gotten a bit of bad press for portraying humankind as a bunch of nasty litterbugs. I still liked it, though the story does have a few holes big enough to drive a Spacefaring Cruise ship through. The hero, such as he/it is, is a little robot bearing a striking resemblance to Number 5 from Short Circuit. His job is to clean up the Earth, one pile of scrap metal at a time. He is a walking garbage compactor who has been busy for the last 700 years or so turning random bits of…