I am procrastinating some homework so I wrote a full page explaining why this movie sucked balls.

Spoilers

This movie was horrible. It was basically Independence Day + Starship Troopers + District 9.

Problems

1. Aliens able to send landing craft with pinpoint accuracy across the galaxy to land a few miles off shore of major population centers would have just sent missiles INTO the population centers first, and then gone in with a landing party (See Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” for how devastating this is)
2. Aliens are apparently unable to shoot through cars. We have guns that can do this right now, why can’t they with their combat suits bring some high caliber weapons to bear on our puny car hiding military?
3. Alien combat suits are apparently vulnerable to our bullets? Seriously? We can put armor on tanks that can stop those bullets, they are using powered suits presumably more advanced then anything we have. You would think they could f***ing armor themselves just fine. To add insult to this, in the last scene you see the marines taking out their pistols and shooting the last few aliens! Because a 10mm would really be likely to f*** up some space fairing combat suit wearing aliens.
4. How many troops were in that squad? It seemed like they kept dying, but they always had about 5-6 marines. Who was dying? I could never tell.
5. What was the point of the scene where they figure out to stab the creatures organ in the center of the chest? They never again made use of that knowledge.
6. The aliens were supposedly attacking the planet for our water. There is water presumably on many planets. Mars has water for example. Who cares if ours is in liquid form. Blast some chunks of ice off Mars and bring them close enough to the sun to liquefy them and suck them up into tanks.
7. Why would the alien command centers (apparently vulnerable to our missile technology) not have F***ING ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSES! F***, the command center had the technology to throw drones in the way of our oncoming missiles, why not use f***ing lasers that could also be targeted as easily.
8. So aliens that can land spaceships with pinpoint across the universe and command centers so complicated they can control hundreds of flying vehicles at once not have developed F***ING COMPUTER ASSISTED TARGETING IN THEIR COMBAT SUITS. These aliens were worse then f***ing imperial storm troopers. Compare to the marines in this movie who were all apparently Jedi trained sharp shooters able to hit a very small organ in the chest of presumably well armored aliens.
9. Are you telling me that invading aliens who build all this shit had never thought to put internal programing in to the drones so if the command center got hit they would not just DROP FROM THE F***ING SKY? They wouldn’t just rendezvous with the nearest command center in say New York? Or maybe continue on some kind of patrolling mission shooting anything that moved?
10. They cared so much about that little boy whose father died. No one gave a shit about the two little girls who had already lost their parents.
11. The whole sub plot of the protagonist losing his last team was poorly done (Not much to rage about here. It was just stupid.)
12. What was that walking/rocket powered missile launcher thing? WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT? Some kind of cross between a donkey and a rocket powered missile launcher?
13. Why did all the alien hardware look like it was falling apart? The command center in particular looked like it was some rotting derelict ship put together by the intergalactic equivalent of Southerns (To all Southerns reading this, I just finished reading about the civil war and I am still pissed that you F***ING SHOT AT US TRYING TO PEACEFULLY RESUPPLY A FORT WE OWNED. Other then that I normally would not pick on you).
14. They didn’t notice a f***king bus? A BUS DRIVING DOWN THE F***KING ROAD! They had almost total control of the air and ground at that point in the movie and apparently a giant moving bus not 100 meters away from ground troops (and troops on the roofs) noticed it?

Okay. I think I’m done for now. But if I watched that movie again, I would find more. F*** this movie. It was horrible.

The one good part of this movie was when they were trying to kill that wounded alien and that lady said, “I can help, I’m a veterinarian.” This is now how I am going to reply to anyone who needs something done and they don’t know how to do it themselves.

Well, were you expecting a Guy Richie plot?