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[–] [email protected] 127 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Clicked through to say this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It's got what alien civilizations crave

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (10 children)

History of the world: part 1

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Independence Day. Just run away, alien dudes! The xenophobia isn't worth it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Office space.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Schindler's List. Humans can be nasty, horrible, utterly evil. It's all too common. But some of us will work to do good. Some of us will push back and do what's right. There is evil in this world, but there is also goodness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

"Contact" for a similar reason. It's a mix of all motivations, along with people's general mistrust of each other.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka, since I'm guessing they won't understand English nor indeed any human language.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I made the mistake of watching Baraka on 3gs of mushrooms.

I am a changed man.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

The meaning of life too

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

300

Let them think humanity is 99% buff oily badasses in speedos who will gladly fuck you up until their dying breath.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (7 children)

The man from earth. That should confuse them.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My autistic ass would have them watch all three Lord of the Rings movies. Y'all need to find a better diplomat than me.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Avatar. We will destroy habitats to get what we want.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Us too! Anyway, we're building this hyperspace bypass..."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Idiocracy.

Real answer though, 2001 a space odyssey.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Independence Day.

I'll tell them it was a documentary. Or at least based on a true story.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

History of the World: Part 1 seems pretty fitting.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Independence Day. Tell them it's a documentary.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Just the entire Cunk on Earth series.

100% factual information about human history.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

5th Element is the only correct answer.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Shocked nobody's mentioned 'Mars Attacks.'

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Orgasmo. The '97 one, not the '69 one. ... fuck it, also the '69 one. Make it a double-feature.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Schindler's List

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

You should show them my latest movie that I can't promote right now.

They would be so confused, it would be hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Baraka... but they'd be 30 years out of sync with today :-)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Life in a Day

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The Gods Must Be Crazy. I think it shows the absurdity of our modern civilization in a lighthearted way.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Obviously the complete Stargate franchise. Humans don't put up with aliens tryin' to pull any shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Arrival I think would be a great choice.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Obviously the greatest documentary ever committed to film: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

[–] Blizzard 7 points 11 months ago

The Invention of Lying

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