It was a similar story for Battleship, an alien attack movie as American as McDonald's apple pie, which dropped anchor in 26 territories on 11 April, five weeks before it will dock on US shores.
There are no values that I can espouse as a humanist that are anti-female, but there are a number of values of feminism that are alien to me – such as the notion that equality is more important than opportunity and choice, and that it can be legislated.
A game where it's possible to "refuse" the basic Jungian call to adventure in an alien world and instead transform the world you live in.
This hass a different slant: you battle virtual alien invaders with real-life punches and crunches.
Countries such as Nigeria have suffered horribly from a terror based on religious extremism that is alien to their society.
"But these 'recovery' methods are also used in the context of alien abduction accounts.
Sergi Darder, the man taken off on 76.25, published a picture from the dressing room: a trestle table topped with tupperware, raised arms, alien eyes, big grins and a victory sign or two.
Aamir Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, plays PK's eponymous lead, an alien who gets left behind by his spaceship in the Rajasthan desert and stumbles on to the hypocrisy and deceit in organised religion.
We've already met Lorna from customer services, who was carrying boxes down a corridor with a black e-cigarette on the go, its tip glowing an alien blue.
Ian McEwan, for example, wrote a novel, Solar, with a climate theme and several visual artists have produced pieces seemingly spellbound by the encounter with an alien world of ice under threat.
But basically it comes down to either gritting your teeth while a dotage-addled Hugh Hefner tails off in the middle of an anecdote about silicone, or gritting your teeth while Tom Cruise explains how very few hundred thousand dollars it would cost you to learn that we're all surrounded by alien spirits exiled to this planet by the galactic tyrant Xenu.
