The phrase "aliens up" is not standard or widely recognized in written English.
It may be used in informal contexts, possibly in science fiction or casual conversation, but its meaning is unclear without additional context.
Example: "When the spaceship landed, the crew shouted, 'Aliens up!' as they prepared to greet the visitors."
Alternatives: "extraterrestrials arrive" or "aliens are here".
We are so stupefied by all the flashing lights and music of the early scenes that by the time we get to see an alien up close, we're ready to scream at the screen in astonishment.
"When the aliens shoot up a grain silo, we yawn," he said.
Fifty, however, were red enough to be hosting aliens gobbling up half or more of their starlight.
· Friday, 7pm, BBC1 Cable & satellite Threshold Carla Gugino, Charles S Dutton and Brent "Data" Spiner put their heads together when some fourth dimensional aliens show up with a DNA-altering plot.
"Taken" does eventually explain what the aliens are up to, but it never explains another mystery common to this series and to real-life tales of abduction.
The primary idea of "Taken" is one of such familiarity that there is little new, even in the eventual explanation of what the aliens are up to.
Soon after Jake figures it out, though, townsfolk have been snatched by the aliens, yanked up by long, tentaclelike appendages that flick out of the spaceships and seize prey as easily as frogs gobble flies.
But that decision is years away, with the ground zero project facing logistical delays and the challenges of the economic downturn, unless a tribe of enormous aliens comes up with an Adopt-a-Building program for the real city.
The first thing we get in the movie, even before the aliens roll up, is a flashback — or, at any rate, a flash — to a daughter whom Louise bears, raises, loves, and loses to illness.
It was like watching a bad sci-fi movie where aliens suck up the brains of earthlings.
