There's a saying that "form follows function", and it's true--so a flying alien will probably be very slim and lightly built, a swimming one might be streamlined like a dolphin or shark, one that lives on the plains might have thick hoof-like nails or long legs for traveling great distances.
I also liked the flying aliens that swoop at you in formation - not because it was an interesting idea, but because it looked cool.
Asterix and the Falling Sky saw Asterix and his friend Obelix encounter flying aliens when a spaceship arrived above the skies of Gaul.
Not that Muse aren't determined to have a go, bringing a grand piano, hard rock, daft garb, Brian May-esque guitar solos, Prince/operatic falsettos and lasers, along with images of little green men, pulsating brains, giant forks, eyeballs, robots, flying aliens over London and possibly an actual Martian landing to the day's most audio-visual spectacular.
Flying aliens to Bagram does neither.
And crucially, that world in the Batman films was meant to be brought to an end, to close it off so that it isn't in any danger of having the underlying premises and themes undermined and erased by shoehorning in flying aliens who shoot lasers from their eyes while fighting monsters in outer space.
'Going on a cruise?' Felix is tempted to tell her it's for a convicted criminal inside a prison who's playing the part of a magic flying blue alien, but he thinks better of it".
"The boys were convinced, because it was scary, that it was flying saucers, aliens, zombies, Commies," she said.
Stuffed with 3-D gimmicks that extended from the screen into the audience — lasers, smoke, flying fuzzy aliens — that film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola with George Lucas as executive producer, defined cinematic cheese for a generation of Hollywood creative types.
THIS is that moment in Independence Day when Bill Pullman inspires Randy Quaid to fly up the Alien Ship's butt and save mankind.
