Thus a creature might be born that is both human and alien - able to live here, but with attributes of the other species. 'Species,' directed by Roger Donaldson from a screenplay by Dennis Feldman, begins with an interesting premise: Radio telescopes pick up signals from space that, when decoded, include a formula for a DNA string thatcan be combined with our own. Mainstream Hollywood is so terrified of intelligent human characters that it's no wonder they don't want aliens who are even smarter than the humans: Hey, dude, you don't pay for a ticket just to hear words you don't understand.Īnd there's a kind of smugness in the assumption that we are at the top of the evolutionary ladder that other species, even if they do manage to travel to Earth, will look and behave like an explosion at the special-effects factory.

For every rare film like ' 2001: A Space Odyssey' or ' Close Encounters of the Third Kind' with a sense of wonder about the vastness of creation, there are a dozen like this, which are basically just versions of ' Friday the 13th' in which Jason is a bug-eyed monster. Like the ' Alien' movies and many others, it is founded on a fear of another species, and the assumption that extraterrestrials basically want to eat us. How do they travel through space? By jumping out from behind one star after another? 'Species' is the latest movie to explore this depressing vision. Their civilizations must be wonderfully advanced, and yet, when we finally encounter them, what do we get? Disgusting, slimy morph-creatures with rows of evil teeth, whose greatest cultural achievement is jumping out at people from behind things. According to the movies, out there in space, untold light years from Earth, exist many alien species with the ability to travel between the stars and send messages across the universe.

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