They're Made Out Of Meat

Director: Stephen O'Regan
Cast: Tom Noonan, Ben Bailey, Gbenga Akinnagbe, and Brenda Della Casa
Director of Photography: Paul Niccolls
Music: Bob Reynolds

Based on a short story by Terry Bisson.

• Category

  Comedy

[Conrad Constantine]

It's such a shame they left out the final paragraph of the story..

"So we just pretend there's no one home in the Universe."

"That's it."

"Good. Agreed, Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"

"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence.. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."

"They always come around."

"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ..."

[casanovahagfish]

BEN BAILEY THO

I WOULD PAY HIM 100 BUCKS IN HIS CAB JUST TO HEAR HIM SAY "MEAT"

[Tom Leary]

What is the name of the song?

[OneBraveWorrier]

Woah. Widescreen in 2006! Nice

[RobtheYuppy]

That comment made my day.

[epicpolyphony]

There is no need to be rude. I simply tried to make a joke on how it seemed that, of the comments visible without expanding the page, you were the vast majority.

[Serai3]

Sounds like that alien has been watching Fox News.

[Serai3]

If you're ever involved in making a film, even a short video like this, you'll know.

[Serai3]

Why do you assume that the forms they took are actually meat? They could just be the illusion of meat, or a projection, or a synthetic simulation.

[Serai3]

That doesn't mean they'd recognize that life as being intelligent. Mold is a life form too - had any good conversations with it lately?

[Serai3]

There's over a hundred comments just here on the bit I'm looking at, and my replies number...five.

So did you skip school they day they taught counting?

[Serai3]

Or what if we just THINK we're individual pieces of meat, but we're really all just one big bowl of undifferentiated broth?