Director: Peter Jackson
It is only when one watches Peter Jackson’s early films that you are awe struck by the fact that a production company would entrust massive amounts of money to him to make the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is a leap of faith of epic proportions. These early works are generally juvenile and poorly made, but they do have something about them that make them strangely endearing.
In Bad Taste a group of aliens has landed on earth and has harvested an entire town full of people in order to take them back and use them as the new Fast Food on their planet. Luckily there is a government team that is assigned to investigate. It then turns into an all out blood bath between man and alien.
Law in bad taste:
1. As always when there is a government entity that has legal authority over extraterrestrials we get an issue of metalaw. No one in the film really worries about it as they commence to kicking alien butts (which are real saggy).
2. The Government agency is authorized to use violence when there is a threat to the Earth or the Moon. This could be a question of space law. Can the “peaceful purposes” clause in the Outer Space Treaty be breached in order to defend the moon against human eating aliens (maybe that’ll be in part two)?
