Aliens are NOT an Answer

About two nights ago I was laying in bed and came across the movie The Box with Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella. I stopped because I was intrigued by the previews I had seen a few months earlier and I thought that it would be worth the view. (there was nothing else of any merit on) The movie apparently is based off of the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson. I have not read the story so my comments are solely based off of this monstrosity that they call a movie.
The basic premise of the movie, that one would get from watching the previews, is that Diaz and Marsden are presented with a box that contains a button from Langella. Langella's character tells the couple that they have a choice. They can push the button and he will present them with a million dollars, tax free, no strings attached; except that someone in the world, that they do not know, will die. If they decide not to push the button, he will take it back and it will be reprogrammed and the offer will be given to someone else. Sounds like a pretty interesting story and defiantly has the possibility to be good. That was until they brought in the aliens.
The beginning to the movie really had me going. I was interested. It was clear that there was the underlying social message in there about actions having consequences and the greed of people causing them to do things without thinking about those consequences. (I never said that it was an original social message, nor did I say it was hidden well. I just said it was there) I wanted to see where they would go with this idea. Wouldn't you know it... an alien of some sorts was taking over the minds of people to perform an experiment on them.................... Huh........................ It was at this point that I had to refrain from throwing the remote control at my television set.
The thought that someone was paid millions of dollars to produce this movie just made me want to scream. It wasn't like they had cheap actors either! It was just awful, awful. Anytime that a movie contains a storyline and then suddenly throws aliens in there because they really don't know what else to do to make the story interesting is just lazy. No, I am not saying that a movie about aliens is bad. I love movies that have story lines built around the idea of aliens themselves... Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Signs are just two of my favorites. What is the difference you ask? UM.... those movies where supposed to have aliens in them, they didn't just throw them in there because they couldn't think of anything better to make the story more on the edge. Please. That is just laziness! WRITING LAZINESS. (Can you tell I am still angry about it?)
So I say, find a better way to make your big point about society that does not include the use of extra terrestrial  beings that have come to us from the lightening. That does not just go for this movie. Any movie that has ever used aliens as your way out... I am talking to you. And Yes.... if you liked this movie even remotely.... I judge you....and your movie taste.