10 Movies That Are Terribly Racist About Aliens

9. Thor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOddp-nlNvQ Thor is racist in a few different ways. The Asgardians feel superior to humanity (technologically disadvantaged, backwater, view them as Gods) and the Frost Giants (they're dicks). Of course, part of the film's message is that we need to understand different cultures, and value all walks of life. However, this message falls apart when you put together a few things. The first being that Asgardians are better than humans. Never once in the movie do the humans really progress the plot. You can count Jane Foster and company as helping Thor get on and off the military base, but that's mainly because they're helping Thor around, like servants. They are inferior to the Asgardians, who do all the work in the plot. You can make the argument that Thor and the Asgardians had to learn to respect the little Earthlings, but -- and lets be honest -- the film doesn't give them a chance to earn respect...not until The Avengers. As for the Frost Giants -- let me put it to you this way. At the end, when Loki decides to destroy their planet, my theater all but applauded him. Why? Because the Frost Giants are dicks. They are jerks. They are unlikable. As far as the film tells us, they are a race of evil, murderous bastards. Now, had the film shown us good Frost Giants -- or any evidence that they are anything but evil -- maybe the audience might've appreciated their right to live. However, they didn't. Instead, we're left with the moral that we need to respect all life, even if it is a race of pure evil. Only reason this isn't higher is because I love this film.