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Why does Earth get all the stupid aliens visiting?
Back in the 50’s it was easy. Mars needed women, they came here. I’m
quite fond of Earth women myself so that makes a lot of sense to me.
Klatu (the old one) was all over it. “Do what you want down here, bring it
into space and we’ll knock you back to the stone age.”

But modern aliens?

In Independence day you’ve got aliens that use an operating system so bad
that a virus written in a different solar system can take it down.
Not to mention their strategy of destroying cities by hovering right over
them rather than dropping rocks from high orbit where their ship sits.
Their stated reason for coming to Earth was to wipe out the humans then
take all the resources. Why get close enough that the fighter planes can
reach them? (I remember some human space marines that knew “nuke the site
from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.)
Humans have known how to “synchronize your watches” for at least the last
few decades that it shows up in old movies and TV. But, these guys need to
pirate our TV signals to set their clocks?

Or, the aliens in Signs.
Water kills them? So, they go to a planet that is 75% water, pick on
creatures mostly made of water that shoot water based fluid (blood) out at
them when wounded.
What was it, a dare?

I liked Cowboys and Aliens. I did. I had fun watching it.
But, those aliens seem dumb.
Gold can be found floating in nebulas from exploding stars, so why do they
climb all the way down the gravity well to earth to get it? Vacuum it up
in space and save a whole lot of time and effort.
And, how many samples do they need to “find human weaknesses”? Why keep
getting samples after “hey, the disintegrator ray works on them!” Or, “hey
our normal guns kill them dead!” Or even “sticking our claws through their
heads seems very effective.”
In more bad software, lets leave our telepathic guns lying around with no
safeguard that says “if it isn’t our species brain waves, don’t work”.
Maybe you don’t want to make it quite so user friendly that one of your lab
experiments can pick it up and use it so easily.
And, if he manages to get your telepathic antiaircraft gun working, why try
and get it back by coming at him down a small tube one at a time? Even if
you’re running.
It is too bad that the good alien managed to come all the way to Earth but
managed to not bring anything better than a Colt Peacemaker with her.
(And, the fire powered resurrection thing, which does seem like good tech
to bring on the trip. But it’s hard to figure out where she kept it.)
But, no phaser? Not even a little one? (OK, kept where she must have kept
the resurrection thing, I see why it would have hurt to put a phaser there.)
But, your plan after crossing between star systems is to follow James Bond
around until you can kiss him and get his gun to fall off? I’m hoping that
was the “plan F” plan and we just missed A-E where she was using her
phaser. (Maybe that’s why they dropped the steam boat?)

So far, the Kryptonians are winning in my book. “Send our son someplace
where he looks like a local and totally blends in, but has enough power to
do what he wants, when he wants and they can’t hurt him no matter what they
try.”
All I got from my parents was violin lessons.