I'm going to go ahead and say that I enjoyed the movie. I especially liked the ending with
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I will pipe in that this film had elements I found interesting. It was well put to say it was ID4 meets Cloverfield meets Matrix effects. I am not saying that is a bad thing. I have no idea why so many critics bombed this film as bad as they did. I am beginning to believe that the Rotten Tomatoe critics (the critic collective) are hurting their credibility when they blantantly show they have a second agenda. They go easy on bad films that are big money and tough on Indy films that challenge big money venues. It would seem that only money guys like Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise can pull off an alien invasion flick but this film stood well on its own and was in fact more gruesome than I would have ever thought.
To give it a 11% out of 100% is not just picking on a film but rather a systematic collaboration to doom a film with all possible malice. I can think of a lot of near fresh 59% that deserved an 11%.
But this film getting that rating? That is just plain abusing power to persuade.
If you like seeing a classic alien attack on the people of earth, just ignore the critics entirely and go see it.
What happens to all those people is soooooo wrong!
I dunno, feedback from people I know that saw it basically said it looked good, but was kinda meh.
I tend to avoid critic websites, as they can (as you rightly point out) be heavily biased.
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Yea for me it was great special effects but....meh...a good DVD or iTunes rental.
Hope Battle LA is better.
Sean
I saw this one review by the author who does schlock mercenary webcomic and he also gives it a meh. He really didn't care for any of the characters in the film and started rooting for their deaths.
He really didn't care for any of the characters in the film and started rooting for their deaths.
I've seen this multiple times, including my local papers resident reviewer.
Make unlikable characters = deserves to bomb, AFAIC.
Glad that's being reflected on Rotten Tomatoes.
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I went into the movie knowing only what was in the trailer with no reviews and I can honestly say I found the movie...a waste of time. I think it would've made a great YouTube video. The special effects were great, but the story was boring and the characters were unlikable.
It was basically a character drama set against the backdrop of an alien invasion. I think the acting was decent and the premise was solid but what killed the movie for me can be summed up as "I didn't like the characters and the obvious sequel hook retroactively turned me off on the whole movie."
I will pipe in that this film had elements I found interesting. It was well put to say it was ID4 meets Cloverfield meets Matrix effects. I am not saying that is a bad thing. I have no idea why so many critics bombed this film as bad as they did. I am beginning to believe that the Rotten Tomatoe critics (the critic collective) are hurting their credibility when they blantantly show they have a second agenda. They go easy on bad films that are big money and tough on Indy films that challenge big money venues. It would seem that only money guys like Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise can pull off an alien invasion flick but this film stood well on its own and was in fact more gruesome than I would have ever thought.
To give it a 11% out of 100% is not just picking on a film but rather a systematic collaboration to doom a film with all possible malice. I can think of a lot of near fresh 59% that deserved an 11%.
But this film getting that rating? That is just plain abusing power to persuade.
If you like seeing a classic alien attack on the people of earth, just ignore the critics entirely and go see it.
What happens to all those people is soooooo wrong!
Thank GOD I'm not the only one who feels this way. Rotten Tomatoes USED to be good, but their bias is pretty frakking obvious nowadays.
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Thanks Freehold.
I never thought hollywood had smear campaigns orchestrated until I saw "An American Haunting".
The film was well acted and had a twist at the end. It wasn't bad but it wasn't super either. After that I decided to watch the DVD extras. They had the director in the back of a limo b%@+~ing about hollywood as his girlfriend just sat there smirking at her raving boyfriend.
It was so weird!
I shook my head thinking,"Did this guy really direct this film???"
Because he looked like he was some Rap Album producer. It was so odd to think that this guy directed the quality film I just saw. Eventually he put his ravings into practice and took the camera to a group of people he had hired to promote his film and smack down the smear campaign against it. He showed instances of people in messageboard rooms claiming they had saw the movie...before it was released. And they told everyone not to waste their time because it sucked! He then had this group go in an challenge the validity of these people and defend his film. He said all the critics were either cozy with specific parts of the hollywood community or just plain bought and paid for. He went on to add that it was due to his film being privately backed that they had to suffer these attacks. I think he mentioned a specific blockbuster that his film was competing against and how discrediting his film took the wind from his sales (pun intended) and funneled the dollars towards the blockbuster.
He took it all very personally exclaiming that he just wanted to shoot films.
I was pretty skeptical about this at the time...but it was something I had never heard of. After seeing "Pandorum", I knew for sure this was the absolute case. Blockbuster films fear scary films or Sci-Fi because they have the potential to capture audiences wishing to ride a rollercoaster.
I give up on the critics when it comes to Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Fantasy. I think the critics as a whole really don't care about these films and rather smash anything that is remotely related to these topics, given their privately produced origins. I go to pretty much all those type of films regardless of what the critics think. I support this gendre of film with my money and those critics can't deny that vote.
Thanks Freehold.
I never thought hollywood had smear campaigns orchestrated until I saw "An American Haunting".
The film was well acted and had a twist at the end. It wasn't bad but it wasn't super either. After that I decided to watch the DVD extras. They had the director in the back of a limo b*&@#ing about hollywood as his girlfriend just sat there smirking at her raving boyfriend.
It was so weird!
I shook my head thinking,"Did this guy really direct this film???"
Because he looked like he was some Rap Album producer. It was so odd to think that this guy directed the quality film I just saw. Eventually he put his ravings into practice and took the camera to a group of people he had hired to promote his film and smack down the smear campaign against it. He showed instances of people in messageboard rooms claiming they had saw the movie...before it was released. And they told everyone not to waste their time because it sucked! He then had this group go in an challenge the validity of these people and defend his film. He said all the critics were either cozy with specific parts of the hollywood community or just plain bought and paid for. He went on to add that it was due to his film being privately backed that they had to suffer these attacks. I think he mentioned a specific blockbuster that his film was competing against and how discrediting his film took the wind from his sales (pun intended) and funneled the dollars towards the blockbuster.
He took it all very personally exclaiming that he just wanted to shoot films.
I was pretty skeptical about this at the time...but it was something I had never heard of. After seeing "Pandorum", I knew for sure this was the absolute case. Blockbuster films fear scary films or Sci-Fi because they have the potential to capture audiences wishing to ride a rollercoaster.
I give up on the critics when it comes to Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Fantasy. I think the critics as a whole really don't care about these films and rather smash anything that is remotely...
Second time I have seen Pandorum mentioned when I read about Skyline...I will watch it in March. Along with Battle LA
I loved the aliens, all neh-thalgu-ey.
I liked how they were a bioteched species as well.
Children of the great old ones descend in their spaceships and bioengineered bodies to harvest a planet full of sentient brains.