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Aha, so this is why the critics bombed Skyline. Who would want to see a film about an alien battle in Los Angleles that already took place in Skyline?
I know, deep six Skyline so no one sees it and then push Battle: Los Angeles as being the real deal. I wouldn't be surprised that I don't see a Skyline DVD until well after this film opens.
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I love sci-fi, but honestly I don't think the one had anything to do with the other. Skyline was bad. Just flat out bad. This argument would have more merit if Skyline was put out by a small company and got buried so as not to compete with the larger movie, and Skyline was a good movie. But it wasn't a good movie.
I love sci-fi, but honestly I don't think the one had anything to do with the other. Skyline was bad. Just flat out bad. This argument would have more merit if Skyline was put out by a small company and got buried so as not to compete with the larger movie, and Skyline was a good movie. But it wasn't a good movie.
Hmm...Interesting points raised. I will have to keep them in mind should I see Skyline.
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I, unfortunatly, have to agree with Balodek. Even for a Sci-fi geek, Skyline has nothing worth seeing. It doesn't come anywhere close to beeing a good or even average movie (and I actually liked the second D&D movie and found some good scenes in Resident Evil 2...so you can figure it has to be pretty bad).
I can only hope Battle: Los Angeles is going to be a better movie. Perhaps the alien battle in Skyline is just a bad dream foreshadowing the true invasion ;)
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I am opposed to that word "bad." There were some cliches and some things that didn't appear new but bad... Bad is Daredevil. That is a 11%. Would shuffling in a Tom Cruise-like family to replace the main characters help?
I really see that partying people isn't the best premise for heroic characters but I did not find this film bad as I am being told it is. If anything, it was interesting.
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I don't mind that the main characters weren't a Tom Cruise like family, it doesn't even bother me that most of them are selfish jerks. What I didn't like was that this was advertised as an alien invasion movie, and instead was a character drama set against the backdrop of an alien invasion that didn't have any character development.
Nobody learned anything, the characters didn't evolve, we didn't learn anything of substance to get us emotionally attached to them as people. At no point during the movie did I care what happened to the characters. That, in my mind, is bad.
The animation was good, and I can see what they wanted to do with the movie, but they didn't accomplish it. The movie did give me some nice ideas to throw at my players in various games, and that's probably the only reason I will have to pick it up on DVD/Blu-Ray.
Will be watching this tonight. Will return with thoughts.
Interesting not....The guys who created Skyline did the special effects fo Battle Field LA....apperently the creators of B:LA felt they delayed they work on their movie to get Skyline out fist to prempt them...or something like that.
As for Skyline...it was ok...not great. Though the scene with the military attack on the aliens was great....and who would have thought you need to double tap w/ nuclear weapons?
Oh yeah, I did watch Skyline and I agree the movie wasn't spectacular. VERY cthulhuesque, though. I am still interested in seeing Battle For LA, though.
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I can kneecap Skyline and Battle LA right heya: ET 2: Extermination
This baby has Drew Barrymore, Bruce Willis, and Morgan Freeman!
I can kneecap Skyline and Battle LA right heya: ET 2: Extermination
This baby has Drew Barrymore, Bruce Willis, and Morgan Freeman!
That looiks awesome.
That looiks awesome.I can kneecap Skyline and Battle LA right heya: ET 2: Extermination
This baby has Drew Barrymore, Bruce Willis, and Morgan Freeman!
I can't wait! It has to be better than the Zelda movie!
I can't wait! It has to be better than the Zelda movie!That looiks awesome.I can kneecap Skyline and Battle LA right heya: ET 2: Extermination
This baby has Drew Barrymore, Bruce Willis, and Morgan Freeman!
And Predator the Musical is around on the web, too.
To me both Skyline and Battle LA look like the are ripping off War of the Worlds(the orginal Wells story) and Independence Day.
Loved all the various movie versions of WotW as well as ID4, can't wait for this.
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Just saw it at a sneak preview. Here is my assessment:
If you were to...
Select iconic scenes from Independence Day and Saving Private Ryan, then
Use them to write a WARHAMMER 40K scenario specifically for Imperial Guard vs. Tau, then
Play the scenario out until the Imperial Guard eke out a close win, then
Turn it into a screenplay...
Ta-da!
3.25 out of 5 stars.
Play the scenario out until the Imperial Guard eke out a close win, then
You should have put this part in a spoiler...
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You should have put this part in a spoiler...
Play the scenario out until the Imperial Guard eke out a close win, then
You're just messing with me, right? Hard to tell on a message board.
I mean, it's an American action film. The good guys always win in the end...and I didn't say exactly how they won.
Even if it's manga-nized version filmed on a budget of false promises and mayonnaise sandwiches.
I, unfortunatly, have to agree with Balodek. Even for a Sci-fi geek, Skyline has nothing worth seeing. It doesn't come anywhere close to beeing a good or even average movie (and I actually liked the second D&D movie and found some good scenes in Resident Evil 2...so you can figure it has to be pretty bad).
I can only hope Battle: Los Angeles is going to be a better movie. Perhaps the alien battle in Skyline is just a bad dream foreshadowing the true invasion ;)
Which 2nd D&D movie are you refering to? That one with Damon Wayans?
You should have put this part in a spoiler...
Play the scenario out until the Imperial Guard eke out a close win, then
You're just messing with me, right? Hard to tell on a message board.
I mean, it's an American action film. The good guys always win in the end...and I didn't say exactly how they won.
IMPERIAL GUARD FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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INVASION
It came across the Universe as a burst of Super-positional Data that lodged in the Brain of every living thing on earth. Mankind saw little beyond the Alien mathematical puzzle floating in their Minds. The polyhedron folded open like a flower of scintillating colour petals rippling across the surface of the geometric object. The living collapsed to the ground.
What followed was a horror. Skulls hatched and something Alien slithered forth, the very DNA of life rewritten to suit the needs of an unknown and unstoppable invader.
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Which 2nd D&D movie are you refering to? That one with Damon Wayans?I, unfortunatly, have to agree with Balodek. Even for a Sci-fi geek, Skyline has nothing worth seeing. It doesn't come anywhere close to beeing a good or even average movie (and I actually liked the second D&D movie and found some good scenes in Resident Evil 2...so you can figure it has to be pretty bad).
I can only hope Battle: Los Angeles is going to be a better movie. Perhaps the alien battle in Skyline is just a bad dream foreshadowing the true invasion ;)
Oh god the pain...
NoI refer to The Wrath of the Dragon God. Not a good movie by a long shot, but watchable, mildly enjoyable and actually based on D&D.
SyFy is playing Battle of Los Angeles (mockbuster) tonight.
This is a terrible film. It could have been a decent popcorn action flick if the f@#$ing camera WOULD HOLD STILL FOR 2 G&% D+$NED SECONDS! The editing is so fast and choppy the audience never has a clue what exactly is going on. Who's shooting at who? Where are the bad dudes in relation to the good dudes? Who just died? Don't ask me, man, I'm just watching the bloody thing.
The only entertaining part in the whole movie is when Michelle Rodriguez gets blasted in the face with alien fluids and the locker-room joke that follows. Yeah, they went there.
This is a terrible film. It could have been a decent popcorn action flick if the f**&ing camera WOULD HOLD STILL FOR 2 g%@ d*@NED SECONDS! The editing is so fast and choppy the audience never has a clue what exactly is going on. Who's shooting at who? Where are the bad dudes in relation to the good dudes? Who just died? Don't ask me, man, I'm just watching the bloody thing.
The only entertaining part in the whole movie is when Michelle Rodriguez gets blasted in the face with alien fluids and the locker-room joke that follows. Yeah, they went there.
Yeah, wierd. I watched it for giggles.
I wasn't sure at first if they were going to go there with naming the WWII pilot *Steve* Rogers, but at least we were spared that.
I was kinda puzzled about his reactions to the modern world. Right up til Ms Rodriguez made her appeance.
My comment rping a fighter pilot from 1942 at that point: OK, black officers I can accept; female pilots -OK-; but THAT I DON'T BELIEVE!
We are still talking Battle OF Los Angeles, right?
haha... oh wait, what?
haha... oh wait, what?
I did have the wrong film...in Battle OF Los Angles vs Battle: Los Angeles one character is a rather woodenly portrayed time-lost fighter pilot who rather calmly accepts all the oddities of a 60+ yr time-jump. But when the female secret agent makes her appearance, she doe it by leapng from a rooftop onto an alien fighter ship and destroying it by stabbing it with a katana.
At that point I decided that the guy just had to find black officers in integrated units and female fighter pilots far more belivable.
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This is a terrible film. It could have been a decent popcorn action flick if the f*@#ing camera WOULD HOLD STILL FOR 2 g#~ d&*NED SECONDS! The editing is so fast and choppy the audience never has a clue what exactly is going on. Who's shooting at who? Where are the bad dudes in relation to the good dudes? Who just died? Don't ask me, man, I'm just watching the bloody thing.
The only entertaining part in the whole movie is when Michelle Rodriguez gets blasted in the face with alien fluids and the locker-room joke that follows. Yeah, they went there.
oh god don't tell me this is like Cloverfield type camera style. I utterly detest that. That was why i hated Cloverfield. If that is the type of camera style you mean, I won't even bother to watch this.
That's the one!
Space Marine arrives and starts shooting the aliens.
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I think I got ripped off. I paid my $6 to see this movie, and it never started. After the trailers ended, this really long recruitment ad for the Marines started up. By the time it was over, I guess there wasn't any time to show the movie because the lights came back up and everybody left. Weird. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a commercial with credits at the end of it before, but it did look like a pretty expensive commercial so I guess they wanted to thank everyone who worked on it.
I think I got ripped off. I paid my $6 to see this movie, and it never started. After the trailers ended, this really long recruitment ad for the Marines started up. By the time it was over, I guess there wasn't any time to show the movie because the lights came back up and everybody left. Weird. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a commercial with credits at the end of it before, but it did look like a pretty expensive commercial so I guess they wanted to thank everyone who worked on it.
I guess you never saw Top Gun or Navy Seals than? It is sorta like info mercials...but in a movie theater...
oh god don't tell me this is like Cloverfield type camera style. I utterly detest that. That was why i hated Cloverfield. If that is the type of camera style you mean, I won't even bother to watch this.This is a terrible film. It could have been a decent popcorn action flick if the f*@#ing camera WOULD HOLD STILL FOR 2 g#~ d&*NED SECONDS! The editing is so fast and choppy the audience never has a clue what exactly is going on. Who's shooting at who? Where are the bad dudes in relation to the good dudes? Who just died? Don't ask me, man, I'm just watching the bloody thing.
The only entertaining part in the whole movie is when Michelle Rodriguez gets blasted in the face with alien fluids and the locker-room joke that follows. Yeah, they went there.
Unfortunate. I'm sorry you didn't care for Cloverfield type cinema, I truly love it. I think it's a love it or hate it kinda thing, I know very few people who were neutral. I'll be checking this movie out eventually.
Unfortunate. I'm sorry you didn't care for Cloverfield type cinema, I truly love it. I think it's a love it or hate it kinda thing, I know very few people who were neutral. I'll be checking this movie out eventually.oh god don't tell me this is like Cloverfield type camera style. I utterly detest that. That was why i hated Cloverfield. If that is the type of camera style you mean, I won't even bother to watch this.This is a terrible film. It could have been a decent popcorn action flick if the f*@#ing camera WOULD HOLD STILL FOR 2 g#~ d&*NED SECONDS! The editing is so fast and choppy the audience never has a clue what exactly is going on. Who's shooting at who? Where are the bad dudes in relation to the good dudes? Who just died? Don't ask me, man, I'm just watching the bloody thing.
The only entertaining part in the whole movie is when Michelle Rodriguez gets blasted in the face with alien fluids and the locker-room joke that follows. Yeah, they went there.
I just never quite understand the point of spending lots of money on special effects and then bouncing the camera around so that people can't see them. I mean I can understand the tactic if your special effects suck, but when they are good? I find the whole "get into the moment" a bit of a stretch. I'm sitting in a nice temperature controlled theater, how into it am I going to be. I hope the jiggly-cam goes the way of those buzzers they attached to seats to get people into the movie back in the 50's.
Well it didn't get my brother sick like the shakey cam did for Cloverfield did, so that was a positive. It was 2 freaking hours long though and everyone I went with NOTICED IT. I really felt like saying "are we there yet" repeatedly after the first hour. Let's face it, Wil Smith would have had that thing wrapped up in 90 minutes tops.
Any one else wish that Hollywood would realize that they really should focus on the genre they are working with? If it's a monster movie don't try to make it a love story with occassional monster (Monsters). Teen romance with occassional giant robot is not chocolate + peanut butter... unless you have a peanut allergy (Transformers). I wanted an alien invasion, not a war movie with some aliens thrown in. I saw Black Hawk Down once, I don't need to see it again with a random modifier.
This is a terrible film. It could have been a decent popcorn action flick if the f!~$ing camera WOULD HOLD STILL FOR 2 G+# D*%NED SECONDS! The editing is so fast and choppy the audience never has a clue what exactly is going on. Who's shooting at who? Where are the bad dudes in relation to the good dudes? Who just died? Don't ask me, man, I'm just watching the bloody thing.
Aw, crap. This whole shaky-cam b&~#+@&# is tired - it's 2011... can we get some competent cinematographers, now?
Can anyone who saw it let me know? Black Hawk Down is a marvel in cinematography and barely has any shaky cam. Is Battle: LA close to that, or is it worse?
And yeah - Cloverfield sucked... but at least in that lazy bit of film-making the lame (and even tired by then) gimmick was made clear from the outset. (Still unwatchable for me and all my peers, though.)
Some of the space ship special effects and the scenes of destruction were fairly good, the acting was decent (however the script was horrible and cliche most of the time).
However, the aliens were unwhelming and it seemed like the audience spent most of the movie watching some soldier comfort a child, call for medic, or listen to some cliche drivel.
Also, like many other action movies, the aliens at the start were indescructible (20+ soldiers firing on one infantry) and by the end some soldiers were one shotting them or using pistols. Absolutely no consistency and a bad case of hero syndrome.
Some parts made no sense as well and there were many times they didn't even follow standard military protocol (especially with the use of choppers), which I didn't find believable.
Maybe I was expecting too much, it was slightly entertaining after all, however I found it to be only a slightly above average action movie.
Wait for video.
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I just saw Battle LA. I liked it, decent popcorn flick. The only thing I did not like was the fact that they did not think the aliens had air support.
They are invading you from space. They knew they did not land at terminal vilociaty. So its pretty clear they will have some kind of air support with them. They know how to build space ships, then they know how to build aircraft.
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Jason S. ,
Yea that was a little corney as well about them start to take aliens out mpre effiecently towards the end. Yet I think that was the whole point of them supposedly doing the "autopsy" on the one to learn how to kill it. Or the "sweet" spot to aim for.
At least that is how I took it.
CapeCodRPGer,
I would concur on that.
Or at least as history shows over and over you should never assume anything at 100%. Take the necessary precautions.
It will come and bite you 110% of the time. ;-)
Sean