Skyline: Or how I managed to stop worrying and love my brain. - General

Just got done watching it. I know you're all dying to see it yourselves so I won't spoil it in the open. I have to say, what an incredible movie, a list of things I love about it are: [list] [*]the actors [*]the plot (they only managed to steal ideas from 4 movies) [*] the aliens [*]the colour blue [/list] If you don't know what the movie is about, then here is a video clip that sums it up pretty much. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKhtcz7SR5o&feature=related[/media] [b]ALSO, if you've seen this masterpiece, then please use spoiler tags when discussing it.[/b]

I remember there being a thread about this movie already.

I haven't seen this, but my curiosity peaked and I read about it on Wikipedia. Nothing will ever be the same again. Nothing.

I was really dissapointed by the film to be honest. It was really low budget, so I wasn't expecting fantastic quality all the way through, but god, it really didn't live up to the trailers at all. Thread title is winner by the way.

I have not seen it but it is at the top of my list, I could never miss such gold. [editline]5th March 2011[/editline] In all seriousness, Battle LA is hopefully going to blow this out of the water (which is not hard).

I've seen a thread about this before, but I'm glad someone brought it up again. For as low-budget as it was, it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

This movie was shit. The only part where I laughed was the shit part, and it was the whole movie.

Movie changed the way i think of the Unreal Engine, never knew you could use it for low budget VFX

Guessing the movie was horrible. The trailers looked pretty good, and I wanted to see it mainly because of Donald Faison. Anyone want to tell me why it was so bad?

It wasn't even funny bad, it was so fucking boring. It was a horrible movie spewing bad script and ideas. The ending was the shit icing on the dung cake.

[QUOTE=MagicBurrito;28448445]Guessing the movie was horrible. The trailers looked pretty good, and I wanted to see it mainly because of Donald Faison. Anyone want to tell me why it was so bad?[/QUOTE] Imagine getting someone who works in McDonalds to design a car, they would have no clue where to start or what to do, so the end product would endup a piece of shit, same with this movie, the two directors come from a VFX background, and basically had no clue what to do besides the VFX.

I have to say this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, everything about it was a train wreck. I hope the entire cast is banned from being in movies forever for being in such a disgrace haha

Wasn't this the movie where people working on Battle: LA split from that project to make this movie?

Yes something like that [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(film)#Legal_action_from_Sony[/url]

[QUOTE=cheeseman52;28450968]I have to say this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, everything about it was a train wreck. I hope the entire cast is banned from being in movies forever for being in such a disgrace haha[/QUOTE] fuck you donald faison is boss as fuck

God this was such an awful movie. Its a shame that I can now relate Donald Faison to this atrocity.

[QUOTE=MagicBurrito;28448445]Guessing the movie was horrible. The trailers looked pretty good, and I wanted to see it mainly because of Donald Faison. Anyone want to tell me why it was so bad?[/QUOTE] I know the trailers looked great, then when it came out I saw about 20 threads about it on every forum I go to. Just wondering, but what in particular made it so horrible?

*site massively lagged then it posted this twice for some reason*

I can't tell if this thread is meant to be sarcastic or what.

No it's really an incredible film, it's the Citizen Kane of alien invasion films.

I remember seeing it by accident. I was under the impression that it was Battle LA based on a trailer I had watched for it months prior, and when my friend described the plot I put two and two together. I was sorely mistaken. Everything about this movie was shit. Especially that guy's mustache.

Am I the only person who thought it was okay? I mean it wasn't brilliant or genre-defining by any means, but Jesus Christ, it wasn't [b]that[/b] horrible. I mean, I enjoyed the CGI at least - and I found the story more stimulating than James Cameron's [i]Avatar[/i] at least. The only thing I really disagreed with in the movie was the ending. In my opinion, it should have ended with [sp]the main characters getting sucked into the ship, with the rest of the city in ruins.[/sp] I mean, how hard would it be to make one movie, just ONE MOVIE, where humanity flat-out loses? Though with all that being said, it didn't really deserve a theater release. Was better quality than a lot of SciFi originals, but it wasn't really theater quality. Should have been a special feature on SciFi I think.

The ending was a disappointment.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;28469618] The only thing I really disagreed with in the movie was the ending. In my opinion, it should have ended with [sp]the main characters getting sucked into the ship, with the rest of the city in ruins.[/sp] I mean, how hard would it be to make one movie, just ONE MOVIE, where humanity flat-out loses? [/QUOTE] On the contrary, how hard would it be to make one movie, just ONE MOVIE, where humanity flat-out wins? I mean, excluding Independence Day and Alien Apocalypse, it seems like humans just suck at doing anything! Regardless, I found Skyline to be a bunch of good ideas that could have been. Wouldn't it have been [sp]great if the main dude-man figured out how to use his mind to control the aliens through their connections? Wouldn't it have been great if the brain consumption had actually made any sense at all? Wouldn't it have been great if the characters capable of rational thought, not whores, and actually had real jobs?[/sp] Well, excluding all of those things, it was an excellent low budget alien invasion film. I wouldn't mind watching it again if I skipped the first half of the film.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;28469618]I mean, how hard would it be to make one movie, just ONE MOVIE, where humanity flat-out loses?[/QUOTE] Well, the humans lost in Avatar. Check out this [url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/25530/10_most_depressing_movie_endings_ev%20%20er.html]list of movies[/url] in which the protagonist loses.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;28470048]Well, the humans lost in Avatar. Check out this [url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/25530/10_most_depressing_movie_endings_ev%20%20er.html]list of movies[/url] in which the protagonist loses.[/QUOTE] Fair enough. Let me quantify this better. How hard would it be to make one movie [b]involving Earth being invaded by aliens[/b] where humanity flat-out loses?

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;28470172]Fair enough. Let me quantify this better. How hard would it be to make one movie [b]involving Earth being invaded by aliens[/b] where humanity flat-out loses?[/QUOTE] I'm just guessing here, but it may be that people who like alien invasion movies aren't real fans of more serious, dramatic forms of entertainment in which a "win" condition doesn't always occur. It may simply be one of those movie concepts that doesn't have a large enough market to support it. The latest War of the Worlds film (Dakota Fanning :argh:) was pretty dark and didn't exactly end on a triumphant note. I haven't seen the movie but the plot synopsis of Skyline indicates that the humans really did lose.

Am I the only one that legitimately enjoyed this film?

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;28470048]Well, the humans lost in Avatar. Check out this [url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/25530/10_most_depressing_movie_endings_ev%20%20er.html]list of movies[/url] in which the protagonist loses.[/QUOTE] Humans also win, so on the contrary the only film i can think about where the aliens win is District 9 (Wikus turns into an alien, and Christopher escapes) [editline]7th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Gubru;28471443]Am I the only one that legitimately enjoyed this film?[/QUOTE] Yes

I hoped this thread contained a Skyline of the Nissan-kind. Bleh.