• Skyline
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[QUOTE=MachiniOs;25915443]The whole thing just looks like Independance Day.[/QUOTE] Except that Independance Day had decent actors.
Bah, I want to see a movie that is just filled with awesome space combat with huge space cruiser slugging at each other and fleets engaging in combat from the start to the end.
[QUOTE=Raiskauskone V2;25923674]Bah, I want to see a movie that is just filled with awesome space combat with huge space cruiser slugging at each other and fleets engaging in combat from the start to the end.[/QUOTE] Same, sci-fi nowadays is entirely foot combat.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;25925267]Same, sci-fi nowadays is entirely foot combat.[/QUOTE] Yeah, why did surface combat in sci-fi become so damn popular. I always thought watching giant spaceships shoot at each other was more fun then watching random people try to shoot each other in the face. If there was a movie with an even balance of both, then it would actually be awesome.
[QUOTE=Spleet;25672723]The truth behind this movie is that it's budget was funded entirely by PhilipMorrisUSA(makers of your favorite cigarettes, including all varieties of Marlboro and Parliament). It is a huge advertisement for their new flavor of cigarette, named "Marlboro Skyline". The color of the "alien" weaponry is the same color used on the package for these new cigarettes. [img_thumb]http://tobaccoproducts.org/images/thumb/2/27/Marlboro_Skyline_title.jpg/91px-Marlboro_Skyline_title.jpg[/img_thumb] You didn't hear this from me.[/QUOTE] Welp all my interest in the movie is gone
[QUOTE=Wii60;25928761]Welp all my interest in the movie is gone[/QUOTE]F***ing knew this would just be an oversized advertisment for something. Also when you refer to the "alien weaponry" are you meaning that light crap they drop from the sky? Because last time I checked the aliens don't use lasers or fancy stuff like that. Instead they ram through stuff. [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Raiskauskone V2;25923674]Bah, I want to see a movie that is just filled with awesome space combat with huge space cruiser slugging at each other and fleets engaging in combat from the start to the end.[/QUOTE] Then watch star wars or star trek. I recommend star trek though. [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=booster;25923255]Except that Independance Day had decent actors.[/QUOTE] That and aliens weren't so retarded, atleast the aliens in independence day had the brains to use f***ing lasers.
It makes me sad that the only sci fi films that actually have substantial space battles are Star Trek and Star Wars.
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;25851309]So... what the hell is with the light? I mean, the woman looks at it and becomes... a zombie? WHAT?[/QUOTE] Apparently it's makes the subject zoned the hell out and then they just vanish into thin air, which seems like an excuse for an abduction method. Why they couldn't use something more terrifying like spire rockets is beyond me, just shows you how retarded the aliens in the movie are. [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Canuhearme?;25931053]It makes me sad that the only sci fi films that actually have substantial space battles are Star Trek and Star Wars.[/QUOTE] I agree, we need more sci fi films with substantial space combat.
We need more space movies.
[QUOTE=tier56;25930751]Fucking knew this would just be an oversized advertisment for something. Also when you refer to the "alien weaponry" are you meaning that light crap they drop from the sky? Because last time I checked the aliens don't use lasers or fancy stuff like that. Instead they ram through stuff. [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] Then watch star wars or star trek. I recommend star trek though. [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] That and aliens weren't so retarded, atleast the aliens in independence day had the brains to use f***ing lasers.[/QUOTE] Why would you not censor your first "fucking" but you censor the last one.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;25932058]We need more space movies.[/QUOTE] We need more space opera. :eng101: Otherwise we'll get another Pandorum or Avatar and they'd call that sci-fi.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;25932058]We need more space movies.[/QUOTE] Clarify space movies. Moon or Star Wars?
I think they generally mean movies set elsewhere than Earth (that don't suck).
While I'm interested as to the strange vein-popping deal they've got going on (and the effects seem not far off Bay standard), this doesn't look like it's going to be all that great. Hell, Donald Faison seems like the only competent actor among them and if more than half the budget's gone into the visuals, then he's probably not going to get much in the way of decent dialogue either.
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;25935312]Why would you not censor your first "fucking" but you censor the last one.[/QUOTE] I censored the first one now. [editline]8th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=zpiscool;25939164]While I'm interested as to the strange vein-popping deal they've got going on (and the effects seem not far off Bay standard), this doesn't look like it's going to be all that great. Hell, Donald Faison seems like the only competent actor among them and if more than half the budget's gone into the visuals, then he's probably not going to get much in the way of decent dialogue either.[/QUOTE] Yeah I expect the movie to fail epically at trying to be entertaining and make some damn sense of a plot.
[QUOTE=tier56;25930751]Fucking knew this would just be an oversized advertisment for something.[/QUOTE] Independence Day was a giant commercial for Apple... [quote=Cracked.com] Worst Offender: [I]Independence Day[/I] What Happened: The Earth is under attack by a race of vastly advanced aliens, so Jeff Goldblum creates a virus from his PowerBook that disables the entire apparently Macintosh-compatible fleet of ships. Why It's Ridiculous: This is difficult to wrap our minds around. The aliens in [I]Independence Day[/I] were not only thousands of years ahead of us technologically, but also were an entirely different species. Therefore, Goldblum's feat was the equivalent of colony of baboons in the Congo hacking into CitiBank using tree bark and clumps of their own feces. [U] [/U] [img]http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/cracked/wong/id42.jpg[/img] Yes, we know it's just a big, fun sci-fi rollercoaster ride. Yes, we're willing to turn our brains off-they're in that state through most of our workweek anyway. But meet us half way, Hollywood. Write it so that, say, the guys at Area 51 had taken one of the alien's computers off the Roswell ship and reverse-engineered it over the decades. Or, something. Work with us, here. But of course, there is exactly one reason why the aliens were defeated by a PowerBook in [I]Independence Day[/I]: because Apple paid for it as part of the product placement. Yes, my friends, the entire plot culminated in an advertisement, and one you paid to see. In real life… That new Mac operating system that's coming out? Goldblum' PowerBook 5300 had about [I]one-tenth[/I] the memory needed to run it. So, forget uplinking to an alien freaking starship; if he simply tried to run a piece of software from [I]the same damned manufacturer[/I] from just 10 years in the future, the result would look something like this: [img]http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/cracked/wong/id43.jpg[/img][/quote] [URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_15229_5-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do_p5.html#ixzz14jLHV9Id"][/URL]
[QUOTE=Ridge;25942416]Independence Day was a giant commercial for Apple... [URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_15229_5-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do_p5.html#ixzz14jLHV9Id"][/URL][/QUOTE]I will never think of independence day the same, Oh well At least the movie was enjoyable, that and it was for an actual computer, not some cigarette brand that no one on facepunch gives a shit about, I think.
I'll go see it on $5 Tuesday at the local theater. Should be alright for a decent CGI smash up.
I was thinking of seeing it tomorrow, but just thinking on how much money I would waste on this crap. :[
[QUOTE=Spleet;25672723]The truth behind this movie is that it's budget was funded entirely by PhilipMorrisUSA(makers of your favorite cigarettes, including all varieties of Marlboro and Parliament). It is a huge advertisement for their new flavor of cigarette, named "Marlboro Skyline". The color of the "alien" weaponry is the same color used on the package for these new cigarettes. [img_thumb]http://tobaccoproducts.org/images/thumb/2/27/Marlboro_Skyline_title.jpg/91px-Marlboro_Skyline_title.jpg[/img_thumb] You didn't hear this from me.[/QUOTE] I bet near the end of the movie we discover that nicotine is extremely toxic to the aliens.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;25961768]I bet near the end of the movie we discover that nicotine is extremely toxic to the aliens.[/QUOTE] maybe we ARE the aliens and nicotine is killing us
[QUOTE=dude2193;25964420]maybe we ARE the aliens and nicotine is killing us[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/wp-content/uploads/what_a_twist.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Ridge;25942416]Independence Day was a giant commercial for Apple...[/QUOTE] This is possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
Gonna see this hopefully ^^. It looks pretty good. Not much advertising has gone into it though.
Suckerpunch will be better then this.
[QUOTE=connor38;25991365]Gonna see this hopefully ^^. It looks pretty good. Not much advertising has gone into it though.[/QUOTE] probably because they don't have much faith in this being any good.
[QUOTE=connor38;25991365]Gonna see this hopefully ^^. It looks pretty good. Not much advertising has gone into it though.[/QUOTE] I've seen it advertised more than any other film lately. At least on TV, and I barely watch TV.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYitED2mmKw[/media] go to 0:59 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJfue-Aanw[/media] now go to 0:54 Hmmm... So they already start ripping off an already shitty movie in the trailer? Imagine what the full movie is gonna be like.
Yep, :54 like War of The Worlds, when the aliens dug themselves in.
I laughed at how they failed to get rescued every time.
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