• Skyline
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I'm not sure why anyone wanted to watch this. When I saw the commercials I thought it looked just slightly higher budget than a Disney Channel original movie.
[QUOTE=stepat201;26045856]I'm not sure why anyone wanted to watch this. When I saw the commercials I thought it looked just slightly higher budget than a Disney Channel original movie.[/QUOTE] I hate you for your avatar.
god damnit i just wanted a mindless movie of human militaries vs gigantic aliens with overblown and awesome cgi. there was only two instances of it, i was really god damn disappointed.
Pretty good special effects considering the film's budget. And that's about it. Everything else just sucks massive cock.
does anyone know a movie/game other than Resistance and Independence day that's just balls out action war with Humanity and Aliens?
Simple stories are hard to find.
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;26047491]god damnit i just wanted a mindless movie of human militaries vs gigantic aliens with overblown and awesome cgi. there was only two instances of it, i was really god damn disappointed.[/QUOTE] i feel your pain.. but look on the bright side-Battle: Los Angeles is coming out in four months (trailer [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDSmzGty5g]here[/url])
It was an OK movie, but it ended so suddently...
[sp]What. The. Fuck. This film is wrong in so many ways. How does a species even exist by taking the brains of other creatures? The brains are like batteries, sure, but why would they EVOLVE like that? Why is that guy's brain so special? Is everyone who looked at the light like that or just a certain few people or even just him? Sure it has good parts where the movie spurs you on. For instance, the bomber sequence really got me pumped. But, this film was okay, at best. I could talk about all the bad parts and say they ruined the movie, but I think I have a soft spot for this one. But, on a final note, let me just say the worst thing about this film... THEY FUCKING KILLED TURK![/sp] [img]http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/984/984385/scrubs-jd-turk_1242746183.jpg[/img]
Lets just hope this movies graphics don't make my computer lag.
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;26047681]does anyone know a movie/game other than Resistance and Independence day that's just balls out action war with Humanity and Aliens?[/QUOTE] halo!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=Cheryl Cole;26064427]halo!!!!!!![/QUOTE] Battle: Los Angeles
[QUOTE=furbrain;26064911]Battle: Los Angeles[/QUOTE] why are you replying to me with a vague and irrelevant comment? did you want to garner my attention while i was looking for my name on the ticker? or were you just in a careless frame of mind when you chose to quote me? either way, i'll let it slide, i still love you. <3
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;26047681]does anyone know a movie/game other than Resistance and Independence day that's just balls out action war with Humanity and Aliens?[/QUOTE] Quake 4 Halo Crysis Crysis 2 Quake 2 Star Wars Republic Commando Earth Defense Force 2017 StarCraft 1 and 2 Global Defense Force Enemy Territory Quake wars Lost Planet Extreme Condition Lost Planet 2 Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon To an Extent Garrys Mod Half Life 1 and 2 Command and Conquer 3 all the X-COM games shit I could go on.
I saw it today. It's, not great. The ending was terrible, and it made the scene before the ending feel as if it was the ending.
[QUOTE=Cheryl Cole;26065019]why are you replying to me with a vague and irrelevant comment? did you want to garner my attention while i was looking for my name on the ticker? or were you just in a careless frame of mind when you chose to quote me? either way, i'll let it slide, i still love you. <3[/QUOTE] Do some research before you label something as vague or irrelevant. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORb3zC8z94w[/media] And he's right, Battle: Los Angeles looks exactly like Skyline.
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;26072976]Do some research before you label something as vague or irrelevant. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORb3zC8z94w[/media] And he's right, Battle: Los Angeles looks exactly like Skyline.[/QUOTE] no retard. i was making a joke about how he quoted me when he replied.
[QUOTE=Cheryl Cole;26075264]no retard. i was making a joke about how he quoted me when he replied.[/QUOTE] your jokes suck so does your grammar
[QUOTE=furbrain;26076451]your jokes suck so does your grammar[/QUOTE] uhm u cant really talk when u dont even use puncutation. or capital letters for that matter. but why are u derailing the thread, im cheryl cole and i know best. ur 19 and ur really making this thread worse than it already is. in conclusions, this phenomena of such a bad film is not very well-recieved and i think many people will be disappointed by skyline. 7/10
Despite all the critics, I really enjoyed this movie. I'm ususally super cynical.. about everything! ..But I was thoroughly entertained by this film. The only thing I didn't like was the useless fifteen minutes at the beginning where they.. show you 15 minutes into the film, and then go "7 hours earlier." Is that really necessary? (Other than a gimmick to draw the audience in).
When this movie came out, I heard nothing. Literally, nothing. My usual sources were dead silent. I didn't go review hunting, I didn't come to IMDB. But what I heard was a vast empty void of silence. Well, that in mind, I went to see it tonight, and my general impression is...underwhelmed, with exceptions. First, let me say what mostly got me with this movie: the ending...given that there isn't one. The movie just sorta' stops. There's no real resolution, no real discovery. My initial instinct was, bad sequel-baiting. So that's my biggest issue; that the film didn't encapsulate itself into an open-ended, but ultimately enclosed finish that ALLOWED for a sequel. Spoilers for those who've yet to see it, this ending involves the lead couple being sucked up my an alien spacecraft, where along with other captives, their brains are being harvested (their bodies then tossed into some kind of blue, glowy acid incinerator) to power their bio-soldier bodies, which presumably would then sweep the planet for humans in areas otherwise unreachable. Lead male's brain is blasted out and placed into a soldier, but unlike the other brains, it is red for some reason instead of blue. For some arbitrary reason, lead male's previous exposure to the hypnotizing, debilitating light the aliens use has allowed his brain to remain conscious of itself, and in his new body, he saves his girlfriend from some mechanical arms that seem interested in her unborn fetus, and fights more mechanical arms in super-slomo through the ending credits. And that's it. ... Original? I guess. But was it too much to ask for our ten-minute conclusion in which he somehow uses his alien powers to hack into the ship and the alien network and destroy the invaders from within? Sure it would be a cop-out, but it'd be more satisfying than this :\ But oh well. So what else isn't really working here? Well, as you are no-doubt aware, I have NO working knowledge of what the names of ANY of the lead cast are. Why? Because these actors are totally bland and unlikeable. I truly had no reason to give a *beep* about ANYONE in this entire cast, especially since lead-male-guy has a long face and straight-jawline I'd expect to see as a charicature of Billy Zane as he tries to shoot at Leo and Kate on the Titanic, and lead-woman drags her damn feet so often that I rarely cared if she was in danger. Only when Angel Batista from Dexter showed up to be a badass did I start caring, and by the end even HE turned into a jackass who apparently didn't deserve to live. Basically, any moment where the aliens weren't somehow onscreen dragged, and the deaths of any of them posed nothing in terms of emotional reaction from me. Just vessels to carry the story along. And the story itself...well, the aliens just sorta' start invading, and these people just stay trapped in their ritzy hotel room, save to get a closer look at things or try to get out in a boat....yeah, a boat. A totally obvious and very visible mode of transportation Now, the aliens themselves are a bit more substantial. For being a cross of the aliens from Crysis and Independence Day in appearance, there's at least some interesting things happening. There are typical scouting man-sized tentacle squid things that take down humans mono-y-mono. There are the Transformer-sized orange behemoths that look like they're related to the Collectors from Mass Effect with extendable hand-tongues that swallow people. Then there are the big ships that launch down little light-probes that draw people out of shelter and into range of it's big vacuum. For some reason they all run on HUMAN brains and are useless without them, but can still look for any human in the area so they can snatch brains from them if they lose theirs. I'm guessing this whole alien armada is just an automated army of drones sent by the real aliens to capture the planet before they arrive, and that the aliens realized the best computer they could acquire en-mass for their complex war machines was just a sapient brain, instead of sending the ships with a truckload of replacement processors or something. It's pretty original, if a little contrived. And it doesn't explain why everything the aliens make can repair itself after a massive explosion. Like, for instance, the BEST scene in the movie is when the military FINALLY decides to *beep* DO something, and sends this awesome squadron of jets and B2 stealth bombers. The big alien mothership thing turns around and acts all alert before sending every squid-drone in the area to attack them. Now, I think everyone expected an Independence Day scenario. You know, the aliens have a shield, the fighters are too fast, their weapons are too good. But no! Ass gets KICKED! The fighters start taking out the drones in huge numbers, all planes maneuver around like air-ballet, and before the wave of drones is able to shoot down the last B2, it launches a tactical nuke into the mothership, and blasts it's ass to the dark-ages! This scene was so awesome, I expected to start hearing "Here We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder" over the soundtrack. The mothership flies out of the mushroom cloud, but then slams into the LA Hills in flames, blown apart. We're given a full thirty seconds to think it worked, before drones pop out of the ruins and start putting the mothership back together... So, Skyline... Forgettable actors, hardly any plot, awesome aliens, awesome effects, no conclusion, shameless sequel-baiting. Yeah...I'd call this a rental at best. There's some genuine awesome in here, but it's not enough to make up for all the blah'.
[QUOTE=27X;25675876]The Strause bothers are making this movie. They made AvP:R. Nothing else need be said.[/QUOTE] I got sick when I saw their names on the screen, FUCK those guys. Movie was terribly dissapointing
Damn, It looked promising at first, then I watched it.
Oh man the actors suck .
I enjoyed this movie, my favorite parts have to be when [sp]They're watching the jeep with the machine gun being chased by the tank alien, the UAV arial battle (I was quietly cheering that brave little UAV bomber on before it launched the nuke) and the F22/alien drone battle.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;26072976]Do some research before you label something as vague or irrelevant. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORb3zC8z94w[/media] And he's right, Battle: Los Angeles looks exactly like Skyline.[/QUOTE] Hopefully Battle: Los Angeles will be better, at least the US army actually responds fast enough to the aliens invasion.
[QUOTE=STREWTH_99;26099188]I enjoyed this movie, my favorite parts have to be when [sp]They're watching the jeep with the machine gun being chased by the tank alien, the UAV arial battle (I was quietly cheering that brave little UAV bomber on before it launched the nuke) and the F22/alien drone battle.[/sp][/QUOTE] Those are the best two fucking parts in the movie [sp]I was really hoping that the bomber would make it and almost jumped with joy when it nuked the son ova bitch[/sp]
Watched it. Liked it. Won't see it again. Seen worse movies. Seen better movies. Was a bit overpriced for a SciFi original. Was glad it wasn't a 3D gimmick though.
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;26072976]Do some research before you label something as vague or irrelevant. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORb3zC8z94w[/media] And he's right, Battle: Los Angeles looks exactly like Skyline.[/QUOTE] WRONG its not directed by the schmucks who made AVPR, and that makes all the difference.
So it's be called Skyline: Battle Los Angeles for the sequel. :p [sp]So new improved alien guy with a special brain with girlfriend tries to save the world, least this is different and the good guys lose[/sp] Better then War Of The Worlds?. well, not really. This is trying to be War of the worlds 2. And fails. But it a pretty good yarn.
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