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Creative Arts and Media => TV and Video => Movies => Topic started by: Blaiiine on February 11, 2011, 03:35:11 AM
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Has anyone seen the new trailers for Battle: LA? It's coming out on 3.11.11 and it's about aliens invading the Earth and a group of soldiers defend LA.
It looks really good.
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Sorry for bumping this topic, but the movie is out in theaters today.
I haven't seen it, and probably never will, to be honest. The commercials give me a serious case of De Ja Vu. Probably because the plot's been done to death and beyond. Sometimes I'm surprised I'm the only one who is sick of the plot.
Also, there was a movie a while ago (who's name escapes me) that looked very similar to this.
But I'm sure someone's going to see it today or soon. Maybe they would have a better say in it.
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Benny, are you thinking about Skyline? I saw Skyline, and it's easily in the top 3 worst movies I've ever seen, because it's a mess of otherwise good ideas that don't go anywhere.
I kind of want to see Battle: LA, simply because it looks like it'll actually tell a coherent story. Sadly, I lack the funds to do so. Sad kitty is sad. :'(
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That's the one. The Commercials for Battle: Los Angeles look a LOT like the commercials for Skyline. (Was it really that bad)
Also, might I point out the title? The Movie is Battle: Los Angeles, not Battle of Los Angeles. Battle OF Los Angeles is a shameless ripoff of Battle: Los Angeles made by the kings of ripping off big-name movies themselves, Asylum. It was on ScyFy Channel yesterday.
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Short answer: Yes, Skyline was really that bad.
Long answer: Skyline COULD'VE been awesome had the directors taken the time to craft a coherent story that actually and properly integrated their cooler ideas rather than just leaving them strewn about the film like a child leaves his toys scattered about the floor of his room. Also, the film was marketed as an alien invasion epic, yet the ENTIRE film takes place in a high rise apartment building. You're also never given any explanation as to why the invasion is happening, or *SPOILER* why the blue light gives humans increased strength (An idea only used once after it's introduced). There is also a twist in the last two or three minutes that's given no build up or real resolution. It just happens, and the directors expect you to just go along with it, like so much else in the movie. I think Ben Kendrick of Screen Rant says it best: "[Skyline] comes across as a big-screen B-movie with a convoluted plot and too limited of a scope to make the audience feel the worldwide alien-apocalypse that’s supposedly unfolding in the film."
And to take things back to Battle: Los Angeles, Sony actually considered suing the Strause Brothers, the directors of Skyline, because the effects company they own was hired by Sony to develop the effects for Battle: Los Angeles, and they never told Sony about Skyline. That's why the film looks so similar.
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is this movie a yea or nay ?