So as you have probably heard, skyline didn't get the best reviews, and although this is the same style
I think it looks pretty awesome
The Battle of Los Angeles
So as you have probably heard, skyline didn't get the best reviews, and although this is the same style
I think it looks pretty awesome
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Well, it definitively looks better than skyline, I can tell you, it was the worst 10$ cinema ticket I've bought in my life.
I'll keep an eye on this movie, looks promising.
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Oh man I know some one who was writing a script based on this .... That sucks. The movie looks decent though.
some nice eye candy in this one...
That trailer was so boring, I couldn't watch it all. I guess I wouldn't enjoy that movie. Trailers can say 'this one isn't for you.' Doing a service for the people who don't like boring movies.
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Is there a such thing as people liking boring movies??Originally Posted by HueyNRolf
Apparently
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Nothing wrong with Sci-fi. I've been known to enjoy them myself. Alien, The Thing and Terminator come to mind. Seems to me that 'flash bang wallop' is a genre too and that just bores me sh!tless.
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That actually looks pretty damn good. Question to those who are cinematically inclined: How do they make that camera shake look so nice?
Higher shutter speed? So it's not blurry at all. Otherwise if it's not "that" you're talking about, maybe just the camera operator that is really good!
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Looks so shaky. If I do go to see it I will sit in the back... Damn handheld look.
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Barf for Los Angeles then?
I think it looks ok, probably going to be a bit jingoistic as I understand they had official military help with equipment and resources. I suspect this alien invasion will be an oh so clever metaphor for the modern day version of the 50's communist threat?
Aliens look a bit uninspired and the built in sequel opportunity that is 'Battle xxxx' as a franchise have me fearing the worst. It sucks to be cynical, but this is more likely to end up as another transformers than another aliens.
Time will tell.
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Aliens look a bit uninspired and the built in sequel opportunity that is 'Battle xxxx' as a franchise have me fearing the worst. It sucks to be cynical, but this is more likely to end up as another transformers than another aliens.
Time will tell.
needs more work
when i first saw this trailer I found it really effective, but after some thought I found it disturbing that the selling point of the movie is "the world is being destroyed-look how realistic it looks"!!! There's no hook- the aliens and ships don't look like anything new (they are barely identifiable), there's no twist on the alien invasion story or any sociological subtext (like District 9), its not even connected to a set of robot toys I played with as a kid.
Its nihilistic and generic- as if the reason to see it is to watch things and people being destroyed. Geez at least make the aliens and ships look interesting, do something. Don't just place it in Los Angeles and think that's enough.
This trend towards realism has resulted in some really unimaginative movies.
more imagination and creativity in this one (fake?) scene than in that entire movie i bet :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17duGlHEYY
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Looks ok, not awesome. I like guns and explosions as much as the next person, but you gotta put a little story in there somewhere. Can't really tell if this movie has one or not from the trailer.
Shaky cam is not that bad. The movie I hated for shaky cam was Cloverfield. OMG! I was practically shouting at the screen, Get a tripod! what the hell is going on, I can't see anything!
"beautiful girls are the cheapest special effect"
- Roger Corman
Where's the gay sex scene? I'm going to pass on this one!
I rarely read reviews, but Roger Ebert's review of this is pretty funny. I think that puts the nail in the coffin of this movie turning out good.
Of course, the trailer said all that on its own.
Don't count on it. Avatar did well, right?
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You think so? I hated it, ah well. To each his own I guess.
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