OK, broke down and took the wife to see this today. It was actually HER request. She loves alien movies. Overall it wasn't too shabby. The brief story line (Aliens attack) isn't unique, but the action makes up for it. I have never been a huge Aaron Eckhart fan, but the dude isn't bad as an aging Staff Sgt leading a group of young marines against extra terrestrial soldiers. If you're into sustained action and violence with a done-to-death plot, then I would recommend it.
Were they only taking over the city of Los Angeles as opposed to the state of California or even moreso, the fucking planet? How dumb is that? You invade a planet to take over one city, and only the 2nd best city on the planet at that. Still, I'm a sci-fi geek so I plan on catching this one.
Wow, this may have seriously been the biggest letdown I've ever had, since I went to a strip club at 21, and somehow thought I was going to have sex with a stripper before the night was over. The long format movie trailer for "Battle: Los Angeles", may be my favorite movie trailer of all-time. The movie on the other hand, is a complete piece of shit. I like Aaron Eckhart as an actor. I think the guy is insanely good, given the right material. Unfortunately the screenplay in this seems like it was written by a 13 year-old who stayed home one week, rented all the War, Meteors hitting the Earth and Alien Invasion movies he could find, and adapted the simplest dialogue he could find into a writing session over the following weekend. Forget the aliens..........this was basically a watered down PG-13 version of "Black Hawk Down" meets "District 9" meets "Saving Private Ryan"..........without the tension, dialogue, clean editing or any care for the outcome of the characters well-being. It was sustained action, but I was literally bored to tears........and a couple of the moments that were supposed to be poignant........death scenes, etc............had me bursting out in reflex laughter. Oh, and the editing. I couldn't tell half the time, who was dead, who was still alive, who got blown up, and who was going to crawl out of the rubble. I guess I would find out 5 minutes later when I noticed a guy I thought was just killed, was now firing back at the aliens, completely unhurt. You could see how the movie looked pretty in clips. Piecing together the right scenes for a well done trailer would have been pretty easy. Too bad there was more tension in the trailer then there was for the entire movie put together. Maybe the guy who edited the trailer, should have edited the movie instead. :shit: 2/10
No, Los Angeles was just a small part of the invasion that they focused on for the movie................and I'm not even sure they were in Los Angeles. Is Santa Monica part of Los Angeles, because that's where most of the movie takes place?
Hollywood went greedy years ago. To maximize their dollars all effort and planning goes into the trailers. Whether the film itself is good or not is secondary, the point is to get the people into the theaters and get their money. Whether they actually enjoy the movie or not doesn't matter. I'll never trust a high octane trailer again.
The last sci-fi flick I saw (& I, too, am usually suckered into the Alien invasion storyline) was maybe the worst I've ever seen --- the deplorable, utterly unforgivable Skyline. This has to be a pleasure after that one.
This is a war movie. The opponents are just aliens instead of another country. To me, I think it was refreshing. The pace was relentless.
Even the trailer for Skyline looked lame. That was enough in itself to make me not want to see it. I always thought Battle LA would be the movie that Skyline wasn't, but wanted to be. I'll need to see Battle LA for myself though before I draw a real critique.
I think "monotonous" is a better term. It was trying to be "Black Hawk Down" or "Aliens" with it's pacing, and it failed miserably. Most average or better war movies, make you care at least a little bit about the participants. For as much action as was happening, there was zero tension and the editing was absolutely sloppy. If you like the action in the Transformers movies and don't mind that you don't really give a fuck about anybody on the screen............including the kids, this movie might be for you. Also, what's the last good PG-13 War movie that anybody's seen?
Watched "Skyline" on video and actually preferred it to Battle LA. Nothing really new added to the 'Alien Invasion' genre but the movie created some tense moments.
Well, I saw Battle: LA, & it certainly is a war flick, not a sci-fi one. Trouble I found was that it is just such a re-hash of every war flick you've ever seen. This movie doesn't do anything particularly wrong (except for one thing, which I'll get to in a moment), but it's just a movie-by-rote --- I mean, the dialogue, the acting, the scenarios, none of them would be classified as poor, but there's nothing you haven't seen here a million times before. There was just a sameness quality about it I found increasingly impossible to ignore. It was to the detriment of the film, really. (Semi) Spoilers... The design of the invaders was extremely cheap, to my eyes. It looked as if the creators put absoulely none --- & I mean zero --- thought into being innovative in any discernible way. All you had were men running around in suits, even carrying extra-terrestrial machine guns. That & one blob of non-descript goo left me heavily unimpressed. A real let-down part of this flick was the lack of invention/explanation/differentation involving the invaders. I also had a hard time believing they were capable of really putting Earth's forces & civilisations in jeopardy with their equipment & tactics. Felt myself thinking, "Modern Man would kick fuck out of these guys," for most of the flick.
Battle: Los Angeles FUCKING SUCKS.......any other opinions..... Movie follows a group of soldiers trying to rescue a few civilians from i think downtown LA ...BULLSHIT...SUCKS!!!! SUCKS!!!! They walk...the are attack by the mechanical aliens...they escape walk some more are attacked again...find the aliens command center(made of fucking paper apparently cause all it takes is one missile) try to call in an air strike....but must hold off aliens.... At first they shoot the shit out of the aliens they don't die...then half way through the movie they figure shoot them in the chest near the heart...then they drop like flies...whatever it's garbage.
Wait, wait, wait. The weak point of the aliens is CENTER MASS? The place they would probably aim anyway? Terrible. :laugh11:
Yes pretty much.....one of the marines/army guy and a veterinarian did a quick autopsy on one of the aliens..they open up it's chest/stomach and started pulling out organs to see what kills them...until they found one.:NotThink:
Was tough to watch a soldier & a vet put their heads together & pretty much find out, after much trial-&-error on a dying Alien, that the heart is a soft-spot. Who knew!? ::
Skyline.....better than Battle LA...short movie...doesn't drag on and on like Battle LA...one gun fight after another...the ALIENS are much better...and these aliens you kill by driving an ax into their brain...or so i thought....that kissing during the alien lift them off was weak....and that final scene was shit...
