Looked cool, then the last scene was like... damn.
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Skyline
I watched it tonight to break the tie between Gordon and Cakedaddy.
This is correct.
Great visuals and decently acted, but just a terrible film.
So Chris Turk, who really threw me off without JD and Dr. Cox, invites his best bud to LA. His best buddy arrives with his preggers girlfriend and soon fight because Turk wants him to move out there. Oh, and Turk is apparently banging his hot assistant, which doesn't make his girlfriends too happy. I have no idea why the first 20 minutes of the film was about all of that, but they made me watch it, so I mentioned it.
Soon there's the alien invasion, and they use light as a weapon. If you look at it for a second, you're fucked. Oh, and their ability to heal makes Wolverine look like a terminal cancer patient. It's ridiculous.
But not as ridiculous as what they do to us or what happens to Turk's best friend at the end.
Just a completely pointless film.
Horrible.
This is correct.
Great visuals and decently acted, but just a terrible film.
So Chris Turk, who really threw me off without JD and Dr. Cox, invites his best bud to LA. His best buddy arrives with his preggers girlfriend and soon fight because Turk wants him to move out there. Oh, and Turk is apparently banging his hot assistant, which doesn't make his girlfriends too happy. I have no idea why the first 20 minutes of the film was about all of that, but they made me watch it, so I mentioned it.
Soon there's the alien invasion, and they use light as a weapon. If you look at it for a second, you're fucked. Oh, and their ability to heal makes Wolverine look like a terminal cancer patient. It's ridiculous.
But not as ridiculous as what they do to us or what happens to Turk's best friend at the end.
Just a completely pointless film.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Both of you could join "It Sucks to be Wrong" club. Spend all day drinking fruit punch and high-fiving each other.
Get t-shirts made with each others' faces.
Is that what they do in that club? See, I don't know because I'm not a member. However, since you do seem to know...
I mean seriously? This movie isn't even at 20% at Rotten Tomatoes in either category.
Look, like I said, the movie has some great effects and I liked the performances of all involved. Hell, I'm a big fan of Chris Turk and Sgt. Bautista, but fuck was that plot stupid.
Spoilers
-How was Turk able to hold Jarred (or whatever his name was) and not have him get taken by the powerful blast or suction that took the other guy?
-Why would someone gain super strength from a light?
-Why would it be activated by rage?
-Should Marvel sue for the blatant Hulk rip off?
-Why didn't the chick get the power? She looked at the light too.
-If you're thinking "She wasn't exposed long enough" then how long does one need to be exposed?
-Why would it give one powers anyway when they're simply taking our brains?
-Oh, and how Matrix was that crap? If human brains run these organic aliens, then how did they ever develop their technology?
-Why was he able to fight the programming at the end?
-Why couldn't anyone else?
-Of the billions of humans on the planet, you know there were others who got "shined", but escaped. If they all eventually got captured, wouldn't they put down the invasion force themselves? Wouldn't they infect the aliens?
-If these aliens did this same thing on other worlds, wouldn't they have noticed this flaw previously? Wouldn't they have fixed it or been beaten by it?
-Those blinds coming down were a big deal yet were back on the windows when Sgt. Bautista was waiting for the big dog to come get him.
-What alien invasion using light as a weapon knocks out power and water? They weren't doing infrastructure damage.
-If the power was out, how were they watching TV? How were the gates and blinds opening?
-What the fuck technology was that TV? It was magic!!!! Did you see how they could watch the action right outside on the TV despite their being no power, and more importantly, nobody left to work news cameras? Or should we assume that was a direct feed from the buildings roof top camera? Or maybe from the telescope which was pointing to the ground, yet there was aerial dogfights on the TV?
-How did these obvious superheroes see miles away to watch and root for that one stealth fighter, and know that he was launching a nuke?
-That was some super quick healing when Sgt. Bautista was looking directly at the nuclear blast...
-So the U.S. Air Force nails this thing with a nuke and it survives. Their next attempt isn't to hit it multiple times, but rather just send a bunch of fighters in? Oh, and three ground troops with rocket launchers and sniper rifles?
-Did you notice after the nuke that the mothership was on fire? Did you notice that the apartment explosion caught dog on fire? Did you notice that these things were organic in nature with some metallic aspects? No way does that mother ship survive that nuke. The heat from that nuke would have burnt away ALL organic material including all the people they already sucked up (which would explain why the girl was almost first in line at the end, and not waiting for her turn for days...). So take away all organic material and the invasion should have ended.
-Also, the mothership and her drones were hanging around at ground zero of a nuclear blast site and they're made of what seemed to be 90% organic material. Hello radiation!!! Those levels would have killed them. And if they have some protection, then why'd the nuke work as well as it did?
End of spoilers
I could go on.
Listen, I was very entertained for the first hour, but I started to get really annoyed after that. Every close call they had was pissing me off more and more until they had their kiss moment, and that's when I turned in a big way on the film. The ending sealed the deal.
That being said, I wholeheartedly recommend this movie to Malcolm just so I can read this curse filled tirade.
FYI: Just did some research and two special effects wizards directed this film. It showed.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
I liked it. I went in expecting, literally, the worst movie ever, as that is how it was described to me, and I didn't think it was that bad.
I like alien invasion movies. I like to see everyday life get interrupted by giant alien vacuum cleaners that suck up screaming, writhing humans by the thousands a mile into the air. I like shit getting blown up by nukes. I don't like pretty, doofus characters, but I got to watch then all get their brains ripped out, every single one of them. And, aliens that somehow require a brain to get plugged into their robotic bodies... that's pretty fucking cool, I don't care who you are.
I thought that was about the only thing they actually bothered to explain. He kept getting slightly zapped several times, so he built up "immunity."
I didn't need anything else to make sense. I liked watching big things blow up or or people sucked into the hands of giant rancor beasts for an hour and twenty. If the FX sucked, it wouldn't have been worth watching.
It wasn't that bad.
I like alien invasion movies. I like to see everyday life get interrupted by giant alien vacuum cleaners that suck up screaming, writhing humans by the thousands a mile into the air. I like shit getting blown up by nukes. I don't like pretty, doofus characters, but I got to watch then all get their brains ripped out, every single one of them. And, aliens that somehow require a brain to get plugged into their robotic bodies... that's pretty fucking cool, I don't care who you are.
-Why was he able to fight the programming at the end?
I thought that was about the only thing they actually bothered to explain. He kept getting slightly zapped several times, so he built up "immunity."
I didn't need anything else to make sense. I liked watching big things blow up or or people sucked into the hands of giant rancor beasts for an hour and twenty. If the FX sucked, it wouldn't have been worth watching.
It wasn't that bad.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
!!SPOILERS!!
The telescope was feeding the TV. That's how they saw stuff. But ya, the power was out, then it was on, then it was out, then on again. They had established that the power was off, but they were going to use the electric scaffolding to get down the building. And it powered up. And they were going to go down the OUTSIDE of the building with all those things flying around. Ummm. Ya.
The blinds would be there, then fall.
My brain, thankfully, is starting to erase much of the movie, so I can't site as many examples as Leisher. But there were so many times I questioned what just happened based on precedents they set earlier. Certain things wouldn't happen, for dramatic affect, then later, they would happen. They contradicted themselves over and over.
And, the red brain. Holy shit. How fucking lame. The movie should have ended with them getting sucked up into the ship. At least then I felt something. We lost. We lost the war. End of mankind. Well that sucks. That was the ONLY way that movie could have ended without me being pissed I watched it. Because like I said, I felt something. Something other than the annoyance I'd felt up to that point. At least they had the balls to end the movie with us losing. But no, they had to give us a red brain. Ok, so, the guy is in control, not the alien. So, send 10 of those after him and take him out. 20. 30. Whatever it takes. He's not going to take on the whole alien race by himself. Oh, wait. In this movie, he totally would. With her riding on his back.
I can accept the light hypnotizing you and then gravity manipulation shit sucking you out the window. I don't have a problem with that like Leisher does. I can even accept him being infected in some way with something making him stronger. I can accept a lot of the shit that happened. It's aliens invading Earth. Different shit can happen. It was the fucking story. The awful, horrible story. The repeated contradictions. The predictability. I wonder if that chick they pick up in the garage was cast as "crewman number 8".
Was that a stealth fighter? I thought it was. But what the fuck? Who could fly like that? No one. You'd pass out. Must have been a stealth drone. But it was still breaking all kinds of laws of physics moving like that.
Not only was he looking at a nuclear blast, but it was through a telescope. Ya. His eye would have been fried.
Nuke the thing, and it survives. Plan B, snipers. heheheheh what the fuck?!?!? Seriously!!
Just a horrible horrible story.
The telescope was feeding the TV. That's how they saw stuff. But ya, the power was out, then it was on, then it was out, then on again. They had established that the power was off, but they were going to use the electric scaffolding to get down the building. And it powered up. And they were going to go down the OUTSIDE of the building with all those things flying around. Ummm. Ya.
The blinds would be there, then fall.
My brain, thankfully, is starting to erase much of the movie, so I can't site as many examples as Leisher. But there were so many times I questioned what just happened based on precedents they set earlier. Certain things wouldn't happen, for dramatic affect, then later, they would happen. They contradicted themselves over and over.
And, the red brain. Holy shit. How fucking lame. The movie should have ended with them getting sucked up into the ship. At least then I felt something. We lost. We lost the war. End of mankind. Well that sucks. That was the ONLY way that movie could have ended without me being pissed I watched it. Because like I said, I felt something. Something other than the annoyance I'd felt up to that point. At least they had the balls to end the movie with us losing. But no, they had to give us a red brain. Ok, so, the guy is in control, not the alien. So, send 10 of those after him and take him out. 20. 30. Whatever it takes. He's not going to take on the whole alien race by himself. Oh, wait. In this movie, he totally would. With her riding on his back.
I can accept the light hypnotizing you and then gravity manipulation shit sucking you out the window. I don't have a problem with that like Leisher does. I can even accept him being infected in some way with something making him stronger. I can accept a lot of the shit that happened. It's aliens invading Earth. Different shit can happen. It was the fucking story. The awful, horrible story. The repeated contradictions. The predictability. I wonder if that chick they pick up in the garage was cast as "crewman number 8".
Was that a stealth fighter? I thought it was. But what the fuck? Who could fly like that? No one. You'd pass out. Must have been a stealth drone. But it was still breaking all kinds of laws of physics moving like that.
Not only was he looking at a nuclear blast, but it was through a telescope. Ya. His eye would have been fried.
Nuke the thing, and it survives. Plan B, snipers. heheheheh what the fuck?!?!? Seriously!!
Just a horrible horrible story.
The sequel nobody wanted.
Well, except Gordon.
Well, except Gordon.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell