Thread: Battle: Los angeles

Originally Posted by ROID

I'm gonna watch this monsters movie on netflix

If its not good you will all get bad reps.

WINNING

it sucked

Originally Posted by Imosted

Monsters

Ask and ye shall recieve. That has irked me for a while now. You are my hero!

Originally Posted by ROID

it sucked

Now I am sad. Nice ride on the rollercoaster.

Mosters does suck.
Few parts where you like here we go !!!!
Nothing......

Stick to what i said as the movie is only a 12.

A 12. The movie is a 12.

26 hours until Movie Time..

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Originally Posted by ROID

26 hours until Movie Time..

WINNING

Sorry Roid, not trying to ruin the ending for you, but we win.

Originally Posted by IronAddict

Sorry Roid, not trying to ruin the ending for you, but we win.

I dont care as long as there is an ending.

Movies have no ending these days, they just stop in the middle.

21 hours and 30 minutes.

5 hours...

I would straight fuck an alien up

karate chop judo kick ching chon.

for the next month I will be day dreaming of how I will save the world when aliens attack.

Winning!

Originally Posted by Jodi

I absolutely refuse to see a movie with the shaky camera. Drives me absolutely fucking insane. I know blair witch was one of the movies that started that but even that movie drove me nuts because of the camera. I also know that reality TV has taken over the world but come on now, I do not need to watch everything from a 1st person POV. When I go spend 14 bucks to see a movie, I do not want it to appear like something I could have done in my own backyard with a damn camcorder.

Make a scary movie and I will watch it. My Betamax is waiting for you

Originally Posted by juggernaut

Make a scary movie and I will watch it. My Betamax is waiting for you

I wpou;d neg you for the beta maxcomment I had one when i was a kid
i wanted one that format last about 2 years

hmm......

Best line in the movie..


"I'm a veterinarian"

Just in case the next sentence doesn't make it clear: THERE ARE SOME SPOILERS HERE.

I just got back from watching it and here's the run down:

The good:

• Plenty of solid action.
• Realistic soldiers.
• Great special effects.
• As far as a movie with aliens go, it's pretty realistic. The aliens weren't invincible, just hard to kill. They weren't mindless killing machines, either. They pulled their fallen comrades to safety and retreated when necessary.
• It was cool to see the war raging in Los Angeles instead of a third-world country that I care less about than what I leave in the toilet.

The bad:

• The trailer lied. 98% of the movie is shaky-cam.
• The cuts happen way too often. The average shot time couldn't have been more than 5 seconds.
• Too many tight shots. Most of the action shots were from a perspective of maybe 10 feet away. You miss so much.
• Fuck you Saving Private Ryan! That was a very successful movie that, unfortunately, made every director in Hollywood think you have to shoot every military movie just like it, outlined in the previous three points.
• The audio blows. The foley artist should have been fired. There are way too many shots where you couldn't hear the dialog above the environmental noise.
• Cliché-or-rama. There were several clichés. The worst of which is the "We can't remotely detonate the explosives that we just planted!" That has to be one of the top three clichés. Not only that, but they did the "I'm mortally wounded, so I'll blow myself up to save you!" easy out. Talk about lazy writing.
• Not enough aliens (Ha! Bet you never thought you'd hear me say that!). There isn't one close shot of any moving alien, only the dead ones. Even then, it's usually done in poor lighting. Only long shots or right-up-the-anus shots that only last 1 to 2 seconds.
• Way too many soldiers die. Yeah, it's a war movie, but when so many die so early in the movie, it loses its punch and becomes annoying.
• The pacing was somewhat bad. It tented to stutter, making the movie drag on and feel awkward at times.

The short version: catch it at manatee if nothing else is playing or catch it on video.

good review. i saw it this afternoon and wasnt really impressed. it was good, but like you said there was a lot to be desired. also they didnt seem very advanced.. i mean they were using bullets, rockets, and the thrusters on their jets were just odd

Good review Doms. How the fock do they make a movie about space invading aliens and make it PG-13. Once I see the PG-13 rating it loses all most all theater consideration.

it really wasn't that great.

I don't expect much from Hollywood anymore.

Maybe The Lincoln Lawyer will be good. Comes out next week.

Originally Posted by PreMier

good review. i saw it this afternoon and wasnt really impressed. it was good, but like you said there was a lot to be desired. also they didnt seem very advanced.. i mean they were using bullets, rockets, and the thrusters on their jets were just odd

Actually, the alien's guns fired some sort of napalm-like substance. Everyone that got hit with it suffered immediate third-degree burns.

I was more bothered by their tactics. At times, they laid down great ambushes. Other times they just walked down the street, not even bothering with cover when they were shot at.

It's an incendiary round. They still seemed to be using bullets though

Originally Posted by PreMier

It's an incendiary round. They still seemed to be using bullets though

well its hard to say what aliens will use ?
Plasma rounds ?


Just watched the movie.
Nothing Great.
100 times better than skyline.

Just downloaded and watch it.

It was great