ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
So I'm halfway through the movie and it's definitely not what I was expecting. Seems low budget, but it's seems decent so far.
Anyone seen Skyline?
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Skyline coast $10 million, which I guess is "low budget" in the world of Hollywood blockbusters (I heard it cost somewhere around $40 million to market), but most of that went to the visual effects. I've not seen the film myself, but everything I've heard form friends who did makes it sound absolutely moronic. The most entertaining part of that was discovering that the brothers who made the movie didn't have filming permits for anywhere except in the building of the penthouse that they themselves own...so that's where all the action (that isn't purely a visual effect superimposed on stock footage) in the movie takes place. Apparently they used their own cars, apartments and pretty much everything else making it.
Skyline coast $10 million, which I guess is "low budget" in the world of Hollywood blockbusters (I heard it cost somewhere around $40 million to market), but most of that went to the visual effects. I've not seen the film myself, but everything I've heard form friends who did makes it sound absolutely moronic. The most entertaining part of that was discovering that the brothers who made the movie didn't have filming permits for anywhere except in the building of the penthouse that they themselves own...so that's where all the action (that isn't purely a visual effect superimposed on stock footage) in the movie takes place. Apparently they used their own cars, apartments and pretty much everything else making it.
This kind of low budget "guerrilla" film making approach actually makes the movie quite appealing to me, perhaps an antithesis to sometimes over glossy, "by the numbers" Hollywood fodder.
On the other hand, it may well be utter shite, but I'm at least intrigued - the marketing has worked to that extent!
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
I saw it.
Some if looked good, but it was dissatisfying overall.
It would be a neat idea to graft the UFO scenes onto the other POS Independence Day and then maybe we'd get an average movie out of the mix.
Some if looked good, but it was dissatisfying overall.
It would be a neat idea to graft the UFO scenes onto the other POS Independence Day and then maybe we'd get an average movie out of the mix.
Independence Day is waaaaay better than Skyline.
People love to knock that movie, but other than the stupid "virus" bit, it's really one of the better action/invasion movies out there. It's fun to watch.
Skyline was more like a low-budget special effects reel. Non existant characters I didn't care for, non-existent plot, and it always felt limited in scope.
People love to knock that movie, but other than the stupid "virus" bit, it's really one of the better action/invasion movies out there. It's fun to watch.
Skyline was more like a low-budget special effects reel. Non existant characters I didn't care for, non-existent plot, and it always felt limited in scope.
I thought Skyline was a rather average film. While it's impressive they achieved what they did on such a relatively low budget, the film was rather bland with the most stupid motivation for an invasion since the retarded water-allergic aliens invaded a H2O abundant planet in Signs.
Skyline is total ass to the extent that I've tried to blank it from memory.
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Stone_Cold_Sisko
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It's really really bad. Terrible dialogue, terrible acting, terrible characterization.
Cool effects.
Other than the effects, all the creative craft elements (dialogue, pacing, characterization, etc) are total amateur hour. This is an issue of talent. You don't need 50 million to write decent characters or dialogue. We slag on movies like Transformers, but a movie like Skyline goes to show you that even dumb studio movies like Transformers do have a baseline of professional quality (of course they also have 100 mil to spend). Skyline is a bad SyFy original movie, or direct to video movie, which somehow stumbled into a large effects budget.
Cool effects.
Other than the effects, all the creative craft elements (dialogue, pacing, characterization, etc) are total amateur hour. This is an issue of talent. You don't need 50 million to write decent characters or dialogue. We slag on movies like Transformers, but a movie like Skyline goes to show you that even dumb studio movies like Transformers do have a baseline of professional quality (of course they also have 100 mil to spend). Skyline is a bad SyFy original movie, or direct to video movie, which somehow stumbled into a large effects budget.
There is no "somehow" about it, Sony is pissed at the production company because (I think) they believe they resources from the work they did for them on the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles were used for Skyline. They neglected to tell Sony they were working on this in-house movie while they were working for them.
You're posting while watching a movie in the theater? What a considerate fellow you are.
You're posting while watching a movie in the theater? What a considerate fellow you are.
My thinking as well.
I think it's more likely he is posting while watching a R5 or a TS.
You're posting while watching a movie in the theater? What a considerate fellow you are.
My thinking as well.
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