battlefield los angels who's gona go see it ?

[Jetfire]

Re: BATTLE: LOS ANGELES(Film 2011) Grade/Discuss

For some reason parts of the trailer remind me of the Michael Bay Transformers movies.

 

[Ethros]

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Oh thank god, if I had to read "battlefield los angels" one more time I might just cry.

So as I said in that thread, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, a great piece of action packed fun.

Again, I don't care what reviewers say anymore. Though I haven't read any I've seen some other posters on here saying its been getting really bad reviews. I've honestly no idea why. Yeah it's no Citizen Kane, but then why would anyone walk into a cinema to watch a movie called "Battle: Los Angeles" which surely they would know is about a bunch of army guys fighting invading aliens be expecting some form of high art??
They make me laugh. I've seen plenty of bad films, and this isn't one of them

For some reason parts of the trailer remind me of the Michael Bay Transformers movies.

Yeah I suppose some of the battle scenes are reminiscent of that

Spoiler: Plot spoilers

Especially the bit near the end with them poiting the lasers at the target. I suppose that's a military procedure, I'm no expert, but it did make me think of when they do a similar thing at the end of Transformers 1

 

[Gaith]

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In the most positive review on Metacritic so far, Mick Lasalle, the SF Chronicle critic, gets off a great line:

These have to be the politest, cleanest-talking Marines ever. They don't even curse at the aliens. They want to take back Los Angeles while avoiding an R rating.

 

[The Wormhole]

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^^Not all Marines are like the gang we saw in Aliens. I saw nothing unlrealistic about the Marines in Battle LA.

 

[Trekker4747]

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Like I said in the other thread, Skyline left me very jaded on this genre of movie. I'll probably catch this movie on Netflix when it's released for download.

 

[Dac]

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Like I said in the other thread, Skyline left me very jaded on this genre of movie. I'll probably catch this movie on Netflix when it's released for download.

That's a bit of a weird attitude. Its like saying Batman and Robin automatically makes The Dark Knight a bad movie.

 

[DarKush]

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I liked it. It had some hard hitting action and the characters were likable enough. It's not as epic as Independence Day but I liked it a lot better than Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds. Didn't quite care for the way the aliens or their ships looked, though at least it looked different.

For some reason, throughout it, I just thought Aaron Eckhardt would've made a kickass Captain Archer on ENT. Maybe it was the haircut.

I rate it good.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

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At Dac

No he's right. Watch Skyline and you'll definitely see what he means.

 

[Trekker4747]

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Like I said in the other thread, Skyline left me very jaded on this genre of movie. I'll probably catch this movie on Netflix when it's released for download.

That's a bit of a weird attitude. Its like saying Batman and Robin automatically makes The Dark Knight a bad movie.

Yeah, I admit it's an odd connection to draw but what I saw of the trailers to B:LA it just made me think of Skyline for some reason. I'm sure the movies aren't alike in anyway but the reviews of this one aren't exactly great so it doesn't seem to me this is a movie I'm needing to see. I'd much rather go see The Adjustment Bureau which I've been meaning to see.

But, think of it this way. Imagine after "Batman and Robin" just, like, a few months later another live-action Batman movie came out or pretty much any other superhero movie you'd probably suspect the entire genre had gone to campy nonsense. (I'm straining to remember, but I seem to think Batman and Robin was one of the last superhero movies to come out until Spider-man pretty much pumped new life into the genre several years later.)

Just what I've seen from the trailers isn't motivating me to go see this one. I'll buy it on DVD if a Rifftrax is done on it otherwise I'll get it when it becomes available on Netflix's streaming service over the PS3.

Since I've not seen it linked yet here's Ebert's review:

LINK

"Battle: Los Angeles" is noisy, violent, ugly and stupid. Its manufacture is a reflection of appalling cynicism on the part of its makers, who don't even try to make it more than senseless chaos. Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them. You want to cut it up to clean under your fingernails. ...

 

[The Wormhole]

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Like I said in the other thread, Skyline left me very jaded on this genre of movie. I'll probably catch this movie on Netflix when it's released for download.

Skyline left a bad taste in my mouth too. But trust me, Battle LA is actually a good movie, and far better than Skyline in all imaginable respects.

 

[JacksonArcher]

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Blade sort of revitalized the genre after Batman & Robin, but it wasn't until Bryan Singer's X-Men that comic-book movies proved to be a worthy commodity again. Then came Spider-Man in 2002 but Blade and X-Men paved the way.

 

[Trekker4747]

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Blade sort of revitalized the genre after Batman & Robin, but it wasn't until Bryan Singer's X-Men that comic-book movies proved to be a worthy commodity again. Then came Spider-Man in 2002 but Blade and X-Men paved the way.

I'd argue X-Men probably did in a bigger way as the general public probably didn't realize Blade was a comic-book movie considering it's not a "main-stream" one.

Wormhole, I'll probably check this movie out, as I said, sooner or later but not much is motivating me to go see it in theaters. My buddy and I usually go see a movie on Saturday nights if something good is out, I think right now we're planning on watching Birdemic with the Rifftrax this weekend but it's possible we'll go see this one or Adjustment.

 

[JacksonArcher]

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Blade sort of revitalized the genre after Batman & Robin, but it wasn't until Bryan Singer's X-Men that comic-book movies proved to be a worthy commodity again. Then came Spider-Man in 2002 but Blade and X-Men paved the way.

I'd argue X-Men probably did in a bigger way as the general public probably didn't realize Blade was a comic-book movie considering it's not a "main-stream" one.

True. X-Men really did open doors for comic-book movies to be accepted by a mainstream general audience. BTW, I really want to see The Adjustment Bureau as well.

 

[Vonstadt]

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I just saw it and it did everything a movie like this was supposed to do, entertain and hold my attention til the end

It had some really good moments and some nice nods to things done by real troops in past battles in real life. In fact some of the stuff some folks have said that seemed over the top have been done by our troops in Somalia and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Without giving away spoilers one 'its just us' situation seemed very similar to what Delta snipers Shugart and Gordan did in real life to secure a downed Blackhawk seemed to make some folks in the theater groan...but all I could think of was that is a marine/soldier's job...they just do it because it needs to get done.

Overall I think it was a very well done 'What If" and nice bit of escapist fun.

 

[Vonstadt]

Okay, I read the NY Daily News review of it. Zero Stars.

And I see people in this thread dissing it for the same BS, "Film School" reasons.

Admiral2 says: I don't give a crap if it doesn't have mythos, pathos, Porthos or D'Artangan or whatever literary buzzword its supposed to have.

I don't care if some failed director stuck teaching directing in community college would give it an "F".

I don't care if it sweeps the next Razzies.

I went into this looking to see me some US Marines killin' fukking aliens.

I paid my money and saw me some US Marines killin' fukkin' aliens.

I'm good.

A++

I give this review a Ooo Ahh! and A++

the film I gave an A+ that is exactly what I went in to see and that is exactly what I paid money to see and that is exactly what the film gave me.

I had fun...I enjoyed it and you know what the film delivered.

lol as for the background complaints and the mythos..Anyone expecting the US military to know the reasons behind a random alien invasion, they had no clue was coming in the first 24 to 36 hrs of it (Which is what this film covers)...needs their head examined.

Vons

 

[RoJoHen]

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That was a pretty kickass movie, I must say. The characters were just likable enough to care about, but they were also forgettable enough to be expendable. The action was great. I loved the incorporation of the civilians for the middle of the movie.

It's one of those movies that makes me feel guilty for not serving in the military. I started feeling all patriotic and wanted to help fight the fight!

 

[Lookingglassman]

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Great movie! Just got back from it and I have no complaints. It is obvious the military helped out with this movie and that is a good thing. I hate seeing movies that pretend to be modern, but are using outdated military equipment that is no longer in use.

My only complaint was the theater I was in had the sound cranked up too loud. I left there with a splitting headache.

 

[SG-17]

One last thought, does Aaron Eckhart remind anyone else of Scott Bakula? Maybe it's just me, but several times I had to do a double take because something about Eckhart's appearance reminded me of Bakula.

YES. I was distracted half of the movie because I kept thinking to myself, where the hell do I know this actor from? I kept thinking Star Trek: Enterprise despite me knowing it wasn't, then I finally thought of it; The Core. I didn't even think of The Dark Knight until my friend mentioned Two-Face.


I enjoyed it. It felt a bit long though and the ending action and dialog reminded me so much of Independence Day. Still I got what I paid for, a great military science fiction action film.

 

[tauntme]

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5/5

It's always nice to see a well made sci-fi/action flick set in the present.

And who doesn't like the US military kicking ass, or having it's ass handed to them.

A friend of mine told me that he half expected a USMC tent outside the theater for anyone who wanted to enlist. I found that hilarious because it's so true.

"Marines don't quit"

 

[SG-17]

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I enjoyed it. It felt a bit long though and the ending action and dialog reminded me so much of Independence Day. Still I got what I paid for, a great military science fiction action film.