Author Topic: Battle: Los Angeles (2011) (Read 3363 times)

Guru Zeb · « **Reply #20 on:** January 26, 2011, 04:03:57 PM »

I know this is an old post ....... The reason am resurrecting it is that i visited the youtube vid this afternoon.
And was amazed at how many new world order/alien autopsy/area 51 alien garage/end time conditioning/etc, conspiracy nut jobs have for some reason latched onto this movie.
Their are many comments along those kind of lines and whether you believe nonsense like that or not, some of it is fuckin' hilarious

Re-check it out if you want a laugh

Ixarku · « **Reply #21 on:** March 11, 2011, 05:38:28 PM »

Curious if anyone has seen this yet. Judging from the reviews, it sounds like it's going to be a 'pass' in my book. Or possibly a 'watch it when it comes on cable or when my roommate Netflixes it.'

Scudworth · « **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2011, 06:57:07 PM »

Things go BOOM!

America loves movies like that.

Takeshi · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2011, 06:58:37 PM »

Quote from: Ixarku on March 11, 2011, 05:38:28 PM

Curious if anyone has seen this yet. Judging from the reviews, it sounds like it's going to be a 'pass' in my book. Or possibly a 'watch it when it comes on cable or when my roommate Netflixes it.'

IGN reviewed it: http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/03/10/battle-los-angeles-video-review

Ixarku · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2011, 09:03:26 PM »

IGN's review is somewhat more forgiving than some of the other reviews I've read today. I think I'd rather spend my money on beer.

Scudworth · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2011, 03:36:38 AM »

I actually just saw it. more or less at gunpoint against my will.
It wasn't bad. not great but nothing particularly wrong with it. I could nit pick, but I don't want to right now.

Ixarku · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2011, 12:30:11 PM »

One of my friends wants to see it tonight, but I convinced him that we should go see The Adjustment Bureau instead.

rostheferret · « **Reply #27 on:** March 13, 2011, 08:24:00 AM »

My friends wanted to see it so I went along. Add another six people who all thought it sucked ass, and these guys aren't exactly the biggest film buffs either, and yeah. It was pretty fucking awful.

mgz · « **Reply #28 on:** March 13, 2011, 09:07:45 AM »

i heard it was garbage with tons of shaky cam

rostheferret · « **Reply #29 on:** March 13, 2011, 10:22:56 AM »

Quote from: mgz on March 13, 2011, 09:07:45 AM

i heard it was garbage with tons of shaky cam

The shaky cam didn't bother me so much as the editing. One guy dies a heroic death but we never see him get shot (and its a 12A so you don't really see where he got injured either), many others randomly disappear - I assume died - and one dude gets shot in the side of the head, is clearly injured, and then the next time we see him they've bandaged up his eyes. One scene looked like two of the marines were about to make out and there was a solid 5 minutes of crying children interspersed through the first half of the film (ever been stuck behind a kid bawling his eyes out on a plane? My point exactly). The explanation for the invasion is vague and moronic at best, most of the times we see the aliens is through a dirty rifle scope, but thats fine cos the aliens aren't much to look at anyway. We get a dissection scene that looked like it was stolen from an 80s B-Movie. The CGI work on the ships looked a little cheap - nothing too dire - but their design was the main problem; lots of bits of debris that didn't seem to do anything. The only thing that was done well was the set design. The overhead shots of the destroyed city were quite impressive and clearly thats where all the money had gone, but the rest of the film was pretty atrocious.

I wrote a full review here.

xxSMiLEnOwx · « **Reply #30 on:** March 16, 2011, 02:41:52 AM »

I loved this movie, it got me all hyped up and shouting, "Yeaaahh!!! *clap clap*" everytime a soldier kills one of those weapon-attached aliens

D3vin · « **Reply #31 on:** March 19, 2011, 01:03:45 AM »

I liked the movie pretty much. Has some sad scenes, and one Asian dude in it (although he fell off the f*$^ing bridge....) And pretty cool action scenes I guess.

harpy · « **Reply #32 on:** March 22, 2011, 09:54:41 PM »

I hope this one is better then Skyline...
Skyline did have really nice looking monsters, but the script and so on was horrible. Kept on watching in hope of seeing more of the monster action

And I do like this kind of no-brain movies...
I really liked last year movie Monsters...

Takeshi · « **Reply #33 on:** April 16, 2011, 05:23:24 PM »

Watching this now, and wow, it's boring. I've only seen one hour and 11 minutes, but yet it feels like 3 hours. It's better than Skyline with its more likeable characters and a better script that doesn't make you facepalm yourself all the time, but 2 hours is way too long for this kind of movie. Less action scenes and more character interaction, that would've suited it way better. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for no-brainer action at the moment.

And Hollywood actors like Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez makes it look a bit more pretty, but Aaron is the only one who has lines that actually makes me interesting. I don't know what went through the people behind this movie's heads when they decided to cast Michelle only to not use her at all. The other actors are doing good with what they have available.

Skip both Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles; there's better things to waste your time on.

I must admit, this movie did flare a bit of interest in installing Crysis 2 again, and shooting up some aliens.

EDIT: Okay, must admit that it redeems itself a bit in the last half an hour.

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froody1911 · « **Reply #34 on:** April 17, 2011, 11:55:12 AM »

Watched this yesterday. It was meh. Not remotely as bad as Skyline though. Final battle was good.
Throughout the movie, I had the feeling that I was watching Black Hawk Down but with aliens.

moonlight · « **Reply #35 on:** April 17, 2011, 12:04:32 PM »

Also seen the movie recently... is it just me or is this movie an exact copy of Independence Day?

Aliens attack, humans (only the US) fight back, "US discovers a way to defeat aliens", world is saved!

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PS. Battle Los Angeles was a complete waste of time watching it -_-

alcoholmage · « **Reply #36 on:** April 17, 2011, 05:57:45 PM »

I reckon it was pretty hectic. But The A-Team wins over Battle: Los Angeles anyday

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Also it had Ne-yo in it

DarkT · « **Reply #37 on:** April 23, 2011, 05:23:28 PM »

Watched it, was super boring.

*does not recommend*

AceHigh · « **Reply #38 on:** April 23, 2011, 05:47:54 PM »

Quote from: DarkT on April 23, 2011, 05:23:28 PM

Watched it, was super boring.

*does not recommend*

Oh my god! Get on agent now, bitch!

On topic:
Watched it, although it was fun seeing USA being devastated and bunch of Americans killed, it got boring really quickly. Do not recommend.

DarkT · « **Reply #39 on:** April 23, 2011, 06:19:58 PM »

AGENT! Pha! that thing is still alive? Shit... Tidan! lol... omg... msg me a link or something, I hazn't gots it.

On Topic: I support what AceHigh wrote

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