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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Scudworth:
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:
One of my friends wants to see it tonight, but I convinced him that we should go see The Adjustment Bureau instead.
rostheferret:
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:
i heard it was garbage with tons of shaky cam
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: mgz on March 13, 2011, 09:07:45 AM ---i heard it was garbage with tons of shaky cam
--- End quote ---
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.
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