Battle: Los Angeles

[DarKJediKnight]

I should've watched this at home. I want to throw up when I walk out of the theater, the shaky camera's made me dizzy... but no, I don't wanna criticize the film against what I've experienced, cause I believe that the film is a great action film. I've seen the Bourne Trilogy and Cloverfield at home and I didn't experienced dizzines with it's shaky cam shots... so maybe the atmosphere is different when I'm at home and when I'm watching shaky cam films at the theater.

 

[Crockett]

I've seen movies with shaky handheld cam shots before Battle: Los Angeles and yet I felt a bit dizzy for a while there during the movie. Overall it was okay, I pretty much just expected good action from the movie and it pretty much delivered that.

 

[Kane52630]

pffft, you guys are weak.

 

[FCEEVIPER]

Very.

 

[Crockett]

That's ********.

 

[Master Chief]

It made me want to watch Black Hawk Down again the whole entire time lol.

 

[TheVileOne]

The other thing is that that they ripped a whole character beat straight from BHD. Guy putting dog tags in his boot so he can be identified = BHD moment where guy like tapes his blood type or whatever to his uniform.

Anyway, I still enjoyed the movie. It was an entertaining popcorn matinee. Had a few good lines and it wasn't like horrendously bad. I felt it kept on the line just enough without going overboard. I think it could've done a few things better but overall I liked it. I think it picked a good period to come out before the summer bloodbath. It definitely would've been lost in the shuffle like REIGN OF FIRE over the summer.

 

[The Navigator]

The other thing is that that they ripped a whole character beat straight from BHD. Guy putting dog tags in his boot so he can be identified = BHD moment where guy like tapes his blood type or whatever to his uniform.

Anyway, I still enjoyed the movie. It was an entertaining popcorn matinee. Had a few good lines and it wasn't like horrendously bad. I felt it kept on the line just enough without going overboard. I think it could've done a few things better but overall I liked it. I think it picked a good period to come out before the summer bloodbath. It definitely would've been lost in the shuffle like REIGN OF FIRE over the summer.

Anybody else watch the end of that bus scene and think:

Spoiler

"You always were an a$$hole, Gorman"?

 

[CelticPredator]

Kinda. I did give me that throwback to Aliens.

 

[BrollySupersj]

I saw this flick three times, and loved it more with each viewing.

No regrets.

 

[Kane52630]

Watched it again and I thought it was better the second time around.

 

[superkong 500]

Just saw this movie I though it was prettty good. It was just what I expected, some of the dialogue was horrible, but there were some decent lines as well. The acting wasn't bad though specially Eckhart as sargent nantz. My only complain(it just a nitpick) is that we never got a closer look at the leader alien(the one with the long tentacles or whatever those things were) the one that looked like it was floating around. The action was very intense and the visual Fx were good. I hope Liebesman continues to do movies like this and doesn't go back to doing movies like darknness falls.

 

[Donut]

Sony's Battle: Los Angeles dropped a big 60% its second weekend and down to third place. The $70 million sci-fi action film added $14.6 million for a total of $60.6 million

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75411#ixzz1HC3thlrP

 

[Fanticon]

well it's at least on its way to break even i suppose.

 

[BrollySupersj]

Just wanted to share an observation I made during my third viewing. During one of the news reports talking about the meteor shower, they show in image taken from a telescope. The date of the image shows April 2011, when the meteors first showed up in our solar system. The previous image before that one, shows the same date, but with nothing there.

IMO, it seems that MAYBE the aliens came out of warp drive, and then cruised at interplanetary speeds to Earth.

 

[Lone]

Blackhawk Down+District 9....I liked it. I do feel a bit misled by the trailer though. I was expecting [blackout]ID4 style air battles[/blackout] and such.

 

[Wolfwood]

Sony's Battle: Los Angeles dropped a big 60% its second weekend and down to third place. The $70 million sci-fi action film added $14.6 million for a total of $60.6 million

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75411#ixzz1HC3thlrP

Pretty decent. If you count worldwide gross then it has already broken even. I think it'll do pretty well on DVD too.

 

[GhostPoet]

As an alien invasion flick. I felt Skyline was VASTLY better.

As a war flick....Battle was decent.

 

[Wolfwood]

I haven't seen Skyline yet, but the fact that both movies were critically panned and yet more people are supportive of Battle: LA seems pretty telling.

 

[Kane52630]

Skyline was garbage compared to this.

 

[GhostPoet]

My thing about Battle was that it tried so hard to take itself series and it just came off as laughable. It's hard to take a film serious that's trying to be serious...while it's using every cliche possible.

 

[GhostPoet]

My thing about Battle was that it tried so hard to take itself series and it just came off as laughable. It's hard to take a film serious that's trying to be serious...while it's using every cliche possible.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

take itself series?

You mean serious?

 

[Dark Victory]

take itself series?

You mean serious?

Condescending pseudo-intellectual posts piss me off to no end. I doubt your knowledge of English rhetoric is far greater than GhostPoet's. Stuff like this only adds detriment to someone's perception of you.

 

[Arc-Light]

Condescending pseudo-intellectual posts piss me off to no end. I doubt your knowledge of English rhetoric is far greater than GhostPoet's. Stuff like this only adds detriment to someone's perception of you.

Just like GhostPoet with his view of B:LA, you seem to be off with your assumptions..