Originally posted by marwash22
Sound interesting. The description immediately reminded me of "Children of Men" for some reason.if you were an alien looking to wreck shit or take over, would you....
A). land in America, the place with the largest, most advanced military force and also has ties to every other super power on Earth that matters.
or
B). land in Antarctica.
But thats a bit of a logic fail because if you were an invading force you wouldn't necessarily go for the largest, most advanced military force because you could be very well be beaten early, which is why most Alien invaders in films fail.
Surely you would attack the weakest links on the Earth first then surround the major powers and then seek to fully take over. If you do it that way you are then stretching say, America's forces as they come out to get you.
I've heard the movie is a bit of a let down from people who have seen advanced screenings.
That said, the trailers are excellent. The tone actually reminds me of the Half Life games - very bleak and despairing. I have a feeling that the actual movie won't even attempt to have such a tone about it, though.
It's rare to find a genre classic that gets released in March - The Matrix & V For Vendetta are the exceptions. Even though this period has become fertile box office ground the past decade, we'll see if this is different enough to grab attention from Sucker Punch and the rest. Right now, it looks like District 9/Black Hawk Down/War Of The Worlds all rolled together.
Originally posted by roughrider
Right now, it looks like District 9/Black Hawk Down/War Of The Worlds all rolled together.
The comparison to District 9 is one based on respect. The writer went to the same film school/class as the guy who did the original short movie that District 9 (the feature length) was based on.
Ideas & concepts were mutually shared, especially when it came to the cgi programmes used.
Overall it was... entertaining. Imo,
Pros:
- The fights scenes and I guess just the movie in general, was all choreographed very, very well. The firefights were intense and felt chaotic, and they did a good job of balancing it so that while it was fun to watch, it did not look at all fun for the people actually fighting.
- The CGI was pretty good, especially for only 100 million.
- Michelle Rodriguez was neither irritating, nor did she give off a lesbian vibe. Always a +.
Cons: Everything else. 😐
Cardinal Sin:
Spoiler:
The alien force is quite possibly the most pathetic alien invasion force I have ever seen in a movie. They use machine guns? Really? Unmanned drones that can be taken out by a single RPG? The command and control center no match for a single artillery round? Once I saw that scene where the rookie was cut off from squad and scared shitless, spilling soap detergent all over himself, and he still managed to kill the alien that had gotten the drop on him, I thought to myself: "There's no way in hell these guys can defeat the US military. Maybe Canada, or some pussy country like Sweden. Not the US though."
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Overall it was... entertaining. Imo,Pros:
- The fights scenes and I guess just the movie in general, was all choreographed very, very well. The firefights were intense and felt chaotic, and they did a good job of balancing it so that while it was fun to watch, it did not look at all fun for the people actually fighting.
- The CGI was pretty good, especially for only 100 million.
- Michelle Rodriguez was neither irritating, nor did she give off a lesbian vibe. Always a +.
Cons: Everything else. 😐
Cardinal Sin:
Spoiler:
The alien force is quite possibly the most pathetic alien invasion force I have ever seen in a movie. They use machine guns? Really? Unmanned drones that can be taken out by a single RPG? The command and control center no match for a single artillery round? Once I saw that scene where the rookie was cut off from squad and scared shitless, spilling soap detergent all over himself, and he still managed to kill the alien that had gotten the drop on him, I thought to myself: "There's no way in hell these guys can defeat the US military. Maybe Canada, or some pussy country like Sweden. Not the US though."
Spoiler:
The rookie didn't kill it though, he put it down long enough for 3 other Marines to come and help him fill it full of lead, then drop a grenade on it. Anyway, the aliens were kicking the armies ass, they managed to take down one central ship compared to how many casualties worldwide?