Battle: Los Angeles

[Feuer Frei!]

Anyone seen this?
It's copped a roasting by a lot of people.
Don't think i'll go and see it.

[the_tyrant]

I saw this at the theater at universal studios(mind you the tickets were hard to get)
It wasn't that good, if you like special effects, go see it
Otherwise, its independence day, without Will Smith, with marines this time

[Feuer Frei!]

$70 mill. budget.

Some reviews:

Neil Smith of Total Film magazine rated the film as 3 stars out of 5 and summarized "Imagine Black Hawk Down with ET's instead of Somalis () and you'll have the measure of an explosive if functional actioner that will do while we're waiting for summer's big guns to arrive".

Kim Newman of Empire rated the film 2 stars out of 5 and criticized its lack of originality. Nigel Floyd of Time Out rated the film 2 stars saying that it "..lumbers the flat military characters with hackneyed dialogue and corny sentimentality".


Roger Ebert panned the film, giving it half of one star, heavily criticizing the writing, effects designs, camerawork and editing, stating "Generations of filmmakers devoted their lives to perfecting techniques that a director like Jonathan Liebesman is either ignorant of, or indifferent to. Yet he is given millions of dollars to produce this assault on the attention span of a generation." Adding, "You gotta see the alien battleships in this movie. They seem to have been assembled by the proverbial tornado blowing through a junkyard."

Looks like another big budget special effects show-off, and nothing else.
Shame, the premise sounded good, even though not original.

Edit: I can hack movies without Will Smith

[kiwi_2005]

damn I was looking forward to seeing this.

Well hopefully the movie Priest will turn out better.

Priest due out May 2011 - an uber Priest warrior in a futuristic world fights the vampires!.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Well hopefully the movie Priest will turn out better.
Priest due out May 2011 - an uber Priest warrior in a futuristic world fights the vampires!.

Hmm, that looks alright.
Mind you though, they always show the best bits in trailers, wonder what the rest of the movie is like
I've been sucked in like that before, watching a trailer then the movie.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Hmm, that looks alright.
Mind you though, they always show the best bits in trailers, wonder what the rest of the movie is like
I've been sucked in like that before, watching a trailer then the movie.

one reason I want to see Priest is the main actor Paul Bettany if anyone is to play a priest warrior from the future hes it. Paul was also in films 'Legion' and Da Vinci code playing parts to do with religion suits him imo. He's been in plenty of films but he stands out best playing as a god-fearing-crazy-man.