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Carl Eyesnheart		#41	[-]
Mar 30 11 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm just becoming very disheartened bhy the fact that I have been REALLY enjoying movies that get TERRIBLE reviews and that I can honestly say I hated 2001. I also wasn't overly blown away by CITIZEN KANE. I would probably be thrown out of every film school in the world! LOL! My fanzine all about Rock N Roll: www.sonicruin.com
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RGNY		#42	[-]
Mar 30 11 6:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	there we agree. i've found Citizen Kane terribly overblown. i know it regularly gets "best picture ever" awards, but i'll take Casablanca any day. of course i get shouted down in my geek circle for -loving- Dune. so be it. ultimately you like what you like. i'm a coffee and beer snob/geek and while we all argue about what is "the best", in the end it comes down to what does it for you.... enjoy.
Heathenson		#43	[-]
Apr 3 11 5:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I got bored of it about half an hour in and it never regained my interest.
Godziwolf		#44	[-]
Apr 4 12 2:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Badfinger wrote: SKYLINE makes CLOVERFIELD look like CITIZEN KANE. I think it's more: Skyline is to Independence Day what Escape from Los Angeles was to Escape from New York. I also don't think I've seen a movie before where I hated all of the characters before I got 5 minutes into the film. Thank God David Zayas makes a later appearance or would have had to root for the aliens. Or failing that, germs.
Carl Eyesnheart		#45	[-]
Apr 4 12 3:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know, I think if one were to somehow combine Independence Day and Skyline, there would be a great film. As is, there are two exceedingly mediocre films that neither one actually delivers on certain key elements. Skyline was missing the likable characters, and Independence Day was missing the aliens. How a film can be about an alien invasion, and actually show nothing of the aliens (except for two, maybe three, very "blah" scenes) is unforgiveable. Pitting the two against each other, I will take WAR OF THE WORLDS (both the original and the Speilberg) and possibly BATTLE: LOS ANGELES any day of the week. My fanzine all about Rock N Roll: www.sonicruin.com
Godziwolf		#46	[-]
Apr 4 12 5:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Carl Eyesnheart wrote: I don't know, I think if one were to somehow combine Independence Day and Skyline, there would be a great film. As is, there are two exceedingly mediocre films that neither one actually delivers on certain key elements. Skyline was missing the likable characters, and Independence Day was missing the aliens. How a film can be about an alien invasion, and actually show nothing of the aliens (except for two, maybe three, very "blah" scenes) is unforgiveable. Pitting the two against each other, I will take WAR OF THE WORLDS (both the original and the Speilberg) and possibly BATTLE: LOS ANGELES any day of the week. I thought Spielberg's stunk on ice, and frankly, Dakota Fanning still deserves a punch in the mouth for that performance. I preferred Skyline to the new WotW, largely because it didn't have an infantilized teenager screeching for the entire run time. And it lacked the ridiculous explanation for how the aliens got to Earth. I see your point, though. If you swap Skyline's more personal aliens into Independence Day's character set, you probably have a better movie. That said, Skyline apes ID4 something fierce.
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Carl Eyesnheart		#47	[-]
Apr 4 12 5:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That said, all alien invasion movies ape H.G. Wells something fierce. :O) My fanzine all about Rock N Roll: www.sonicruin.com
Dudley Manlove		#48	[-]
Apr 4 12 9:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	These films as a non-american are normally very hard to take for all the flag waving that goes on, which becomes very distracting. We have to fight for our homeland, democracy etc..... what about just saving your ass!!!!..... excluding military based films films like Battle LA of course. Look at the appalling Darkest Hour. First they only want to get to the US Embassey as if its some kind of sacred ground......... then they go all Red Dawn Wolverine at the end and grimly declare today is the first day of victory.......ugh. Thats why overall i preferred films like Cloverfield and indeed Skyline which tried to look at how normal people would cope. Did they fail in this? yes and no.
Mattel Jones		#49	[-]
Jul 23 12 11:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I finally caught up with this film on Netflix over the weekend. I actually started watching it about a month ago and dropped out very early on (just as the real story was starting) out of disinterest in the human characters. Let's face it does anyone really like Eric Balfour in anything? But I gave it another shot and found it to be a worthy time killer with decent albeit not especially original (design wise) CGI FX. True there isn't much of a story arc for the humans, but at the same time by focusing on such a narrow perspective of the events we are allowed to connect the dots in our own imagination as to what is going on elsewhere, thus avoiding a lot of the usual alien invasion film cliches (though certainly not all of them). I can understand why so many people reacted negatively to the down beat and ultimately just really weird ending, but to me it seemed much more SF inspired than the usual bombastic climax found in films like this. Is this a sort of Galactic evolutionary process and if so who is really doing the evolving? That kind of open ended weirdness may not follow the dictates of plot closure typical in Hollywood these days, and is understandably annoying for folks who prefer to have things clearly spelled out and wrapped up as the credits roll. I can't even imagine how a sequel would continue this story since the human element would seem to be beside the point but I suppose there would be enclaves with survivors that might find an ally with the new red brained tribe of aliens. Not a great film by any means but certainly worth a look for fans of the genre.
oldmanster		#50	[-]
Jul 23 12 11:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think Balfour is okay in Haven, but yes, he's certainly an acquired taste. He's in a new DTV western that's on Netflix streaming. I'll probably take a look at it in the near future. I liked Skyline for what it tried to do. Alien invasion films are a favorite of mine, unless they're made by The Asylum. ... Reed
Carl Eyesnheart		#51	[-]
Jul 23 12 12:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think Balfour is one of those guys thatif he were to stick to being a second string character actor, everybody would love the guy. But stepping into the starring role, we realize that there isn't that much to love about him. He has the perfect character actor looks. He was perfectly dislikable in SIX FEET UNDER. My fanzine all about Rock N Roll: www.sonicruin.com
Godziwolf		#52	[-]
Jul 28 12 10:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mattel Jones wrote: I finally caught up with this film on Netflix over the weekend. I actually started watching it about a month ago and dropped out very early on (just as the real story was starting) out of disinterest in the human characters. Let's face it does anyone really like Eric Balfour in anything? But I gave it another shot and found it to be a worthy time killer with decent albeit not especially original (design wise) CGI FX. True there isn't much of a story arc for the humans, but at the same time by focusing on such a narrow perspective of the events we are allowed to connect the dots in our own imagination as to what is going on elsewhere, thus avoiding a lot of the usual alien invasion film cliches (though certainly not all of them). I can understand why so many people reacted negatively to the down beat and ultimately just really weird ending, but to me it seemed much more SF inspired than the usual bombastic climax found in films like this. Is this a sort of Galactic evolutionary process and if so who is really doing the evolving? That kind of open ended weirdness may not follow the dictates of plot closure typical in Hollywood these days, and is understandably annoying for folks who prefer to have things clearly spelled out and wrapped up as the credits roll. I can't even imagine how a sequel would continue this story since the human element would seem to be beside the point but I suppose there would be enclaves with survivors that might find an ally with the new red brained tribe of aliens. Not a great film by any means but certainly worth a look for fans of the genre. The problem wasn't the plot (what there was). It was that the plot was experienced via a series of unpleasant walking cliches.
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