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Dartful Dodger:
I really liked this movie. It's the best movie I've seen in a long time.
(that speaks more about how poorly the other movies were, but still it's a great movie)
After reading that it had a disappointing ending I thought it was going to have the typical human scientists finds a weakness that destroys all of the advance race in one shot. Well it doesn't. I liked the ending too.
It's an Aliens attack the Earth movie, keeping that in mind and all the nit picking about realism is just silly. If it does bother you, here's a realism that should really make you hate the movie: There are no aliens.
The whole water thing was a little out there, but I wrote it off as "The news jumping to conclusions". Just look at all the odd ball predictions they had after the Earth Quake in Japan. But even if they were draining the ocean, look at all the measurements with global warming. They're claiming water levels in the ocean are rising at .00001 millimeters every 20 years or so, I’m sure if they have that kind of precision going on, they'll notice that these aliens are draining the oceans.
dre-w:
Ahh... Michelle Rodriguez...... if she wasn't typecasted already, I wonder how well she'd do in a romantic love story wearing a dress.. haha
I enjoyed this movie so much I saw it twice in theaters. Although, not enough to pay for the movie.. I said I enjoyed it, not liked it, but it was a hella lot better then Skyline and District 9.. I'll give it that. Not being in 3D was also a plus. There was a few things that I nitpicked at but I couldn't agree more with Pinball Jims statement "Aliens are aliens, human logic doesn't apply"
When they find the command control ship underground, how the hell did it get down there without destroying the street above it?? I've come to the conclusion that it's the Technodrome.
What the heck is up with our marines? I mean come on, they couldn't have put together a worst team to go in and rescue the hostages.. You had some virgin wimp kid, some guy who just got out of rehabilitation or counceling scared of gunshot noises, some inexperienced kid who was only with the marines for couple months is going to lead this team, and then they go and have the sarge join the one team that has a marine whos brother was killed in a previous mission under that sarges command.. seriously
What was up with the laser pointer, don't we have some sort of infrared invisible laser by now so the enemy won't know we are shooting a missile at them..
Finding the weak spot on that alien was hilarious! It was totally just relaxing, slightly wiggling around while they are operating on it and stabbing it.. I just kept picturing the alien saying "o0o0oo nope, that's not it. oo0o0o nope. Still not it"
Again, just nitpickin ;D
shmokes:
There is no alien logic or human logic. There's the logic of your story, and your story has to follow the rules or it's bad. In other words, your story has to make sense within whatever world you establish. The Lord of the Rings was a decent movie; I assure you that there's no such thing as wizards and elves. Nobody's claiming that every movie has to follow the laws of real-world physics and logic. But you can't set your movie in that world and then break those laws without explaining it or establishing that for one reason or another those laws no longer apply. You must realize that the very same people who are hating on this movie liked Spiderman. It's not about following human logic, it's about not sucking.
Also, while District 9 was hardly a masterpiece, I'm pretty confident that it's an order of magnitude better than Battle L.A. . . . and I haven't even seen Battle L.A. :cheers:
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 21, 2011, 11:14:44 pm ---There is no alien logic or human logic. There's the logic of your story, and your story has to follow the rules or it's bad. In other words, your story has to make sense within whatever world you establish. The Lord of the Rings was a decent movie; I assure you that there's no such thing as wizards and elves. Nobody's claiming that every movie has to follow the laws of real-world physics and logic. But you can't set your movie in that world and then break those laws without explaining it or establishing that for one reason or another those laws no longer apply. You must realize that the very same people who are hating on this movie liked Spiderman. It's not about following human logic, it's about not sucking.
Also, while District 9 was hardly a masterpiece, I'm pretty confident that it's an order of magnitude better than Battle L.A. . . . and I haven't even seen Battle L.A. :cheers:
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your prediction is correct. District 9 is much better than Battle LA. Battle LA is the same degree better than Skyline. Oh, also, I happened to like the ending of Battle LA (",)
dre-w:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 21, 2011, 11:14:44 pm ---There is no alien logic or human logic. There's the logic of your story, and your story has to follow the rules or it's bad. In other words, your story has to make sense within whatever world you establish.
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Yeh the alien/human logic statement made is just something I try to keep in mind when watching a movie like this. Helped me look past a lot of other things that I disagreed with in the movie and makes it more fun.
For instance,
This advanced alien race traveled all the way to Earth to take over the planet or whatever the intention was, logically YOU would think that they would have some sort of gamma pulse blast or some weapon to just wipe out the entire population on land instead of using ground warfare tactics.. but again that's human logic not alien
idk, it wasn't bad but wasn't good either. District 9.. where do I even begin on that piece.. not only were the trailers so misleading and half the stuff shown wasn't even in the movie, but the whole thing was so overhyped that when I saw it I was confused and totally letdown. Made no sense whatsoever, even when applying the human/alien logic. ;D
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