This is a spoiler s do not read if you want to see it.
What a piece of shit movie, now when I say that I truly mean it. I've been a fan of Alien invader movies since I was a kid, you name it and I've seen it, probably more times than you, so it hurts me to be so blunt about a movie I REALLY REALLY wanted to see. I mean it has the classic storyline of Alien invaders wanting our planet and all the cool CGI effects of modern day computers, what's not to like right?
Everything.
Literally, everything.
Once you get passed the oh so poor acting (Which is somewhat forgivable in this genre to an extent, and is almost expected) You then have to deal with the retarded script, for example; There is a scene in the beginning where all the blue light things are coming down, causing havoc and basically kicking everyones ass, the black dude proceeds to stand up and proclaim "We gotta go outside and check this out". Not even bullshitting you, then the girls in the room proceed to protest and the black guy looks to his friend in approval, they grab a gun and off the go outside to see what's going on. Fuck looking out the window discretely, lets grab a gun and try and fight some blue light with it, fucking genius.
Script aside, the god damn plot holes and story line inconsistencies are laughable. Example; As some of you may have seen one of the trailers, it shows one of the Alien ships being blown up, and crashing. Well it just so happens that motherfucking alien ship got NUKED, literally nuked by a F1-17A stealth bomber I think, or something that looks similar to it, the ship crashes and hope is restored, until the fucking ship manages to start repairing itself, using human brains as a sort of computer I guess, yeah the aliens literally rip out your god damn brain, and insert it into themselves and use it to sustain themselves and apparently repair one of their motherships, okay whatever, I can go with that. So the nuke doesn't work and all hell breaks loose again with aliens snatching up every human they can.
Did I mention they watch the nuke go off from their window, no aftershock, no shockwave, no broken windows, they were literally less than a mile from the impact and no ill effects came from the nuclear blast.
15-20 minutes later, the main characters; one guy and girl, are on the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings in LA (or so it seems) because they think it's the safest place to be. Yeah that would be my first choice too, let's get as close to these fucking alien mothershps as we can, we will be fine.
So the inevitable happens and one of the drones finds them, one of the drones that can repair itself and functions on human brains etc, the guy literally starts fighting the half mechanical half biological monstrosity with is bare fucking hands (oh did I mention this guy looked into the light 2 times and now has super powers...yea he does) So as hes beating on this thing, literally punching it in the face and bashing it in the head with a cinder block, he rips some of it's insides out and it dies.
Now that's what I call a close encounter
A nuke won't kill em' but I'll rip em' apart with my bare fucking hands, nice one.
So basically the movie is about an hour and a half of these people trying to escape to the water and get on a boat and leave the apartment they're trapped in, people die in the process and the end up back in the apartment the movie starts out in, everyone gets sucked up into the alien ships, we cannot defeat them.
The main character wakes up in the mothership and his brain is removed and put into an alien vehicle or suit or something, all of the other brains are blue, his is red.
He somehow still controls this alien suit or whatever the fuck it is and he saves his girlfriend from having her brain taken and the movie suddenly ends with this guy facing off against an unknown number of alien brain suits, the end.
What a load of fucking shit, please I beg of everyone, do not buy into the hype, this movie is utter garbage. Literally the worst movie I have ever seen, period, bar none.
I should have gone to see Due Date like my girlfriend wanted
Thanks for the heads up, well I saw that the directors are those that made the AvP Requiem so it's going to be more of a downloaded movie than something I'll see in the cinemas.
On November 16 2010 14:20 mud123 wrote: oh man i wish i would have read this 3 hours ago. this was the worst movie i've seen in a long time. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!
Never even heard about this movie until 2-3 weeks ago when slick ads on giant billboards popped up everywhere while I was in NY. The reviews have been panning it though. Maybe it's in the "so bad, it's good" category.
Me and my friends have a hobby of seeing really shitty movies. We were really excited when we saw it get piss poor reviews on RT. Seeing it this weekend.
This movie has been slanted at almost every site since the premier night, gawd. Might watch it for shits and giggles later when the DVD gets released.
Now heres the one alien invasion that you might wanna look out for Block by block marines battling against aliens, f yeeeeeee! Also that trailermusic is jizztier
On December 04 2010 11:35 Rustymike wrote: This movie has been slanted at almost every site since the premier night, gawd. Might watch it for shits and giggles later when the DVD gets released.
Now heres the one alien invasion that you might wanna look out for Block by block marines battling against aliens, f yeeeeeee! Also that trailermusic is jizztier
I didn't even know that was a nuke at the moment it happened. I was like "whoa that was a big blast for such a small missile" until like 20 minutes later they said something about "do you really think the government cares about us if they were willing to send a nuke?" And like the OP said, that's because there were no shockwaves or anything like that. The nuke literally just hit the mothership, and proceeded to only do damage to the mothership.
On December 06 2010 04:27 a176 wrote: that entire drone battle in skyline was the only good part of the movie. god that battle was so epic, albeit short
Really? I thought it was ok, but not that great. It wasn't as good as say, Star Wars fight scenes. And I thought everything was happening so fast that you couldn't really see anything specific going on. It was almost as if the graphics department just said, "well we don't actually know anything about air fights so let's make alien and human ships fly randomly about each other and shoot every now and then - if it's fast enough people will think they're doing something"
Despite all of the dumb stuff, I found it entertaining (definitely laughed the entire movie). I thought the graphics for the aliens was really nice. And as far calling the movie Skyline, was that based on like 30 seconds worth of clips showing the aliens in the sky? When I went to see this movie, I was thinking the majority of the film was going to be us watching the SKY, and intense battles going on in the SKY, and aliens coming from the SKY, etc.
Instead, 90% of the film was being holed up in a condo, trying to not get your brains sucked up.
Jesus, thanks for posting that, rustymike. That trailer was fucking awesome. Love the music they used. Very different, very moody, very much what I'm in to, and the shots looked AMAZING.
To the OP: the ending of that movie sounds fucking atrocious -- it almost makes me want to curb-stomp kittens.
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
Wait, what? You didn't think Transformers was terrible?
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
What? Are people not allowed to dislike movies now? He gave perfectly valid reasons for hating it.
I watch movies to be entertained. I, for one, am not entertained by atrocious acting, ridiculous plots, and horrible scripts. So sue me.
You're asking me to overlook 90% of what makes a movie, and enjoy the 10% that was good (the cgi in this case). That's just not going to happen.
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
What? Are people not allowed to dislike movies now? He gave perfectly valid reasons for hating it.
I watch movies to be entertained. I, for one, am not entertained by atrocious acting, ridiculous plots, and horrible scripts. So sue me.
You're asking me to overlook 90% of what makes a movie, and enjoy the 10% that was good (the cgi in this case). That's just not going to happen.
Disliking a movie is one thing.
Writing a huge forum post ranting about how bad it is and picking apart every flaw while telling everyone else not to see it just doesn't seem like a fun use of your time.
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
What? Are people not allowed to dislike movies now? He gave perfectly valid reasons for hating it.
I watch movies to be entertained. I, for one, am not entertained by atrocious acting, ridiculous plots, and horrible scripts. So sue me.
You're asking me to overlook 90% of what makes a movie, and enjoy the 10% that was good (the cgi in this case). That's just not going to happen.
Disliking a movie is one thing.
Writing a huge forum post ranting about how bad it is and picking apart every flaw while telling everyone else not to see it just doesn't seem like a fun use of your time.
So you are saying that movie critics are not supposed say more than two words about a movie?
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
What? Are people not allowed to dislike movies now? He gave perfectly valid reasons for hating it.
I watch movies to be entertained. I, for one, am not entertained by atrocious acting, ridiculous plots, and horrible scripts. So sue me.
You're asking me to overlook 90% of what makes a movie, and enjoy the 10% that was good (the cgi in this case). That's just not going to happen.
Disliking a movie is one thing.
Writing a huge forum post ranting about how bad it is and picking apart every flaw while telling everyone else not to see it just doesn't seem like a fun use of your time.
So you are saying that movie critics are not supposed say more than two words about a movie?
I never said that. Although I do think movie critics are very depressing and most likely lead a very bland life.
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
What? Are people not allowed to dislike movies now? He gave perfectly valid reasons for hating it.
I watch movies to be entertained. I, for one, am not entertained by atrocious acting, ridiculous plots, and horrible scripts. So sue me.
You're asking me to overlook 90% of what makes a movie, and enjoy the 10% that was good (the cgi in this case). That's just not going to happen.
Disliking a movie is one thing.
Writing a huge forum post ranting about how bad it is and picking apart every flaw while telling everyone else not to see it just doesn't seem like a fun use of your time.
There is a fundamental difference between transformers and skyline. I went to transformers expecting terrible acting but giant robots fighting and that's what I got so I was happy. I went to skyline expecting a decent alien invasion movie...i did not get that so I dislike the movie...the end
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
What? Are people not allowed to dislike movies now? He gave perfectly valid reasons for hating it.
I watch movies to be entertained. I, for one, am not entertained by atrocious acting, ridiculous plots, and horrible scripts. So sue me.
You're asking me to overlook 90% of what makes a movie, and enjoy the 10% that was good (the cgi in this case). That's just not going to happen.
Disliking a movie is one thing.
Writing a huge forum post ranting about how bad it is and picking apart every flaw while telling everyone else not to see it just doesn't seem like a fun use of your time.
I dunno about you but I have nothing but thanks for this guy for writing his lament that was really amusing to me while also saving me the approx. 2 hour or so that I may have wasted watching this movie.
On December 04 2010 11:27 Sverigevader wrote: I liked it!
To the OP: Why do you even watch movies?
Agreed.
He's probably one of the same guys that thought Transformers was terrible. Take off your serious hat and just enjoy a movie for once. If you're critical of everything, you'll have much less enjoyment in your life.
lol what the fuck?
I really liked Transformers, why make such assumptions?
I also enjoy my life quite a bit, just because I rant about one movie I happen to have found HORRIBLE means I'm a Transformers hating, miserable asshole whos critical of everything?
This movie is bad. I spent 2 days bashing this movie in front of my reallife friends, so I won't bore you guys with another explanation of WHY it sucks. Basically the shittyness involves mediocre acting, absense of an interesting story, unlikable characters, stupid plot twist(s), and stuff that does not make sense in general. These aspects all add up to a sum that doesnt rise to any heights.
What I do want to say is that some bad movies become cult classics. The corny lines, horrible acting, and over the top fake effects might tribute to extra laughts. I however do not think that this movie will even achieve to become a cult classic since it was even mediocre in it's shittyness...
For people who did not have any laughs, I suggest you watch the Nostalgia Critic (google him). If you watch his reviews enough, you might start to understand how to endure horrible movies. Being able to turn a horrible film into something funny is a skill clearly underestimated at job interview, but it's critically important if you're planning to watch the notoriously bad films!
I want to end on this note: If people are planning to see this movie, wait till it's a budget DVD, get drunk, and have multiple friends around you. I had laughs during this movie, but it wasnt worth the 10 euro's for the ticket.
Haha, this movie is a joke. The only thing that occupied me throughout the beginning of the movie was trying to place where the Puerto Rican hotel owner was from (Dexter!). And then I promptly proceeded to doze off.
Can someone please explain to me how this movie possibly got green-lit? I literally cannot fathom a sane human being taking the script for this piece of garbage to a sane executive, them reading it, then saying "It's perfect! Money!"
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