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[Skyline] Independence Day meets Prey (sadly without the Cherokee magic)
HamHamJ
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I just got around to seeing this movies.
I liked it a lot. It did a lot of things right:
1) Military actually shows up and does shit, placing what would be a very limited story into a wider context.
2) Effects were great.
3) Aliens were suitably scary and alien. Good designs, though derivative I think of a lot of previous attempts.
It does have some weaknesses though:
1) Really wish it was 10, maybe 20 minutes longer. But I can see why it isn't.
2) Acting is functional, but it's not really compelling. No one really stood out that much.
I liked it a lot. It did a lot of things right:
1) Military actually shows up and does shit, placing what would be a very limited story into a wider context.
2) Effects were great.
3) Aliens were suitably scary and alien. Good designs, though derivative I think of a lot of previous attempts.
It does have some weaknesses though:
1) Really wish it was 10, maybe 20 minutes longer. But I can see why it isn't.
2) Acting is functional, but it's not really compelling. No one really stood out that much.
While racing light mechs, your Urbanmech comes in second place, but only because it ran out of ammo.
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As it is, we got the trite OMG YOUR AN ALIEN and a shitty ending.
Was very, very, very angry at this movie when I left the theater. Not the good kind of angry either.
I give it a thumbs down.
Man what.
That would have been a truly mediocre ending.
What we got was serious badass. I wish there had been more of it, but I think I get why there wasn't:
As is, it makes a solid ending with some obvious, but cool, sequel bait. Continuing it would have either required wrapping the whole thing up in under half an hour, which would have meant some kind of "now destroy all the aliens!" plot at the end, which would have been dumb, or something like another hour to get to any point that would serve as an ending.
It couldn't really decide if it was a horrible Independence Day, or a really bad Cloverfield-like take on an invasion movie. Except all the actors are terrible. And their characters are all unlikeable.
I'm not exaggerating when I say it was the worst movie I've ever seen in theaters (though I only see something like half a dozen movies a year in theater).
I didn't think the characters were unlikeable. Pretty meh really.
Edit: Independence Day was/is bad too.
The whole "character looks at the bright like and is transfixed" schtick completely lost any dramatic tension it might have had after the third time it happened to the same character. And then the same character inexplicably gets super strength or something.
Also the whole movie is shot around the same goddamn hotel complex. And I couldn't take the hotel manager seriously at all.
And the end doesn't make any sense.
This movie would have been considerably better if it had been told from the perspective of the military. But that's what The Battle of Los Angeles is going to be. And I think I heard somewhere that the studio that made Skyline was involved with the special effects studio for The Battle of Los Angeles, and basically just stole the whole visual effects pipeline and shat out Skyline before The Battle of Los Angeles could come out. Not sure if that's correct though.
It was very clearly foreshadowed. His reaction to the light was different in several respects from anyone else's:
1) He continues to have left over vein-marks after it wears off.
2) He's not mind controlled during subsequent exposures.
3) No one else seems to have that whole power feeling.
It's obviously some kind of metabolic/genetic difference that causes him to have an unintended reaction to the light. He's able to retain some of the effects of the light, even after exposure and while not being controlled. Most obviously crazy vein crap and super strength. And it's this same resistance which causes, at the end, his ability to subvert whatever symbiote/suite/thing they put his brain into.