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Battle: Los Angeles
I'm just about to see this movie with my son.
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Why would anyone bother fighting over it? I don't get the premise.
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03-26-2011, 02:20 AM
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Good movie. Not great but still entertaining.
Original ideas and a some good moments. Worth seeing IMO.
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It was filmed here at the junction of I-20 and I-49. They blocked off about a mile of I-49 and had "smoke/explosion" warning signs on I-20. Overturned trucks, cars, etc... was a pretty involved set.
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Too expensive to shoot in Santa Monica - they CGI'd "LA" into the film. There is something ironically appropriate about that.
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The movie is black hawk down meets independence day from an infantry squad perspective.
While there were some glaring tactical foo-pahs and technical idiocies, it was overall a very entertaining movie. I definitely would recommend it to anyone that likes war and or alien invasion movies. |
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My roommate just came home and claimed it was a horrible, horrible film.
But he's an idiot, so I may just see it.
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So they shot Louisiana for LA?, must have been tax breaks.
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03-26-2011, 08:04 PM
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I liked the movie because it was about a squad facing the enemy directly. There were no Generals directing things remotely. They had to make their own decisions and deal with the consequences.
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03-26-2011, 08:55 PM
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It has Bridget Moynahan in it, so it's got that.
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03-27-2011, 07:00 AM
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She defines HOT
 
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03-27-2011, 07:14 AM
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I'd hit it. Twice.
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Battle: Los Angeles :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Roger Ebert gave it half a star, and that high only because it has Bridget Moynahan. "Battle: Los Angeles" is noisy, violent, ugly and stupid." "The dialogue consists almost entirely of terse screams: Watch it! Incoming! Move! Look out! Fire! Move! The only characters I re*member having four sentences in a row are the anchors on cable news." "When I think of the elegant construction of something like "Gunfight at the OK Corral," I want to rend the hair from my head and weep bitter tears of despair. 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."
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Must be rough being Tom Brady, huh? Bridget...Giselle...
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I loved the movie--non-stop aliens vs. human war action in a serious non-Will Smith type of movie. If I want a sappy love story, big-cry at the end military movie I'll watch Starship Troopers.
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That's one hot Irish bee-yatch. Probably like going on every ride at Magic Mountain at the same time.
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I hope it's not as bad as Skyline turned out to be. That was a movie I was looking forward to for a long, long time... I saw previews at a local Sci-Fi convention a few years ago and it looked great. They slaughtered it...
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