"Skyline" Review
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Is it bad that I want to call the vagina aliens "graboids"?
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Yeah, I saw this opening night with some friends at a Movie Tavern. Of those that got drunk, they liked it more than I did, no surprise. Coming out of it, I couldn't help of think of the obvious similarities as well to Independence Day and Cloverfield, but it reminded me a bit of Mass Effect 2 as well actually.
Other than that, yeah, the effects are pretty good. It's the best I've seen in a while, and yeah there were some cool shots, and unintentionally hilarious moments. I couldn't help but make jokes and laugh at all the cliches and especially the slow-mo "Nooooooooo".
Best moments of the movie for me were the parts with Donald Faison, and I laughed my ass off at the "Vaya con dios" line. We had near identical impressions coming out of that movie, but if I hadn't been making jokes to my friends the whole time, I wouldn't have really enjoyed any of it.
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awesome vid as always,
need to give lloyd some more screen time though, he's feeling neglected obviously lol
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I appreciate your view on "skyline". From the trailer it looked like a typical knock-off of a mix between good monster movies and a wack, wanna-be character study, even maybe a page torn from 1950s monster classics( which is basically what you said).
And next time I will plan ahead to go to a convention that's in my hometown and right up my alley. My old alma mater was next to it, I'm incredibly salty. I'm interested in what you think of Cincinnati, since most epically cool things usually skip our town, it blows my mind that all those cool people (including yourself) came to that place. I must learn all the ways of the nerd, since I am one. ^_^
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Well, it has to have been better than that piece of crap "Monsters". That movie was awful.
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You know, it's funny, when I first saw the commercials for this, I had pegged it as a truly awful film, that it'd go down as one of those legendary bad films like Gigli or Battlefield Earth...and after seeing the reviews, it turns out even worse. It doesn't even stand out as bad, it's just mired in mediocrity.
It's a sad day for a director when he can't even get BAD moviemaking right.
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If the vacuum ship is shaped like the Statue of Liberty, I'm there.
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And only if, like the movie itself, it changes from suck to blow.
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The Brad and Lloyd show!
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*gets distracted by the cat*
...Wait, what were we talking about?
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Braaaaaaaaaains.
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Not to be nitpicking about a bad movie, but you did leave out the ending of the movie, although you said you will stop on that for a moment. Shame, as I understood that the ending was (with the brains) at least something, you don't see in a cinema every day.
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No, I talked about how ridiculous I thought the ending was. I just didn't want to get into heavy spoilers.
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David Zayas, That's who you're trying to think of.
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Man, that cat is so obviously seeing things we can't see. You should hire some Spanish maid.
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Jelly side down!!
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God damn, those were some fiesty kitties.
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was the ending more bullshit than the Saw VII ending?
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I saw this on release day in australia. I haven't felt this raped since I saw "Sunshine" in theatres.
I was hoping for a better ending, maybe finding out the aliens were saving us from some earth-destroying event, but... no. Ugh.
Also, I really hated the aliens. totally immune to normal weapons, except for the leads right hooks. gah!
It's just not good at all.
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What, Brad's part of TGWTG and nobody comments "CAAAAAAAT!" when his pet leaps on the couch? I'm disappointed in all of you.
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If You are looking for so bad it's Good You should Try Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter from 2002
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lol you forgot to mention how they ripoff signs when they say "they don't seem to like water"
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"lol you forgot to mention how they ripoff signs when they say "they don't seem to like water"
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How is it a ripoff of signs? The characters just don't see any aliens over the water when why would the aliens be over the water when they want the people for their brains?
Also no mention of the possible lawsuit against the brothers strause whose effects company did the upcoming film Battle:Los Angeles. That may be a reason for no skyline 2.
http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/08/17/battle-los-angeles-to-battle-skyline-in-court
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Well I'm not seeing it for sure now. Its hard to find a good sci-fi type movie nowadays. I love Siamese cats, friendly little creatures.
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Were you eating Skyline chili while watching Skyline? You did say you were in Cincinnati.
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I gotta ask since Brad and other online critics have been mentioning it so much recently (for some reason. It;s kinda freaky, actually): do people really hate AVP:R as much as it seems? Am I really the only person that thought it was better than the first one?
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All I have to say is that I appreciate your reviews so I have a second view point before I go see some of these movies.
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Errr...... Wait? So your review, in short, is saying that Skyline is to SF-movies what the "Scary Movies" are to Horror films (albeit unintentionally)?
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"do people really hate AVP:R as much as it seems? Am I really the only person that thought it was better than the first one?
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More gore and rated R doesn't make it a better movie. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/mjtv/ss/19431-avpr from Shamefull Sequels details what the hell is wrong with the film.
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Major, major, major spoiler warning:
So, basically it's they get brains for power sources, and our lead, instead of turning into a mindless drone, has a new alien body and is gonna kick ass for his wife and unborn child...so...why is this so bad and ridiculous???
Honestly...that's a pretty fun idea. First off...the whole 'brain' thing is straight out of 50's sci-fi films. Heck...look at the matrix:
machines + human bodies = power source
now skyline:
aliens + human brains = power source.
Yeah...biiiiig difference....lol.
And I think that's cool and DIFFERENT! Not the typical 'it's a virus/computer virus/whatever', or the depressing 'they're all doomed'. It brings almost a comic book vibe to it, a fun hook for a sequel that would seem at least 'fun' to watch.
Granted...the dialogue and acting...can't really make excuses for that.
But I just don't get why the ending is so quote 'awful' with 99 percent of the population. What else would they be doing by taking people? If they wanted them dead, they'd just kill them on the spot. If to quote 'save us', I think the whole 'making choppers crash & explode and all the other carnage' that we saw in the trailers would make it kind of...well...pointless.
So other than saying 'it's dumb cause it's dumb'...I just don't get it. 50's kinda silly yet fun vibe, mixed with a comic book type hook.
And as for the 'why would aliens, with all of this technology, need our brains for their clones or whatever?' Think of if this way...WE, in our vast brains and technology ideals to create stuff like Ipods, Computers, Plasma and even 3D television sets, Blu-ray players, microwaves, lasers that can fix our eyesights, medicical procedures and equipment that can fix our hearts and such, as well as all sorts of things that can do radical stuff and such...and yet we still can't fix that whole 'global warming, war/fighting, 1000's losing jobs' type of thing. Maybe those aliens are just as 'dumb' as us, eh?
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It's not likely brain as a power source but as the cpu for the organic machines. It's been in sci fi for a while that the human brain if shocked to the point where there is no consciouns thought the brain's neural network and cells become one huge supercomputer that just needs to have operating instructions feed to it.
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nice review as always brad! thanks for taking time to fill us in on your opinions. i always look forward it!
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Sadly, my parents really like the movie. Then again my mom Loved avatar, which was a .. pretty movie. She had to buy me tickets to see it. I'm just glad I didn't have to waste my own money.
I doubt I would see this, reminds me of too many other movies I already seen.
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from what i remember, the directors made this independently, because they were fed up with hollywood procedures, so this is technicly not a hollywood movie, the building in wich they film is the one where the directors live themselves
i guess you couldn't ask more from the directors of avp: requiem
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Did you see cat bumping the camera at 20:04
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Sadly, this movie cost around 10 mil to make and it made around that in its opening weekend so it's likely we WILL see a sequel. Don't think they won't smell the money potential.
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To me this movie is a "What If" type of movie. What if people found themselves trapped in an apartment during an alien invasion, What would they do? How would they escape? Will they escape? Stuff like that. I liked this movie it was fun for me. To say that this movie rips off other movies is kinda being unfair because if you look around in the movie or TV world there is almost no originality. Every movie or TV show has taken something from someone. This movie barrows elements from other movies but doesn't totally rip them off. Almost everything we see is the exact same thing we've seen before regardless of whatever genre it is. You should try to be to be more nicer and while you're at it more logical. I think it's utter bullshit when people call a movie a ID4 rip off because their are large ships over a city. Like there's never been movies or shows with that concept before rather it's ID4 related or not. You among those who hated this film obviously have no common sense.
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This movie got three facepalms and countless eyerolls out of me. There was many small things that ticked me off, and after them, the movie lost me. Like, what the hell was up with the smokingscene? There´s aliens and radiation, BUT DONT SMOKE INFRONT OF TEH BEBE IN TEH TUMMEH! I know, smoking´s baad, mmkay, but come on...
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Hi!
Do you not think about the environment? Let's work on renewable energy?
What can you offer in terms of advertising?
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I actually kinda liked this one. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in it, the Air Force action was exciting and it makes for a nicely strange movie. Brad's right though, it makes too many mistakes. Most of the main characters sucked. Hell, the only likable female character is killed off not even halfway through!
One thing I have to say, Brad: your description of someone machine gunning the aliens in the street was a little deceptive. I pictured the aliens running away from Reb Brown with an M60, dammit!
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