Posted on 03/14/2011 6:52:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Let me put it this way: “Battle: Los Angeles” is the most subversive film to come out of Hollywood since “300.” It’s also not partisan or political in any way. We are watching a brutal alien invasion of Los Angeles from the point of view of a platoon of United States Marines — men who love their country, each other, and stand for the finest traditions and values America and our military has to offer. Director Jonathan Liebesman honors these men and writer Christopher Bertolini is true to them.
Better still, this is an absolutely terrific action film. The story grabs you within seconds and never lets go. The pacing is perfect, the plot is brilliantly simple, the actors are terrific, you care deeply for the characters, the action is gripping, and the special effects convincing. Best of all, there are a number of very moving scenes. In fact, the whole movie has a rich emotional undercurrent throughout because SSgt. Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) and his men are on a mission to rescue and protect civilians — they are doing what the U.S. Military always does, they are risking their own lives for people they’ve never met — they are running towards the danger as everyone else runs away.
Yes, liberals, troop-bashers, aging hippies, above-it-all hipsters, America-haters, and sophisticated literary types should stay far away. Go watch “Green Zone” again. The rest of us need to get out there and see this. Not as some sort of political gesture – but because this is an exciting, moving, intelligently made actioner that ennobles the human spirit and the things we hold dear.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
It was a shame this has to be an exerpt. The author takes careful aim (no pun intended) at the objections raised by left wing reviewers and shoots them down one by one.
Read teh entire review. It’s worth five minutes of your time.
Saw it yesterday.
Loved it.
Ebert panned it.
That’s when I knew it was going to be a good movie.
I found it to be similar in style to DISTRICT 9.
Other than that, same old plot, Aliens attack Earth.
Still, interesting to watch.
In Hollyweird, liberals believe that Americans deserve to be invaded as some sort of karmic reprisal, and the Scientologists in Hollyweird believe that aliens are the true owners of the planet, having originally populated it and all...
It sure was worth a look at the entire review. Damn, was it a good one....can’t wait to see this movie and I have not been in a theater for a pic since ‘Jurrasic(?) Park’!
Yes, it was a bit of a mash up of Aliens (the sequel to Alien), War of the Worlds (Gene Barry), Independence Day and Blackhawk Down. There were elements of all of those films all through it.
Still, I enjoyed its positive protrayal of American fighting men.
I saw it Saturday afternoon with my college aged daughter...it was absolutely awesome.
bttt
I wish Rosario Dawson was in it too
Sci-Fi Ping
This Nolte guy always writes great reviews. I am definitely going to see this movie now.
Thanks for the link, first I have heard of the movie. Anything showing the military in a positive light gets my money. As for pissing off the left, I can’t wait for the nashing of teeth when Atlas Shrugged hits theaters. I hope they try to protest when I am walking in. My girlfriends and I are going to road trip from Baton Rouge to Dallas to catch it in theater.
No. Usually it's Nazis.
Great movie, usually these are aimed at the 20 something crowd, but Aaron Eckhart as the older marine was a character I could more readily relate to.
***Spoiler Alert***
Towards the end when he goes through hell and his platoon makes it back, he just grabs some bullets and gets ready to head right back into the fight. Just a very admirable character along with the others in the platoon.
It was surprisingly enjoyable. They didn’t have to go into gigantic detail about the aliens, where they came from, etc., etc., just the mission in the context of an ongoing invasion. The one really funny moment was when some talking head quoted some scientists as saying the aliens were here for our water, that it was the aliens’ fuel, and that the sea levels had already noticeably decreased. The ships, etc., had a nice District 9 feel about them. I could swear, though, that the first time the laser was knocked off the rubble, there was a flash of sparks and the glass cracked but later it was okay.
John Nolte’s roundup of the 25 greatest leftwing films:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tag/top-25-left-wing-films/
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