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Battle: Los Angeles: Movie Review
Neoavatara ^ | March 13, 2010 | Neoavatara

Posted on 03/13/2011 10:09:41 AM PDT by Neoavatara

Battle: Los Angeles is one of those movies and geeks and nerds have dreamed about their entire lives. What would it be like if an alien force came to earth, was openly hostile, and the war began? How would we fight?

This is a war movie, in the truest sense. Its closest Hollywood analogue would have to be Black Hawk Down...which says a lot about this current film. This is not Will Smith in Independence Day, happily flying around killing bad aliens. This is war, in it grittiest Hollywood iteration.

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To: max americana

I was going to see Battle LA this weekend, but my friend was convinced because of the negative reviews that it would suck. The movie choice was his so he picked that Matt Damon movie, ugh, should have stuck with Battle LA. :-/


21 posted on 03/13/2011 10:53:35 AM PDT by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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To: TomGuy
Oh. That movie.
I thought this was about Battle for Los Angeles on SyFy last evening. It was bad. Cliche.
When Ninja Nia Peoples showed up and stabbed the invader flying machine with her samari sword, that was way beyond jumping the shark.

They totally confused me with the two titles. I was watching the Syfy one on mute. NIa and the sword (shakes head). Who thought that would really be a good idea? They just wanted to put her in that cat suit.

I much more enjoyed Mutant Chronicles instead, and that is one twisted movie!

22 posted on 03/13/2011 10:55:05 AM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: erod

I boycott every matt Damon movie because he’s an overrated lefty loon. But thanks for the review. My neighbor told me it was a more screwed up version of Minority Report.


23 posted on 03/13/2011 10:56:56 AM PDT by max americana
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To: TomGuy
When Ninja Nia Peoples showed up

She turned out to be about the only thing worth watching in that
movie. She didn't need the eye patch to make the Daryl
Hannah/Kill Bill connection.

The production company, Asylum, is known for copying titles as
close as they legally can, and quickly producing a similarly
themed knockoff.

I think they must have hired the Clintonistas away from the SyFy
channel to produce such unimaginative tripe.

I hope neither owes the other any favors if that was the best that
they could do.

24 posted on 03/13/2011 10:59:16 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Neoavatara

From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean:
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.


25 posted on 03/13/2011 10:59:55 AM PDT by BushCountry (I spoken many wise words in jest, but no comparison to the number of stupid words spoken in earnest)
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To: Neoavatara

I hate movies set in LA. There is a lot more to Earth than LA.


26 posted on 03/13/2011 11:07:05 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
the usual depiction of alien technologies as being basically advanced versions of our own with the same sort of vulnerabilities

That always bugs me too. Any group with the technology to be able to get here from another star would likely have military technology so far beyond ours it would be like the US Marines fighting a Roman legion.

27 posted on 03/13/2011 11:07:27 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: BushCountry

Every branch of the military was represented in the film. Coast Guard ships suffered the first casualties. A Navy Corpsman attended to the wounded. Army infantrymen who were separated from their unit fought with the Marines. It was an Air Force Tech Sergeant that provide the intel that brought down the aliens hordes.


28 posted on 03/13/2011 11:08:29 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Neoavatara

My 14 year old son and I watched it yesterday.

It was definitely worth the money, and there was some crying in the audience (those who see the movie will now the moment I’m talking about when you see it), but there was genuine pride in seeing our military portrayed as they should be; imperfect heroes.

Absolutely go see this one. Occasionally,Hollywood does something right despite their best efforts, you may as well reward them for it:)


29 posted on 03/13/2011 11:12:04 AM PDT by pvoce ('Good' sense and 'Common' sense are two entirely different concepts.)
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To: libertarian27

I saw it Friday - enjoyed it very much, once my eyes and stomach got used to the accursed “shaky cam”.

If you consider yourself part of America’s enlightened elite, you won’t like this film. As for the rest of us, I suspect it will do pretty well at the box office.


30 posted on 03/13/2011 11:16:17 AM PDT by linear (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.)
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To: Sherman Logan

That’s why the original War of the Worlds is still the best. In that film the aliens did not dismount and fight as infantry, as the aliens did in this film. They did not have such bad programming that a human hacker could disable their machines after a few days of coding as they did in Independence Day. The film did not show scientists creating miracle weapons in the nick of time like in Earth Versus the Flying Saucers and scores of other movies.

In WOTW all our weapons, including atomic bombs, were useless. It was nature itself that destroyed the aliens- the germs, bacteria and viruses. What Wells called “the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.”


31 posted on 03/13/2011 11:16:59 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: My Favorite Headache

I learned very valuable lesson from twister. If you have a belt and a pipe you can survive the worst tornados.


32 posted on 03/13/2011 11:17:02 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: Neoavatara

I have to admit I wouldn’t waste a .22 LR defending Los Angeles. The “aliens” have already taken over there. And good riddance.


33 posted on 03/13/2011 11:30:13 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: The Louiswu

Yes they do. In fact, they just had a new upgrade series come into service a few years ago.


34 posted on 03/13/2011 11:33:09 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: GeronL
I hate movies set in LA. There is a lot more to Earth than LA.

LA movies are the best...That includes all the Classics!

35 posted on 03/13/2011 11:35:09 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
That includes all the Classics!

Like Volcano :)

36 posted on 03/13/2011 11:36:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: Finny

ping for later


37 posted on 03/13/2011 11:36:48 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Neoavatara
The g/f and I saw Battle LA friday. It is one of the best 2 or 3 (go to about 3 or 4 a month) movies I have seen in the last year.

EXCEPT for that damn ‘shaky cam’ crap. It's OK during the battle scenes but is irritating during the rest of it.

38 posted on 03/13/2011 11:37:44 AM PDT by 429CJ (.)
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To: Neoavatara
The g/f and I saw Battle LA friday. It is one of the best 2 or 3 (go to about 3 or 4 a month) movies I have seen in the last year.

EXCEPT for that damn ‘shaky cam’ crap. It's OK during the battle scenes but is irritating during the rest of it.

39 posted on 03/13/2011 11:37:51 AM PDT by 429CJ (.)
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To: 429CJ

Sorry for the double post.


40 posted on 03/13/2011 11:38:42 AM PDT by 429CJ (.)
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