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To: Scythian

“Ya, I did, I love cheesy sci-fi (sci-fy). Nothing like setting off a bunch of nukes like they’re M-80’s. However, I did feel a great sense of relief when the core starting going round and round again, wonder what type of machine could see the earth’s core like that? All thoughts to ponder between now and next weekends cheesy sci-fi. I really do like them, giant wasps, gaters, all that stuff, fun to watch ...”

You must love the SyFi channel. Tried to watch Battle for Los Angeles (titled similar to the major motion picture). Poor casting, horrible dialog, terrible special effects, scenes ripped off from “Independence Day”. Turned it off after 20 minutes. Un-watchable.


31 posted on 03/14/2011 10:15:30 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Hacklehead; Scythian
Tried to watch Battle for Los Angeles (titled similar to the major motion picture). Poor casting, horrible dialog, terrible special effects, scenes ripped off from “Independence Day”. Turned it off after 20 minutes. Un-watchable.

I tried hard to watch that. I love a good scifi movie, and I'll forgive mountains of "and then a miracle happened," or budget constraints on props, but only if the plot and acting are decent, and if the humans react to things in the way that humans do... but SciFi channel's Battle for LA was hideous. I was actually embarrassed for the entire genre, hearkening to times I've gotten my wife to watch some scifi with me, only to find that I'm left trying to defend the indefensibly bad. BFLA was that bad. And not only was the science bad, and the special effects (particularly the F16's and the propane-fart explosions), and the casting, and acting, and directing... but there where characters in the movie towards which I felt a gigantic desire to b****slap, and yet I knew that those characters represented the self-image of the morons that wrote the stupid thing, and that they'd be portrayed as the heroes rather than get the alien atomic probe that they deserved.

BFLA may not be the worst scifi movie ever made, but I've never seen worse.

34 posted on 03/14/2011 10:38:20 AM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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