It's a straight forward alien invasion movie.
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Max_Sydney — 11 years ago(October 14, 2014 05:54 AM)
Not everyone wanting to make a movie can afford nor get the studios or investers to fork out the cash for good dialogue scripts
Good scripts don't actually cost a lot of money. Most casual audience-goers could identify what they don't like about the film, and it was mostly the script.
Eg. The sarcastic dis-likable cast, cynical nihilism of the plot, lack of coherent plot-arc, subtle sexism/racism , willful misrepresentation of the film in advertising,
The film simply had no heart, and the makers simply did not care. -
djmattm2002-913-491227 — 13 years ago(September 25, 2012 09:49 AM)
You can't please everyone. People will hate a cliche movie with cliche characters where the humans win.and people will hate a movie where the aliens actually win. The more popular a movie seems to be, the more they will hate it, just to hate. 0.02
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Jazzyjae — 13 years ago(October 19, 2012 11:04 AM)
I think most people dislike this film due to failed expectations. The trailers, marketing as well as genre expectations hinted that we were going to get a standard Alien Invasion movie ie following a war movie arc with heroes, tragedy and triumph.
What we got was a survival horror movie with no heroes (the antagonists aren't even that likeable) and no redemption (save for the credits). It has more in common with a zombie movie than a typical invasion/war movie.
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mark-1 — 13 years ago(October 20, 2012 04:04 PM)
I think the movie scared the living poo out of people,
and they're repressing the experience by saying
it was no good and don't watch it.
It's very realistic: the characters are average people,
not heroes, and the aliens' technology is far beyond ours,
so we're totally helpless against them.
It could happen, and people don't want to think about it. -
Mandingo609 — 13 years ago(October 23, 2012 01:51 AM)
I loved it. The Invaders actually wins this one. I haven't been this enthusiastic since the 70s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I love when the Aliens wins.
Deh Deh Deh, DA Dabacco-Puert Rican dude from the I aint your Papi episode of COPS. -
busterbboy — 13 years ago(March 09, 2013 03:22 PM)
Yep, I hated this film.
Actually, I take that back - I quite enjoyed ridiculing the film, shouting about the sheer awfulness of it.
It was utterly generic - you could tell immediately who would be monster fodder and who would become a hero.
The special effects sucked - the US bombers moved in a ridiculously unrealistic manner, the flames and explosions were computer-game level.
BUT I quite enjoyed the hysterical 'let's pile in everything' story, and the ending was kinda ma, although the abruptness left a real sense of dissatisfaction. It was original and unexpected, but didn't deliver and didn't prompt any desire to see the sequel.
I felt cheated by this ending, and if I'd paid to watch it in a cinema, I would have asked for my money back as this wasn't a finished film, merely a trailrer for another shot at a rubbish story. -
MaxPhilips — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 04:21 PM)
It IS different from "Battle: Los Angeles" and "War of the Worlds" and "Independence Day" and a dozen other standard alien invasion movies - it's much better !
Interesting mix of genres, no boring Hollywood cliches, great CGI. I don't understand why people hate it so much too. -
Jazzyjae — 12 years ago(March 13, 2014 11:18 AM)
I really do believe people hate it because it doesn't follow a familiar pattern and go the typical route of invasion movies (Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Red Dawn etc) where the good guys win against all odds.
Admittedly, it doesn't help that it was miss-marketed as a sci-fi invasion movie and that it presents the ray of hope and revenge for humanity during the credits.