Underrated as Hell!
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billycan — 14 years ago(May 30, 2011 10:49 PM)
I might have been tempted to see a sequel if it had finished at the point I previously mentioned but after that flip card sequence with a red brain vs blue brains I'll give it a wide berth should it ever appear. I would rather see a 2nd series of "The Event" though that was a different sort of crap.
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ultra_pro — 14 years ago(July 26, 2011 02:18 AM)
I don't understand why everyone has such a problem with the ending to this film I thought it was fantastic, the movie as a whole was far better than everyone seems to make out, I found its take on the invasion idea to be incredibly refreshing, take a group of normal everyday people, not ridiculous all american super human super heroes, throw this unbelievable situation at them and see how they handle it, I loved the movie non-stop and the ending set it up perfectly for an amazing sequel. What the hell is all this about flip cards?? I remember the ending showing the guys brain getting put in an alien body and that he is able to resist and try to save his preggers mrs, what was so bad about it? I thought it was an excellent set up.
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J-bot6 — 14 years ago(March 18, 2012 09:11 PM)
Dude, if there's anything I know, it's science fiction.
And I totally agree with you.
It's too bad people can't recognize that this movie had the guts to present a truly bold ending. Most of what I've seen in the last 20 years has obviously been watered down by focus groups. Thankfully, Skyline presented an ending worthy of a graphic novel under the complete control of the writer.
I can't believe some dude said that Independence Day and the Cruise version of War of the Worlds was better. Please!! ID and the 2000s WOTW were insipid compared to Skyline.
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GypsyNomad — 12 years ago(January 26, 2014 06:39 PM)
I JUST watched this movie and the ending didn't have flip card 'blue and red brain' sequence, it was decided before they finished the 'Live action sequence' (not sure if that's what its called). The brain was put in the creature and after a moment of fight between system and software, the red brain took over and went to go save girlfriend from the pregnant women area, whatever they did there. (Question, what did they do with kids? All we ever saw was adults). He fought off the creature, told her it was still him again and she called him by his name. Then when another creature came up to figure out what was going on it switched to your flip cards.
Ok, first of all there are holes in the following because I came into this movie with only about an hour left. I admit that straight up. I started watching when they saw the people being sucked up in droves yadda yadda stuff happens, before they try to drive away.
I wasn't a huge fan of the 'action-hero' style flip cards at the end of such a weak movie. It would have been better if the acting was better, at least then the decisions would have been more reasonable. The fight at the end between the guy with the apartment and keys and Eric Balfour (sp?)(he was the only one who did a decent job, in my opinion) didn't make much sense, why wouldn't he just let the guy and his girlfriend go? It's their choice, which was the smarter choice too, even if you didn't look at what happened later. I would have hid in an apartment without windows or only one to see what was going on and get some light in (but a really small one at that), personally.
I can't imagine watching the whole thing with commercials, it might have been better without. Marginally. Nothing could have made the acting better except the acting/actors. I saw enough as it was.
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luxmissus — 14 years ago(June 04, 2011 09:06 PM)
Yes, we didn't expect to love the movie. It started out as an okay action-sci-fi but the ending elevated it into a solid satisfying movie.
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laz-29 — 14 years ago(June 14, 2011 04:18 PM)
Indeed, good film.
I saw the poor reviews and the odd slating but managed to avoid the story apart from know it was about aliens.
The first bit where it goe 15 hours earlier, I thought oh christ a boring long film about nothing but the skipped through those hours nice and quickly.
All in all, a good film.
Ignore the bad reviews and watch it on it's own merits. One of the best sci fi films I seen this year and better then any of those crap sci-fi channel films.
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ReflectedGlory — 14 years ago(July 27, 2011 07:42 PM)
totally agree. i was surprised at how good this was. gave it a 7/10. very entertaining movie great effects.
Exactly the same for me. I watched it out of boredom, heard it was positively awful. I knew nothing about it other than it got abysmal ratings. It was actually a really good time. 7/10.
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zender8584 — 14 years ago(July 30, 2011 05:06 PM)
Agree with that rating.
I admit that my expectations were low, and also admit that I'm a big fan of video games, first person shooters especially. I think there is a place for movies that are basically video games where you don't control the toons, but essentially watch the action unfold. The acting was not great, but adequate (c'mon Dr. Turk, how can you not like him?). Seeing a 360 get crushed like that was memorable too. If the word "realism" can be used in a context like this, I do like the fact that humans have no chance against a civilization that has figured out interstellar travel once it comes to a brawl.
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mam13143 — 14 years ago(August 04, 2011 06:45 PM)
Saw a lot of the bad reviews but sadly nothing on the thousand cable channels so watched it with IPad in hand. Not at all bad and certainly far better than all the sic-fi channel films. Thought the ending was a bit hokey but really well done and different. Don't know what people expect I thought spieberg's war of the worlds was inferior compared to this film (heresy I know). At least no dysfunctional family kids in this film. Hated some of the characters but enjoyed the movie.
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chad-pace — 14 years ago(October 03, 2011 02:03 AM)
Why do people often like terrible movies better when they see them on DVD? They weren't hoping for a good experience so they got what they expected and were pleased. Likewise, people went in and expected a flop, so they got what they expected and were pleased.
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fireyhope — 14 years ago(June 15, 2011 12:54 AM)
A GEM? wow, people truly have terrible tastes in movies.
The script was extremely lazy, I felt absolutely no love for any of the whiny bitchy characters in the entire movie. The movie if anything is just a typical Alien Invasion story told in such a boring fashion with characters who don't do beep until the very end. -
thebard2000 — 14 years ago(June 16, 2011 12:55 AM)
I can't believe how often people post the same thing about Skyline. They didn't care about the characters. LOL. WHO F-ING CARES ABOUT THE CHARACTERS.; They're alien feed. The FBI'd be sifting through alien droppings in order to identify the dead.
You people are missing the point of this movie. This movie, of course, and also the fact that it's a setup for something much bigger that will probably not even involved a bunch of human characters.
Because this is a directors vision put directly to the screen, instead of what usually happens someone has a n idea and then Hollywood dumbs it down and beep it all up, this is someones idea here that has actually made it to the screen relatively in tact. And people can't handle it because Will Smith isn't throwing out his one liners and their aren't any shots of the white house being blown up and the empire state building getting pwnd. -
fireyhope — 14 years ago(June 17, 2011 12:16 AM)
LOL what?
I didn't get the point of this movie? So the movie was about the Aliens? Not the main character? hahahaha wow.
No it's the fact that they practically did nothing half the time, and no I don't blame the producers these 2 directors are just beep AVP R was even worse than Skyline.
Sure it aint Will Smith but at-least Independence Day and will smith made a terrible movie Much more entertaining than a boring piece of trash this one was.
ID was at-least competent in making likable characters with great and fun action sequences unlike a huge Bore of a movie this was.
That being said so was Battle LA a by far much more superior movie compared to Skyline.