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I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
What did you watch?
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking.
I finally finished Ironheart. It wasn’t easy. I kept falling asleep and the Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
How bad was it? Well it’s still better than Marvels but it’s Stargate Origins SGO (the “O” stands for: Origins!) bad.
Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might ask “how bad is that?“
Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture the sound made by a sheep exploding. It’s Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
On 7/5/2025 11:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:I've watched the web series "prequel" too. And ya, it is BAD!
I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking.
I finally finished Ironheart. It wasn’t easy. I kept falling asleep and the
Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place >> or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and >> closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
How bad was it? Well it’s still better than Marvels but it’s Stargate
Origins SGO (the “O” stands for: Origins!) bad.
Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might >> ask “how bad is that?“
Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture >> the sound made by a sheep exploding. It’s Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking.
I finally finished Ironheart. It wasn’t easy. I kept falling asleep and the Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
How bad was it? Well it’s still better than Marvels
Origins SGO (the “O” stands for: Origins!) bad.
Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might ask “how bad is that?“
Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture the sound made by a sheep exploding. It’s Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
And the end was absolutely the worst part of it.
Without significant spoilers, let me say I’m completely perplexed that this little idiot doesn’t just call for help. Like Doctor Strange or somebody.
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.-a The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the military fighting the aliens.-a The first dog fight where they nuke the alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens next.-a But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get dumb.-a One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens.-a One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the plane blew up a few feet from them.-a This is a military fighter jet exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.-a If only the movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth. The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the military fighting the aliens. The first dog fight where they nuke the
alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens
next. But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get
dumb. One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens. One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the plane blew up a few feet from them. This is a military fighter jet
exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them. If only the
movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Battle: Los Angeles (blu-ray) 2011 Sci-fi movie about an alien invasion
of Earth that focuses on a platoon of Marines lead by Aaron Eckhart, who must battle their way through the streets of Los Angeles fighting the invading aliens. The movie holds up well enough.
Battleship (4K disc) 2012 sci-fi movie based on the board game. A group
of young sailors must battle an alien invasion force at sea. I know
this movie has a bad reputation, but I actually like it a lot. I
especially like towards the end when in order to get back into the fight they retrofit the USS Missouri and set sail with it along with some old timers who still knew how to operate the ship.
On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.-a The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the
military fighting the aliens.-a The first dog fight where they nuke the
alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens
next.-a But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get
dumb.-a One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens.-a One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the
plane blew up a few feet from them.-a This is a military fighter jet
exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and
immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.-a If only the
movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Wait till you see the two sequels! (I've seen the second movie but not
the third yet. Have it on disc in my queue.)
Jul 6, 2025 at 10:45:34 AM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
Battleship (4K disc) 2012 sci-fi movie based on the board game. A group >>of young sailors must battle an alien invasion force at sea. I know
this movie has a bad reputation, but I actually like it a lot. I >>especially like towards the end when in order to get back into the fight >>they retrofit the USS Missouri and set sail with it along with some old >>timers who still knew how to operate the ship.
I know you've expressed your love for this movie before but for me, there's a >limit to how absurd a movie can be before I really can't suspend the disbelief >anymore.
The sequence with the Missouri was such a bizarre plot development on so many >levels. The ship has been stripped of all its engines and the barrels are all >that's left of those big guns. All the breaches and internal firing mechanisms >are long gone. But even if we were to assume that all of that equipment was >still inexplicably in place and functional, why would a floating museum be >fully fueled? And where did all the ammo for the guns come from? The powder >bags that fire those guns weigh 660 pounds and are loaded in by crane. Are we >supposed to assume the Navy was storing live ammo for the 16-inch guns on >board just for the hell of it? And even if we assume all of that, the final >cherry on that ridiculous sundae was how all those octogenarian geezers were >apparently just hanging out on the masts and yardarms of the ship in dramatic >poses for... what? Hawaii is under attack by space aliens, so all the >80-year-old WWII vets psychically decide at the same moment to go down to >Pearl Harbor and pose dramatically on their old ship?
It was just too, too, too much for this viewer to 'just go with it'. The movie >wouldn't have been any more ridiculous at that point if Taylor Kitch had >suddenly and inexplicably become Superman and started flying around killing >the aliens with his laser-beam eyes or something.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
Jul 6, 2025 at 10:45:34 AM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
Battleship (4K disc) 2012 sci-fi movie based on the board game. A group >>> of young sailors must battle an alien invasion force at sea. I know
this movie has a bad reputation, but I actually like it a lot. I
especially like towards the end when in order to get back into the fight >>> they retrofit the USS Missouri and set sail with it along with some old
timers who still knew how to operate the ship.
I know you've expressed your love for this movie before but for me, there's a
limit to how absurd a movie can be before I really can't suspend the disbelief
anymore.
The sequence with the Missouri was such a bizarre plot development on so many
levels. The ship has been stripped of all its engines and the barrels are all
that's left of those big guns. All the breaches and internal firing mechanisms
are long gone. But even if we were to assume that all of that equipment was >> still inexplicably in place and functional, why would a floating museum be >> fully fueled? And where did all the ammo for the guns come from? The powder >> bags that fire those guns weigh 660 pounds and are loaded in by crane. Are we
supposed to assume the Navy was storing live ammo for the 16-inch guns on
board just for the hell of it? And even if we assume all of that, the final >> cherry on that ridiculous sundae was how all those octogenarian geezers were >> apparently just hanging out on the masts and yardarms of the ship in dramatic
poses for... what? Hawaii is under attack by space aliens, so all the
80-year-old WWII vets psychically decide at the same moment to go down to
Pearl Harbor and pose dramatically on their old ship?
It was just too, too, too much for this viewer to 'just go with it'. The movie
wouldn't have been any more ridiculous at that point if Taylor Kitch had
suddenly and inexplicably become Superman and started flying around killing >> the aliens with his laser-beam eyes or something.
Hey! I sort of liked him as John Carter! No laser eyes though.
On Jul 6, 2025 at 10:45:34 AM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth. The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the
military fighting the aliens. The first dog fight where they nuke the
alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens
next. But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get
dumb. One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens. One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the
plane blew up a few feet from them. This is a military fighter jet
exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and
immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them. If only the
movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
I went to a 4th of July party this weekend at the condo complex in Marina del Rey where that whole movie was filmed! I kept telling myself to remember not to look out the windows if anything unexpected should occur.
Battle: Los Angeles (blu-ray) 2011 Sci-fi movie about an alien invasion
of Earth that focuses on a platoon of Marines lead by Aaron Eckhart, who
must battle their way through the streets of Los Angeles fighting the
invading aliens. The movie holds up well enough.
I could never get over that they shot this in Louisiana. If you're going to essentially make L.A. a character
in your movie and put it in the title, you should actually film it in L.A.
On 7/5/2025 11:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking.
I finally finished Ironheart. It wasnrCOt easy. I kept falling asleep and the
Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place >> or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and >> closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
How bad was it? Well itrCOs still better than Marvels
I liked "The Marvels." The musical number may have been a bit too
jokey, along with some of the stuff at the end, but otherwise it was an
OK movie.
but itrCOs Stargate
Origins SGO (the rCLOrCY stands for: Origins!) bad.
Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might >> ask rCLhow bad is that?rCL
Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture >> the sound made by a sheep exploding. ItrCOs Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
And the end was absolutely the worst part of it.
Without significant spoilers, let me say IrCOm completely perplexed that this
little idiot doesnrCOt just call for help. Like Doctor Strange or somebody. >>
Why would Dr. Strange come and save The Hood from Ironheart? Oh, did
you mean, the supervillain known as Ironheart should have called Dr. Strange? They already explained why that wouldn't work when another character asked and Ironheart listed all the evil deeds that she had
been doing. I'm pretty sure this series is a villain origin story.
LOL. Especially since, and I didn't notice this myself, but others have said that there is a brief shot where Vebaurneg vf jrnevat gur ubbq'f
pybnx bire ure Vebaurneg fhvg.
This is a multi-day catch up. Over the last few days I watched:
Independence Day (4K disc) 1996 sci-fi movie where Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum save the Earth from aliens by giving them a cold. Holds up
very well (more or less). And I still love the speech Bill Pullman gives
at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QSJyJaeD4
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth. The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the military fighting the aliens. The first dog fight where they nuke the
alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens
next. But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get
dumb. One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens. One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the plane blew up a few feet from them. This is a military fighter jet exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them. If only the movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Battle: Los Angeles (blu-ray) 2011 Sci-fi movie about an alien invasion
of Earth that focuses on a platoon of Marines lead by Aaron Eckhart, who must battle their way through the streets of Los Angeles fighting the invading aliens. The movie holds up well enough.
Battleship (4K disc) 2012 sci-fi movie based on the board game. A group
of young sailors must battle an alien invasion force at sea. I know
this movie has a bad reputation, but I actually like it a lot. I
especially like towards the end when in order to get back into the fight they retrofit the USS Missouri and set sail with it along with some old timers who still knew how to operate the ship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGp8D9832Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YDkBrWEOhM
9 (blu-ray) 2009 CGI movie produced by Time Burton and Timur
Bekmambetov. Set in a post apocalyptic world where humanity has been
wiped out by machines, Elijah Woods voices "9" a rag doll that has been brought to life with a human soul and must navigate the post apocalyptic world. I'm not describing it very well, but it's actually a very good movie.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.-a The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the
military fighting the aliens.-a The first dog fight where they nuke the
alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens
next.-a But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get
dumb.-a One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens.-a One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the >>> plane blew up a few feet from them.-a This is a military fighter jet
exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and
immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.-a If only the >>> movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Yeah, I get what you are saying but let's just say it's a setup for
the second movie and a way to actually beat the aliens.
Wait till you see the two sequels! (I've seen the second movie but not
the third yet. Have it on disc in my queue.)
There's a third? I've seen the second already but had no idea there
was a third one.
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
On 7/5/2025 11:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking.
I finally finished Ironheart. It wasnrCOt easy. I kept falling asleep and the
Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place >>> or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and >>> closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
How bad was it? Well itrCOs still better than Marvels
I liked "The Marvels." The musical number may have been a bit too
jokey, along with some of the stuff at the end, but otherwise it was an
OK movie.
Sorry, I booted the name.
I meant Ms. Marvel the TV show on Disney+.
As awful as Ironheart was, I made it through to the end (granted Disney+ screwing up meant I only had to watch about 2/3 of it). I didnrCOt make it past the second episode of Ms. Marvel.
but itrCOs Stargate
Origins SGO (the rCLOrCY stands for: Origins!) bad.
Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might >>> ask rCLhow bad is that?rCL
Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture >>> the sound made by a sheep exploding. ItrCOs Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
And the end was absolutely the worst part of it.
Without significant spoilers, let me say IrCOm completely perplexed that this
little idiot doesnrCOt just call for help. Like Doctor Strange or somebody. >>>
Why would Dr. Strange come and save The Hood from Ironheart? Oh, did
you mean, the supervillain known as Ironheart should have called Dr.
Strange? They already explained why that wouldn't work when another
character asked and Ironheart listed all the evil deeds that she had
been doing. I'm pretty sure this series is a villain origin story.
Yeah. Again beyond her working in the garage, no resemblance to the comic.
Did anybody ever say why the hell MIT didnrCOt send someone after the suit? Like war machine? It was built on StarkrCOs dime.
The one thing I found interesting in the whole mess was that she not only knew who Dormammu is, she had a drawing of him. Has anyone but Doctor
Strange ever seen him?
They should never have made the bad guy Mephisto. He would have won in the end. Surely there must be some minor demon they couldrCOve invoked.
LOL. Especially since, and I didn't notice this myself, but others have
said that there is a brief shot where Vebaurneg vf jrnevat gur ubbq'f
pybnx bire ure Vebaurneg fhvg.
VrCOz fher vgrCOf n tbbq svg.
This is a multi-day catch up. Over the last few days I watched:
Independence Day (4K disc) 1996 sci-fi movie where Will Smith and Jeff
Goldblum save the Earth from aliens by giving them a cold. Holds up
very well (more or less). And I still love the speech Bill Pullman gives
at the end.
And he stopped the aliens with an apple computer.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
Jul 6, 2025 at 10:45:34 AM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
Battleship (4K disc) 2012 sci-fi movie based on the board game. A group >>> of young sailors must battle an alien invasion force at sea. I know
this movie has a bad reputation, but I actually like it a lot. I
especially like towards the end when in order to get back into the fight >>> they retrofit the USS Missouri and set sail with it along with some old
timers who still knew how to operate the ship.
I know you've expressed your love for this movie before but for me, there's a
limit to how absurd a movie can be before I really can't suspend the disbelief
anymore.
The sequence with the Missouri was such a bizarre plot development on so many
levels. The ship has been stripped of all its engines and the barrels are all
that's left of those big guns. All the breaches and internal firing mechanisms
are long gone. But even if we were to assume that all of that equipment was >> still inexplicably in place and functional, why would a floating museum be >> fully fueled?
bags that fire those guns weigh 660 pounds and are loaded in by crane. Are we
supposed to assume the Navy was storing live ammo for the 16-inch guns on
board just for the hell of it?
cherry on that ridiculous sundae was how all those octogenarian geezers were >> apparently just hanging out on the masts and yardarms of the ship in dramatic
poses for... what? Hawaii is under attack by space aliens, so all the
80-year-old WWII vets psychically decide at the same moment to go down to
Pearl Harbor and pose dramatically on their old ship?
It was just too, too, too much for this viewer to 'just go with it'. The movie
wouldn't have been any more ridiculous at that point if Taylor Kitch had
suddenly and inexplicably become Superman and started flying around killing >> the aliens with his laser-beam eyes or something.
Hey! I sort of liked him as John Carter! No laser eyes though.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.-a The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the
military fighting the aliens.-a The first dog fight where they nuke the
alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens
next.-a But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get
dumb.-a One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets
were battling the aliens.-a One of the fighters went down and crash so
close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the >>> plane blew up a few feet from them.-a This is a military fighter jet
exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and
immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.-a If only the >>> movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Yeah, I get what you are saying but let's just say it's a setup for
the second movie and a way to actually beat the aliens.
Wait till you see the two sequels! (I've seen the second movie but not
the third yet. Have it on disc in my queue.)
There's a third? I've seen the second already but had no idea there
was a third one.
On 7/6/2025 2:59 PM, shawn wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los
Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.-a The
only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the >>>> military fighting the aliens.-a The first dog fight where they nuke the >>>> alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens >>>> next.-a But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get >>>> dumb.-a One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets >>>> were battling the aliens.-a One of the fighters went down and crash so >>>> close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then
the
plane blew up a few feet from them.-a This is a military fighter jet
exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and
immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.-a If only the >>>> movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the
people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Yeah, I get what you are saying but let's just say it's a setup for
the second movie and a way to actually beat the aliens.
Yeah, except that the second movie pretty much ignored it until someone tapped the director on the shoulder and said maybe we should tie this
movie into the first one someway.-a And the director probably said, first movie?-a I'm making a sequel?-a I didn't know that, maybe I should watch
the first movie.-a And it was at that point the director found out the
first movie had aliens but by then it was too late to put any in the sequel.-a I'm guessing about then is when they decided to call it "Beyond Skylines" so it wouldn't have to actually connect to the first movie.
The director probably said, We've got Frank Grillo as a cop searching
for his son, and Iko Uwais doing some martial arts, we don't need any stinking aliens.-a But if you insist we'll edit some aliens in the background.-a And we'll ADR the dialog so the aliens took Grillo's son.
Now I can't prove that's how it went down, but that's probably pretty
close to how it happened.
Wait till you see the two sequels!-a (I've seen the second movie but not >>> the third yet.-a Have it on disc in my queue.)
Do not watch the third one!-a I'm warning you, it's not worth it.-a You
will never get those 110 minutes of your life back.-a Use the time you
would have spent watching Skyline 3 to watch some paint dry or schedule
that root canal you've been putting off.-a I assure you, it will be far
more entertaining!
There's a third? I've seen the second already but had no idea there
was a third one.
Four!-a They made a fourth one.-a Skyline: Warpath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline:_Warpath
On 7/6/2025 3:50 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
On 7/6/2025 2:59 PM, shawn wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los >>>>> Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.-a The >>>>> only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the >>>>> military fighting the aliens.-a The first dog fight where they nuke the >>>>> alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens >>>>> next.-a But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get >>>>> dumb.-a One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets >>>>> were battling the aliens.-a One of the fighters went down and crash so >>>>> close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then >>>>> the
plane blew up a few feet from them.-a This is a military fighter jet >>>>> exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and
immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.-a If only the >>>>> movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the >>>>> people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
Yeah, I get what you are saying but let's just say it's a setup for
the second movie and a way to actually beat the aliens.
Yeah, except that the second movie pretty much ignored it until someone
tapped the director on the shoulder and said maybe we should tie this
movie into the first one someway.-a And the director probably said, first >> movie?-a I'm making a sequel?-a I didn't know that, maybe I should watch
the first movie.-a And it was at that point the director found out the
first movie had aliens but by then it was too late to put any in the
sequel.-a I'm guessing about then is when they decided to call it "Beyond >> Skylines" so it wouldn't have to actually connect to the first movie.
The director probably said, We've got Frank Grillo as a cop searching
for his son, and Iko Uwais doing some martial arts, we don't need any
stinking aliens.-a But if you insist we'll edit some aliens in the
background.-a And we'll ADR the dialog so the aliens took Grillo's son.
Now I can't prove that's how it went down, but that's probably pretty
close to how it happened.
Wait till you see the two sequels!-a (I've seen the second movie but not >>>> the third yet.-a Have it on disc in my queue.)
Do not watch the third one!-a I'm warning you, it's not worth it.-a You
will never get those 110 minutes of your life back.-a Use the time you
would have spent watching Skyline 3 to watch some paint dry or schedule
that root canal you've been putting off.-a I assure you, it will be far
more entertaining!
There's a third? I've seen the second already but had no idea there
was a third one.
Four!-a They made a fourth one.-a Skyline: Warpath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline:_Warpath
Are making a fourth one according to that wiki. It ain't finished until
its released!