Battle: Los Angeles

Battle: Los Angeles
Movie Blurb by Shale
March 11, 2011

First off, let me say that this, more than any other Space Invasion flick is for guys and particularly guys that like war movies and the dedication of the US Marines.

Semper Fi


The entire movie revolves around a band of Marines in an unwinnable wartime situation and opens on battle raging before a flashback 24 hours earlier introduces our cast.

LA Under Attack


Marine Staff Sergeant Michael Nanz (Aaron Eckhart), plagued by aging and ghosts of dead compatriots in Afghanistan, is about to retire. However, with incoming "meteorites" on the radar, he and his unit are called up to evacuate LA.

Staff Sgt


Newly graduated 2nd Lieutenant Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez) leads the rescue unit when it is realized that these meteorites are extraterrestrial vehicles and the earth is under attack by superior armaments.

From here the rescue mission gets very involved, the Marines are going thru what Marines go thru - firefights, trying to take out the enemy and losing men in the battle.

Marines Pinned Down


Like I said in the beginning - this is a war movie. The fact that we are fighting space invaders is actually irrelevant here. The fact that the Marines are outgunned and continue the battle valiantly against all odds is the crux of the whole show. Retreat - Hell.

So, if you are a guy who can appreciate a good war movie - this is your flick.

 

I did mention that this was a guy flick. Well there were a couple of women in it. One was Michelle, (Bridget Moynahan) a strong civilian veterinarian and the other Air Force Tech Sgt. Elena Santos (Michelle Rodriguez) who joins the band of Marines.



You may remember Ms Rodriguez as the very cute but battle savvy pilot in Avatar who might be taking on a recurrent role of Tuf Latina.

 

thanks for the review shale :2thumbsup:

 

any body watched the movie..positive comments ?

Honestly looks me something like too many science fantastic

 

I just got home from watching this. I had seen the previews so didn't have high expectations. I was still really dissappointed. This movie is awful. It's nothing more than one long propoganda piece for the Marines. The characters are all one dimensional and the story is so sparse it's almost not even coherant. Everything is so onesided and prowar I would be shocked if this wasn't funded by the military industrial complex. Total trash, don't subject you mind to this nonsense.

 

:rofl:

 

Yeah, I know what you mean. I saw the previews to Bride Wars and didn't have high expectations.

The only difference is I didn't go see a movie that I knew I wouldn't care for.

 

Any movie that involves alien invasion I will see no matter how bad the previews are. It has such great potential that I can't help but give it a chance. I'll suffer through bad sci-fi because of the awesomesness of the good sci-fi.

 

Same here, which is why I went to see Skyline. It is the same story as this one but which was sooo bad they didn't even pre-screen it for reviewers.

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=413192&f=287



I doubt that the sequel it was set up for will ever be made.

Gotta admit that compared to Skyline this one should be up for an Academy Award.

 

I just saw this movie two days ago. It wasn't really anything special to me. For the most part, Reality is BS was right on. The story is pretty much nothing and there is almost no character development at all. The action scenes weren't too bad, but I can only watch guys shooting alien robots so many times until it begins to get old, ya know?

 

everyone knows large alien ships would burn up in the atmosphere... Its why they use smaller attack the size of modern airplane or little robots.

 

So why the fuck didn't they use their grenade lauchers until near the end of the movie, and then just a little? Other than that the battle scenes rocked!

A lot of the dialog was pretty lame though.

 

Looks good, I really want to go see it

 

I just rented it this weekend at Red Box (only, $1:00 dollar) and I was very disappointed

It was glorified made-for-tv movie



H

 

i liked "Skyline" more than "Battle LA". at least there was some character development and a bit of a plot. i wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.

 

it was one of the worst films i have ever seen.

 

You're taunting me, right?

 

no. i'm not. "Battle LA" looked like a military propaganda film. lots of Boorahing, explosions and little else.

"Skyline" not only had the typical battle and escape scenes but better monsters, the scary whitelight hynosis thing, the love interest, the creepy inside the spaceship scenes and the tranformation of the main male character.

 

An example of total ignorance of science

Everything burns up at mach 25. Big rocks say 200 meters wide and up hit ground before total incineraton. ELE rocks are 5+ km wide.

In Battle for LA they 'slow down'.. or did you miss that.

You can see them popping retros just before hitting water. And they probably have done so several times to adjust orbit and target

The people who made this flic know science.
And have made the best war movie since private Ryan.
Many posters here say otherwise. as is their want... Will they debate it? no
This is crysis 2 with a story and no spawning

This is my passion, my 'field'. I combine Military history with SF

Any worthwhile comments.. welcome

Boaz

ps i own flic 25$ au a good deal

check our 'retreat,hell' a post by moi

 

I didnt mind it.

But District 9 was in a similar vein, and that movie kicked this movies butt.

However there were enough things blowing up in this movie to keep me entertained