"Skyline" - New Alien Invasion Film

the quality is very good in hd.  human vacuum cleaners, definitely an interesting concept!  

Looks fun, but did the makers of that trailer just get their hands on the Transformers Sound Effects and Titles library? They didn't even try to mask it.

when we saw scott pilgram this weekend i turned to my nephew and asked, 'a transformers 3 trailer already?'. the font and sounds completely threw me off .

Found this new trailer on YouTube. Well, it looks impressive. So, I understand this was directed by the brothers who gave us that disappointing ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM . . . I hope this is the apology.

 

Basically looks like a reprise of Independence Day. Only this time it looks like they would like to eat us, instead of just plain enslave and destroy us. It looks like the usual silliness, like gnat-sized jet fighters taking down mile long, technologically advanced, alien ships. Still it might be worth seeing for a few laughs.

Is it just me or are alien invasion flicks getting to overexposed, kind of like vampire flicks, I think. Both genres need to take some time out, and come back with something mindblowingly original.

That looks kick-ass! Here's a link to a higher quality trailer.

 

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/skyline/feature-trailer

Edited by Ron-P - 9/30/10 at 8:01am

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Having previously said this, I'm thinking, now, that I may check this flick out when it opens. I'm ashamed to admit, it kinda grows on ya. No pun intended.

"Is it just me or are alien invasion flicks getting to overexposed, kind of like vampire flicks, I think."

 

It hasn't run its course just yet.  I was on the bus the other day, sitting next to a kid in a suit, and he was yakking on his cell phone about how he was working on the script for an alien invasion movie set to star Mark Wahlberg...

 

 

I'm probably just having a brain fart, but I can't think of that many major alien invasion movies from recent years.  Cloverfield, maybe?  What else?

I can never have enough alien invasion or vamp films. Keep bringing them on!

 

I do hope that this film is rated 'R', and not PG-13.
 

District 9, Transformers 1 & 2, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Signs, War of the Worlds.

 

Coming out soon or in pre-production:  Monsters, I Am Number Four, Battle: Los Angeles, Paul, The Thing (prequel), Cowboys & Aliens, The Darkest Hour, Super 8, Iron Sky, Battleship (yes, it reportedly features aliens!), Men In Black 3D, 

 

I've never really understood why some people are so attached to a film getting a certain rating.  Of course I don't like a movie to be watered-down just to receive a particular rating, but I think it's just as bad to include graphic content gratuitously.  I recall folks around here (though not you specifically, Ron) bashing the ads for The Happening a couple of years ago because it was advertised as "Shyamalan's first R-rated movie!" as if that were the most interesting thing about it.

 

Personally, some of the scariest, most intense, and most suspenseful movies, in my opinion, are rated PG or PG-13:  Cloverfield, The Dark Knight, Poltergeist, and Signs are probably my favorite scary or intense movies.  I wouldn't change a thing about them, including their rating.

"I've never really understood why some people are so attached to a film getting a certain rating."

 

As a fan of 80s, R rated action movies, it's very disappointing when a studio takes on a subject with adult sensibilities or subject matter, but makes it "safe" to get the younger audience.  I'm an adult and it's tough to find an action movie made for adults because the studios are chasing dollars.

 

"Of course I don't like a movie to be watered-down just to receive a particular rating, but I think it's just as bad to include graphic content gratuitously."

 

I think it's a rare thing to beef up to get an R rating.  Mostly the studios are watering down projects.

I could go without the kiss too lol..

Hmmm...I'm more worried about studios dumbing down to get more butts in seats, I couldn't care less about the rating due to violence or graphic content. I'm tired of DUMB action/SF flicks. The "adult" aspect I wish more movies would play up to is intelligence. Blood and gore for no good reason is playing to the cheap seats. I just wish action films in general aimed a little higher.
 

"The "adult" aspect I wish more movies would play up to is intelligence."

 

Intelligence is certainly a part of the puzzle, Claire.  An adult sensibility isn't just gore, it's how you treat the subject.  Adults can handle more complex and nuanced stories and characters than kids.  For example, the ending of "Seven."  The studio would have never gone with that ending if they were aiming for the PG-13 crowd, in my opinion.

Found a very cool theatrical poster of this on Dread Central.

 

I had not known about this movie. Saw the trailer tonight on TV. It does remind me of ID4 and War of the Worlds. Then I read the Wiki entry on it and then I thought it was sort if like Night of the Comet.

New clip which shows a good amount of a creature...

 

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810147516/video/22682181

Anybody recognize that design they did for the claws? When the tentacles shoot out to grab the copter? I wonder if that creature is related to the alien scorpion-thing seen at the end of HOWARD THE DUCK? Still looking forward to seeing this flick.

This is another film set in LA, isn't it? I am really getting tired about how sci-fi disaster films always include a devastated Los Angeles. It is probably fun for the executives who live there. But there are plenty of other cities that could be done instead.

 

The Day After Tomorrow did LA. 2012 did LA. Resident Evil: Afterlife did LA. Terminator: Salvation did LA.

 

Going back a bit, Galactica:1980 did LA. Escape From LA did LA.

 

No doubt folks here could add in a couple hundred more. Point is, it is overdone. Seeing the Hollywood sign destroyed doesn't really give non-LA residents the same rush that presumably it gives the filmmakers. They need to stop depending on it. Change things up.

One might as well complain about Tokyo getting flattened every time Godzilla or his friends hit town.

 

And Galactica 1980 was simply matting Cylon Raiders into stock footage from Earthquake. Not to mention the scene in question was a computer simulation of what would happen if the Cylons found Earth.

 

Yes that makes a difference.

At least in the original "V" tv series, the visitors attacked L.A. for real. Or course, it was shameless use of stock footage from War of the Worlds.

They almost never show San Francisco being destroyed.

No reviews on Rotten Tomatoes yet which is not a good sign.

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind was Wyoming wasn't it?   And Independence Day pretty much blew up a ton of major landmarks.

 

Though, I think it'd be good if you saw an Alien Invasion where the Aliens went to a super-metro, like Tokyo, Mumbai, Seoul, Sao Paulo... just have it one where the US and the world has to respond to something happening somewhere else.  

 

Or, do a prequel to Ender's Game.. at least in Ender's Game they talk about the buggers first coming to Earth by wrecking havoc in China/India until the US and others got involved in fending them off.    That would be a good twist.

I like almost all sci-fi movies.  And I really loves me some alien movies.  Hell I even somewhat enjoyed Battlefield Earth.  However, I just have a sneaking suspicion that this movie will have two faces.  It will have incredible alien CGI and be quite the eye candy but the acting and writing are going to be atrocious.  I really, really hope I'm wrong.

 

Seems like there are a few movies out there that show the Golden Gate bridge getting trashed. Superman would be one, "The Core" another. San Fran was taken over in the Sutherland "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"