Battle: Lost Angeles

[Jazen]

Okay so I just saw this today. And I have to say.....it was really good.

You have no real idea whats the backing behind this but basically, its aliens invading Earth(really, if anyone saw the trailer, this is obvious so meh to you spoiler folks). The story follows a group of marines, lead by the ever so awesome Aaron Eckhart(remember Two Face? No, the good one ) who basically get to run around and do what marines do best. Get their behinds kicked and then kick back twice as hard.

Anyway, visually, it was nice. Watching LA burn from constant bombings....phew. And the one scene with all the helicopters flying in as more alien pods come down.....breath taking. The battle scenes had me on the edge of my seat and yes, it reminded me a lot of Black Hawk Down. Which is good because that movie was awesome.

And contrarily to what reviews may say, you see the aliens. A lot. And they are just the weirdest looking things ever. Plus 1 for awesome looking tech though; love their walking turrets xD

Acting was...corny at times but overall, what would likely be said in such a situation. And even some laughs despite, you know, millions likely dead. What can they say, might as well enjoy handing the aliens their behinds back. Even when the big one just you know, bursts outta about twenty city blocks.

Overall, good flick, I say go watch it. 4/5 from me ^__^

Anyway, feel free to opinionate/discuss while I watch xD

[Moonfire]

Cain and I saw this one last night, and neither of us were really impressed. Overall, I found it to be rather cliche, and more like a war movie. I feel like I might have enjoyed it more if I were a marine =P.

Don't get me wrong, I love me some aliens and I love me some action, but this movie didn't blow up my skirt.

Now, I will say that the graphics all around were very good, and some parts had me tearing up when hope seemed loss, but the ending was really unsatisfying for me. When they were attack the command central, I feel like they could have done so much more. No suicide missions in the command base?. No discovering their ultimate weakness? (besides having to shoot them to the right of the heart =P). I would have loved to go more in-dept with the extra-terrestrials, I was fascinated by their anatomy and how they were fueled by water. I wanted desperately for the tech chick to hack into something and download their crazy alien blue-prints or something.

But I guess this story wasn't really about the aliens, but more about the average Joes who were pitted against them.

In the end, I'd rate it a 3/5, it was visually good and had a decent premise, I just feel like the scripting could have been better in some parts as well as the way they went about it.