Audio Reviews - Battle Los Angeles - Audio Review

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  January 22, 2012 at 10:56 PM, said ...

  @Simon Paine

  Next time, try to check on your grammar.  It was so hard to understand what you wrote that I actually thought that you DIDN'T like the movie when I first read your comment.

• December 29, 2011 at 9:34 PM, said ...

  It was alright I give it a high rental.

  
  
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  August 17, 2011 at 12:14 AM, said ...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_M4gcWtasQ&feature=channel_video_title

• March 29, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Simon Paine said ...

  You know what this is NOTHING!! like inderpendence day alright, i know that movie back to front and comparing this to that movie, what are you joking!! i can take this movie seriousl as inderpendence day is good for a laugh, a good movie to just chill and enjoy a American patriot movie, that is all. This blew my mind away, as someone said its not scary enough but it is just so entertaining to watch again. There are many stories exicuted like this in different ways but this one exitcuted it well to enjoy, to feel the struggle of couping with such movies... This is going high but its better than sex. URA

  
  
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  March 23, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Jon Garlinge said ...

  Well what can be said about this other than it was inderpendence day but with ground troops instead of fighter pilots, hell, it even had the downed helicopter like Independence day. Although it was an enjoyable romp it was, once again, very clich'ed. There were not enough jumps or scares and very few parts that made you laugh or even feel for the characters other than 'shit, waited all this time for retirment and this shit happens!!'. Battle Los Angles was enjoyable and looked good on the big screen unfortunately if it were not for the fact i have an unlimited pass for our local cinema i would have waited for it to come out on DVD.

• March 22, 2011 at 2:08 AM, said ...

  @NeoSpearBlade

  Wow. And I thought we were all having a good time joking about the Call of Duty comparisons.

  
  
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  March 22, 2011 at 1:40 AM, said ...

  This movie was awesome!....Yeah, that's about it for my review.

  BTW, to anyone who say that this should have been a DLC for CoD:

  

  Apparently made by the same guys who brought you TimeShift. No, I'm not kidding.

  A topic (or review) for the next Loading Bar, perhaps?

• March 21, 2011 at 2:25 AM, said ...

  Despite this review I went to see this movie anyway. You weren't kidding about how predictable it was. I did like it still though, High rental to low Matinee, couldn't chose. All I can say is it gave me something to do .

  
  
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  March 20, 2011 at 4:53 PM, said ...

  I have to say, I just saw this movie this past weekend, and it merits some bullshit just based on the camera work alone. Brutuxan couldn't have said it any better: there must've been an ADD-diagnosed, Mountain Dew-swilling, Black Ops-obsessed lemur-child behind the camera the entire time.

   

  I also hate the Call of Duty comparisons, if only because the first Modern Warfare was an absolutely perfect game. Comparing this shitstorm specifically to Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 is a lot more apt.

• March 20, 2011 at 7:58 AM, rocco burntire said ...

  this movie really sucks the high hard one.....how can this be anything else but a fuck you!.....the fucking shitty camera alone would bring it down to a fuck you.........this movie was absolute horrid in every possible way ...fucking waste of money...and WTF the ending ripping off that other fuckfest of an alien invasion movie independence day....come on can you try to be slightly more original than that......and comparing this to D9 is almost sacrilegious ....fuck you Battle LA

  
  
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  March 19, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Brutuxan said ...

  Wow, just wow. This movie can suck my dick, seriously there is nothing in here that you haven't seen in Modern Warfare, Gears of War, Halo, Resistance, and even Killlzone. And who the hell was controlling the goddamn camera?! Was it a lemur?! Man, the camera work was so BAD that this pales in comparison to Revenge of the Fallen and the Bourne films. I mean if you can't even focus the lens, THE LENS! On a goddamn car radio then you shouldn't be in control of the camera.

   

  I never would say this (and by the way I still think you guy's are awesome), but I HEAVILY disagree about this supposed 'movie' being 'good'. This is basically what would happen if you gave a kid who had ADD and wore his hat sideways an opportunity to write a script, and if that script were covered in Mountain Dew stains, sweat after playing Call of Duty, and cheeto markings. Then the script would be shipped to a bunch of monkeys who decided to input a large budget into this script.

   

  Let me give you an example; there is a point in which the father of the latino boy in this movie picks up a gun and starts firing, no troubles, doesn't recoil, he manages to AIM the weapon and fire not just at the alien, but straight at it's CHEST. Keep in mind, this guy doesn't know this but apparently Eckhart's character straight-up manipulates him and his boy into thinking, "You know, the marines aren't that bad. I think I should sign up, because hey we're fightin' aliens! And aliens are cool!"

   

  This movie is basically an objective based mission that should've probably been put as DLC for Modern Warfare or Black Ops! But worse because the characters in those DLC's and games had more depth than these assholes here! This movie was an insult to my head, to movies, to videogames, and also to the Marines who are not in any way shallow, thoughtless, red-neck morons that only see 'war' as an outcome.
  

• March 19, 2011 at 8:27 AM, said ...

  Watching Battle:  Los Angelos was like watching a combination of a war movie with evil from another planet involved.I've seen movies like Starship Troopers,Independency Day,and a few other military movies.I like how you see the Marines get geared up for this epic battle to determine who wins California.Their's one actor in this movie that I recognized and that was Jim Parrack, who is noted as Hoyt Fortenberry on HBO's vampire show, "True Blood".Aaron Eckhart who plays SSgt. Michael Nantz is noted for playing as Harvey Dent in "The Dark Knight."This movie is intense right from the beginning and gets to the point where, "If we lose, we're going to be killed in this film.The date is what was shocking as it's March and the month where this war takes place is 5 months ahead of us in early August.I do give this movie alot of credit where it's given a mission "Evacuate any civilians and shoot what is not human."This is much like "Starship Trooper", where your fighting against these machines that tares you up and can kill you easily.But at the end of movie...The sergeant meets this brain and he's able to translate that "It's afraid of us." Where as with Battle: Los Angeles, Ssgt. Nantz and his crew, they launch a last counter attack that results in them killing the radar ship that was resupplying water to their battle ships...Based on the acting,dialog,picture,and score...I'm convinced to go with either a high matinee/full price...With this kind of movie, their should be a sequel to this where they battle another area, or on the east coast line as far as New York.

  
  
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  March 19, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Robert Araya said ...

  I'm so surprised I'm actually in the minority of this film. I like Aaron and all and Rodriguez is okay, but this shit was boring at times the best I can give it is a high rental/low matinee, but I'm leaning towards high rental.

• March 17, 2011 at 2:52 PM, said ...

  I haven't seen a movie this divisive in a long, long time. People either really like or thing it's crap. I for one don't see how people can call this an action film except for the last 15 minutes. Otherwise it's excruciatingly dialogue heavy for 90% of the film. It's mostly talk, talk, talk with sprinkles of action here and there.

   

  The aliens are incompetent in action. We don't see too much of them so they come across as small co-stars in the film/boderline cameos at times given how much the damn dialogue eats up the time in the film. Finally, we get alot of scenic views of the destruction the aliens caused but we don't get to actually see them doing much of the destruction. This is the complete opposite of Independence Day.

   

  All in all this was boring and way too dialogue heavy. I can't recommend it to anybody. It's some ole bullshit.

  
  
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  March 17, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Fernando McRayearth said ...

  Well ,.. i think its a great movie in THIS type of movies ... yes its a videogame , yes its a recruit movie , but  WHATEVER .. it is suppose to be kickass action , and it is .. it accomplishes the objective ... dont expect a BIG ARTISTIC WAR MOVIE

• March 16, 2011 at 9:58 PM, said ...

  @Hecman

  "...recruit children into the military?"

   

  Wait, what? Who the hell said that?

  
  
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  March 16, 2011 at 9:25 PM, said ...

  Listening and reading reviews has crushed my initiate feelings for the movie. From a great epic war movie to a cliche war game to recruit children into the military? I can't believe it. When I went to go see Battle Los Angeles, I found a enjoyable movie with some problems but it does not deserve some old bull shit or a f--k you.

   

  Battle Los Angeles is a matinee at its worst and a full price at its best. All this negative reviews just disheartens me.

• March 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Epiphany347 said ...

  
  
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  March 15, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Amanda Ann Clark said ...

  Well, Anthony Stark, it is just their opinion, just like yours is yours. I don't base the entirety of what I see off of what everything the Spill crew says, but I tend to agree with their ratings most of the time. But that's all it is, their opinions, so I wouldn't worry that you don't agree with them on this particular movie. If you enjoyed it, you enjoyed it, so good for you!

• March 14, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Travis Pickle said ...

  the score made me feel sick and I couldn't put it better than this guy -

  
  
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  March 14, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Alex Kramer said ...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeeSrN7RJFU&feature=related Aliens win

• March 14, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Randy Black said ...

  I gotta say, i have been noticing that you guys have gotten quite hyperbolic when talking about certain films. For instance, y'all said that the score was over heroic and melodramatic. I walked into the theater expecting to be annoyed...and ended up walking to my car at the end of the movie thinking, "What were the spill crew talking about?" The score was for the most part, pretty layed back...at least in comparison to a Micheal bay movie(which was what i expected from this review). Y'all said that the dialogue was embarrassing and cliched. While i do agree that it was cliched, it wasn't "embarrassing", at least not in the definition of the word. The dialogue in Skyline and Transformers 2 was embarrassing. The dialogue in this movie is more plausible coming out the mouths of these particular characters in this particular situation. I don't know. I sat through the whole movie wondering if you guys saw a different cut. I am only commenting becuase i really feel like this review makes the movie sound worse than it actually is...

  
  
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  March 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Antonio U. said ...

  Full Price; but I also liked Skyline so take that for what it's worth.  I agree, the ending credits of Skyline was the best part of the movie. lol

• March 14, 2011 at 7:14 AM, joshua williams said ...

  i enjoyed this film alot district nine was more of a drama compared to this movie and yea it reminded me alot of black hawk down i never even thougt of indepence day when wathing this i really enjoyed this its been along time since ive seen a good miltary shotter movie. and cant remeber when i last seen some one kill so many aliens in a movie  like one by one not with a big bomb. but i knew there be some negative nancys  my friend looked at another review site and the critics where at 30 percent and the people that watched it where at 70 maybe its more fun to watch it with out a note pad

  
  
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  March 14, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Jack Holmes said ...

  Aaron Eckhard was actually really good in this movie, well at least good based upon what little he had. Should have been a summer flick

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