04-02-2011, 12:20 AM
Quote:Magnus post=286292 Wrote:Battle Los Angeles.
AWESOME movie! Good script, good story...very well done.
Really?!!!hock:
I thought it was absolute bollocks. Full of predictable stereotypes; obvious plot-lines; typical Hollywood scripting; tokenistic support characters (kid/Nigerian guy/woman etc.).
I found myself laughing out loud at moments that I probably shouldn't have.
The two 13 year old boys I took along with me really enjoyed it of course because it is tremendously loud; has undemanding dialogue; easy storyline; lots of shooting and explosions; and (natch) aliens who can't shoot for toffee ...
My two quibbles were (a) why did these aliens arrive bearing weaponry hardly more sophisticated than the jarheads they faced, and (b) when a film has US Marines in it - why is one of them always called Martinez (is it some kind of Hollywood in-joke)? :lol: :wink:
The Royal Marines would have sent those pesky invaders back into the ocean in about 10 minutes ...
I believe one Martinez per unit is standard Marine Corps issue.
BTW, thanks for revealing the outcome of the film, the rest of us haven't seen it yet!
The smilies are not working, I was joking of course, everyone knows the Marines always win.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
