SKYLINE

[MouthForWar]

[Cookie]

I still don't understand the dislike of this film. My wife and I both thought it was pretty decent. Of course the acting wasn't great, but everything else was good. They didn't explain anything(where they came from etc.... no answers really), but I thought this was a film(like Cloverfield) that wasn't supposed to answer a damn thing. I still think most of everyones hate came from the ending thought...which I'm fine with(as long as there's a sequel).

[jellydonut25]

[AVERY GUERRA]

[MouthForWar]

[AVERY GUERRA]

[Cookie]

[MouthForWar]

[AVERY GUERRA]

The film finally hits DVD and Blu-ray region-1 on March 15th.!! Details here:



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[AVERY GUERRA]

The film has now finally hit dvd and blu-ray and can be purchased below!!!!:

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[Dai]

I've seen some bad movies, but it's been a long time since I've seen one so inept. The writers simply have no idea about what constitutes a plot. "People sit around moaning in some guy's penthouse while the world goes to hell" is not a plot. There are loads of different ways you can approach an alien invasion or monster story, but the characters have to do something. Naturally the initial shock and awe factor will have the characters reacting in the first act. Independence Day, Cloverfield, Battle: LA, etc; it's the same in all of them. The difference is that in those films, once the dust settles at the end of the first act, the cast go from reacting to acting. In Skyline, this never happens. It's a film made with a total lack of confidence. You can practically see the nervous gears going around in the heads of the writer and director.

"Hmm, what should the characters do? Try to escape? Hm, try that for a bit. No, give up. No, shout about it. No, give up again. No, hmm."

"Should the main character develop superpowers? Hmm, maybe. Is that too cheesy? No, let's do that. Oh hell, that is pretty cheesy. Let's play it up for a while then forget about it...maybe no one will notice."

"Bugger, I've killed most of the cast before the start of the third act. Shall I do a grim ending here? Hmm, yes. Oh wait, no, let's continue on for a bit. Hmm, I don't know how to wrap this up. I know, let's just stop the film in the middle of the third act, slap a couple of comic strip style stills over the end credits to infer the rest of the scene, and call it a day. Hmm, yeah, job done."

Despite all this, it's entirely possible to do a disaster movie style alien invasion where the cast do nothing but react. The problem is, if you're going to do that, you need a really compelling and likeable cast of characters. Skyline has a bunch of obnoxious idiots who are impossible to relate to.

Frankly, I came to the movie expecting nothing but eye candy, but it also fails in that. The effects are technically proficient, but most of the sequences are just...there. The character literally sit and watch some of these sequences on TV. It's ridiculous. This movie has no redeeming features. Even its relentless atmosphere of despair comes across as a desperate, ill conceived attempt to distinuish itself, though without any concept of how to effectively implement it into the story. Avoid.

[william newell]

[we77964]

[Green Dragon]

[Hybrid Gojira]

[Foxtrot X-Ray]

[jellydonut25]

While watching this, all I could think was, "I wish I was thirteen...I wouldn't notice the HORRENDOUS acting, the MULTIPLE plotholes, and the HORRID script."



This movie ALMOST becomes something so laughable, cheesy, and bad that you have no choice but to love it, but like Dai wrote, it doesn't have the guts to embrace that cheese factor.

The main character kinda sorta not really but yeah really but hang on not really develops superpowers.
The ending is moronic.
They really should have played those things up a bit more. It would have made for a film that was actually fun instead of exacerbating.

Kinda like the opposite of Pandorum or Predators, two movies that were good until they stopped taking themselves seriously...this movie was fun until it started taking itself seriously.