SKYLINE tells the story of a group of people in a high-rise building trying to survive as aliens land in LA and begin colonization. It was fun and I liked it (more than I did BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, in fact, with its sap, halting storyline and wildly shaking camera). There seems to be no hope for humanity as the aliens appear almost invincible, and then, oddly, just when you think it’s over, it ends on a note of hope.
This sounds perfect!
Skyline looked like a bad mash up of independence day, war of the worlds and transformers…I had no interest.
It’s more War of The Worlds than the others, Adrian…
Note I am going strictly off the visuals in the trailer. Maybe its just me, but its been done before. Especially after such amazing sci fi flicks such as MOON and DISTRICT 9 or even MONSTERS, I think they coulda tried to come up with a better premise. That’s just me though….ask around, I’m something of a movie snob. Lol
I enjoyed it too. People kept complaining about how bad it was which left me scratching my head. Hello? It’s a B grade alien invasion flick – what were you expecting? Othello?
If its b grade, that’s fine. But there’s no such thing as a “b grade” hollywood budget blockbuster…with a budget like that, movie should at least look good even if its not good. But the visuals look all hackish. B grade means exactly that….low production value, bad acting because they can’t afford hollywood a listers and terrible in an awesome cheesey kinda way effects. Once you go cgi, any b gradeness goes out the window.
Well, I see what you are saying but the entire budget was only 10 million. Isn’t that low budget these days? And it sure was cheesy!
$10 million is a small budget for a hollywood movie, but hardly low budget. I dunno. It just wasn’t for me…