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*quality. Dammit, I wanted to post this.

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Well I was beaten to the first one, which you then subsequently poached from a sifticidal user. So this one is mine!!

Cheers
>> ^gwiz665:

quality. Dammit, I wanted to post this.

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oh no, not michelle rodriguez again...

It has a Cloverfield feeling to it.

My firs thought? The Prawn had come back for vengeance.

There is a lot of action in this film.

Do you mean District 9? Because Cloverfield sucked and this looks like it doesn't suck.>> ^NordlichReiter:

It has a Cloverfield feeling to it.
My firs thought? The Prawn had come back for vengeance.

I would really like to see a movie where aliens invade that don't have awesome, hugely advanced technology, and every facet of their war was in line with real weapons and real consequences.

Say, they get here not by FTL travel, but generation ships or cryonics, or a physiology that allows them to hibernate for years, like some earth organisms do. When they land, they have guns. Not lasers, or plasma rifles, or antigrav gunships, or weird fucked-up magic death rays that suck you up into the sky through your eyeballs (Skyline was teh suck). It could be an allegory of Iraq or Afghanistan. First would be an alien Shock and Awe, as they use EMP to knock out infrastructure and technology and drop asteroids on cities and installations. Superior firepower only due to them having the "high ground", and a ground occupation more like WW2 or WW1 as all our fancy shit was toast and we EMP'd the crap out of their tech too...

Shit... I should copyright this post.

Oh please let this movie be as fucking awesome as this trailer looks!

>> ^NordlichReiter:

It has a Cloverfield feeling to it.
My firs thought? The Prawn had come back for vengeance.


Yeah mine too. Is this the official sequel to D9?

That's one of the things I really like about this trailer. The aliens are using missiles and what appear to be regular projectiles. Even their ships seem to shift around as if using thrust rather than some magical anti-gravity.>> ^Payback:

I would really like to see a movie where aliens invade that don't have awesome, hugely advanced technology, and every facet of their war was in line with real weapons and real consequences.
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When they land, they have guns. Not lasers, or plasma rifles, or antigrav gunships, or weird fucked-up magic death rays that suck you up into the sky through your eyeballs (Skyline was teh suck).

You don't mean district 9 then because that was worse than cloverfield.>> ^HugeJerk:

Do you mean District 9? Because Cloverfield sucked and this looks like it doesn't suck.>> ^NordlichReiter:
It has a Cloverfield feeling to it.
My firs thought? The Prawn had come back for vengeance.

I... and many other people would disagree with you.>> ^Stu:

You don't mean district 9 then because that was worse than cloverfield.

>> ^HugeJerk:

That's one of the things I really like about this trailer. The aliens are using missiles and what appear to be regular projectiles. Even their ships seem to shift around as if using thrust rather than some magical anti-gravity.


Yeah, right up until the end when the Borough of Watts (Hell, could be Huntington Beach for all I know, most of LA looks the same to me) rises up out of the ground...

>> ^HugeJerk:

I... and many other people would disagree with you.>> ^Stu:
You don't mean district 9 then because that was worse than cloverfield.


I don't understand the hype about District 9 either. Pretty boring in all. Shaking the camera a lot isn't film-making. Also I really could not fathom the documentary interviews. They made little sense and detracted from the story and the characters.

I hate movies with epileptic cameramen. D9 didn't bother me, it was certainly hand-held, but the shaking wasn't distracting. Movies like Cloverfield, Bourne Supremacy, and Bourne Ultimatum were ruined (for me anyway) by the insane amount of extra shaking.

A lot of what I enjoyed with District 9 was the characters, overall serious tone... and their take on how they treated the aliens as unwanted refuges. I agree that the Documentary stuff had some issues (though not the interviews on their own), since the parts where no film crew would have been following Wilkus still had the same look. >> ^Deano:

I don't understand the hype about District 9 either. Pretty boring in all. Shaking the camera a lot isn't film-making. Also I really could not fathom the documentary interviews. They made little sense and detracted from the story and the characters.

Hasn't this movie been made like 87 times already?

>> ^HugeJerk:

I hate movies with epileptic cameramen. D9 didn't bother me, it was certainly hand-held, but the shaking wasn't distracting. Movies like Cloverfield, Bourne Supremacy, and Bourne Ultimatum were ruined (for me anyway) by the insane amount of extra shaking.
A lot of what I enjoyed with District 9 was the characters, overall serious tone... and their take on how they treated the aliens as unwanted refuges. I agree that the Documentary stuff had some issues (though not the interviews on their own), since the parts where no film crew would have been following Wilkus still had the same look. >> ^Deano:
I don't understand the hype about District 9 either. Pretty boring in all. Shaking the camera a lot isn't film-making. Also I really could not fathom the documentary interviews. They made little sense and detracted from the story and the characters.



I was watching the Bourne Ultimatum again last night and you're quite right about the camera. It's just insanely juddering about the place. I think there will be a minor backlash against this sort of photography. You can still make a gritty film but it doesn't have to have this and zillions of edits.

I liked Cloverfield though. It had a very unique look and feel. You don't get too immersed by the characters but given the time they have I actually warmed to them and it made the looming threat all the more palpable. In terms of action I thought that first close-up encounter with the creature before they dived into the subway station was pretty heart-pounding stuff.

Deja vu x 1000.

>> ^SaNdMaN:

Hasn't this movie been made like 87 times already?


And they'll keep making it til people stop going to see them. It's a safe bet commercially.

looks like they are getting cgi right. a la district 9. and not like transformers or star wars preq's where you're insanely overwhelmed

This trailer had more plot than the entire movie Skyline, which was a recent forgettable about aliens invading LA. Although the guy from Scrubs got squished, that was fun.


I think if an alien race wanted to wipe us out and take our resources, then they would just use some chemical/biological/radioactive agent sent from space and skip all the ground-war BS. You could take the first 3/4ths of the movie The Happening, then just add some alien scenes at the end instead of all the "mother nature fighting back" crap.

But really all you need in a Sci-Fi movie is Mila Kunis and Summer Glau making out at some point. Hollywood Gold.

music at 1:43

Johann Johannsson - The Sun's Gone Dim and The Sky's Black from the album IBM 1401: A User's Manual