Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-04 (Friday - The 4th of July!!)

On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

 Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.  The only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the military fighting the aliens.  The first dog fight where they nuke the alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens next.  But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get dumb.  One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets were battling the aliens.  One of the fighters went down and crash so close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the plane blew up a few feet from them.  This is a military fighter jet exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.  If only the movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
 

Wait till you see the two sequels!  (I've seen the second movie but not the third yet.  Have it on disc in my queue.)
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