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

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

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.

Yeah, I get what you are saying but let's just say it's a setup for
the second movie and a way to actually beat the aliens.

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.)

There's a third? I've seen the second already but had no idea there
was a third one.