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

Sun, 6 Jul 2025 23:32:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>:

On 7/6/2025 3:50 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 7/6/2025 2:59 PM, shawn wrote:

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

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

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.

Yeah, except that the second movie pretty much ignored it until someone
tapped the director on the shoulder and said maybe we should tie this
movie into the first one someway. And the director probably said, first
movie? I'm making a sequel? I didn't know that, maybe I should watch
the first movie. And it was at that point the director found out the
first movie had aliens but by then it was too late to put any in the
sequel. I'm guessing about then is when they decided to call it "Beyond
Skylines" so it wouldn't have to actually connect to the first movie.
The director probably said, We've got Frank Grillo as a cop searching
for his son, and Iko Uwais doing some martial arts, we don't need any
stinking aliens. But if you insist we'll edit some aliens in the
background. And we'll ADR the dialog so the aliens took Grillo's son.

Now I can't prove that's how it went down, but that's probably pretty
close to how it happened.

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.)

Do not watch the third one! I'm warning you, it's not worth it. You
will never get those 110 minutes of your life back. Use the time you
would have spent watching Skyline 3 to watch some paint dry or schedule
that root canal you've been putting off. I assure you, it will be far
more entertaining!

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

Four! They made a fourth one. Skyline: Warpath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline:_Warpath

Are making a fourth one according to that wiki.  It ain't finished until
its released!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(film_series)
Skyline (2010)

Beyond Skyline (2017)

Skylines (2020)

Skyline: Warpath (2025)