However, this film actually hangs its hat on four or five action setpieces, from my count. He's had a somewhat unconventional career, taking indie roles and avoiding the leading man role in mainstream films. Although there isn't a lot of blood, there are certainly a lot of deaths. What I love about James Cameron is that all of his designs are functional - they all look like they could work. The stars of Battle: L.A., Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez, came to Comic Con along with director Jonathan Liebesman and producer Neal Moritz. I kinda blame the Transformers films for starting this trend of making advanced alien scifi weaponry look just like regular gunfire. Other European markets in Germany and Denmark had the film premiering on April 14. In 1979, the comedy drama film 1941 directed by Steven Spielberg, alluded to the 1942 shelling as well as other surprise military engagements. That made no sense to me. Battle Los Angeles It’s funny you have to make it real but you do hate to destroy a nice town. But once they actually destroy the ship's tendril/antennae/whatever sticking out of the ground, the entire ship starts rising out of the ground and flying off. [6] 21 picks for weekend culture: Patti LuPone for song, Patton Oswalt for laughs. Oddly, it did once exist in that form: in the first trailer. [6] Screenwriter Chris Bertolini tried to include humour and suspense as well as action, which he felt were important elements to help draw the audience into the drama. The film as a whole is not the thoughtful meditation that D9 was, but the borrowing of its impressive technical innovation is clearly on display.I've mentioned Cloverfield, so we've gotta talk about the shaky cam. They have made about a million love, Great movie!! This movie is completely uninteresting and BORING. I didn't really buy the "aliens want our water" theory in 'V', and I'm not sure I buy it here. Kerns radios in to request missiles, which Nantz manually directs using a laser designator while the others defend his position. This is the 2 hour version of that. Battle: Los Angeles (also known as Battle: LA and internationally as World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles) is a 2011 American military science fiction apocalyptic action film directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Or maybe water just tastes sweeter when you take it from someone else. "[38], Battle: Los Angeles was largely given poor reviews by the Los Angeles Times,[39] The New York Times,[40] USA Today,[41] Entertainment Weekly,[42] and Variety. It's very dark, with blazing fires providing the only illumination. -LA Times Most of the emotional moments fall flat and really don't work. With 33 candidates vying for four at-large seats on the seven-member Los Angeles Community College District board, the well-being and academic success of the state’s neediest college students are at stake. But then later... we get to another action scene and the hispanic civilian father has to grab an M16 and fight the aliens off. A lot more fun than bludgeoning, soul-draining follies like "Terminator Salvation" or the "Transformers" films, and, with a decisive trim, it could truly have fulfilled its brief as a bright, semi-abstract pop fantasy, at once excitable and disposable.