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Well, I'm excited.

It looks like a bad movie with a good premise from what I can tell from snyops and trailers.

I don't know about the movie, but that was one of the narmiest trailers I've ever seen.

Yeah. Did they really have to reference Hawking? Really?

Exactly. Scriptwriters should never try to mooch off of the credibility of somebody smarter than them. It just makes them look stupider. 2012 did it with the Mayans and it didn't work then either. I'm also worried that they bring up Columbus and the Native Americans, but then still have to explain what happened between the two.

On the other hand, that mass abduction thing looked awesome.

edited 28th Aug '10 9:22:32 AM by Roundy210

Rez, now with trailer!

I wonder how many movies the filmmakers ripped off here. I counted ripoffs of District 9, Cloverfield, Independence Day, Transformers and I think saw a ripoff of The Host. And in the actual movie, they probably ripped off their own Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

Thank you for reminding me of District 9, the greatest film of all time.

I don't see what's so terrible about the Hawking reference. Seems pretty inoffensive to me. And the aliens are big, Lovecraftian, tentacled flesh-mounds. I'm so gonna watch it.

edited 18th Oct '10 7:22:57 AM by EddieValiant,Jr.

The Hawking reference is just We Should Have Listened tripe. If that's not a trope, I'll be very disappointed in you TV Tropes.

@Roundy: I might be mistaken, but that was from an actual news cast. Not the writers fault.

When I first saw the commercial for this I thought it was a sequel to District9 I was very dissapointed when I looked it up and it wasn't.

The effects look good and very natural, but eye candy does not a good movie make, so I'll wait for the reviews on this one.

Lovecraft + District 9? YES. YES. YES!

HELL YES!

^ That sounds appealing, but, do we know that's what it is?

The trailer makes it look like a fairly formula "alien attack" film...

Yeah I liked the posters I saw, but then I saw the two trailers and I was extremely disappointed. The second trailer with all the different people running around just reeks of twenty minutes with jerks.

Quite frankly, I'll take Generic Space Marine over random person on the street running around screaming.

Man, this movie is looking so unintentionally hilarious and so overflowing with Narm that I absolutely can't wait to smoke a giant spliff before an opening night screening and laugh 'till my nuts fall off.

People can't enjoy anything anymore.

No we cannot.

I can. Effortlessly in fact. I pity those who can't.

It's less about not enjoying anything and more about demanding better movies and improving the medium as a whole. I'm taking any narmy looking b grade crap because it's stuff like that causes hollywood to churn out the same nonsense to get more money. After all, it's people not demanding better movies that keeps Seltzer and Friedberg in business (that and a ridiculously low budget but still...)

Having said that, I'm not going to judge based on trailers but once again by word of mouth and critics, but I'm still not having high expectations about this movie.

Yeah, but people are too demanding and won't get off their high horse. They condemn perfectly good films as trash if they don't meet some nebulous, unattainable idea of quality.

See: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, X-Men: The Last Stand, etc.

Dude, you think those are perfectly good movies? Wait until you see the previous installments in those franchises!

That sounds hilariously horrible. I'll see it if it's in 3-D.

^^ I went to both of those having seen their prior films. I felt they were still decent films, only Last Stand being the worst in its series, and then only for totally gypping Cyclops from his role.

If the aliens want to abduct tons of people why are they indiscreminently also dropping bombs on them?

Also, now this XKCD strip makes sense.

@ Sean: I did see them. They're exactly as good as the ones I listed.