This is my first "Collective Review", an idea that I had about thirty seconds ago. Basically, I give a little piece of my mind about the film listed above, and then whoever reads this can give theirs, and so on. We can have conflicting opinions, collective agreements, and the large masses of everyday people helping the others decide to see or not by reading over our little blurbs. Or not. This might just fail like no one's business.
Anyway, SKYINE
My thoughts:
Skyline was a little below average for me. The acting was lackluster, save for that black guy from Scrubs, and the writing was forgettable. What this was supposed to be was an action film that would showcase the Brother's Strause's special effects. The problem is they came up short on all ends. The special effects are nothing special, not supplying those "WHOA!" or "HOLY SH- DID YOU SEE THAT?!" moments that films like Avatar or, hell, even Transformers 1 supplied. The creatures looked obviously CG. And the scale of this action was never fully capture or realized until the very end, but it didn't feel like it should. (I can't really say why.)
Speaking of action, there was a lack of it. Sure, we get some aliens snatching up people here and there, a pretty good and very engaging dogfight scene, and some good jump-scares, but it takes a back seat to these bland characters that I don't really care about. From the get-go, I could tell who was going to die and who was going to either make it or die last. And I didn't really care about any of them, not even the main dude. And we spend all the movie with these guys in one apartment building, just sitting around and talking about A: what to do, or B: that they're going to die.
A few other things peeved me, but I'm too lazy to write them, so I'll just move onto my biggest annoyance from this film: The Aliens are invincible. Nothing can hurt them. If you've seen this, you know what I mean. But near the end there's this one scene where the main guy (Text Blocked out for Spoilers) and it made no sense.
So, don't see it. It's not all that great.
IN MY OPINION.
Anyway, SKYINE
My thoughts:
Skyline was a little below average for me. The acting was lackluster, save for that black guy from Scrubs, and the writing was forgettable. What this was supposed to be was an action film that would showcase the Brother's Strause's special effects. The problem is they came up short on all ends. The special effects are nothing special, not supplying those "WHOA!" or "HOLY SH- DID YOU SEE THAT?!" moments that films like Avatar or, hell, even Transformers 1 supplied. The creatures looked obviously CG. And the scale of this action was never fully capture or realized until the very end, but it didn't feel like it should. (I can't really say why.)
Speaking of action, there was a lack of it. Sure, we get some aliens snatching up people here and there, a pretty good and very engaging dogfight scene, and some good jump-scares, but it takes a back seat to these bland characters that I don't really care about. From the get-go, I could tell who was going to die and who was going to either make it or die last. And I didn't really care about any of them, not even the main dude. And we spend all the movie with these guys in one apartment building, just sitting around and talking about A: what to do, or B: that they're going to die.
A few other things peeved me, but I'm too lazy to write them, so I'll just move onto my biggest annoyance from this film: The Aliens are invincible. Nothing can hurt them. If you've seen this, you know what I mean. But near the end there's this one scene where the main guy (Text Blocked out for Spoilers) and it made no sense.
So, don't see it. It's not all that great.
IN MY OPINION.
