Battle: Los Angeles...ok I'm in.

I'm going to be hearing that ominous overtone music all day long tomorrow as I drive around.

And for some reason I seem to wind up watching everything with Michelle Rodriguez in it anyway.

I guess I'm the only one that thought Gutshot John was becoming a Rage Against The Machine fan....

The movie looks like fun, I hadn't seen any previews until you posted this.

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Originally Posted by Templar

John Ringo's "Live Free or Die"

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Ringo's Sci-fi is great, when he has a co-author to tone down his BDSM insanity. For example, "March Upcountry" and its sequels were excellent. "Ghost" was downright disturbing, as he spent half the book writing a giant rape fantasy. And let's not get into "Watch on the Rhine"...

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Originally Posted by Gutshot John

Ok...it's a movie folks, let's not overthink it. :)

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Dude, I can let a lot of things slide but I need some type of coherent explanation as to the whys and hows of the aliens. It doesn't need to be detailed, it can just be a throw-away line or something...

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Originally Posted by Gutshot John

Also let's not forget the War of the Worlds scenario that once they arrive they would be vulnerable to the millions of microbes (even ones not associated with disease) that exist here on Earth that humanity has long since been inoculated against.

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Back when the book came out this woked pretty well I think, as so much of the technology and science was not well understood. I saw the Spielberg remake of WOTW and I thought it was terrible. I can willingly suspend my disbelief for alien walkers, but don't tell me they buried them underground a million years ago and rode bolts of lightning down to board them...

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Originally Posted by Jay_Cunningham

Dude, I can let a lot of things slide but I need some type of coherent explanation as to the whys and hows of the aliens. It doesn't need to be detailed, it can just be a throw-away line or something...

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They came here to help us but we just misunderstood their intentions.

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Dude, I can let a lot of things slide but I need some type of coherent explanation as to the whys and hows of the aliens. It doesn't need to be detailed, it can just be a throw-away line or something...

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I don't disagree but I think sci-fi/fantasy by its nature requires a huge element of suspending disbelief. Interstellar travel, aliens that would give a rip about a planet that in all likelihood wouldn't support their life etc. etc.

It still might be a throw-away line, the trailer was pretty short on the details but all in all if they just came in and nerve gassed us from orbit it would be a really short movie. ;)

Before WoTW was a bad Tom Cruise movie it was a classic piece of sci-literature. It was however written over 100 years ago, so understanding of physics etc. wasn't really up to snuff.

I'm looking forward to this movie... definitely looks like one to see in the theater.

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Originally Posted by kwelz

Then again I was also looking forward to Skyline and we all know how that turned out.

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Was this no good? I never did see it but I thought that it had promise.

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Originally Posted by Abraxas

Was this no good? I never did see it but I thought that it had promise.

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It was terrible. Most of the movie was actually ok.
The last 5 minutes or so ruined the rest of it however.

So did anyone see it this weekend?