Roger Ebert came out with a review yesterday for Aaron Eckhart's new film, Battle: Los Angeles, and it was not pretty. The movie is about aliens, which originally perked my interest, because I like aliens, and there actually was an incident in February of 1942 on the California coastline, in which the US Army engaged in air combat with a UFO for nearly 4 hours, causing a total blackout throughout the city into the next morning. True story. If you don't believe me, go Google that shit, because it happened.
Anyway, it turns out this movie is not about that marginalized historic event at all, unfortuanately. No, the filmmakers were much more interested in crappy visual effects and very bad writing. Ebert gave this movie a thrashing, saying, quote:
"Battle: Los Angeles is noisy, ugly, violent, and stupid...The dialogue consists almost entirely of terse screams...Generations of filmmakers devoted their lives to perfecting techniques that a director like Jonathan Liebesman is either ignorant of, or indifferent to. Yet he is given millions of dollars to produce this assault on the attention span of a generation. Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you've been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart." (source-rogerebert.suntimes.com)
Whoa! Usually you don't hear reviews this harsh unless it has anything to do with Michael Bay! Wow! Go Ebert! I especially liked that touch at the end where he warned younger people to stay away from drugs and awful films.
Well hot damn. You tell 'em! I will not be watching that movie. I'll be seeing Cowboys and Aliens instead :O
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ReplyDeleteOh my god! I have never seen Ebert rip into someone like that before! I was thinking about seeing that movie, but this might be changing my mind...
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