It's a straight forward alien invasion movie.
It's not any different from "Battle: Los Angeles" or "War of the Worlds".
I want to understand the hate.
None of this "WORST MOVIE EVER!!!11!1! DERP!!11" crap.
Why exactly do people hate this movie so much?
This is far from worst movie ever, but for me what made this movie boring was the acting and/or the writing (I don't know if it was the writing that was bad or the bozos delivering those lines). Also, I felt that the movie stopped before it should have.
Well that, I can understand.
Even if I don't agree with your opinion, I understand what you're talking about.
I personally didn't like Skyline for a number of reasons. The only good thing I can say about the movie are the impressive visual effects. But everything else pretty much sucked. For examples; the script was bad and insipid, the direction unspired, some story elements made no sense, all of the characters were unappealing or unlikeable, and the downbeat tone and ending was just plain lame.
It was not 'classic' bad such as with films like 'Plan 9 From Outer Space.' It was just plain bad. Just all special effects. No plot, no point, no upbeat tone. Just another end-of-the-world sci-fi flick for pessimistic, eccentric types only.
Do you people just want fairytale endings? This movie is brilliant, despite some of the acting being pretty bad.
It does however reek of Mass Effect/Reaper storyline which is pretty cool IMO.
For examples; the script was bad and insipid, the direction unspired, some story elements made no sense, all of the characters were unappealing or unlikeable, and the downbeat tone and ending was just plain lame.
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Not everyone wanting to make a movie can afford nor get the studios or investers to fork out the cash for good dialogue scripts
I liked it. It wasn't a masterpiece or anything...just entertaining.
shareYou can't please everyone. People will hate a cliche movie with cliche characters where the humans win....and people will hate a movie where the aliens actually win. The more popular a movie seems to be, the more they will hate it, just to hate. 0.02
shareI think most people dislike this film due to failed expectations. The trailers, marketing as well as genre expectations hinted that we were going to get a standard Alien Invasion movie ie following a war movie arc with heroes, tragedy and triumph.
What we got was a survival horror movie with no heroes (the antagonists aren't even that likeable) and no redemption (save for the credits). It has more in common with a zombie movie than a typical invasion/war movie.
As a survival horror its pretty good. As a war movie, its a stinker.
I thought the movie was ok...right up until the brain sequence in the end.
Then the rating went from a 7 to a 2
I think the movie scared the living poo out of people,
and they're repressing the experience by saying
it was no good and don't watch it.
It's very realistic: the characters are average people,
not heroes, and the aliens' technology is far beyond ours,
so we're totally helpless against them.
It could happen, and people don't want to think about it.
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I loved it. The Invaders actually wins this one. I haven't been this enthusiastic since the 70s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I love when the Aliens wins.
”Deh Deh Deh, DA Dabacco”-Puert Rican dude from the ”I aint your Papi” episode of COPS.
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Yep, I hated this film.
Actually, I take that back - I quite enjoyed ridiculing the film, shouting about the sheer awfulness of it.
It was utterly generic - you could tell immediately who would be monster fodder and who would become a hero.
The special effects sucked - the US bombers moved in a ridiculously unrealistic manner, the flames and explosions were computer-game level.
BUT I quite enjoyed the hysterical 'let's pile in everything' story, and the ending was kinda ma, although the abruptness left a real sense of dissatisfaction. It was original and unexpected, but didn't deliver and didn't prompt any desire to see the sequel.
I felt cheated by this ending, and if I'd paid to watch it in a cinema, I would have asked for my money back as this wasn't a finished film, merely a trailrer for another shot at a rubbish story.