# Skyline: New Science Fiction Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813 "2010-08-20T01:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/21 "2010-08-22T21:52:26Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > \It needs at least one A-list actress with a big rack. Ya think Jolie or Alba? Katy Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/22 "2010-08-22T23:33:04Z")
He said actress! This production is full of idiots. I should have done that movie where ducks secretly control the White House instead. And where’s that intern with my latte?! I’ll be in my trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/23 "2010-08-23T01:08:35Z")
I think she would be just the right actress for this production. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/24 "2010-11-12T17:12:29Z")
Well, the movie opens today in my city (SF) and there is no review in the paper, always a bad sign. I guess I won’t be going to see this one. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/25 "2010-11-12T17:20:45Z")
29% at Rotten Tomatoes. Even those giving it a thumbs up aren’t very entusiastic about it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/26 "2010-11-12T18:05:15Z")
Okay, it’s a nice script but we want a few changes. We just got the rights to make a Star Trek movie. So the Bruce Willis character is now named Jim. The Jeff Goldblum character is now named Spock. Ben Affleck and Steve Buscemi will be playing guys named Scott and McCoy - you can match up the names whichever way you like. We think we’ve got Jolie signed for Uhuru but if she doesn’t sign we’ll go with Maggie Q instead - so write some scenes where she does some kung fu fighting. And the name of their rocketship is Enterpise. Oh, and comic book movies are hot right now, so give them all superpowers. Get together with SFX on that. Alright people let’s make some movie magic here. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/27 "2010-11-12T18:18:50Z")
It’s a parody, right? Like _Independence Day_? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/28 "2010-11-13T01:11:01Z")
I just saw it today. What the fuck? I was expecting cheesy, but cybernetic alien monsters abucting humans to extract their brains for, for, for what exactly? 😕 Food, batteries, what? No fucking explanation at all. So hero boy looked into the light just long enough to keep his brain from being wiped so he can take over an alien and protect his unborn child? And they were seperating the pregnant for ? Not sure if they were going for parody or serious action-adventure scifi, but whatever they were going for they sure as hell didn’t pull it off. Nice special effects though. Anybody else reminded of Cloverfield? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/29 "2010-11-13T01:19:50Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Anybody else reminded of Cloverfield? Wait, I loved Cloverfield. Cloverfield also received significantly better critical reception. How is it similar, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/30 "2010-11-13T01:28:05Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > Wait, I loved Cloverfield. Cloverfield also received significantly better critical reception. How is it similar, exactly? I meant the design of the monster, specifically the “eating” through it’s “hand/claw/things”. The film itself is no Cloverfield. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/31 "2010-11-13T01:33:39Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I meant the design of the monster, specifically the “eating” through it’s “hand/claw/things”. The film itself is no Cloverfield. Ahh, okay, thanks for the insight 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/32 "2010-11-13T02:33:40Z")
Having read Wiki’s synopsis of the plot, I am relieved I didn’t pay money to see this. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/33 "2010-11-13T04:40:25Z")
Eric Balfour is rarely a good sign. I watch _Haven_, and he’s OK in that, but his presence in a project does not inspire confidence in me. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/34 "2010-11-13T18:16:53Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Katy Perry. Kat Denning. She’s willing to get naked in front of a camera (so says teh internets) and she is quite anatomically qualified. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/35 "2010-11-14T04:40:00Z")
Don’t see this movie. It sucks. There was a point where I was trying to give in and say “Oh well, I guess it is just a cheezy SyFy movie with slightly better special effects” and enjoy it on that level but at every turn the movie fought me and sucked some more. And then, as a final piss into my Corn Flakes, it “ended”. I put that in quotes because: There is no ending. The movie just stops. Stay away. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/36 "2010-11-20T07:08:02Z")
I guess I’m the only person who liked it LOL. It was a lot of fun, and the effects were top notch. It felt a hell of a lot more expensive than $10 million. And the ending was sick and twisted (although unlike the other poster, I thought it was clear what was happening). There were a few moments of stupid, but that’s the bread and butter of horror flicks. And there were enough moments of awesome to balance them out. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/37 "2010-11-20T07:21:16Z")
I think they would have been better off making Die hard V “The Hard Die: Alien Invasion”. Hope this isn’t another Cloverfield hypejob substituting for, you know… an actual story. . That’s what it seems like with the hope of another Independence day, and the stylee of a District 9. It’s almost a genre film… if not an early genre’ film. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/38 "2010-11-21T23:40:01Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Don’t see this movie. It sucks. > > There was a point where I was trying to give in and say “Oh well, I guess it is just a cheezy SyFy movie with slightly better special effects” and enjoy it on that level but at every turn the movie fought me and sucked some more. And then, as a final piss into my Corn Flakes, it “ended”. I put that in quotes because: > > There is no ending. The movie just stops. > > Stay away. Okay, I saw it, despite the warnings. Heck, maybe because of the warnings. Who knows? I went into it expecting a poor film, so I wasn’t really surprised at how bad it was. I have to say though, the special effects were pretty good. However, what really angered me was the ending, as **Quimby** said. The movie didn’t end, it just stopped, like they literally ran out of film in the middle of the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/39 "2010-11-21T23:52:46Z")
Who’s hoping for another _Independence Day_? Not me, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813/40 "2010-11-21T23:53:57Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > There sure was a lot of talking about Stephen Hawking in that trailer. In fact, the whole trailer was based on something Prof. Hawking had said. …that wasn’t actually in the movie. The trailers also lead you to believe that throughout the movie the audience will see events unfold throughout the world as the alien devastation takes place, but the entire movie takes place in L.A. except for maybe 30 seconds near the very end when the camera silently shows various large cities in ruins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyline-new-science-fiction-movie/550813.md?page=3)