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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-04 (Friday - The 4th of July!!)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700
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On 7/6/2025 10:45 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> 
> Skyline (4K disc) 2011 sci-fi movie about a group of people in a Los 
> Angeles apartment trying to survive an alien invasion of Earth.  The 
> only good bits of the movie are the few scenes where we get to see the 
> military fighting the aliens.  The first dog fight where they nuke the 
> alien ship is particular good, but I'll bite my tongue on what happens 
> next.  But whenever the movie focuses on the civilians it tends to get 
> dumb.  One scene I noticed had the civilians watching as fighter jets 
> were battling the aliens.  One of the fighters went down and crash so 
> close that they literally had to duck to keep from getting hit, then the 
> plane blew up a few feet from them.  This is a military fighter jet 
> exploding a few feet from two people standing out in the open, and 
> immediately after they stood up without a scratch on them.  If only the 
> movie had focused on the military fighting the aliens instead of the 
> people in the high rise building, it would have been so much better.
> 
Wait till you see the two sequels!  (I've seen the second movie but not 
the third yet.  Have it on disc in my queue.)

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.