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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-04 (Friday - The 4th of July!!)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 15:50:36 -0700
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On 7/6/2025 2:59 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:52:15 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yeah, I get what you are saying but let's just say it's a setup for
> the second movie and a way to actually beat the aliens.
> 

Yeah, except that the second movie pretty much ignored it until someone 
tapped the director on the shoulder and said maybe we should tie this 
movie into the first one someway.  And the director probably said, first 
movie?  I'm making a sequel?  I didn't know that, maybe I should watch 
the first movie.  And it was at that point the director found out the 
first movie had aliens but by then it was too late to put any in the 
sequel.  I'm guessing about then is when they decided to call it "Beyond 
Skylines" so it wouldn't have to actually connect to the first movie. 
The director probably said, We've got Frank Grillo as a cop searching 
for his son, and Iko Uwais doing some martial arts, we don't need any 
stinking aliens.  But if you insist we'll edit some aliens in the 
background.  And we'll ADR the dialog so the aliens took Grillo's son.

Now I can't prove that's how it went down, but that's probably pretty 
close to how it happened.

>> 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.)
> 

Do not watch the third one!  I'm warning you, it's not worth it.  You 
will never get those 110 minutes of your life back.  Use the time you 
would have spent watching Skyline 3 to watch some paint dry or schedule 
that root canal you've been putting off.  I assure you, it will be far 
more entertaining!

> There's a third? I've seen the second already but had no idea there
> was a third one.


Four!  They made a fourth one.  Skyline: Warpath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline:_Warpath