Sunday, November 14, 2010

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES - now that's how you cut a teaser



Just go ahead and watch it - making similar recent fare like 'Skyline' look like the messy CGI wank it is is, this trailer popped up on Apple, Youtube and all the usual suspects yesterday, immediately piquing the interest of movie geeks across the globe.
As we gear up for a glut of Alien Invasion films, this one trailer (apparently edited by the film's director Jonathan Liebesman), has pushed its accompanying film to the forefront of expectations with two minutes of well-edited images and a very tasteful score (featuring haunting vocoder track Johann Johannsson's "Sun's Gone Dim and The Sky's Black"). The scope of the film, the promise of a human emphasis with just the right amount of Gulf-War and terrorist attack-related imagery (almost obligatory to the genre since Spielberg's WOTW), as well as a few classic sci fi tropes and UFO enthusiast theories in the opener, really puts out the challenge to all comers, including Spielberg and Abrams' upcoming 'Super 8' and Oren Peli's ( of 'Paranormal Activity' reknown) 'Area 51'. By now most film geeks have clicked the Youtube link and watched it more than once.
Here is the movie's website.

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