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#BattleLosAngeles (2011)

A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.
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JdeBP Jan 20

Just one thing to note after reading about it afterwards.

I noticed straightaway that the title on screen, World Invasion: Battle of Los Angeles, did not match the billed title in the EPG.

I'm guessing that this change was some sort of sop for the non-U.S.A. market, as this was even more a U.S.A.-centric view of a planetary invasion than Independence Day is, which is saying something.

Even New York, New Orleans, and Honolulu are handwaved away by this movie, let alone the world outwith the U.S.A..

So the makers decided to placate non-U.S.A. viewers with a small nod that the rest of the world might exist by retitling the movie.

Certainly, there's no scope for movies in other cities, as the Angelinos worked it all out for the rest of the world in this one.

No-one else in the world is clever enough to figure out that aiming centre mass is the way to kill aliens, ne?

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JdeBP Jan 20

Lots of military shouting, guns, death, and going on about leaving people behind (or not) in Battle: Los Angeles. Not really my cup of tea, though.

I bet that the nitpickers have fun pointing out that some weapon or piece of kit or other does not do what it does on-screen.

There's not much of the science part of the #SciFi. The aliens are ciphers, in the main, and their sole description is intentionally incoherent guesswork on the parts of the characters.

Of course, there are some basic science blunders in what little of it there is. What we'd not get from pointing #Hubble at Terra is very well known now, thanks to #XKCD, and would have been known in 2011. We also knew about liquid water in the rest of the solar system back then. And water by itself is not an effective source of power.

The movie is pretty much the straight up disaster movie format, with a group of people (literally) battling adversity, and suffering losses, on the way to escaping.

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