I saw it the other day too. I enjoyed it after disconnecting my brain,lol. My son hated it, not even the cute blond made it any better for him,lol.I already expected it to suck so I had no illusions. CGI was great, a couple lines from the scientist was funny. I will pick it up on Blueray after it hits the close out bin in Wally world :P



Bullet

I played "that version" in school. That would be over fourty years ago.

I saw the movie.

I must say - contrary to most of the reviews here, it vastly exceeded my expectations. At least where humans weren't concerned.

The movie is actually an extension of the genre of Cpld War science fiction that involved military based first contact stand-offs. The scenario is actually quite different from what one might expect:
- Civilians are killed by the Aliens, but only as collateral damage (with the exception of some grad students)
- The Aliens use proportional force (with a few pre-emptive strikes), which means that there is a gradual escalation in violence that gives the humans a chance to respond
- The Alien combat is largely a result of the loss of command and communication assets (which puts the alien expeditionary force on the offensive)
- It is also shows Japanese and American forces cooperating, defering and hybridising command structures

So, all in all, much better than I expected.

Good grief!

I tried to watch this last night.In the end I just skipped through it to the action scenes.Even then I had to skip most of them.

At one point I half expected the Missouri to get out the water and fly.

Bloody awful I thought.
That's just my opinion though.

That will be in the sequel. The Missouri will fly off into space and join forces with the Yamato.

It's open for a sequel! They did the Marvel movie thing after the credits. They mentioned in the first of the movie that other parts of the world were affected, Scotland, France, Germany, clearly Hong Kong and Iowa (or was it Idaho?).

In retrospect I liked the movie more and more and looked forward to the blu-ray release. We've already watched it twice since it came out the other day. Just a good natured, fun, scifi action movie. Actually enjoyed it more at home than the first time, and even the kids loved it.

Panzer,you are sharp as always.

Hey, I've got to somehow find ways to use my useless trivia knowledge!

We are Doomed!