Posts Tagged alien overlords
Better Not Suck: SKYLINE, Aliens have Converted Dyson’s Bagless-Technology into Human-Sucking Motherships. Uh Oh.
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, One Sheets, Trailers on November 12, 2010
Official Synopsis
After a night of partying, a group of friends are distracted when beams of light awaken everyone in Los Angeles, that then attract every person like a moth to a flame. As the night progresses, they soon discover that once exposed to the light, they vanish into thin air, caused by extraterrestrial forces that later threaten to swallow the entire human species.
What We Learned: Somebody must have put the kibosh on using scientist Stephen Hawking‘s theories on alien civilizations as a clever marketing campaign. Canon: gets the clearest pictures of what our future alien overlords want to do with us. Fast cars won’t outrun the alien apocalypse. Don’t go into the light, Clarice.
Why We’ll Watch: You may or may not have noticed, faithful reader, that there are some creative projects on which we’re not sure how the final product will play out. Sure that trailer, concept art, or plot synopsis looks good but did that goodness translate into the finished piece? We’ve surreptitiously marked such posts with the tag ‘better not suck.’
From the SKYLINE trailer we perceive three possibilities.
1) It’ll be a fun, romp and stomp us against them action piece.
2) It’s a treatise on the effects of the “limelight” on large swaths of humanity. Bear with us on this. SKYLINE’s focus is on L.A. The hometown of super stardom. The Hollywood Machine(aliens) hovers down and selects(abducts) the precious few to become part of their special collective.
3) It’ll suck.
We’re hoping it’s the first choice. The second choice we’ll leave for our thesis paper.
When’s it coming? November 12, 2010. That’s right. Today!
Official site: http://www.iamrogue.com/skyline
International Trailer for BATTLE:LOS ANGELES Awesomer than US Version, Teases with Story
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, One Sheets, Trailers on November 12, 2010
Official Synopsis
For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world’s great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It’s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they’ve ever encountered before.
What We Learned: Aliens have been watching/testing us for decades. They’ve judged us weak. Now they’ve come to collect whatever it is aliens want from a human infested planet.
Why We’ll Watch: We were doing our damndest to wait to talk about BATTLE:LOS ANGELES. The entire movie Internet has been chattering through our Twitters all morning about the short teaser. It was easy to ignore until Collider hit us with the international trailer provided by Omelete.
For once, the traditional approach to movie trailers wins out over some avant garde direction. This is a trailer in which we can sink our eye-teeth. There’s a quick skim of the plot. There’s actual dialogue. There’s some explanation on why Los Angeles is so damn important to become the title of the film.
Although we remain weary of any film that features L.A. as the last line of defense against our future alien overlords.*
When’s it coming?
March 11, 2011
Official sites:
Check it out. The viral marketing is strong in this one.
http://battlela.com/
http://reportthreats.org/site/
http://www.facebook.com/ReportThreats
http://www.youtube.com/ReportThreats
http://twitter.com/#!/ReportThreats
Under the cut lay the US version. Feel free to compare and contrast.
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Watch: TARTARUS. Our Alien Overlords are Here, 200 Years Earlier
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Trailers on October 29, 2010
Official Synopsis
…director Stefan Muller has hit on an intriguing premise for his film Tartarus. It is 1813 and a pair of soldiers returning home from the Napoleonic War are caught in the middle of something unimaginable when meteors fall from the sky carrying hostile visitors with them.
What We Learned: Did you see that bearded fellow pontificating in German by the river? Is it us or has Joss Whedon has really let himself go?
Luckily, fighting aliens is always a good workout plan.
Why We’ll Watch: It’s an alien invasion film set in 1813. That line alone piqued interest. We’ll soon see how the low budget restricted, or enhanced, the story.
When’s it coming?
November 5th. Vienna, Austria. No telling when the USA will get it.
Official site:
http://www.tartarus.at/
Our Strange Sky: UFO Buzzes Chinese Airport, Let the Mass Speculations Begin
Posted by mistergroonk in Video, World on July 16, 2010
Of course this happened last week(July 9). We suppose it takes this long for weirdness to escape from China.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang CHINA — An unidentified flying object forced an airport in a major Chinese city to shut down operations for an hour, various reports said.
According to state media outlet China Daily, the incident happened at Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan Airport on July 7, when the UFO was spotted around 8:30 p.m. According to the report, the object did not show up on radar.
The HuffPost says another sighting has been reported by Shanghai Daily.
A second China UFO sighting has residents on edge, just seven days after an unidentified flying object shut down a Chinese airport.
The new UFO sighting took place in Chongqing in eastern China on July 15. Witnesses said they saw the same thing: “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape that hovered over the city’s Shaping Park for over an hour.”
Like the one before it, there has been no official explanation to date for this latest incident.
Curious that the turnaround on this sighting was so short.
We’ve found videos on the July 9 incident and placed them under the cut.
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Stephen Hawking Believes in Alien Planet Jackers, More Doomy Dooms of Doom
Posted by mistergroonk in Science, World on April 28, 2010
We find it curious that when scientist Albert Harrison says a visiting alien race may be as petty as humans back in January 2010, no one bats an eyelash.
Stephen Hawking says the same thing and accompanies the statement with ILM level visual effects and time on the Discovery Channel, everyone won’t shut up about humanity’s doom.
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Alien Man-o-war finally comes for us
Posted by mistergroonk in Science on March 31, 2003
LA Woman73 pointed this out.
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