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These BATTLE: LOS ANGELES Posters Show Us...??
Merrick here...
I'm not entirely clear who had these new BATTLE: LOS ANGELES posters first...so apologies in advance if I'm inadvertently slighting anybody in this post.
This said...
Five new posters from Jonathan Liebesman's film have gone online, cleverly suggesting that the events in the movie are directly tied to previous alien encounters throughout recent history. Click the image below to jump to MovieWeb for more.
THIS piece at NerdReactor suggests that the film's aliens are kinda/sorta/abstractly revealed in the modern-day (Los Angeles 2011) poster.
A few days ago, Sony released 2 seconds (!?) of footage from the film - a wicked act that seems more cruel than helpful or insightful.
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Huh? That was weird...
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FIRST
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Third. :(
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I'm a huge Eckhart fan so I'm looking forward to this.
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Jeez it's the first line of the piece. You could at least spell check that.
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The LA poster is divine. The others are okay. Not so much the soldier poster, though.
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at least you could make out the enterprise.
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Oh. These posters don't show us breasts at all.Man, all my hopes are crushed.
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Well that will certainly wet my appetite.
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I'm gonna eat my chemically-injected Lucky Charms with my hormone-filled whole milk and enjoy it. And if my babies have penguin hands and three eyes? Well, I guess that's just the price I'll have to pay for a delicious breakfast.
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The pointless banner was just "Report Threats.org" (wow, gee, that's going to make me go visit the fucking thing). The helicopter was brought in in pieces and seemed to be slightly smaller scale, and had NOTHING going on. It was over on the grass by the Hilton Gaslamp, the grass at the Hilton btw is a public park popular with dog owners, so it was apt that they were promoting this film next to dogshit containers.
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...if it had been about the actual "Battle of Los Angeles". It's one of those weird, unsolved mysteries.
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Is he sucking your cock? I've never seen such love for an unknown director. Why the "Liebesman" this and "Liebesman" that? Sony paying you off Merrick? Or you guys butt buds?
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The alien is in the back of the "2011" poster. Back right. Dumb design.
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Wouldn't New York, Hong Kong, London, DC, Toyko be more strategic, especially from a financial viewpoint.
Perhaps they have a shortage of females and are after those California girls. -
We'd better get an obit, he was a screen writer who was influentional on every one of us
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Looks like the paranoia that happened after that attack. The mainland, namely LA, had search lights going and were waiting for an invasion. Paranoia was at a high level. A sub was sunk just off of the coast. Much of this was, poorly mind you, the center of Spielberg's 1941.
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the Sun campaign,where their first strategic move against USA is to invade LA and use its radio and tv stations as a weapon of propaganda against the USA goverment.You know from a perspective this sounds quite logical,after all the Nazis used propaganda heavily in their war a lot.
ofc in this movie,i dont know what are the motivations of the aliens to invade LA,i guess they want to kidnap the celebs for their personal geek collections.Like what that alien did in the Futurama star trek episode. -
I'm sorry, I just can't stop poking at that movie.
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based on an actual event? That poster is a screen shot of the actual film shot that night. Those discs were witnessed by shit loads of people, they were fired at and it was filmed. Youtube it.
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but dont forget that you are the minority.2.7B prove that.cheerio.
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meteorological/astronomical effect.
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that there is an alien invasion in his (in)famous radio show.you americans are too naive,and believe everything you hear or see.
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http://www.moviepush.co.uk/2010/08/battle-los-angeles-viral-website-takes.html
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I don't know if the film is actually based on it, but that poster is definately a shot from that 30's news reel.
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they show us nothing we already don't know. LA is a battlefield. anyone tried to get frozen yogurt on third street during a sunny saturday afternoon?
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Either way, the title is a little underwhelming.
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countless eye witnesses and the government spend millions to cover it up, BoLA is up there with roswel, and the JFK and john lennon assassinations in terms of coverups perpretrated by our govenment
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imagine that.and during the 40-50s period.since then what new proofs of alien contact did we get? the crop circles and Michael Jackson.
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... that nearly every talkback has some douche talking shit about Americans? Have you cocks not yet realized that AICN is an American website? Have you cocks not yet realized that the vast majority of these 'geek films' you obsess over are American? Here's an idea... GO THE FUCK AWAY! No one wants to see your bullshit hypocrisy here, anyway. This goes for every single one of you that's not an American. If you want to talk shit... do so without insulting the people of an entire nation. Bottom line... manners or get the fuck out. You're on an American website. Show some class or fuck off.
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and your point is? be naive like the uneducated majority of the american public and start believing in UFOs? if you care so much about your countrymen,you should be more worried about the non-existent educational system of your country,rather than some unknown guy in the net who, after all, criticizes this problem of your country.Granted its not only the americans who are superstitious and believe in UFOs and all that crap,you should see my countrymen,but we are talking in a an american site as you just pointed out,no?
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That's what I thought as well. Two fucking seconds and I was amazed at it and ready to buy tickets.
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and will persuade the fucking studios to greenlight the Halo movie.
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Don't by any means hold a monopoly on foolish beliefs.Who's culture gave us the idea that there are faeries among us? Who came up with the idea of leprechauns?I'd wager that there are as many UFO nuts abroad as there are on American soil. Hell, British reporters routinely hound their government to release military UFO investigative documents.
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I'M THERE OPENING DAY! I AM A SLAVE TO YOUR NEW AND INVENTIVE MARKETING!
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Viral marketing guys. I can't believe some of you are buying that 1942 stuff as real. On second thought, yes I can. Sigh...
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Watch any one of those UFO shows on the NatGeo or History Channel- TONS of the "sightings" are in England and Germany. Not to mention all the sightings that seem to happen in Mexico and Brazil. UFO nuts definitely have leases in other countries.
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I'd never heard about that incident. Strangely, my Dad grew up in Pasadena, he has 8 y/o in 1942. Gonna have to ask him if he remembers that.
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a whole 2 seconds
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Because New York is over done. And where else would they invade? Dallas? I'd like to see a movie where aliens invade another country first and America just watches and waits. Like what if aliens attacked China or Russia first or hell Egypt. Would we stand up and help or start preparing for the attack on the US? That would be interesting.
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Two heavily-concentrated population centers that have massive transportation hubs. Sounds like a recipe for first strike to me.
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alot of UFOlogists reference and study it. The government claims it was a false alarm due to people's fear of invasion so close to Pearl harbour. But many experts and the people that witness the lights and sounds think that it was actually a spaceship, or spaceships, it's defently an interesting topic for any one interested in UFO's or government coverups
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the battles happening across the globe. But that snippet looked good, talk about short don't blink.
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Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but the 1942 photo is definitely real. I first came across the story back in 2000, and the event has been featured prominently in UFO books. A few years ago a documentary called 'The Greatest Story Ever Denied' had a nice piece on it. Something DEFINITELY flew over LA in 1942... and the military DEFINITELY was unable to take it down despite all the artillery that was thrown at it. As I said, if this was the first I'd heard of it... I'd call 'viral marketing', as well. But this story (and photo) has been making the rounds amongst the eccentric for seventy years. As for me... I believe that the aircraft in the photo is real... but I don't necessarily believe that aliens are flying it. Jumping to those type of conclusions every time someone sees something unusual in the sky is speculation, not science.
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...I actually kind of like the 2 seconds of footage. they don't blow their wad by revealing any ships or actual aliens, but it still gives you a great taste of how the movie is going to look and feel. I think this is going to be a slick, exciting movie to see in theaters... without much more to offer. much like "Cloverfield." but a great theater experience is still worth the $10 ticket price to me.
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That looks like a major (alleged) UFO sighting over LA during WWII. That was apparently an actual event. I saw something about it on the History Channel, where they had everybody on alert and large lights going into the sky looking for a UFO.
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After all, wouldn't we just let the aliens HAVE it? Hell, take NY, DC, and Boston, too. Just don't let them take San Dimas, man, because that's where all the babes are.
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And they want us to shit our pants in awe?
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Thanks. I'm going to have to dig some more I guess.
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I read that this film was initially inspired by the real (or unreal if you will) 1942 Battle of Los Angeles. At least, that's what got the writer's mind spinning that lead to this. Even if the movie doesn't mention the real battle from 1942, its a nice little marketing trick.As for the film focusing on the aliens invading Los Angeles, I'd say its partly so that they can make sequels in other cities if this one does well. Battle: New York. Battle: Chicago. Battle: DC. Battle: London. Battle: Tokyo. Lots of potential for sequels all over the globe.Come to think of it, any type of apocalypse-set film series could take a similar approach, sorta like World War Z covered the Z War on a global scale.
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Aug 02, 2010 11:52:03 PM CDT
People get excited about still pics, so why not 2 secs?
by bubbadestructo
And Scalvador, do you have a definitive link to the stuff you mentioned? Just curious about the subject matter.
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Are the Aliens in love with Hollywood or something?
"Alright Marklars! You know the drill! If we take Marklar, then we will find Marklar with fake, busty, blonde Marklars!" -
It's just a point of view story of a platoon of marines in LA during what is at least a country-wide invasion.
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seems like a good a city to invade as any other..major metropolitan area and on the coast..perhaps it was just the first one they hit when they flew down...i can see "why topeka" but not "why LA'
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The V series had lots of battle scenes in LA. Yeah, it was low budget, but still good.
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It REALLY sucked. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict that this will also suck.
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I guess water isn't lethal to these aliens. I love the Penn and Teller show called Bullshit! and how they covered Area 51 and aliens, roflmao.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sI_xlQ1Oi0
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What about the other 6,600?
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...I can just see all of the old age pensioners throwing their handbags at the invading Aliens and talking them to death..." OOOH, You think that this is a war???? Well, I was here for the big one, sunshine! And did I complain?? Not a jot- I just sat there giving birth under a hail of bombs and bullets like everyone else... and DON'T get me started on rations....."(Alien fucks off in disgust...) MUCH BETTER!!!! Fuck L.A!!!
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... until the makers saw "Pandorum"
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the aliens are addicted gamblers.
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"In 1983, the Office of Air Force History concluded that an analysis of the evidence points to meteorological balloons as the cause of the initial alarm"
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why do aliens always attack the most heavily armed nation? Surely it would make more sense to slowly take over somewhere like Estonia and move from there. But no, they go straight in at the top...and lose.
And please, nerds, enough about the Halo movie. Try and imagine that there are 5.99999999999 billion other people in the world who don't give a shit about Halo. Now, imagine you're a studio - who are you going to sell films to? -
He hasn't had a huge breakout, but to horror fans he is well known. He made the short "Rings" film for "The Ring" DVD which ended up being better than the sequel. And his direction of the "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" was good despite a weak story. Horror fans are all looking forward to this movie which vould be his big break.
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flicks which take place in our modern time,is that if you have achieved technology for interstellar travel,then by logic that means that your army is also technologically superior from the army of the technologically primitive planet that you want to invade.which means that the natives of that planet dont pose a threat to your invasion plans at all,they have already lost the war.
Thats why Halo is a more realistic take in the alien invasion theme.Both oppositions have equal technology,they have achieved space travel,AI,combat enhancing armors,lasers,spaceships and all that crap.so the humans do have a fair chance to beat the bad aliens,and without having to resort into ridiculous solutions like in ID4.
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what's the delay on the HALO movie. Just make it Cameron.
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Niven and Pournelle seem to have understood the inherent trouble with contemporary humans standing a chance against a species capable of interstellar travel and went out of their way to address it in their invasion novel.
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about the characters of HALO interacting without your control, go home and play it for 2 hrs and you'll get the same experience
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i saw you mentioned it in another talkback too.i will definitely check it.
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Man, I read Footfall over 20 years ago! I can't remember much about it except the aliens kinda looked like elephants. I'm going to have to re-read it for sure.
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So, what, anybody's allowed to use a ".org"?
I thought they were, like, specially for non-profit shit. -
You might as well just scream "we're covering something up, people!!!"
Personally, I don't think weather balloons are real. Ever. Not even when meteorologists use them. -
It's from the Los Angeles Times article about the real incident.
Wikipedia is my friend. -
Its the future folks!
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Aug 03, 2010 11:37:19 AM CDT
It would sure make the coming attractions go by quickly!
by royston lodge
Now, can we please get 2 second Coke and Toyota ads, so we can just see the damned movie we paid to see!!!!
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was inspired by the Battle of Los Angeles.
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The future looks quite bleak indeed... but maybe as someone was pointing out... If we get excited or unexcited by pics, this could indeed be the future. Instead of pics, miniclips from the get go.
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"That's why Halo is a more realistic take in the alien invasion theme."
The problem with that is, in Halo humans have shown that they are capable of defending themselves. And yet the aliens don't take a hint. So much for being a race of superior intelligence! -
A war where the aggressor, with vastly superior technology, is defeated by puny defenders with vastly more primitive technology?
Yeah, that NEVER happens in real life...
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in HALO.the Covenant is an alliance of different alien races ruled by some very intelligent,religious fanatics whose main goal is to unlock the secrets of the HALO devices,rather than conquer Earth and they are determined to stop to nothing to achieve that.the overall story of the HALO games is indeed crappy,but the main setup is well thought and logically established.it makes sense in other words.
@Royston yes i know the Vietnam/Afganistan are good examples of the weak kicking the ass of the strong and all that.and i am sure history has to offer a lot of other similar examples.
BUT you ignore something.USA is not alone in this world and their ruthless and inhumanity are limited because otherwise they would have to answer for their uncivilized actions to the rest of the planet.
what i mean this: USA if they wanted they could use their nuclear and biological weapons and obliterate Vietnam and Afganistan/Iraq.They did that with the genocide of the Indians,they did it again as an example with the Japanese,they wanted to do it with Vietnam but Nixon was afraid of the Russian's reaction,and now they dont want to do it with Afganistan because they are afraid of the reaction from the other countries.Its one thing to trick the naive countires that Iraq has nuclear weapons,and another thing to obliterate the country with nukes in order to conquer it.its an unspeakable act and you do have to give an answer for that both to the other countries,and to your own people.
BUT the aliens in ID4,they dont have to give an account to nobody.They all together as a race to conquer and leech on alien planets and there is nobody which can stop them or they are afraid of.In other words,if we ignore the "aliens need satelites to control their spaceships" ridiculous script writing,in reality they could use their giant spaceships with their super lasers and annihilate Earth and humankind in just one day.and then the aliens would have a big laugh with the "human spirit prevails" quote.they might even put it on their t-shirts. -
...you bastard.
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that's a fucked up way to tease about that kind of movie!
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Jesus Christ, Killik can't a body get away from you even here???
Just so everyone knows, this douche is a raving left-wing Australian moonbat who spends his time posting on conservative websites about how evil all you Americans are and how the world would be a better place without you.
So yeah. Why he is posting here on an American website is kind of a mystery.
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