It's a lackluster clunker of a script and considering that it's hoping to make Shreveport stand in for Los Angeles is all I need to know to stay away. Blech.
Indigen, the story is "Blackhawk Down" meets "Independence Day," but without purpose, meaning, or resonance. It's about a platoon of soldiers in Los Angeles 12 hours after an alien invasion has begun. They're trying to fight off the Starship-Tropper-lite aliens through the abandoned streets of Santa Monica. They run into some survivors whom they have to help escape. (Where? The aliens are invading -- will taking them east of the 405 somehow protect them? Huh, Bertolini?) Sadly, the last draft excised the mysterious psychic kid. Boooooo!
For an alien-invasion story, the script barely bothers to describe or show the aliens, and when they do show up, the script shoves them aside as fast as it can. This is hands down the worst big spec sale script I've ever read, and that's saying something.
Is this film based on the real Battle for LA against flying saucers? Might need a bit of embellishment, a few hours of frantic AA fire and arguing military types wouldn't be too compelling.
@ultra76: This. Besides, Two-Face is kind of played out, story-wise. Clearly the Nolan Two-Face is driven to extremes by the death of Rachel, but he's still Harvey Dent. He's not showing any kind of multiple personalities, he's not making stupid crimes involving the number 2, he's just trying to get revenge for Rachel's death.
Dent wasn't psychotic, he was just really really pissed off. He served his purpose to the mythos.
Sounds like pure BS, but if they did, I could see them going with one of the numerous plastic surgury storylines, where Dent's face is repaired, but the psychological damage remains, and he eventually ends up re-scarring himself, as the Two-Face personality again becomes dominant.
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and prague .
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Indigen, the story is "Blackhawk Down" meets "Independence Day," but without purpose, meaning, or resonance. It's about a platoon of soldiers in Los Angeles 12 hours after an alien invasion has begun. They're trying to fight off the Starship-Tropper-lite aliens through the abandoned streets of Santa Monica. They run into some survivors whom they have to help escape. (Where? The aliens are invading -- will taking them east of the 405 somehow protect them? Huh, Bertolini?) Sadly, the last draft excised the mysterious psychic kid. Boooooo!
For an alien-invasion story, the script barely bothers to describe or show the aliens, and when they do show up, the script shoves them aside as fast as it can. This is hands down the worst big spec sale script I've ever read, and that's saying something.
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01/12/09
"Dent lies at the bottom of the hole, his neck broken. DEAD."
Also, it would be tough for Dent to come back and work with the police and hunt Batman since they gave him a state funeral and all.
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Dent wasn't psychotic, he was just really really pissed off. He served his purpose to the mythos.
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"Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!"
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Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics:
[www.intuitor.com]
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy:
[www.badastronomy.com]
Read both, they're hilarious.
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1. No scientist is that pretty.
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