PSA: Battle for Los Angles on Netflix

[JTsyo]

So I saw this movie was on Netflix and started watching it. 2mins in I could tell something was off. It looked like it was made in the 80s. I checked the release date and it was 2011. I figured it was a sci-fi action flick so might was well keep going. After watching it for about 30min, fast forwarding a bit, I realized it was utter crap. I checked online I realized I was expecting Battle:LA. Not sure if the people at Netflix was fooled or they thought people would actual want to watch such a crappy movie.

 

[Saint Nick]

Every time I see a thread with Battle of Los Angeles in the title, I immediately think about Rage Against the Machine.

This thread is now about Rage Against the Machine.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I lasted about 5 minutes. I had to turn it off, it was beyond cheesy.

 

[gaidensensei]

The movie was okay, since it derived on a concept that

Spoiler

water was able to be utilized as a fuel source

. It's a nice sci-fi concept though.

I mainly watched it at the theater to hope for memorable places of SoCal and see the action. Was slightly disappointed, aside from the plot at the apartment complex area, I didn't see any notable LA structures at all.

 

[Farmer]

The movie was okay, since it derived on a concept that

Spoiler

water was able to be utilized as a fuel source

. It's a nice sci-fi concept though.

I mainly watched it at the theater to hope for memorable places of SoCal and see the action. Was slightly disappointed, aside from the plot at the apartment complex area, I didn't see any notable LA structures at all.

Wrong movie.

 

[vi edit]

Looks like audio soundtrack demo material. Should be etertaining after a couple beers and high levels of volume.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Yeah, I saw that on netflix under new releases. I almost started to watch it when I read some reviews and realized this was not Battle:LA.

 

[guyver01]

Battle for Los Angeles is a Mock-Fi movie...

 

[gaidensensei]

Wrong movie.

Whoops.

I do remember reading the reviews before checking out the movie. I saw reviews for the older one and was like why is this 20 years old?

 

[Crono]

I saw that on Netflix, knew what it was immediately.

A lot of low budget sci-fi movies are released with similar names to big budget films. It's easy to ride the coattails of a major movie.

Orange and blue!

There was an event during World War II that inspired the name, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles

 

[Wyndru]

Not sure if the people at Netflix was fooled or they thought people would actual want to watch such a crappy movie.

I think they probably knew, especially if they named it correctly. The timing of the video release and the fact that the movie was a complete knock off of Battle:LA was kind of ballsy by Asylum studios, but IIRC it still did awful in sales.

 

[vi edit]

Yeah, I saw that on netflix under new releases. I almost started to watch it when I read some reviews and realized this was not Battle:LA.

Doh. I didn't catch that part. I heard so many negative comments about the "real" Battle for LA that I assumed the OP was talking about the new one.

 

[ViviTheMage]

This flick sucked, I couldn't even finish it.

 

[her209]

This flick sucked, I couldn't even finish it.

That's what she said.

 

[Slick5150]

They make knock-off movies like this all the time to confuse people into renting/watching them. And yes, they are always horrible.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Didn't bother with it. I have a little bit of faith in reviews and use them to my advantage to avoid the turds.

 

[mb]

You didn't think to read the reviews or movie summary first?

 

[Soundmanred]

May I suggest the awesome new movie "Almighty Thor"?

 

[Nik]

So I saw this movie was on Netflix and started watching it. 2mins in I could tell something was off. It looked like it was made in the 80s. I checked the release date and it was 2011. I figured it was a sci-fi action flick so might was well keep going. After watching it for about 30min, fast forwarding a bit, I realized it was utter crap. I checked online I realized I was expecting Battle:LA. Not sure if the people at Netflix was fooled or they thought people would actual want to watch such a crappy movie.

Okay, smart guy.

With a little reading, you'll see that there's a movie that hit theaters that's on Netflix disc-only called Battle: Los Angeles.

Then there's a SciFy 'original' made-for-tv-movie on there called Battle For Los Angeles.

 

[0roo0roo]

 

[dfuze]

This movie got me a couple weeks ago too, confused me on the one I want to see that comes out the 14th

 

[JTsyo]

They make knock-off movies like this all the time to confuse people into renting/watching them. And yes, they are always horrible.

That's the thing though, it doesn't make sense for Netflix to carry it. Why waste bandwidth with poeple trying to watch it and then realizing it's not what they expected. Netflix is not charging per rental.

 

[Schadenfroh]

That was quick. It is not a good movie, but certainly not bad. If you guys are complaining about it, you obviously have not seen very many Sci-Fi Original Movies.

 

[LookBehindYou]

You should check out transmorphers...great flick

 

[JTsyo]

You should check out transmorphers...great flick

heh I had actually added that to my instant queue before realizing what it was. I was actually thinking it was an 80s Transformers animated movie.