I'm always game for any SCI-FI movie. So I watched the previews of the new movie SKYLINE with a certain amount of childish, little boy wonder.

Now that it opened, I've started to see the reviews. They aren't good reviews, either.

When you see words like "Craptastic" and sentences like "There isn’t a moment here they get right, not a single decision they make that doesn’t end ridiculously."

And that's the part of the review that is most favorable to the movie, then you start to wonder.

The general agreement for SKYLINE is that if you get high and giggly, its going to be a great movie.

Even the critic says so: "Easily one of the most entertaining terrible movies in recent memory, this stands toe to toe with films like THE CORE, THE COVENANT, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN LI and IN THE NAME OF THE KING as among one of the best experiences I’ve had watching an otherwise unwatchable film."

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/47428

Without looking at this film again I think this is the worst movie I ever watched,

Starship Invasions 1977 http://www.filmsandtv.com/i/bomb.gif PG, 87 min.

Genre: Sci-Fi (http://www.filmsandtv.com/genre.php?gs=1970Sci-Fi)

Director: Ed Hunt (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/edhunt.php)

Cast: Robert Vaughn (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/robertvaughn.php), Christopher Lee (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/christopherlee.php), Daniel Pilon (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/danielpilon.php), Helen Shaver (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/helenshaver.php), Henry Ramer (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/henryramer.php), Victoria Johnson (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/victoriajohnson.php), Tiiu Leek (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/tiiuleek.php), Doreen Lipson (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/doreenlipson.php), Kate Parr (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/kateparr.php), Sherri Ross (http://www.filmsandtv.com/movies/sherriross.php)

This film's plot and special effects are so poor that is worth viewing "Starship Invasions" just to see how low a science fiction film can stoop.

If you watched it as a comedy it was funny as hell it was so bad, "how bad was it" it was worse than that.

We started making comments so loud that the other people watching this film moved closer to us so they could hear us and add there own comments. When the film was over we were all laughing as we left and the guy that worked for the movie house had this puzzled look on his face, he said I watched this movie and it was a terrible movie, we laughed even harder and said he just did not look at in the right way.

It was a movie you wanted to forget and can't, even 30+ years later it still has left a bad memory. If its the one I am thinking of the space ship was actually a 3 mast sailing ship in space.

Its a must see.

River

There are a number of movies that all the critics hated that I loved, and several that I absolutely hated that the critics thought was the greatest movie ever made.

Chibiabos (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:41 pm There are a number of movies that all the critics hated that I loved, and several that I absolutely hated that the critics thought was the greatest movie ever made.

Tell us about them. I keep commenting on good and bad movies and taste in movies (what's good and what's just awful) is all in the eye of the beholder.

I remember watching the original version of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and asking my brother if it was supposed to be a comedy.

My Mother will not enter the room is she hears BEETLEJUICE and she complains so much that no one can watch it in her presence.

And Paolo really, really, really despises THE LAST AIRBENDER. I think he's created a sacrificial altar in his back yard and burns copies of it every week or two.

Yep, firefly I have them all including the movie. Waterworld I though was great, I loved it, of course they hated Bringing up Baby, 1937 Hepburn and Grant but today its a classic.

You are right, the critic creates nothing so is justified to criticize all creative people. I look at movies and I don't want to think real deep about it, or get some great meaning of life from them I just want to sit back and be entertained. If the movie does that it was a success. I like all kinds of movies except horror. My favorites are the classics, movies made in the 30's - early 60's.

River

Didn't the critics pan Star Wars when it first came out?

I don't know about Start Wars, but one of the truly funny and historically proven stories of critics being utter fools is the criticism of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto as "music that stinks to the ear" ... And that has won Edward Hanslick a place in history that he might not want carved on his gravestone.

I can't find any easy notes on the first reviews of Star Wars

Because last night was Saturday and I try to watch some sort of movie once I get in bed on Saturdays...

I went to the cable and found "AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON"

A) I didn't remember that much nudity and gore. I mean bare breasts, porn theaters, a bare-ass naked man running around the screen and some of the ugliest, blood-soaked dead and decaying people on camera.

B) It's a great comedy in many ways. Very British and dry comedy.

If memory serves they said it was a remake of the Magnificent Seven with nobody's as actors.

Alec Guinness Reportedly hated working on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/) (1977) so much, Guinness claims that Obi-Wan's death was his idea as a means to limit his involvement in the film. Guinness also claims to throw away all Star Wars related fan mail without even opening it.

If you look at that movie today, its was really bad, but we all love it, a remake would be a great idea and we would hope with better dialog.

But what a begining to a movie,

"A long time ago in a galaxy far far away"

Right into the action, no credits, just action.

River

I saw Skyline.

The special effects are fine. Truly creepy aliens, alien ships, etc. A real sense of awe and horror. But most of the budget must have gone for the effects.

The actors are second rate without exception. No stars. Not even very good looking. Like the cast of an afternoon TV show.

Most important, the characters and their interactions are unsympathetic. The human characters - their emotions and how they play off one another - are the key in movies like this. The monsters or aliens or whatever are there to heighten the emotions. If you like the people, it's possible to like the movie. I wouldn't want to meet any of the people in this movie in real life. They range from uninteresting to unpleasant. None of them is notably good or smart or likable. That makes it hard to care when the aliens descend on them.

The movie is also surprisingly limited visually. Despite the great "alien" effects, most of the movie takes place inside an apartment, with the characters peeping out from behind closed blinds at what's going on outside. There are a few action scenes, but most of the movie feels enclosed and motionless. Neither camerawork nor editing nor direction brings any dynamism.

Finally, there's the end, which is flatly ridiculous. I shouldn't say what it is, because someone here might want to see it, but it left me bug-eyed with incredulity that they would do something so stupid. The end wants to be an homage to the power of love, but the two people involved had only been in a routine affair, and to see that transformed into a sort of sci-fi Tristan und Isolde doesn't work. It demands the audience escalate its suspension of disbelief to an impossible degree. Up until the end, Skyline seemed forgettable. The end propels it into the memorably bad.

Skyline is also conspicuously derivative. One plot device and image after another is borrowed from other, better, sci-fi films, especially Spielberg's "War of the Worlds."

If you're a sci-fi fan, Skyline is worth seeing just as a hoot for its special effects.