does the asylum

Their market consists of two groups:
1. Bad-Movie fans who are in on the "joke" and watch their films because they enjoy the cheese level.

2. People who are stupid enough to rent their movies under the mistaken impression that they're getting the "real" blockbuster.

I happen to be a member of Group #1. As for Group #2, I believe if you're dumb enough to rent, say, "The Terminators" or "Alien Vs. Hunter" thinking that they're part of the legitimate series, then you deserve whatever you get.

Your Favorite Band Sucks.

Simmer down beef jerky for brains.

I oddly liked their I Am Omega more than I did I Am Legend, but agree that most their rip-offs are truly dire.
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'Censors tend to do what psychotics do,they confuse reality with illusion' David Cronenberg

I definately want to give this a look, Battle: Los Angeles disappointed me a bit. I understand this is a low budget knock off but like previous posters have said, some of these knock offs are actually better than the original...

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What happened happened and can't happen any other way

Asylums audience is grandmas who buy these dvd's for their grandkids. The same grandmas who buy the Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence instead of the Dark Knight, Starring Batman

I've known people at The Asylum. A number of times I've heard about them coming up with an effect that they thought was really cool, then the studio has some crazy changes they want to make that make it ugly. Needless to say the artists were not happy, but what can you do? Remember that The Asylum spits out roughly a movie a month, on average 12-13 movies a year. Most of the 3D work is done by 2 guys.

If you're interested there's a video interview with one of the artists from last year's Siggraph here:
http://tv.newtek.com/player.php?recordID=79

My IMDB page
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3031327/

Chances are really good someone will accidentally rent this movie because "Battle: Los Angeles" isn't available.

I can picture a lot of people making this same mistake, and even angrily returning the DVD's to Blockbuster
complaining about this.

Fact is: Asylum has a model that works. Make super-crappy/quick knockoffs of major Hollywood Blockbusters.

Apparently not as they've proven it's possible to make an non-stop action movie boring. I thought there'd be at least some scene, some moment where it would pick up and not bore me. Nope, it was dull all the way through.

It's not even like I'm expecting a lot from them either. I know their reputation and their quality is subpar but even this was a disappointment by the already low standards of Asylum/Sy-Fy pictures.