Battle: Los Angeles



So I found this movie on Netflix instant watch. It said 2011 and I thought
it was the other recently released movie titled Battle: Los Angeles with Aaron Eckhart. I was surprised that it was already on instant watch so I decided to give it a shot. I had heard that the movie had received awful reviews but I was bored so I thought "aw what the hell". It took me the first 30 minutes to realize
this wasn't the same movie. And came to that conclusion when the lady jumped off the roof with the katana and destroyed the alien space craft by impaling it with the sword. The first 30 minutes were bad but that's what I was expecting so I went with it.

Boy do I feel stupid.




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Also, same here. Picked it up on Netflix DVD because I wasn't careful about looking at the title and actors.

WHAT A WASTE!!! I didn't even make it beyond 10 minutes into this drivel before I pushed the "Eject" button.

I like bad sci-fi on Saturday mornings to wake up to--"get my heart started", as I like to say. But, this turkey--------

"There oughta be a law"----against naming your movie so much like a big hit that you ride in on its coattails!

I didn't even rate this one on Netflix, because they don't have any NEGATIVE numbers!

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It's nice to know that I'm not the only dummy that thought this was the movie with Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez. In the first 3 minutes I realized the special effects were awful. Thirty minutes in I was wondering when Eckhart and Rodriguez were going to show. I was in the kitchen when the lady jumped off the roof with her katana and my boyfriend paused the movie said watch this it's ridiculous. We popped it out and realized it was not the right movie. We were easily fooled because there was a very long wait for this movie so we just though we had the right one. Although I will sit through almost anything there was no way I was going to finish watching this movie. Poor Nia Peeples.

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Same here, but I didn't even make it to the lady with the katana...kinda wish I had! lol.

I was watching it with my parents because my friend had said it [Battle: LA] was good, but from the very beginning I'm like...this CAN'T be it. I had to get up and google it to find out that there is another movie with almost the exact same title from the same year. Seriously? My mom actually wanted to keep watching it.

I mean, if your cheap movie is living in the shadows of a major motion picture, the LEAST you could do is change the title to, I dunno, "Battle of Miami" or something. O_o

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I did the exact same thing. Good to know I'm not the only one. Haha.

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Add me to the list of suckers who got decieved.

I was undergoing Hyperbaric therapy for a foot ulceration. So I have to spend a little under 2 hours in a sealed tube. While Im in there Im allowed to watch a movie or TV. So I was looking through the pile of movie discs and thought Id be watching Battle: LA.

As soon as I saw "THe Asylum Presents" I was like "Oh sh!t"

I sat through the whole thing. Yeah it was abysmal. But I didnt have any other movie lined up so I toughed it out. I had watched other Asylum movies with friends and built up a tolerance.

This is a new low for Asylum making the title so similar

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