The sequel can be set during this time but in different parts of the world that would be good or interesting

its not even close to any realism. The only Realistic thing is that a fresh Lieutenant can't work with a Map.

A weird complaint I heard about this movie is that the alien's tech is too primitive looking. I fail to see why that's a problem. Just because they have space travel doesn't mean they need to have lazer guns or teleporters. Obviously their just like us in a way; More advanced in some areas than others. Humans have super computers that can make billions of calculations in less than a second. Do we have faster than light ships or the power to create mini black holes in our hands? No.

​@@robbiepatrick6251for all mankind is perfect example of that. Just because you can travel in space doesn't mean you have *future tech shining screen* to use in general way.

@@__-xf3iw Derp Derp

I agree!

Needs one? Absolutely. Going to get one? No.

I'd call it Battle Mississippi. The aliens are fighting their way up the Mississippi River, and the US military is struggling to stop them from cutting the country in half.

*IN ALL WORLD IMAGE OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IS DISGUSTING, IF THEY ARE IN YOUR COUNTRY THAT MEANS THAT USA WANTS TO RUIN YOUR COUNTRY FOR RESOURCES AND ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIES THEY ARE HEROES, WHAT A CRAP*

That would be cool.

They also said more than that. "These enemies are falling tactically, their strategies are coordinated. Do not underestimate enemy combat intelligence. They're pressing towards the city center." Then they said we're not evacuating civies fast enought Semper Fi 107 actual out!

Damn that gives me chills

Man I miss this line from BATTLE LOS ANGELES

Thank you for this.

Best friend is a former amphib marine out of Top Sail in NC as well. Mad respect and thanks for your service

I'm sure

Imagine fighting an urban warfare battle with aliens and getting a medal of honor lol.

Pretty sure they had a bunch of dudes from 29 there as advisors and it shows. Probably one of the most faithful depictions of Marine Corps culture I’ve seen in film

@@Mandatory-Fun better war film then American sniper and act of valor

It is enjoyable, fictional entertainment, but how is it believable that current human military could put on a fight against a species with technology so advanced they are able to travel lightyears? It would be like medieval archery against fighter jets.

@@Andreas-ni2lt 1/ As described, the species is running from its home because they are being evicted. That describes a species that is traveling under duress similar to how humanity would be if we had to abandon Earth and take a stab at colonizing a neighboring star. The aliens didn't arrive in "world ships" or arks. They arrived with workable solutions. 2/ Just because a species is able to travel light years doesn't mean that they have materials that can break certain laws of physics. The armor plate of the aliens was still vulnerable to over/under pressure from explosions, could still be penetrate by certain high caliber rounds, etc. That's actually still quite realistic. If the aliens were traveling at warp speed or similar - sure, that would make sense. But the whole premise of the story is that they aren't THAT far advanced and were clearly engineered "enough" for the journey. They didn't come in massive numbers and relied heavily on drone technology to stand a chance.

@@Andreas-ni2lt i thinks its more like medieval archery versus medieval archery, its just one side has model Ts to move around. Of course if I were to invade, I'd start in a developing country where they actually have few weapons and little electricity, but that's just me. Never confuse intelligence with being smart. I know a PhD who cleaned snow off his wife's car...with a snow shovel. Smh completely ruined the paint. Who knows maybe the intel was centuries old or was taken from the wrong continent.🤣 Alien scout: sir the natives only have single ballistic rifles. They dont even flying vehicles. Alien general: a cakewalk! Excellent!

@@nunyabusiness863 Kind of hard to believe that you can be that advanced in terms of transportation but not be more advanced in terms of weaponry and tactics. In human history, those two go pretty much hand in hand. Also, I sincerely hope that our military response to an alien beach invasion would be a bit more aggressive than Marines holding a line with machine guns and a couple of bombers carpet bombing a few blocks. That shit needs to be sterilized.

@@Andreas-ni2lt It's been implied in interviews about the film that the alien force we see comes from a planet that is engaged in a very long war, and they weren't the dominant force on the planet. This is basically a small faction in a much larger war trying to find a planet to regroup/rearm at. What they have works to get them places, but it's not top of the line equipment. For us it seems advanced, for them they could be using their planet's outdated/scrapped together transports and weapos.

White flag :)

@@flareoil533 it's 2023 brother, wake up

@@ZeAldhyr Im sry i coudln't resist. I know you guys have the most victories than any other nation.

It's not fiction anymore.

​@@superiorsoldier57Wow! If you think aliens have attacked Los Angeles then I want what you're smoking. Or maybe not because it's made you delusional.

@@superiorsoldier57yeah! Time to loot some Le baron James NIKES

We wouldn’t have enough today with everything we gave to Ukraine

It’s all fun and games until the Marines land. 0311, Ooorah Devildogs.

No air units, no ground vehicle. How is that better lol.

@@VashtheStampede007 if you watched the movie you would have know they did have air, they just didn't know that at the start

Their also "litte" better in a way that they can take more hits to go down and stay down

Not to mention their infantry weapons are equivalent to our heavy machine guns, plus the grenade launchers that can kill Abrams tank armor.

@@VashtheStampede007have you even watched the movie?

LMAO!!!! Movie was so bad my turd turned sideways and tried to go back inside my body.

Im joining the marines talking to a recruiter now. 🫡

Believable? Believable invasion would be us being evaporated not even knowing what struck us.

War of the world's better for me

@@EugenGrapes I hated it with all my soul.

They'd call in all air support much earlier. The beach would be gone. Tactical nikes would also be used. If a city was lost They'd probably nuke it.

@@theojames109 ok general.

@@killbill5486 That's sir to you

So you give up after your paltry scouting/reconnaissance force gets beat? You don't bother sending more serious power in? Lol

@@davecrupel2817 no, I don't. If my scouting force gets absolutely gonzo'd in 24 hours, so badly that they couldn't even evacuate, then I would reason that it would take alot of resources and time to properly conquer humanity (assuming I didn't want to destroy the planet). Would you wanna wage that war? Commit millions of your own to possible death? The Aliens in the movie show that they have compassion for each other and try to save their wounded. So why would I, and intergalactic race, get into a costly war with an extremely war-like race (humans) that I had just discovered? Logic dictates that I leave the humans alone until I have a good reason to take Earth.

@@starsiegeRoks Fair assessment. Assuming one isn't in a desperate "do or die" need for the planet's resources, i probably would come to the same conclusion. After all, the lore says they made their decisions based on how they saw earth at the time. Mid-ww2. When we were less advanced, not at all united, and in the middle of a world-scaling conflict. They did not anticipate how quickly things would change in the time it took them to get here.

What’s even crazier is the Aliens in this movie are DEFEATED aliens who lost a civil war on their home planet and were forced to be exiled.

@@Palasdinwhere did you get that information? I’m curious I’ve watched this movie probably dozens of times but never looked anything up into possible lore

Never noticed the A10, great catch

Actually, they're Sea Knights, those that precedes Chinook

And at 4:18 they were getting the SITREP while en-route. They were being told that enemy units had advanced beyond the beach and more were coming out of the ocean, the 101 tanks had been destroyed, companies beyond the defensive line were falling back, enemy had heavy assault weapons that were equivalent to HE rounds, they were not evacuating civilians fast enough, and there were friendlies behind enemy lines.

@@saj1567 Thanks! When I first saw the movie back in 2011, this scene was my favorite from the get go. So, I kept rewatching it, looking at every, minute detail. That’s how I was able to notice civilians running for their lives while the ground forces were engaging the enemy (SSGT looking down on the streets). Then at the next scene, I happened to see something flying down & up as the helots were approaching. That’s when I realized it was an A-10! Love that thing.

@@toddkes5890 Loved that radio chatter!

Yeah, the way alien invasion films should be.

It actually occurs to me that this is not an alien war movie but a war movie with aliens in it.

Same with Top Gun 1

did they join the airforce or the navy lol@@haparcheledupwar

​@@Godsjudgement12well duh why do you think the DoD pays studios so much to make them

@@jamesduffy7549DoD pays nothing.

How long did it take for them to realise it’s not like in the movies?

A bit weird that they fly over what is technically enemy controlled and reinforced area, but yeah I guess the flyby looks nice.

@@TurKlack yeah I agree, but the visuals are stunning AF

@@TurKlackbut they did say that they didn’t have air support and that they’d tear them a new asshole but that was false

You said it, man.

It looked cool, but it wasn't how they would do it in real life. You fly troops in from behind your lines, not from behind enemy lines lol.

A few years too late

It's go time !!

Marines

Actually, the fact that they likely get here from another star system at least, suggests that their technology HAS to be superior to ours. In every respect and conceivable way imaginable. There would be no other acceptable explanation or situation. Put another way, there's no way that a civilisation that would be comparable to ours that we could put up a good fight against, would ever be able to leave their star system to invade a planet on an entirely different star system, light years away,, any more than we can leave the solar system for anything. It was the one major unbelievable thing about this movie and really of any alien invasion movie where humans can put up a fair fight at all.

@@Cbricklyne Not really. We're working on space travel right now. There's a few things that need to click into place, but there's nothing to say that we might now figure it out two days from now, then have a test run a year later. While parts of our technology will absorb, and advance with it, most of it would remain the same for a time, yet we very well could have viable speedy space travel by next year. Not saying that's going to happen, just pointing out that it could be that simple. It's not inconceivable. What is inconceivable is that a comparable civilization WOULD do that. Our first steps would be exploration, not conquest. Conquest would be the space of the more advanced, which would likely lose the conquest part through advancement, or the desperate. If we were desperate, even with what tech we have, and the ability to travel the stars, we would turn to attacking a native species to get what we need. We've proven that plenty here on earth. Most likely any species traveling here would be far more advanced than us, and have purposes that we don't even really think of. That's not required though. Nor is another species looking so "alien" as is often depicted. If there are aliens, which the number of stars/planets lends to, there's likely "intelligent" species very similar to us.

​@@Cbricklynetheir biology might make them more suitable to space travel, so their spaceships need to be less advanced. They might have bodies immune to radiation, due to their home planet not having any protection against it at all, so their bodies do have it. They might be able to hibernate for hundreds of years so they don't have to travel that fast, they can take their time with Voyager 2 speed. They might be a peaceful species who have endured an apocalyps and had to flee their planet. This is the first time they go to war Looking at things from a human perspective, sure, they would outclass is. Thing is, these guys aint human

I can guarantee you, that if we have to, we can run similar invasion within 40 years from now, but the invaided planet has to relativly close to earth. We do not pursue space travel, because it is to expensive. Simple as that. But if you have incentive you can have similar level of technology and travel within let say 10-12 light years away. Also the enemy could be very advanced, but some of their technology can not work properly due to number of factors. Like radiation levels or something and they are stuck with old fashion kinetic projectles.

A Roman Legionnaire would say the same. And here we are, with Apache helicopters and Abrams tanks.

"Realistic" in what sense? It's the fact that it's "gritty" and whatnot and humans actually put up a decent fight that makes it unrealistic as all heck.

@@Cbricklyne dude literally said he doesn't care yet you still replied with your criticism

​​@@Cbricklyne Because it shows how the military will react to an invasion. The military won't sit around & do nothing til last minute, they will be deployed if they find something coming this way towards earth in a unnatural way.

@@Cbricklyne Idk what version of Battle Los Angeles you watched but every single gun fight they took, the Marines lost. It wasn't until they were able to momentarily outsmart the aliens with a manually guided Tomahawk missile that things even looked slightly better. First gun fight in the neighborhood resulted in several wounded, police station rescue resulted in several killed and wounded, the battle on the interstate resulted in several killed and wounded.

Its actually unrealistic if aliens can visit us that means they are much more powerful they can kill all of us or enslave us easily

The book series In the Balance by Harry Turtledove explores this. An advanced alien race invades Earth at the height of WW2 and at first they have the advantage but the one area that humans have over them is adaptability. While humans were initially at a huge disadvantage the aliens were not accustomed to adaption at all so they slowly lost their advantage to the humans and got pinned down in a brutal Vietnam style guerilla war against the Nazis, Soviets, and Allies

​@@solinvictus4367read some about the book. Basically they send a probe in the middle ages, and they assumed we would create new weapons at the rate they did, so they expected the most advanced enemy they would meet was a knight on horseback Even more shocked when the Germans switched to new tank types right in the middle of a war Also very realistic was them being cut off from supplies. They captured factories here and could make new guns , mortars and grenades, but any advanced stuff they lost could not be replaced

There is some lore for the aliens, apparently known as Land Sharks. Turns out, they were a advanced species in combat until they were beaten and needed to escape to another planet.

@@tonypeppermint5329 I thought they were just low-quality mercenaries hired to quickly clean the planet for mining

Very true. Plus if history has taught us anything, highly outclasses civilization can and have held off superior forces for many years and even decades just by using unconventional tactics. That time allows for development as well and would likely lead to reverse engineering alien tech to make us semi equal in firepower.

Or instead of the drones falling out of the sky, have the drones just idle in place once the control ship is destroyed. So instead of a coordinated, acting/reacting, and guided swarm of drones, you have individual craft hovering in place that will defend themselves and attack if anything interesting appears in their sensors. If Drone_A gets attacked by weapons fire then Drone_B might go over to investigate and open fire, but Drone_C through Drone_E which do not see the weapons fire will remain in place. Contrast that with before where Drone_A will pull back from weapons fire while Drones B-E can receive data about Drone_A so will automatically move in and engage.

I enjoyed it and have watched it a few times since it came out. Sadly a lot of the critics are looking for stuff that is going to win academy awards.

@@kainschildCorrection: Films that don’t really deserve them

Because it’s scenic as fuck.

Instead of making it realistic they made it more cheese dick by flying over enemy artillery for a better scene.. stupid movie

There may have been no other path, the beach under the choppers might have been clear while other sections were in enemy hands, and maybe the aliens´ AA fire was deemed ineffective enough to risk it. Also, those are not Chinooks. They are CH-46 Sea Knights, colloquially known as Phrogs, which were retired I think three years after this movie aired.

I think in-lore because they needed troops in there ASAP so they took the risky route.

Not Chinooks, they’re CH-46 Sea Knights. The predecessor to the Chinook

Well the aliens did detect the incoming. Remember they threw drones in front of the incoming rounds when they realized what was happening.

Army cannon cocker; got to handle/fire a few copperheads- they felt... different when they fired.

@@Sephiroth144 Yeah, you are using a red bag for starters.

@@charlesphillips1468 Oh, we used plenty of red bags for HE rounds (and the occasional Willie P); depended on the fire mission if we went green or red.

lol highly possible, no. First of all, you have to want to take this planet. Any alien invader would do recon first. They would know that even if they have superior technology, the nuclear powers would simply launch every nuke they had when it was clear Earth couldn't win. So, invasion would have no point. Second, you have to understand the vastness of space. Even if we can figure out how to go like 20% the speed of light, it would STILL take like 25 years to get to our closest star, and we aren't anywhere close to 20% the speed of light yet. So, whoever comes to invade us is going to be so advanced, we would have no chance what so ever. The space ship that arrives would have to be made out of a material (or have shields) that can withstand insane heat, cold, radiation, rocks and bits of metal traveling at insane speeds and hitting it, etc. A nuke would do nothing to a ship that can travel between stars. If they have those materials, bullets would do nothing to their armor. IF some aliens came here and wanted to take the planet, the best course of action (after observation) would be either some kind or world wide EMP blast followed by an absolute lighting strike with extreme power, and dealing with the few nukes we would manage to get off and dealing with years of insurgency as they wipe people out, or releasing some kind of super virus to wipe people out. Either one would not make a good movie.

@@Cruor34 I'm pretty sure that all the resources and water will still be there in a nuclear war. They're not planning to make it a paradise tropical holiday destination mate. Most of your reasoning is horseshit by the least. You also heavily assume that we know physics better than they do, which is probably not so much in your favour. Pretty sure that the world isn't going to launch nuclear weapons for aliens, first, the aliens lack any sort of territory holding on the planet, so I doubt a country is going to nuke russia or china because ALIENS. Your lack of intelligence is paramount to the downfall in the reasoning in your argument. Good day sir.

Preview of project blue beam??! Anyone?? 👀

​@@Cruor34​​​@Cruor34 theyre already here , and are already familiar with our resources and capacity.. its just a matter of time before their comet drone that contains a virus(oxygen killer) to wipe all the inhabitants impacts the planet starting in the US pacific coast.. if we are looking for a technical invasion, then again we are still fcked. Those countries who has nuke power can sacrifice their people cause they want to probe these invaders weakness. so either these aliens or those fcking politicians will kill the humanity so again its possible.. the question we should know is WHEN

That's like a stupid analogy for summarising that juice is juice. Comes in many flavours and textures.

Need a proper video game as well.

Movie title?

Battle. LA

Movie name

Their motivation was to snag all of earth's resources, especially the water. That was explained in the movie.

@@BandoBrain I said it was explained in interviews, not in the film!

The water thing, yeah right. That was a brainless talking head on the TV. If you were desperately short of water you can stop at Europa or Enceladus and get all you want without interference.

@@mikespangler98 Apparently this guy on TV is not an astronomer. Who hired that guy, anyway?

*IN ALL WORLD IMAGE OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IS DISGUSTING, IF THEY ARE IN YOUR COUNTRY THAT MEANS THAT USA WANTS TO RUIN YOUR COUNTRY FOR RESOURCES AND ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIES THEY ARE HEROES, WHAT A CRAP*