Both sides were competent and effective. It was a tense movie at times. But it would have worked better if they had chosen one format to follow. A war movie? Given. Documentary or and action movie. Pick one.

Kenneth Peterson How does a soldier of an alien species realistically act?

@@Gunnar001 By following command structures and moving as organized groups and taking orders. Most of the movies are just one alien going Rambo on everything and when that one is stopped then thers is another Rambo alien.

I too loved this film. I don't understand all the hate TBH.

@@Gunnar001 They have a chain of command. They utilize cover and heavy weapons. They move to recover their wounded.

Me too!

Yea there were so many small things like that in the movie that just made it special

A little more aggressive than a real solider would act but for the scenario being an invasion in all it makes a little more sense

@@FUNKER420 these aliens are very hard to kill. they seem to have no way to leave hence have to fight for survival.

@@GenerationFilms My personal favorite moment took place near the end--the Alien 'Squids' did a dynamic entry breach onto the surface out of the sewers: they blew off a manhole cover/sewer grate and just came swarming out

Actually any space opera that came before this movie have the same... If theres one certanty about aliens who arrive here without warning is that inteligence knows inteligence, and war happens...

not rlly i mean they made weapons and ships so i am pretty sure that they can take cover

And that's despite the fact they can clearly take more than 2-3 shots, unlike humans.

Damn, we're gonna lose this one!

The thing is, despite all of the lasers and plasma weapons you see in sci-fi. Kinetic weapons like ours are a very efficient way to inflict damage upon an enemy. Even if their weapons are more advanced, our weapons still send dense pieces of metal at supersonic speeds towards their bodies.

Yeah. I liked it as well.

It had its moments but I was let down with all the cliches and phoned in ending. Plus the special effects were hit or miss

@@jebus914 I agree. I think it let itself open for a 2nd movie. Not sure that is going to happen. I would like to see that. I would like to see a Re-Invasion in Edge of tomorrow part 2. I don't think there are plans for a part 2 for that movie. There has been a lack of Scifi movies of late.

@@achillies40 There actually ARE plans for an EoT2, but Cruise and Blunt can't seem to work out a schedule where they're both free.

I want a sequel maybe set in the UK because you get a few glimpses of news and they talk about other militaries being given Intel on the enemy.

Yea that would be great, the marines in halo are direct descendants of the usmc

am I misremembering things or did you have a mustache before? or is that a different acc?

Generation Films Yeah most UNSC marines that we see are from what’s it called in halo? United Republic Of North America..

*Wait* *I know you*

I'd rather have a Hulk.

He's not wrong. Kinda 😂

There was a pretty serious incident, tho it didn't involve an alien invasion lol. they're definitely using "based on" rather loosely

Battle Los Angeles. I think it was around ww2. They fired at a bunch of unknown crafts in they sky flying over LA thinking it was the Japanese. They hit it with a lot of firepower but nothing happened to the crafts.

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What do you mean? Everything that you see on tv is true

Because it was literally a military propaganda movie all admit a good one

Max Dejean lol stfu

@@MaximusTheChosenOne No he's not joking, the movie was funded by the US government and was partially written by them. It's unironically a propaganda movie in the purest sense.

Abandon the Cave sources?

If US propaganda movies have accurate combat tactics, by all means. More propaganda please.

Heisenberg II No the most realistic alien film is all the humans quickly die against and unbeatable force. The end.

@@jameswhite3415 I mean, against an alien civilization that's god tier, yeah, but it's not unlikely for us to find someone who's less technologically advanced, or just about the same as us

Parian _ I utterly disagree. Technology, particularly information technology, increases exponentially. The future of intelligent life on earth soon is AI, not humans flying around the stars.

Not really. It's another Alien invading for resources plot that makes no sense.

@@jameswhite3415(Mb, I didn't mean to make it this long) I'm just saying who would be the victor shouldn't be painted in black and white, especially considering all the factors that would be in play. There was a military exercise near Iran, I dont have all the details, but the basis of it was American military tech vs an under equipped terrorist group under the command of an experienced commander, long story short the terrorists won because the commander knew the enemy would rely on their tech for communication, logistics and all the other important stuff to win, I'm not sure how he did it, but from what I can sum up for myself, he didn't rely on the expected equipment (or just modern day equipment) to gain the upper hand, plus the American team was a little overconfident. I'm not saying that we would have the same luck with aliens, especially if they were vastly superior to us. But we can't exactly say that they would kick our asses just because they made it into space. America specializes in military tech because it's literally fighting wars on a daily basis, and the government is spending nearly the entire economy trying to figure out to kill quicker and better, there are countries like Japan and South Korea that have better tech at home than we do in America, a world superpower. Sorry for the paragraphs, but what I'm basically saying as that better tech doesn't always mean victory, especially if if you're not investing in what's needed to take on an enemy.

Their guns were confiscated by the LAPD via red flag laws.

havent heard of roof koreans in so long

Kemm Miarvil Just, every major city in the world gets a battle film, Battle: New York, Battle: Moscow, Battle: Toronto, Battle: Beijing, Battle: Tokyo

This aged like fucking wine

Battle: Moscow would be great, honestly.

Way back on IMDB--Rip! :-( -- somebody compared this to the novel 'Third World War' by Sir John Hackett (a veteran of Arnhem, it must be said) that wrote about an 'all out war' between the Warsaw Pact and Nato. Some years later, Harold Coyle wrote a novel called 'Team Yankee' about a mixed mechanized unit (Abrams Tanks, Bradley APCs and supporting vehicles) having to deal with this 'Third World War' on a 'company level'. So this other poster said THIS movie is like the 'Team Yankee' version of 'Independence Day'.

I like the aliens design, like they have specific role and they use military tactics

Black hawk down was a great film too.

How to Survive as a Judge: Be Judge Dredd, the man has survived pretty much everything the universe has thrown at him, multiple universes actually and is still going strong in his 80's, despite being held together by little more than scar tissue

weldonwin If that’s the case then for Star Wars as a Clone Trooper all you would have to be is Fives... oh. Then Tu--p... oof. Well then how about Heeeeevy. Ouch. You know what! I have it! No one fared better than ninety... nine God damnit

How to survive Wolfenstein: Don't be a soldier, slav or jew. Being of Aryan descendency will help you survive aswell

How to survive the attack of titan(Attack on Titan) How to survive the Sword Art Online

Freddy Krueger I know how to survive as a Clone Trooper... be Captain Rex.

We use the FN16 in Bootcamp with a trijicon, still do I actually fired a M4 once or twice.

This movie is about 9 years old now so was it accurate back then?

Marines still used the M16A4s back in 2011.

I prefer M4’s with M203’s

The haters are the ones that voted for Trump. It's like, "Battleship", the underlying story and symbolism is: An US and Japanese crewed ships fighting together against an overwhelming odd alien invasion on a battlefield, where one side IJN attack the US Navy over 70 years ago. And question, wasn't that Battleship decommissioned in the mid to late 90's?

Eric Fernandez politics had nothing to do with the performance of either movie. Battleship was a god awful movie and (while I admittedly love this movie) Battle: Los Angeles was somewhat mediocre. Also, yeah the battleship was decommissioned a long time ago. Its a museum

Eric Fernandez Huh. I like trump but I like this movie.... According to random guy on the internet I’d better start hating this film

Actually the people that probably hated the movie are hoity toity, ivory tower liberals who probably that since it didn’t have some sort of artistic vision other than action.

@@kurousagi8155 As I said Trump PERIOD. But let end this and go back to this movie that under appreciated.

Army Rangers: *Am I a joke to you?*

@@primordialbias8711 *Marines* Yes

SAS: am I a joke to you

Marsion marines are the most dangerous thing in the solar system

James the cat *Bobbi Draper liked that*

I would love to see Battle: New York!

@@1stgradevernacular925 you talking just the island, or... because way I see it, Central Park and the Memorial would be top priority for both sides just for the visibility alone... to say nothing of setting up a worthwhile command...

@@Gridlocked oh shit...

When it came out it wasn't received very well so unfortunately we will probably never see it unless it gains a cult following.

Stoner Leprechaun no fck no

Did you change your socks and take a Motrin?

Rahh

If it's below the waist, put foot powder on it.

Nah just consume a 24 pack of crayons and you're good to go

sski Donald Trump: They called me a madman..

Savage browski!

Westside gangs would probably fight the aliens and each other

And on the map I saw Boston and New Orleans

noice

ThrawnFett123 first marines aren’t armed with saws and aren’t allowed to make any civilian carry important research second you have your objectives and stay with the plan other lives are encountering aliens while you go back to base and bring research third landlines are dead first responders are gone the only way to get communications is to bring a radioman the internet may be going but isn’t the right tool to use research is deemed obsolete the counter attack was supposed to kill every thing if it is successful we can salvage parts since the invaders are gone we can take much tech as we want so getting information is only done after the battle is done getting information while in combat is also helpful but risky and your not a scientist probably the leader of your group would just call you out and say stop staring and resting we have a job to do and a race to save and yes this is crucial to victory but if we have more research maybe we can make technology ahead of our time and find there origins and go there and bring the fight to them

@@theoneandonlyjazztheautobo8597 you are in an american city, firetrucks and ambulances are usually equipped with metal blades to saw through wrecked cars and theres plenty of burnt out ones in the movie since aliens also attacked first responders. There's also hardware stores and garages. You can order anything you want when you have a gun in a warzone, but do you really think the average person would deny carrying a couple of alien parts when you just saved them? Landlines are often one of the last things to actually die in emergencies, they have their own power supply, their own lines, and their own redundant hubs with multiple routing options available to any that work. The biggest problem is finding one in the modern world, which is why I say stick to offices, I reccomend medical specifically since they usually have a fax machine and those commonly require landlines still. The internet is important in that your contact can find a number or location to call or go to like the nearest arsenal. Let the military actually get it up the chain, the working internet sections will help the contacts get to the military. The movie itself provides the reasoning on why that informations so important, they took the time to do the alien camcorder autopsy because the enemy recovers their wounded and is a superior force. The military needs any information it can find on their capabilities, especially actionable stuff, like say that the enemy rifles overheat after 20 rounds, or when fired directly up or down they tend to jam, or they are susceptible to certain chemicals like bleach making them overheat and explode. Or the autopsy itself that showed where to shoot them. All of those allow new tactics and weapons to be fielded, but won't do anything if no one knows because the enemy has prevented you from recovering intact bodies and weapons back to your HQ. As for no one agreeing or telling you to stop wasting time, again the camcorder, they know already how crucial information is. They have been fighting the aliens too, and know any edge is definitely important. It's why the US puts bounties on the latest tech from our enemies, like the north korean defector that was set up for life when he surrendered a new MIG, all military knows if you are getting your ass kicked, next best thing to improving your own gear is breaking theirs. All's well and good to recover tech if you win, but you also need actually win and no one but a suicidal medal chaser would ignore basic intelligence if they could get it on their enemy before sending in everyone to die in the counterattack. Again, every piece of tech and information now is a human saved on the counterattack.

ThrawnFett123 I’m not a military specialist and I’m not American either I’m Filipino so I go with my way and you go with your way

@@theoneandonlyjazztheautobo8597 perfectly fair man, have a good one

@@theoneandonlyjazztheautobo8597 The first rule of warfare is that all the rules go out the window the moment an enemy sets foot on your home soil. You will do everything and anything to throw that enemy off your soil. See Soviet Russia and the Great Patriotic War for details. The second rule is that Marines are trained to adapt, improvise, and overcome. They will do what has to be done to win. And against a non-human enemy, that means NO RULES!

easy just live near Camp Pendleton CA

When a there's a threat to the entire world, you can expect the U.S to be the only one's fighting. That's what I've learned from movies and video games

@@c.i.a.7262 tbh were the only one with the army and morals to do so.

@@jmight318 I think the British Army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force would have something to say about that 😁 Let's be honest, when it comes to the "special relationship" it's almost always both nations leading the NATO charge while others shirk their duty. That's why we've been such close allies for over a century. I can imagine as soon as it kicked off over there, you'd have HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales laden with F35s plus their respective Carrie groups, troop transports steaming across the Atlantic, and Eurofighter's escorting the A400 Atlases, C17 Globemasters and Voyagers streaking overhead laden with SAS and Parachute Regiment ready to drop and get stuck in! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

@@jmight318 Nahhh man. We muricans are big, overfed, overequip expensive trap. Our job is to hold the aliens down. So that the rest of the world can knife them in the kidneys.😁

It’s said Los Angeles Command was the last on the west coast

@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 the military all became addicts

@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 yea.....but Seattle isnt a coastal city. It sits in a sound surrounded by navel, air force and army bases I would guess that a certain depth of water is needed for touch down by the alien force due to entry speed. The deepes part of the sound is only 928 ft. The depth of the Sound in the Seattle area is only 120 ft.

Alec Niblett yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!

Yes

From what was released, the aliens who invaded were probably not the dominant species on their planet, which is why their tech isn’t very advanced for a space-faring species. The invasion was most likely colonization out of desperation. And for a planet as big as Earth, 25 million isn’t a very big force for invading a planet.

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i belive that they modified themselfs, all the charateristics of them suggest they are an aquatic species that modified their bodys extensivly to prevail in terrestrial enviroment. Also, they aren't all that advanced than us, they have equivalent weapons and have tatics that are very similar to our own, but that is the problem... How a completly different species even modified to become humanoids, are able to replicate so well our tatics and even our manerisms? That suggests that they at least study us extensivly, and maybe by don't have our knowlosge of war in our enviroment, they try to mimic what they knew about us... But that is where the problem start... At this point, if they are able to mimic us, they probably have the capabilitys to do bio weapons against us (that would be the most eficient way to take us down), their bio mechanical nature even suggests that they are really good at this field. The only thing that could prevent them to attack us first with this kind of tatic is if they don't know what exactly they will be dealing with on Earth, and then, the whole ideia of them mimic us is flushed to the toilet because they will be uncapable of know exactly how we are. So yeah, the movie has some plot holes... I really like the ideia of this alien invasion, but you know wich movie got it really right? The movie Oblivion! In that movie the alien AI, use one of the best tatics of all, turn us against us! One Tom Cruise against humanity is bad, millions of them is a cathastropy!

Elson Felix Maybe aliens won’t be as different as us when we meet them, you see the aliens point at enemies, share ammo, care for their sick, this shows their intelligence and Cognitive agency and awareness is on par with us. Aliens probably understand a lot of different things that’s considered “Human” and “natural” to us

Captain Evans, USS Johnston, Battle off Samar, October 1944?

@@juicebox9465 LtCmdr Robert Copeland, USS Samuel B. Roberts, Battle off Samar, October 1944

@@wolfbyte3171 Ah, at least I was close.

70 million budget an the cgi for the most part puts almost every blockbuster to shame XD

What reference?

Oh, the lights of L.a event, i remember that poster back when the movie was gonna come out, i kinda wish the movie had had a bigger scope of the combat given that i expected massive ships, but well, budget.

If this really happened back than the tech today would be even more remarkable

This is giving me zombieland vibes

Hollywood does not like or allow the US military to 'win' in movies. Here, a movie about the principle of hero's and winning, except using aliens.

Find Tom Cruise and get in under the umbrella of his Scientology protection

Have hay fever

@@GenerationFilms will do :) lol

Catch a cold and then sneeze all over them lol

To be honest, the alien invasion in that movie is pretty damn unstoppable (if it wasn't for the germs). Like these guys use EMP to disable all electronic devices, then pop up and start attacking in such a fast pace, that where ever they pop up, no more news comes out of that area. And they have energy shields. So basically it's an invincible blitzkreig that nobody expects.

@ BusterBuizel RE: "The aliens wanted all the water to power their hydrogen fueled ships." If the aliens needed water, all they would have to do is to grab a couple of comets out in the Oort Cloud about 100,000 AU from the sun. They wouldn't even have to enter our solar system.

@@spaceman081447 Movie needs plot lol Although TBF they could've just scooped up some water from the ocean

@@phantomaviator1318 RE: "Although TBF they could've just scooped up some water from the ocean" See my comment above. They would've had no need to even approach Earth. By the way, what does TBF mean?

@@spaceman081447 to be fair

An awesome idea for a crossover fanfiction, actually.

yea but the thing is, before the 7-hour war, a lot of humanities forces have already been scattered due to incessant portal storms spawning Xen wildlife. Id imagine Los Angeles would be mostly empty and void of life with humans mostly seeking rural living environments as large concentrations of humans were more prone to head crab infestations. if it wasn't void of life a lot of homes and businesses would be boarded up with convenience stores and malls looted and streets empty or scarce of life.

Makes the movie alot better

But the world it cracked

@@GenerationFilms And Guardsmen carried on fighting on the shattered remains of their world

Generation Films Remember, Cadia broke before the Guard

CADIA STILL STANDS!!

Chringlan The great but Krieg Guardsmen are still superior.

No, he strikes me as being a bit two faced.

Captain Boony Hat and San Francisco

@@JoJo-zd5tm nobody is surprised about san francisco falling.

San Diego is home to a big chunk of the US Pacific fleet.

Twenty Palms Marine Corps Base is right next door to San Diego. 10000 Marines could get there rapidly

@@jamoecw Surprised they didn't welcome the Aliens with open arms....

Or an Apache

I would prefer the Barrett M107

nah...P90. Effective against LA invaders and goa'uld alike.

@@the_hwyman And Wraith, too! About the only target they're _not_ great against is Pegasus-galaxy Replicators, who go all T-1000 on normal gunfire. If you have to travel light (and aren't expecting tons of resistance), absolutely yeah. IIRC, the in-universe explanation for why Stargate Command went from MP-5's to P90's is because the high-velocity 5.7mm round has better armor-piercing characteristics than the slower but larger 9mm FMJ.

@@tba113 This is true. The 5.7 is effective against most alien armor or hardened carapace. In addition, the 50 round magazine in a compact weapon like the P90 is ideal when you have to go light, move fast, and defeat hordes of extra-terrestrials. Bonus: The FN 57 pistol can hold 20+1 or 30+1 with extended magazine.

Stay with the Master Chief he will know what to do!

Maverick 87 The world doesn’t, they kinda just lose men for no reason but benefiting their imperialist government.. they shouldn’t be in places they are :p or anyone for that matter

Lei The Socialist Yuricon fuck socialism, you shouldn’t be telling people what to do with their mo du and life. You’re not a card carrying member of any revolution, you’d be the first one exterminated by your communist overlords.

@@leithesocialistyuricon8981 you're really not lecturing me on imperialism when both communist and socialist governments have been some of the most imperialists regimes in the history mankind, and that's despite the facts they've only existed a 100 or so years. Also, the U.S. isn't imperialist, it interventionist. There's a difference.

Darkness Dragon true dat

run in circles

Halo 3 ODST gave us the best example as far as the Halo games go. Really like that one as you weren't the a Spartan super soldier.

Hell yes!

So every movie with the army in it?

Green2Blue 30 yeah man I thought he was prior service too.

Its little details like advice to zip tie your shit down that i noticed. That's not something you would think about unless you have experienced it.

Seriously! Coulda made a real horde mode similar to Vanquish with all the jetpackin around

I'd love a Modern Warfare-like game with a campaign where you fight alien invaders, either like the ones in this movie, or something like the War of the worlds movie.

You mean Call of duty Ghost lol?

@@Alex.Rodriguez42 I'm talking about an actual video game. Heavens knows what the hell COD: Ghosts was. Every COD character that was killed stays dead, but Rourke stays alive because of some horseshit plot armor? Puh-lease!

Lol, Battlefield would have been the game platform of choice for this movie.

A really, REALLY big can of bug spray

By not being on Tarsonis.

My wife for hire

You really don’t understand

That assumes they have the ability to slow down and orbit the planet. Weren't there implied that the aliens tech was advanced, but fuel inefficient?

Heehee