The amazing thing about [Battle of Los Angeles] is that trailers and pre-promotions can almost completely distort the content of a movie. Just think about it, in the 2-minute trailer, no less than 30~40% of the time is spent in the magnificent panorama of Los Angeles with the blazing fire and the body covered in the sky like locusts, plus the poster design that still hugs the pipa and half-covers the face, we have no reason not to guess this most. At least it's an [Independence Day] (the domestic version of the slogan ironically really reads "[Independence Day] + [Black Hawk Down]") level Earth defense movie, let's see how American imperial capitalism works Vigorously making an appearance in front of alien friends - I
didn't expect that the domestic version of the propaganda is really in one sentence, the defense of Los Angeles is [Black Hawk Down] style.
In fact, this film, which uses the big background to describe small individuals + the photography purpose of "Hai Tao teaches you to play with hand-held", is also a very touching and gorgeous prelude-[Battle of Los Angeles] has a rare sight A start that can make people think infinitely.
At the beginning of the film, TV news anchors from various countries broadcast the sound of aliens invading the earth, and then the army chief and soldiers sharpen their knives and interspersed, and helicopters are densely populated over Los Angeles. A prelude to a cosmic level war was opened. Following this beginning, I really can't stop myself from imagining that the human army will fight to the death in the center of the battlefield with the shape creatures - you know, [Independence Day] only shows the air force showdown, [Ninth District], [ Skyrim] and others are only small battles, [Transformers] are more like the confrontation of the vanguard, we have never watched the opening prologue on the big screen so wide open the earth defense battle.
However, after the heart-warming 3-minute opening, the film suddenly turns to the trivial day-to-day depiction of a small force before the engagement. After a short pause, my brain re-tracked the development of the movie - well, it turned out to be a description of a small individual in the context of the war, and every soldier in the team was described in detail. Fan. Although it was very unbearable to be provoked by those 3 minutes, it is not unacceptable to deal with such a twist. After all, such a battle is not only difficult from a macro perspective, but also easy to fall into the dilemma of showing off. It's really neat to describe it from a team's perspective.
Unfortunately, for the next 100 minutes, the film exposes a fatal flaw. It stands to reason that, instead of giving up the macro description and focusing on the perspective of the small army, the film must have enough details to make the audience emotionally immerse in the small army to produce a viewing effect of empathy. But the movie not only went flat in the story, but also left a big skeleton in the whole story line, and the details were appallingly lacking, so the movie went completely to the warm water. It's true that the hand-held photography that fills the entire film doesn't stop there to help the audience immerse themselves in the tension of the small army as early as possible, but the key to really getting the audience fully engaged is in the details, and enough detail is not unscrupulous handheld photography, overweight Oversized sound effects and quick edits add up to replace.
Next, the lack of details makes the film's tireless account of individuals almost useless before the war. It is also unfortunate that the ideas explained one by one in the paragraph before the war are very good for the film. As we all know, the full-bodied characters in the movie actually impress the audience the most. According to the explanation at the beginning of the movie, the movie obviously has to follow a line of description of the team characters, which is complementary to the small perspective and small details mentioned above. Battle] the most brilliant place. However, it is also the lack of details. Although the characters are not tall and complete, they are very flat. The continuous action scenes cannot help the development of the characters, the connection between the two is broken, the characters become empty individuals, and the action scenes become a dull visual bombardment.
[Battle of Los Angeles] has been described as an American theme army movie. This was originally a theme movie with a less conventional theme, and at the same time brought a blood-filled viewing experience to the audience. However, the character description that the main theme movie relies on the most is relatively unsuccessful in the [Battle of Los Angeles], which makes the movie very regretful that it wants to fill the audience with blood but has no way to start. When it comes to fighting chicken blood, I have to look at the soundtrack of the movie differently. With such a bland story development and character details, people are full of blood for no reason and cannot help themselves under the penetration of the soundtrack.
There is a bloody opening of the movie, and the description of the cosmic war is repeatedly interspersed in the movie. The big panorama at the beginning and the end makes people infinitely reverie, but the movie does not develop from a macro perspective at all; it starts from a small perspective. At the beginning, each individual is explained, but there is not enough detail to make the film end insipid. [Battle of Los Angeles] It can be said that the music is completely unable to impress the audience, and the macro and micro ends are not on the shore.
If this World Invasion series can really become a series, [Battle of Los Angeles] is more suitable as a prologue, opening an epic Earth defense battle from a squad perspective.
Well, it's all the fault of [Battle of Los Angeles] to make people YY but not to realize it for the audience at all...
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