After a hard nights partying a group of people in Los Angeles wake up the next morning , see bright blue lights in the distance and realise with horror the city has been invaded by aliens
In 1898 British writer HG Wells wrote a novel called The War Of The Worlds chronicling a Martian take over of Planet Earth . The work was pure fantasy at its most imaginative . The novel pushed back the very frontiers of both literature and the human imagination . It's impossible for any of us who were born in the 20th Century to realise what it must have been like to exist in a world without science fiction . Wells as did Marx and Darwin changed and shaped the world we live in . One wonders if humanity would have ever travelled to the Moon and back if it wasn't for Wells . Jules Verne did pre-date Wells and wrote of Moon travel but we wanted to go to the Moon to see if the Selenites lived there and returned disappointed when we found nothing there . Maybe we'll have more luck on Mars ? In the mean time let's hope the Hollywood hack factory doesn't dull the Wellsian dream
Step forward SKYLINE which has raped the mental corpse of Wells . Bad enough that Hollywood ripped off Wells with such films like INDEPENDENCE DAY but when a film like SKYLINE comes along and rips off a rip off that's grasping for creative straws in a stagnant sea . Every single scene here will remind you of a science fiction movie you saw from the 1950s , the 1960s , the 1970s , the ... got the idea ? Good because at least you've got an idea of your own which isn't something SKYLINE can claim
The worst thing is the premise is totally stolen without any type of logic to it . The aliens - a CGI steal from the ones seen in ID4 - come to Earth and steal human brains ! Why do they do this ? It's never explained but the whole concept collapses if given any thought . Does the alien home world have humans that are farmed for their brains ? I've got a problem swallowing this ill thought idea which only seems to exist to create a film around . Wells was rather vague about the Martians motives for invading Earth though it's insinuated Mars is dying so the Martians want to colonise Earth ( Wells of course wrote the novel as a critique against European imperialism ) while Nigel Kneale wrote his 1979 QUATERMASS serial about aliens harvesting the human race for their pheromones after a gap of 5000 years . Kneale's previous Quatermass serial from 1958 also had a premise of Martian colonisation of Earth by proxy means . You don't need to have everything spelt out to you , you don't need to believe in life on other planets to buy in to a premise by Wells , Kneale , Wyndham or any other science fiction writer but the premise must have a credibility to it . SKYLINE doesn't
In 1898 British writer HG Wells wrote a novel called The War Of The Worlds chronicling a Martian take over of Planet Earth . The work was pure fantasy at its most imaginative . The novel pushed back the very frontiers of both literature and the human imagination . It's impossible for any of us who were born in the 20th Century to realise what it must have been like to exist in a world without science fiction . Wells as did Marx and Darwin changed and shaped the world we live in . One wonders if humanity would have ever travelled to the Moon and back if it wasn't for Wells . Jules Verne did pre-date Wells and wrote of Moon travel but we wanted to go to the Moon to see if the Selenites lived there and returned disappointed when we found nothing there . Maybe we'll have more luck on Mars ? In the mean time let's hope the Hollywood hack factory doesn't dull the Wellsian dream
Step forward SKYLINE which has raped the mental corpse of Wells . Bad enough that Hollywood ripped off Wells with such films like INDEPENDENCE DAY but when a film like SKYLINE comes along and rips off a rip off that's grasping for creative straws in a stagnant sea . Every single scene here will remind you of a science fiction movie you saw from the 1950s , the 1960s , the 1970s , the ... got the idea ? Good because at least you've got an idea of your own which isn't something SKYLINE can claim
The worst thing is the premise is totally stolen without any type of logic to it . The aliens - a CGI steal from the ones seen in ID4 - come to Earth and steal human brains ! Why do they do this ? It's never explained but the whole concept collapses if given any thought . Does the alien home world have humans that are farmed for their brains ? I've got a problem swallowing this ill thought idea which only seems to exist to create a film around . Wells was rather vague about the Martians motives for invading Earth though it's insinuated Mars is dying so the Martians want to colonise Earth ( Wells of course wrote the novel as a critique against European imperialism ) while Nigel Kneale wrote his 1979 QUATERMASS serial about aliens harvesting the human race for their pheromones after a gap of 5000 years . Kneale's previous Quatermass serial from 1958 also had a premise of Martian colonisation of Earth by proxy means . You don't need to have everything spelt out to you , you don't need to believe in life on other planets to buy in to a premise by Wells , Kneale , Wyndham or any other science fiction writer but the premise must have a credibility to it . SKYLINE doesn't