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I Mean, Really? How Much of a Fight Would We Really Put Up for L.A.?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (22)

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Let’s be honest, folks. If aliens came to destroy the planet, is L.A. really going to be the city we’d be fighting the hardest to hold? Los Angleles seems more like one of those cities where we’d be like, “We’ll give you L.A., if you leave us alone.” Just stay away from Toronto! Otherwise, how would we make all those movies set in New York?

Here’s the latest trailer for Battle Los Angeles, the movie that has been described as both Black Hawk Down with aliens, or Cloverfield set in Los Angeles.

It would be fun to see all the exploding silicone. Maybe the aliens have some sort of ultrasonic sound wave that can make them all kablooey at once!*

Aaron Eckhart, Bridget Moynihan, and Michelle Rodriguez star, not that you can tell from the trailer.


(*No offense to our breast-enhanced readers)









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Comments

"We can not lose Los Angeles."

Can we at least try?

Posted by: The Wanderer at December 6, 2010 3:25 PM

I think my brain is damaged.
This whole entire time since first mention of this film, I've been reading it as Escape from L.A., as though it were a remake.
I had just kind of sighed the Another Remake Sigh and said, "Ok, then. Eckhart as Plissken... he might could do it."
And then I started watching this trailer and went, "Huh? There's no aliens in Escape from L.A."
To which I responded, "D'uh!"

I'm a dumbass.

Posted by: Rykker at December 6, 2010 3:36 PM

Aaron Eckwart? :-)

Posted by: KatSings at December 6, 2010 3:40 PM

Bridget Moynahan.

Posted by: duckandcover at December 6, 2010 3:44 PM

I know that, on some level, that those of us on both coasts have to stick together, but I kind of have to agree that I don't feel all that sad to lose L.A.

Posted by: tamatha at December 6, 2010 3:47 PM

(*No offense to our breast-enhanced readers)

It's a good thing you added that capitulation because I was about to get very indignant up in this bitch.

Posted by: admin at December 6, 2010 3:51 PM

It's okay, admin.

*strokes chest*

It's okay.

Posted by: Kballs at December 6, 2010 3:55 PM

I was hoping it was going to be a more serious version of Battle of the Network Stars, with celebs getting the axe, literally. My idea is far superior.

Posted by: TWoP_Fan at December 6, 2010 4:20 PM

Rykker,

I kept doing the same thing until I saw the last trailer they put up.

Posted by: Paultera at December 6, 2010 4:44 PM

I'm on board with TWoP's version.

Posted by: monkeyhateclean at December 6, 2010 4:46 PM

I might be able to make a weak argument for Cleveland or Detroit, but they can have L.A.

Posted by: greer at December 6, 2010 5:38 PM

Pretty sure I saw a Paul Bettany in there too.

Posted by: aroorda at December 6, 2010 5:42 PM

"We cannot lose Los Angeles."

Yes, yes you can.

Posted by: Horace at December 6, 2010 6:02 PM

You know, the 99% of the city that doesn't belong to the entertainment industry is going to come after you in the night carying sharp shiny tools that maim. Or maybe just I will.

Seriously, once L.A. (the largest port city in the US, 4th largest in the world after the three major Asian ports, and the largest manufacturing center in the damn nation; second highest output of cars after Detroit, major producer of steel and apparel, large biotechnology and aerospace development and production and home to Cal Tech, UCLA, and USC among other top research institutions) is gone, who the hell is going to research, design, import, and produce all the shit you'll need to fight off the damn aliens? You all deserve to be taken over.

*Disclaimer: above rage is a manifestation of 20 years of having to explain to West L.A. dwellers, most often those in the entertainment industry, that "East L.A." was not, in fact the neighborhood of Los Feliz, occasionally home to Brad Pitt and Madonna, but the neighborhood on the East side of the city. Which is on the other side of downtown. You know, the opposite of west when you look on a map. Never knew silicone interfered with directional capacity.

I have always sympathized with non-Manhattan New Yorkers that get pissed off with the people who have never stepped of the island yet insist they know the "real" New York. They're all damn assholes.

Posted by: leuce7 at December 6, 2010 6:09 PM

TWoP has something here. Maybe HBO would be interested in something like that?

Posted by: j9 at December 6, 2010 7:37 PM

If we're all being honest with each other if there's one place on this planet we care more about than any other, it's the entertainment capital. Also the porn capital, lucky we get to protect two birds with one stone.

I for one am prepared for a cliche filled showdown with these cheeky off worlders.

What easily destroys arsenic? I'm assuming that's what the aliens are made of these days.

Posted by: Jiggles at December 6, 2010 7:57 PM

Aaron Eckhart, Bridget Moynihan, and Michelle Rodriguez . . .

These are the STARS?? For real? They must have used all the budget on special effects 'cause none of these people make over $100 per movie!!

And @leuce7 . . .nobody cares!! Seriously. L.A. isn't all that important to people in the rest of the country. Calm down.

Posted by: mslewis at December 6, 2010 8:05 PM

No offense to our breast-enhanced readers

mmmmm....breast-enhanced readers....

Oops, that was the last thread. Carry on...

Posted by: Uriah Creep at December 6, 2010 9:24 PM

mslewis, I feel rage is perfectly acceptable when a disclaimer is attached. Oddly, I never seem to find many who agree with me on that.

Also, I think L.A. is proportionally less important to people the further east you go. However, Hollywood is mostly important only to Hollywood. You can give that part of town to the aliens with my blessing.

Posted by: leuce7 at December 6, 2010 9:48 PM

Whenever there's a movie where aliens or environmental disasters, etc... blow up LA I can't help but smile and giggle. And I'm from Southern California.

Posted by: debbye at December 6, 2010 10:21 PM

Haters to the left. LA is awesome. It's actually chock full of shit that any self-respecting hippie could get behind, ethnically diverse, and one of the best geographical spots on the planet. Tourists tend to only visit the stuff that reinforces what they already believe about LA (namely, that which can be found in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Malibu.) And the people who have never been here? Well, needless to say you have no idea what this city is all about.

Like I said, haters gonna hate. You'll laugh if we get blown up, but only until the next election, 'cause you'll see how suddenly California is a red state. The Bay Area would never admit it, but they need us.

Posted by: Amanda6 at December 6, 2010 10:40 PM

I am on this like Will Smith's fist on some punk-ass alien face.

Posted by: the_wakeful at December 7, 2010 1:10 AM