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By Willis Reynolds | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (18)

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A new clip from Skyline (the aliens-with-giant-vacuums flick that I am going to be sorely dissapointed by, I’m sure) hit Internet yesterday, and rather than being a jump-cut-to-hell trailer, it shows an actual action scene. I especially love the way the alien shakes its foot trying to dislodge the car like a piece of tumbleweed. Luckily for us it takes more than his car being flattened to keep Donald Faison down. You can tell he’s a badass by the way he ineffectually fires his tiny gun into the giant monster before running away like a sissy.

Skyline releases on November 12th, if you are so inclined.

(Moviefone)









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Comments

So, seriously... Does anyone know whether this movie originally was an adaption of the '80s arcade game called "Defender," or are the producers looking down the barrel of a lawsuit from Williams?

Posted by: got a quarter? at October 29, 2010 9:58 AM

I love Donald Faison, but he'll always be Turk and Murray to me, and neither of those roles really scream BADASS. Play to your strengths, dude. And by that I mean air bands.

Posted by: Melissa at October 29, 2010 10:01 AM

As soon as I found out this was directed by the same guys that did AVP: Requiem my interest has dropped dramatically. What a under-lit disaster of a movie that was. At least Skyline looks like they employed a cinematographer this time.

Posted by: TylerDFC at October 29, 2010 10:25 AM

"The Brothers Strause" & Eric Balfour do not a promising film make, but I'm into the ship designs & effects. Plus I read that much of the ship design work was influenced by single-celled organisms, i.e. Protists - pretty awesome IMO.

Posted by: the new transported man at October 29, 2010 10:31 AM

I don't get much of a charge seeing David take down Goliath anymore, because, in fiction, the outcome is never in question. All anyone seems to do to "fix" this is make Goliath bigger and bigger, more powerful and more seemingly unstoppable each time. And then it's always luck or providence that helps David succeed. Screw that, David was just a badass with a slingshot.

Maybe Faison should be carrying one of those around instead?

Posted by: RobP at October 29, 2010 10:55 AM

So, that clip - how did he NOT DIE?

Posted by: Meander at October 29, 2010 11:01 AM

I don't like alien movies, but I will probably see this just because Eric Balfour was so inexplicably HOT on Haven. When did he get hot?

Posted by: Siege at October 29, 2010 11:38 AM

That film is (box office) poooiiiisssson. p-p-poison!

Posted by: the EPA at October 29, 2010 11:41 AM

It feels as if they jumbled various movies -- Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Transformers -- to get this one.

Posted by: Fredo at October 29, 2010 11:54 AM

RE: David vs. Goliath

I love that people say David "only" had a slingshot. Yeah, he "only" had a weapon that could debilitate his opponent from a substantial distance and pretty much guaranteed he wouldn't have to face hand-to-hand combat. Not at all like a guy bringing a gun to a knife fight*.

So Goliath lost to a guy who basically cheated, then he got totally shafted by history. Fuck that shit.

I'm restoring Goliath's good name and I need everyone's help. Next time this parable gets mentioned at church, tell 'em Uncle Kballs said David was a gutless bitch and Goliath got shafted by that son of a camel's anus.

*And I don't buy the enormous size difference. I bet Goliath only had 30-40 pounds and 3 or 4 inches on him. For a trained fighter like David, that's a negligible difference.

Posted by: Kballs at October 29, 2010 12:05 PM

Goliath of Gath would be a small forward in the NBA. And the first elbow to the head, he's out. I'd cut him in training camp.

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_tall_was_Goliath_of_Gath

Posted by: , at October 29, 2010 12:40 PM

Well, for once, Kballs, I wasn't actually talking about the historicity of something, I was simply referring to the common trope in fiction. Whatever the "real" story, Goliath is meant to be unbeatable, but David the Hero beats him. I fail to see how "cheating" negates the mythological representation of David as a "badass". Jack Bauer did it all the time.

That doesn't make Goliath, as a representation, any less threatening. My point was that I want to see characters face realistic obstacles (as in, the "real" Goliath) for them to overcome. A handful of non-military trained humans going up against an invading space alien armada, full of apparently giant alien monsters, does not excite or interest me. The outcome isn't in doubt, but the humans won't win because they're awesome, they'll win because the alien invaders forgot to install Norton AntiVirus before they embarked for Earth.

Posted by: RobP at October 29, 2010 2:24 PM

RobP,

Hold up, my man. Your mention of David and Goliath reminded me of a funny thought I had not too long ago about Goliath's point of view. That's it. I didn't even read your post, actually, so I have no idea what you're talking about. And you know what? I never will, because now I refuse to read it since you feel like this is an acceptable way to treat people. The trust is gone and I don't know how to get it back. Wait, I know! Maybe you should just go write another comment on your whore of a computer, you bastard!!!

Posted by: Kballs at October 29, 2010 2:38 PM

I swear, it sounds like all his friends in the other car are saying "TURK!"

Posted by: Uriah Creep at October 29, 2010 10:25 PM

I'm... confused.

Posted by: RobP at October 30, 2010 3:14 AM

Yeah at 30 seconds Haven dude is yelling "Turk!"...

Think he wants an "Eeeeeeeea-gle!"...

Posted by: TrickyHD at October 30, 2010 10:28 PM

RobP,

I was completely overreacting to a vague misunderstanding and thought it would be funny. I never wanted to break your brain.

Here, take this brain I found in some guy's head in the woods. I hear he was pretty smart, but apparently not smart enough to get away from my poisoned arrows!

Posted by: Kballs at November 1, 2010 8:49 AM

I actually told somebody that this was garbage based on something I'd read here. I guess it was not in fact a review, yet.

Posted by: HappyGobo at November 21, 2010 11:44 PM