The Squad Sees Aliens for the First Time | Battle Los Angeles (2011) | Now Playing

[@alexanderwinn9407]

It's not exactly Shakespeare, but I love this movie. I wanted "soldiers fighting aliens" and that's EXACTLY what I got.

[@calebh7902]

Marines*

[@cbennetts2746]

@@calebh7902 unless they're royal marine commandos, theyre soldiers :P

[@cartersmith8560]

well stated

[@pauloyeghe1637]

Oversensitive ,person who cares what you want. This movie was not made for you.bozo

[@chuckn4851]

@@cbennetts2746...no, no they're not.

[@loudelk99]

Really like this movie. No wartime romance, just straight combat from beginning to end.

[@NevaG2190]

Yes! The romance part always gets annoying real quick 😂

[@BlueBagger83]

But... they loved killing the aliens. Still a better love story than Twilight.

[@lukethelazymachine3687]

Romance plots kill most movies

[@richardsamueljordan1569]

Great recruitment tool for young suckers.

[@johnsoapmactavish9921]

Except the camera work is absolute shit

[@monos70]

Humans: "We are at war with aliens" Dogs: "We cool"

[@solidus1995]

More like "got some food"

[@TheRealZombieWizard]

Which makes you think, why was the dog spared, were the aliens only targeting humans or did they not notice the dog?

[@warhokn4178]

@@TheRealZombieWizard Probably as an ambush tactic to let their guard down

[@nightlock826]

I think they were patrolling when the dog got out and that they just kinda of let it go, why bother? But hearing the humans they got into ambush positions.

[@MiguelLikesToCook]

@@nightlock826or it could be similar to the titans in AOT. They only find pleasure in eating humans and killing humans, nothing else. Maybe it’s just instinct because the aliens could not see the dogs as a threat.

[@jackmountain8503]

To this day the 'contact' and everyone giving directions to the target in different ways was awesome! Contact coming from the roof,11 o'clock, flanking on are left side...make's this old Infantryman proud of his Marine Hollywood bros

[@wakcedout]

sometimes they get it right with how those of us in the military operate.

[@fujimi715]

​@wakcedout they apparently had real marines advising the movie and some of the extras in the scenes were actual marines as well.

[@Cubert0331]

I was actually fairly impressed with how they represented us as far as call outs etc go.

[@mehdi5738]

GG

[@freshlybittenpillow77]

Youre all gay

[@MikMoen]

One of the best Alien Invasion films made to date, very underrated. They created an Alien force that looked completely foreign but operated as a structured Military.

[@baronoflight]

This movie was so over dramatic and cringe. I could barely sit through the whole thing.

[@comradelemon6928]

@@baronoflight when have we ever seen a movie where an alien race invades a primitive modernized human society this movie was great i loved it!, war of the worlds was good too and so was Battleship, Independance day 1 and 2 was good

[@Anakinskywalkerfan1]

I- literally alien will be better 10000%

[@BJustChillin420]

This movie was terrible and you have awful taste. Enjoy your lame B movie 😂

[@theconsistentnoddy9851]

@@baronoflightI’d think aliens invading would be pretty dramatic

[@oceandark3044]

The best part about this movie is that the aliens didn't overwhelm these Marines by standing out in front of them and shrugging off bullets with superior technology. These aliens would have ambushed these Marines exactly the same way with old tech. Work into a superior position, distract, pin down, flush into the kill zone. It's just a better alien invader movie. No worries about their motivation because they don't care to communicate it and the humans don't need to know. It's highly underrated as a piece of art that way. I know it doesn't read like The Hurt Locker or anything and they do have their eyerolling melodrama moments, but depicting an alien invasion this way hasn't really been done before.

[@MikeySkywalker]

Independence Day

[@DianneCromartyy-de7em]

It's because they were in a war so it's worse what's coming

[@raleighcambell2113]

Well said

[@thedragonthatlovesskittles7132]

​@@MikeySkywalkerthat was more like locusts, a sudden invasion, not a planned ambush

[@Spectatorofthegames]

Great point. I was just thinking about the way the men were stunned at / that the aliens abilities and tactics would mimic our own. War is war, and they are much smarter by weaponizing a man’s hubris against him instead of their advanced technology.

[@beatboxbuggi6884]

I’m the only person in my family who likes this movie. When we were doing a purge of movies we don’t watch, I smuggled the disc away to my room. Sometimes I watch it when no one’s home. I don’t know what they have against it, I love this movie.

[@jaytee4374]

"Sometimes I watch it when no one's home," ooh you bad boy you 😂😂

[@sergeantsilly5239]

how old are you ?

[@zfx8621]

Yeah, I love combat movies but it's probably because it's a dumb movie 😂😂

[@YoWhoDat]

@@jaytee4374lololololol

[@JBXyooj]

​@@jaytee4374 loooooool get out lol

[@rodans_boom5941]

Absolutely loved the part where the alien rises from the pool behind the soldier. The camera angle. Just everything. I love how the Director gives you just enough time to watch the alien lift up it's weapon and aim. Right before it cuts to the soldier turning around. Many props to the Director for such attention to detail in that small part. The aliens' tactical abilities in this film make them so menacing. Damn, such a very underrated movie.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Predictable.

[@cd3mastery]

im hoping this is a sarcastic comment, because wow... these things are menacing to you?

[@rodans_boom5941]

@@cd3mastery Oh definitely menacing. Firstly, they are an invading alien race from outer space. Obviously hostile, with state of the art aircraft...well ahead of our time. Secondly, these things look to be about seven feet tall. Thirdly, they have state of the art battle armor, that can sustain multiple bullet shots (even close up) before it's wearer is killed. Fourthly, their weaponry is highly advanced. Fiftly, yes, their tactical abilities make all the aforementioned extremely menacing.

[@cd3mastery]

@@rodans_boom5941 go watch an actually decent alien invasion movie like war of the worlds once, these aliens are complete dumbasses, they have the technology to be able to fly across the universe to another planet but didnt think to just nuke earth from orbit instead of coming down and fighting a whole ass war with tiny humans and then losing??? what INTERGALACTIC aliens still use projectile weapons (the weapons you said are ''highly advanced''... yeah so advanced... if i never saw this movie and read your comment about them having advanced weapons, i would probably picture something like a small heat ray that the tripods use in the war of the worlds... their weapons aren't any stronger than the humans', and lastly, i don't care that they're 7ft tall, they could be 20ft tall and still lose because they are dumb and their strategy doesn't make any sense not to mention their dying noise sound EXACTLY like the dying noises of the aliens from the first crysis game, in fact they sound so similar that i think they actually stole those sounds DIRECTLY from that game.

[@andrewmcauley5202]

@@cd3mastery people have different opinions. Mocking people for having a different opinion on a movie shows a pretty low level of intelligence.

[@nuirejuvini9951]

Yknow I read "2011" and thought, "Oh hey, thats pretty recent." Then I realized 2011 was more than a decade ago. Holy fuck.

[@Zeakthecat]

once you realize that films in general are a very recent medium of entertainment compared to all of world history you start to understand that this film isn't all that old compared to the gladiators who had to entertain the masses and the roman emperor himself way back in like 200 AD.

[@M0butu]

​@@ZeakthecatYet both delivered the exact same service. Which is recruit advertisement. 😏

[@Zeakthecat]

@@M0butu hey if the chance to fight a alien from another world gets someone to join, i'd say good luck.

[@M0butu]

@@Zeakthecat They tried to keep it like a video game of that time, to no small success.a Personally I don't have a problem with entertainment being sponsored by the military. Everyone knows what they are about. There are far worse out there. But the audience deserves to be made aware of that fact.

[@Zeakthecat]

@@M0butu true. theres alien races that wouldn't need to put boots on the ground to conquor us, just a massive weapon from orbit like the protomatter weapon from star trek online that just reverse everything back to nature.

[@RandominityFTW]

I just love that super casual "frag out" as he tosses the grenade in the pool.

[@rxonmymind8362]

Smart. End it so you don't have to look back over your shoulder.

[@psps6623]

that pool had it coming

[@baillonette4771]

I'm almost sure the aliens understood that dog was a domestic animal and send it to distract marines just to take them by suprise. Maybe.... maybe not

[@shadowstonar360]

That makes sense. I thought they used it to gauge the distance between them as well.

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

I like to think even the aliens knew not to kill the fuckin dog xD “Commander! We have an earth-beast running south! Four legs, pointed ears! Permission to neutralise?” “Negative, Private. That’s a dog. Pre-landing research determines them to be of great cultural significance to humans.” “All due respect, Commander, but why should we care?” “High risk of escalation. Kill the dog and this whole planet’ll never let us hear the end of it. Leave it alive, see if it can provide us with any leads. Over.”

[@Regular_1094]

Taken from predator. Predator does the same thing to distract Jessy Ventura and let his guard down.

[@RussOlson-pl3kf]

Everyone likes dogs, man, woman, alien conqueror from distant galaxies

[@Kriscuit_Bonkin]

They also have been watching Humanity city the literal battle of Los Angeles in 1942. They studied humans for years. But they probably didn’t expect humans to advance this fast but they knew their tactics well

[@grizzly4736]

Not sure why this is one of the best damn alien invasion movies in recent times. The enemy is aliens, but the combat is very much like what we've seen real world against human armies.

[@longxiao9823]

Yeah, because I can easily see this same scenario happening in Fallujah or somewhere.

[@omnius290]

​@@longxiao9823it kinda is, just replace the ak47s with energy powered ak47s

[@coolgamers2794]

If you watch the directors cut, it was heavily hinted that the aliens battling against the humans were more of a colonizing force. The aliens were theoretically escaping another war invasion of their home planet and happened to land on planet earth first. If the aliens' brought their actual military; earth would had been toasted in less than a few days.

[@AkimboJV]

@@coolgamers2794 That's a cool concept. Imagine you beat these aliens thinking you won, but then their actual military shows up and you realize you only took out the scouts.

[@coolgamers2794]

@@AkimboJVI remember the "Behind the scenes movie" talk; the aliens here escaped a war with other alien life forms back at their home planet. These were suppose to be more of farmers to terraform earth to make it hospitable for them only. The humans happens to be in the way only.

[@nashdash6404]

Basically a regular day in Los Angeles.

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

Average GTA V lobby

[@DieFlabbergast]

Nah: real LA is much worse :)

[@Alan7997]

That's gun fights with illegal aliens!

[@kamranashique7229]

But I thought It's "OHIO"😅

[@SaviorCross]

Right by 7th and Metro on a Saturday...

[@sircharlie5786]

5:37 that Tide Powder soap is a traitor 😂😂😂😂

[@goku1693]

It’s getting back at people for eating it’s tide pod cousins

[@SpeakMusic25]

This is why never used tide only arm and hammer and gain 😂

[@astralmiind]

7:59 that’s gotta be absolutely terrifying. The actor really sells that feeling of hopelessness in the moment. If it was real, they’d have to be thinking “Jesus Christ, if it takes multiple mags and a grenade to kill just one of these, how are we ever going to survive this!?”

[@fujimi715]

That's why they recognized the need to investigate the alien body they find later in the film. Staff Sgt knew he had to try to learn the aliens anatomy and find a weakness.

[@Dewoy1]

Watching this movie in the cinema was one of the best experiences ever. The way this movie is shot, and how loud they turned this movie up, shook the whole building. I literally felt like i m in a warzone! My ears were even ringing a bit after the movie. Probably not good, but it made for an immersive experience, i can tell you that much.

[@marcd73]

For anyone who hasn't seen this movie: there is no romance. there is no break in the action. there are no boring parts. Just the US Marine Corps trying to retake LA from alien invaders.

[@psps6623]

What about Pronouns?! Surely they didn't leave out the PRONOUNS!!1!!

[@n3twork727]

They get a little touchy feely at one point, but yea overall it was an amazing movie. I keep doing random searches every year to see when we will get a sequel.

[@BboyJLim]

Fighting against automatons be like

[@Soliye.]

FOR DEMOCRACY

[@CausticSpace]

I'M SEEING DROPSHIPS OVER I-95, HOW THE HELL THEY GET THROUGH?

[@andrejamal5438]

I remember when they came to the base to present the movie to us. We were so honored and stoked to train and go to war! This was actual training of Marines. Oorah damn how time has flown

[@BradiKal61]

Securing that alien body would have been a top priority.

[@fujimi715]

Yea true. Like they did later in the movie to figure out their physical structure, weapons technology, ect.

[@janverbanck]

Yeah...and surely a waste of one good grenade

[@fujimi715]

@janverbanck not really. Remember at this point they hadn't figured out how to kill them yet. They've shot them multiple times and still not taken it down.

[@tubyduby2816]

The 1st question I'm going to ask is: "Does it have a penis?"

[@geman741]

yeah.... none of em reaching into a pool that they can't see.

[@brutusbarnabus8098]

Love the comments in here. We all got it. I have watched this movie three times now and have enjoyed it every time.

[@allenp920]

A seriously underrated movie

[@constipatedparker5879]

It wasn't underrated back in 2011. The video game adaptation was more underrated.

[@thuering6229]

LMAO, this shit is even OVERrated!

[@SpanishAvenger]

One of my favourite alien movies. The "aliens are completely immune to us, so our only chance to defeat them is a bold 1 in a million move" trope just got old for me. Gets specially bad when the aliens, despite being significantly more advanced than us, then go around roaring naked like mindless monsters. These aliens were advanced enough for interstellar travel, but also grounded enough where their tech was vulnerable to ours; they communicated and used combat strategies. Weapons being ballistic and explosive instead of magic lasers was the cherry on top to this. A breath of fresh air for the genre!

[@serventium4049]

1:53 I love that you can hear a faint fire alarm when the fire is shown

[@mfactor88]

still one of the best "alien invasion" movies EVER. watched it 5 times now. still the most realistic/believeable EVER

[@gnomechomsky2524]

You find it believable that a species capable of interstellar travel would wage a ground war and even with vastly superior technology have trouble defeating primitive enemies?

[@mfactor88]

@@gnomechomsky2524 i agree but this is hollywood entertainment. im mostly talking about it from the infantry section sides perspective

[@sledgedragon2677]

​@@gnomechomsky2524 Actually, the invasion force isn't even an invasion force. The aliens we see in this movie are running from another race of even more powerful aliens. Earth is their final hope for survival and their fight on Earth is basically their final attempt at life. They are desperate. For a desperate race of aliens, they sure did some major damage in a very short time. To be honest, these aliens are only slightly ahead of humans in terms of technology. It's almost like the tech they have is a result of war with a more advanced race, similar to how tech evolved during WW1 and 2. It's all very crude, but functional.

[@taoliu3949]

​@@mfactor88I dunno about you, but the small unit tactics are pretty on point.

[@mfactor88]

@@taoliu3949 thats one reason i enjoy it so much :)

[@RampantFury925]

This would make a kick-ass mod for Fallujah.

[@BathSaltShaman]

Bro that would be fantastic

[@johnlime1469]

Or _Squad_ or _Arma_ , or anything. Hell, I'd fuck with _Insurgency Sandstorm_ aliens.

[@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie]

you can technically emulate this with halo addons in operation harsh doorstop

[@onemorescout]

@@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie With who? lmao

[@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie]

@@onemorescout isn't the US faction installed by default

[@warriorlink8612]

Saw this movie in the theater when it came out. My brother and I had no idea what it was about, just the title sounded good. We were totally blown away! Loved this on the big screen!

[@m0rez933]

3:00 that alian shoulder firing while others aiming is killing me😂 noob soldiers are universal...

[@N1gHtStAlKeR726]

I love the Marine chatter. So immersive

[@Karuzen]

underrated alien movie, it's worthy of a re-watch every couple years. Wish more would come out with this format. maybe make it larger scale since this was just watching one squadron.

[@Menhtrol]

Talk about a movie that could have been the start to an amazing franchise.

[@DennisCoffman-dd8ok]

yeah, I would have loved to have seen a follow up movie myself.

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

Would’ve been nice, but… eh. Probably better that it wasn’t. Hollywood seems to have forgotten lately that stories can and should have endings. The franchise is a powerful and treacherous temptress.

[@CyberSystemOverload]

No because that will lead to saturation and boredom - look what happened with SAW horror movie. The first one was a masterpiece. After that it turned into a clown show, a boring theme park ride.

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

@@CyberSystemOverload I’ve heard people say that Saw gets a lot more enjoyable if you approach it as a soap opera. A really gory soap opera. I can vouch for that mindset.

[@psps6623]

Part 2: Battle Lancaster County, PA

[@jamesmurray8558]

Love the hand to hand combat. Fix bayonet works for both ways.

[@sammencia7945]

0:40 One hour on our planet and already figured out that humans respond well to dogs and used this to get a squad to lower their weapons.

[@leonlowenstadter9223]

Well, the dog may just been on the run, it's more likely than being sent by the aliens. As you point out yourself.

[@upresins]

I remember how some 'critics' severely lambasted this movie, and then, later when I saw this movie, I felt "Wow, this ain't bad at all !" Truly, as @MikMoen said, "one of the best Alien Invasion films to date, very underrated", indeed.

[@DennisCoffman-dd8ok]

I don't listen to critics. Most are just dbags with their own agenda. I'm perfectly fine watching a movie and making my own determinations for me. Certain movies aren't my thing (romantic dramas), but I'm not going to poo poo on them because I don't like them. That's what I feel critics do. If it doesn't meet their inflated ego's reasoning of what a good movie is, they just trash it.

[@brad6576]

That's why I have never watched this movie, but now I will. It looks like fun.

[@longshucksgaming]

@@DennisCoffman-dd8ok this movie is just the right mix of cheese and realism to make it perfect

[@benliftin4awhile]

That dude in the laundry room is exactly why friendly fire happens.

[@psps6623]

Well UNfriendly wouldn't be nice, now would it, hmmmmmm

[@ryeguy7471]

Criminally underrated. One of the best non R Rated war movies of the past few decades.

[@chrismalcheski9232]

I always thought this movie was overlooked, underrated, and amazingly well done.

[@Jack458111]

any time a gun moves: CLICK CLACK CLICKETY CLICK

[@sulfo4229]

Exactly :D I have yet to see an action movie where the sound effects guy is a bit more chilled out...

[@Tony27654]

I know it’s so fucking annoying and unrealistic.

[@SanilJadhav711]

@@Tony27654 Bruh fr ? Till this day I thought that's how guns sounded when they were moved around lmao

[@TheCrayon]

​@@Tony27654 god forbid a movie about metal aliens with laser blasters fighting the U.S. military be a little unrealistic

[@youngsarv2566]

@@SanilJadhav711 I mean they do for the most part. Not sure why those dudes are complaining

[@willdazey7368]

Director > We need to shake that camera to make it look real and hide the aliens Cameraman > Sir, the camera can't take much more of this. Director > YOU SHAKE THAT CAMERA! SHAKE IT LIKE A POLAROID PICTURE!

[@faintclapofthunder]

This movie is criminally underrated. Classic in my eyes. First time I seen it my brother and I loved it. Always do when we watch it.

[@boeing-lt4el]

The critics hated this movie, that's why it was so good. Compared to the utter garbage being made in 2024, this was, and still is, a damn good film.

[@tyedrichill8097]

You just don't like cinema... Utter garbage? That tells me you don't watch enough

[@boeing-lt4el]

@@tyedrichill8097 "cinema"? Dude stop being a pansy. We got to the MOVIES for raw entertainment, not to view an artistic masterpiece. We want shooting and aliens exploding - that's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@gp2917]

It’s good because someone else hated it? That’s a strange way to look at entertainment 🤔

[@boeing-lt4el]

@@gp2917 critics aren't people

[@vapomaster6967]

idk whats good about that movie. The basic shaky camera bs the 2010s and late 2000s where infamous for. Lackluster brutality and combat. Stupid high tech aliens. The millionth Private Ryan homage. And considering how 2024 went with Dune or Fallout gotta say, your statement aged very poorly. Movies sucked in the 2000s and 2010s. Since people are making movies, we've accumulated a huge pile of shit movies, and thats not the fault of any generation of movies. We just tend to remember the really good ones like LotR and tend to forgett b class shit like Battle Los Angeles.

[@harvestercommander3250]

6:55 I love how he shoots the alien’s gun and the alien is like, “crap” as it tries to get it working.

[@behurastudio]

I’ve always LOVED the design of the aliens in this movie!

[@jayjohnson9996]

I love this movie then and I still love this movie now. Marines don’t retreat they kick ass and keep moving forward!!!!!

[@stluc1233]

Remember kids the Alien has the high ground like the shower scene in the rock. Always keep cover.

[@iGame360fficial]

The combat in this movie goes fucking hard. Especially that first engagement after meeting Dog.

[@TheRealJohnMadden]

Early to early 2010s was such a golden-era for awesome movies. Always seems weird to say “they don’t make them like this anymore” but they really don’t. Everything is watered down with the same actors and boring.

[@PerfidiousPuffin]

Studios gone woke

[@TheKeenTribe]

I love B:LA because it leans more toward a war movie than sci-fi

[@michaelsouslin891]

The dog was the smartest one of them all, he was trying to run from the ambush. He even tried to warn them but they just had to stay in position.

[@natk8673]

brilliant film, seen it many times, on the edge of my seat every time

[@arandomuser6935]

honestly we need more aliens vs soldiers movies like this

[@loudelk99]

Lt found out there was a big difference between the training schools and real combat.

[@jawawi8489]

Well considering they are fighting aliens I would assume so.

[@jawawi8489]

Well considering they are fighting aliens I would assume so.

[@Alexrogan0311]

That M249 needs to start singing, I want to see nothing but green mist lets go sanchez.

[@biswabose8577]

They come crossing multiple star systems to fight humans with hand held toy toy weapons 😂😂

[@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf]

Toy toy?

[@petervlcko4858]

@@WalterEKurtz-kp2jfpew pew

[@huydang5955]

Those handheld weapons are actually surgically integrated into their arm. Their right hand is essentially a gun. Their bioelectric activity powers their weapons so that enemy combatants cannot turn their own arms against them if they capture a dead alien soldier. They also have no centralized nervous system, so shooting them in the “head” or damaging a nerve cluster won’t kill or incapacitate them outright. And their mostly gelatinous mass makes them able to absorb shockwaves that would kill a normal human being, and helps cushion their vital organ. All in all, a very efficient killing machine

[@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf]

@@huydang5955 shush, these people can't comprehend that level of thought, lol

[@berndtherrenvolk1951]

Because Biden left the border open.

[@musicnutzunite]

What is so cool to me is this movie was filmed in-of- all places- Shreveport, Louisiana! I miss those days of following all the strange bright yellow signs all around Shreveport trying to figure out the codes- that are short-hand for the productions- for the folks behind the scenes. Almost every actor/actress you can name filmed SOMETHING-here post-Katrina. "The Guardian" with Costner was filmed here. "Whitehouse Down" was filmed here. Tom Cruise lived here for awhile while Katie Holmes filmed a movie. Costner supposedly LOVES the area and he has filmed three movies here. It was SO cool. I never ran into any stars but it was cool seeing the film crews all around town. It's truly amazing how many productions happened here before the tax incentives dried up. We are all intrigued to see what 50-Cent Jackson is gonna bring to our area after he established "G Unit" here. I've always heard besides the obvious financial incentives, Shreveport and the surrounding area are really a "blank canvas" for whatever the directors envision. "We" have been almost anything and anywhere you can imagine-and many I had a hard time believing! Lol. Being "Hollywood South" once was a really cool perk to living here. I'm hoping 50 brings back some of that vibe. It was new, exciting and different. I think folks might be a little impressed/surprised to see the list of movies and shows and all the actors who have been here. I know it's nothing special to many other common filming locales but it was THE NEWS here for over a decade. It was fun while it lasted. I drive by the house Sandra Bullock "lived" in for "Premonition" several times a day. It got REALLY exciting when the film crews would shut down neighborhood streets and the trucks and lights and all that popped up. Ah the memories... And for the "haves" in this area the primary reason we have a Whole Foods was to placate the many "stars" and Hollywood-types who demanded one! 🤣 I've never been there yet but if Cheetos are over $5 bucks at WALMART I can't imagine how ridiculous Whole Foods pricing must be-especially in this insane economy. I'm in the upper-income level for what I do but I'll stick to good ole Wally World and Target. Lol

[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

Such an underrated gem, feels like what a Halo movie should be. Military Sci-Fi deserves love !

[@robertphillips6296]

They're Marines, he wouldn't have yelled "Medic" he would have yelled "Corpsman!"

[@wannabemexican]

I have watched this movie more times than I care to admit. It was one I would watch during late night baby feedings. Fond, fond memories of it. No fuss. Just marines vs. aliens and it makes it feel about as scary as it actually probably would feel like.

[@robertkapostins6783]

Damn good movie. They should make more of them. The interaction between the marines is spot on.

[@jediclonekag13]

I still love this movie.

[@RAFAKAUST]

I remember going into this with super low expectations and actually really liking this movie by the end.

[@johnlime1469]

The gun sound effects are very nice.

[@seanedwards6169]

The cinematography is really good. It puts you in the action while not being too chaotic that you can't follow what's going on.

[@stevegovea1]

This was a funny movie. To think aliens so advanced they can travel to distant stars yet battle like us.😂 In reality, we'd have no chance... they'd fight us without having even set foot on Earth.

[@laurencedavey3121]

I think they'd just put biological and chemical weapons into our cities and water supply from space and come down when there was nobody left.

[@jmorris023]

Yeah they’d definitely just radiate us from orbit. We wouldn’t have any idea what was happening.

[@jakesherron2390]

Maybe they’d want the sport of it? Depends on their goal? Think the predator movie?

[@DennisCoffman-dd8ok]

and where do you base that answer from? They are "aliens" after all, so they think differently. What if the goal isn't to just wipe us out? Maybe it is to learn of our capabilities/tactics which they then use to capture us and then use us as cannon fodder against another alien enemy? Ever think of that genius? Probably not. Just another armchair dbag wannabe that can't think. Or they know that to hold ground, they still have to invade. They have the advantage considering how much fire power is actually needed to take us down, so their arrogance could be a factor. We also only saw one part of what happened in LA. There is a ton of possibilities on why. But tell ya what genius, what movie have you created so we can review and make you look like an idiot? I mean I'm pretty sure I can make every movie out there look pretty stupid when it is all said and done, well maybe not documentaries as they tend to just throw the facts out there, but any movie made for entertaining can be broken down.

[@jgdooley2003]

A real alien invasion would probably done with a highly selective range of viruses devised to take out humans only and leave other more useful animals, if these were deemed useful and edible to the aliens, alone.

[@jerrymail]

Not the greatest War/ Sci-fi movie but I enjoy it a lot. I watch it once or twice a year.

[@haircafekevin]

This is one of those movies that would've been better suited to be a video game.

[@EagleAce421]

They actually did make it into a video game but it was terrible lol

[@serbianchromus]

halo type beat

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

So Halo?

[@haircafekevin]

@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ Halo except in the modern Era.

[@stellargravitywell1828]

We got Helldivers

[@chrismonroe8417]

It's so funny when the guy sights up at :23, his M4 makes a sound like it's racking a racking a round 🤣

[@tiltil9442]

Shit got so real, they even used metric instead of that playful odd-perial stuff.

[@coryhoggatt7691]

The US military uses metric

[@tytoalbasoren9457]

Afaik the only metric they use is meters and klicks (kilometers)

[@Jimburu]

One of the best movies filmed in Baton Rouge!!!

[@jamessummerlin9516]

This and Aliens are my favorite military alien movies, well lets not forget Starship Troopers too.

[@tbx3627]

I totally agree ❤

[@beerussama7093]

2:39 “This is my platoon. It’s what I’ve been training for.” My ahh

[@billbo9761]

The aliens are so advanced they have the technology of interstellar travel, perhaps even intergalactic..... yet their guns are as primitive as ours. 😂

[@neongirl]

Humanity has long invented laser weapons, but even the most advanced army in the world still uses the primitive concept of a boomstick. Why? Probably because firearms are still quite effective. Arming every soldier with an energy weapon would not be economically feasible. That's why we fly into space, but we still explode gunpowder inside steel tubes. Most likely, the aliens from this film adhere to the same considerations. There is no need to use high-tech weapons to kill such a fragile creature as a human. It would be too expensive.

[@BigDaddySwingingMeat]

@@neongirl The most advanced weapons of war (and the ones used the most often) in modern combat aren't guns though. They are drones, radar guided missiles, smart bombs, tanks, fighter jets, etc. Bullet-firing guns will be outdated in next hundred years or so. Nanobots and smart viruses will be the weapons of the future.

[@kostekrokossowski2366]

"good enough" is working in aliens military too.

[@AltairCreedZ]

It's military grade 😅

[@AltairCreedZ]

Also they're body armor seems to be way better than ours, maybe they cared more about keeping their soldiers alive rather than killing

[@Redneckrampage]

We need more movies like this! Imagine every country on Earth unites to fight an alien invasion. That would be so awesome!

[@BradZook]

It's Los Angeles...... just let 'em keep it.

[@michaelwatson7364]

2:48 * busts through gate * * Warthog run starts playing *

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

The amount of heavy breathing in this movie inadvertantly turned it into a comedy

[@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf]

Yes because no one would heavy breathe in these situations.

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

What the fuck would you do if it took 100+ shots of 308 rounds from multiple guns just to kill a single alien?🤣🤣🤣

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

@@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf Have you seen the movie? If you did, you can't honestly tell me you didn't laugh.

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ Use a bigger gun. Obviously.

[@magik97]

​@@TestUser-cf4wjwow, you must be so smart and cool

[@crowpond3665]

My favorite part of this entire clip was the Tide product placement

[@theoldar]

I love these movies, but real aliens would kill us from orbit, not come down and mix it up with us!

[@cd3mastery]

this movie is sooo dumb to me, how do aliens that have technology advanced enough to reach a planet many light years away have inferior weapons to humans? and what you said is correct, if hostile aliens came we would never see them, they would launch attacks on us from space

[@leonlowenstadter9223]

Well, that would be quite a short movie, wouldn't it? Assuming they being smart, they probably want to use some infrastructure and not start to build all from scratch. As far as I remember, they did have superior weapons and intel.

[@IvanRingle]

Real Aliens? So you know exactly what Aliens what do let alone what they look like? Or did you get your opinion from another Hollywood movie?

[@cd3mastery]

@@IvanRingle be honest to yourself, a species capable of intergalactic travel 100% with realistic logic SHOULD have orbital weapons capable of wiping out all life on earth with one blow

[@GabeTrejo]

@@cd3mastery they had retired advisors for marines not scientists, if I remember correctly, they wanted to make a movie about ground combat in urban environments like the scenarios and how it would feel like to be in that situation, the aliens mimic that as the ones shown act like shock troops same with their tactics, if they had a retired commander or general advisor they would be more flushed out obviously that's impossible to normally get, so they settled for what they could get while keeping it entertaining, not at one point was I really bored watching this movie it nails what it's trying to achieve nothing more nothing less. The second point argument is you assuming there an intergalactic species, for 1 they lost a war on their home planet, so they are only native to 1 world and aren't even the top faction as they were driven to near extinction and could be considered hmm give or take 100 to 150 years more advanced than modern tech which is what the director & story writers added for lore, So although advanced it's still manageable; They took the idea from our time to WW2, like how we would absolutely crush their technology, Weapons and Aircraft, but were nerfed by only being able to bring like 1/10th of our military still powerful, but not enough to wipe out the entire world only like 75% as mind you the U.S. isn't the only place being attack the whole world is especially the water rich areas. They are only targeting the countries due to military strategic reasons and remember, how I used WW2 as an example, well they used that time as outdated intel when they set off as this was the closes planet with the right conditions for their needs as they need ready access water, while not being close enough to their attackers, plus it's a convenient story point. Basically, I'm telling you there is some actual thoughts put into it and not random bs, like other sci-fi alien invasions, this one's more realistic compared to those. Side Note: Alien invasion tactics like this is the best anyone can come up with due to the fact we don't know how a full armed foe would be with 150 years of tech ahead of us, if they had ships that could hover outside our weapons yeah, they would bomb us, however they don't have any at most those they have would be like transport ships carrying supplies, which might have stuff to take out all live on earth, but it would also be counterproductive as the whole point is to keep the world together as a single asteroid can shatter the world if hit hard and is big enough now image how powerful an orbital weapon can be if it hit the world, they need the water intact not vaporized, plus our gravity and O-Zone would be gone how are they meant to stay on planet if their bodies require earth's atmosphere remember there still biological, just modified with mechanics.

[@danyeo]

Let’s just shake the camera as much as possible during action scenes.

[@streamallday]

exactly, i hate it when films do this, they even shake the camera when there's no action.

[@flanagamer]

That was the point - it’s basically to show the ‘fog of war’ and how chaotic it actually would be fighting an advanced species. The audience sees what they see, which isn’t much because they wouldn’t have time to stand around and stare. The camera work here was intentional for a reason.

[@danyeo]

@@flanagamer NO, it's been in every damm action movie for the past 20 years, except a few.

[@andrewlavoie6034]

@@flanagamer No it's not - it's to cover up a set that is not designed properly. If they were proud of the environment, they'd show it off. They can obscure the enemy in different ways, plus marines can see what they're shooting at - that's why they're shooting it

[@streamallday]

@@flanagamer If your eyes ever act like that then you should seek medical care as soon as possible plus our TVs are not the same as someone's real world vision. Zooming in and out, quickly panning and shaking all the time, it's horrible to watch. Plus being in control of your vision and watching someone else's is completely different, the person in control can prepare and adjust at the time.

[@crazymullet1127]

Literally just a vision of what life really in reality could be millions of years from now or now. 💯

[@KrispyAimAssist]

I honestly dont understand how the directors were able to depict such a normal day in LA and turn it into a movie. Well done

[@tjcombo9328]

love this movie i wanna see them make more to show what was going on in the other major cities at the same time as what was going down in L.A. Soon i hope!

[@Wayoutthere]

Shaky cam makes this utterly unwatchable.

[@olafjansowidz]

+1

[@random70512]

4:46 "LEEEENAAYY" -Arthur Morgan, 1899

[@jasonmcmanus6169]

Why do people say everything is under rated these days it's always in every comment section.

[@BradZook]

Only five likes for this comment? ...under rated.

[@petervlcko4858]

Everything is exposed, overrated, humiliated, speechless and somebody loosing it and so on. I am so tired of this because people just use it left and right like they are saying something when they really know nothing and it is just sound.

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

It’s an opinion

[@sarcasticguy4311]

@@petervlcko4858 It's iconic.

[@petervlcko4858]

@@sarcasticguy4311 yeah 😊 majestic, epic, ….

[@chadwichman]

Still one of the best Alien invasion films ever made, its overdue for a part 2 TBH

[@BathSaltShaman]

PUPPER WAS A COLLABORATOR

[@tieradlerch.217]

I like the both sides are equally armed, those aliens are marines too

[@Daniel_P116]

I hope the aliens come back and take the camera away from the guy who was convulsing during every action scene.

[@neongirl]

But it does reflect the chaos when you get into a real firefight. I mean, I got to experience this feeling once. This is absolutely crazy shit. You don’t understand who is shooting from where, your eyes are darting in all directions, and your head is a mess of conflicting thoughts and impulses.

[@Daniel_P116]

@@neongirl It's amateur. The pros know how to instill that sense of chaos without masturbating the camera. Some shaky cam is necessary. This is overdone.

[@vicioushellsing]

Haha I haven't seen the movie but this showed up in my youtube clips. I was thinking the exact same thing. I hate shaky cam so much.

[@MrGhostsword]

Imagine a franchise of this, different countries, different techniques of fighting, would be really interesting.

[@ronyolo8419]

I like this movie but I don’t the marines would break down this fast even in this situation.

[@ralphmarx7554]

Its down to shock mostly. Culture and combat shock

[@konellin189]

This Film deserved a final sequel

[@stephenl7048]

The reality is that any contact with aliens would involve a meeting of technologies where one would be orders of magnitude superior to the other. Nothing resembling "a fight" would be involved in any conflict. Imagine a modern army and air--force against a tribe of club wielding cave men and you will not even be close. Having said that, I am quite content to suspend reality in order to enjoy such movies.

[@johnanderson6946]

Easier to win when humans making movies LOL irl if that kinda superior beings existed hey wudve just vaporized the planet with a beam or something!

[@IronRAVENxvx]

There's actually lore regarding these aliens or "landsharks". The theory is that they are actually a slave race or breakaway faction on the run and desperate for much needed resources. With that perspective in mind, this could easily be an alien version of Avatar (Navi) but the aliens are the mining corp in this case with a security company fighting the natives and not a full-fledged invading imperial army.

[@johanstinson]

​@@johnanderson6946why would they want to vaporize the planet and destroy all the resources?

[@leonidfro8302]

That depends what invading force actually wants. No amount of ships/tanks/planes will help if the thing you want is inside that cave where club-wielders reside.

[@JakvsMetalheads999]

I mean, yeah, any species able to across interstellar space is by definition gonna be more advanced than we are, but it's not *completely* impossible that advances in space travel technology automatically = advancements in weapons technology. Realistically, it probably does, but who knows? Maybe this is a civilization that hit our 21st Century level of weapons tech, then some cataclysm or threat forced them to focus everything on getting to the next star system over, all other fields be damned. Along those same lines of thinking, they might not even be as advanced as we think. Maybe Earth is the only habitable planet for them within a certain light year radius, and they simply cobbled together the cheapest, lowest tech method they possibly could to get an invasion force over out of desperation, because it was either that, or go extinct. Terraforming is probably impossible below a certain nearly unobtainable Kardashev Civilization Type, and as our astronomers are quickly realizing, planets with atmospheres and conditions suitable for life like us are extremely rare in our neck of the observable universe - rare enough that ours is the only one we've ever found, and rare enough to make this rock very, very valuable to any advanced life that might need a new home for some reason...

[@dannyzero692]

I love how you can see the alien's weapon jammed after the first shot and trying to fix its gun while being shot at, talking about bad luck. 😆

[@solid_fire9388]

i hate shaking cameras

[@gasser5001]

I got some Black Hawk Down vibes from this movie. Def worth a rewatch.

[@mrdeathclaw66]

so Glenn the Dog was alien decoy I guess in this case.

[@mechanix1228]

This movie and The Core are just happy guilty pleasures

[@simonsmith1050]

That scene has to be the worst cinematography I've ever seen. MTV on acid.

[@connoriquada5429]

I swear this is so Hollywood I love it. When shit hits the fan every soldier is yelling the most generic ass Call of Duty lines ever. “WHERES IT COMING FROM?” “LEFT FLANK ON THE ROOF!” “25 METERS!!” “COVERING!” All that’s stuff. It’s fantabulous. That’s not to say a soldier wouldn’t say these things. But those are like the first few I’d come up with when writing action dialogue for soldiers. They checked em all off in like a span of 20 seconds 😂

[@BriceCook-og5ze]

0:01 Battle Los Angeles

[@BriceCook-og5ze]

2:27 Insidious

[@wtfzealous]

@@BriceCook-og5zewtf does insidious have to do with battle la😭

[@jasoncharlescastillo9013]

what is going on bro 😭