Comic-Con 2010: Battle: Los Angeles Footage
Source: UGO
I’ve just seen Los Angeles destroyed.
First footage from the somewhat secretive Battle: Los Angeles just screened and I’m a little bit terrified and a little bit deaf.
Jonathan Liebesman’s “Black Hawk Down meets Aliens” starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and a zillion other young actors just exploded off Hall H. The footage opens with black & white imagery from the so-called actual Battle of Los Angeles in 1944 when artillery fire was shot at mysterious lights in the sky. The film posits that it was a scouting mission for an alien invasion.
We then cut to Aaron Eckhart and a band of real tough guys in a huge Osprey helicopter getting rattled by incoming flak. It’s a really disarming moment – we never see badasses looking scared like this. Their “woah” is our “woah.”
They are going in to save civilians and the clock is ticking before the big bombs are dropped.
There are explosions over the city, some of them looking very otherworldly like the destruction of Praxis from Star Trek VI. Then a cut to just ash and mist and soldiers in a residential area moving in slow-motion. The group comes under enemy fire and one guy goes for cover in a random house. There’s a great jump-scare when a washing machine buzzer goes off. Naturally, the beastie comes from behind and goes in for the kill.
We don’t get a good look at him – he’s definitely organic like District 9′s Prawn.
After this was another montage of battle footage. Really intense. More intense than I was expecting. Guys getting shot through their helmets and a helicopter mid-airlift exploding in front of civilians.
We got some quick glimpses of the ships. They are kinda small and clunky – one of them shoots fire from the front.
The producers are pitching this as simply a war movie, one to celebrate our soldiers, and frankly, if there were no spaceships, this movie might be too intense for a fun event like Comic-Con. I’m definitely interested in seeing more about this movie — and maybe something nice and fluffy next to cool my nerves.
