Two Reviews: Priest and Battle: Los Angeles

[big_danny_t]

So yeah, for my birthday, I decided to make it a movie day. The two movies I chose to see were a couple of flicks that have thus far been panned pretty soundly by the critics. Seeing as how one of them was free and the other was at the Cinema Cafe (Where my meal was quite graciously picked up by

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[ilyat]

I really enjoyed Battlefield: LA for everything you said. It really reminded me of an updated war movie of the like I grew up watching. (I used to watch a ton of Vietnam-era and -inspired films. This still carried that same feel even though it took a decidedly more modern-influenced stance for tactics and atmosphere. Which is very appropriate for today's war.)

I find it really interesting that all of the war movies these days have shifted from Vietnam-style conflicts to conflicts against aliens or zombies or robots. I'm not sure what that says about our culture right now. Maybe it's easier to see a more monstrous enemy than a human, who is far easier to relate to even if one doesn't agree with him or his motives.