![]() ![]() MPAA Rating: R for sequences of bloody sci-fi violence, and language throughout.Ĭast: Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Pamelyn Chee, Iko Uwais, Antonio FargasĬredits: Written and directed by Liam O’Donnell. Probably all you need to know about “Beyond Skyline” is packed into that last paragraph and that one funny bit of casting. That’s right, America’s favorite pimp-snitch of the ’70s plays Sarge, a blind veteran who gets off a little testy trash talk. Not smart, not particularly ambitious, sort of an exploitation film with aliens.Īnd Antonio Fargas. The martial arts fights with the monsters are an interesting twist, the effects surprisingly good - the ships, hive, assorted alien incarnations and that “Rapture” scene are striking.īut it’s trash cinema, start to finish. Writer-director Liam O’Donnell must have given the cast license to concoct at least some of their pithy one-liners, most of the “F-–g aliens,” and “ISIS don’t have no f-–g space ships” and “Hijo de puta” variety. PACIFIC RIM - Hannibal Chau (Ron Perlman) Serving Set and Kaiju Lot. ![]() Text EVENTNAME 169 to NUMBER to receive text alert for this lot Ended. Such is the convention of the aliens-invade genre. PACIFIC RIM - Helipad Shatterdome Mechanic (Zi Hao) Costume. “Tactical” nukes and Stealth bombers can only do so much. Hurling Angelinos and aliens into the middle of a drug war, where everybody’s armed with rocket-propelled grenades, claymore mines, flame-throwers and automatic weapons, certainly evens up the odds. Mark finds himself dragging assorted passengers - including the material Audrey ( Bojana Novakovic) - around LA, dodging the aliens until the aliens nab them and tuck them into a hive, straight out of “Alien.”Īnd that’s when things get really weird - aliens made from absorbed humans, one with conflicting loyalties, brawls within the ship, fights with alien robots of the “Pacific Rim” variety, and finally a crash landing in the Golden Triangle, not far from the shores of the Pacific Rim.īecause the investors wanted martial arts stars Iko Uwais and Yaan Ruhian (“The Raid”), actress Pamelyn Chee and the ruins of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat to figure in the proceedings. They’re literally hauled skyward into the ships in a scene both chilling and Biblical. Legacy joined the Pac Rim pit crew in designing and fabricating the Jaeger pilot suits and building the control room. That light, emanating from their ships, draws humans towards it like fundamentalists ready for the Rapture. That’s why they filled the closing credits with funny outtakes, green-screen “So THAT’S how they did that” clips and such.Īliens that look like Predators who fly ships that could have been parked in “District 9” on “Independence Day” attack LA, and we see this from fresh characters’ perspective with one holdover from the first film rather illogically connecting the two films.įrank Grillo plays Mark, a hard-drinking cop trapped on the LA subway when the blue-light loving monsters from space attack. So props to the folks who made the green screen monstrosity “Beyond Skyline,” a creature-feature sequel to the 2010 aliens-invade-LA thriller “Skyline.” Nobody involved took this fight aliens, kill aliens or die a noble death going out with a badass one-liner B-movie seriously. 9.You always cut a little slack for trash cinema that knows it’s trash. There is a bunch of neat stuff, and some very cool pieces are going for a very reasonable amount of money. "Inside is a piece of plastic that has been melted to look like guts and tissue." "The cylindrical jar is made of glass and features a glass lid," the listing reads. The auction is filled with fun facts, such as how they made the Kaiju guts. Or maybe you want to cosplay as a member of Gypsy Danger's ground crew? Or perhaps you'd just like a bit of Kaiju in a jar? ![]() Some props from the film are being auctioned and, while things like the helmet pictured at the top of this article may cost you a good amount of money, you can pick up a stunt basketball for a good price. The movie went on to make $411 million on a $190 million budget, which was enough to get the studio to greenlight a sequel.Īnd now you can own a piece of the original film. It is, in dry critical language, some wicked shit. ![]() Pacific Rim is a goofy yet enjoyably earnest look at a possible future where giant mechs beat the living snot out of monsters from another dimension. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |